The Lovelace/Loveless Family in America Part Seven

FOURTH GENERATION:

The great-grandchildren of James and Sarah Lovelace:

The children of James E. Loveless and his wife [NU]:

A. Pearl Loveless. (JAMES E.10

, HENRY HENSON LOVELESS9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 16 August, 1885,

probably in Gordon County, Georgia. Along with her sister Josephine, she was in the

care and household of her paternal grandparents by the time of the 1900 census. Pearl

Loveless married a man named Fletcher Matteson Evans (circa 1903; place unknown),

and was the mother of five children (see later). Mr. Evans was born on 21 July 1884 in

Cherokee County, Georgia, and died on 20 January 1947 in Gordon County, Georgia. He

was a son of Zachariah Taylor Evans (1847-1927) and his wife Lutisha Cagle [sic] (1842-

1916). Through his mother, Fletcher Matteson Evans was a descendant of the Bolling

descendants of Pocahontas, and was also a distant cousin to the descendants of David

Alexander (1839-1888), several of whose descendants intermarried with the same Cagle

family in Alabama. David Alexander was a brother of Thomas Tucker Alexander (1850-

1929), whose first wife had been Martha “Mattie” Lovelace (1848-1886), a daughter of

Captain James Albert Loveless (1810-1867), both of whom have already been noticed in

this book.

Josephine “Josie” Loveless. (JAMES E.10

, HENRY HENSON LOVELESS9, JAMES ALBERT

LOVELACE8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in

October 1887, according to the 1900 census. Information supplied by Bill and Agnes

Jones, however, states that Josie was born on 12 September, 1883, and died on 2

September, 1917. This same source says that Josie Loveless married to a Luke Green,

and was the mother of two children (see later).

The child of Harold Rhodes and his wife [NU]:

Oswelle Rhodes. (HAROLD RHODES10

, MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1881 in Georgia, and

married A.R. Chaudless, who was born in 1872 in Georgia. They were the parents of

four children (see later).

The children of Dr. James Beauregard “Gardy” Rhodes and his wife Sarah Louise “Lou”

Harris:

Mary Adeline Rhodes. (JAMES BEAUREGARD RHODES10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 21 November,

1899, in Barrettsville, Dawson County, Georgia.

Edgar Leon Rhodes. (JAMES BEAUREGARD RHODES10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 20 August, 1892,

in Dawson County, Georgia.

The children of Sarah Melinda Roe and her husband Jesse B. Irwin:

Landon Irwin. (SARAH MELINDA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in October, 1889, probably in

Dallas County, Texas.

Jesse M. Irwin. (SARAH MELINDA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in September, 1891, probably

also in Dallas County, Texas.

Elizabeth Irwin. (SARAH MELINDA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in October, 1893, probably

also in Dallas County, Texas.

Joseph “Joe” Irwin. (SARAH MELINDA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born around 1895, probably also in

Dallas County, Texas.

Alice Virginia Irwin. (SARAH MELINDA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born around 1900, probably also

in Dallas County, Texas. She died on 6 January, 1923, in Fort Worth, Tarrant County,

Texas. Alice married Harold Tomlinson on 15 November, 1917, in Dallas County,

Texas. They supposedly lived for a while in Sebastian County, Arkansas, before moving

back to Fort Worth.

The children of David Anselem [sic] Roe, and his wife Viola Weakley Cross:

Rowena Lou Roe. (DAVID ANSELEM ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 27 May 1896, in Eagle

Ford, Dallas, Texas, and died on 29 October, 1930, in Laurel Land Park, Dallas, Texas.

She married Lee Roy Archer, son of Alexander Archer and his wife Rosie Gibbons. He

was born on 15 May, 1893, in Crisp, Limestone County, Texas, and died on 2 May, 1969,

in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. He was a son of Milton Webster Archer and his wife

Icedore Staton. Lee Roy Archer and Rowena Lou Roe were the parents of six children

(see later).

Lee Roy Archer (right)

with his sister Lula,

About 1910.

Lee Roy Archer (right)

with his Rumans/Roe

great-grandchildren,

1965

Lee Roy Archer and his wife Rowena Lou Roe, on the truck he drove for the Texas

Pipe Line Company. These photos were probably taken in Trinidad, Texas, c.1920.

Mamie Roe. (DAVID ANSELEM ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 10 November 1897, in Western

Heights, Dallas County, Texas, and died on 26 October, 1985, in Dallas, Dallas County,

Texas.

Cecil Roe. (DAVID ANSELEM ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 29 August 1899, in Western

Heights, Dallas County, Texas, and died on 21 September, 1988, in DeSoto, Dallas

County, Texas. She married Wyatt M. Paull, who was born on 13 September, 1899, in

Gainsville, Cooke County, Texas, and who died in February, 1980, in Dallas, Dallas

County, Texas.

Robert Anselm Roe. (DAVID ANSELEM ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 21 January, 1901, in

Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, and died on 16 August, 1969, in Wadsworth, Matagorda

County, Texas. Kath Rumans, however, says he died in Bay City, Texas.

Russell Joseph Roe. (DAVID ANSELEM ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in June, 1902, in Dallas, Dallas

County, Texas, and died in August, 1904, in the same place.

Mary Lucille Roe. (DAVID ANSELEM ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 23 July, 1904, in Dallas,

Dallas County, Texas, and died on 25 July, 1995, in Eldorado, Union County, Arkansas.

Ezma Doris Roe. (DAVID ANSELEM ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 29

December, 1909, in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, and died on 31 May, 1976, in

Eldorado, Union County, Arkansas.

David Arthur Roe. (DAVID ANSELEM ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 15 July, 1912, in Dallas,

Dallas County, Texas, and died on 28 December, 2002, in Teague, Freestone County,

Texas. He married Ruby Hazel Rutledge on 17 July, 1933, in Rockwall, Texas. She was

born on 20 June, 1908, in Mississippi, and died on 14 April, 1996, in Teague, Freestone

County, Texas. They were the parents of two children (see later).

Artie Alda Roe. (DAVID ANSELEM ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 27 February, 1914, in

Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, and died in 1920, in the same place.

Paul Fredrick Roe. (DAVID ANSELEM ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 8 March, 1914, in Dallas,

Dallas County, Texas, and died on 12 January, 1990, in the same place. Clearly, either

his year of birth, or that of his sister Artie Alda (above), is incorrect, as two siblings

couldn‟t possibly be born only nine days apart.

The children of Stella Roe and her husband “A.J.” Whatley:

Joseph Hagan Whatley. (STELLA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 10 August, 1894, probably

in Dallas County, Texas, and died on 28 November, 1962, probably in Texas. He

married Cora Belle Plunkett about 1917. She was born on 10 November, 1896, and died

on 9 December, 1981. They were the parents of three children (see later).

Vera Whatley. (STELLA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1896, and died in 1904, at the age of

eight.

George Harold Whatley. (STELLA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born and died in March, 1898.

Leslie Lee “Les” Whatley. (STELLA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 28 November, 1899, and

died on 9 December, 1963. He married Eula Lee Anderson, probably about 1920, since

their first child was born in 1921. She was born on 2 September, 1900, and died on 2

February, 1967. They were the parents of five children (see later).

Grace Lillian Whatley. (STELLA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 22 June, 1902, and died

“about 1985”, according to Clendon Whatley. Her husband was James Thomas “Jim”

Norman, whom she probably married about 1921, as their eldest child was born in 1922.

Jim Norman was born on 15 July, 1899, and died on 10 November, 1963. He and Grace

were the parents of six children (see later).

Mable Whatley. (STELLA ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in December, 1905, and died two

months later in February, 1906.

The children of Jennie Roe and her husband Josef “Joe” Lindenblatt:

Roy Lindenblatt. (JENNIE ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in July, 1899, probably in Texas.

Wallace Lindenblatt. (JENNIE ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born about 1902, probably also in

Texas.

Alma Lindenblatt. (JENNIE ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born about 1904, probably also in Texas.

Alma married a Toler, and was still living in 1990, when she attended a Roe/Archer

family reunion with her son and grandson (see photo, below).

(left) Alma Toler, with

her son Leroy (age 67)

and oldest grandson

Bob (age 44), at the

Roe/Archer reunion

in 1990.

Marie Lindenblatt. (JENNIE ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born about 1908, probably also in Texas.

The children of Josephus Roe and his (first?) wife Jennie [LNU]:

Katherine Roe. (JOSEPHUS ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1906, in Cement, Dallas County,

Texas.

Thelma Roe. (JOSEPHUS ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1907, in Cement, Dallas County,

Texas.

