{"id":1632,"date":"2015-05-20T09:48:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2018-07-19T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:12:09","slug":"jones-margaret-jean-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"JONES, MARGARET JEAN, 1936-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Freelance journalist; advocate for the handicapped. Born&#8211; March 27, 1936, Baileytown,\u00a0Cullman County. Parents&#8211; Selmer B. and Alma Ruth (Ford) Jones. Education&#8211; Fairview High School; correspondence courses in journalism. Stricken at age seven with myosistis ossificans progressiva, which left her completely paralyzed by the age of eighteen. Published many articles in journals; wrote a newspaper column &#8220;Through the Looking Glass,&#8221; for the Cullman Times; edited the Alabama Wheelchair Society Magazine. Member of Writers Conclave of Alabama.\u00a0 One of the organizers of a vocational workshop for the handicapped, the Margaret Jean Jones Adult Activities Center; was president of\u00a0its board for two years. Won two Freedom Foundation medals for published essays; listed in\u00a0Outstanding Young Women of America, 1970; named Cullman Times Citizen of the Year, 2000. Died March 16, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The World in My Mirror; jacket of Combing Cullman County; obituary, Cullman Times, March 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Combing Cullman County. Cullman, Ala.; Modernistic Printers, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Cullman County Across the Years. Cullman, Ala.; Modernistic Printers, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>The World in My Mirror. Nashville; Abingdon, 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Freelance journalist; advocate for the handicapped. Born&#8211; March 27, 1936, Baileytown,\u00a0Cullman County. Parents&#8211; Selmer B. and Alma Ruth (Ford) Jones. Education&#8211; Fairview High School; correspondence courses in journalism. Stricken at age seven with myosistis ossificans progressiva, which left her completely paralyzed by the age of eighteen. Published many articles in journals; wrote a newspaper [&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-1632","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\/1632","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=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8432,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/8432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}