Josephine Union “Seraphine” Tarrant Hewitt Sharitt
BIRTH 8 Oct 1832
Ketona, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
DEATH 13 Feb 1892 (aged 59)
Fultondale, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
BURIAL: Walker Chapel Memorial Gardens
Fultondale, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
Josephine Union "Seraphine" Tarrant Hewitt Sharit was the grandchild of the Reverend James Tarrant, Sr. (1753-1840), widely known as "Grandpa Tarrant" and one of the most prominent Methodist churchmen during the earliest days of Alabama as a state. In 1819, Reverend James Tarrant, at his own expense, built and became the first pastor of Bethlehem Methodist Church in Rutledge Springs, Jefferson County, Alabama, near what is now known as Hueytown. Or, more accurately, he had one of his long-time slaves build it. As Mary Gordon Duffee put it in No. 24 of SKETCHES OF ALABAMA / JONES VALLEY (an article first published in Birmingham newspaper "The Weekly Iron Age" of June 24, 1886), "Old Adam cut the logs and within its walls often united with his righteous master in supplications to the throne of grace."
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