Evelyn Roe. (JOSEPHUS ROE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born about 1909, probably also in Cement, Dallas

County, Texas.

The children of Samuel Fermuel “Sam” Loveless and Beatrice Anna Vera “Bea”

Keheley:

Nettie Louise “Nettie Lou” Loveless. (SAMUEL FERMUEL10

, EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT

LOVELACE8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on

28 March, 1898, in Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama, and died (place not recorded) on

5 October, 1969, at the age of seventy-one. She married a man named Carse B. Glass.

Nettie Lou and Carse Glass, about 1920 or so. Unknown location.

Amy E. Loveless. (SAMUEL FERMUEL10

, EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1902, in Arbacoochee

District, Cleburne County, Alabama, and married John J. Conkle, who was born in 1892

in Alabama. They were the parents of at least four children (see later).

Claude Loveless. (SAMUEL FERMUEL10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in 1908, in the Arbacoochee

District of Cleburne County, Alabama, and died in January of 1986, in Paris, Lamar

County, Texas. In the 1920 census, he was residing in Ward Eight, Atlanta, Fulton,

Georgia.

The children of Anna L. "Annie" Loveless and her husband William H. "Hamp"

Reynolds:

Sarah Media Reynolds. (ANNA L. LOVELESS10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1898, in

Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama.

(l) Media Reynolds,

unknown date and

place. The caption

on the back of the

photo reads: “To

Aunt Cora, from

your niece Media

Reynolds”.

Lidia [sic] Reynolds. (ANNA L. LOVELESS10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1903, in

Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, and married a Mr. Parker.

The children of James A. and Ellen C. Loveless:

Izzie L. Loveless. (JAMES A.10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1906, probably in

Cleburne County, Alabama, and married C. C. "Charlie" Rooks of Arbacoochee,

Cleburne County, Alabama, on the 8th of April, 1923, at "Howle's Grove". They were

married by the Rev. R.L. Skinner. Charlie Rooks' mother was Mrs. Fanny Rooks.

(left) Izzie Loveless Rooks,

at a Loveless reunion,

ca.1983.

(below) Izzie Loveless Rooks (far

left, seated), with her Loveless cousins

at a Loveless reunion around 1986. They

were (l-r) Beulah, Pearl, Grady (seated),

and Ruby, Irene, and Myrtice (standing).

Albert James Loveless. (JAMES A.10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 12 May, 1909, probably in

Cleburne County, Alabama, and died in May, 1978, also in Cleburne County. He married

the former Beulah Wall, who died in January, 1995. They were the parents of two

children (see later).

Beulah Wall Loveless,

at a Loveless reunion

ca.1983.

Albert James Loveless (right),

at the old Hightower School.

The Cleburne News newspaper, in the issue of Thursday, 21 February, 1929, said the

following about Albert Loveless:

Loveless posts $500. Bond. Albert Loveless of near Hightower made

$500 bond and is free following his arrest on a grand jury indictment of

attacking and seriously wounding W.F. Rooks with a pocket knife near

Arbacoochee last July. Rooks was said to have been cut about his back,

left side and a serious wound on his left arm. Loveless was indicted by

January term of the grand jury.

Beulah Wall Loveless (center) with in-laws Myrtice White Loveless (l),

and Ruby Lambert Loveless (r). Photo taken at Hurricane Church

around 1984.

The children of Ever Asbury Loveless and his wife Arrilla Izora Gober:

Eva L. Loveless. (EVER ASBURY10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in August 1897, in Howell,

Marion County, Alabama.

Parilee Loveless. (EVER ASBURY10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in January 1899, in Howell,

Marion County, Alabama.

The child of Frances “Lena” Loveless and her first husband Mr. Simpson:

Roy Simpson. (FRANCES “LENA” LOVELESS10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). The Social Security Death Index

lists two men by this name—either or neither of which might be this Roy Simpson: one

man named “Roy Simpson” (SSN 424-05-9037) who was born on 17 June, 1904, and

who died in September, 1970 in Ohatchee, Calhoun County, Alabama; and another man

by the same name (SSN 420-09-1443) who was born (curiously) on 17 January, 1904,

and who died in January, 1971, in Lafayette, Chambers County, Alabama. Without other

identifying data, it is impossible to say which of these men was our relative Roy

Simpson.

We know that Roy was a grandson of Evan Jackson Loveless because of an April, 1923

mention of him (as such) in The Cleburne News newspaper. Roy was then residing in

Anniston, Alabama.

One year previously, Roy Simpson had married the former Miss Ezmer Gray of Heflin at

the Cleburne County courthouse, on Saturday afternoon, on the 7th

of January (1922).

They were married by the probate clerk, a man named “Glasgow”. Roy was then a

resident of Hightower, in Cleburne County. His bride was a daughter of Mr. And Mrs. J.

S. Gray. This marriage was reported in The Cleburne News issue of Thursday, 12

January, 1922.

[Jimmie Ryan of Long Beach, California (a thorough and helpful researcher) is the one

who says that Roy Simpson‟s mother was Frances “Lena” Loveless, “based on the census

records”, he says. I personally have not yet seen the relevant census(es).]

The children of Cortez Pate “Cort” Loveless and his wife Cora Idell Teague:

Evie Pearl Loveless. (CORTEZ PATE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 12 December, 1909, in

Cleburne County, Alabama, and died on 15 October, 1988, at Randolph County Hospital,

Alabama. She married ca.1934, Alton Emory White, who was born 13 February, 1909,

Randolph County, Alabama, and died 23 April, 1996, at Regional Medical Center

Hospital (no location given). (See “White Excursus”.) They were the parents of seven

children (see later).

(Left) Evie Pearl Loveless White,

at a Loveless family reunion

ca.1983.

(Below) Evie Pearl Loveless

ca. 1928 at about the age of

nineteen.

Pearl Loveless White, with

several of her children and

grandchildren, at

Hurricane Church

during a family reunion

(about 1983).

Two of the children of Pearl Loveless White at a Loveless reunion in the late 1980s.

William Grady Loveless. (CORTEZ PATE10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 8 January, 1911,

in Cleburne County, Alabama; and died on 4 July, 1991, in Cleburne County, Alabama.

He married 4 March, 1934, Myrtice Louise White, who was born 14 September, 1916.

Myrtice was a sister of Alton White, who married Evie Pearl Loveless (above). Myrtice

(White) Loveless and Alton White were two of the children of Newman and Elzie White.

(See “White Excursus”.) Grady Loveless is buried at Morrison Chapel Cemetery, in

Randolph County, Alabama. He and his wife Myrtice were the parents of twelve children

(see later).

(Left) Grady Loveless,

at a Loveless family reunion,

ca.1983.

(right) Grady Loveless

ca.1928 at about the age

of seventeen.

Grady Loveless (far right) with his brothers Elbert and Euell (far left and second from

right, respectively). The other man (in the overalls) is cousin Albert James Loveless. At

a Loveless Reunion at the old Hightower School (probably in the 1940s). This school

has since burned down.

Myrtice White Loveless (center) with some of her children and their spouses.

Grady and Myrtice Loveless on their wedding day, 4 March, 1934.

Grady and Myrtice Loveless on the day of their fiftieth wedding anniversary,

4 March, 1984.

Elbert Lee Loveless. (CORTEZ PATE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in Cleburne County,

Alabama on 13 July, 1912, and died on 8 March, 1985, near Hollis Crossroads, which is

near Heflin in Cleburne County, Alabama. He is buried at Pinetucky Baptist Cemetery,

in Micaville, Alabama. He married the former Ruby Jewel Lambert on 4 August, 1929.

She was born on 23 April, 1914, and died on 13 September, 1998, a daughter of James

Franklin Lambert and his wife Octavia Perkins, who lived in Cleburne County, Alabama,

in the Micaville community.

Elbert and Ruby were the parents of five children (see later).

(Left) Elbert Loveless

at a family reunion,

ca.1983.

(Below) Elbert at about

the age of sixteen

(ca. 1928).

Elbert‟s daughter Betty Loveless Murray recently provided me with a write-up about her

parents, from which I will now gratefully quote (I have edited the narrative slightly):

When Grandma Loveless [Cora Teague Loveless, widow of “Cort”

Loveless] lost her husband, [her father] Grandpa Teague and Uncle

Pitchford Teague went to their house and forced Grandma to move back

to the [Teague] home place [along] with her family.

My father Elbert was seven years old at this time.

[Grandma Teague’s] parents treated them as slaves. Grandma was made

(by her mother) to scrub the floor with a shuck mop until the water ran

clear.

