Index to Locations
Gadsden Unknown location
Gadsden Crestwood Cemetery
Gadsden Forrest Cemetery
Unknown
Location
Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama
Crestwood
Cemetery
Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama
Founded 1940
Forrest
Cemetery
Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama
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James Browning Allen (1912-1978) —
also known as James B. Allen; Jim Allen —
of Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala.
Born in Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala., December
28, 1912.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1939-43; served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II; member of Alabama
state senate, 1947-51; Lieutenant
Governor of Alabama, 1951-55, 1963-67; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Alabama, 1952
(member, Credentials
Committee); U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1969-78; died in office 1978.
Church
of Christ.
Died in Gulf Shores, Baldwin
County, Ala., June 1,
1978 (age 65 years, 155
days).
Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
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John Lawson Burnett (1854-1919) —
also known as John L. Burnett —
of Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala.
Born in Cedar Bluff, Cherokee
County, Ala., January
20, 1854.
Democrat. Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1884; member of Alabama
state senate, 1886; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1899-1919; died in
office 1919.
Died in Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala., May 13,
1919 (age 65 years, 113
days).
Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
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John Perkins Ralls (1812-1904) —
also known as John P. Ralls —
of Alabama.
Born in Greensboro, Greene
County, Ga., January
1, 1812.
Delegate
to Alabama secession convention, 1861; Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 3rd District, 1862-64;
defeated, 1863; delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1875; member of
Alabama state legislature, 1878.
Methodist.
Died in Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala., November
22, 1904 (age 92 years, 326
days).
Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
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George Copeland Hawkins Jr. (1918-1991) —
also known as George C. Hawkins, Jr. —
of Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala.
Born in Elora, Lincoln
County, Tenn., December
4, 1918.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1948;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives; elected 1950, 1954; candidate for
Governor
of Alabama, 1958; member of Alabama
state senate; elected 1962; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1964.
Methodist.
Member, Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; American Bar
Association.
Died, of kidney
failure, August
9, 1991 (age 72 years, 248
days).
Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
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Balpha Lonnie Noojin, Sr. (1885-1950) —
also known as B. Lonnie Noojin; B. L.
Noojin —
of Attalla, Etowah
County, Ala.; Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala.
Born August
10, 1885.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1922; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1924
(alternate), 1928,
1932,
1940
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1944,
1948;
member of Republican
National Committee from Alabama, 1940-45.
Died September
7, 1950 (age 65 years, 28
days).
Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
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L. L. Herzberg (d. 1946) —
of Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1920,
1936;
probate judge in Alabama, 1920; chairman, Board of Trustees of the
University of Alabama; chairman, Alabama Highway Department.
German
ancestry.
Died in 1946.
Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
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Hobdy G. Rains (1912-1988) —
of Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala.
Born in DeKalb
County, Ala., March
29, 1912.
Democrat. Parole
officer; lawyer; bank
director; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Alabama, 1952,
1968;
secretary
of Alabama Democratic Party, 1967.
Baptist.
Member, American
Judicature Society; Odd
Fellows; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Alabama, April
18, 1988 (age 76 years, 20
days).
Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
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Horace Alexander Houze (1914-1994) —
also known as H. A. Houze —
of Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala.
Born in Alabama, June 28,
1914.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1964,
1968.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., June 4,
1994 (age 79 years, 341
days).
Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
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