{"id":1599,"date":"2013-10-08T12:58:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2018-08-09T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:48:39","slug":"lambert-alton-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1599","title":{"rendered":"LAMBERT,  ALTON, SR., 1910-1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laborer, prison guard, service station owner, mail carrier. Born&#8211; Sept. 23, 1910, Cottondale, Ala. Parents&#8211; Alexander Washington and Linnie Ida (Green) Lambert. Married&#8211; Carrie Beale Boswell,\u00a0February 8, 1936.\u00a0Children&#8211; Three. Worked at a foundry at Holt; on a gas pipeline; as a state prison guard, 1934-1940; Tennessee Coal and Iron, 1940-1947; U.S. Post Office, Fairfield, Ala., 1945-1956; U.S. Post Office, Cottondale, Ala., 1956-1970; service station business, 11 years. Member&#8211; Sons of the American Revolution; co-founder, Tuscaloosa Preservation Society. Died December 13, 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History of Tuscaloosa County, Vol. 1, pp. 62-77.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cemeteries of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. S.l.; s.n., 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Cemetery Records of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; Survey. Centre, Ala.; Stewart University Press, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Evregreen [sic] Cemetery. S.l; s.n., 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood Cemetery in Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; A. Lambert, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>History of Tuscaloosa County. Centre, Ala.; Stewart University Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert\/Lamberth Families in America. Centre, Ala.; Stewart University Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Reminiscences of a Grandfather.\u00a0 Centre, AL: Stewart Publishing Co., 1984<\/p>\n<p>Tuscaloosa County Cemetery Records. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; A. Lambert, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Alton Lambert is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Laborer, prison guard, service station owner, mail carrier. Born&#8211; Sept. 23, 1910, Cottondale, Ala. Parents&#8211; Alexander Washington and Linnie Ida (Green) Lambert. Married&#8211; Carrie Beale Boswell,\u00a0February 8, 1936.\u00a0Children&#8211; Three. Worked at a foundry at Holt; on a gas pipeline; as a state prison guard, 1934-1940; Tennessee Coal and Iron, 1940-1947; U.S. Post Office, Fairfield, [&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-1599","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\/1599","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=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}