City: Bethpage<\/p>\n
WOODSON, Edwin Allen<\/strong>, farmer and stock raiser; born at Bethpage, April 25, 1856; Welsh and Scotch-Irish descent; son of Thomas M. and Amelin M. (Allen) WOODSON<\/strong>; father’s occupation physician and surgeon; paternal grandparents Rev. Lewis M. and Lucinda (Hanna) WOODSON<\/strong>; maternal grandparents Rev. Luke P. and Margaret (Parker) ALLEN<\/strong>; educated at Warren College, Bowling Green, Ky.; married Mary Ellen POSTON<\/strong> Feb. 14, 1882; member Bethpage Lodge No. 521 F. & A. M. P. M. Secretary several years. Bethpage Chapter No 5 O. E. S., Past Patron and Secretary; Democrat; former Postmaster at Bethpage, Tenn., for 11 years; during which time he was instrumental in having four Rural Route established from Bethpage; also a Star Route from Gallatin with daily mail to Bethpage; now member of Sumner Co., Tenn., Election Board and Secretary of same; has been a member of Sumner Co. Revenue Commissioners for twelve years; member of County Board of Education; President of the Board of Education for Bethpage School for sixteen years, since its establishment; engaged in farming and stock raising at Bethpage, Tenn.; member of M. E. church, South.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Bethpage WOODSON, Edwin Allen, farmer and stock raiser; born at Bethpage, April 25, 1856; Welsh and Scotch-Irish descent; son of Thomas M. and Amelin M. (Allen) WOODSON; father’s occupation physician and surgeon; paternal grandparents Rev. Lewis M. and Lucinda (Hanna) WOODSON; maternal grandparents Rev. Luke P. and Margaret (Parker) ALLEN; educated at Warren College, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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":[812,4415,4062,4419],"tags":[160,524,444,60,1189],"class_list":{"0":"post-11478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sumner","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-allen","11":"tag-hannah","12":"tag-parker","13":"tag-poston","14":"tag-woodson","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13257,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478\/revisions\/13257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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