{"id":614,"date":"2010-06-25T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T19:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2010-06-25T14:32:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T19:32:05","slug":"washington-descendants-visit-wessyngton-plantation-during-family-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/washington-descendants-visit-wessyngton-plantation-during-family-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Descendants Visit Wessyngton Plantation During Family Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_615\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-615\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/washington-descendants-visit-wessyngton-plantation-during-family-reunion\/washingtons-at-wessyngton\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-615\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-615\" title=\"washingtons-at-wessyngton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/washingtons-at-wessyngton-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Family at Wessyngton Plantation\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/washingtons-at-wessyngton-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/washingtons-at-wessyngton-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington Family at Wessyngton Plantation<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 19th members of the Washington family visited Wessyngton Plantation as part of their family reunion.\u00a0 The tour included a visit to the mansion, Washington family cemetery, and a restored slave cabin.\u00a0 Family members descend from Temperance Washington born 1795, who was enslaved on the plantation along with her son Sam and daughter\u00a0Jane in 1815.\u00a0 Sam Washington born 1812 married Jane Hadley 1835-1916.\u00a0 After emancipation the Washington family remained in the Cedar Hill, Tennessee area.\u00a0 Members of the family were instrumental in establishing the St. James Baptist Church in Cedar Hill.\u00a0 On June 20th the church celebrated its anniversary where numerous Washington descendants still worship.\u00a0 These members descend from Sam and Jane&#8217;s children:\u00a0 Nelson Washington, Irvin Washington, Temperance Washington Sherrod, and Betty Washington Smothers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 19th members of the Washington family visited Wessyngton Plantation as part of their family reunion.\u00a0 The tour included a visit to the mansion, Washington family cemetery, and a restored slave cabin.\u00a0 Family members descend from Temperance Washington born 1795, who was enslaved on the plantation along with her son Sam and daughter\u00a0Jane in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[10,110,7,447,112,446,448],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}