{"id":330364,"date":"2026-08-26T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330364\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:22:09","slug":"chilton-crowns-ray-leads-new-class-of-miss-chilton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330364\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilton Crowns \u2014 Ray leads new class of Miss Chilton County &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Kimber Ray is the new face of Chilton County after winning the 2026 Miss Chilton County Queen crown at the pageant on Aug. 15. Sponsored by the Clanton Evening Lions Club, the annual pageant crowns four new queens to represent the county. <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">McKee Auditorium was packed with contestants and family members for the pageant that crowned three other queens alongside Ray. Kinzley Baker is the new Junior Miss Chilton County Queen, followed by Ellie Clark as the new Young Miss Chilton County Queen and Henley Kate Ellison as the new Little Miss Chilton County Queen. <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">2026 Miss Chilton County Pageant Courts<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Miss Chilton County Queen Court<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Miss Chilton County Queen: Kimber Ray<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">1st Alternate: Lexi Kate Hayes <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">2nd Alternate &amp; Miss Congeniality: Jay\u2019den Ellis<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">3rd Alternate: Carlee Wright <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">4th Alternate: Saydie Smith <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Junior Miss Chilton County Queen Court<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Junior Miss Chilton County Queen: Kinzley Baker<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">1st Alternate: Ellie Harrison <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">2nd Alternate: Charlie Claire Watson <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">3rd Alternate: AnnaKate Gray <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimber Ray is the new face of Chilton County after winning the 2026 Miss Chilton County Queen crown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[53294,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-330364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-chilton-county","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}