Coosa County ALArchives Obituaries.....Waldrip, Martha Thomas Sears
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"MRS. ASA WALDRIP DIES FEB. 15TH, AT AGE OF 93

    Mrs. Martha Sears Waldrip, better known as "Aunt Tommie" or "Mother"
died at her home in Hanover Wednesday, February 15, following a brief
illness.
    She was born in Loachapoka in 1845 and moved to Coosa County with
her family about 1859. (1)  She later was married to the late Asa
Waldrip and made her home in the Sears Chapel community where by her
noble life she endeared herself to all who knew her.  "To know her was
to love her."  She helped organize the Sears Chapel Church and was the
last survivor of the charter members.
    Surviving are six sons:  J. W. Waldrip, of Goodwater; J. R. Waldrip,
of Hanover; J. G., A. F. and E. S., of Rockford; S. G. Gantts Quarry;
and one daughter, Mrs. Nelson Sims, Sylacauga; 42 grandchildren, 69
great-grand-children, and 4 great-great-grand-children.
    Funeral services were held at Sears Chapel Thursday morning,
February 16, with interment in Sears Chapel Cemetery.  Rev. C. D. Dobbs,
assisted by Rev. Charles Farrell, officiated, with the Service Funeral
Home in charge of the arrangements.
    Acting pallbearers were the grandsons of the deceased." (2)

(1)  This date is incorrect. The Sears family was already in Coosa Co.,
AL in the late 1840s.  Martha is listed in the 1850 Federal Census of
Coosa District, Coosa Co., AL with her mother and father.
(2)  The Rockford Chronicle, Thursday, 23 Feb 1939, p. 1. Printed in
Rockford, Coosa Co., AL. Microfilm: Located in the Alabama Archives and
History, Montgomery, AL.

Additional Comments:

Martha Thomas Sears (b. 12 Oct 1845 in Lee Co., AL & d. 15 Feb
1939 in Hanover, Coosa Co., AL) married Asa Melton Waldrip (b. 17 Oct
1843 in Oak Bowery, Chambers Co., AL & d. 8 Jun 1923 in Gannts Quarry,
Talladega Co., AL) on 23 May 1865 in Coosa Co., AL.  They are both
buried in Sears Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery, located about a mile
north of Rockford, Coosa Co., AL on Highway 231.


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