The boys had to be

in the field ready to

plow when the sun

came up. They got

a short lunch break

[during which they

were also expected]

to take care of the

animals. After they

ate, they had to

return to work.

They had to remain

in the field until

they couldn’t see to

plow.

Grandpa [Teague]

was really rough on

the older children.

He only bought

them one pair of

Brogans [shoes] a

year. My mother

remembers them

walking to school

with …ice [on the

ground], with their

shoes thrown over Solomon Teague and Elizabeth Scott Teague.

their shoulders.

Grandma Teague made Grandpa Teague buy eggs from her before she

would cook one for his breakfast.

This was [obviously] a very dysfunctional family, even though it was not

recognized as [such] back then. …

Grandma Loveless [Cora Teague Loveless] started staying with her

married children as early as she possibly could. She seemed to spend

more time with Elbert’s family than [with] the others.

My Daddy and Mother [Elbert and Ruby] were married by Judge

Glasgow [perhaps the same man who performed the marriage of cousin

Roy Simpson] on the front steps leading up to his home, on August 4th

,

1929. They were fifteen and seventeen at the time. After they were

married, they lived in a little two-room house on her parents’ place. They

farmed some on their own, and worked for her Daddy for fifty cents a day.

They later moved to the Norval place where Betty [their eldest child] was

born. Shortly after this, Elbert got a job at Lloyd’s Bakery in Anniston,

and they moved [there] to be closer to work. Daddy later got work as a

welder, which [is what] he did for most of his life. [In addition] Daddy

often farmed [as well]. He was employed for years by the Kilby Steel

Company. They would allow him to bring farm produce inside the fence

[on company property] to sell to his co-workers. He was a very hard

worker, and a number of times worked [for as much as] 72 hours without

coming home. We would carry him food, and he would nap in a

wheelbarrow until time to go back to work.

Primarily, Mother was a homemaker, [although] there were two brief

periods when she was employed [--one, when she was employed] by [the]

Linen Thread Company during World War II, and [when she] worked for

a handicapped brother and sister (the Mize’s) when [their daughter] Betty

was thirteen.

When I [Betty] was nine, Daddy started bragging that he could make a

better cake than Mother and me. [So,] we baked our cakes, [and] set

them on a shelf ready for Christmas. Wouldn’t you know—each [cake]

was the best!

[Mother and Daddy] moved us to the country (Micaville) when I was

nearly fourteen. We thought [at the time that] it was awful [being out in

the country]. [But] our parents were right. It was the best thing they

could have done.

Elbert and Ruby were really good parents. They taught us strong moral

values. We always knew we were loved. They wanted each of us to come

to know and love the Lord.

My grateful thanks to Betty Loveless Murray for taking the time and trouble to write

down for all of us such a wonderful account of her parents and family life when she was

growing up. I think the most important lesson her parents taught her and her siblings can

be neatly summed up in her own words: “We always knew we were loved.” There can be

no better legacy to leave one‟s descendants than one like that. Her parents must have

been wonderful parents indeed.

Elbert and Ruby Loveless, with many of their children, grandchildren,

and great-grandchildren, at a Loveless Family Reunion

at Hurricane Church, about 1983.

Ruby Lambert Loveless with some of her children and descendants.

Elbert and Ruby Loveless, probably in the 1930s.

Notice the log house behind them!

Lena Irene Loveless. (CORTEZ PATE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 16 July, 1914, in

Cleburne County, Alabama. She married ca.1932, Walter Aaron Perkins, who was born

22 December, 1913. They were the parents of six children (see later). Walter Perkins

died on 3 April, 1965. I do not yet have his wife Lena‟s death date. Both are buried in

Pinetucky Cemetery, in Cleburne County, Alabama.

Lena Irene Loveless Perkins

(left and below right)

(Left) ca.1928, at about

the age of fourteen.

(Above) Walter Perkins,

husband of Lena Irene

Loveless Perkins.

Walter Aaron Perkins and his wife Lena Irene Loveless.

(above) Lena Loveless Perkins with

some of her children and

grandchildren,

at a Loveless Reunion at Hurricane

Church, about 1983.

(left) The children of Cort and Cora

Teague Loveless, in their later years:

(l-r) Grady, Elbert, and Lena

(standing); and Euell and Pearl

(seated).

The Walter and Lena Perkins family, in the early 1950s.

Lena Loveless Perkins with her children and several of her grandchildren

and great-grandchildren.

Lena Irene Loveless Perkins with several of her grandchildren and great-grandbabies.

James Euell Loveless. (CORTEZ PATE10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 6 January, 1917,

in Cleburne County, Alabama, and died on 19 August, 1988, near Newell, Randolph

County, Alabama. He married ca.1937, the former Annie M. Benefield. She was born

on 2 October, 1910, and died on 1 March, 1957. They were the parents of seven children

(see later). Euell and his wife Annie are also buried in the Pinetucky Cemetery in

Cleburne County.

(Left) Euell Loveless,

at a family reunion,

ca.1983 (close-up of

below photo).

(Below) Loveless siblings and cousins

at a reunion at Hurricane Church,

ca.1983.

Euell Loveless, with his mother Cora, ca.1928,

at the approximate age of eleven.

Sisters-in-law (l-r) Myrtice White Loveless, Ruby Lambert Loveless,

and Annie Benefield Loveless, in the 1930s.

Infant twin sons Loveless. (CORTEZ PATE10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). Both born and died on or about 31

March, 1918. They are buried beside their parents in the Hurricane Church Cemetery,

Cleburne County. According to the story I have been told (by Catherine Loveless

Kennedy), one of these infant boys was either stillborn, or lived only perhaps one day,

whereas the other one was expected to die soon as well (for some reason), so the first one

was placed in a shoebox and buried at the edge of the garden, until the second one died a

few days later. Then both of them were taken to Hurricane Church Cemetery, and buried

in the same grave.

The child of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Loveless and her husband Elijah Stanford:

Benjamin Stanford. (ELIZABETH LOVELESS10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1).

The children of Virginia “Jennie” Loveless and her husband Samuel Bolden:

Dan Bolden. (VIRGINIA LOVELESS10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1).

Robert Bolden. (VIRGINIA LOVELESS10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was last reported as living in

Birmingham, Alabama. He reportedly had one daughter.

Child of Walter DeWitt Keheley and his (divorced) wife Hersie G. Robinson:

Clyde D. Keheley. He was born (probably in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia) on 31

May, 1900, and died on 5 September, 1901. He lies buried beside his mother and a half-

brother in Mt. Zion Methodist Church Cemetery in Atlanta, on what was formerly

Stewart Avenue SW.

The children of Bob Margaret "Bobbie" Keheley and her husband Claude Leslie Newton:

Margaret Newton. (BOB MARGARET KEHELEY10

, JANE NETT LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1906 in Atlanta,

Fulton, Georgia.

Jeanette Newton. (BOB MARGARET KEHELEY10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 17 November,

1907, and died in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia on 13 October, 1988. She married William

Hubbard Peebles Sr., who was a son of Henry Peebles and his wife Looney Brown.

William was born on 14 October, 1897, in Henry County, Georgia, and died on 9 March,

1945, also in Henry County, Georgia. He and Jeanette were the parents of two children

(see later). In September, 1986, the widowed Jeanette Peebles was residing at 796

Hillpine Drive NE, Atlanta, Georgia. This was the occasion on which I telephoned her--

on the advice of my grandmother Martha Bunn--to inquire into the “family history”. And

I am eternally grateful that I did—not only because (unknown to me at the time) Jeanette

had only two more years to live, but also for the very valuable and apparently accurate

information she so generously provided me. Jeanette also informed me during that

telephone conversation that she was named for her grandmother, “Jeanette” Lovelace

Keheley.

Child of Hurt Eugene Keheley and his wife Mary C. [ ? ]:

Walter DeWitt Keheley. (HURT EUGENE10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 25 April, 1921, and died in

March, 1974. He married Janie Grace Norsworthy, and they were the parents of at least

one child (see later). Walter was named for his uncle, and served in the United States

Army for a number of years, mainly at Atlanta‟s Fort McPherson. When he shows up in

the Atlanta City Directories, in 1944, he was listed with his wife, Janie G., and as an

employee of the “USA”—which of course here stands for “United States Army”. His

residence was 904 Berne Street SE. In 1947, his wife was listed as “Grace N.,” and

Walter was working as a mechanic for the International Harvester Company, and was

residing at 508 Gibson Street SE. For the years 1948 through 1950, he was again

employed by the “USA”, and was residing with his wife Grace, first, at 430 Arnold Street

(through 1949), and then in 1950 at 1721 Braeburn Drive SE. Walter does not show up in

any other directory entries until the year 1962. He and Grace were residing at 345

Murray Hill Avenue NE. He was described as still employed, as a mechanic with the

International Harvester Company, his former employer from back in 1947.

