Biography:

Teacher, librarian; genealogist. Born– March 9, 1920, Bessemer. Parents– Arthur Richmond and Mildred Celeste (Bradley) Pearson. Married– Raymond Earl Higdon, June 13, 1948. Married–James Farrar Burns, November 20, 1988. Education– Alabama College (Montevallo), B.A., 1941, M.A., 1960; postgraduate work at Auburn University and University of Alabama. Teacher in Cullman County, 1941-1974, except for four years; teacher in Jefferson County, 1947-1948; district manager, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1956-1957 and 1960-1962; director, Cullman County Public Library from 1974 until her retirement in 1983. Selected as Cullman Business and Professional Women’s Club “Woman of Achievement, 1977-78; as one of the Top 100 Citizens of Cullman County.  Died February 14, 2008.

Source:

Duns(t)on-Walker-Ponder.

Publication(s):

Duns(t)on-Walker-Ponder. Cullman, Ala.; Gregath Co., 1981.

Foster; a First Family of Alabama. Cullman, Ala.; Gregath Co., 1980.

Seek and Ye Shall Find; Pearson, Parson, Parsons, Peerson, Peirson, Person(s), Pierson. Vol. I. Cullman, Ala.; Gregath Co., 1979.