{"id":423,"date":"2009-07-16T08:13:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2009-07-16T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:14:36","slug":"terry-family-to-tour-wessyngton-plantation-for-bi-annual-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/terry-family-to-tour-wessyngton-plantation-for-bi-annual-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Family to Tour Wessyngton Plantation for Bi-Annual Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday August 8th the Terry family will tour Wessyngton Plantation as part of their bi-annual family reunion.\u00a0 The\u00a0group will tour the\u00a0Wessyngton slave cemetery, the Washington family cemetery, the grounds around the mansion and a restored slave cabin.\u00a0 Members of the National Black Arts Festival from Atlanta will also attend the reunion festivities.\u00a0 Following the tour the group will dine at the Tennessee National Guard\u00a0Armory.\u00a0 I will also autograph copies of my new book\u00a0<em>The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family&#8217;s Journey to Freedom.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Terrys descend from Dick Terry 1818-1879 and Aggy Washington Terry born 1824.\u00a0 Today there are more than 1,000 Terry family members.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_421\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/terry-family-tree.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-421\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-421\" title=\"terry-family-tree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/terry-family-tree-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"Terry Family Tree\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/terry-family-tree-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/terry-family-tree-1024x516.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Family Tree<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday August 8th the Terry family will tour Wessyngton Plantation as part of their bi-annual family reunion.\u00a0 The\u00a0group will tour the\u00a0Wessyngton slave cemetery, the Washington family cemetery, the grounds around the mansion and a restored slave cabin.\u00a0 Members of the National Black Arts Festival from Atlanta will also attend the reunion festivities.\u00a0 Following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,19,13,21,18,20,22,1],"tags":[219,164,218,82,190,189,217,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}