{"id":11515,"date":"2013-11-18T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11515"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:56","slug":"yoakley-william-frederick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/yoakley-william-frederick\/","title":{"rendered":"YOAKLEY, William Frederick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Birchwood<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOAKLEY, William Frederick<\/strong>, agriculturist; born in Sullivan Co. Tenn., Oct. 7, 1843; English-German descent; son of <strong>Jesse E. and Mary A. (Hull) YOAKLEY<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>Richard and Hannah (Hicks) YOAKLEY<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Frederic and Mary A. (Coak) HULL<\/strong>; educated in common schools of Sullivan Co.; graduated from Oakland Academy 1861; served in Confederate Army, private 1861, in Capt. Osborn&#8217;s Independent Battalion from Texas; Co. F, 63d Tenn. Inf. April 14, 1862; Capt. Gammon&#8217;s Co. 60<sup>th<\/sup> Tenn. Feb 9, 1865; married <strong>Elizabeth E. BOWMAN<\/strong> Aug. 14, 1866; Democrat; warden Coal Creek branch state prison 1891; deputy warden of Mount Branch state prison 1906, etc.; delegate to National Pure Food and Drugs Congress Washington, March 7, 1900; delegate to Farmers&#8217; National Congress at St. Louis, Mo., Sept., 1904; same at Richmond, Va., Sept. 12, 1905; again at Washington, D. C., Jan., 1910; president of Sullivan County Mutual Fire Insurance Co. 1898-1910; postmaster at Hilton, Tenn., several years; member of A. F. &amp; A. M. Lodge No. 559 at Holston Institute; lay official M. E. church, South, since 1866.<\/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 YOAKLEY, William Frederick, agriculturist; born in Sullivan Co. Tenn., Oct. 7, 1843; English-German descent; son of Jesse E. and Mary A. (Hull) YOAKLEY; paternal grandparents Richard and Hannah (Hicks) YOAKLEY, maternal grandparents Frederic and Mary A. (Coak) HULL; educated in common schools of Sullivan Co.; graduated from Oakland Academy 1861; served in Confederate [&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":[663,4416,4062,4419],"tags":[1505,3757,4399,497,3756],"class_list":{"0":"post-11515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sullivan","7":"category-surname-y","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bowman","11":"tag-coak","12":"tag-hicks","13":"tag-hull","14":"tag-yoakley","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515","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=11515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13270,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions\/13270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}