{"id":3343,"date":"2022-01-10T17:42:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:42:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:42:51","slug":"tilman-william-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/tilman-william-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilman, William T."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William T. Tilman<\/strong>, a substantial farmer of Lauderdale County, was born in<br \/>\nGiles County, September 1, 1822, and is the oldest of four sons born to John<br \/>\nand Parthenia (Garrett) Tilman, being of English descent. His father was<br \/>\nborn in Virginia, and moved with his parents to East Tennessee at an early<br \/>\ndate, but finding the Indians so hostile they soon moved to North Carolina,<br \/>\nand settled in Persons County, where he was raised, and when of age married<br \/>\nand moved to Giles County, Tenn., where he remained until the death of his<br \/>\nwife in 1840. After this he spent two years in Georgia, then came to West<br \/>\nTennessee, and died at his son William&#8217;s home November 15, 1855. William T.<br \/>\nTilman was raised on a farm, and received a good education, making farming his<br \/>\nchief business. When nineteen years old he assumed the management of a farm.<br \/>\nHe married the first time, in West Tennessee, in September, 1850, Miss Mary A.<br \/>\nvoss, a daughter of Wiley Voss, a farmer. Six sons and four daughters were<br \/>\nborn to this marriage: Thomas J., James A., William A., Andrew J., John S.,<br \/>\nJoseph T., Mary E. and Parthenia A. (Bradford). Three of these have died:<br \/>\nWilliam A., September 22, 1876; John S., October 15, 1876; Andrew J., October<br \/>\n30, 1876. The mother of this family was born February 9, 1831, and died<br \/>\nOctober 8, 1863. She was a member of the Methodist Church. December 14,<br \/>\n1865, Mr. Tilman married, in Haywood County, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Robinson, a<br \/>\ndaughter of John McOlpin, a mechanic and farmer. No children were born to<br \/>\nthis marriage, but Mrs. Tilman had one daughter by her former marriage &#8212; Ann<br \/>\nE. (Mitchell). Mr. Tilman is a Democrat and Mason, and with his wife belongs<br \/>\nto the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He owns 460 acres of land, 320 in<br \/>\nthe home farm, thirteen miles north of Ripley, Tenn., and is regarded as a<br \/>\ntrue gentleman, honest and upright, by those who know him.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William T. Tilman, a substantial farmer of Lauderdale County, was born in Giles County, September 1, 1822, and is the oldest of four sons born to John and Parthenia (Garrett) Tilman, being of English descent. His father was born in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/tilman-william-t\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[147],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-tilman"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","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=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}