{"id":694,"date":"2014-02-04T15:04:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=694"},"modified":"2017-05-10T09:50:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:50:03","slug":"axford-faye-acton-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"AXFORD, FAYE ACTON, 1925-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; clerical worker. Born&#8211; September 26, 1925, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Pleasant Wiley and Adrian Mae (Bullock) Acton. Married&#8211; George Donnell Axford, March 4, 1949. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Howard College; University of Alabama in Birmingham. Worked at Exchange Security Bank, 1943-1950, 1970-1971. Moved to Athens, Ala., in 1971, \u00a0where she owned and managed a restaurant. Member of the Alabama Historical Commission and its Board of Advisors.\u00a0Named Citizen of the Year 2003 by the Athens Chamber of Commerce; Historian of the Year by the Alabama Historical Society, 2004.\u00a0\u00a0Received the Alabama Historical Commission Lifetime Achievement Award.\u00a0 Died July 7, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. 3.; obituary, Huntsville Times, July 10, 2004<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Acton Family. S.l.; Author, s.d.<\/p>\n<p>Historic Homes of Alabama and Their Traditions. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Pub. Co., 1969.<\/p>\n<p>A History of the United Church Women. S.l.; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n<p>Limestone County After Appomatox, 1965-1970. Athens, Ala.; Athens Pub. Co, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Limestone County During World War I; Gleaning from the Limestone Democrat. Athens, Ala.; Limestone County Historical Society, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Limestone County During World War II. Athens, Ala.; Limestone County Historical Society, s.d.<\/p>\n<p>Limestone County Fifty Years Ago. Athens, Ala.; Limestone County Historical Society, 198?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To Lochaber Na Mair&#8221;, Southerners View the Civil War; Eye Witness Accounts of Soldiers on the Field of Battle. Athens, Ala.; Athens Pub. Co., 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lure and Lore of Limestone County. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>150 Years of Presbyterian Life. Athens, Ala.; First Presbyterian Church, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Rambling Recipes on Heritage Trails; with Emphasis Upon the Old Southwest. Athens, Ala.; Axford, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Journals of Thomas Hubbard Hobbs. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; clerical worker. Born&#8211; September 26, 1925, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Pleasant Wiley and Adrian Mae (Bullock) Acton. Married&#8211; George Donnell Axford, March 4, 1949. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Howard College; University of Alabama in Birmingham. Worked at Exchange Security Bank, 1943-1950, 1970-1971. Moved to Athens, Ala., in 1971, \u00a0where she owned and managed a restaurant. Member [&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-694","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\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6485,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/6485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}