Vicki's Close Cousins, Long Lost Cousins, Kissing Cousins, Distant Cousins, Great-Great and more Great Grandparents, In-laws, Out-laws, and Allied Lines. That's a cameo of great great Grandpa Simon Prince to the left, born in 1850.
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Dawson, Annie Bell Higginbotham Anderson Findley, d.2007
The Birmingham News
May 6, 2007
DAWSON, ANNIE BELL (Anderson, Findley), Beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Born in Bradford, AL., September 11, 1919. Died May 3, 2007. She is preceded in death by her parents; Charlie and Dora (Self) Higginbotham, Brothers, Raymond Higginbotham, Rev. Wilber D. Higginbotham, Billy Higginbotham, sister, Edna Tidmore, husbands, Robert S. Anderson, Charles Findley and Robert L. Dawson. Survivors include daughters, Nancy (Ernest) Downs, Jane (Larry) Morton, Carmen (Gene) Rooker. 9 grandchildren, Keith (Cindy) Morton, Kenneth (Penelope) Morton, Karmen (Michael) Fischbach, Jeff (Melissa) Downs, Steve (Tracy) Downs, Laura Wald, Terry (Kim) Rooker, Mark Rooker, Rebecca (Jeff) Taylor. Also surviving are 20 great grandchildren, sister, France Cooley and sister-in-law Patsy Higginbotham, a host of nieces and nephews, friends, and special friends at Covenant Place of Gardendale, AL. where she lived for the last 5 years. Visitation will be on Mon. the 7th from 1-2pm and services will follow at Bradford Sanctuary of Praise in Pinson. Burial in Hopewell Cemetery. Jefferson Memorial, Trussville, directing.
Prince, Claude McKey, d.1972
The Birmingham News
Wednesday, August 30, 1972
Pg 75
Mrs. Prince rites set; well-known dressmaker
Graveside service for nationally known Alabama dressmaker, Mrs. Claude McKey Prince, 69, who died Friday, will be at 3pm Thursday at Elmwood, Johns-Ridout’s Southside directing.
A native of Braden Springs, she was a Mobile resident 30 years before moving to Birmingham, where she lived at 1524 Shades Crest Road.
Mrs. Prince was known as Mobile’s “Baby Prince” because of the outstanding gowns she designed for the Mardi Gras. The elaborate creations often were valued as high as $4,999, and one of he gowns she made for Queen Joy, who rules over Mardi Gras with King Felix, is now in the Montgomery Library – Museum.
Always working without a pattern, Mrs. Prince simply rolled out the cloth and began cutting freehand after she decided how she wanted the dress to look.
Once she took 11 yards of 100-year-old lace valued at $500 a yard and created a wedding gown for a Mobile bride in such a way that none of the valuable lace was lost.
When creating one of the elaborate Mardi Gras gowns, Mrs. Prince would sketch patterns on the dress for the beading then laboriously hand-sew the sequins, beads and rhinestones that made up the colorful designs on the dresses.
Surviving Mrs. Prince are two sisters, Mrs. Tom Taylor and Mrs. Grace Peterson, both of Mobile.
Index
*****Blount County Probate - Dower Record, Book A, 1874-1926
From microfilm at Birmingham Public Lib, AL
Micro#1034936 Roll:2 item #2 of 4
these are the only names in the index:
Baker, Alex 8-10
Crumbley, J. W. 65
Daily, George, 38-43
Hanna, William J. 2
Hudson, Martin? 22-23
Hood Wm W. 44, 45, 48, 49
Martin, Archibald S. 58-61
Taylor, David 50-55
