{"id":784,"date":"2020-03-28T14:33:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T14:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/?p=784"},"modified":"2023-07-12T02:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T02:28:43","slug":"thomas-a-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/thomas-a-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMAS A. BURNS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">From &#8220;Hood County 2000: Men Who Made Hood County&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>Hood County News<\/em> &#8211; January 1, 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas A. Burns, an Irishman, arrived in northeastern Hood County in 1873. He set about creating a township he named Lipan. He derived the name Lipan from local Indian tribes. Burns was aided in his founding of the town by land agent John H. Traylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burns was the first postmaster of Lipan in 1875, and he owned a general store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u00a9 2000 Hood County News and HCN Online Services<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~ Web Page by Jo Ann Hopper ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;Hood County 2000: Men Who Made Hood County&#8221; Hood County News &#8211; January 1, 2000 Thomas A. Burns, an Irishman, arrived in northeastern Hood County in 1873. He set about creating a township he named Lipan. He derived the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/thomas-a-burns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5463,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/5463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}