{"id":2113,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2113"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"stanfield, mattie cole, 1896-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"STANFIELD, MATTIE COLE, 1896-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator, civil servant.  Born&#8211;  May 26, 1896 in Ashville, Ala.    Parents&#8211;  George W. M. and Louisa Malissa (Driggers) Cole.  Married&#8211;   Olen W. Stanfield on June 7, 1924.  Children&#8211;  Two.  Education&#8211;  graduated high school in 1915 in Etowah Co., Ala.; attended junior  college.  Taught public school for next 5 years; entered U.S. Postal  Service, working over 13 years as postmaster in Walnut Grove; worked over 6 years at Gadsden Air Force Depot; taught grade 6 in Walnut Grove,  1944-1945; after retirement wrote and did research in genealogy and local  history. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>files at Birmingham Public Library and Alabama Public Library Service; Sourwood Tonic            and Sassafras Tea; The Reporter, Boaz, Ala. Aug. 28, 1982; and from Mrs. Stanfield. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History of Walnut Grove, Alabama.  Boaz, Ala.;  Boaz Leader Printing Co., 1964.  <\/p>\n<p>     Life Line. Albertville, Ala.;  Thompson Printing Co., 1973. <\/p>\n<p>     Palmerdale, Alabama;  50 Years History, 1934-1984.  Boaz, Alabama;  Boaz Printing Co., 1984. <\/p>\n<p>     Sourwood Tonic and Sassafras Tea;  Memories of Rural Life in Northern Alabama at the Turn of      the Century.  New York;  Exposition Press, 1963. <\/p>\n<p>     Southern Cole Families.  Boaz, Ala;  M. C. Stanfield, 1968. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator, civil servant. Born&#8211; May 26, 1896 in Ashville, Ala. Parents&#8211; George W. M. and Louisa Malissa (Driggers) Cole. Married&#8211; Olen W. Stanfield on June 7, 1924. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; graduated high school in 1915 in Etowah Co., Ala.; attended junior college. Taught public school for next 5 years; entered U.S. Postal Service, working [&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-2113","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\/2113","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=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}