{"id":1509,"date":"2021-08-22T19:34:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T19:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2021-08-22T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T19:34:32","slug":"willett-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/willett-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Willett Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>contributed by Judith Lee Wade Chase Anderson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tribute to a child of Birtie Lee Looper and Samuel Burrus Willett &#8230; the little infant who came early because grandma Birtie had such a fright.<\/p>\n<p>Gramma was crossing a fence with the long dress and all and being<br \/>\nlarge with child, and almost stepped on a huge rattlesnake!! It<br \/>\nstruck and hung in the bib to her apron which was pinned to her dress.<\/p>\n<p>It hung there until she tore it lose with her hand! She then ran home<br \/>\nand lost the baby. She was indeed, strong pioneer stock. A strong,<br \/>\ngentle, kind, wisp of a woman with black flowing hair, her hair,<br \/>\nalways twisted into a knot on her neck. How very strange&#8230;we ALWAYS included the small babe in any counting of children&#8230; &#8220;And grandma Birtie and Grandpa Burr had six children and the first one, a boy, did not live a day&#8230;..he is buried at Hanging Limb by Grandpa Johnny Looper.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>contributed by Judith Lee Wade Chase Anderson Tribute to a child of Birtie Lee Looper and Samuel Burrus Willett &#8230; the little infant who came early because grandma Birtie had such a fright. Gramma was crossing a fence with the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/willett-family\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individuals-families"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}