by
Fred McCaleb
I don’t understand many big events today because many TV announcers are sounding like machine guns shooting to me. Just catch something once in a while and so I will try to recall some of the exciting things that happened during my near 100 years of living. The first was a one teacher school across Boxes creek from where we lived taught by Alma Kizzire that made an example out of me and her boy. The 2nd another one teacher school at clover hill. Third was Shannon High School in Miss. Where all grades were taught and I failed 3rd grade under Mrs. Carter. There I read the Memphis commercial appeal about Charles A Lindberg crossing the Atlantic Ocean in his airplane, and in 1927 we honored Thomas Alva Edison’ s death by turning out lights for 3 minutes. You blew out a coal oil lamp at our house and thousands at others for many more years. Transportation had gone from wooden wheeled T model fords to Iron wheeled coupes. We got rides some times when rainy in an enclosed car. What a luxury. Soon my dad got tired of Miss. And we moved back to west part of Fayette County and in a better house. There I went to Kirkland Junior High and from there on to Winfield High. Couldn’t play foot ball, miss bus, and walk 12 miles home. They ran short of funds and I had to finish senior year 6 weeks at Fayette. Harry Hodge’s , one of the better off of Fayette, owned a car and his two boys brought me home from graduation.
I applied and was finally accepted to work my way through Berry College in December. Miss Berry had famous aviator Amelia Earhart speak at Joint Chapel and she left on her trip around the world soon and went down in the Pacific ocean and never returned. I saw Henry Ford 3 times while at Berry. One of his sayings was if a man thinks he can he can if he thinks he can’t he can’t. He was paying the highest wage of $5 per day earlier. He built the rock college for girls and their recreation hall for girls. Many other famous people like Emily Vanderbelt Hammond visited with money and philosophy. Soon I was gone from Berry to the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Co in Birmingham Al. at the big salary of 90$ Per month. My folks thought I was well to do. My brother, Hubert McCaleb had a job at Radford Arsenal near Radford, Va at $150 per month. This was nearly 1 yr. before Pearl Harbor and he told me to come there for a better job. I went and was accepted. I was at the Blacksburg Drug Store about 6 months later when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese war planes. War was declared right soon. I worked about 9 mos. Longer at Radford and Glen Wilkes TNT plant taken over from Russia until it exploded one night while I was home sleeping. Two buildings were completely destroyed. Spent two more months taking inventory and Then back to Radford. While at Glen Wilkes I took a Trip to New York and saw the Empire State Building, rode Trolleys for 5cts and did many other things. Got drafted from Radford. They let me stay home one month then thru Ft. McClellan, Atlanta, an hour or two in Washington, D.C. where I visited Congress in session and on to Aberdeen Proving Grounds for winter basic and then Texas where it was hot, then assigned to 428 Tire Company. From there to POE at Seattle, Wa. Then to Pearl Harbor for 6 months. I was driving a truck there and got ahead of the Franklin D Roosevelt convertible and stayed in front being waved on till I was back at Parking lot on side of road in Honolulu. I stopped beside road and watched Roosevelt go by with 2 motorcycles ahead and two behind. They had picked all cocoanuts off trees in Waikike Beach where he was lodging in the fancy hotel. I helped assemble weapon carriers on Sand Island across harbor from my truck lot for a week or two. We had hardest part dashboard to put on. A German POW camp was at our back. They got excited when all the big guns started trying to down a plane without friend or foe id that was missing. Truck drivers rode a small boat across the harbor to work each day. We finally caught a steamship to Saipan in a 7 boat convoy. Tokio Rose said we wouldn’t make it. That sort of tightened us up. We Closed ranks and zig zagged all night. Nothing happened. Finally on Saipan. There the B 29 bomber pilots told us at an out door movie how much of Tokio had been destroyed each day. One showed me thru one of the B 29 planes. They could shoot you down from every direction but one and that a military secret. I was on Saipan when atom bomb was dropped, the greatest event of modern times. Caught a ship back to San Francisco in November and got back home Dec. 21st in time for Christmas. Had Just finished 10000 miles of traveling. I helped my dad build a 2 car garage. He wanted me to stay home. In a month or so I wrote my old employment place about a job and they said I could come back. There I worked about a year until laid off. By that time I had already got married to a nice girl. I was pleased at being talked nice to and not to do or die. We lived together for 60 years until she died 3 years ago. I built a house at Ripplemead, Va. She cried when she had to leave it 11 years later. She was good about taking care of