Possible (unproven) child of Hurt Eugene Keheley:

Marion Eugene Keheley. (HURT EUGENE10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 12 November,

1916, and died on 1 February, 1989, at the age of seventy-three.

The Atlanta City Directories provide some biographical detail concerning him:

In 1939, he was listed with a wife Agnes, and was employed as a helper at the K-PC

Corporation. His residence that year was 516 Glenwood Avenue SE—the same

residence where (in the same year) Hurt Eugene, Dorothy H., and Sarah Catherine were

all living. In 1940, his residence was 910 Ormewood Avenue SE, whence the above-

mentioned Dorothy H. and Sarah Catherine had also moved. In that year, Marion was

employed as a clerk. In 1941, his address was the same, but he was working as a

woodworker. In 1943, he had again moved, this time to 509 Glenwood Avenue SE.

With him was a new wife, Fay E. In 1944, Marion was employed as a “defense worker”

and was residing at 899 Berne Street SE. In 1945, residing in the same place, he was

employed as a clerk at Ft. McPherson. In 1947, his residence and job were the same as

1945. Residing with him in 1947, however, was another Marion—a Marion H.

Keheley—probably a son. In 1949, his residence was still the same, but he was

employed as a clerk at Mitchell Motors. In 1950, residing in the same place, his job was

listed as “salesman” for Harry Sommers, Inc. In the years 1951 and 1952, his residence

was 973 Mercer Street SE, and he was employed as a Department Manager at Tom

Mitchell Buick. In 1953, his residence unchanged, he was employed as a “partsman”

with “Mellen Parts”. The last reference I have been able to find for him in the City

Directories dates from 1961. In that year, he had a new wife, “Oudia” [sic], was

residing at 1731 Giben Road SW, Apartment 1, and was employed in the Parts

Department at East Point Chevrolet.

The search engine ZabaSearch.com (amazingly) lists a Marion E. Keheley as residing in

Douglasville, Georgia. Since the above Marion Eugene Keheley died in 1989, perhaps

this is his widow (?). Strangely, however, the same web site also lists the same name

“Marion E. Keheley” as residing in Weidman, Michigan—with a wife (or widow) named

“Ouida L. Keheley”, aged seventy-five. Since we know Marion did indeed have a wife

by this name, this has to be him. Perhaps he (or his widow) moved to Weidman,

Michigan from Douglasville, Georgia.

The children of James William "Bill" Alexander and his wife Lula Reed:

Walter Ernest “Walt” Alexander. (JAMES WILLIAM ALEXANDER10

, MARTHA LOVELACE9, JAMES

ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 5

March, 1891, in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, and died on 29 December 1978 in Fort

Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. As mentioned above, he (like his father) was also a

baseball player, breaking into the major leagues in 1912 at the age of twenty-one. He

played professionally for both the St. Louis Browns and the New York Yankees. There

is a page detailing his biography and statistics at the site www.baseball-

almanac.com/players/player.php?p=alexawa01 , although this reference says he was born

in Atlanta instead of Marietta. I have not yet found out which is correct. He must have

been a decent player to get drafted by both the Browns and the New York Yankees, but

this is not reflected in his statistics, which appear completely lackluster. Still, to play for

those two teams—even so long ago—is a noteworthy achievement indeed.* The above

site says that Walt is buried in the Grove Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas, Texas

(which may well be where his parents are buried also).

My cousin Bobby Alexander (son of Durward) told me recently (May, 2007) that back

around 1965, when he happened to be in Texas on business, he looked up his cousin Walt

Alexander, and visited with him and his wife. Bobby says that Walt brought out all his

old baseball memorabilia, including his old New York Yankees uniform. Those items

would be worth seeing today, and must be very valuable indeed. Nothing is known at

present concerning whether or not Walt had children.

* Well-known baseball broadcaster Bob Costas recently confirmed this, saying that “even

the least-accomplished major-league baseball player is a VERY, very good baseball

player”. He also added that any criticism of the game or its players should always come

from a position of profound respect for the same. I agree. And I am very proud of my late

cousin Walt Alexander.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=alexawa01

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=alexawa01

Grace Alexander. (JAMES WILLIAM ALEXANDER10

, MARTHA LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in December 1892,

in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia.

Bertha Alexander. (JAMES WILLIAM ALEXANDER10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in April 1894, in

Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia.

The children of Dr. Omer Rocellous Alexander Sr. and his wife Willie Pearl McAfee:

Lois Laverne Alexander (adopted). (OMER ROCELLOUS ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in

October 1897, in Cobb County, Georgia, and married a B.A. Martin. She lived on

Rhodenhaven Street (Marietta ?). They were the parents of at least one daughter (see

later).

Omer Rocellous Alexander Jr. (OMER ROCELLOUS ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN


July, 1900, in Cobb County, Georgia, and died on 27 December, 1966, in Mableton,

Cobb County, Georgia [one source says this death date was "1960"]. He married the

former Lillian Gallaher [sic], who was a daughter of Joseph Gallaher and his wife Mattie

Martin. Omer Jr. and his wife were the parents of two children (see later).

Robert N. Alexander. (OMER ROCELLOUS ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in

1903, in Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida. He married Vanada [LNU] and was the

father of at least one daughter (see later).

William Merritt Alexander Sr. (OMER ROCELLOUS ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in

1906, in Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida, and died in 1986. He married Nancy Sue

[LNU] and was the father of two children (see later).

Eva Alexander. (OMER ROCELLOUS ALEXANDER10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She married James “Jim" Hessey.

They were the parents of at least one daughter (see later).

Lillian Alexander. (OMER ROCELLOUS ALEXANDER10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She married Kenneth Recker. He

was born (according to one source) in 1907 in Findlay City, Hancock County, Ohio. They

were the parents of two sons (see later). The U.S. Social Security Death Index lists a

“Kenneth Recker” who was born on 27 November, 1906, and who died on 18 October,

1994, in or near Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida. Since this is where Lillian

Alexander was from, this is very likely the same individual.

Henry F. Alexander Sr. (OMER ROCELLOUS ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in

1918, and married the former Betty Robertson. They were the parents of two children

(see later). My grateful thanks to Henry for his valuable help and information about his

extended family, which he graciously provided me many years ago.

The

children of

India

Isabel

“Izzie”

Alexander

and her

husband

Zephaniah

"Zeph"

Hooper:

Mattie

Lee

Hooper. (INDIA

ISABEL

ALEXANDER1

0, MARTHA

LOVELACE9,

JAMES

ALBERT8, SA

MUEL7,

BARTON6,

BENJAMIN5,

JOHN4,

THOMAS3,

WILLIAM2,

UNKNOWN1).

She was

born on 21

September

, 1891, in Cobb County, Georgia, and died on 26 February, 1989, in Columbus, Georgia.

She married Charlie Robert Ernest Brown, who was a son of John Brown and his wife

Louisa Wilson.

Mattie Lee Hooper Brown, at an unknown date (courtesy of Marjorie Morehead).

Charlie Brown was born in March 1883 (one source says September) in Georgia, and

died in October 1937, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia. He worked for the railroad.

Mattie is buried in Crest Lawn Cemetery in Atlanta. She and her husband were the

parents of seven children (see later).

After her mother Izzie‟s early death in 1903 left the four surviving Hooper children

orphaned (their father Zeph having apparently abandoned his children for a number of

years, for some unknown reason), these children were then „farmed‟ out to several sisters

of their late mother Izzie. The aunt who raised Mattie Lee Hooper was Lillie May

Alexander (along with her first husband “Top” Kelly). An early photograph from this

time (see below) shows the teenaged Mattie Hooper sitting with her aunt Ruby Alexander

(roughly the same age), and behind them is standing Mr. “Top” Kelly, Mattie‟s adoptive

father.

Mattie Lee Hooper (left) with her

aunt, Ruby Alexander, and her uncle

(and step-father) “Top” Kelly.

(about 1910)

(right) Mattie Lee Hooper with her

aunt Ruby Alexander.

Mattie Lee Hooper Brown with her daughters and some friends, ca.1935.

Mattie with cousins Versie (l) and Eva Alexander (r), ca.1920.

(left) Mattie with a cow.

