{"id":1925,"date":"2012-09-04T20:44:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T01:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:35:00","slug":"godsey-william-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/godsey-william-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"GODSEY, William Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Dayton<\/p>\n<p><strong>GODSEY, William Clinton<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>farmer; born in Rhea Co., Sep. 20, 1844; Irish descent; son of <strong>Stephen Jett <\/strong>and<strong> Mary (Gibbones) GODSEY<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer; received common school education; married <strong>Mary Jane MARTIN<\/strong> Jan. 2, 1872; member of Masons, both Blue Lodge and Chapter Lodge; lived on farm till 1862; joined the Confederate army when 18 years of age, served three years, surrendered near Charlotte, N. C., under <strong>Joe WHEELER<\/strong>; in 1867 entered general merchandise business, but is now engaged in farming, having purchased the farm on which he was born in 1870; he was also, at one time engaged in the hardware business at Dayton; member Missionary Baptist church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Dayton GODSEY, William Clinton, farmer; born in Rhea Co., Sep. 20, 1844; Irish descent; son of Stephen Jett and Mary (Gibbones) GODSEY; father\u2019s occupation farmer; received common school education; married Mary Jane MARTIN Jan. 2, 1872; member of Masons, both Blue Lodge and Chapter Lodge; lived on farm till 1862; joined the Confederate army [&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":[156,4411,4419],"tags":[964,983,513,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-1925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rhea","7":"category-surname-g","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-gibbones","10":"tag-godsey","11":"tag-martin","12":"tag-wheeler","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","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=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15147,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/15147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}