Agnes Mabel Allred

1914 - 2000  (86 years)

• Name	Agnes Mabel Allred  [1]
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1913	Alabama   [2, 3]
  Born	20 Feb 1914	Talladega County, Alabama   [4]
  Gender	Female
  Alt. Birth	23 Feb 1914	Rome, Floyd, Georgia   [5, 6, 7, 8]
  Occupation	23 Apr 1930	Lincoln, Talladega, Alabama   [2]
  	farm labor
  Residence	20 Aug 1936	Talladega County, Alabama   [4]
  	Route 2
  Education Level	6 Apr 1940	Eastaboga, Calhoun, Alabama   [3]
  	high school
  Education	Aft 1940  [7, 9]
  	nursing
  Hospital	Abt 1942-1949	Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama   [9]
  	She was incarcerated for 7 years and given electroshock treatments for depression.
  Died	25 Apr 2000	Talladega Health Care Center, Talladega, Alabama   [7, 8, 10]
  Obituary	28 Apr 2000	Talladega, Talladega, Alabama   [8]
  	Talladega Daily Home
  	TALLADEGA - Graveside service for Agnes A. White, 87, will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in Lincoln Cemetery in Lincoln with the Rev. Perry Wood officiating. Mrs. White died April 25 at Talladega Health Care Center. A native of Rome, Ga., she had lived many years in Talladega County, was a retired nurse and a homemaker. She was a member of Blue Eye Baptist Church in Lincoln. She is survived by one son, William A. White of Richland, Wash.; one sister, Eula Mims of Childersburg; and several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Charlie Allred, John Allred, David Allred, Andy Allred, Cary Allred and Burt Allred. The family will receive friends Saturday from 9 until 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home. Talladega Funeral Home will direct the service.
  Name	Agnes  [3]
  Name	Agnes A. White  [8]
  Name	Agnes Allred  [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12]
  Religion	Lincoln, Talladega, Alabama   [8]
  	a member of Blue Eye Baptist Church
  Buried	29 Apr 2000	Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, Talladega, Alabama   [7, 10]
  		White → Agnes
  Person ID	I830	If the Legends Are True...
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2019

  
  

  Father	Charles Patterson Allred,   b. 9 May 1871, Georgia ,   d. 11 Nov 1950, Lincoln, Talladega, Alabama  (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Eula Ophelia Holder,   b. 14 Dec 1871, Georgia ,   d. 19 May 1956, Lincoln, Talladega, Alabama  (Age 84 years)
  Married	10 Aug 1890	Floyd County, Georgia
  Family ID	F306	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Roscoe White,   b. 11 Jun 1907, Jacksonville, Calhoun, Alabama ,   d. 27 Sep 1994  (Age 87 years)
  Married	20 Aug 1936	Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama   [4]
  	They were married by Reverend E. R. Stephenson.  The marraige license listed "Mary Box" as Agnes' mother.  I don't know what to make of this but I do recall being told that the Box family owned the land where Speedway Boulevard intersects with Highway 77. Mother says the Allreds owned that land, and the Whites owned the land at the Speedway.  But I'm pretty sure my grandparents told me that the Allreds did not own the land at that intersection but the Boxes did. [4]
  Census	6 Apr 1940	Eastaboga, Calhoun, Alabama   [3]
  	Precinct 2, District 4A, Sheet 4A, Line 16, Dwelling 52: The household consisted of Rosco White, head, 32; Agnes, wife, 27; and William A., son, 11 months. They own a farm and declared it to be worth $800.  According to MeasuringWorth.com, in 2014 the relative worth of $800 from 1940 was: ----$13,500, using the Consumer Price Index ----$10,700, using the GDP deflator ----$27,200, using the unskilled wage ----$35,100, using the Production Worker Compensation ----$56,000, using the nominal GDP per capita ---$135,000, using the relative share of GDP
  		Census of 1940 - Alabama, Talladega County Eastaboga Precinct 2, District 4A, Sheet 4A
  Children	1. William Arlis White,   b. May 1939, Alabama ,   d. Aft 2000  (Age ~ 61 years)
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2015
  Family ID	F367	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		White → Agnes Allred
  		Allred → Agnes I have seen a picture of Aunt Agnes when she was young. She was very beautiful in that picture and she is was wearing a dark green dress with long sleeves. I think Mother told me one time that the dress was made from drapery material. – Bernice Ellis, Jun 2008
  		Allred → Susie, Agnes, & Bea Lincoln, Alabama. In front of the side porch of the Old Allred House.
  		Allred → Eula, Agnes, & Bea

  
  

• Notes

  Agnes was my favorite of the three (Bea, Sue & Agnes) that lived in the 'Old House' when I was growing up, before it fell down. I can vaguely remember discussions about whether I should visit because of her 'illnes'. But, if you ask me, she was the sanest of the whole bunch, and a lot nicer as well. Sue was bitter, Bea acted and looked like an old squaw. Agnes was pretty, and young (by comparison) and she laughed. I remember once I found Agnes in one of the unused rooms, smoking a Winston. So that's were she went and what she did when she "wasn't feeling well". Phyl tells me Sue & Bea smoked as well, which amazes me because they never smoked in front of me and I was there a lot, for hours at a time. Aunt Agnes spent seven years in Bryce-Partlow, the mental asylum in Alabama, in electroshock therapy. She wrote me a letter about it once, lost now in one of my many moves, where she said what she suffered was worse than the Jews in Nazi Germany. She was training as a nurse and I'm not sure what happened but her husband ended up divorcing her.  Mother says she doesn't think there was anything wrong with her, that she was just very unhappy.  I was told she was sitting at the dinner table and went into a cataleptic depression, which lasted seven years I guess. I remember as a child at one of my many visits with Sue, Bea & Agnes in the 'old house', Aunt Sue had said they were women's libbers and when I asked what did they do, Bea said, well we got jobs. When they saw I wasn't very impressed they tried to explain to me that the only job a women could get at that time was as a nurse or a school teacher and Bea got a job as a school teacher since she went to school – Paw Allred sent one girl to school at a time and since Sue didn't want to go, Bea got to go. And Agnes got a job as a nurse. Agnes didn't say anything, but Sue finally said, "Well, times have changed and there's no point bringing up the evil that is gone. Not even worth remembering." And they all, Agnes and Bea particularly, visibly relaxed and kind of smiled in a secret way. They had done quite a bit after all, it seems. We grew up knowing about Agnes, and what she went through and why. And we knew her and loved her in her life time. She and her story were always with us – a silent presence always there for reference against our own actions and our lives. J. Craig Canada – 2006

  
  

• Reference

  If the Legends Are True... by J. Craig Canada, "Agnes Mabel Allred" (accessed November 26, 2020) | http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I830&tree=Legends.