Person:Alfred Waddell (2)

!BIRTH: MS Death Cert #20531, Hattiesburg, Forrest Co., MS, 20 Dec 1930 Tombstone inscription, Lot #51, Section 7, Highland Cemetery, Hattiesburg, Forrest Co., MS. F. M. WADDELL Family Bible (note: these notes lists Fred's birth date as 1864 rather that 1867)

!MARRIAGE: Marriage Record Book #1, Page 58, Lincoln Co., MS, 21 Feb 1894.

!DEATH: MS Death Cert #20531, Hattiesburg, Forrest Co., MS, 20 Dec 1930 Tombstone inscription, Lot #51, Section 7, Highland Cemetery, Hattiesburg, Forrest Co., MS Obituary, HATTIESBURG AMERICAN, 22 Dec 1930, Page 1.

!RELATIONSHIP: 1880 Lincoln Co., MS census, Page 71B, HH55/55. 1910 Forrest Co., MS census, Page 113B, HH337/338. 1929 City Direstory, Hattiesburg, MS 1920 Forrest Co. MS (Hattiesburg) census.

!NOTES OF INTEREST: Fred was a logger by occupation and by 1908 had becone foreman of the logging camps. His wife, Juliet, ren a boarding house and cooked for the loggers. Fred worked with teams of oxen and a eight wheel wagon called a "Hattiesburg wagon". Their family living in Clyde, a small town that no longer exists when their last child was born. Soon after that they bought a house in Hattiesburg so the older children could attend school. Then, Fred would go to the woods to work during the week and come home on the week ends. The children all had fond memories of spending their summers in the logging camps. Marjorie remembered one summer that they stayed near a small town called Nicholas. A boxcar had been fixed up like an apartment. There were no stores near by and no fresh meat. One day a man came by selling goat meat and Juliet boughtr a roast and cooked it. When they got to the table Earl said, "I saw that man peddling that old goat meat." No one would eat it. Fred was remembered as a qiiet, sweet, good natured man, close to six feet tall. He died of TB.