Obituary of Albert Slaughter, Cherokee, Alabama

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September 1999

 
 Mr. Albert Slaughter, age 61, was killed instantly in a train wreck
 Tuesday at noon at Esom Hill, GA.   Funeral services will be held at
 Salem Baptist Church at 3:00 P.M. (GA. time) Thursday, with the Rev.
 Hugh Barrett officiating.   Interment will be in the adjoining cemetery,
 with the Lester C. Litesey Funeral Home in charge.   Mr. Slaughter was
 born October 30, 1892 in Cherokee County, AL., and had passed his entire
 life in and around Polk County.  He was a member of Salem Baptist Church
 and Mt. Signal Lodge No. 508 F. & A.M.   Pallbearers will be Hubert
 Williams, J.T. Williams, Max Hardin, Doyle Morris, Sammy Irwin, and
 Worth Williams.   Surviving are his wife, three sons, Amos Slaughter, of
 Esom Hill, Clarence Slaughter, of Jacksonville, Ala., and Ralph
 Slaughter of Cedartown; one step son Fred Reed, of Jacksonville, Ala.;
 two daughters, Mrs. Archie Ouzis of Tampa, Fla., and Mrs. Clyde
 Hendrick, of Acree, GA.; three brothers, Willie Slaughter, of Cedartown,
 Johnny Slaughter, of Lougdon, Ala., and Luther Slaughter of Rockmart;
 three sisters, Mrs. Julie Gossett, of Piedmont, Ala., Mrs. Charles Leak,
 of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mrs. Lucy Knight, of Chattanooga.  Eleven
 grandchildren also survive. (Cedartown Standard, front page, March 10,
 1954)
 
NOTE: Buried at Salem Baptist Church in Cherokee County, AL.