{"id":10563,"date":"2014-03-08T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10563"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:16","slug":"woodcock-william-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/woodcock-william-m\/","title":{"rendered":"WOODCOCK, William M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>WOODCOCK, William M.<\/b>, bookkeeper; born Macon County, Tenn., September 4, 1842; English descent; son of <b>Wiley and Harriet (Simmons) WOODCOCK<\/b>; father was a physician; educated in the common schools of Macon County, Tennessee, and Monroe County, Kentucky; graduated Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., Law Department, in June, 1875; in early life was a farmer; married <b>Sarah Ellen WATERS<\/b>, January 8, 1869, and member of Tennessee Senate from Davidson County, in 1889; U. S. Internal Revenue Collector, 1877-83; member of Co. \u201cB,\u201d 9<sup>th<\/sup> Kentucky Infantry, U. S. A., from September 24, 1861, to December 15, 1864; enlisted as Private and attained rank of First Lieutenant; member of Baptist Church, Deacon, Treasurer of Tennessee Baptist Convention since March 1, 1884; was Presidential Elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket and in 1873 was candidate for Congress from the Fourth Congressional District against <b>Hon. H. Y. RIDDLE<\/b>; he is now Assistant Bookkeeper in the office of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville WOODCOCK, William M., bookkeeper; born Macon County, Tenn., September 4, 1842; English descent; son of Wiley and Harriet (Simmons) WOODCOCK; father was a physician; educated in the common schools of Macon County, Tennessee, and Monroe County, Kentucky; graduated Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., Law Department, in June, 1875; in early life was a farmer; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[31,162,808,4415,4062,4419],"tags":[3491,2092,490,3490],"class_list":{"0":"post-10563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-macon","9":"category-surname-w","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-riddle","13":"tag-simmons","14":"tag-waters","15":"tag-woodcock","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13593,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions\/13593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}