{"id":1211,"date":"2013-11-08T13:10:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T20:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2018-02-14T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:36:42","slug":"farmer-margaret-pace-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"FARMER, MARGARET PACE, 1912-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher, historian. Born&#8211; October 28, 1912, Troy. Parents&#8211; Matthew Dower and Sarah (Collier) Pace. Married&#8211; Curren A. Farmer, December 1, 1934. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Troy State College, B.S., 1932. Taught in the schools of Enterprise, Birmingham, and Brundidge.\u00a0 Wrote a weekly historical column in the\u00a0<em>Troy<\/em> <em>Messenger.<\/em>\u00a0 Member of the Alabama and Southern Historical Associations and Delta Kappa Gamma; president of Alabama Historical Society, 1959-60.\u00a0 Life member, American Association of University Women. \u00a0Helped to found the Pike County Pioneer Museum, the Pike County Historical Society, and the Pike County Public Library. Received an award for her work in local history from the American Association for State and Local History. Died January 19, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Library of Alabama Lives, 1961, Obituary, Pike County Messenger, January 2007,\u00a0and Alabama Public Library Service files.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historical Highway Markers in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Historical Society, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>History of Pike County, Alabama. Troy, Ala.; s.n., 1953.<\/p>\n<p>One Hundred Fifty Years in Pike County, Alabama, 1821-1971. Anniston, Ala.; Higginbotham, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Record of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-65, Pike County, Alabama. Troy, Ala.; Pike County Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher, historian. Born&#8211; October 28, 1912, Troy. Parents&#8211; Matthew Dower and Sarah (Collier) Pace. Married&#8211; Curren A. Farmer, December 1, 1934. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Troy State College, B.S., 1932. Taught in the schools of Enterprise, Birmingham, and Brundidge.\u00a0 Wrote a weekly historical column in the\u00a0Troy Messenger.\u00a0 Member of the Alabama and Southern Historical Associations and [&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-1211","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\/1211","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=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}