{"id":6101,"date":"2013-04-16T15:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6101"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:00:55","slug":"willis-john-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/willis-john-l\/","title":{"rendered":"WILLIS, John L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: McMinnville<\/p>\n<p><strong>WILLIS, John L.<\/strong>, lawyer; born Pelham, Tenn., Aug. 17, 1870; English-German descent; son of <strong>William H. and Mary Sue (Van Zandt) WILLIS<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, farmer and stock dealer; paternal grandparents <strong>Peter and Mary (Bostick) WILLIS<\/strong>; maternal grandparents<strong> Isaac and Susan (Lee) VAN ZANDT<\/strong>; received literary education in public schools at Pelham, Tenn., and Winchester Normal College, graduating from latter in 1888, and from Cumberland University law department in 1891; in early life worked on a farm and taught school; married <strong>Mattie BURROUGHS<\/strong>, June 22, 1901; member of K.P.; Democrat; active in politics; member of M.E. Church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: McMinnville WILLIS, John L., lawyer; born Pelham, Tenn., Aug. 17, 1870; English-German descent; son of William H. and Mary Sue (Van Zandt) WILLIS; father&#8217;s occupation, farmer and stock dealer; paternal grandparents Peter and Mary (Bostick) WILLIS; maternal grandparents Isaac and Susan (Lee) VAN ZANDT; received literary education in public schools at Pelham, Tenn., and [&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":[31,121,4415,288,132,4419],"tags":[1891,2418,295,2520,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-6101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-grundy","8":"category-surname-w","9":"category-warren","10":"category-winchester-normal-school","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-bostick","13":"tag-burroughs","14":"tag-lee","15":"tag-van-zandt","16":"tag-willis","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6101","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=6101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15331,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6101\/revisions\/15331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}