{"id":9940,"date":"2014-01-06T21:12:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T03:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9940"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:41:46","slug":"lamar-abner-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/lamar-abner-w\/","title":{"rendered":"LAMAR, Abner W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>LAMAR, Abner W., <\/b>minister of the gospel; born Edgefield, S. C., March 30, 1847; Huguenot descent; son of <b>Thomas G.<\/b> and <b>Mary (Whatley) LAMAR<\/b>; father&#8217;s occupation, planter, slave owner, and soldier in Confederate service, Colonel of First Regiment South Carolina Volunteer infantry; paternal grandparents <b>Thomas G.<\/b> and <b>Martha (Carey) LAMAR<\/b>, maternal grandparents <b>Abner<\/b> and <b>Elizabeth (Wilson) WHATLEY<\/b>; educated South Carolina State Military Academy, Farman University, S. C., and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; graduated D.D. degree Howard Payne College Texas, June, 1893; in early life was a farmer, steamboat captain Savannah river 1865-6; married <b>Elizabeth WEBB<\/b>, October 8, 1868; member\u00a0K. of P., W. O. W., and Z. A. E.; Christian Socialist; served as Lieutenant in South Carolina State Cadets, 1864-5; member of Baptist Church; was General Missionary South Carolina Baptist Convention, 1872-82; pastor principal Baptist churches, Memphis, Tenn., Omaha, Neb., and Galveston, Tex.; was for ten years General Agent Tennessee for Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Lecturer and Evangelist for fifteen years; at present Chaplain Ward Seminary, Nashville, Tenn.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville LAMAR, Abner W., minister of the gospel; born Edgefield, S. C., March 30, 1847; Huguenot descent; son of Thomas G. and Mary (Whatley) LAMAR; father&#8217;s occupation, planter, slave owner, and soldier in Confederate service, Colonel of First Regiment South Carolina Volunteer infantry; paternal grandparents Thomas G. and Martha (Carey) LAMAR, maternal grandparents Abner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,81,4419],"tags":[3031,142,308,3333,4341],"class_list":{"0":"post-9940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-l","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-carey","10":"tag-lamar","11":"tag-webb","12":"tag-whatley","13":"tag-wilson","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13000,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions\/13000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}