{"id":11152,"date":"2015-01-19T02:11:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T08:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11152"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:30:02","slug":"david-james-follis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/david-james-follis\/","title":{"rendered":"FOLLIS, David James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">City: Pulaski<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>FOLLIS, David James, <\/b>county trustee; born Lynnville, Tenn., Aug. 17, 1853; Irish descent; son of <b>S. C.<\/b> and <b>N. E. (Williamson) FOLLIS<\/b>; father blacksmith; attended schools of Lynnville, Tenn.; married <b>Inez O. ABERNATHY, <\/b>Dec. 16, 1881; he began life as a blacksmith; left home when seven years of age, working the first three years for his living; later worked on the farm; engaged in mercantile business 24 years; postmaster at Buford, Tenn., 22 years, and agent of L. &amp; N. R. R. at same place for 22 years; at present in the flour, mill and grain business; also trustee of Giles Co.; member Lynnville lodge F. &amp; A. M. at Pulaski and Pulaski lodge I. O. O. F. No. 12; Democrat; member M. E. church South.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Source:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/\">Who&#8217;s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/a><\/em>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Pulaski FOLLIS, David James, county trustee; born Lynnville, Tenn., Aug. 17, 1853; Irish descent; son of S. C. and N. E. (Williamson) FOLLIS; father blacksmith; attended schools of Lynnville, Tenn.; married Inez O. ABERNATHY, Dec. 16, 1881; he began life as a blacksmith; left home when seven years of age, working the first three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[205,4410,4062,4419],"tags":[642,3654,4362],"class_list":{"0":"post-11152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giles","7":"category-surname-f","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-abernathy","11":"tag-follis","12":"tag-williamson","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14357,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions\/14357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}