children while I was on shift work at Celanese plant near Pearisburg, Va. My next job was Thiokol Chemical at Huntsville, Al. I blew up an oven the first night after boss had told me to see if I could melt a sample of solid propellant. It would have disabled me if I had been there. I was there eating lunch in a parking lot when President John F Kennedy was shot in Texas. I was terminated when I got adhesion of liner from 5 to 45lbs to sq.in. Six months of un-employment and job was obtained at Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC. As chemist. There a $20 bill had to be folded thousands of times before breaking down. Linseed oil was mixed with ink and called special intaglio ink vehicle for printing. Printing couldn’t fade out. Saw cart loads of $100 bills. Saw them burning taken in old scrapped money. Went to counter fitting agent where they were catching counter fitters. One in Birmingham. Al. had never been caught making 1 $20 bill occasionally. Saw them loading big trucks with tons of money and machine gun officers guarding. We went to church one Sunday at a Washington Christian Church and Lindon B Johnson and family came in and sat 2 benches ahead of us with his armed guards. Some time along then I saw the remains of Herbert Hoover at white house. I was on the side walk and saw President Carter walk up Pa avenue unprotected for inauguration. Only recent one to do that. They got in an older new guy to be head guy of my department. I regretted that and got a job with more pay at Ft. Belvoir. There I analyzed gas samples from presidents helicopter that had fallen. Had to be sure but found nothing wrong. Next I analyzed gasoline from Russia. My boss was a Russian Jew. During all my time in Washington I attended ham radio shows. I was a licensed radio operator extra n4eb. I was only genealogist after retiring and getting lightning struck on radio tower and losing good transmitter-receiver. My wife attended my retirement at 63 years of age. I will be retired 30 years the last of December. May I after all this foolishness wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The best to all. Fred McCaleb
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Sturdivant History
A Brief History of Mathew P. Sturdivant As We Know It
By Early Dawn Sturdivant Cline
About 1930
He and several brothers came to this country from Holland. (Daughter Bettie Cline later proved that wrong but the statement might be right on the ones further back than Matthew.) They settled in different parts of the country. One brother ,William , settled in Missouri. Mathew came to Virginia. He married Agnes Kent of Halifax County. Mathew bound out all his boys to learn a trade. He, Mathew, became a Methodist preacher, and was the first preacher to preach Methodism in Alabama. After that he came back to Virginia, settled in Nelson County at Massies Mill, and is buried there. (Grave not found, either ran the poor house or was a patient there in old ags.)
He had several children. I only know about three of them. One daughter, I don't know her name, but she lived at Thaxton, Virginia and is buried there. Another daughter, Mary, married a Mr. Diuguid. They lived in Lynchburg and founded the Diuguid Funeral Home, which I understand is the oldest funeral home in this part of Virginia. Although it has passed out of the family, it is still the Diuguid Funeral Home.
The other child, a son, was Pleasant Meade Sturdivant, and my Grandfather. He was a tailor by trade. He and his wife Nancy spent most of their life in Southwest Virginia. He served in the Civil War until he had pneumonia, and was never well after that. The family then moved to Snowville, Va. where they lived until his death in 1882. He is buried in the Christian Church Cemetery in Snowville. The oldest son was Dudley Kent Sturdivant and my father. To him fell the duty of supporting the family. He worked on Dr. Bullocks farm for seven years. There was a woolen mill in Snowville at that time and his sisters worked there and did sewing, weaving, and spinning. They had very little chance for schooling, but studied at home and all the family were very well educated considering the opportunities they had. Bianca was remarkably well informed. She learned to read well at age four. She was expert at weaving, spinning and sewing. She wrote a book but it was never published. She also wrote two poems, "The Graves of Our Southern Heroes" and the "Dark Haired Cavalier." This later poem was about her Sweet Heart, who never came back from the war. Isabella "Aunt Belle" who was crippled from rheumatic fever was also very well self educated, and one of my favorite aunts. (Early Dawn goes into eight pages of family genealogy here which I have listed under Dudley-Sturdivant genealogy. )
This writeup was furnished to the Methodist Church in Alabama to officials trying to get the history of the first preacher Matthew Parham Sturdivant. Lorenzo Dow was a free lance preacher the Methodists had thrown out that came just before Matthew and nearly ever church in Ala seems to want to claim Dow as their very own. Some of the Early Church of Christ preachers were named Lorenzo Dow + last name.
