{"id":3360,"date":"2022-01-10T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:49:36","slug":"williams-spruce-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/williams-spruce-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams, Spruce E."},"content":{"rendered":"

Spruce E. Williams<\/strong>, an enterprising young merchant of Hall’s Station, Tenn.,
\nlocated on the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad, thirteen miles
\nnortheast of Ripley, was born in Tipton County, Tenn., October 4, 1863, and is
\none of twin sons, in a family of ten children — five boys and five girls —
\nborn to Alexander and Gellaney (Rigby) Williams, and is of English descent.
\nHis father was born in Lincoln County, Tenn., and moved with his parents to
\nTipton County, when seven years of age, and was raised and educated in that
\ncounty, and married there in 1847, and still lives there; the mother was a
\nnative of South Carolina. Our subject was raised on a farm, and received a
\ncommon-school education, and commenced business for himself when sixteen years
\nold, by accepting a clerkship in a store, and is now a member of the firm of
\nS. E. Williams & Co., and is doing a good trade in the general merchandise
\nbusiness. He was first with Goodman and Bro., of Covington, Tenn., then for
\neight months with J. W. Huffman, of Union City, and was also in the employ for
\na while of N. H. Murphy, at Covington, Tenn., and was also in the photography
\nbusiness in Tipton and Lauderdale Counties. Mr. Williams is a young man of
\npluck and ability, and with his experience in business, and his energy, bids
\nfair to be one of the leading business men of his county.<\/p>\n

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

Spruce E. Williams, an enterprising young merchant of Hall’s Station, Tenn., located on the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad, thirteen miles northeast of Ripley, was born in Tipton County, Tenn., October 4, 1863, and is one of twin sons, …<\/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":[59],"class_list":["post-3360","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\/3360","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=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}