{"id":11379,"date":"2015-02-26T20:47:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T02:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11379"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:00:47","slug":"williams-james-mathew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/williams-james-mathew\/","title":{"rendered":"WILLIAMS, James Mathew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAMS, James Mathew<\/strong>, commission merchant, grain, hay, flour, etc.; born near Brunswick, Tenn., Sept. 1, 1841; Welsh-Scotch and English descent; son of <strong>Henry and Mary (Black) WILLIAMS<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, farmer and magistrate Shelby Co., Tenn., 12 years; paternal grandparents <strong>James and Susan (Peebles) WILLIAM [sic]<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Mathew and Elizabeth (Strong) BLACK<\/strong>; educated in Shelby Co., Tenn., and spent two years at Shelby Military Institute, Germantown, Tenn.; in early life assisted his father on farm in Shelby Co., Tenn.; at age of 14 lost part of his right hand by accident and was exempt from military service, but enlisted in C.S.A. and remained until close of war; captured once by 7th Kansas (Jayhawkers) Cavalry; escaped from prison in 1863; attained rank of orderly sergeant, 13th Tenn. Infantry, and lieutenant in cavalry; married <strong>Sallie R. WOOTEN<\/strong>, Feb. 8, 1872; member of Masonic fraternities, DeSoto Lodge, Memphis Chapter, Memphis Commandery, Business Men&#8217;s Club, Memphis Merchants Exchange, Confederate Historical Association, Company &#8220;A,&#8221; U.C.V., and colonel on staff of Gen. G.W. Gordon; Democrat; member of Cumberland Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/\">Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/a><\/em>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis WILLIAMS, James Mathew, commission merchant, grain, hay, flour, etc.; born near Brunswick, Tenn., Sept. 1, 1841; Welsh-Scotch and English descent; son of Henry and Mary (Black) WILLIAMS; father&#8217;s occupation, farmer and magistrate Shelby Co., Tenn., 12 years; paternal grandparents James and Susan (Peebles) WILLIAM [sic], maternal grandparents Mathew and Elizabeth (Strong) BLACK; educated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[261,4415,4062,4419],"tags":[1224,2685,1538,38,1475],"class_list":{"0":"post-11379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-black","11":"tag-peebles","12":"tag-strong","13":"tag-williams","14":"tag-wooten","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14424,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions\/14424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}