{"id":905,"date":"2015-09-20T19:28:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=905"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:00","slug":"will-j-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/will-j-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSE, Will J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WILL J. MUSE,<\/strong> clerk of the County Court of Bedford County, was born December 5, 1844, near Shelbyville.\u00a0 The Muse family originated in the United States from two brothers, <strong>James and George Muse,<\/strong> who came from England to North Carolina.\u00a0<strong> George<\/strong> went to Virginia and <strong>James<\/strong> remained in North Carolina.\u00a0 Our subject is a descendant of the latter.\u00a0 The father of <strong>Will J<\/strong>. was <strong>Jo C. Muse<\/strong>, and the mother was <strong>Mary A. Muse<\/strong>, the parents being cousins.\u00a0 The father was a farmer and mechanic, and was identified with the public interests of this county.\u00a0 The maternal grandfather, <strong>John T. Muse<\/strong>, was, when quite young, among the first settlers of this State.\u00a0 He was an able minister of the Missionary Baptist Church, and founded the first church of that denomination in this county.\u00a0 He died suddenly while in the preparation of a sermon, having eloquently preached away a lifetime.\u00a0 <strong>Will J<\/strong>. was reared on a farm and had limited educational advantages.\u00a0 At the age of seventeen he entered Company B, of Turney&#8217;s First Tennessee and served throughout the war.\u00a0 He was promoted from a private to the captaincy of his company.\u00a0 He received eleven wounds, three of which were very serious.\u00a0 Returning from the army he attended school three years and taught one year.\u00a0 For three years he then clerked in a store.\u00a0 Subsequently he and a brother engaged in merchandising till 1882.\u00a0 He was elected to his office in August, 1882, and has filled it with general satisfaction to his constituents.\u00a0 He was married in 1872 to <strong>Nannie Russell,<\/strong> the results of this union being two children: <strong>Henry Kirk White<\/strong> and <strong>Georgie Awa<\/strong>.\u00a0 Both <strong>Mr. Muse<\/strong> and his wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.\u00a0 He is a member of the I. O. O. F.\u00a0 In politics he is a firm 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>WILL J. MUSE, clerk of the County Court of Bedford County, was born December 5, 1844, near Shelbyville.\u00a0 The Muse family originated in the United States from two brothers, James and George Muse, who came from England to North Carolina.\u00a0 George went to Virginia and James remained in North Carolina.\u00a0 Our subject is a descendant &#8230; <a title=\"MUSE, Will J.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/will-j-muse\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MUSE, Will J.\">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":[2930,2936,2935,2929,2931,2933,2932,2928,2934],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-muse-george","tag-muse-georgie-awa","tag-muse-henry-kirk-white","tag-muse-james","tag-muse-jo-c","tag-muse-john-t","tag-muse-mary-a","tag-muse-will-j","tag-russell-nannie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}