{"id":10777,"date":"2014-04-01T20:36:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T01:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10777"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:00:09","slug":"watlington-william-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/watlington-william-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"WATLINGTON, William Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Pinson<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATLINGTON, William Franklin<\/strong>, merchant; born in 17th Dist. Madison Co., Tenn., May 7, 1868; English descent; son of <strong>Frank W. and Mary J. (Anderson) WATLINGTON<\/strong>; father was farmer and county officer; received education in the county schools; engaged in the mercantile business early in life; married <strong>Ruby VAN TREESE<\/strong>, Feb. 25, 1900; served as chairman Board of Election Commissioners, Madison County, 1908 and 1910, under <strong>Gov. PATTERSON<\/strong>; Justice of the Peace, Notary Public; elected President Pinson Savings Bank, 1909, which position he now holds; Mason, being member of various lodges; Democrat; member M.E. Church, South.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Pinson WATLINGTON, William Franklin, merchant; born in 17th Dist. Madison Co., Tenn., May 7, 1868; English descent; son of Frank W. and Mary J. (Anderson) WATLINGTON; father was farmer and county officer; received education in the county schools; engaged in the mercantile business early in life; married Ruby VAN TREESE, Feb. 25, 1900; served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"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":[36,4415,4062,4419],"tags":[4318,4162,1922],"class_list":{"0":"post-10777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-madison","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-anderson","11":"tag-treese","12":"tag-watlington","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13680,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions\/13680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}