{"id":521,"date":"2018-07-16T18:02:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T23:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/?page_id=521"},"modified":"2021-01-15T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:55:20","slug":"lawrence-w-overton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/lawrence-w-overton\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence W. Overton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lawrence W. Overton (Noxubee County)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>State House:\u00a0<\/strong>1876<\/p>\n<p><strong>Born:<\/strong> c. 1848 in Kentucky<\/p>\n<p>Teacher. Attended Oberlin College from 1869-1872 and was listed there on the 1870 census. By the time of the 1880 census, Overton was living in Macon with wife Izella Richmond (1855-1941) and three children. Izella is a widow on the 1900 census in Macon. According to later census records, all three of their children were teachers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2717\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2717\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/w-h-jones\/imp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2717 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/imp-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/imp-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/imp-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarion Ledger, February 17, 1876<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2060\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/lawrence-w-overton\/overton\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2060 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/overton-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/overton-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/overton-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarion-Ledger, February 17, 1876<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence W. Overton (Noxubee County) State House:\u00a01876 Born: c. 1848 in Kentucky Teacher. Attended Oberlin College from 1869-1872 and was listed there on the 1870 census. By the time of the 1880 census, Overton was living in Macon with wife Izella Richmond (1855-1941) and three children. Izella is a widow on the 1900 census in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/lawrence-w-overton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lawrence W. Overton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions\/3878"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}