By Early Dawn Sturdivant Cline
About 1930
He and several brothers came to this country from Holland. (Daughter Bettie Cline later proved that wrong but the statement might be right on the ones further back than Matthew.) They settled in different parts of the country. One brother ,William , settled in Missouri. Mathew came to Virginia. He married Agnes Kent of Halifax County. Mathew bound out all his boys to learn a trade. He, Mathew, became a Methodist preacher, and was the first preacher to preach Methodism in Alabama. After that he came back to Virginia, settled in Nelson County at Massies Mill, and is buried there. (Grave not found, either ran the poor house or was a patient there in old ags.)
He had several children. I only know about three of them. One daughter, I don't know her name, but she lived at Thaxton, Virginia and is buried there. Another daughter, Mary, married a Mr. Diuguid. They lived in Lynchburg and founded the Diuguid Funeral Home, which I understand is the oldest funeral home in this part of Virginia. Although it has passed out of the family, it is still the Diuguid Funeral Home.
The other child, a son, was Pleasant Meade Sturdivant, and my Grandfather. He was a tailor by trade. He and his wife Nancy spent most of their life in Southwest Virginia. He served in the Civil War until he had pneumonia, and was never well after that. The family then moved to Snowville, Va. where they lived until his death in 1882. He is buried in the Christian Church Cemetery in Snowville. The oldest son was Dudley Kent Sturdivant and my father. To him fell the duty of supporting the family. He worked on Dr. Bullocks farm for seven years. There was a woolen mill in Snowville at that time and his sisters worked there and did sewing, weaving, and spinning. They had very little chance for schooling, but studied at home and all the family were very well educated considering the opportunities they had. Bianca was remarkably well informed. She learned to read well at age four. She was expert at weaving, spinning and sewing. She wrote a book but it was never published. She also wrote two poems, "The Graves of Our Southern Heroes" and the "Dark Haired Cavalier." This later poem was about her Sweet Heart, who never came back from the war. Isabella "Aunt Belle" who was crippled from rheumatic fever was also very well self educated, and one of my favorite aunts. (Early Dawn goes into eight pages of family genealogy here which I have listed under Dudley-Sturdivant genealogy. )
This writeup was furnished to the Methodist Church in Alabama to officials trying to get the history of the first preacher Matthew Parham Sturdivant. Lorenzo Dow was a free lance preacher the Methodists had thrown out that came just before Matthew and nearly ever church in Ala seems to want to claim Dow as their very own. Some of the Early Church of Christ preachers were named Lorenzo Dow + last name.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
THE DEVIL'S CONVENTION
Submitted by Fred McCaleb
Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his
evil angels, he said, "We can't keep the Christians from going to
church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the
truth. We can't even keep them from conservative values. But we can do
something else.
"We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship
experience in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our
power over them is broken. So let them go to church, let them have
their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't
gain that experience in Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do,
angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and
maintaining that
vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?", shouted his angels.
"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent un-numbered
schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, then borrow, borrow, borrow.
Convince the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to
work 6 or 7 days a week, 10 - 12 hours a day, so they can afford their
lifestyles.
"Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family
fragments, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures
of work.
"Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small
voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they
drive, to keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their
homes. And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world
plays non-biblical, contradicting music constantly. This will jam
their minds and break that union with Christ.
"Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their
minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with
billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail
order catalogs, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering
free products, services, and false hopes.
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return
from their recreation exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the
coming week. Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's
wonders. Send them to Amusement parks, sporting events, concerts, and
movies instead.
"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip
and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and
unsettled emotion.
"Let them be involved in soul-winning. But crowd their lives with so
many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon
they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health
and family for the good of the cause."
It was quite a convention in the end. And the evil angels went eagerly
to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy,
busy and rush here and there.
Has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge.
How about this definition of Busy:
B-- being
U-- under
S-- Satan's
Y-- yoke
Wow huh, makes one think! Satan's goal is to take our minds and hearts
off Christ then steer us toward the cares of the world.
God wants us to enjoy life but He must be first.
If we are too busy for God, then we are too busy.
This is a very good lesson to follow. Patsy
Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his
evil angels, he said, "We can't keep the Christians from going to
church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the
truth. We can't even keep them from conservative values. But we can do
something else.
"We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship
experience in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our
power over them is broken. So let them go to church, let them have
their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't
gain that experience in Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do,
angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and
maintaining that
vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?", shouted his angels.
"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent un-numbered
schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, then borrow, borrow, borrow.
Convince the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to
work 6 or 7 days a week, 10 - 12 hours a day, so they can afford their
lifestyles.
"Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family
fragments, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures
of work.
"Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small
voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they
drive, to keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their
homes. And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world
plays non-biblical, contradicting music constantly. This will jam
their minds and break that union with Christ.
"Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their
minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with
billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail
order catalogs, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering
free products, services, and false hopes.
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return
from their recreation exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the
coming week. Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's
wonders. Send them to Amusement parks, sporting events, concerts, and
movies instead.
"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip
and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and
unsettled emotion.
"Let them be involved in soul-winning. But crowd their lives with so
many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon
they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health
and family for the good of the cause."
It was quite a convention in the end. And the evil angels went eagerly
to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy,
busy and rush here and there.
Has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge.
How about this definition of Busy:
B-- being
U-- under
S-- Satan's
Y-- yoke
Wow huh, makes one think! Satan's goal is to take our minds and hearts
off Christ then steer us toward the cares of the world.
God wants us to enjoy life but He must be first.
If we are too busy for God, then we are too busy.
This is a very good lesson to follow. Patsy
School Prayer
Submitted by Fred McCaleb
Written by a 12 Year-Old-Girl in Boston.
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule.
For this great country under God
Finds mention of him very odd.
If scripture now the class recites
It violates the bill of rights.
Anytime my head I bow
Becomes a federal matter now.
The law is specific; the law is precise
Praying out loud is no longer nice.
Praying out loud in a public hall
Upsets those who believe in nothing at all.
In silence alone we can meditate
And if God gets the credit-Great!
They are bringing their guns;
I don't dare bring my BIBLE,
To do so might make me liable.
So, now oh Lord, this plea I make,
Should I be shot in school,
My soul please take..
Jodi Morgan
Written by a 12 Year-Old-Girl in Boston.
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule.
For this great country under God
Finds mention of him very odd.
If scripture now the class recites
It violates the bill of rights.
Anytime my head I bow
Becomes a federal matter now.
The law is specific; the law is precise
Praying out loud is no longer nice.
Praying out loud in a public hall
Upsets those who believe in nothing at all.
In silence alone we can meditate
And if God gets the credit-Great!
They are bringing their guns;
I don't dare bring my BIBLE,
To do so might make me liable.
So, now oh Lord, this plea I make,
Should I be shot in school,
My soul please take..
Jodi Morgan
Morris Cemetery, Fayette County, Alabama
Note from Fred McCaleb:
Members of H McCaleb's family descendants should be slightly interested in this cemetery. One of my dad's little brothers, John Franklin McCaleb that died when 2 years old in 1907 is buried here. His rich Uncle Bird McCaleb is buried here also.
Submitted by
Patsy Box Johnson
Location: From Winfield, Alabama travel hwy 78 east to the Glen Allen turn off. Turn right on County Road 129, which will be the Hubbertville hwy. Turn left on County Road 24. Go about one mile to Berea Road and turn right. Morris Cemetery on right.
Nicodemus F. Morris b: 25 Nov 1853 d: 14 Jan 1933
Susan E. Whitehead Morris b: 8 Mar 1854 d: 16 Jul 1901
Luther F. Box b: 20 Sept 1893 d: 24 Dec 1968
Ruth F. Morris Box b: 11 Sept 1893 d: 11 Aug 1911
Reedie Box "Little Reedie" b: 17 Aug 1909 d: 21 Feb 1913
Joseph T. Box b: Jun 1864 d: 7 Jul 1927
Martha F. Whitehead Box b: 1873 d: 1950
Teddie M. Morris son of P.A. & J.M. Morris b: 31 Aug 1903 d: 16 May 1904
Liddie Morris dau of P.A. & J.M. Morris b: 22 Jun 1905 d: 1 Sept 1905
Jerusia Morris b: 12 Dec 1881 d: 19 May 1905
J.F.Whitehead b: 12 May 1859 d: 10 May 1927
Archibald Whitehead, Jr. b: 1822 d: Aug 1861
Martha "Patsy" Anthony Whitehead b: 1824 d: 1911
Archibald Whitehead, Sr. b: 1 Aor 1783 d: 5 Sep 1866
Nancy Smith Whitehead b: 22 Jul 1791 d: 25 Mar 1881
Nathaniel A. "Nathan" Whitehead b: 19, Mar 1861 d: 8 Jan 1873
J.N. Whitehead b:---
Melton Whitehead b: 1910 d: 1912
G. McCaleb b: 31 Aug 1909 d: 19 Nov 1915
T. Nichols son fo W.C.& V.E. Nichols b: 6 Jul 1911 d: 23 Aug 1904
Nellie Mills b: Abt 1829 d: 19 Mar 1905
John Franklin McCaleb b: 10 Dec 1907 d: 28 Jul 1909
Infant McDonald of W.C. & M.D. McDonald b: 26 Apr 1908 d: 4 May 1908
M.D. McDonald b: 1885 d: 1923
E.M. McDonald b: 1912 d: 1923
W.G. McDonald b: 1874 d: 1945
Mary Grigg b: 29 Jan 1879 d: 14 Jan 1942
Doshia McDonald b: 1894 d: 23 Aug 1958
Thomas LaFayette "Fayette" McDonald b: 29 Aug 1863 d: 18 Jul 1941
Ella Moore McDonald b: 14 Aug 1870 d: 28 Feb 1950
Ira W."Tete" McDonald b: 5 Feb 1892 d: 25 May 1954 (Pvt. WW1. 102Inf. Co.K.)
