{"id":1229,"date":"2016-05-20T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2018-02-06T12:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T19:41:35","slug":"elam-verrell-donald-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"ELAM, VERRELL DONALD, 1928-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moonshiner. Born&#8211; February 25, 1928, Brent. Parents&#8211; Harvey A. and Pearl M.\u00a0Holley Elam. Married&#8211; Barbara Jean Horton. Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Beatrice. Married&#8211; Mary Elizabeth Wallace. Married&#8211; Cammie Kathleen Johnson. Attended Bibb County High School; earned GED diploma while in prison. Served in U.S. Army, 1946-1947; U.S.Air Force, 3 years. Manufactured illegal whiskey. Incarcerated for a time at the Federal Prison Camp at Maxwell Air Force Base. Died November 1, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moonshine &#8216;Till Dawn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bloody Bibb. Brent, Ala.; Elam Enterprises, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Moonshine &#8216;Till Dawn. Brent: Elam Enterprises, 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Moonshiner. Born&#8211; February 25, 1928, Brent. Parents&#8211; Harvey A. and Pearl M.\u00a0Holley Elam. Married&#8211; Barbara Jean Horton. Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Beatrice. Married&#8211; Mary Elizabeth Wallace. Married&#8211; Cammie Kathleen Johnson. Attended Bibb County High School; earned GED diploma while in prison. Served in U.S. Army, 1946-1947; U.S.Air Force, 3 years. Manufactured illegal whiskey. Incarcerated for [&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-1229","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\/1229","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=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7543,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/7543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}