{"id":1502,"date":"2013-11-08T13:39:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T20:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2018-06-01T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:41:13","slug":"higginbotham-miriam-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"HIGGINBOTHAM, MIRIAM, 1927-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University dean of women. Born&#8211; Ashland, Clay County, August 23, 1927. Parents&#8211; James J. and Myrtie M. Cockrell. Married&#8211; J.B. Jackson, Jr. Children&#8211; Three. Married&#8211; Ralph D. Higginbotham, 1974. Education&#8211; Samford University, B.A., 1949; Jacksonville State University, M.A. Served as dean of women, Jacksonville State University, 1974-1989. \u00a0Member, Alabama Baptist State Board; Board of \u00a0Trustees, Samford University; vice president, Baptist State Convention, 1972. Jacksonville State named a scholarship in her honor. Died February 23, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parker Memorial Baptist Church; obituary, Anniston Star, February 25, 2004<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Life and Times of Houston Cole. Jacksonville, AL:\u00a0 Friends of Houston Cole Library, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Parker Memorial Baptist Church, 1887-1987. Anniston, Ala.; Parker Memorial Baptist Church, 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University dean of women. Born&#8211; Ashland, Clay County, August 23, 1927. Parents&#8211; James J. and Myrtie M. Cockrell. Married&#8211; J.B. Jackson, Jr. Children&#8211; Three. Married&#8211; Ralph D. Higginbotham, 1974. Education&#8211; Samford University, B.A., 1949; Jacksonville State University, M.A. Served as dean of women, Jacksonville State University, 1974-1989. \u00a0Member, Alabama Baptist State Board; Board of [&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-1502","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\/1502","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=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8156,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}