{"id":714,"date":"2019-10-18T19:20:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/?p=714"},"modified":"2019-10-18T19:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:22:36","slug":"joel-turner-alford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"Joel Turner Alford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JoelAlford.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-715\" width=\"311\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JoelAlford.jpg 414w, https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JoelAlford-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JoelAlford-125x150.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel Turner Alford was born on May 2, 1929. He and his wife had six children and attended Oak Grove Baptist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alford was a heavy equipment operator who worked in law enforcement for twelve years. He was at various times the Chief Deputy for the Walton County Sheriff&#8217;s Department and the Chief of Police for the City of DeFuniak Springs. He attended and successfully completed the FBI National&nbsp;Academy in Quantico, Virginia. He made an unsuccessful run for Walton County Sheriff in 1976. He died on February 6, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em>The Pensacola News-Journal<\/em>, September 5, 1976, Page 141.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burial: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/46275280\/joel-turner-alford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Oak Grove Cemetery (opens in a new tab)\">Oak Grove Cemetery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Turner Alford was born on May 2, 1929. He and his wife had six children and attended Oak Grove Baptist Church. Alford was a heavy equipment operator who worked in law enforcement for twelve years. He was at various times the Chief Deputy for the Walton County Sheriff&#8217;s Department and the Chief of Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-alford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}