{"id":215,"date":"2012-02-27T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=215"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:52:10","slug":"rivers-james-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/rivers-james-w\/","title":{"rendered":"RIVERS, James W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen Hill &#8212; <strong>RIVERS, James W<\/strong>., farmer; born in Giles Co., Tenn., April 3, 1833; Scotch-English descent; son of <strong>William W. and Martha W. (Paine) RIVERS<\/strong>; paternal grandfather <strong>William RIVERS<\/strong>; paternal grandmother <strong>Elizabeth (Brown) RIVERS;<\/strong> maternal grandfather <strong>James PAINE,<\/strong> maternal grandmother <strong>Mary (Williams) PAINE<\/strong>; educated at Pulaski, Lagrange, Ala., and Lebanon, Tenn; graduated at Lagrange; began business as a farmer; married <strong>Mary FLOURNOY<\/strong> Dec. 27, 1858; entered Confederate army July, 1861, was elected Third Lieutenant and later Captain of his company&#8217; later in Elevent Tenn., under Gen. N.B. FORREST; was the first man ever commissioned by FORREST; Demorat; Catholic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen Hill &#8212; RIVERS, James W., farmer; born in Giles Co., Tenn., April 3, 1833; Scotch-English descent; son of William W. and Martha W. (Paine) RIVERS; paternal grandfather William RIVERS; paternal grandmother Elizabeth (Brown) RIVERS; maternal grandfather James PAINE, maternal grandmother Mary (Williams) PAINE; educated at Pulaski, Lagrange, Ala., and Lebanon, Tenn; graduated at Lagrange; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[205,87,4419],"tags":[208,207,206,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giles","7":"category-surname-r","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-brown","10":"tag-paine","11":"tag-rivers","12":"tag-williams","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15846,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/15846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}