Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Steagall, Jr., Porter C.  January 31 1928
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The Southern Star, Feb. 8, 1928
70 Years Ago, February 8, 1928...Reprinted Feb. 11, 1998

Funeral Service of Porter Steagall, Jr., Largely Attended

  Funeral services for  Porter C. Steagall, Jr., were held here at the M. E. 
Church on last Thursday afternoon, Rev. S. U. Turnipseed, pastor, assisted by 
Dr. D. P. Slaughter, former pastor, officiating.
  The large auditorium was crowded with sorrowing friends and heart broken 
relatives, attesting the love and esteem in which this splendid young man was 
held.
  An appropriate song service closed with prayer and an eulogy of the life of 
the deceased concluded the impressive services at the church.
  Interment took place in the city cemetery in the presence of a large 
gathering of sorrowing friends and loved ones. Twelve heart broken classmates 
and fraternity brothers acted as pallbearers; Norton Christopher, Hilton McKee, 
Robert Albriton, Don Sessions, Hugh Dowling, W. F. Adams, Hilton O'Neil, Robt. 
Reynolds, Dan Hillman, William Albriton, George Byers and Arthur Rails.
  Porter was a young man of sterling character, clean and exemplary habits, 
possessed of a pleasing and affable disposition and was a friend t0 every one 
who knew him.
  During his two years as a student of the University of Alabama he became one 
of the most popular students on the campus, and was held in the same high 
esteem by the citizens of Tuscaloosa as he was at home.
  The writer, a boyhood friend of the deceased, together with the entire 
community mourns  with  the sorely bereaved father, sisters and other relatives 
in the untimely death of this lovable young man.
  The abundance of floral offerings of rare and beautiful design attested the 
wide popularity of the deceased and the profound sympathy of the many friends 
of the family.
  Among the out of town visitors were; Dr. A. S. Steagall, Mr. and Mrs. 0. M. 
Steagall, Mr. W. C. Steagall, Miss Mollie McAllister, Mrs. Emma Roberts, Mrs. 
R. K. Stokes, Mr. J. B. Long, Mr. W. G. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Murphy, Dr. 
A. _. Robinson, Mr. M. L. Barton, Rev. William J. Martin, Mr. William Owens, 
Dr. J. R. Vann all of Abbeville; Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. 
Ernest Thompson,jr., John Henry Thompson, Mr. and Mr. Winston Thompson, Mrs. J. 
0. Thompson, Mr. W. C. Gates, all of Tuskegee; Mrs. W. H. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. 
Neil Steagall, Miss Ethel Steagall, Mrs. Sidney Lawson, Miss Elizabeth 
Anderson, Miss Julia Anderson, Mr. C. H. Adams, Mr. Sam Cassels, Mr. and Mrs. 
Wiliam Washburn, Mr. Hundley Thompson, Mrs. J. E. Wright of Montgomery; Mr. and 
Mrs. Dan G. Steagall of Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. B. C. Perkins, of 
Jacksonville, Fla., Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bowers, Troy; Mrs. Mary Malone Barnett, 
Mrs. Robert Malone, Mr. Arthur Malone, Mr. Wallace Malone, Mr. and Mrs. Joe 
Sanders, Mr. Arthur Sanders, Mr. John Sanders, Mr. Joe Deck Sanders, Mr. M. B. 
Byrd, Mrs. Will Flowers, Mrs. Pat Poyner, Mrs. Elgin Cowart, Mr. Robert Holman, 
Mr. J. T. McAllister, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Loftin and Mr. Albert West, Jr., of 
Dothan; Messrs. Norton Christopher, Hilton MeKee, Robert Albriton, Don 
Sessions, Hugh Dowling, Wiliam Adams,  Milton O'Neil, Robt. Reynolds, of 
University of Alabama; Mr. Dan Hillman, Birmingham; Mr. George Byers, 
Springfield, Ala.,; Mr. William Albriton of Andalusia; Mr. Arthur Rails, 
Gadsden; Mrs. Virgil Hancock, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hodges, Mrs. Hodges of 
Tallahassee, Fla., Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Hiatt, Albany, Ga.,; Dr. and Mrs. D. P. 
Slaughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McDowell, Jr., Mr. Archie H. McDowell, Mrs. 
Eli Shorter, Mrs. Earle Foy, Mrs. W. H. Foy, Miss Sallie Farah, Miss Mary 
Clayton of Eufaula; Mr. J. L. Warren, Mr. L. H. Sessions, Mr. W. 0. Byrd, Mr. 
J. T. Dowling of Enterprise; Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Sammons, Clayton; Mr. Albert 
Wilkerson, Blue Springs, Mrs. John Phelps, Birmingham; Mrs. J. C. McLeod, Mrs. 
Cleve Pierce, Opp Mrs. Horace Brock, Mrs. Oscar Vaughn and Mrs. Dorsey of Elba; 
Dr. W. W. Smith of Slocomb.

 * Porter Collinsworth Steagall, Jr., b July 2, 1906 d Jan. 31, 1928 Buried 
Westview Mem. Cem.


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