{"id":827,"date":"2012-08-16T00:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T05:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=827"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:58:46","slug":"thompson-william-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/thompson-william-d\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMPSON, William D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Town: Centerville<\/p>\n<p><strong>THOMPSON, William D.<\/strong>, merchant; born Hickman Co., Tenn.; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Andrew Jackson and Sara (Douglas) THOMPSON<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandfather <strong>Asa Dabner THOMPSON<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Mary (Poly) THOMPSON<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>William DOUGLAS<\/strong>, maternal grandmother was a <strong>Miss CAROTHERS<\/strong> prior to her marriage; received common school education; in early life was a farmer boy; married twice, first <strong>Catherine SHOUSE<\/strong> Oct. 23, 1884, second <strong>Maggie ANDERSON<\/strong> Aug. 12, 1896; Democrat; register of Hickman Co. 1882 to 1890; has been in the mercantile business since 1879, beginning on a salary of $100 a year as a clerk; member of Methodist Episcopal church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town: Centerville THOMPSON, William D., merchant; born Hickman Co., Tenn.; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Andrew Jackson and Sara (Douglas) THOMPSON; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandfather Asa Dabner THOMPSON, paternal grandmother Mary (Poly) THOMPSON, maternal grandfather William DOUGLAS, maternal grandmother was a Miss CAROTHERS prior to her marriage; received common school education; in early life was [&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":[190,4412,4419],"tags":[4318,610,608,609,611,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hickman","7":"category-surname-t","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-anderson","10":"tag-carothers","11":"tag-douglas","12":"tag-poly","13":"tag-shouse","14":"tag-thompson","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15234,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/15234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}