{"id":6082,"date":"2013-05-03T18:08:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T23:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:00:36","slug":"whitson-william-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/whitson-william-vance\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITSON, William Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: McMinnville<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHITSON, William Vance<\/strong>, lawyer; born Bedford Co., Tenn., Aug. 5, 1846; son of <strong>George Newton and Caroline I. (Smartt) WHITSON<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents <strong>George and Priscilla (Vance) WHITSON<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>Francis and Margaret (Davidson) SMARTT<\/strong>; educated at Yorkville Academy, Gibson Co., Tenn.; in early life worked on a farm; enlisted in the Confederate army at Newbern, Tenn., Dec., 1862; served as private throughout the war; was captured in May, 1863, and remained in prison at Camp Douglass, Chicago, Ill., until the close of the war; Democrat; married three times, first <strong>Jennie CHADWICK<\/strong>, Nov. 8, 1871, second <strong>Rebecca MORFORD<\/strong>, Oct. 15, 1875, third <strong>Carrie HANCOCK<\/strong>, Aug. 22, 1893; elected attorney-general Aug. 5, 1886; served eight years in Sixth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee; elected to State Senate Nov., 1898; member of Presbyterian church, U.S.A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: McMinnville WHITSON, William Vance, lawyer; born Bedford Co., Tenn., Aug. 5, 1846; son of George Newton and Caroline I. (Smartt) WHITSON; father&#8217;s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents George and Priscilla (Vance) WHITSON; maternal grandparents Francis and Margaret (Davidson) SMARTT; educated at Yorkville Academy, Gibson Co., Tenn.; in early life worked on a farm; enlisted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[14,58,4415,288,4419,2531],"tags":[2518,4353,4388,2519,2516,2517,456],"class_list":{"0":"post-6082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bedford","7":"category-gibson","8":"category-surname-w","9":"category-warren","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"category-yorkville-academy","12":"tag-chadwick","13":"tag-davidson","14":"tag-hancock","15":"tag-morford","16":"tag-smartt","17":"tag-vance","18":"tag-whitson","19":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8186,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions\/8186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}