Memorial based on the grave marker and the following obituary published in the Mobile Register (Mobile, Alabama) September 15, 1972, page 54.
MRS. LUCILLE BOLDEN - A native of Greensboro, Ala., resident of Prichard, Ala., passed at 135 Lorraine Ave. Friday Sept. 8, 1972. Visitation Friday Sept. 15, from 5 p.m. till 12 p.m. from the Azalea Funeral home. Funeral service will be held Saturday from the chapel at 2:00 p.m. The Rev. C.H. Peterson will officiate. Interment will follow in the Oaklawn Cemetery*. Her survivors are daughter, Mrs. Hattie Jumper; son, Columbus Briggins; daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alice Briggins, all of Prichard, Ala.; 10 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; four nieces, six nephews and a number of other relatives and friends. Azalea Funeral Home 352 State Street at Claiborne has charge of arrangements.
*Burial discrepancy - the Mobile Register obituary (September 15, 1972) lists interment at Oaklawn Cemetery; a grave with vault was located in Plateau Cemetery on 12-10-2022.
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Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
MRS. LUCILLE BOLDEN - A native of Greensboro, Ala., resident of Prichard, Ala., passed at 135 Lorraine Ave. Friday Sept. 8, 1972. Visitation Friday Sept. 15, from 5 p.m. till 12 p.m. from the Azalea Funeral home. Funeral service will be held Saturday from the chapel at 2:00 p.m. The Rev. C.H. Peterson will officiate. Interment will follow in the Oaklawn Cemetery*. Her survivors are daughter, Mrs. Hattie Jumper; son, Columbus Briggins; daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alice Briggins, all of Prichard, Ala.; 10 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; four nieces, six nephews and a number of other relatives and friends. Azalea Funeral Home 352 State Street at Claiborne has charge of arrangements.
*Burial discrepancy - the Mobile Register obituary (September 15, 1972) lists interment at Oaklawn Cemetery; a grave with vault was located in Plateau Cemetery on 12-10-2022.
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Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
Memorial based on the grave marker and the following obituary published in the Mobile Register (Mobile, Alabama) September 15, 1972, page 54.
MRS. LUCILLE BOLDEN - A native of Greensboro, Ala., resident of Prichard, Ala., passed at 135 Lorraine Ave. Friday Sept. 8, 1972. Visitation Friday Sept. 15, from 5 p.m. till 12 p.m. from the Azalea Funeral home. Funeral service will be held Saturday from the chapel at 2:00 p.m. The Rev. C.H. Peterson will officiate. Interment will follow in the Oaklawn Cemetery*. Her survivors are daughter, Mrs. Hattie Jumper; son, Columbus Briggins; daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alice Briggins, all of Prichard, Ala.; 10 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; four nieces, six nephews and a number of other relatives and friends. Azalea Funeral Home 352 State Street at Claiborne has charge of arrangements.
*Burial discrepancy - the Mobile Register obituary (September 15, 1972) lists interment at Oaklawn Cemetery; a grave with vault was located in Plateau Cemetery on 12-10-2022.
***************************
Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
MRS. LUCILLE BOLDEN - A native of Greensboro, Ala., resident of Prichard, Ala., passed at 135 Lorraine Ave. Friday Sept. 8, 1972. Visitation Friday Sept. 15, from 5 p.m. till 12 p.m. from the Azalea Funeral home. Funeral service will be held Saturday from the chapel at 2:00 p.m. The Rev. C.H. Peterson will officiate. Interment will follow in the Oaklawn Cemetery*. Her survivors are daughter, Mrs. Hattie Jumper; son, Columbus Briggins; daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alice Briggins, all of Prichard, Ala.; 10 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; four nieces, six nephews and a number of other relatives and friends. Azalea Funeral Home 352 State Street at Claiborne has charge of arrangements.
*Burial discrepancy - the Mobile Register obituary (September 15, 1972) lists interment at Oaklawn Cemetery; a grave with vault was located in Plateau Cemetery on 12-10-2022.
***************************
Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
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