{"id":1022,"date":"2015-09-22T19:52:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T00:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:37","slug":"simeon-v-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/simeon-v-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"WALL, Simeon V. (Prof.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PROF. SIMEON V. WALL<\/strong> was born in Williamson County, Tenn., August 22, 1844, son of <strong>John B. and Martha E. (Wilson) Wall<\/strong>, and of Scotch-Irish descent.\u00a0 The parents were born in North Carolina and Tennessee in 1799 and 1808 and died December 31, 1870, and April 15, 1859, respectively.\u00a0 They were married in 1819 and were the parents of thirteen children.\u00a0 The father was a soldier in the Confederate Army notwithstanding the fact that he was over age.\u00a0 He was an old-time Whig, although an intimate friend of James K. Polk.\u00a0 He was a soldier in the Indian war of 1836.\u00a0 His father, <strong>Clement Wall,<\/strong> came to Williamson County, Tenn., in 1804.<\/p>\n<p>Our immediate subject, <strong>Simeon Wall<\/strong>, was a student in Harpeth Academy before the war.\u00a0 He enlisted in the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment and participated in the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga and Franklin and was in many of the battles of the Georgia campaign.\u00a0 Of his war record the Review and Journal of Franklin, Tenn., said: &#8220;It is well known that when a mere boy he left this county to serve in the Southern Army and he was recognized all over the army as a brave and gallant soldier.&#8221;\u00a0 After the war, owing to the financial embarrassment of his father, he completed his education through his own exertions.\u00a0 He has been professor in academies and colleges for nearly twenty years and is one of the successful educators of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>He is proprietor of the Bedford Academy at Bell Buckle, Tenn., but is soon to sever his connection with this school and take charge of the Culleoka Academy as co-principal.\u00a0 July 28, 1868, our subject married <strong>Miss Nannie J. Comer,<\/strong> daughter of <strong>Rev. J. J. Comer<\/strong> of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 Mr. and Mrs. Wall are the parents of nine children &#8212; seven sons and two daughters.\u00a0 Prof. Wall is a Democrat and a member of the Masonic fraternity and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROF. SIMEON V. WALL was born in Williamson County, Tenn., August 22, 1844, son of John B. and Martha E. (Wilson) Wall, and of Scotch-Irish descent.\u00a0 The parents were born in North Carolina and Tennessee in 1799 and 1808 and died December 31, 1870, and April 15, 1859, respectively.\u00a0 They were married in 1819 and &#8230; <a title=\"WALL, Simeon V. (Prof.)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/simeon-v-wall\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WALL, Simeon V. 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