{"id":1997,"date":"2012-11-01T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2014-12-03T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T18:42:13","slug":"thompson-wesley-sylvester-1907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"THOMPSON, WESLEY SYLVESTER, 1907-1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clergyman, educator, writer. Born&#8211; June 14, 1907 in Marion Co. Parents&#8211; Lee R. and Sarah J. (Logan) Thompson. Married&#8211; Letha I. Jones, Dec. 12, 1929. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Southwestern State College, B.A.; Oklahoma University, M.A.; attended Freed Hardeman College, University of Alabama, and Abilene Christian College. A minister in the Church of Christ for four decades;\u00a0\u00a0served pastorates in Weatherford and Lexington, Okla.; Double Springs, Sandusky, Winfield, Sylacauga, Berry, Vernon, and Greensboro, Ala.; taught in Alabama public schools, at Southwestern State College, Mississippi State College for Women, John Calhoun State Jr. College, and Brewer State Jr. College. Member&#8211; Alabama Writers Conclave, Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, and Alabama and Hale Co. Historical Associations.\u00a0 Died September 9, 1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. III; obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Free State of Winston. Winfield, Ala.; Pareil Press, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Gypsies. Vernon, Ala.; Pareil Press, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>So Turns the Tide. Greensboro, Ala.; Pareil Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Studies in the Revelation. Nashville; 20th Century Christian, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Tories of the Hills. Boston; Christopher Pub. House, 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Clergyman, educator, writer. Born&#8211; June 14, 1907 in Marion Co. Parents&#8211; Lee R. and Sarah J. (Logan) Thompson. Married&#8211; Letha I. Jones, Dec. 12, 1929. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Southwestern State College, B.A.; Oklahoma University, M.A.; attended Freed Hardeman College, University of Alabama, and Abilene Christian College. A minister in the Church of Christ for [&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-1997","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\/1997","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=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}