{"id":4445,"date":"2015-06-11T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T17:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2015-06-11T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T17:27:13","slug":"thomason-james-arthur-1878-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4445","title":{"rendered":"THOMASON,  JAMES ARTHUR, 1878-1952"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><br \/>\nMethodist clergyman; farmer; newspaper correspondent. Born&#8211; May 22, 1878, Greenville, S.C. Parents&#8211; James Monroe and Emma Anna Pinson Thomason. Moved to Marshall County, Alabama, in 1888. Married&#8211; Ella Sherrod Smith, 1907. Children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; attended local schools in Arab and Brashier&#8217;s Chapel area.\u00a0 Wrote &#8220;South Fry,&#8221; a column of local news of the Fry Community, and &#8220;General History,&#8221; a column of local history, for several Guntersville newspapers. Died May 21, 1952.<br \/>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\nCalhoun, Janet. &#8220;Sketches on the Life of J. A. Thomason,&#8221; in Thomason, General History of Marshall County; Obituary.<br \/>\n<strong>Publications;<\/strong><br \/>\nGeneral History of Marshall County, Alabama. Arab, Alabama, Historical Society, 1986. [A compilation of newspaper columns.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Methodist clergyman; farmer; newspaper correspondent. Born&#8211; May 22, 1878, Greenville, S.C. Parents&#8211; James Monroe and Emma Anna Pinson Thomason. Moved to Marshall County, Alabama, in 1888. Married&#8211; Ella Sherrod Smith, 1907. Children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; attended local schools in Arab and Brashier&#8217;s Chapel area.\u00a0 Wrote &#8220;South Fry,&#8221; a column of local news of the Fry Community, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4475,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}