Obituary Levi Roberts, Covington, Alabama

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May 2003


Oldest Union In State Broken By Death
Opp Weekly News  Thursday, May 21, 1936

The oldest union in the state was broken Thursday, May 14, when Mr. 
Levi Roberts, age 91 years died unexpectedly and the family residence
on Railroad Avenue after an illness of only a few days.

Mr. Roberts, familiarly known to his many friends as, “Uncle Levi” was
born and reared in Alabama his family having moved here from Georgia
in the pioneer days.  He was a veteran of the Civil War in which he
was wounded by the Yankees.  His was a very unassuming, quiet 
disposition but it always gave Mr. Roberts much pleasure to relate to 
the present generation the happenings of the war and how he moved to
Opp when the town was first beginning with its present site merely a
pine thicket.

He was married to Miss Amanda Henderson, March 7, 1867.  They have 
held the record of being the oldest married couple in the state for 
some time and this fact has never been disputed.

Mr. Roberts was a devout member of the Primitive Baptist Church and 
attributed his long life to having lived according to the teachings of
the Golden Rule, as he stated to a reporter of the News when 
interviewed at his home on his sixth-ninth wedding anniversary last
March.

Funeral services were conducted at the residence Friday afternoon at
one o’clock with Elder J.A.J. Mitchell officiating assisted by Rev. 
G.H. Shear.  Burial was at Eight Mile Church near Hacoda, where the 
Roberts resided when first married.

Active pall bearers were:
T.T. Clark, J.J. Pitts, C.W. Wilson, W.L. Woodall, Cliff T. Gallops 
and W.O. Austin.  Honorary pallbearers were R.K. Rainer, J.F. Williams,
J.R. Adams, A.P. Stanley, I.S. Wright, John Cuthrell, G.C. Wright, 
T.N. Woodham, J.W. Powell, C. Byrd, J.C. McNeal, M.J. Adams, G.C. 
Pierce, C.W. Simmons, A.R. Woodham, W.H. Jackson and J.B. Snell.

Surving the deceased are his wife, Mrs. Amanda Roberts, three sons,
Edward, Grey and Daniel Roberts of Opp; two daughters, Mrs. Henry 
Parker, Leona, Fla., and Mrs. Beulah Carter of Columbus.  Also one 
sister (Submitter: Sarah J.) of Florala and a number of grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements by Patrick.