{"id":1194,"date":"2014-03-17T12:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T19:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2018-02-27T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:29:47","slug":"figh-margaret-gillis-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"FIGH, MARGARET GILLIS, 1896-1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College instructor of English. Born&#8211; July 12, 1896, Brewton. Parents&#8211;David\u00a0 and Martha F. Gillis. \u00a0Married&#8211; John Poston Figh. Children&#8211;one. \u00a0Education&#8211; Judson College, A.B., 1916; University of Alabama, M.A., 1917; Columbia University, M.A. Taught in Alabama high schools until 1924; Huntingdon College, 1924-1972; University of Alabama, Montgomery Center, 1937-1942. Member of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, American Folklore Society, and Southeastern Folklore Society. Died December 11, 1984.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 7th edition, and Alabama Public Library Service files.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>A Word List from &#8220;Bill Arp&#8221; and &#8220;Rufus Sanders&#8221;. Greensboro, N.C.; American Dialect Society, 1950.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historic Homes of Alabama and their Traditions.\u00a0 Birmingham Publishing Co., 1935.<\/p>\n<p>The Illustrated Book of American Folklore.\u00a0 Gosset, 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College instructor of English. Born&#8211; July 12, 1896, Brewton. Parents&#8211;David\u00a0 and Martha F. Gillis. \u00a0Married&#8211; John Poston Figh. Children&#8211;one. \u00a0Education&#8211; Judson College, A.B., 1916; University of Alabama, M.A., 1917; Columbia University, M.A. Taught in Alabama high schools until 1924; Huntingdon College, 1924-1972; University of Alabama, Montgomery Center, 1937-1942. Member of the South Atlantic Modern Language [&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-1194","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\/1194","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=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7658,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/7658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}