{"id":1046,"date":"2015-09-24T19:56:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:36","slug":"david-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/david-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"WILLIAMS, David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVID WILLIAMS<\/strong> is a native of Bedford County, Tenn., born in May, 1815.\u00a0 His father, <strong>Joseph Williams<\/strong>, was born in North Carolina, in 1777, and came to Tennessee at a very early period.\u00a0 He was a farmer, and a soldier in the war of 1812, participating in the battle of New Orleans.\u00a0 In 1813 he wedded our subject&#8217;s mother, <strong>Charity Turrentine<\/strong>, who was born in North Carolina in 1791.\u00a0 The father died in 1876, and the mother two years later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Williams<\/strong> and <strong>Sarah T. Harris<\/strong> were united in marriage in 1836.\u00a0 <strong>Mrs. Williams<\/strong> was born in 1816, and her parents, <strong>James Harris and Nancy (Thompson) Harris<\/strong>, were born in Pennsylvania and South Carolina, respectively.\u00a0 The children born to <strong>Mr. and Mrs. Williams<\/strong> are <strong>Almeda<\/strong>, born in 1837; <strong>Lou<\/strong>, in 1839; <strong>Elvira<\/strong>, in 1841; <strong>James H<\/strong>., in 1845: <strong>Lafayette<\/strong>, in 1854; <strong>Mollie J<\/strong>., in 1859, and <strong>Samuel K<\/strong>., in 1861.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject was reared on a farm and has followed farming from early boyhood.\u00a0 He was postmaster of Hickory Hill for several years, before and after the war, and in 1869 located on his present farm of 230 acres.\u00a0 He has a neat frame residence, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 In politics he is a Democrat.<\/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>DAVID WILLIAMS is a native of Bedford County, Tenn., born in May, 1815.\u00a0 His father, Joseph Williams, was born in North Carolina, in 1777, and came to Tennessee at a very early period.\u00a0 He was a farmer, and a soldier in the war of 1812, participating in the battle of New Orleans.\u00a0 In 1813 he &#8230; <a title=\"WILLIAMS, David\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/david-williams\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WILLIAMS, David\">Read more<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3585,3584,3586,3583,3587,1928,3589,3590,3582,3591,3588,3592,3593],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-harris-james","tag-harris-sarah-t","tag-thompson-nancy","tag-turrentine-charity","tag-williams-almeda","tag-williams-david","tag-williams-elvira","tag-williams-james-h","tag-williams-joseph","tag-williams-lafayette","tag-williams-lou","tag-williams-mollie-j","tag-williams-samuel-k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}