{"id":1947,"date":"2011-08-31T09:21:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2011-08-31T09:21:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:21:31","slug":"roberts-thomas-keener-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1947","title":{"rendered":"ROBERTS, THOMAS KEENER, 1870-1957."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, tutor, Methodist minister. Born&#8211; October 1, 1870, Jefferson County. Parents&#8211; Thomas Parkus and Nancy Caroline (Morris) Roberts. Married&#8211; Sue Euphemia Stone, December 6, 1899. Education&#8211; Southern University, A.B.; M.A., 1894; Vanderbilt University. Employed as a tutor at Southern University for two years; principal of Columbia Fitting School. Licensed to preach, 1895; supply minister in 1895; pastor of the Dexter Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church in Montgomery, 1896. Served the Columbiana Circuit&#8211;Glenn Addie, Alexandria, Oxford, Coleanor. Fountain Church in Birmingham, and Collinsville. Retired in 1911.\u00a0 Died September 10,1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s Dictionary of Alabama Biography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shut In But Not Excused. Montgomery, Ala.; A. Roemer, State Printer, 1901.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, tutor, Methodist minister. Born&#8211; October 1, 1870, Jefferson County. Parents&#8211; Thomas Parkus and Nancy Caroline (Morris) Roberts. Married&#8211; Sue Euphemia Stone, December 6, 1899. Education&#8211; Southern University, A.B.; M.A., 1894; Vanderbilt University. Employed as a tutor at Southern University for two years; principal of Columbia Fitting School. Licensed to preach, 1895; supply minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}