{"id":3359,"date":"2022-01-10T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:48:17","slug":"williams-john-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/williams-john-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams, John T."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John T. Williams<\/strong>, a prominent farmer and large mill owner of Lauderdale<br \/>\nCounty, was born in Montgomery County, Tenn., June 30, 1833, and was the son<br \/>\nof E. W. Williams, who was a native of Virginia, and immigrated to Tennessee<br \/>\nwhen a boy, settling in Montgomery County, where he was raised and educated,<br \/>\nand was married to Miss A. Davis, a daughter of David Davis, a farmer of the<br \/>\nsame county. They remained in Montgomery County until 1839, when they moved<br \/>\nto West Tennessee and settled in Lauderdale County. He was a blacksmith, and<br \/>\nfollowed the trade through life. He died in 1851. Our subject&#8217;s mother was<br \/>\nborn in Middle Tennessee, and died in 1859. He received a very limited<br \/>\neducation in school, but afterward acquired a good business education by<br \/>\nobservation and experience. He farmed until 1871, when he engaged in the saw-<br \/>\nmill business. He now owns three saw-mills, with a capacity of 40,000 feet<br \/>\nper day, and one planing-mill with a capacity of 30,000 feet daily, two<br \/>\ncotton-gins and two grain-mills; the entire outfit cost $22,000. Mr.<br \/>\nWilliams was married, in Lauderdale County, June 15, 1854, to Martha Whitson,<br \/>\ndaughter of James Whitson, of Missouri, and one of the early settlers of West<br \/>\nTennessee. Seven children were born to this marriage, six now living: James<br \/>\nE., John T., Mary C., William B., David A. (deceased), Oliver D. and George<br \/>\nRobert. Mrs. Williams was born at the present homestead March 23, 1832. Mr.<br \/>\nWilliams was an old line Whig before the war, but is now a Democrat. With his<br \/>\nwife he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He owns 2,000 acres<br \/>\nof land; 400 acres of it is three miles south of Ripley, Tenn., on the Newport<br \/>\nNews &amp; Mississippi Valley Railroad, and the rest five and a half miles west of<br \/>\nRipley, on the Fulton Road. He has a pleasant home of the first tract. Mr.<br \/>\nWilliams is a man of strict integrity, and one of the leading citizens in the<br \/>\ncounty.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John T. Williams, a prominent farmer and large mill owner of Lauderdale County, was born in Montgomery County, Tenn., June 30, 1833, and was the son of E. W. Williams, who was a native of Virginia, and immigrated to Tennessee <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/williams-john-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":[59],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-williams"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","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=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}