Samuel Madden was born in 1912; he was one of ten children. His father was a minister and teacher at his childhood school. After graduating high school, Madden went on to work for a government program that existed during this time called the Works Progress Administration, or the WPA. This was one of the vastest […]
Malcolm Smith is a navy veteran who served in World War II. He was born on October 11, 1916, and enlisted in the U.S. Navy on December 12, 1942. He is currently serving as the bugler at the American Legion Post 31 in Tuscumbia Alabama. Smith was working at Reynolds Security when he heard the […]
Mr. John Neff was born and raised in Sheffield, Alabama, to the son of a family that owned Clark Mercantile Company located on Second Street in Sheffield. He began working in the family business at age 10. Mr. Neff met his first love and wife at the mercantile. Her father owned the dairy nearby, and […]
Dewitt Lowery was a simple country boy who was born and raised on a farm in Atmore, Alabama. He decided to join the war effort after he learned of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. His older brother was one of the first young men in Atmore to be drafted, and Lowery […]
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