{"id":647,"date":"2012-04-05T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T21:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=647"},"modified":"2016-06-17T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T16:35:53","slug":"aiken-ellzabeth-boone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"AIKEN, ELlZABETH BOONE, 1914-2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; civic leader. Born&#8211;August 9, 1914,\u00a0\u00a0Chattanooga. Parents&#8211; Benjamin Arthur and Janey Lee (Pickel) Boone. Married&#8211; William Craig Aiken, April 16, 1938. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; McKenzie Business College, Bob Jones College, and Auburn University. Worked for Dixie Foundry Company in Cleveland, Tenn.; Central Alabama Electric Cooperative; correspondent for the Montgomery Advertiser, United Press International, the Prattville Progress, the REA News, and the Birmingham News. Associated with WSFA-TV in Montgomery, 1954-1979. Member of the Prattville Planning Commission; Prattville Service League, Alabama Historical Association, the National Writers Club, National Press Photographers Association, Alabama Women&#8217;s Press Association, Lee County Historical Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Autauga County Heritage Association, and Auburn Heritage Association; charter member and chairman of the Prattville Community Girl Scouts committee.\u00a0 Died December 16, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Library of Alabama Lives; Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Will Howard Smith and McQueen Smith Farms. Prattville, Ala.; s.n., 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer; civic leader. Born&#8211;August 9, 1914,\u00a0\u00a0Chattanooga. Parents&#8211; Benjamin Arthur and Janey Lee (Pickel) Boone. Married&#8211; William Craig Aiken, April 16, 1938. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; McKenzie Business College, Bob Jones College, and Auburn University. Worked for Dixie Foundry Company in Cleveland, Tenn.; Central Alabama Electric Cooperative; correspondent for the Montgomery Advertiser, United Press International, the [&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-647","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\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}