{"id":402,"date":"2012-08-04T02:26:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T07:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=402"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:00:47","slug":"williams-john-lafayette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/williams-john-lafayette\/","title":{"rendered":"WILLIAMS, John Lafayette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Benton<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>WILLIAMS, John Lafayette<\/strong>, surveyor and timber estimator; born Polk Co., Tenn. Dec. 19, 1876; Welsh, Scotch, Irish descent; sone of <strong>A.J. and Sarah C. (Rymer) WILLIAMS<\/strong>; his father is a farmer and present Clerk and Master of Chancery at Benton; paternal grandfather<strong> John WILLIAMS<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Nancy (Harbison) WILLIAMS<\/strong>; maternal grandfather <strong>Leroy RYMER<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Elizabeth (Runyons) RYMER<\/strong>; educated common schools of Benton and Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn.; began business career teaching school, in which he engaged from 1896 to 1900; married <strong>Velma GREEN<\/strong>, Nov. 13, 1903; member of F. and A.M. (Seniro Deacon 1902, Junior Warden 1903); Democrat, was County Surveyor Polk Co. from 1898 to 1907; is now Surveyor for Wetmore estate (30,000 acres) in Polk Co.; is also Surveyor for Prendergast Co. (55,000 acres) and was with Ocoee Timber Co. (60,000 acres) from 1903 to 1908; member of Missionary Baptist church.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Benton WILLIAMS, John Lafayette, surveyor and timber estimator; born Polk Co., Tenn. Dec. 19, 1876; Welsh, Scotch, Irish descent; sone of A.J. and Sarah C. (Rymer) WILLIAMS; his father is a farmer and present Clerk and Master of Chancery at Benton; paternal grandfather John WILLIAMS, paternal grandmother Nancy (Harbison) WILLIAMS; maternal grandfather Leroy RYMER, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[337,235,4415,4419],"tags":[315,339,338,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carson-newman-college","7":"category-polk","8":"category-surname-w","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-green","11":"tag-runyons","12":"tag-rymer","13":"tag-williams","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15323,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/15323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}