Everything but the kitchen sink.

BARBARA VADEN SPROULL, homemaker and community volunteer

Born: Christmas Day, 1926, Anniston

• The widow of Horace Miller Sproull Jr., who died in 2008, she is the daughter of Thomas Hunt Vaden, who married Eula Crook in 1925 and lived in a house where the Quintard Hardee’s restaurant is now.

Vaden worked for the power company.

• Eula Crook’s parents were Samuel L. Crook, who was a first cousin once removed to James F. Crook. Crook was a business partner of Dr. T.W. Ayers in the Jacksonville Republican, later moved to Anniston to become The Anniston Star. They had bought it from Mr. Crook’s father.

• Samuel L. Crook was cousin to a Calhoun County probate judge, Emmett F. Crook. They had a daughter, Margaret, who married Ned Almond, later to become Gen. Almond, aide to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Gen. Almond retired in Anniston.

• Barbara Vaden Sproull’s late husband, known as Miller, was the son and only child of H. Miller Sproull Sr. and Sara Powers Sproull. She died within days after Miller was born; Sproull senior died when Miller was 21.

Sproull Sr. was the son of James Creswell Sproull. He had three sisters: Caroline Sproull Knight, who married Roy; Virginia Sproull Weatherly, who married Clay; and Catherine Sproull Hamilton, who married Ralph Hamilton, one of three Hamilton sons of Tobe Hamilton. One of the sons, Charles Hamilton, became a benefactor to several local institutions, including the hospital, the Boys Club and the YMCA.

• James Creswell Sproull, born in 1856, came to Anniston from Rome, Ga., in 1887 and founded Anniston Hardware, which, when telephones were installed, had the number 1.

via Generational Kudzu: Barbara Vaden Sproull | AnnistonStar.com.

Mr. Sproull, a native of Anniston, was born the son of Horace Miller Sproull Sr. and Sara Powers Sproull on April 29, 1920. His mother died five days after giving birth. In 1950, he became the third generation president of The Anniston Hardware Company and The Gadsden Hardware Company, family owned businesses founded by his grandfather James Creswell Sproull, Wade Cothran Sproull and J.A. Cheney in 1887. He was widely known as an astute businessman and civic leader.

He retired from the hardware business in 1976 when the business was sold to a local group of investors. As a young boy, he was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and earned the Eagle Scout badge. He attended Anniston public schools through the tenth grade. He graduated in 1937 from The Darlington School, Rome, Ga., a college preparatory school, and received his B.S. degree in Economics from Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., in 1941. While at Davidson, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and the varsity tennis team. He joined the U.S. Navy in July of 1941 prior to Pearl Harbor.

Following his graduation from Midshipman School in 1942, he was assigned to the Pacific Theatre where he served during World War II, participating in six naval battles against Japan. He was honorably discharged as a Lt. Commander from the Navy in October 1946. Upon returning to Anniston he was made Vice President of The Anniston Hardware Company. In 1947, he married Barbara Crook Vaden and they had six children. He survived a tragedy in June, 1959 when he suffered second and third degree burns over 67 percent of his body during a mishap at a Father’s Day get together with family and relatives at his home.

A lifelong member of The First Presbyterian Church, he was an Elder and a Deacon. He was a teacher of The Sam Russell Bible Class there for thirty years. In 1962, he helped raise money to build the educational building for the church. He also helped to found and was President of The Soup Bowl, a charitable organization feeding the hungry.

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CREEK-SOUTHEAST post/query – dated 13 April 2009

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Hey Tim,

There are quite a few Creek Reserves in Alabama and Georgia. They were
granted to “Friendly Creeks”. In most cases, the legal owners were driven off
their lands only a short time after the reserves were granted. I don’t
know the legal particulars of the two tracts you read about, however.

Jacksonville University advertises on its web site that the original land
for the college was purchased from a Creek mikko named Ladiga.

Richard T.
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Notes on the Creek Indians http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm

Early Creek History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/

Migration Legend of the Creek Indians ref=”">http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/

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This make m e wonder if Anniston Council Member Ben Little actually has found something that give The creek Nation claims to a good portion of what is now Jacksonville, Alabama; if not part of McClellan…

NOTE: Links were made made ‘active’ by me.

– Cathy Ann Abernathy

Trails Leading to Texas

Entries: 52406 Updated: 2009-03-25 22:55:30 UTC (Wed) Contact: Pam

Updates made often — additions welcomed — Working this month on Bethel Cemetery in Frisco TX

# ID: I21428

# Name: Alice Valerie Spruiell

# RFN: 21428

# Change Date: 24 MAR 2006

# Sex: F

# Birth: in Crenshaw Co, AL

# Change Date: 24 MAR 2006

Marriage 1 Louis Milton (Lewis) Clinkscales b: 9 MAR 1860 in Benton, Calhoun Co, AL

* Married: 18 DEC 1890

* Change Date: 24 MAR 2006

Children

1. Hester Kate Clinkscales b: 3 OCT 1905 in Vincent, AL

2. Juda Jessie Clinkscales b: 15 OCT 1892

3. Reuben Franklin Clinkscales b: 1895 in Alabama

4. Robert Berry Clinkscales

5. John Wilkes Clinkscales

6. Grady Lowell Clinkscales b: 1901 in Alabama

7. Lige Turner Clinkscales b: 1903 in Alabama

8. Lewis Embry Clinkscales b: 1905 in Alabama

9. Lola Eugenia Clinkscales b: 1908 in Alabama

10. Clarence Minton Clinkscales b: 1910 in Alabama

11. Thomas Newton Clinkscales b: 1912 in St Clair Co, AL

12. William Milton (Noot) Clinkscales b: 22 OCT 1913 in Shelby Co, AL

13. Alice Mildred Clinkscales b: 22 OCT 1913 in Shelby Co, AL

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Trails Leading to Texas.

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Tracking possible cousins via Rootsweb

Alice V. Sprueill was my maternal great-grandmother.

– Cathy

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