{"id":325,"date":"2013-06-28T23:27:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T03:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/?p=325"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:24:34","slug":"spellings-william-b-1847","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/spellings-william-b-1847\/","title":{"rendered":"SPELLINGS, William (b. 1847)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPELLINGS, William<\/strong>, postmaster and cotton broker; born Carroll county, Tenn., Dec. 1, 1847; English descent; son of\u00a0<strong>G.C. and Nancy (Schrisp) SPELLINGS<\/strong>; educated in Tenn. and Ill; began his career as a farmer, later entered the mercantile business; at present is postmaster at McKenzie, Tenn., and is a cotton broker; married\u00a0<strong>A.P. JACKSON<\/strong>\u00a0in 1873; member of Masonic Lodge and K.P.; Republican; Christian Scientist.<\/p>\n<div>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Who&#8217;s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><\/a>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie SPELLINGS, William, postmaster and cotton broker; born Carroll county, Tenn., Dec. 1, 1847; English descent; son of\u00a0G.C. and Nancy (Schrisp) SPELLINGS; educated in Tenn. and Ill; began his career as a farmer, later entered the mercantile business; at <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/spellings-william-b-1847\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,78],"tags":[157,156,155],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-mckenzie","tag-jackson","tag-schrisp","tag-spellings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}