{"id":558,"date":"2021-08-14T20:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T20:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/?p=558"},"modified":"2025-12-21T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:55:11","slug":"pickett-county-world-war-i-veterans-questionnaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/pickett-county-world-war-i-veterans-questionnaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickett County World War I Veterans&#8217; Questionnaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Records available at the Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives indicate five Pickett County veterans completed questionnaires about their service during World War I.<\/p>\n<p>The World War I questionnaire project (TSLA Record Group 239) was part of an effort to gather and preserve the history of Tennessee&#8217;s involvement in what was then known as the Great War. On January 24, 1919 the state legislature resolved that a committee of 25 be appointed, to be known as the Tennessee State Historical Committee, part of whose duties was to &#8220;collect, compile, index and arrange all data and information of every kind and character relating to the part Tennessee has played in the Great War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tslaindexes.tn.gov\/database-military-records\/tennessee-world-war-i-veterans-questionnaires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to go directly to the searchable database of questionnaires to view others&#8217; among the 4448 submissions.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the soldier&#8217;s name to view the record.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tslaindexes.tn.gov\/military-research\/content\/charles-55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Reagan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tslaindexes.tn.gov\/military-research\/content\/estill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Estill Hinds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tslaindexes.tn.gov\/military-research\/content\/henry-l-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry L. Poor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tslaindexes.tn.gov\/military-research\/content\/john-62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Poor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tslaindexes.tn.gov\/military-research\/content\/john-63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Poor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records available at the Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives indicate five Pickett County veterans completed questionnaires about their service during World War I. The World War I questionnaire project (TSLA Record Group 239) was part of an effort to gather <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/pickett-county-world-war-i-veterans-questionnaires\/\"><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":[7,10,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individuals-families","category-military-records","category-searchable-databases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}