Classifieds – Week of Feb. 10, 2022
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Charles Jones, Sr.
Charles E. Jones, 84, of Demopolis, died Jan. 28 at his home.Jones was born August 1, 1937.Jones was a prominent local business... Read More
Alphonse Ashe
Alphonse Ashe died Jan. 29 at UAB Hospital in Birmingham at the age of 59. He was born May 28, 1962 to... Read More
Legal Notices Feb. 10, 2022
Legal NoticeSTATE OF ALABAMAHALE COUNTYLetters Testamentary upon the last will of Linda H. Barnette, deceased, having been issued to the undersigned on... Read More
Joseph Warren Pollard III
Joseph Warren Pollard III passed away on Sunday, January 30th after a brief illness, surrounded by his family. Warren was born in... Read More
Alabama’s first African-American dentist was Perry County native
The first African-American dentist in Alabama was born right in Marion. Thomas A. Curtis’s parents were formerly enslaved people from Perry County.... Read More
Alumnae organization works to keep Judson items together at latest sale
Though there was little warning beforehand, Judson College let alumnae know last week that a sale of antiques from the campus would... Read More
Walter Franklin ‘Frank’ Ramey
Walter Franklin Ramey (“Frank”), 85, silently slipped into eternal life on Saturday, January 29, 2022 at his home in Marion, AL. He... Read More
Archives from the Negro Leader are a window into 1910s African-American life in the Black Belt
The Negro Leader, founded Oct. 1909 in Uniontown, wasn’t the first African-American owned publication in the Black Belt, or even in Perry... Read More
UNSUNG: Horace Sprott, Black Belt native, was toast of 50s folk scene
by: John Allan Clark When I first came across the name Horace Sprott, it wasn’t on a monument on the courthouse square or... Read More