Obit of Johnnie Slaughter, Cherokee, Alabama

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September 1999


  Johnnie Slaughter, age 59, died Wednesday morning at his residence in
 Sidhart, Ala.  Funeral services are scheduled at 2 P.M. Alabama time,
 Friday in the Salem Baptist Church.   The Rev. Marshall Morgan and the
 Rev. Bruce Carson will conduct the services.  Burial will follow in the
 Salem Cemetery.   He was born on May 2, 1902 in Spring Garden, Ala. and
 had lived in Cherokee County all of his life.  He was a member of the
 Salem Baptist Church and a retired ore mine worker.   Survivors are his
 wife, the former Miss Katie Almeda Reid; seven daughters, Mrs. L. D.
 Erwin of Anniston, Ala., Mrs. Herman Davis of Cedartown, Mrs. Joy
 Humphrey of Albertsville, Ala., Mrs. J. W. Coley of Decatur, Ga., Mrs..
 Jerry Johnson of Piedmont, Ala., Mrs. Archie Toll of Atlanta and Miss
 Elizabeth Slaughter of Sidhart, Ala.; three sons, Franklin Slaughter of
 Alabama, Thomas Slaughter of Atlanta and Ray Slaughter of Sidhart, Ala.;
 two brothers Willie Slaughter of Cedartown and Luther Slaughter of
 Rockmart; three sisters, Mrs. Julia Gossett of Piedmont, Ala., Mrs.
 Effie Leak and Mrs. Lucy Knight both of
 Chattanooga; 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
 Pallbearers will be Hubert Jones, Ed Williams, Malcolm Mitchell, Paul
 White, Billy Slaughter and John Robertson.   The Lester C. Litesey
 Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. (Cedartown Standard,
 Thursday, June 15, 1961)
 
NOTE: Buried at Salem Baptist Church in Cherokee County, AL.