{"id":840,"date":"2014-03-18T18:27:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?p=840"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:30:07","slug":"davidson-lt-col-john-leslie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/davidson-lt-col-john-leslie\/","title":{"rendered":"Davidson, Lt. Col. John Leslie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lang=\"x-western\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lt. Col. John Leslie Davidson<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/John-Leslie-Davidson-1959-Bangkok-Thiland-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-846\" alt=\"John Leslie Davidson 1959 Bangkok, Thiland [2]\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/John-Leslie-Davidson-1959-Bangkok-Thiland-2-157x300.jpg\" width=\"157\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/John-Leslie-Davidson-1959-Bangkok-Thiland-2-157x300.jpg 157w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/John-Leslie-Davidson-1959-Bangkok-Thiland-2.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Lt. Col. John Leslie Davidson (1907-2009) <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Retired&#8217; 102, died Mar. 16, 2009 in Augusta, GA. He was the 6th of 9 children born on a cotton farm in South Dallas County, TX on Mar 18,\u00a0 1907 to William Gilbert and Augusta Hull Davidson. John was with the 69th Div. in Europe during WWII; and had a distinguished military career, serving until 1961, mostly in the Far East. He was a lifelong Christian and a Mason. He was also an accomplished writer, sculptor and gardener.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>John&#8217;s father, William Gilbert Davidson (1867-1938); grandfather, Joseph Warren Davidson (1838-1902); great grandfather, William Lee Davidson (1811-1890) were all born in Morgan County. His great, great, great grandfather Col. William Lee Davidson (1746-1828) was an office in the Virginia Militia during the Revolutionary<var><\/var> War.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Col. John Leslie Davidson Lt. Col. John Leslie Davidson (1907-2009) Retired&#8217; 102, died Mar. 16, 2009 in Augusta, GA. He was the 6th of 9 children born on a cotton farm in South Dallas County, TX on Mar 18,\u00a0 1907 to William Gilbert and Augusta Hull Davidson. John was with the 69th Div. in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/davidson-lt-col-john-leslie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Davidson, Lt. Col. John Leslie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}