{"id":1312,"date":"2013-09-01T14:57:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T19:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tngenweb.org\/blount\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2013-08-31T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T19:57:47","slug":"boyd-charles-d-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/boyd-charles-d-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"BOYD, Charles &#8211; (d. 1917)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Charles Boyd<\/strong>, better known in Maryville as \u2018Uncle Charlie\u2019 died at his home on Cemetery street last Wednesday night.\u00a0 Uncle Charlie was 86 years old.\u00a0 He had been in feeble health for several months and the end was not unexpected.\u00a0\u00a0 Born in slavery, Charlie was taken into the civil war by his master, <strong>W.Y.C.\u00a0 Hannum<\/strong>, and it was the slave\u2019s heroism that gave to Maryville one of her foremost citizens.\u00a0 When <strong>Captain Hannum<\/strong> was wounded in the battle of Cedar Run, Va., the slave carried his wounded master through the darkness to safety and although the injured leg was amputated, <strong>Captain Hannum<\/strong> was a useful citizen for half a century following.\u00a0 Uncle Charlie was known to all of the traveling men coming to Maryville because for years he met every train that entered the city.\u00a0 The family consists of <strong>Dr. Charles<\/strong>, Knoxville, <strong>William<\/strong>, Asbury Park, N.J.; <strong>Dr. Luther<\/strong>, Knoxville; <strong>Robert,<\/strong> Chattanooga;<strong> Harry and Herman M<\/strong>. of Maryville; <strong>Delia Green<\/strong>, Dalton, Ga.: <strong>Maggie Whitley<\/strong>, Hendersonville, N.C.; <strong>Susie Boyd<\/strong>, Knoxville, <strong>Bertie Brown<\/strong>, St. Petersburg, Fla.; and <strong>Hazel White,<\/strong> Maryville.\u00a0 The funeral was held from the Colored Presbyterian Church Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0Maryville Enterprise newspaper, 26 Apr 1917<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Boyd, better known in Maryville as \u2018Uncle Charlie\u2019 died at his home on Cemetery street last Wednesday night.\u00a0 Uncle Charlie was 86 years old.\u00a0 He had been in feeble health for several months and the end was not unexpected.\u00a0\u00a0 Born in slavery, Charlie was taken into the civil war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,18],"tags":[296,24,56,250,193,348],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-individual-obituary","tag-boyd","tag-brown","tag-green","tag-hannum","tag-white","tag-whitley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}