Calhoun County AlArchives Photo Person.....Poole, Thomas Carl (T.C.) Bet. 1920-1940
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Source:             Personal Photo
Name:               Thomas Carl (T.C.) Poole

Date Of Photograph: Bet. 1920-1940
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Photo: Thomas Carl Poole Sr. (T.C.) - Alabama Power Company Employee

Born: March 31, 1898 Leeds, Jefferson Co., AL
Died: November 15, 1972 Anniston, Calhoun Co., AL
Buried: Shiloh Cemetery, Leeds, Jefferson Co., AL
Father: Alonzo Jackson Poole (Jack)
Mother: Hattie Josephine McDanal (Jossie)
Spouse: Grace King Poole

T.C. worked for Alabama Power Company for 47 years.

Source: The Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama
Date: March 31, 1963

(Permission to reprint given by Anthony Cook, Managing Editor, Anniston, Star, 
Anniston, Alabama  256-235-3558)

POOLE RETIRING THIS WEEKEND - 
BUT HE'LL STILL BE "TURNED IN"

By James Chisum

     Although T.C. Poole retired as line forman for Alabama Power Company this 
weekend, his co-workers figure T.C. will be tempted to get out on the job 
anyway when the storms come and there's trouble on the lines.

     This is why they included a radio received - turned to the company's 
frequency in the pick-up truck they presented him Friday afternoon.

     They figure T.C.'s been with the job too long to completely get it out of 
his system.  He returned after serving the company since Feb. 1, 1916 - 47 
years ago.

     Co-workers remember how T.C. relates starting work with the Alabama Power 
Company as a helper in Leeds, with a salary of $1.25 per day.

     How he tells of building the hugh tension line from Georgia Steam Plant 
to Muscle Shoals before Wilson Dam was completed.

     They recall he was given 10 days by his draft board to report for duty 
during World War I - and on the 9th day the armistice was signed.

     How he came to Anniston in 1919, to work for J.M. Barry, then district 
manager but later president of the company.

     How he refused to take time off for vacations, and that he is second in 
seniority only to Thomas W. Martin, chairman of the board.

     But T.C. says he has some different plans for his retirement.  No 
definite plans, he says, but he indicates he will have plenty to do.

     Such as visit his daughter in New York, or visit with his son and 
daughter here and his grandchildren.

     Or just plain fishing.

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