{"id":1061,"date":"2012-06-12T13:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T20:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2018-10-30T10:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:51:43","slug":"daugette-annie-rowan-forney-1876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"DAUGETTE, ANNIE ROWAN FORNEY, 1876-1974."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Community and civic leader. Born June 1, 1876, Jacksonville. Parents General John H. and Septima Sexta Middleton (Rutledge) Forney, Married&#8211;\u00a0 Clarence William Daugette,\u00a0 December 22, 1897.\u00a0 Children&#8211;five. Education&#8211; Graduate of Jacksonville State Normal School, 1893; attended Cooper Union School and National Academy of Design in New York. &#8220;First lady&#8221; of Jacksonville State, during her husband&#8217;s forty-three years as president.\u00a0Active in many cultural, service, and historical organizations. \u00a0Organized the Civic League of Jacksonville; served on the State Advisory Committee of the Federal Writers Project, the State Advisory Committee of the Works Progress Administration, and other governmental agencies and commissions. President of the Alabama Division of the\u00a0United Daughters of the Confederacy;\u00a0made honorary Life President in 1952. Campaigned for the restoration of Alabama&#8217;s Great Seal; personally helped design the\u00a0 Seal adopted\u00a0 by the Legislature in 1939. Compiled biographies of Alabama Civil War Generals; wrote historical articles about Jacksonville and Calhoun County.\u00a0 Received the Jefferson Davis Medal for distinguished service by the UDC. Awarded the honorary Doctorate of Humanities, Jacksonville State University, 1970.\u00a0Scholarships were established in her name at Huntingdon College and Jacksonville State University. \u00a0Elected to Alabama Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame, 1978.\u00a0 Died\u00a0 September 11, 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forney Forever, by Lee Forney Crawford; Alabama Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame Website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historic Jacksonville, Semi Centennial, 1902-1952. Jacksonville, Ala.; General John H. Forney Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>The Life of Major General John H. Forney. Jacksonville, Ala.; (mimeographed), 19&#8211;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Biography: Community and civic leader. Born June 1, 1876, Jacksonville. Parents General John H. and Septima Sexta Middleton (Rutledge) Forney, Married&#8211;\u00a0 Clarence William Daugette,\u00a0 December 22, 1897.\u00a0 Children&#8211;five. Education&#8211; Graduate of Jacksonville State Normal School, 1893; attended Cooper Union School and National Academy of Design in New York. &#8220;First lady&#8221; of Jacksonville State, during her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9018,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/9018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}