{"id":1646,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1646"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"merriwether, james lewis, 1914-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"MERRIWETHER, JAMES LEWIS, 1914-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Farmer, minister.  Born&#8211;  Atmore, February 28, 1914.  Parents&#8211;  Jacob and  Claudia V. (Robinson) Merriwether.  Married&#8211;  Olivia Beatrice Verell, May 29, 1938.  Children&#8211;  Five.  Education&#8211;  B.S., Agricultural Administration, Auburn University, 1939; M. Divinity, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1964; M. Rel., same institution, 1966; M.S., University of Southern Mississippi, 1971; Ed.D., Luther Rice Seminary, 1974.  Employed as a farm supervisor, Farm Security Administration, Butler and Cullman Counties, 1939-1942; proprietor and manager, J. Meriweather Livestock and Wagons, Atmore, 1943-1947; farmer, 1943-1958; tractor dealer, Atmore, 1948-1958; minister, Southern Baptist Church, 1958; pastor of churches, Atmore area, 1958-1968; Pleasant View Baptist and Manor Baptist churches, Mobile, 1968-1979. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1982.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Quest for Abundant Living.  New York;  Carlton Press, 1977.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Farmer, minister. Born&#8211; Atmore, February 28, 1914. Parents&#8211; Jacob and Claudia V. (Robinson) Merriwether. Married&#8211; Olivia Beatrice Verell, May 29, 1938. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; B.S., Agricultural Administration, Auburn University, 1939; M. Divinity, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1964; M. Rel., same institution, 1966; M.S., University of Southern Mississippi, 1971; Ed.D., Luther Rice Seminary, 1974. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","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=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}