(right) Mattie with her cousins Versie (l) and

Eva Alexander (second from right). Mattie’s

Aunt Athalia is second from left. Mattie

herself is at the far right. This is apparently a

photo taken at the kitchen door of the old

Alexander farm house on Austell Road (now

demolished).

Thomas Sylvester Hooper. (INDIA ISABEL ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN


February, 1895, in Cobb County, Georgia, and died in the 1920s [one source says 1920],

while on a train to Arizona. This was for the purpose of helping him “recuperate” from

the tuberculosis he had contracted (perhaps during his military service). He served in the

First World War (see photos), and married a wife from Ohio, with whom he had one son

(name unknown).

(left) Thomas Sylvester

Hooper, in his World War I

uniform (ca. 1917, at

approximately age twenty-two).

(Courtesy of Marjorie

Morehead.)

(below) Close-up of photo

on the following page.

“Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori. …”

--from the poem of the same

name by British war poet

Wilfred Owen (d. 1918).

(Latin: “It is sweet and fitting to die for

one’s country.”) Owen intended it as a

sarcastic, ironic comment on the tragic,

futile waste that war often is.

Sic transit Gloria mundi …*

Thomas Sylvester Hooper with his WWI regiment (he is at left of center, standing).

ca.1917-1918. (Courtesy of Marjorie Morehead.) At some point—probably during his

military service, Thomas contracted tuberculosis. It would too soon take his life.

Today, the road all runners come,

Shoulder-high we bring you home,

And set you at your threshold down,

Townsmen of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away

From fields where glory does not stay …

A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

“To An Athlete Dying Young” *(Latin) “Thus passes

the glory of the world.”

To-day, the road all runners come, 5

Shoulder-high we bring you home,

And set you at your threshold down,

Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away

From fields where glory does not stay, 10

Thomas Sylvester Hooper, proudly posing in his uniform, ca. 1917.

Frances Lola “Fannie” Hooper. (INDIA ISABEL ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN


November, 1896, in Goddard, Marion County, Alabama. She married Carl Bishop (who

was born in 1896) and was the mother of at least one child

Elizabeth Hooper. (INDIA ISABEL ALEXANDER10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 21 May, 1899, in

Goddard, Marion County, Alabama. She married the Rev. Howard W. Morris, and they

were the parents of two children (see later). Elizabeth resided in Hapeville, Georgia in

1929, when she received a legacy from the will of her maternal grandfather Thomas

Tucker Alexander. She is buried in Westview Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.

Elizabeth Hooper Morris

(Courtesy of Marjorie Morehead.)

Hice Hooper. (INDIA ISABEL ALEXANDER10


8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 9 February, 1903, in

Goddard, Marion County, Alabama.

Marjorie Brown Morehead says that after her grandmother Izzie‟s death on 26 April,

1903, Izzie‟s eldest daughter Mattie (Marjorie‟s mother) was left to care for this two-

month-old infant boy (Hice Hooper)—their father having apparently run off and left the

children to fend for themselves at their very isolated farmhouse. This infant boy died

shortly after his mother‟s death—either from starvation or disease—his poor eleven-year-

old sister Mattie being obviously unprepared and unable to properly care for him. Nor

should Mattie in any way be blamed for this unfortunate occurrence—what eleven year

old child could ever be expected to successfully take on such a burden—especially

without a father to provide for her and the child?

This must have been an awful, terrifying ordeal for these poor children: first, they lost

their dear mother to death, then, their father abandoned the children, leaving them to their

own devices, and then the baby died, while in the (inadequate) care of his eleven-year-old

sister. Mattie (the eleven-year-old) even had to briefly abandon the other children

herself, after their mother had died: since their father had run off, and they didn‟t know if

he was coming back or not, Mattie had to leave the other children (and the baby) alone

while she ran to the nearest neighbouring farmhouse (a good distance away) to summon

help to take care of her mother‟s body (and the living, and abandoned, children)!

We will perhaps never know why Zeph Hooper abandoned his own children, and thus

(perhaps inadvertently) allowed his own infant son to die. Perhaps he was torn apart by

grief and guilt after his wife‟s death. But to abandon your own small children? This is a

hard, hard fact for us (his relatives and descendants) to try to understand.

Robert Clayton (a descendant of Zeph and Izzie), however, points out that some of these

children later (briefly) show up in Zeph‟s household in Atlanta (in the 1910 census); so

we can see that he had evidently tried to regain his status as their father.

What a sad tale!

The children of Greer Montgomery Alexander Sr. and his first wife Grace Lizzie Bundt:

William Greer "Buster" Alexander. (GREER MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER10

, MARTHA LOVELACE9,

JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born

in 1900, in Georgia, and died in Cordell, Georgia (year unknown). He married Minnie

Lee, who was also born in 1900.

Grace Victoria Alexander. (GREER MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN


October, 1901, and died of tuberculosis in 1943, in Cobb County, Georgia. She married

on 25 December, 1918, Wilbur Chester "Bill" Sangster, who was born on 6 April, 1896,

in Dooly County, Georgia, and died on 5 July, 1936, Abbeville, Wilcox County, Georgia,

a son of William T. Sangster and his wife Martha C. Deloach. Bill Sangster was a

carpenter by trade.

"Grace lived in Abbeville Georgia until Bill died, [at which point] she returned to Cobb

County." (per Jack Alexander) Bill Sangster died of Typhus "from a rat-infected flea,"

and lies buried in the Pleasant Grove Methodist Church cemetery in Rochelle, Georgia

(ibid.)

Martha Fay Alexander. (GREER MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in

1903, in Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia, and died in California. She married Lee

Sherrard, a Sgt. Major in the U.S. Army, and was a registered nurse by profession,

"assisting [a] Dr.Griffith in all phases of the operation of his eye, nose and throat

[operations at his hospital] in Atlanta. "She supervised all personnel and activities at the

hospital, [and] as well acted as his personal secretary. After she was married in the late

1930s, she moved with her husband to California." (per Jack Alexander)

Greer Montgomery Alexander, Jr. (GREER MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER10

, MARTHA LOVELACE9,


7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born

in 1907, in Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia.

The children of Greer Montogomery Alexander Sr. and his second wife Mary Alva

Beatrice Horn:

Mary Frances Alexander. (GREER MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN


January, 1911, in Cobb County, Georgia. Her occupation before retirement was a C.P.A.

She married in 1929 to Albert A. Guest, a mechanical engineer born on 13 January, 1909,

in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, a son of Peyton Lee Guest and his wife Maud Aiken. Albert

A. Guest died 11 June, 1980, in Indiana, and is buried at Kennesaw Memorial Park,

Marietta, Georgia. He was "a tile setter by trade, [and] worked for the Dinkler Hotel

System. During his career with Dinkler, he traveled extensively. ..." (per Jack

Alexander)

"Mary resided [in] 2002 in

Austell, Cobb County,

Georgia. While serving with a

New Orleans C.P.A. firm, her

principal account was The

Baptist Hospital. (ibid.)

“Mary is an accomplished

artist. Her family especially

enjoys her beautiful oils of

roses. One can almost smell

them and feel their soft

petals." (ibid.)

She died about 2003.

Mary Alexander Guest, with

her brothers Frank and Jack,

in January, 2001.

(Courtesy of Jack Alexander.)

Richard Albert Alexander. (GREER MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN


July, 1913, in Cobb County, Georgia. He died on 24 September, 1984, in Marietta, Cobb

County. The U.S. Social Security Death Index lists him, with a death date of September,

1984; place of death Fair Oaks (Marietta), Cobb County, Georgia. He obtained his social

security number while in Louisiana. He is buried in Marietta. Richard served in the U.S.

Army during World War II. He married first, Carmen Bailey, on 14 June, 1944, in Cobb

County, and second, to Pauline Bean Burdine, on 23 October, 1948, also in Cobb

County. Pauline was born on 21 April, 1913, and died on 22 December, 1986. Richard

and Pauline had one child (see later).

Dorothy Lucille "Ludy" Alexander. (GREER MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER10

, MARTHA LOVELACE9,


7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born

on 16 September, 1916, in Cobb County, Georgia, and died on 9 January, 1985, in

Mobile, Alabama. She is buried at Kennesaw Memorial Park, in Marietta, Georgia.

She married first, on 27 July, 1935, in Cobb County, Georgia, to Roy Lee Harris, who

was born on 29 August, 1911 and died on 20 August, 1961, and married second to Louis

Pinter, who was born in Hungary. He was residing in Hungary in 1997, after “Ludy‟s”

death. Dorothy Lucille "Ludy" Alexander had no children.

