{"id":744,"date":"2012-10-02T13:04:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T20:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=744"},"modified":"2017-05-25T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T19:02:55","slug":"bayer-spencer-droke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"BAYER, SPENCER DROKE, 1892-1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, educational administrator. Born&#8211;May 18, 1982,\u00a0Cumberland City, Stewart County, \u00a0Tennessee. Parents&#8211; Joseph and Sarah Arrevia Bedwell Bayer.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Jeanie Huldah Gould, February 12, 1920.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; University of Tennessee, B.A., 1916. Moved to Boligee, Greene County, Ala. in 1919. Farmed for two years; taught school at Boligee and at Eutaw. Served as county superintendent of education for Greene County, 1932-1957. Veteran of\u00a0 U S Army,World War I.\u00a0\u00a0 Mason, and a Shriner. Candidate for Alabama State Senate.\u00a0 Died January 1, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham News, February 3, 1980;\u00a0 files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; ancestry.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moonlight Lake and Other Short Stories. New York; Vantage, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Old Mose Tells His Grandchildren About God and the Bible. New York; Vantage, 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, educational administrator. Born&#8211;May 18, 1982,\u00a0Cumberland City, Stewart County, \u00a0Tennessee. Parents&#8211; Joseph and Sarah Arrevia Bedwell Bayer.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Jeanie Huldah Gould, February 12, 1920.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; University of Tennessee, B.A., 1916. Moved to Boligee, Greene County, Ala. in 1919. Farmed for two years; taught school at Boligee and at Eutaw. Served as county superintendent [&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-744","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\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}