{"id":1448,"date":"2018-06-20T08:31:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2018-06-20T08:39:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:39:32","slug":"hunnicutt-john-l-1850-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"HUNNICUTT, JOHN LETCHER, 1850-1932"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born&#8211; September 24, 1850,\u00a0near Reform,\u00a0Pickens County. Parents&#8211; Ransom Flournoy and Sarah Elizabeth (Hargrove) Hunnicutt. Married&#8211; Alice A. Strong, 1882. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Southern University, 1869-70. Organized the Ku Klux Klan in Pickens and Hale counties.Lived in Belton, Texas, for many years;\u00a0\u00a0employed by International Harvester and other companies as bookkeeper and collector. Returned to Tuscaloosa in 1914 and served as chief clerk in Tuscaloosa Probate Office for seven years.\u00a0 Died May 3, 1932.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reconstruction in West Alabama; findagrave.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reconstruction in West Alabama; the Memoirs of John L. Hunnicutt. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Born&#8211; September 24, 1850,\u00a0near Reform,\u00a0Pickens County. Parents&#8211; Ransom Flournoy and Sarah Elizabeth (Hargrove) Hunnicutt. Married&#8211; Alice A. Strong, 1882. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Southern University, 1869-70. Organized the Ku Klux Klan in Pickens and Hale counties.Lived in Belton, Texas, for many years;\u00a0\u00a0employed by International Harvester and other companies as bookkeeper and collector. Returned to Tuscaloosa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","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=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}