{"id":11513,"date":"2013-11-19T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T14:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11513"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:16","slug":"wolford-william-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wolford-william-m\/","title":{"rendered":"WOLFORD, William M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Birchwood<\/p>\n<p><strong>WOLFORD, William M<\/strong>., carpenter; German-Irish descent; born Nov.18, 1829 at Blountville, Tenn; son of <strong>William and Catherine (Drake) WOLFORD<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>George and Mary (Smith) WOLFORD,<\/strong> maternal grandparents <strong>Jacob and Catherine (Foust) DRAKE<\/strong>; educated in local county schools; began life as farmer, later was a carpenter, etc.; married Feb. 19, 1856,<strong> Amanda BUSHONG<\/strong>; served in state militia 1847-1860, Confederate Army in Civil War; independent Democrat; member of Lutheran church.<\/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: Birchwood WOLFORD, William M., carpenter; German-Irish descent; born Nov.18, 1829 at Blountville, Tenn; son of William and Catherine (Drake) WOLFORD; paternal grandparents George and Mary (Smith) WOLFORD, maternal grandparents Jacob and Catherine (Foust) DRAKE; educated in local county schools; began life as farmer, later was a carpenter, etc.; married Feb. 19, 1856, Amanda BUSHONG; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[663,4415,4062,4419],"tags":[2197,782,738,4356,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-11513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sullivan","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bushong","11":"tag-drake","12":"tag-foust","13":"tag-smith","14":"tag-wolford","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11513","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=11513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13273,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11513\/revisions\/13273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}