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WILLIAMS, James A., <\/strong>banker and farmer; born in Wilson Co., Tenn., Jan. 23, 1838; English descent; Roger WILLIAMS<\/strong> was his first ancestor in America; son of A. S.<\/strong> and Martha (Phillips) WILLIAMS<\/strong>; his maternal grandmother was Mary (Scott) PHILLIPS<\/strong>, whose father, William SCOTT<\/strong>, was one of the original settlers at Fort Mill Creek (Tenn.) when that place was attacked by the Indians in 1794; she assisted in the\u00a0 defense of the fort by molding bullets for the rifles which the men used; however, the fort was relieved by assistance sent from French Lick (or Nashborough); her father being one of the seven surviving men in the fort at the time; two of her brothers were Indian fighters who joined an expedition in Florida and Alabama against the Indians in later years; educated in the common schools of Wilson Co., Tenn.; began life as a teacher and farmer, later sold merchandise for 10 years; has been cashier of the Bank of Gainesboro (Tenn.) twenty-one years; married Kizziah KIRKPATRICK<\/strong> Oct. 29, 1867; member of the Christian church; represented Jackson Co., Tenn., in the 45th<\/sup> General Assembly; member Free Masons; enlisted in the 7th<\/sup> Tenn. Regiment, C. S. A. May 20, 1861 (served two years in the commissary department), paroled at Washington, Ga., May 13, 1865; returned home in broken health and spent the year 1866 in recuperating; Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Gainesboro WILLIAMS, James A., banker and farmer; born in Wilson Co., Tenn., Jan. 23, 1838; English descent; Roger WILLIAMS was his first ancestor in America; son of A. S. and Martha (Phillips) WILLIAMS; his maternal grandmother was Mary (Scott) PHILLIPS, whose father, William SCOTT, was one of the original settlers at Fort Mill Creek […]<\/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":[804,4415,102,4419],"tags":[1851,851,4396,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-3716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jackson","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-wilson","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-kirkpatrick","11":"tag-phillips","12":"tag-scott","13":"tag-williams","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","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=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15322,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/15322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}