{"id":1577,"date":"2012-09-17T22:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T03:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:28:55","slug":"elam-james-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/elam-james-j\/","title":{"rendered":"ELAM, James J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Columbia<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ELAM, James J.,<\/strong> insurance agent; born Halifax Co., Va., March 2, 1844; English descent; son of <strong>John R.<\/strong> and <strong>Margaret (Lawson) ELAM<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; received common school education; was private in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> Va. regiment, C. S. A., during the Civil war, and served during the entire war; was wounded at Frazier\u2019s farm during the Seven Days battle at Richmond, Va.; in early life was a farmer, later was in the mercantile business for six years, now insurance and real estate agent, and has been for past thirty-five years; married <strong>Laura McGAW<\/strong> Feb. 2, 1875; member F. and A. M., Knights of Pythias; Democrat; notary public; member Methodist church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Columbia ELAM, James J., insurance agent; born Halifax Co., Va., March 2, 1844; English descent; son of John R. and Margaret (Lawson) ELAM; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; received common school education; was private in the 18th Va. regiment, C. S. A., during the Civil war, and served during the entire war; was wounded at Frazier\u2019s [&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":[180,4409,4419],"tags":[1275,1276,1277],"class_list":{"0":"post-1577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-maury","7":"category-surname-e","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-elam","10":"tag-lawson","11":"tag-mcgaw","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","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=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15030,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/15030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}