Effie McDonald b: 1870 d:---
Harom McDonald b: 8 Mar 1895 D: 27 Jul 1930 (Pvt WWI)
Avneil Ford b: 1920 d: 1920
H.L. Davis b: 4 Dec 1856 d: 17 Jul 1916
Fred Cockren b: 8 Jul 1920 d: 13 Sept 1921
Byrd McDonald b: 15 Sept 1858 d: 20 Sept 1930
Elizabeth "Lizzie" McDonald b: 18 jan 1863 d: 24 Aug 1950
Ador Miles b: 19 Feb 1906 d: 21 Dec 1906
Myrtle Whitehead b: 25 May 1902 d: 9 Jul 1905
Mary L. Whitehead b: 20 Apr 1901 d: 27 Jun 1901
Molissie Whitehead b: 6 Oct 1904 d: 2 Oct 1905
Elizabeth Crow b: 10 Feb 1828 d: 11 Dec 1909
J.D. Crow b: 24 Mar 1829 d: 6 May 1899
W.N. Guess b: 23 Mar 1873 d: 9 Mar 1899
M.E. Whitehead b: 22 Jul 1861 d: 6 Nov 1924
Melton Whitehead b: 1910 d: 1912
Drury Henry Co Whitehead b: 5 Sept 1831 d: 2 Apr 1914
Mary Jane Anthony Whitehead b: 27 Sept 1837 d: 1 Jul 1916
Infant Norris of Johnny Norris b&d: 8 Oct 1927
Abram Perry Whitehead b: 7 Aug 1859 d: 2 Jul 1937
Donna Alice Tucker Whitehead b: 27 Mar 1866 d: 16 Jun 1964
Clyde Darrel b: 9 Jul 1936 d: 11 Aug 1946
Mary Erwin b: 1840 d: 1898
Elizabeth Erwin b: Nov 1806 d: 3 Jun 1886
Mary A. Morton b: 12 Nov 1857 d: 2 Jun 1859
Luther O. Morton b: 3 Nov 1859 d: 24 Nov 1861
-----b: 15 Oct 1880 d: 19 Jan 1891
L.M. McCollough(wife of W.H.) b: 1 Jan 1846 d: 13 Sep 1909
William Henry Weaver b: 1901 d: 23 May 1957
A. Weaver (no dates)
Christine Whitehead b: 1925 d: 1926
Inf. Whitehead of L.N. 1921
Arzo Whitehead b: 1917 d: 1918
Inf.Whitehead child of G.A & A.J. b: 14 Feb 1932
Ethel L. Berry Whitehead wife of J.F."Frank" Whitehead b: 13 Feb 1894 d: 15 Feb 1926
A.L. Clark b: 2 Mar 1859 d: 22 Jun 1918
Mary G. Sexton b: 23 Feb 1820 d: 12 Jun 1903
Annie Lou Roby b: 12 Dec 1927 d: 27 Aug 1929
Belvie Whitehead b: 22 Jun 1905 d: 19 Nov 1939
Jo Ann Whitehead b: 1940 d: 1942
Lonzo b: 1882 d: 1949
Rosie Whitehead b: 1884 d: 19-
Terry Baccus b: 1947 d: --
Gaines McDonald b: 1876 d: 1948
Preshie McDonald b: 1878 d: 19-
Inf Campbell of Edwin & Aneda b: 15 Jun 1942 d: --
Jim McDonald b: 14 Oct 1886 d: 23 Dec 1929
Susan Shaw b: 25 May 1873 d: 30 May 1941
Harris ?
