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Alsobrook, Oma Parish, 1899-1969

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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.

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Accession 19-045: Family Papers and Accretions to materials in previous accessions, 1922-2019

 Accession
Identifier: 19-045
Scope and Contents This accession contains family papers produced and maintained by David Alsobrook and his parents, Thomas and Frances, and his paternal grandmother Oma. It also contains additions to previous accessions, including publications, subject files, and teaching files.Family papers include family history research, correspondence, telegrams, sympathy, Christmas, and other greeting cards, scrapbooks, diplomas, a junior college yearbook, household records, insurance records, voting...
Dates: 1922-2019