{"id":172,"date":"2014-06-14T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne2\/?p=172"},"modified":"2014-07-30T13:16:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:16:33","slug":"beckham-ivy-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/beckham-ivy-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckham, Ivy F."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/beckhami.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-173\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/beckhami.jpg\" alt=\"Ivy F. Beckham\" width=\"151\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>BECKHAM, IVY F.<\/strong>\u00a0was born 4 February 1895 in Hill County, Texas, he died 10 February 1949\u00a0at Pinhook, Wayne Co., Tennessee. He was the son of John Finley BECKHAM (3 Nov 1864 &#8211; 24 Sept 1928) and Mary C. BECKHAM (30 Jan 1870 &#8211; 13 Jan 1927). Ivy married Lorene HOUSE of Lutts, Tennessee in 1923.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">Ivy BECKHAM was inducted on 27 June 1918 at Florence, Alabama and served as a corporal in the American Expeditionary Forces in France and Germany from 8 Sep 1918 until 31 Oct 1919. He was discharged on 14 Nov 1919 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. According to his discharge he was a mail carrier at the time of his induction. He was described as having blue eyes, dark hair, light complexion and was five feet, eleven inches tall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">According to a story told by Ivy BECKHAM, he was in charge of a group of Chinese soldiers and had to take them back to China aboard a cattle train. This resulted in him returning to Wayne County much later than others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">After being discharged in 1919, Ivey Finn came back to Wayne County and from 1921 to 1922 he served as a Star Route Mail Carrier, his route being from Lutts to Collinwood. In 1923, he became a truck driver and substitute mail carrier on Rural Route No. 2. In 1932, he and Lorene purchased her father, John HOUSE&#8217;s General Store which they operated until the time of his death in 1949. Ivy and Lorene had three daughters: Geraldine, Sue and Laura Jo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BECKHAM, IVY F.\u00a0was born 4 February 1895 in Hill County, Texas, he died 10 February 1949\u00a0at Pinhook, Wayne Co., Tennessee. He was the son of John Finley BECKHAM (3 Nov 1864 &#8211; 24 Sept 1928) and Mary C. BECKHAM (30 Jan 1870 &#8211; 13 Jan 1927). Ivy married Lorene HOUSE of Lutts, Tennessee in 1923. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[176,307],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteranbiography","tag-beckham","tag-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}