Josie Morris Davis b: 22 Nov 1880 d: 26 Feb 1925
Nocal Davis child of J.&T. b: 24 Feb 1914 d: 5 Mar 1914
Inf McCaleb son of Alfred & Hester b: 7 Sept 1921
Dexter F. McCaleb b: 6 Feb 1928 d: 21 Oct 1931
Hester McCaleb b: 7 Jun 1891 d: 7 Sept 1958
Alfred Cowan McCaleb b: 13 Jun 1891 d: 23 Dec 1955
Roy Elliott Ala.Pvt. 355 Inf. 92 Div. d: 21 Dec 1929
H.G. Threadway b: 12 May 1835 d: 28 Oct 1877
R.O. Mills (no dates)
J.J. Barnes b: 2 Oct 1865 d: 16 Mar 1934
Mrs. S.M. Barnes b: 1 Feb 1869 d: 19 Aug 1935
Nancy Mills b: 24 Jan 1820 d: 13 Mar 1891 (My Mother)
James E. Mills b: 1815 d: 24 Dec 1910 (My Father)
J.C. Meherg b: 18 Apr 1892 d: 2 Aug 1892 (6mo 15days)
James A. Mills b: 31 Jul 1876 d: 20 May 1899
Alice Mills b: 15 Feb 1878 d: 26 Apr 1900
Martha E. Mills b: 15 May 1881 d: 1 Dec 1903
Rufus S. Mills b: 24 Feb 1851 d: 13 May 1935
Mahala C. Mills b: 22 Dec 1846 d: 3 Aug 1920
William Madison Mills b: 1875 d: 9 May 1958
T.M. Mills b: 1876 d: 1945
George Rosco Whitehead b: 8 Sep 1891 d: 2 Mar 1934 (Ala Pvt 152 Inf 38 Div)
E. Glendon Matthews b: 31 Mar 1923 d: 21 Apr 1929
James McCollough b: 1882 d: 1931
Lucretia Morris McCollough b: 31 Dec 1882 d: 29 Apr 1981
Martha Whitehead b: 1862 d: 1945
Jerome Aldridge b: 1939 d: 1950
Charles S. Lee b: 1864 d: 5 Apr 1955
N.C. Lee b: 1879
Rebecca Rosena Sprinkle Whitehead b: 7 Jul 1866 d: 4 Jun 1935 (Mother)
John Sherman Whitehead b: 10 Jan 1868 d: 5 Aug 1951 (Father)
William McKinley Whitehead b: 27 Aug 1826 d: 13 Sep 1958
Alex Tidwell b: 1881 d: 1952
Missouri Whitehead Tidwell b: Sep 1881 d: 1964
Bertha E. Caddell b: 1882 d: 1943
Thomas E. Caddell b: 1857 d: 1932
Josie Caddell b: 1862 d: 1903
Bozzie A. Caddell b: 1898 d: 1917
Alonzo D. Caddell b: 1884 d: 1918
William H. McCollough b: 31 Aug 1840 d: 25 Aug 1911 (Co. I. 26 Ala Inf C.S.A.)
Members of H McCaleb's family descendants should be slightly interested in this cemetery. One of my dad's little brothers, John Franklin McCaleb that died when 2 years old in 1907 is buried here. His rich Uncle Bird McCaleb is buried here also.
Submitted by
Patsy Box Johnson
Location: From Winfield, Alabama travel hwy 78 east to the Glen Allen turn off. Turn right on County Road 129, which will be the Hubbertville hwy. Turn left on County Road 24. Go about one mile to Berea Road and turn right. Morris Cemetery on right.
