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ST. CLAIR COUNTY ZELDA KIRKLAND Springville - Zelda Virginia McCullough Kirkland,age 86, passed away Saturday, June 17, 2006. She was born Aug. 3, 1919, in St. Clair Co. She was a member of Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church since childhood where she served many years as a teacher for the pre-kindergarten class. She loved her family, church, her friends and life at her beloved home where she lived 80 yrs. She worked for Fred Waid's Grocery for almost 30 yrs., and was an avid member of the Golden Agers Club of Attalla and the Eastern Star. She was preceded in death by her parents, Louis and Mae McCullough; sister, Marzie Burtram; brothers Etheridge and Thurman McCullough. She is survived by her daughter Gwen Weems York (Ed) of Orange Beach; granddaughter Lynn Weems Ryan (Tim) of Hyde Park NY; grandson Lew Weems of Springville; great-grandson Jackson Ryan and great granddaughter Sawyer Ryan both of Hyde Park, NY; sister Billie Brechin of Homewood; sister-in-law Mamie McCullough of Springville and Carrie McCullough of Jasper; numerous nieces and nephews; special niece Arleen Loggins; loyal friends Reabie Pearson and Toots Payne, and many other friends and neighbors. Funeral service was at Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Springville at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 20 with Bro Don Mauldin officiating. Burial followed in the church Cemetery. Nephews and great nephews Perry Burtram, Gerald Livingston, Douglas McCullough, Dewayne Brechin, Derek and Kevin Loggins servied as pallbearers. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in her honor to Pleasant Hill United Methodish Church or the Big Oak Ranch at Springville. Ridout's Trussville Chapel directed [Contributed by Sara Hemp from the St. Clair Times St. Clair Co., AL, June 22, 2006] ALABAMA STATE Death of Underwood Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama interrupted a debate on the cruiser bill, last week, with the announcement: "The Senate will be profoundly shocked and grieved to learn of the death of ... Oscar Underwood." Thus, irony in its most logical form. Alabama gave both Heflin and Underwood to the Senate. In cast of mind and in frame of opinion, the two men were a million miles apart. Heflin, Klu Klux Klan, free silver, William Jennings Bryan, prohibition, woman suffrage, McNary-Haugen farm relief may all be classed as attempts at reform. They have shared in common: lofty purpose, great zeal, and not a little oratory. Senator Oscar W. Underwood was opposed to each and every one of them. He saw something dangerous in them all. He felt that their purposes were not worth their methods. He was a complete Jeffersonian, and a quiet one at that. His life: Born in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 1862. Educated at the University of Virginia. Member of the House of Representatives (1895-1915); author of the Underwood Tariff Bill; majority leader. Member of the Senate (1915-27); voluntarily retired from politics, due to poor health. He might have been President, had he not been so hostile to William Jennings Bryan in 1912. Famed, but not so signifi cant as the Underwood boom of 1912, was Alabama's cry, "Twenty-four votes for Oscar W. Underwood," which was re peated 103 times at the Democratic convention of 1924. One of his last labors was a book, in which he said: "Let us bear in mind that the best brains and the best energies of our people are given to production; politics is now, and always has been, of secondary interest to most of the people. And there the danger lies." Oscar W. Underwood was an exception to his own theory. Death came to him, last week, twelve miles from Washington, D. C., in his Virginia home, Woodlawn, a house built by a nephew of George Washington in 1799. [Time Magazine, Monday, Feb. 04, 1929 - Submitted by K. Torp] Judge Henry De Lamar Clayton Last week died tall, drawling Federal District Judge Henry De Lamar Clayton, 72, for 17 years a Representative from Alabama. His name, like Sherman's, Volstead's and Mann's, will be remembered when its bearer is forgotten. During his four year chairmanship of the important House Judiciary Committee he wrote the famed Clayton Act, climax of U. S. anti-trust legislation. [Time Magazine, Monday, Dec. 30, 1929 - Submitted by K. Torp]   Col. Thos. Boyles Died: on Jan 11, in Washington City, Col. Thos. Boyles, of Alabama, distinguished as a partizan officer in the campaigns against the Indian enemy. [Daily National Intelligencer, JAN 15, 1821 - Submitted by K. Torp] Copyright © 2009 Genealogy Trails All Rights Reserved