City:\u00a0 Jonesboro<\/p>\n
WEEKS, James W., <\/strong>farmer, carpenter; born McLean Co., Ill., Aug. 22, 1859; English and Scotch descent; son of\u00a0 S. E. <\/strong>and Margaret (Stevenson) WEEKS; <\/strong>father\u2019s occupation brickmaker, contractor and builder; educated in public schools of Ill.; served 11 years and five months in 6th<\/sup> U. S. Infantry, 4 years N. G. S. T., and nine months Vol. army Spanish-American War; left U. S. army in 1893, and engaged in the hardware business, Elizabethton, Tenn.; enlisted in Vol. Army at outbreak with Spain, was commissioned by Gov. R. L. TAYLOR<\/strong>, and assigned to 3d Tenn., Vo. Inf., was Summary Court officer of that regiment; served as private, corporal, sergeant, and First Sergeant Co. \u201cE\u201d and Quartermaster Sergeant 6th<\/sup> Infantry U. S. A., Capt. N. G. S. T., 1894-1898; Major 3d Tenn., Vol. Inf. during Spanish-American War; mustered out of service Feb. 1, 1899; manufacturer of pants, Elizabethton, Tenn., 1894; engaged in the farming industry since 1895; married Abbie AMES<\/strong> Aug. 22, 1881; member J. O. U. A. M.; was First Councilor of 1st<\/sup> Council organized in the State in 1894, Elizabethton, Tenn.; Republican; Road Commissioner; twice elected Justice of the Peace Carter Co.; member of the County School Board three years Washington Co., Tenn.; now Tax Assessor Washington Co., Tenn.; member of M. E. church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Jonesboro WEEKS, James W., farmer, carpenter; born McLean Co., Ill., Aug. 22, 1859; English and Scotch descent; son of\u00a0 S. E. and Margaret (Stevenson) WEEKS; father\u2019s occupation brickmaker, contractor and builder; educated in public schools of Ill.; served 11 years and five months in 6th U. S. Infantry, 4 years N. G. S. T., […]<\/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":[4415,216,4419],"tags":[1689,2220,2219],"class_list":{"0":"post-4924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-w","7":"category-washington","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-ames","10":"tag-stevenson","11":"tag-weeks","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","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=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15301,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions\/15301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}