Nicodemus F. Morris b: 25 Nov 1853 d: 14 Jan 1933
Susan E. Whitehead Morris b: 8 Mar 1854 d: 16 Jul 1901
Luther F. Box b: 20 Sept 1893 d: 24 Dec 1968
Ruth F. Morris Box b: 11 Sept 1893 d: 11 Aug 1911
Reedie Box "Little Reedie" b: 17 Aug 1909 d: 21 Feb 1913
Joseph T. Box b: Jun 1864 d: 7 Jul 1927
Martha F. Whitehead Box b: 1873 d: 1950
Teddie M. Morris son of P.A. & J.M. Morris b: 31 Aug 1903 d: 16 May 1904
Liddie Morris dau of P.A. & J.M. Morris b: 22 Jun 1905 d: 1 Sept 1905
Jerusia Morris b: 12 Dec 1881 d: 19 May 1905
J.F.Whitehead b: 12 May 1859 d: 10 May 1927
Archibald Whitehead, Jr. b: 1822 d: Aug 1861
Martha "Patsy" Anthony Whitehead b: 1824 d: 1911
Archibald Whitehead, Sr. b: 1 Aor 1783 d: 5 Sep 1866
Nancy Smith Whitehead b: 22 Jul 1791 d: 25 Mar 1881
Nathaniel A. "Nathan" Whitehead b: 19, Mar 1861 d: 8 Jan 1873
J.N. Whitehead b:---
Melton Whitehead b: 1910 d: 1912
G. McCaleb b: 31 Aug 1909 d: 19 Nov 1915
T. Nichols son fo W.C.& V.E. Nichols b: 6 Jul 1911 d: 23 Aug 1904
Nellie Mills b: Abt 1829 d: 19 Mar 1905
John Franklin McCaleb b: 10 Dec 1907 d: 28 Jul 1909
Infant McDonald of W.C. & M.D. McDonald b: 26 Apr 1908 d: 4 May 1908
M.D. McDonald b: 1885 d: 1923
E.M. McDonald b: 1912 d: 1923
W.G. McDonald b: 1874 d: 1945
Mary Grigg b: 29 Jan 1879 d: 14 Jan 1942
Doshia McDonald b: 1894 d: 23 Aug 1958
Thomas LaFayette "Fayette" McDonald b: 29 Aug 1863 d: 18 Jul 1941
Ella Moore McDonald b: 14 Aug 1870 d: 28 Feb 1950
Ira W."Tete" McDonald b: 5 Feb 1892 d: 25 May 1954 (Pvt. WW1. 102Inf. Co.K.)
Effie McDonald b: 1870 d:---
Harom McDonald b: 8 Mar 1895 D: 27 Jul 1930 (Pvt WWI)
Avneil Ford b: 1920 d: 1920
H.L. Davis b: 4 Dec 1856 d: 17 Jul 1916
Fred Cockren b: 8 Jul 1920 d: 13 Sept 1921
Byrd McDonald b: 15 Sept 1858 d: 20 Sept 1930
Elizabeth "Lizzie" McDonald b: 18 jan 1863 d: 24 Aug 1950
Ador Miles b: 19 Feb 1906 d: 21 Dec 1906
Myrtle Whitehead b: 25 May 1902 d: 9 Jul 1905
Mary L. Whitehead b: 20 Apr 1901 d: 27 Jun 1901
Molissie Whitehead b: 6 Oct 1904 d: 2 Oct 1905
Elizabeth Crow b: 10 Feb 1828 d: 11 Dec 1909
J.D. Crow b: 24 Mar 1829 d: 6 May 1899
W.N. Guess b: 23 Mar 1873 d: 9 Mar 1899
M.E. Whitehead b: 22 Jul 1861 d: 6 Nov 1924
Melton Whitehead b: 1910 d: 1912
Drury Henry Co Whitehead b: 5 Sept 1831 d: 2 Apr 1914
Mary Jane Anthony Whitehead b: 27 Sept 1837 d: 1 Jul 1916
Infant Norris of Johnny Norris b&d: 8 Oct 1927
Abram Perry Whitehead b: 7 Aug 1859 d: 2 Jul 1937
Donna Alice Tucker Whitehead b: 27 Mar 1866 d: 16 Jun 1964
Clyde Darrel b: 9 Jul 1936 d: 11 Aug 1946
Mary Erwin b: 1840 d: 1898
Elizabeth Erwin b: Nov 1806 d: 3 Jun 1886
Mary A. Morton b: 12 Nov 1857 d: 2 Jun 1859
Luther O. Morton b: 3 Nov 1859 d: 24 Nov 1861
-----b: 15 Oct 1880 d: 19 Jan 1891
L.M. McCollough(wife of W.H.) b: 1 Jan 1846 d: 13 Sep 1909
William Henry Weaver b: 1901 d: 23 May 1957
A. Weaver (no dates)
Christine Whitehead b: 1925 d: 1926
Inf. Whitehead of L.N. 1921
Arzo Whitehead b: 1917 d: 1918
Inf.Whitehead child of G.A & A.J. b: 14 Feb 1932
Ethel L. Berry Whitehead wife of J.F."Frank" Whitehead b: 13 Feb 1894 d: 15 Feb 1926
A.L. Clark b: 2 Mar 1859 d: 22 Jun 1918
Mary G. Sexton b: 23 Feb 1820 d: 12 Jun 1903
Annie Lou Roby b: 12 Dec 1927 d: 27 Aug 1929
Belvie Whitehead b: 22 Jun 1905 d: 19 Nov 1939
Jo Ann Whitehead b: 1940 d: 1942
Lonzo b: 1882 d: 1949
Rosie Whitehead b: 1884 d: 19-
Terry Baccus b: 1947 d: --
Gaines McDonald b: 1876 d: 1948
Preshie McDonald b: 1878 d: 19-
Inf Campbell of Edwin & Aneda b: 15 Jun 1942 d: --
Jim McDonald b: 14 Oct 1886 d: 23 Dec 1929
Susan Shaw b: 25 May 1873 d: 30 May 1941
Harris ?