Frank Nolan Alexander. (GREER MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN


June, 1919, in Cobb County, Georgia. He married in 1939 to Muriel Martin, who was

born on 9 January, 1922, and was a daughter of C.M. Martin, Sr. and his wife Beatrice

Moore. Muriel died on 1 January, 2001. Frank was residing in 2002 in Acworth, Cobb

County, Georgia. His occupation was a Facilities Engineer. Frank passed away in 2006.

He and Muriel had one child, a daughter (see later).

Jack Leslie Alexander. (GREER MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN


June, 1922, in Cobb County, Georgia. He did much research on the Alexander family.

We are all richer because of his efforts and those of others like him. His occupation was

a Mechanical Engineer. He is now retired, and celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday this

year (2007). He and his second wife Kitty have resided in Danville, Virginia for a

number of years.

He married first in 1943 at Park Avenue Baptist Church in East Lake, Georgia, to Martha

Dorris Hay, who was born on 26 December, 1920, in Georgia, and who died on 30

September, 1965, in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. Martha was a

daughter of Benjamin Hill “Ben” Hay and his wife Mano Elizabeth Kennedy. With

Martha, Jack had three children (see later). Martha lies buried at Lake View Cemetery,

Greensboro, North Carolina.

Jack married second on 18 July, 1968 at Market Street Methodist Church in Greensboro,

North Carolina, to Kitty Ray Richards, who was born in Danville, Virginia on 1 May,

1933, a daughter of Paul Lenwood Richards and his wife Cordie Alice Tucker. Kitty is a

retired Systems Analyst.

Here is Jack‟s own 2002 write-up about himself and his second wife Kitty:

Jack was educated at Newark College of Engineering [in Newark,

New Jersey], and began his career with C.R. Shaw Manufacturing, [a

company] which was owned by his half-brother Charlie Shaw. He worked

in the office while attending school, and later became the manufacturing

shop foreman. After World War II, he resumed his career at the Carrier

Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was an engineering technician

for fifteen years. In 1960, Jack joined [the] AC Corp[oration] in

Greensboro, North Carolina, as [a] project manager for the industrial

division. He collaborated with Ernie Hungate in the design and

development of an industrial air washer, which was patented in 1968, and

which AC Corp continues to manufacture and market throughout the

United States, Canada, and South America. He [Jack] holds three patents

in his own right. After 30 years of service, he retired as Corporate Vice

President and Industrial Division Manager, in 1990.

During World War II, Jack served in the South Pacific as a metalsmith in

theNavy, aboard the USS Cross, DE#448 Destroyer Escort, participating

in the blockade of Yap Island, and [in] the invasion of Okinawa.

An accountant by education, Kitty [Jack’s second wife] spent most of her

career designing and installing computer systems for second and third

generation computers in municipal, educational, and corporate

environments. With NCR, she was Systems Services Manager, who, with

her staff, was responsible for electronic equipment accounting systems in

eleven North Carolina counties. Later, she formed her own company to

develop training programs, write operations manuals, and assist clients in

maintaining or upgrading their “obsolete” computer systems. When her

family began to grow in the 1980s, Kitty ceased the formal operation of

her company, although she occasionally continued to do freelance work.

Currently, she is a “Professional Grandmother”.

Jack Alexander (r), ca. 2005,

with his brother

Frank (l).

(Photo courtesy of Jack

Alexander.)

The children of Lillie May Alexander by her first husband Henry Persons "Top" Kelly:

James Gilbert "Jack" Kelly. (LILLIE MAY ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN


March, 1905, in Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia, and died from Emphysema on 29

August, 1982, at West Paces Ferry Hospital, in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.

James Gilbert “Jack” Kelly

about 1956,

Atlanta, Georgia

Jack Kelly with his mother Lillie, ca. 1956, Atlanta, Georgia

(This is my favourite photgraph of both of them)

Jack Kelly, at the

approximate age

of ten years

(ca. 1915).

(close-up of

below photo.)

(right) Jack

as a toddler,

1905

Jack Kelly married the former Sarah Louise Greene, on 6 April, 1925, in Chattanooga,

Tennessee. She was born in Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia on 21 August, 1907, and

died 10 January, 1981 in Georgia. She was a daughter of George and Ocie O. Greene.

Jack Kelly was part of the very first graduating class of State Troopers in Georgia, and

was for many years a State Trooper. Later, he worked for the Atlanta Gas Light

Company as a pipe-fitter, then managed a hardware store for King Hardware on

Campbellton Road in Atlanta. After “retirement”, he helped install heating and air with

his son-in-law Raymond Newton.

Though I could not have known that he had only two more years to live, I used to visit

him often during the summers of 1980 and 1981, when he was quite old, and I was

just graduating from high school (I used my bicycle to travel the fifteen-mile distance,

a fact which impressed him). He was my (and my Dad's) favorite uncle, and it was

during these two final summers of his life that I got to know him best. He was also the

only member of my (extended) family who both smoked cigarettes and occasionally

drank whiskey (two things my very religious family—and his sister Martha in particular--

have always greatly frowned upon) and thus he was, to me (as a teenager) a VERY

COOL PERSON. It was very unusual, therefore, that my pious and God-fearing father

(his nephew) nonetheless respected and loved his (somewhat wayward) uncle.

This was evidently an elementary-school photo.

Jack Kelly is seated at the bottom right.

School exercise written by Jack Kelly in the second grade (ca. 1913)

James Gilbert “Jack” Kelly (1905-1982),

as a State Trooper with his 1939 Pontiac.

Jack Kelly in 1919 (in his ROTC uniform)

with his father, Henry Persons “Top”

Kelly, in Atlanta’s Grant Park.

His wife Sarah had for many years prior to her death been afflicted with some sort of

mild mental instability, and as well had to have one of her legs amputated due to diabetes.

Jack Kelly never once deserted her during what must have been those awful, hard-to-bear

years. Sarah had also (in her better days) once been briefly unfaithful to her husband.

But he took her back, and held onto her. His example of devotion and fidelity to marriage

vows (“for better or for worse, in sickness and in health”) would be very hard to improve

upon, and impresses me to this day—years after their respective deaths. Jack Kelly well

and truly must have tenderly loved his wife Sarah. His daughter Barbara has said to me

that not long after her mother Sarah‟s death in 1981, her Dad was sitting in Barbara‟s

kitchen, and said to her, regarding his recently-deceased wife: “I loved that woman!”

I can truly believe he did.

Jack Kelly in 1919 with his sister

Martha in Atlanta’s Grant Park.

Martha was four years old then.

James Gilbert “Jack” Kelly--

a fine and honorable man.

I had occasion to speak not long ago with his only surviving child, Barbara, and shared

with her my opinion of her father: I said to her that her father Jack Kelly was a kind,

thoughtful and considerate gentleman—a real gentleman (a rarity in today‟s world), and

along with my own father Frank, the finest example of a man I have ever been privileged

to know. His alcohol use notwithstanding, I can truthfully say that I never once saw him

drunk, or even under the influence. He was raised well, and had good manners: he would

not allow himself to be in such a condition around me, his grandnephew.

My Dad Frank has said that he remembers being treated especially kindly by his Uncle

Jack in the years immediately after his (Frank‟s) father‟s death. My Dad says he

remembers being taken for rides in Jack‟s 1932 Ford coupe, a car which had a “rumble

seat”. My Dad remembers being allowed to ride in the “rumble seat”. Jack‟s daughter

Barbara has said that she also remembers doing this, with her cousin Ellen (Frank‟s

sister).

Jack‟s daughter Barbara has remembered that during one of her father‟s hospital stays, a

few years before he died (he was being treated for cataracts), he had asked the nurse for a

cigarette, and of course she told him that he couldn‟t have one. This riled Jack, and he

said to the nurse, “What‟s your vice? Everybody has one, you know!”

Jack‟s daughter Barbara has also told me how it was his mother‟s death in 1974 which

drove her father to drink. I would add that his poor wife Sarah‟s many difficulties

probably didn‟t help either. When Jack‟s sister Martha got word of his drinking, she

called him up one day (according to Barbara) and flat-out told him that in her opinion, if

he didn‟t straighten up his “act”, he was going to go “straight to Hell”. These harsh words

from his sister (and only sibling)—so soon after the death of their mother—wounded

Jack Kelly very deeply: Barbara has told me how, a day or so later, Jack called two of his

daughters over to his house (Barbara being one of them), told them what his sister had

said to him, and then broke down and “cried like a baby” (Barbara‟s words). When

Barbara told me this, I was flabbergasted, and could only say: “that poor man …”

When I told my Dad about this event, besides being equally horrified and moved (as I

was), he mentioned that as Jack lay dying in his hospital bed in August, 1982, his

[Jack‟s] sister Martha (my grandmother) paid him a visit, and got no response from Jack.

