{"id":2544,"date":"2012-10-24T14:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:58:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:58:55","slug":"tilson-leroy-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/tilson-leroy-s\/","title":{"rendered":"TILSON, Leroy S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Erwin<\/p>\n<p><strong>TILSON, Leroy S.<\/strong>, physician; born Clear Branch, Tenn., Aug. 13, 1854; Irish descent; son of <strong>William E. and Katherine (Sams) TILSON<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>Peleg and Nancy (Allen) TILSON<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>James W. and Mary (Hickum) SAMS<\/strong>; educated at Flag Pond Seminary, Flag Pond, Tenn., and Mars Hill College, North Carolina; graduated from College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, Md., with degree of M. D. March 1, 1882; early occupation, farmer and student, later practicing\u00a0 physician, now president of Board of Pension Examiners (local); Republican; was Postmaster of Clear Branch, Tenn., from 1896-1910; married <strong>Eliza PARK<\/strong> Jan. 3, 1884; member Missionary Baptist church; F. &amp; A. M., R. A. M., I. O. O. F., etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Erwin TILSON, Leroy S., physician; born Clear Branch, Tenn., Aug. 13, 1854; Irish descent; son of William E. and Katherine (Sams) TILSON; paternal grandparents Peleg and Nancy (Allen) TILSON, maternal grandparents James W. and Mary (Hickum) SAMS; educated at Flag Pond Seminary, Flag Pond, Tenn., and Mars Hill College, North Carolina; graduated from College [&hellip;]<\/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":[4412,814,4419],"tags":[160,1302,919,1301,1300],"class_list":{"0":"post-2544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-t","7":"category-unicoi","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-allen","10":"tag-hickum","11":"tag-park","12":"tag-sams","13":"tag-tilson","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","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=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15242,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/15242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}