{"id":1865,"date":"2014-07-30T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T02:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne2\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2014-07-30T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T02:30:29","slug":"mathis-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/mathis-william\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathis, William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MATHIS, William<\/strong>, serial number 3496682, Private, 5<sup>th<\/sup> Company, War Prison <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/ww1.htg\/wilmathi.gif\" alt=\"William Mathis\" width=\"139\" height=\"149\" align=\"right\" \/>Barracks Guard, was born 11 December 1895 at Kemmins, Lewis Co., Tennessee. He is described as having blue eyes, brown hair, a dark complexion and was 5&#8217;10\u00bd&#8221; in height. He was the son of Bryant MATHIS (6 Dec 1870-5 Aug 1945) and Sallie HICKERSON MATHIS (9 Dec 1869 &#8211; 18 June 1950) both of whom are buried at Whitehead Cemetery, Wayne Co., TN. William MATHIS&#8217; siblings were Johnny Mathis (27 Jan 1892-19 March 1952) m. Lenora T. _____; David Leroy MATHIS (12 Dec 1893-10 Dec 1938) m. Duffie HICKERSON; Pete MATHIS (9 May 1900-8 Sep 1935) m. Esther SKELTON; Bill B. MATHIS (21 Sep 1904-5 Apr 1971) m. Zula LEFTWICH; Mary MATHIS (14 June 1902-14 August 1936) m. George FRAZIER; Lucille MATHIS who married Hooper SKELTON; Reuben MATHIS; Otto MATHIS; and Claude &#8220;Dock&#8221; MATHIS.<\/p>\n<p>William MATHIS married Addie POAG. They had the following children: Dona OSBORN LAWSON; Sarah Lou who married Bill HENDRIX; Donald MATHIS; Willie Ann DAVIS; Jennie HENSON; and two children who died as infants.<\/p>\n<p>William was inducted June 26<sup>th<\/sup> 1918 at Waynesboro and at induction his occupation was listed as farmer. He was discharged at Ft. Oglethorpe, GA on 15<sup>th<\/sup> September 1919.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATHIS, William, serial number 3496682, Private, 5th Company, War Prison Barracks Guard, was born 11 December 1895 at Kemmins, Lewis Co., Tennessee. He is described as having blue eyes, brown hair, a dark complexion and was 5&#8217;10\u00bd&#8221; in height. He was the son of Bryant MATHIS (6 Dec 1870-5 Aug 1945) and Sallie HICKERSON MATHIS [&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":[333],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteranbiography","tag-mathis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","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=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}