{"id":175,"date":"2014-06-14T16:31:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne2\/?p=175"},"modified":"2014-07-30T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:16:10","slug":"beckham-j-lynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/beckham-j-lynn\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckham, J. Lynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"color: #000000\">BECKHAM, J. LYNN<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">, PVT, ASN: 558139, SATC Ala. Poly Institute, Auburn, AL. Enlisted 23 Oct 1918, Florence, AL, discharged 9 Dec 1918, Auburn, AL. Born 9 May 1897, Indian Creek, Wayne Co., TN, died 15 Nov 1968, Waynesboro, TN. Son of John Finley BECKHAM (3 Nov 1864 &#8211; 24 Sep 1928) and Mary C. BECKHAM (30 Jan 1870 &#8211; 13 Jan 1927). Married Karen MELSON, 31 Oct 1920, Waynesboro, TN. Two children, James M. BECKHAM and Thomas E. BECKHAM. Occupation: hauled freight from Allens Creek to Waynesboro, later worked as mechanic for Hassell &amp; Hughes Ford, Yeiser Bro. Chevrolet, Jack Yeiser Chevrolet, Savannah, TN and Waynesboro. In 1939 went into business for self. Secured International Harvester Co. Dealership to sell farm machinery; active in dealership until death in 1968.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BECKHAM, J. LYNN, PVT, ASN: 558139, SATC Ala. Poly Institute, Auburn, AL. Enlisted 23 Oct 1918, Florence, AL, discharged 9 Dec 1918, Auburn, AL. Born 9 May 1897, Indian Creek, Wayne Co., TN, died 15 Nov 1968, Waynesboro, TN. Son of John Finley BECKHAM (3 Nov 1864 &#8211; 24 Sep 1928) and Mary C. BECKHAM [&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":[176,271],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteranbiography","tag-beckham","tag-melson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}