Biography

Oma Parish Alsobrook (1899-1969) was the paternal grandmother of David Ernest Alsobrook. The only child of Thomas Malaki "Mallie" Parish (1874-1945) and Jessie Estelle Gillis (1869-1939), she married Ernest Milton Alsobrook (1899-1921) in 1918, and they had two children: Jessie Lee Alsobrook (1918-1922) and Thomas Neville Alsobrook (1920-1996). Oma Alsobrook worked for over forty years in the cotton mills of Eufaula, Alabama. According to the David Alsobrook, during the late 1920s or early 1930s she burned most of her earlier family papers.