{"id":1581,"date":"2013-12-17T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2018-08-29T08:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T15:55:15","slug":"lazenby-marion-elias-1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"LAZENBY, MARION ELIAS, 1885-1957"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Methodist Clergyman; denominational leader. \u00a0Born&#8211; February 8, 1885, Forest Home. Parents&#8211; James Elias and Mary Elizabeth (Greene) Lazenby. Married&#8211; Mary Feagin, June 17, 1908. Married&#8211; Doris H. Chervase, November 15, 1949. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Southern University, A.B., 1907. Ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1907, and served pastorates in Havana, Cuba; Forest Home; Centreville; Midway; Dothan; Demopolis; Opelika; Bessemer; Florence; and Camp Sheridan near Montgomery during World War I. Held many positions in Methodist denominational organization. District Superintendent, Decatur and Huntsville districts. President, Southern Methodist Press Association;\u00a0member, Board of Temperance and Social Service, Methodist Episcopal Church, South; member, Board of Trustees, Alabama Anti-Saloon League. Member Board of Trustees, Athens College. Business manager and editor, Alabama Christian Advocate, 1950-53. Awarded honorary doctorates by Birmingham-Southern, 1925, and by Bob Jones College, 1930. Died September 12, 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online; Who Was Who Among North American Authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History of Methodism in Alabama and West Florida. N.p., North Alabama and Alabama-West Florida Conference of the Methodist Church, 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Methodist Clergyman; denominational leader. \u00a0Born&#8211; February 8, 1885, Forest Home. Parents&#8211; James Elias and Mary Elizabeth (Greene) Lazenby. Married&#8211; Mary Feagin, June 17, 1908. Married&#8211; Doris H. Chervase, November 15, 1949. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Southern University, A.B., 1907. Ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1907, and served pastorates in Havana, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","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=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8641,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/8641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}