{"id":3288,"date":"2022-01-10T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:02:18","slug":"posey-w-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/posey-w-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Posey, W. P."},"content":{"rendered":"

W. P. Posey<\/strong> is a son of David P. and Peachey T. (Powell) Posey. The father
\nwas born in Maryland in 1781, and the mother in South Carolina in 1785. They
\nwere married in South Carolina March 29, 1805. Eleven children were born to
\nthem — eight girls and three boys; two sons and three daughters are still
\nliving. His parents came to West Tennessee in 1832, settling in what is now
\nthe Third District of Lauderdale County, near Hurricane Hill. They were both
\nmembers of the Methodist Church, and his mother died in 1845; the father in
\n1856. He was an old line Whig. Our subject was of Scotch-English descent,
\nand was born in Lawrence County, S. C., July 31, 1817. He was raised and
\neducated on a farm, and came with his parents to West Tennessee. They were
\ntwo months on the road, driving all the way in wagons. January 20, 1848, he
\nmarried Miss Mary E. Lackey, who was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., January 12,
\n1825. They had three daughters: Ellen T., born August 19, 1851; Medora V.,
\nborn October 27, 1853, and Laura A., born November 15, 1857. The oldest and
\nyoungest are both dead. Medora V. married Dr. R. W. Martin June 16, 1870.
\nMr. and Mrs. Posey are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
\nBefore the war Mr. Posey was a Whig, but now votes with the Democratic party.
\nHe has been quite successful as a farmer, and now owns 160 acres of excellent
\nland. He is a Mason, and one of the pioneer farmers of the county, having
\nbeen a citizen of Lauderdale County ever since its organization.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

W. P. Posey is a son of David P. and Peachey T. (Powell) Posey. The father was born in Maryland in 1781, and the mother in South Carolina in 1785. They were married in South Carolina March 29, 1805. Eleven …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-posey"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}