{"id":2015,"date":"2013-11-08T15:42:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2013-11-08T15:42:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:42:30","slug":"watson-fred-shelton-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"WATSON, FRED SHELTON, 1915-1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sales Manager. journalist. Born&#8211; November 16, 1915, near Enterprise, Ala. Married&#8211; Irene Arnett. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Coffee High School. Sales Manager, Radio Station WIRB, Enterprise, 8 years; Allied Products Co., Dothan, 12 years. Published feature stories in various newspapers; columnist, Enterprise Ledger, 3 yrs.; U.S. Air Corps, World War II, 3 yrs.; Member&#8211; Dale County and Alabama Historical Societies. Director, Wiregrass Historical Society. Died April 12, 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coffee Grounds, Hub of Wiregrass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Back Forty. Dothan, Ala.; Moonlighters, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Call Back The Time, S.l.; s.n., 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee Grounds; a History of Coffee County, Alabama, 1841-1970. Anniston, Ala.; Higginbotham, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Forgotten Trails; a History of Dale County, Alabama, 1824-1966. Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>From the Back Forty to Mortgage Hill. Dothan, Ala.; Hopkins Printing, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Hub of Wiregrass; a History of Houston County, Alabama, 1903-1972. Anniston, Ala.; Higginbotham, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Piney Wood Echoes; a History of Dale and Coffee Counties, Alabama. Elba, Ala.; Elba Clipper, 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Winds of Sorrow. Dothan, Ala.; Hopkins Printing, 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Sales Manager. journalist. Born&#8211; November 16, 1915, near Enterprise, Ala. Married&#8211; Irene Arnett. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Coffee High School. Sales Manager, Radio Station WIRB, Enterprise, 8 years; Allied Products Co., Dothan, 12 years. Published feature stories in various newspapers; columnist, Enterprise Ledger, 3 yrs.; U.S. Air Corps, World War II, 3 yrs.; Member&#8211; Dale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","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=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}