Obituary - The Gadsden Times, Gadsden, Alabama
Saturday, February 29, 1964, page 2
Funeral service for Mrs. Mary Winnie Stricklin, age 92, Cansler Avenue, Gadsden, will be Sunday at Sansom Avenue Church of Christ. Burial Forrest Cemetery. Mrs. Stricklin died at her residence at 1 a.m. February 28 after a long illness. She was a native of Cullman County and a resident of Gadsden 45 years. She is survived by two sons, T. W. Johns and Lonnie Calvert both of Gadsden; Mrs. Bertie Waits, Gadsden; brother William Calvert, Cullman; sister, Emma Cruce, Augusta, Georgia; 14 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren. Collier-Butler Funeral Home in charge of funeral arrangements.

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Alabama Deaths:
(copied from index)
Name: Mary Winnie Colvert Stricklin
Birth Date: abt 1872
Death Date: 28 Feb 1964
Death Place: Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama
Death Age: 92
Gender: Female
Father Name: B??Ddie Colvert........(Calvert)
Mother Name: Jane Nesmith
FHL Film Number: 1909063

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Mary W. drew a Civil War pension as widow of Elisha B. Stricklin whom she said she married in 1904 (*) in Cullman County and she was his surviving spouse when he died in 1918. Records show she was previously married to Jess Alred in Cullman County 1891 (*). Her address on the CSA record was Cabot Avenue, Alabama City, Etowah Co., Alabama. The records indicates she was born in Cullman Co., AL and father was Willis J. Calvert. Civil War record shows Mrs. Stricklin died Feb. 28, 1964. Mary W.'s husband, Jesse Allred, and also her mother are buried in the same cemetery.

(*) Although she gave these statements of when she married for the military records, please see the Alabama marriages to J. Allred in 1904. The death date on Allred's handmade marker appears to be 1905, so it was a brief marriage. She married E.B. Stricklin in 1909 - after the death of his first wife in 1907. Mr. Stricklin was about 43 years older than Mary Winnie, but she had four children in her household. She was his surviving wife and she drew a war pension.

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Additional notes: Records indicate her father was Willis John (called Bud) Calvert. The FAG memorial states another first name, but the tombstone is inscribed Bud Calvert 1851-1890.

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1930 Fayette Co., AL census:
Howel J. Calvert 39, Head of household, coal miner
Tilla Calvert 50 Wife
Thelma Turner 6
Winnie Stricklin 57 Mother of Howell Jackson Calvert

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1920 Etowah Co., AL census:
Mary M Strickland 45 Head (Stricklin), widow
Lonnie C Calvert 18 Son
Bertie E Strickland 14 Daughter (see 1910 surname Calvert
- - - - Bertie may have taken on the Stricklin name of her step-father)

Notes:
Son, Howell, death record indicates his father as Howell Calvert, Sr.
Mary Winnie's surname was Calvert and apparently she married a Calvert.

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1910 Cullman Co., AL census:
Elisha B Stricklin 79 Head
Winnie Stricklin 36 Wife
Howell Calvert 19 Step Son of Mr. Stricklin
Walter Calvert 14 Step Son. " "
Lonnie Calvert 8 Step Son. " "
Birtie Calvert 3 Step Daughter. "

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Alabama Marriages:
Name: E. B. Stricklin
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Birth Date: abt 1864
Marriage Date: 23 Sep 1909
Marriage Place: Cullman, Alabama, USA
Spouse: Mary M. Allred (should be Mary Winnie)
.........(shown as Mrs. Mary Allred on the marriage book - page 103)
Age: 35
Birth Date: abt 1874
Film Number: 001026706

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Alabama Marriages:
Name: Winnie Calvert
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 2 May 1904
Marriage Place: Cullman, Alabama
Spouse: Jessie Allred
FHL Film Number: 1026704
Reference ID: 2455

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1900 Cullman Co., AL census:
Eliza J Calvert 49, widow (Elizabeth Jane Nesmith Calvert)
Mary W Calvert 27, single, daughter
Howel J Calvert 9, son Mary
Thomas W Calvert 3, son Mary - - - - he later went by Thomas Walter Johns

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1880 Cullman Co., AL census:
Willis Calvert 27 "Bud"
Eliza J. Calvert 27. wife
Mary Calvert 7, daughter (Mary Winnie)
John R. Calvert 6, son
William Calvert 4, son
Thomas Calvert 6/12 mo., son