{"id":1952,"date":"2011-08-31T09:19:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2011-08-31T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:19:56","slug":"robert-kate-ayers-1859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT, KATE AYERS, 1859-1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, song writer. Born&#8211; February 7, 1859, Mobile. Parents&#8211; William Thomas and Julia Ann (Crooker) Ayers. Married&#8211; Paul Jones Robert, November 24, 1879. Education&#8211; Cathedral Parish in Mobile; Springfield, Massachusetts, Home Correspondence School, 1919. Taught at Mrs. C. Mullekin School, 1892. Member, later president, of the Mobile Branch of the League American Penwomen and the St. Joseph&#8217;s Ladies Mutual Benevolent Association. Founder and supervisor of the St. Joseph&#8217;s Junior Benevolent Association; Mobile Poetry Group. Songs include Lemme see yer laugh, America First, and Dear Land of Tallapoosa. Early poems published in booklets&#8211;A School Time Souvenir, Mary&#8217;s First Kiss, The Wheat of Bethlehem, and The Porter&#8217;s Trip.\u00a0 Died March 21, 1941.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s Dictionary of Alabama Biography and Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sun-kissed Yesterdays. Mobile, Ala.; s.n., 1923.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, song writer. Born&#8211; February 7, 1859, Mobile. Parents&#8211; William Thomas and Julia Ann (Crooker) Ayers. Married&#8211; Paul Jones Robert, November 24, 1879. Education&#8211; Cathedral Parish in Mobile; Springfield, Massachusetts, Home Correspondence School, 1919. Taught at Mrs. C. Mullekin School, 1892. Member, later president, of the Mobile Branch of the League American Penwomen and [&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-1952","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\/1952","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=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}