{"id":504,"date":"2023-04-04T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/?p=504"},"modified":"2023-04-04T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T20:54:33","slug":"world-war-i-gold-star-veterans-from-franklin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/world-war-i-gold-star-veterans-from-franklin-county\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I Gold Star Veterans from Franklin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 4,000 Tennessee soldiers and sailors died during World War I.\u00a0 The state legislature tasked the Tennessee Historical Commission to &#8220;collect, compile, index, and arrange all data &#8230;relating to the part that Tennessee has played in the great world war.&#8221;\u00a0 More than 1,000 of those records are permanently archived at the Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives in Nashville. [Source: https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/customizations\/global\/pages\/collections\/goldstar\/goldstar.html]<\/p>\n<p>Following is a list of Gold Star veterans&#8217; records at TSLA.\u00a0 Each individual&#8217;s file has been digitized and is available for viewing on-line.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15138coll26\/id\/4379\/rec\/4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luther Evans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15138coll26\/id\/4863\/rec\/8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aubrey Grant<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15138coll26\/id\/10113\/rec\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Leslie Russell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15138coll26\/id\/10524\/rec\/5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Dewey Sheridan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15138coll26\/id\/10720\/rec\/10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Burnett Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15138coll26\/id\/11274\/rec\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barney G. Taylor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15138coll26\/id\/11569\/rec\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ike Turner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15138coll26\/id\/12598\/rec\/9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Luie Wilson<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 4,000 Tennessee soldiers and sailors died during World War I.\u00a0 The state legislature tasked the Tennessee Historical Commission to &#8220;collect, compile, index, and arrange all data &#8230;relating to the part that Tennessee has played in the great world war.&#8221;\u00a0 More than 1,000 of those records are permanently archived at the Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives in Nashville. [Source: https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/customizations\/global\/pages\/collections\/goldstar\/goldstar.html] Following is a list of Gold Star veterans&#8217; records at TSLA.\u00a0 Each individual&#8217;s file has been digitized and is available&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/world-war-i-gold-star-veterans-from-franklin-county\/\"> 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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}