{"id":1928,"date":"2015-07-30T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T22:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2016-05-19T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:32:15","slug":"roy-sarah-spencer-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"ROY, SARAH SPENCER, 1901-1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musician, teacher, civic worker. Born&#8211; October 13, 1901, Port Gibson, Miss. Parents&#8211; Horatio Nelson and Ellie Mae (Hartwell) Spencer. Married&#8211; Kenneth Bennett Roy, September 9, 1925. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Grenada College; Port Gibson College; Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Taught music in El Dorado, Ark.; public school supervisor and private music teacher. Received an award\u00a0from the Auburn Women&#8217;s Club for contributions to youth work; named &#8220;Woman of the Year&#8221;, 1952, by the Auburn Civitan Club. Served on Auburn City Council, 1956-1968; president for six years. Died 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who of American Women, 1958; and from Sarah Spencer Roy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bibliography of Horatio Nelson Spencer; Lawyer, Planter, Churchman, 1798-1876. Auburn, Ala.; Auburn Printing Co., 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Musician, teacher, civic worker. Born&#8211; October 13, 1901, Port Gibson, Miss. Parents&#8211; Horatio Nelson and Ellie Mae (Hartwell) Spencer. Married&#8211; Kenneth Bennett Roy, September 9, 1925. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Grenada College; Port Gibson College; Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Taught music in El Dorado, Ark.; public school supervisor and private music teacher. Received an award\u00a0from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}