Tenth Generation (Continued)
Family of Stokeley Summerfield Buckalew (2782) & Susan Virginia Lester

4754. Thomas Buckalew. Born in 1901. Thomas died in Henry Co., GA, in May 1903; he was 2. Nickname: Tommie.

1903, May 15; Henry County Weekly; Shops Column; Obituary: " On last Fri morning at 11 o'clock the death angel visited the home of Mr/Mrs. S. S. Buckalew & carried away the little child which had been sick about a week with fever, its remains were laid away at Turner's Church on the day following, Rev. J. A. Jackson conducting the funeral services ........ Weep not for you know the Book says tat God's work must be done. Then parents if you live & do God's bidding, some day you can go to see Him for Tommie cannot come to you but you can go to him. How sweet it is to have a little angel to stand at the gate of Heven with beckoning hands bidding you welcome."

1903, June 5; Henry County Weekly, Obituary: "In Memory of Little Tommie Buckalew. We cannot wake him as he lies, With folded hands & close shut eye, Upon his lips a happy smile as if dreams, sweet dreams awhile. If we could only have him with us stay, We would gladly spend with him our day, Our own darling boy, our love, our only earthly joy. It is so hard to think that nevermore, With _____little locks & laughing eyes greet us at the door. Those sweet lips no more will we kiss. Oh darling so many things we will miss. The little child & chair are put from sight, We must submit to our home being robbed of its light. The toys have been put away, Oh think that our darling will never more with them play. You have watched over your loved ones, And wept over his chest, And lo he has died & you have laid him to rest. Deep beneath the sod so silent & cold but with the Lord's jewels his name is enrolled. We think of little Tommie so cheerful & bright like a flower that blooms in the morning & withers at night. We have the blessed assurance that our darling is at rest sleeping with the saints both dreamless and blest. Oh may we live so that when our journey of life is trod we will meet our precious darling at the throne of God & there we will greet him to part nevermore & gaze on his face on the evergreen shore. Aunt Sallie."

4755. Rev. Clifford Cornelius Buckalew. Born on 18 October 1903 in Henry Co., GA. Clifford Cornelius died in Bap.Vil.Ret.Ctr., Waycross, Ware Co., GA, on 13 January 1984; he was 80. Buried on 15 January 1984 in The Rock Bap Ch, Rex, Clayton Co., GA. Occupation: Baptist Pastor. Nickname: Buddy (To Siblings), Cliff, Buck.

CHRONOLOGICAL DATES AND LOCATIONS OF OUR HOME Clifford Cornelius Buckalew Feb. 19, 1979

(NOTE: These memoirs were written while my father was resident at Hospitality Care Center, Riverdale, Georgia. Later, he moved to Baptist Village, Waycross, Georgia, where he enjoyed living and bearing a strong and consistent Christian witness until quietly leaving this life in his eighty-first year on January 13, 1984.)

Since my memory of dates seems to be slipping, this is something of a chronological order of our home in various locations since our marriage on the 18th of March 1923.

We had an apartment--living room and bedroom combination with a kitchen--with Mr. and Mrs. Green on South Moreland Avenue in Atlanta. Rent was $14.25 per month. We moved in on Thursday following March 23, 1923, the week of our marriage. We began with $90 worth of furniture, which we bought, and with a few things given us by Mama and Papa Trammell.

We had our first meal in private in this home on Thursday night. After supper, we went into our living room and got down on our knees and dedicated our home to the Lord. No one had suggested this; we were led by the Lord on that day, March 27, 1923.

God gave us each other in this home until August 19, 1978, when we divided out our furnishings among our children and moved to the Hospitality Care Center in Riverdale, Georgia. A few months later in 1978, we sold our house at McDonough, Georgia, a house which we had occupied since 1971.

From the Greene's house we moved in less than a year to live with Jessie and Alvah Davis near Morrow, Georgia. We lived there only a few months until after our first child, Douglas, was born. In the meantime we moved from Moreland Avenue to Brookhaven to a $750 house and lot. The house was constructed of used lumber from Camp Gordon's World War One days.

In 1925, we bought a house at 23 Steward Avenue, Hapeville, Georgia, and lived there until moving to Forest Park for a few months prior to June 1929. In the meantime, I had begun to preach, answering that call on August 15, 1925 at 9:30 p.m.

In June 1929, we moved to Edgewood Avenue on Mercer University campus, Macon, Georgia. During those first months we loaned some of our furniture and let our Hapeville house out for rent.
In June 1933, following my Mercer graduation, we moved back to Hapeville and lived there until September 1934, when we moved to Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. We lived in apartment #206, Judson Hall.