The very next day (not knowing this), my Dad and I also paid Jack a visit (our final one,

which I remember well), and as soon as we walked into his room where he could see us,

Jack immediately tried to sit up and speak to us (though he had a breathing tube which

prevented this). My Dad tried to calm him down, and said “Uncle Jack, don‟t try to

talk … “. When my Dad mentioned our visit to Jack the next day to his mother (Martha),

she was astonished that Jack responded for us, when he had done nothing when she was

there.

Jack‟s wife Sarah Greene Kelly was a fun-loving, outgoing person, always the life of the

party (in her better days), in contrast to her husband Jack, who was more the stay-at-

home type. This sharp contrast in personalities probably contributed (according to

Barbara) to Sarah‟s brief episode of infidelity (already mentioned).

When I was a teenager, and Jack was still alive, I used to really enjoy visiting him and

Sarah, used to love sitting there talking to them, and listening to what Jack had to say—

even on trivial matters. He didn‟t say much—he was a quiet, reserved, dignified man, but

he and Sarah were always kind to me, and always seemed to enjoy my presence—

especially outgoing Sarah, who would always make a big fuss over me! And they were

never, never judgmental toward me. I always knew I was accepted and loved when I was

with them. And that is precisely why I always wanted to go back to visit them, again and

again.

On one of these visits (with my Dad), Sarah mentioned that when she died, she wanted to

be cremated, and have her ashes “scattered over the whole state of Georgia” from an

airplane. Her husband Jack would tolerate no such nonsense, however, saying to her:

“You hush that talk, woman--when that day comes, you won‟t have one word to say

about it!” And Sarah (whose head had obviously been filled with grandiose expectations)

dropped her mouth open, and a blank, baffled look appeared on her face, and she didn‟t

say another word, because she suddenly realized her husband was right! They were quite

a pair. …

I miss them still.

Jack Kelly with his mother Lillie, ca. 1908.

Martha Darthula Kelly. (LILLIE MAY ALEXANDER10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 24 October, 1915,

in Haleyville, Winston County, Alabama, and left this mortal sojourn on 13 October,

2008, in Winterville, Clarke County, Georgia, only a week short of turning 93 years old.

Martha Darthula Kelly (born 1915),

in a photo of circa 1935 (age twenty).

A remarkably attractive, intelligent, and popular young woman, Martha Kelly graduated

in 1933 from Haleyville High School, and under the right circumstances would probably

have gone on to college. Her youngest daughter Dianne Byrd informed me a few years

ago that Martha had a boyfriend soon after she finished high school--a serious boyfriend

that she wanted to marry, and whose family accepted her graciously and promised to pay

her way into college, should she marry into their family--quite an offer. Except that for

some reason, Martha's mother Lillie May "did not approve" of the young man in

question, and so forbade the prospective marriage. (Perhaps the young man was not a

"Christian"--Lillie's religion was central to her outlook on life.)

Martha Darthula Kelly (born 1915),

at the approximate age of three years (1918).

Her mother's refusal to accept her prospective fiancé was a tragedy, in a way, because

Martha Kelly, like her mother, had a fine intellect and some artistic abilities as well. But

as a result of this forbidden love, Martha ended up defying her mother when her next

boyfriend came into the picture, and eloped with him instead of waiting for permission to

marry. This new boyfriend (now husband) would become the father of her first three

children, and never in all her life would Martha otherwise expand her mind or

opportunities—out-side of

donning the role of model

housewife (as was expected in

1940s and 1950s conformity-

loving America) and doing an

outstanding job of rearing her four

children.

Martha Kelly married first, on 15

February, 1935 in Atlanta, Fulton

County, Georgia, Homer Spence

White, who was born on 9 July,

1915, and died on March 21, 1943,

a son of Francis Marion "Frank"

White and Bessie May Davis of

Atlanta. Martha and Homer

White were the parents of three

children (see below).

Martha Kelly at about age one

(1916).

Homer White was a successful business manager in his short life, dying at the age of

twenty-seven from Gaucher Disease, a rare (and back then usually fatal) genetically-

inherited illness most common (oddly enough) among Ashkenazi, or Eastern European

Jews.. His remarkable business acumen, however, ensured that Martha did not need to

obtain a job after his death, in order to support their three children, for the next FOUR

years--an incredible feat to achieve during the final years of the Great Depression.

Birthday card sent to Martha Darthula Kelly on her first birthday,

24 October, 1916.

Martha remarried in Atlanta,

Fulton County, Georgia, on 10

August, 1947 to Ralph Clinton

Bunn. The church where they

were married was Mary Branan

United Methodist Church (which

was then meeting in an old log

cabin on Deckner Avenue, just

across the street from where

Martha then lived with her

children).

Her second husband Ralph Bunn

was born on 5 April, 1912 (two

weeks before the Titanic sank),

in Emanuel County, near

Swainsboro, Georgia, and was a

son of John Wilson Bunn Sr. and

Hattie Estelle “Nanna” Hall

Bunn. Ralph was raised in

Emanuel County, Georgia, and

was a successful dry-cleaning

salesman and delivery-driver

before his retirement. His steady

business ability and sound

investments over the years

insured that his and Martha‟s

retirement years would be

worry-free financially. Ralph

Bunn quietly left this world

while asleep, on 30 December,

2009, in Arnoldsville, Georgia.

Martha Kelly White and her first three children,

not long after the death of their father in 1943.

He and Martha were the parents of one child, a daughter (see below). He was also a

selfless and devoted stepfather to his three step-children, Homer, Frank, and Ellen White,

and a loving and caring grandfather to all of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Martha and Ralph Bunn last lived together in Winterville, near Athens, Georgia, and

celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1997. Their sixtieth wedding anniversary

quietly passed them by in August of 2007—both of them too old and enfeebled by age to

notice. Their devotion to each other over their sixty-plus years of marriage was an

inspiring example to their whole family.

Martha Kelly, like several of her ancestors, was an accomplished seamstress, doing

alterations for many years at the Muse‟s Department Store in downtown Atlanta. She was

also quite capable of creating

her own new, hand-made

clothing articles, which she

did many times over the

years for various family

members. She also hand-

made the two wedding

dresses of her two daughters,

and the results were as good

as (or better than) anything

which could have been

bought in any store (see

photos).

(left) Martha’s elder

daughter Ellen at her 1958

wedding to Kenny Fuller,

wearing the dress her

mother had made by hand.

(below) close-up, showing

some detail of the dress.

Two drawings Martha made at

age six (in 1921). The one below

was of her brother Jack, in his

uniform.

(above) the real Jack Kelly

at age fourteen (1919) in his

R.O.T.C. uniform.

Certificate Martha received in 1928, while a student at

Joseph E. Brown Junior High School in Atlanta.

Martha’s 1933 high school diploma from Haleyville (Alabama) High School.

Martha Kelly with her first husband Homer White,

and her first child, Homer Jr. in 1936.

Martha Kelly White and her first three children, ca.1943

(after the death of their father).

(left) Marriage announcement for Martha’s

first marriage, to Homer White (1935).

(below) Obituary of Martha’s

first husband Homer White

(March, 1943)

Martha was also the best cook I have ever known, often

creating elaborate cakes, pies, and other dishes entirely

from her imagination or prior experience. The family

always eagerly anticipated her meals! According to

Barbara Newton (her niece), Martha created at least one

wedding-cake for one of her daughters. It was a

multiple-layer affair, with elaborate frosting decorations—all very expertly and

professionally done.

I recall staying with them overnight once—when I was about ten or eleven years old. I

used to do this quite frequently, but on this particular occasion, Martha had to be at work

the following day, and so it was arranged for me to take a city bus (which stopped just

outside the house and across the street on Deckner Avenue), downtown to Atlanta, to join

her during her lunch break. This was a completely new and unfamiliar experience for me

(I had never been on a city bus before in all my life, and certainly never alone, and I was

thus very hesitant to do it.) But my grandparents persuaded me, and so the next morning

came, and off I went to a major American city—all by myself. I managed to find my

grandmother‟s building, and the correct floor and department, and—soon enough—there

was my grandmother herself—very proud that I had handled myself like a “little man”

and succeeded in making it. I remember that she showed me around her work area, and

introduced me to the other seamstress ladies (who all, of course, made a fuss over me….)

Martha Kelly Bunn, in the 1960s.

