{"id":3911,"date":"2012-12-16T15:18:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T21:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:00:55","slug":"williams-samuel-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/williams-samuel-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"WILLIAMS, Samuel Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City:<\/strong> Dyersburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAMS, Samuel Henry<\/strong>, attorney at law; born at Trenton, Tenn., Jan. 6, 1855; Welsh-Scotch descent; son of <strong>Judge Samuel<\/strong> and <strong>Katrina M.<\/strong> (<strong>Walker<\/strong>) <strong>WILLIAMS<\/strong>; paternal grandparents, <strong>Silas Mercer<\/strong> and <strong>Mary<\/strong> (<strong>Crutchfield<\/strong>) <strong>WILLIAMS<\/strong>; maternal grandparents, <strong>Major Matthew Patton<\/strong> and <strong>Agnes<\/strong> (<strong>Hope<\/strong>) <strong>WALKER<\/strong>; educated at Andrew College, Trenton, Tenn., and E. M. Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio; married three times: first, <strong>E. Carter HASKINS<\/strong>, Dec 24, 1875; second, <strong>Lula L. ORGAN<\/strong>, Oct. 14, 1882; third, <strong>Kathleen YOUNG<\/strong>, Dec. 16, 1890; began the study of pharmacy at fourteen years of age, and medicine at sixteen years of age; entered the ministry at twenty years of age; member of the Texas conference from 1875 to 1880; practiced law at Trenton, Tenn., junior member of the firm of Taylor and Williams from 1880 to 1883; member of the Memphis Conference M. E. church, South, from 1883 to 1896; has been stationed at Somerville, McKenzie and Newbern; former presiding elder of Lexington district; stationed in Memphis 1893-96; dissatisfied with certain rulings of church authorities, withdrew from ministry and resumed practice of law at Newbern, Tenn., 1898; moved to Dyersburg 1910; senior member of firm of Williams &amp; Ward; member of the M. E. church, South; superintendent of Sunday school at Dyersburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Dyersburg WILLIAMS, Samuel Henry, attorney at law; born at Trenton, Tenn., Jan. 6, 1855; Welsh-Scotch descent; son of Judge Samuel and Katrina M. (Walker) WILLIAMS; paternal grandparents, Silas Mercer and Mary (Crutchfield) WILLIAMS; maternal grandparents, Major Matthew Patton and Agnes (Hope) WALKER; educated at Andrew College, Trenton, Tenn., and E. M. Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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":[2320,649,58,4415,4419],"tags":[2321,2323,2322,2324,11,130,38,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-3911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-andrew-college","7":"category-dyer","8":"category-gibson","9":"category-surname-w","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-crutchfield","12":"tag-haskins","13":"tag-hope","14":"tag-organ","15":"tag-patton","16":"tag-walker","17":"tag-williams","18":"tag-young","19":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15328,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/15328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}