Mayoral History

William Wallace Garner, son of Charles Calloway and Beulah Wadlington Garner and brother of Winchester Mayor Irvin Clark Garner, was born January 18, 1840 near Winchester. During the war he enlisted in Colonel Peter Turney’s 1st Tennessee Infantry and remained until the end of the war. After the war he was with the N C & St. L Railway for a time and was, for a number of years, engaged in the mercantile business and the coal business. In addition he was on the Board of Trustees for Carrick Academy. In 1867 he married Mary Alice Porter. They were the parents of four children. He was an alderman and served as Mayor of Winchester from 1889-1895. After several years of declining health, he died at his home on South High Street on July 13, 1920 and was buried in Winchester City Cemetery.


		William Wallace Garner, son of Charles Calloway and Beulah Wadlington Garner and brother of Winchester Mayor Irvin Clark Garner, was born January 18, 1840 near Winchester. During the war he enlisted in Colonel Peter Turney’s 1st Tennessee Infantry and remained until the end of the war. After the war he was with the N C & St. L Railway for a time and was, for a number of years, engaged in the mercantile business and the coal business. In addition he was on the Board of Trustees for Carrick Academy. In 1867 he married Mary Alice Porter. They were the parents of four children. He was an alderman and served as Mayor of Winchester from 1889-1895. After several years of declining health, he died at his home on South High Street on July 13, 1920 and was buried in Winchester City Cemetery.
	Mayor William Garner
	1889-1895