Josie Morris Davis b: 22 Nov 1880 d: 26 Feb 1925
Nocal Davis child of J.&T. b: 24 Feb 1914 d: 5 Mar 1914
Inf McCaleb son of Alfred & Hester b: 7 Sept 1921
Dexter F. McCaleb b: 6 Feb 1928 d: 21 Oct 1931
Hester McCaleb b: 7 Jun 1891 d: 7 Sept 1958
Alfred Cowan McCaleb b: 13 Jun 1891 d: 23 Dec 1955
Roy Elliott Ala.Pvt. 355 Inf. 92 Div. d: 21 Dec 1929
H.G. Threadway b: 12 May 1835 d: 28 Oct 1877
R.O. Mills (no dates)
J.J. Barnes b: 2 Oct 1865 d: 16 Mar 1934
Mrs. S.M. Barnes b: 1 Feb 1869 d: 19 Aug 1935
Nancy Mills b: 24 Jan 1820 d: 13 Mar 1891 (My Mother)
James E. Mills b: 1815 d: 24 Dec 1910 (My Father)
J.C. Meherg b: 18 Apr 1892 d: 2 Aug 1892 (6mo 15days)
James A. Mills b: 31 Jul 1876 d: 20 May 1899
Alice Mills b: 15 Feb 1878 d: 26 Apr 1900
Martha E. Mills b: 15 May 1881 d: 1 Dec 1903
Rufus S. Mills b: 24 Feb 1851 d: 13 May 1935
Mahala C. Mills b: 22 Dec 1846 d: 3 Aug 1920
William Madison Mills b: 1875 d: 9 May 1958
T.M. Mills b: 1876 d: 1945
George Rosco Whitehead b: 8 Sep 1891 d: 2 Mar 1934 (Ala Pvt 152 Inf 38 Div)
E. Glendon Matthews b: 31 Mar 1923 d: 21 Apr 1929
James McCollough b: 1882 d: 1931
Lucretia Morris McCollough b: 31 Dec 1882 d: 29 Apr 1981
Martha Whitehead b: 1862 d: 1945
Jerome Aldridge b: 1939 d: 1950
Charles S. Lee b: 1864 d: 5 Apr 1955
N.C. Lee b: 1879
Rebecca Rosena Sprinkle Whitehead b: 7 Jul 1866 d: 4 Jun 1935 (Mother)
John Sherman Whitehead b: 10 Jan 1868 d: 5 Aug 1951 (Father)
William McKinley Whitehead b: 27 Aug 1826 d: 13 Sep 1958
Alex Tidwell b: 1881 d: 1952
Missouri Whitehead Tidwell b: Sep 1881 d: 1964
Bertha E. Caddell b: 1882 d: 1943
Thomas E. Caddell b: 1857 d: 1932
Josie Caddell b: 1862 d: 1903
Bozzie A. Caddell b: 1898 d: 1917
Alonzo D. Caddell b: 1884 d: 1918
William H. McCollough b: 31 Aug 1840 d: 25 Aug 1911 (Co. I. 26 Ala Inf C.S.A.)
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Our Past Ancestors
Submitted by:
Fred McCaleb
"We are people to whom the past is forever speaking. We listen to it because
we cannot help ourselves, for the past speaks to us with many voices. Far
out of that dark nowhere which is the time before we were born, men who were
flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone went through fire and storm to break
a path to the future. We are part of the future they died for; they are part
of the past that brought the future. What they did--the lives they lived,
the sacrifices they made, the stories they told and the songs they sang and,
finally, the deaths they died-- make up a part of our own experience.
We cannot cut ourselves off from it. It is as real to us as something that
happened last week. It is a basic part of our heritage as Americans."
Fred McCaleb
"We are people to whom the past is forever speaking. We listen to it because
we cannot help ourselves, for the past speaks to us with many voices. Far
out of that dark nowhere which is the time before we were born, men who were
flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone went through fire and storm to break
a path to the future. We are part of the future they died for; they are part
of the past that brought the future. What they did--the lives they lived,
the sacrifices they made, the stories they told and the songs they sang and,
finally, the deaths they died-- make up a part of our own experience.
We cannot cut ourselves off from it. It is as real to us as something that
happened last week. It is a basic part of our heritage as Americans."
Monday, August 31, 2009
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