{"id":772,"date":"2016-11-30T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=772"},"modified":"2017-05-29T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:50:02","slug":"berry-eva-1905-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"BERRY, EVA BELLE, 1905-1957"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Church and denominational\u00a0administrator; secretary. \u00a0Born&#8211; January 6, 1905, Bellfactory, Madison County. Parents&#8211; Ephraim Jack and Martha Gemima Bouldin Berry. \u00a0Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1930; Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union Training School in Louisville, Ky.\u00a0 Church secretary\u00a0for two churches; Birmingham Association WMU Young People&#8217;s secretary, 1933; Alabama WMU \u00a0Young People&#8217;s secretary, Alabama, 1934-1943; field worker, WMU, Missouri, 1944-1947; executive secretary, WMU, Missouri, 1947-1954; worked with the Broadway Plan of Church Finance in the Southern Baptist General Convention of California, 1954-1956; executive secretary of the Kansas Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union, 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Southern Baptist Encyclopedia and Eljee Bentley, Archivist of the Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union, Birmingham, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Labor of Love through Alabama Baptist Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union, 1899-1939. S.l.; Alabama Baptist Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union, 1940.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Church and denominational\u00a0administrator; secretary. \u00a0Born&#8211; January 6, 1905, Bellfactory, Madison County. Parents&#8211; Ephraim Jack and Martha Gemima Bouldin Berry. \u00a0Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1930; Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union Training School in Louisville, Ky.\u00a0 Church secretary\u00a0for two churches; Birmingham Association WMU Young People&#8217;s secretary, 1933; Alabama WMU \u00a0Young People&#8217;s secretary, Alabama, 1934-1943; field worker, WMU, Missouri, [&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-772","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\/772","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=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6538,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/6538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}