{"id":1245,"date":"2016-02-13T10:37:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T16:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:08","slug":"j-w-waggoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/j-w-waggoner\/","title":{"rendered":"WAGGONER, J.W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>J.W. WAGGONER<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Esq., of Coffee County, born October 8, 1836, is the son of <strong>J.A. and Rebecca WAGGONER<\/strong>, the former, born in 1806, died in 1848, and the latter born in 1806, died in 1883. Our subject is of German and Scotch descent. After continuing on the farm to care for his mother, he entered the Confederate service in 1862. After six months in camp with Capt. McCUTCHEN\u2019s company,he was made steward and bookkeeper of the hospital at Chattanooga, afterward farming and teaching; in 1869 he took his present office of magistrate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He began the successful practice of law in Manchester in 1878. November 5, 1875, he married <strong>Eliza,<\/strong> daughter of <strong>Alford B. and Nancy COOK<\/strong>. Their six children are <strong>James H., William H., Nannie R., Addie M., Alice G<\/strong>. and <strong>James N. Mr. WAGGONER<\/strong> is worth about $2,000, is a member of I.O.O.F. Lodge, and is at present chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the county. In 1887 he was appointed county clerk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Pub. Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of the Counties of White, Warren, Coffee, DeKalb, and Cannon, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.W. WAGGONER, Esq., of Coffee County, born October 8, 1836, is the son of J.A. and Rebecca WAGGONER, the former, born in 1806, died in 1848, and the latter born in 1806, died in 1883. Our subject is of German and Scotch descent. After continuing on the farm to care for his mother, he entered &#8230; <a title=\"WAGGONER, J.W.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/j-w-waggoner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WAGGONER, J.W.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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":[1787],"tags":[4298,1966,4299,4303,4304,4296,4295,4300,4305,4302,4297,4301],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee","tag-cook-alford-b","tag-cook-eliza","tag-cook-nancy","tag-waggoner-addie-m","tag-waggoner-alice-g","tag-waggoner-j-a","tag-waggoner-j-w","tag-waggoner-james-h","tag-waggoner-james-n","tag-waggoner-nannie-r","tag-waggoner-rebecca","tag-waggoner-william-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}