General Notes

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Buried at Rockford Cemetery, Coosa Co. Alabama. Arthur P. was a respected
Baptist Minister for over 40-years in Coosa Co. at Concord Baptist church
and Shady Grove Baptist Church. He also preached at Seaman Baptist church
and New Home Baptist Church in North Elmore Co. I attended his last
sermon which was held just before he died at New Home Baptist Church. It
was a great sermon and I have a tape of the sermon which was pased down
to me from my father. He and Evie Lee also had a unamed infant son that
was born and died on the same day January 13, 1935. Arthur Patrick was
married twice. His first wife little is known about her but I am doing
some research. It is believed her first name was Gertrude or Doris T.
They had two children by this marriage, a son named Bernard Thomas and a
daughter named Mable. Arthur Patrick went to Birmingham and got a job
driving a trolley car. It was here that he met and married Doris. Today,
October 21, 1997, I talked to Ralph Thomas, Arthur Patrick's only living
child and he told me that he could't remember Gertrude's last name but
that she died last year (1996), in Georgia and is buried there. He
doesn't remember what her last name was, nor what cemetery, or where in
Georgia she was buried. Ralph did tell me that Bernard had been married
twice and the first one was name Margaret and the second was name tiny.
Bernard had one daughter still alive, her name is Patty? and she is
believed to be still in the Birmingham area. Arthur P. was also the first
pastor of Seamon Baptist Church located off Alabama Highway #9 in North
Elmore County, Alabama. He played the piano by ear, was an expert at
crossword puzzles. His will was recorded in Coosa County, Alabama on July
30, 1956. Witnesses to the will were Aleene LeCroy and Mac Thomas. The
will was filed on September 17, 1964.