City: Clarksville<\/p>\n
CHILDERS, Gracey<\/strong>, business man, grain, railroad and steamboats; born Lyon Co. Ky., July 4, 1860; English descent; son of James Francis William and Lucy (Gracey) CHILDERS<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, minister of the gospel; paternal grandfather William C. CHILDERS<\/strong>, paternal grandmother Elizabeth Orndorff (Miller) CHILDERS<\/strong>, maternal grandfather Mathew GRACEY<\/strong>, maternal grandmother Maria (Tilford) GRACEY<\/strong>; educated Southwestern Presbyterian University Clarksville, (Tenn.); entered grain, railroad, steamboat business in\u00a0 early life; married Jane Gray GLENN<\/strong> Nov. 14, 1900; member of Knights of Pythias and Elks; lieutenant-colonel First Tenn. Infantry N. G. S. T. 1888; colonel and inspector rifle practice First Brigade N. G. S. T. 1895; lieutenant-colonel First Tenn. Inf. N. G. S. T. 1897; lieutenant-colonel\u00a0First Tenn. Inf. U. S. V. 1898; Col. 1st<\/sup> Tenn. Infantry U. S. V. 1899; Brig-Gen’l. N. G. S. T., retired 1910; commanded regiment during active campaigns in the Islands of Luzon, Panay and Cebu, Philippine Islands; battle of Manilla, Luzon, Feb. 5, 1899, battle and capture of Hoilo, Panay Feb. 11, 1899, and numerous expeditions and minor engagements on Island of Panay; volunteered with regiment and commanded on a five day expedition into the mountains of Cebu, in which the column captured seven mountain forts and a number of entrenched places Sept. 21-25, 1899; commanded special force Tenn. during night riders\u2019 raids 1908-9; member of Society Sons of American Revolution, Military Order of Foreign Wars, Army of the Philippines and Spanish-American War Veterans; member Methodist Episcopal church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Clarksville CHILDERS, Gracey, business man, grain, railroad and steamboats; born Lyon Co. Ky., July 4, 1860; English descent; son of James Francis William and Lucy (Gracey) CHILDERS; father\u2019s occupation, minister of the gospel; paternal grandfather William C. CHILDERS, paternal grandmother Elizabeth Orndorff (Miller) CHILDERS, maternal grandfather Mathew GRACEY, maternal grandmother Maria (Tilford) GRACEY; educated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600,717,4407,4419],"tags":[896,899,897,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-1241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-montgomery","7":"category-southwestern-presbyterian-university","8":"category-surname-c","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-childers","11":"tag-glenn","12":"tag-gracey","13":"tag-tilford","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14875,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/14875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}