{"id":1569,"date":"2012-09-16T21:58:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T02:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:47:51","slug":"boaz-william-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/boaz-william-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"BOAZ, William Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Columbia<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BOAZ, William Thomas<\/strong>, minister of the Gospel; born Graves County, Kentucky, January 7, 1875; son of <strong>Thomas F.<\/strong> and <strong>Virginia (Puryear) BOAZ<\/strong>; Irish and French descent; educated West Kentucky College, Mayfield, Ky., and Georgia Roberson Christian College of Henderson, Tenn.; married <strong>Effie JONES<\/strong>, January 1, 1900; one of the founders of the Tennessee Orphan Home, located at Columbia, and President of same, and in charge of work of First Christian Church; farmer boy in early life; entered ministry when twenty years of age and has held charges in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois; founded Tennessee Orphans\u2019 Home in 1909.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Columbia BOAZ, William Thomas, minister of the Gospel; born Graves County, Kentucky, January 7, 1875; son of Thomas F. and Virginia (Puryear) BOAZ; Irish and French descent; educated West Kentucky College, Mayfield, Ky., and Georgia Roberson Christian College of Henderson, Tenn.; married Effie JONES, January 1, 1900; one of the founders of the Tennessee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[1268,180,4405,4419],"tags":[1269,263,1270],"class_list":{"0":"post-1569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-george-roberson-christian-college","7":"category-maury","8":"category-surname-b","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-boaz","11":"tag-jones","12":"tag-puryear","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14700,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/14700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}