{"id":1347,"date":"2017-02-25T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:05","slug":"william-w-dupree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/william-w-dupree\/","title":{"rendered":"DUPREE, William W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William W. DUPREE,<\/strong> farmer, citizen and native of Haywood County, was born August 15, 1839, and is the son of <strong>Donaldson R. and Mary E. (CLEMENTS) Dupree<\/strong>. The father was a native of Alabama, born near Huntsville in 1813, and came to Haywood County in about 1831; he first owned a mill, but afterward farmed very successfully, and died in November 1871. The mother was a Virginian and came with her parents to this county about 1819, and died in 1843. Mr. Dupree, Sr., was married twice; he had three children by his first marriage, and five by his second, his first wife being the mother of William W.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject, by his own efforts, secured at his father&#8217;s fireside a good education, and all of his life has been a reading man; he owns and lives at the old homestead, and has been more than usually successful at farming. In his political views he is a sound Democrat. When fourteen years old he joined the Methodist Church, and has since been a very useful member; he prays in public and fills the office of steward in the church. January 12, 1861, he married <strong>Miss Sarah F. NOLAN<\/strong>, who was born in Haywood County, October 8, 1844; six sons and three daughters have blessed this marriage.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\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 Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood and Crockett Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William W. DUPREE, farmer, citizen and native of Haywood County, was born August 15, 1839, and is the son of Donaldson R. and Mary E. (CLEMENTS) Dupree. The father was a native of Alabama, born near Huntsville in 1813, and came to Haywood County in about 1831; he first owned a mill, but afterward farmed &#8230; <a title=\"DUPREE, William W.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/william-w-dupree\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DUPREE, William W.\">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":[1403],"tags":[4694,4693,4692,4695],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haywood","tag-clements-mary-e","tag-dupree-donaldson-r","tag-dupree-william-w","tag-nolan-sarah-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","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=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}