{"id":724,"date":"2014-02-20T15:38:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T22:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=724"},"modified":"2014-08-26T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:15:16","slug":"barnes-joe-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"BARNES, JOE, 1920-1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, author, \u00a0museum curator. Born&#8211; April 17, 1920, Gadsden. Parents&#8211; Louis J. and Myrtle (Woodson) Barnes. Married&#8211; Mabel Thornton, July 20, 1947. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Attended Auburn University, 1946; Jacksonville State Teachers College, B.S., 1949; University of Alabama, master&#8217;s degree, 1977.\u00a0 Served in the U.S.Army Air Corps, WWII; served in the U.S. Army Reserve, 1956-1980; named Soldier of the Year in the State of Alabama, 1974. High school coach, 1949-1952; chief of a review and analysis group at Redstone Arsenal, 1952-1973; curator of museums at Noccalula Falls in Gadsden after 1973. Member of the Alabama High School Football Officials Association, the American Legion, Etowah Historical Society, and Ta-Co-Bet Historical Association. Died February 9, 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; Man on a Mountain; and Joe Barnes, Gadsden, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History of Hokes Bluff and Eastern Etowah County, Alabama. Hokes Bluff, Ala.; Eagle Printing and Key Shop, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Man on a Mountain. Birmingham, Ala.; Southern University Press, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>John Wisdom Citizen-Soldier. Gadsden, Ala.; Birch Anderson, 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A History of Etowah County. Birmingham, Ala.; Roberts and Sons, 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, author, \u00a0museum curator. Born&#8211; April 17, 1920, Gadsden. Parents&#8211; Louis J. and Myrtle (Woodson) Barnes. Married&#8211; Mabel Thornton, July 20, 1947. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Attended Auburn University, 1946; Jacksonville State Teachers College, B.S., 1949; University of Alabama, master&#8217;s degree, 1977.\u00a0 Served in the U.S.Army Air Corps, WWII; served in the U.S. Army Reserve, [&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-724","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\/724","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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}