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GROOMS, Zebulon W.<\/strong>, wholesale and retail dealer in live stock; born in Weakley Co., Tenn., Aug. 30, 1856; English descent; son of Right M. and Eliza Ann (Ray) GROOMS<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents Bright and Katy (Windows) GROOMS<\/strong>; maternal grandfather Nathan RAY<\/strong>; his maternal grandmother was a Miss BROWN<\/strong> prior to her marriage; graduated from Sims Academy March 1877; left an orphan at the age of six, his father having lost his life during civil war, in the Confederate army; began his career as a farmer, later became interested in live stock; at present dealing in live stock as one of the firm of Ray and Grooms, Greenfield, Tenn., wholesale and retail dealers in live stock; married Frances Alice GROOMS<\/strong>, Oct. 22, 1876; member F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., and Knights of Pythias; Democrat; former justice of the peace eighteen years; former Trustee of Weakley Co., Tenn., three terms; member Cumberland Presbyterian church, Greenfield, Tenn., joined the Meridian C.P. church, 1878.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Greenfield GROOMS, Zebulon W., wholesale and retail dealer in live stock; born in Weakley Co., Tenn., Aug. 30, 1856; English descent; son of Right M. and Eliza Ann (Ray) GROOMS; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents Bright and Katy (Windows) GROOMS; maternal grandfather Nathan RAY; his maternal grandmother was a Miss BROWN prior to her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[1759,4411,818,4419],"tags":[208,1755,1746,1756],"class_list":{"0":"post-3421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sims-academy","7":"category-surname-g","8":"category-weakley","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-brown","11":"tag-grooms","12":"tag-ray","13":"tag-windows","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15180,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/15180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}