{"id":482,"date":"2012-08-07T00:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T05:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=482"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:35:21","slug":"greaves-william-francis-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/greaves-william-francis-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"GREAVES, William Francis, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Brownsville<\/p>\n<p><strong>GREAVES, William Francis, Sr<\/strong>., merchant and farmer; born Haywood Co. Tenn., June 8, 1843; English and Scotch descent; son of <strong>Andrew Jackson and Sophronia (Davie) GREAVES<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer one of the early settlers of West Tennessee; received common school education; married <strong>Mary Alice GAUSE<\/strong> June 18, 1866; joined Confederate army at the age of 17 and served four years, rank of Second Lieutenant; was engaged in the six hardest battles of the Civil war, was one of the twenty cavalrymen who captured the flagship of the Federal fleet on the Yazoo river; engaged in farming and mercantile business Brownsville, Tenn.; member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Brownsville GREAVES, William Francis, Sr., merchant and farmer; born Haywood Co. Tenn., June 8, 1843; English and Scotch descent; son of Andrew Jackson and Sophronia (Davie) GREAVES; father\u2019s occupation farmer one of the early settlers of West Tennessee; received common school education; married Mary Alice GAUSE June 18, 1866; joined Confederate army at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[59,4411,4419],"tags":[377,378,376],"class_list":{"0":"post-482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-haywood","7":"category-surname-g","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-davie","10":"tag-gause","11":"tag-greaves","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15166,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/15166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}