{"id":1422,"date":"2013-05-02T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2018-07-11T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T18:51:08","slug":"jemison-e-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"JEMISON, EDITH GRACE, 1884-1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Accountant,\u00a0business manager, local historian.\u00a0Born December 18, 1884, near Cheaha Creek in Talladega County. Parents&#8211; Robert Mims and Mary C. (Howard) Jemison. Education&#8211; Talladega schools; business college. Worked for Talladega National Bank; Talladega Fertilizer Company; administrator, Citizens Hospital; cashier and office manager, Samoset Cotton Mills; accountant, Bemis Brothers Bag Company.\u00a0\u00a0 A founder of Talladega County Historical Association and the Talladega Businesswomen&#8217;s club; active in DAR and the Alabama Historical Association.\u00a0 Award of Merit from Alabama Historical Commission, 1978.\u00a0 Died November 18, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Anniston Star, December 12, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Grove&#8217;s Library of Alabama Lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historic Tales of Talladega. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Accountant,\u00a0business manager, local historian.\u00a0Born December 18, 1884, near Cheaha Creek in Talladega County. Parents&#8211; Robert Mims and Mary C. (Howard) Jemison. Education&#8211; Talladega schools; business college. Worked for Talladega National Bank; Talladega Fertilizer Company; administrator, Citizens Hospital; cashier and office manager, Samoset Cotton Mills; accountant, Bemis Brothers Bag Company.\u00a0\u00a0 A founder of Talladega County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8367,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/8367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}