{"id":640,"date":"2011-10-10T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=640"},"modified":"2016-06-01T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:29:12","slug":"adams-berthell-tullis-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"ADAMS, BERTHELL TULLIS, 1909-1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher. Born&#8211; October 22, 1909, Fort Payne. Parents&#8211; Cazzie Nathaniel and Bessie Lee (Austin) Tullis. Education&#8211; DeKalb County High School; Jacksonville State University, diploma for completion of the two year course, 1937, B.S, 1953. Married&#8211; Mitchell Adams, 1935. Children&#8211; Two. Taught school in Alabama, 1937-1969; sponsored the Ider High School Poetry Society, 1960-1972; compiled five anthologies of Ider High School students&#8217; original poems. Sunday School teacher for more than forty years; wrote and directed plays and programs for the school and the church; had poems published in several annuals and anthologies. Member Alpha Delta Kappa Honorary Society, Ider Garden Club, DeKalb County Teachers Association and Retired Teachers Association. Honors&#8211; Honored by Landmarks of DeKalb County in Fort Payne, December 9, 1984. Died February 28, 1997.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trailing Smokes.<\/p>\n<p>Berthell Adams, Ider, Ala..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birds About Our Place. Ider, Ala.; Author, 1975,<\/p>\n<p>Hidden Jewels. Ider, Ala.; Author, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Joys of Living. Ider, Ala.; Author, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing Smokes; a Pictorial History of Ider School District, DeKalb County, Alabama. Ider, Ala.; Author, 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher. Born&#8211; October 22, 1909, Fort Payne. Parents&#8211; Cazzie Nathaniel and Bessie Lee (Austin) Tullis. Education&#8211; DeKalb County High School; Jacksonville State University, diploma for completion of the two year course, 1937, B.S, 1953. Married&#8211; Mitchell Adams, 1935. Children&#8211; Two. Taught school in Alabama, 1937-1969; sponsored the Ider High School Poetry Society, 1960-1972; compiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5577,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/5577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}