{"id":1148,"date":"2014-03-19T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:12:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T21:12:05","slug":"colley-james-oscar-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"COLLEY, JAMES OSCAR, 1875-1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baptist clergyman; superintendent of children&#8217;s home. Born April 3, 1875,\u00a0Coosa County. \u00a0Parents&#8211; Jesse Allen Colley and Frances Akin Colley.\u00a0 Married Berta Hitchcock, May 9, 1907. Children&#8211; Six. Education&#8211; Howard College; Southern Baptist Seminary. Served as pastor of several Baptist churches including ones at Enterprise. Superintendent of Alabama Baptist Children&#8217;s Home at Troy, 1922-1942.\u00a0 Named superintendent emeritus on his retirement in 1942.\u00a0 Died November 27, 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Story of Alabama Baptist Children&#8217;s Home. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1945-1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Baptist clergyman; superintendent of children&#8217;s home. Born April 3, 1875,\u00a0Coosa County. \u00a0Parents&#8211; Jesse Allen Colley and Frances Akin Colley.\u00a0 Married Berta Hitchcock, May 9, 1907. Children&#8211; Six. Education&#8211; Howard College; Southern Baptist Seminary. Served as pastor of several Baptist churches including ones at Enterprise. Superintendent of Alabama Baptist Children&#8217;s Home at Troy, 1922-1942.\u00a0 Named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","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=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6995,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/6995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}