{"id":11044,"date":"2014-06-30T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T15:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11044"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:47:41","slug":"morris-william-darney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/morris-william-darney\/","title":{"rendered":"MORRIS, William Darney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Paris<\/p>\n<p><b>MORRIS, William Darney<\/b>, farmer; born Louisa Co., Va., June 3, 1847; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <b>Tandy G. and Harriet E. (Mills) MORRIS<\/b>; father was a farmer and stock raiser; educated Conyersville Academy, Henry Co., and graduated from same in 1859; served in C. S. A., from May 1864 to surrender; in early life engaged in manufacture of tobacco; President of Paris Harness Co., from 1905 to 1908; engaged in raising fine stock, especially horses, and President of Porter Medicine Co., from 1904 to present; Democrat; member of Executive Committee of Henry Co., Tenn., for several years up to 1903; married <b>Mary A. MITCHUM<\/b>, Oct. 18, 1871; former magistrate 30 years; deacon in Missionary Baptist church since 1874; member of present County Board of Education of Henry County.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Paris MORRIS, William Darney, farmer; born Louisa Co., Va., June 3, 1847; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Tandy G. and Harriet E. (Mills) MORRIS; father was a farmer and stock raiser; educated Conyersville Academy, Henry Co., and graduated from same in 1859; served in C. S. A., from May 1864 to surrender; in early life [&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":[3702,363,4062,4419],"tags":[1806,3573,465],"class_list":{"0":"post-11044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-conyersville-academy","7":"category-henry","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-mills","11":"tag-mitchum","12":"tag-morris","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044","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=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14045,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions\/14045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}