{"id":1771,"date":"2014-07-30T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T00:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne2\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2014-07-30T19:35:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T00:35:40","slug":"griggs-carmel-clarence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/griggs-carmel-clarence\/","title":{"rendered":"Griggs, Carmel Clarence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GRIGGS, Carmel Clarence<\/strong>, service no. 3587893, Private First Class, Medical Department, Camp Wheeler, GA. Enlisted 6 Sep 1918, Waynesboro, TN. At enlistment was a farmer, described as 5&#8243;8\u00bd&#8221;, with brown eyes, dark brown hair and a ruddy complexion. Discharged at USA Base Hospital, Camp Wheeler, GA 3 Feb 1919. Soldier was born 25 Dec 1895 in Wayne Co., TN the son of Cicero and Belle NOWLIN GRIGGS. He married on 5 Sep 1918 to Lillian Elizabeth LAY, (6 Nov 1902 &#8211; 1 Sep 1988) the daughter of William Noah and Alice JORDON LAY. They had one daughter, Mary Eva GRIGGS, b. 21 Feb 1920, who married Hundley KIMBEL , They had two daughters: Julia Annette and Sarah Alice.<\/p>\n<p>Carmel GRIGGS died 2 May 1991 in Waynesboro, Tennessee. Funeral services were held at the First Christian Church, Waynesboro, TN with interment at Memorial Gardens, Waynesboro, TN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRIGGS, Carmel Clarence, service no. 3587893, Private First Class, Medical Department, Camp Wheeler, GA. Enlisted 6 Sep 1918, Waynesboro, TN. At enlistment was a farmer, described as 5&#8243;8\u00bd&#8221;, with brown eyes, dark brown hair and a ruddy complexion. Discharged at USA Base Hospital, Camp Wheeler, GA 3 Feb 1919. Soldier was born 25 Dec 1895 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"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":[254],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteranbiography","tag-griggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}