{"id":3628,"date":"2012-11-25T19:48:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T01:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:00:55","slug":"willis-james-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/willis-james-william\/","title":{"rendered":"WILLIS, James William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Greeneville<\/p>\n<p><strong>WILLIS, James William<\/strong>, banker and manufacturer; born Greene Co., Tenn., March 7, 1854; English and Irish descent; son of <strong>John H. and Elizabeth J. (McCord) WILLIS<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer and contractor; paternal grandparents <strong>James and ______ (Hall) WILLIS<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, <strong>James and Margaret R. (Bell) MCCORD<\/strong>; received common school education; in early life he was engaged in farming and retail hardware business, Greeneville, Tenn.; married <strong>Annie A. MITCHELL<\/strong> Dec. 23, 1880; Democrat; President First National Bank and East Tenn. Tobacco Co., Greeneville, Tenn.; member Cumberland Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Greeneville WILLIS, James William, banker and manufacturer; born Greene Co., Tenn., March 7, 1854; English and Irish descent; son of John H. and Elizabeth J. (McCord) WILLIS; father\u2019s occupation farmer and contractor; paternal grandparents James and ______ (Hall) WILLIS, maternal grandparents, James and Margaret R. (Bell) MCCORD; received common school education; in early life [&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":[254,4415,4419],"tags":[269,819,1518,676,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-3628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-greene","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-bell","10":"tag-hall","11":"tag-mccord","12":"tag-mitchell","13":"tag-willis","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","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=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15330,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/15330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}