{"id":1979,"date":"2013-04-02T12:44:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2016-10-05T13:32:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T20:32:21","slug":"teaford-ruth-e-romine-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"TEAFORD, RUTH E. ROMINE, 1927-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businesswoman, educator, free-lance writer. Born&#8211; Aug. 7, 1927, in Townley, Ala. Parents&#8211; Luther N. and Mary (Atkins) Romine. Married&#8211; Cecil Files, Oct. 15, 1942. Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Paul Teaford, Dec. 23, 1947. Married&#8211; Thomas H. Baker. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1968; M.A., 1975. \u00a0Employed by Arrow Co., 1960-1964, Paul&#8217;s Automotive Service, 1964-1974; English teacher and principal in Walker Co. schools after 1968; retired as principal of Oakman High School. Free-lance writer; wrote newspaper articles on local history, beginning in 1979. Won homemaking, art, and service awards; named \u00a0Alabama&#8217;s Favorite Teacher 1980, and Alabama&#8217;s Teacher of the Year 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ruth E. Teaford, Jasper, Ala.; Walker County website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Southern Homespun. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businesswoman, educator, free-lance writer. Born&#8211; Aug. 7, 1927, in Townley, Ala. Parents&#8211; Luther N. and Mary (Atkins) Romine. Married&#8211; Cecil Files, Oct. 15, 1942. Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Paul Teaford, Dec. 23, 1947. Married&#8211; Thomas H. Baker. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1968; M.A., 1975. \u00a0Employed by Arrow Co., 1960-1964, Paul&#8217;s Automotive Service, 1964-1974; English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","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=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}