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Ada Thompson-Harper-Singleton, was my great grandmother, born about 1867, in Bladen Springs, Choctaw County Alabama. She first married a Harper, which I know nothing about, and had two children, a son and a daughter. I don't know if this was in Bladen Springs or Chickasaw, Alabama. Somehow, she ended up in Chickasaw, Mobile County Alabama. There, she met and married my great grandfather, Frank Singleton, Sr.They got married on March 13, 1907. They had five children, before seperating about 1912. Ada lived in Chickasaw, Mobile County Alabama, during this marriage. After the seperation, her and her oldest son from this second marriage, Clarence Singleton, ran a grocery store, somewhere in the Whistler precinct. During the early 1920s, Ada and her five children then moved to Oak Hill, Wilcox County Alabama, so she could work as a nurse for a doctor. There was a deadly fever outbreak, and they were in need of nurses. Ada caught soon caught the fever herself, never to recover. She died and is buried in Oak Hill. Her children met and married their spouses, and had families. All of them later moved back to Mobile, were most of them still live today. I am in search of the Harper children she had, along with the name of the Harper man she married. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
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Also in need of help to find the parents of Frank Singleton, Sr. He had some siblings, and three of them I have some information about. They are Marlinda Singleton, who married George Harris, Charlie Singleton, who married Fannie Friend and Doc Singleon who married Ella James. There is also a Robert T. Singleton who married Polly Brown, but I don't have much information on them, except that they did not stay married very long. Other siblings are Winston, George, Norman, Nathan and Edward Singleton. I have little info about them. I also have heard that they all had an uncle they called "Uncle Tidle". I don't know if this was name or surname. I also do not know if it was their mother or father's brother. If anyone know of these names please feel free to contact me.
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The Singletons lived in Plateau, Mobile County Alabama, AKA, Africa Town USA. They owned a lot of the land on old Magazine Point Road, which is now named for a well known school teacher, Mrs. Susie Ansley. She too lived on that street. I am not sure where the Singletons came from, before they came to Plateay, but they have a lot of Singleton relatives in Mount Vernon, which is right out of Clarke County Alabama. I have recognized the same names from the old census of Clarke and Mobile. Some of those in Clarke County 1870 census, were also found on the 1880 and other census of Mobile County. If anyone know of these connections, and have more to add, please feel free to let me know. I am very much interested.
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The Singleton families of Plateau went on to marry Tinsley, Brown, Harris, Hall and others of the community, turning into a very large family. A great number of them were Catholic, and very religious. Today they still go to the Catholic church of Plateau, Mother of Mercy. The ones who have passed away or mostly all buried in the Plateau Cemetery, on old Bay Bridge Road, in Magazine Point. There my great grandfather and some of his siblings are buried, along with some of their children, and other family and people of he community. I was told that is has been renovated, and I can't wait to get down there to do a survey of it. I tried to do one in the summer of 2000, but I could not take the heat. I walked the whole cemetery, but i did not write down a name or anything. It will be online soon.
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