Martha and

Ralph Bunn,

with grand-

children

(l-r): Alan,

Karmelle,

Arlen, and

Nathaniel

White (ca.

1987).

At their

second home

on Cavalier

Drive,

Athens, GA

Martha Kelly Bunn with one of her great-grandchildren (Agnes E. White), ca.1995.

(left)

Ralph and Martha Kelly

Bunn,

in 1997 at the occasion of

their

Fiftieth Wedding

Anniversary.

With them is grandson

Alan M. White (born

1973).

(right)

Ralph and Martha Bunn in

November, 2006, at their home

in Winterville, Georgia (with

son Frank White and his wife

Ruth). Ralph was 94 and Martha

was 91 years old.

Martha Darthula Kelly, at about age fifteen, Haleyville, Alabama.

Martha with her first child, Homer S. White, Jr., Atlanta, Georgia, 1937

Martha with her last child Dianne Bunn, Atlanta, Georgia, about 1952.

Martha elegantly dressed for the 1959 wedding of daughter Ellen White.

Martha probably created this dress as well.

The children of Stella Martha Alexander and Thomas Alexander "Tom" Hinson:

Daniel Alexander “Dan” Hinson. (STELLA MARTHA ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in

1908 in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia. He married the former Mildred Bradley. In

1948, he was listed in the Atlanta City Directory as a building contractor residing at 10

Peachtree Battle Avenue NW, Atlanta, Georgia. I have not yet attempted to trace him

beyond this one brief mention. According to my Dad Frank, Dan Hinson, too, sadly took

his own life.

Walter Maxwell Hinson. (STELLA MARTHA ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1) He was born ca.

1910. He married Frankie D. [LNU]. The same Atlanta City Directory for the year

1937 lists him as a salesman with the Atlanta Gas Light Company, residing with his

parents. In 1940, he was residing at 1048 Euclid Avenue NE, Apt.B-4, Atlanta. By

1948, he was living with his parents again at 671 Catherine Street SW, Atlanta, Georgia.

According to Jack Alexander, he was a “big buddy” to Charlie Shaw (Jack‟s older half-

brother). I have not yet attempted to trace Walter beyond this.

James Hinson. (STELLA MARTHA ALEXANDER10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1) He was born ca. 1912.

Thomas Berryman Hinson. (STELLA MARTHA ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1) He married Eleanor

[LNU]. He was born ca. 1914. According to Jack Alexander, Berryman Hinson was an

All-American football player, who played for Alabama. Jack also says that Berryman

was killed in an automobile accident at an unknown date.

Berryman Hinson as

a toddler (ca.1916?)

Stella Martha Hinson. (STELLA MARTHA ALEXANDER10


8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1) She was born on 10 May, 1916,

probably in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, and died on 14 June, 2003, in Sandy Springs,

Fulton County, Georgia.

Martha (as she was called all her life) was variously a music teacher and a stenographer,

and was the wife of Jack J. "J.J." McIntyre. As mentioned above, she and her husband

resided at her mother Stella‟s old home at 671 Catherine Street SW for most of their

lives.

Martha Hinson and her cousin Martha Kelly [q.v.] were close childhood friends when

they were very young, and stayed close throughout their long lives.

Martha Hinson

McIntyre was a life-

long member of the

Stewart Avenue

United Methodist

Church in Atlanta,

where she served for

fifty-three years as

the very valued

organist (a post

which she took up at

the age of twenty). I

went there once to

visit her, in company

with my

grandparents, Ralph

and Martha Bunn.

This visit would

have been in 1983.

(left)

Martha Hinson and

her cousin Martha

Kelly (on the left),

about 1919.

Church Bulletin from 11 July, 1954, from Stewart Avenue Methodist Church,

mentioning Martha (Mrs. J.J.) McIntyre as church organist.

(see enlargement, below)

John Wesley “Jack” Hinson. (STELLA MARTHA ALEXANDER10


ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1) He was born ca.

1918. According to Jack Alexander, Jack Hinson was a B-51 pilot in World War II, and

was killed in the European Theatre of the same war.

The child of Madge Miles and her second husband John P. Hawkins:

John P. Hawkins, Jr. (MADGE MILES10

, ANNIE ADELINE LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6,BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He married Pearl [LNU] and they

were the parents of three children (see later).

The children of Madge Miles and her third husband Monroe Gordon McNew:

Lena Pearl McNew. (MADGE MILES10

, ANNIE ADELINE LOVELACE 9

, JAMES ALBERT 8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6,BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1).

Danis Irene McNew. (MADGE MILES10

, ANNIE ADELINE LOVELACE 9

, JAMES ALBERT 8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6,BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 14 February, 1911,

in Cherokee County, Alabama, and died at the age of 74 on 11 February, 1986, in Floyd

County, Georgia. She married in DeKalb County, Alabama to Herschel Lafayette

Burgess, who was born 10 September, 1911, in Calhoun County, Alabama, a son of

Robert Lee Burgess and Nancy Pearl White. They were the parents of one daughter (see

later).

The children of Ralph Victor Bradbury and his wife Carol Louise Guinn:

Ralph Victor Bradbury. (RALPH VICTOR BRADBURY10

, LILLIE LOVELACE 9

, JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He married Grace McCrary, a

daughter of John McCrary and his wife Luticia Shinault. Grace was born on 17 June,

1920, in Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, and died on 10 January, 1998, in

Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. They were the parents of two children

(see later).

Ruth Elizabeth Bradbury. (RALPH VICTOR BRADBURY10

, LILLIE LOVELACE 9


7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1).

The children of Marie Bradbury and her husband Laban Sidney Magbee:

Jane Beverly Magbee. (MARIE BRADBURY10

, LILLIE LOVELACE 9


7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). The Atlanta City Directories for the years

1953 and 1955 list her as a teacher at I.N. Ragsdale Elementary School in Atlanta, and as

residing at 1155 Eggleston Avenue SW, Atlanta, Georgia, the house where her parents

resided, and which was also the same house in which her grandmother Lillie had lived

and died. She married Reid R. Gillis, who was born in 1927, and they presently live in

Marietta, Georgia. They were the parents of two children (see later).

Laban Samuel “Sam” Magbee. (MARIE BRADBURY10

, LILLIE LOVELACE 9


7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in March, 1924, in

Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, and died on 3 December, 1999, in Alexandria, Rapides Parish,

Louisiana. Sam Magbee was an extraordinary person by any standard.

He attended the Georgia Military Academy in College Park, Georgia (it was renamed

„Woodward Academy‟ in 1966), and then was a student at Duke University in Durham,

North Carolina. He served in the Second World War, but never saw action. While he

was in the Finance Department with the U.S. Army in Paris, he received Eisenhower‟s

order for all non-combat troops to take up arms, and so enrolled in the Officer Training

School in that place, and after graduating, was on his way to serve in active duty in the

Battle of the Bulge, when suddenly it ended before he could arrive (fortunately).

Upon his return from the war, he enrolled at Emory University in Atlanta, and then

attended law school and took his law degree. Later, in 1949, he “felt the call” to preach

the Gospel, and became a Presbyterian minister, after attending Columbia Theological

Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.

Sam Magbee was also an excellent violinist, and won scholarships (as a young man) to

the Interlochen Festival in Michigan three years in a row. He later played with the

Atlanta Symphony as a violinist and concertmaster, until the symphony unionized, and

new union rules forbade people under a certain age from being concertmasters. This new

rule disqualified Sam Magbee, because of his young age at the time. Sam Magbee was

also keenly interested in all branches of knowledge and learning, and loved studying and

learning new things, according to his sister Beverly.

Sam Magbee married the former Rena Louise Cheek on 28 October, 1950, at Mary

Branan United Methodist Church, in Sylvan Hills, Atlanta. (This was the same church

that Sam‟s cousin Martha Bunn and her family attended.) Sam Magbee and his wife

Louise were the parents of three children (see later).

The same Atlanta City Directories for the years 1944 through 1952 list him as follows:

1944, in the United States Army, residence given as 1155 Eggleston Avenue SW,

Atlanta; 1945, same information; 1947, occupation, student, residence same place; 1948

through 1949, same information; 1950, same information; 1951 through 1952, with his

wife Rena Louise, and residing at 604 Second Avenue, Decatur, Georgia. This would

have been while he was a student at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur.

In his later life, he accepted the pastorate of the Church of the Covenant in New Orleans,

Louisiana, and so moved himself and his family there. He served there for seventeen

years, before moving on to Ft. Davis, Texas, where he lived for four years. His final years

were spent in Alexandria, Louisiana, where he died of cancer at the age of seventy-five.

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