{"id":134,"date":"2012-11-21T19:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T01:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/?p=134"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:43:53","slug":"burnett-wilson-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/burnett-wilson-l\/","title":{"rendered":"BURNETT, Wilson L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wilson L. BURNETT<\/strong>, an active farmer of Fayette County, Tenn., was born in Iredell County, N.C., September 27, 1832, and is a son of<strong> Jeremiah and Mary F. (Ellis)<\/strong> <strong>BURNETT.<\/strong>\u00a0 The father was a native of Spartanburg County, S.C., and the mother of Iredell County, N.C., both of Scotch-Irish descent.\u00a0 The father was born September 18, 1807, and is now a resident of Fayette County.\u00a0 The mother was born January 20, 1810; they were married in 1831 in North Carolina, and moved to Tennessee in 1849, settling nine mile south of Somerville.\u00a0 The father was a successful farmer, and with his wife a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 Our subject is the oldest of ten children. He was quite young when he moved to Fayette County with his parents, and has since then made it his home.\u00a0 In 1857 his father gave him the farm where he now lives, and he has since added to it, owning now over 800 acres of good land in Fayette County and 960 acres in Pontotoc County, Miss.<\/p>\n<p>December 22, 1852, he married <strong>Miss Ellen J. TOMLINSON,<\/strong> born in Iredell County, N.C. in 1843.\u00a0 Fourteen children were born to this marriage \u2013 seven sons and seven daughters \u2013 one son and four daughters are dead.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. BURNETT<\/strong> has always been a true Democrat, and with his wife and five children belongs to the Methodist Church and freely responds to all calls for money for the church or for charity.\u00a0 In August, 1862, he entered the Confederate Army; was first in Outlaw\u2019s battalion, but soon joined Gen. FORREST\u2019s forces in the Fourteenth Tennessee Regiment of Calvary, the colonel being Col. Jack NEELY.\u00a0<strong> Mr. BURNETT<\/strong> remained until the battle of Franklin, Tenn., and was in many battles.\u00a0 In 1864, after an absence of over two\u00a0 years, he was paroled at Memphis and took the oath of allegiance, then returned home and resumed farming.\u00a0 He is a good neighbor, an upright man, liked and trusted by all.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: \u00a0Goodspeed\u2019s History of Tennessee, 1887.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilson L. BURNETT, an active farmer of Fayette County, Tenn., was born in Iredell County, N.C., September 27, 1832, and is a son of Jeremiah and Mary F. (Ellis) BURNETT.\u00a0 The father was a native of Spartanburg County, S.C., and the mother of Iredell County, N.C., both of Scotch-Irish descent.\u00a0 The father was born September 18, 1807, and is now a resident of Fayette County.\u00a0 The mother was born January 20, 1810; they were married in 1831 in North Carolina,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/burnett-wilson-l\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-burnett-ellis","tag-tomlmison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}