In April 1935, we moved to Paoli, Indiana, where we lived during the Summer while I was pastor of the Baptist Church there, also serving Mill Creek Baptist Church near Salem, Indiana, and the Baptist Church at Livonia, Indiana, eleven miles from Paoli.

In June 1936, we moved to Conyers, Georgia, where I became pastor of the First Baptist Church. During that time, on Sunday afternoons, I served as pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Henry County. The Conyers church building burned down during this time, and we built back immediately.

Having accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro, Georgia, we moved to that field of service in December 1938. During this time, I preached on Sunday afternoons at Bethany, Sharon and Liberty Hill Baptist Churches in Henry County.

In December 1942, we moved to 566 Tenth Street, N. W., Atlanta, Georgia, where I became pastor of North Atlanta Baptist Church at Hemphill Avenue and Tenth Street, relinquishing my pastorate of the Henry County rural churches.

Remaining at North Atlanta until October 1948, I saw the membership increase by 900--600 as candidates for baptism and 300 by transferral of membership--to a total of over 1,900.
In October 1948, I accepted the pastorate of Calvary Baptist Church of Birmingham, ALabama, and moved to 1226 Fifth St., No., where I remained until 1957, when I entered full-time evangelism work. In the next three years, I preached fifty-two revival meetings in sixty churches in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and other states.

In March 1960, we moved to the pastorate of Mountain View Baptist Church in the suburbs of Atlanta. We lived in Decatur, Georgia, until the new and beautiful pastorium was completed in June. We moved to 988 Allgood Road in June of 1960. The church was only a mile away on Redan Road. This was a gorgeous house where we enjoyed almost six years of great living.

In May of 1966, we moved to the Georgia Baptist Children's Home in Hapeville, Georgia, becoming house parents to fourteen through eighteen year-old boys. This proved to be too hard for us, so in August of 1966 we moved with Jessie Davis in East Point and did supply preaching until I became pastor of Locust Grove Baptist Church in Locust Grove, Georgia, in December 1966.

We spent five happy years in Locust Grove, retiring in December of 1971 and moving to 164 Bon Aire Drive, McDonough, Georgia.

In retirement I did supply preaching and serving interim pastorates at Bethany Baptist Church for two months, at Oakland Baptist Church on two occasions, and at Rockdale Baptist Church in Conyers, Georgia, for almost a year. During that year at Rockdale, sixty-one members were added to the church, a most happy period. I was interim pastor at Highland Park Baptist Church in Conyers for several months.

The foregoing was Corinne's last driving to churches for me. She had a cancerous kidney removed in August of 1977. A stroke in October of 1976 had put an end to my driving.

In spite of radiation therapy and the care of the very best physicians, Corinne went to be at home with the Lord January 30, 1979. Thus, my preaching from pulpits came to an end, and I settled in after her passing in the Hospitality Care Center. I occupied a private room in the same institution in which we lived our last five months together.

God is doing great things for me, whereof I am glad. All I preached He would do over the fifty-four years of my preaching He has done for me, and more, too. Praise his name! I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me. Fifty-six years we were companions in wedlock, led together of the Lord. Fifty-four of these years we spent in the ordained Baptist ministry to which she was called as definitely as I was. She was the ideal wife for my ministry, the greatest Christian I ever knew.

God granted Corinne fifty-five years of motherhood in which she saw her four children saved and baptized by their father in the Baptist Church. Each of them married Christian Baptists in beautiful Baptist churches by their father. She saw them all become parents in Christian homes of their making with God's help.

One son was an ordained Baptist preacher, another was a licensed preacher and a music director, and still another was a Christian businessman. Our daughter had been a pastor's wife for thirty years when Corinne went to be with the Lord at the age of seventy-five. Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Corinne's funeral was conducted from the Rock Baptist Church of Rex, Georgia, church of her childhood and of her parents. Her two sons and her son-in-law were the speakers of which funeral it was observed by a close friend, "That was a celebration."

Corinne had a vision of heaven that lasted more than a week of her last days.

Please keep these facts to be handed down to our kin and friends to the glory of God.

On 18 March 1923 when Clifford Cornelius was 19, he married Mamie Corinne Trammell, in RFD, Clayton Co., Georgia. Born on 8 September 1904 in RFD, Morrow, Clayton Co., GA. Mamie Corinne died in Riverdale, Fulton Co., GA, on 30 January 1979; she was 74. Buried in The Rock Bap Ch, Rex, Clayton Co., GA.

They had the following children:
7164 i. Henry Douglas (1924-1962)
7165 ii. Emma Jean (Private)
7166 iii. Ch, Lt. Col., Lester Trammell , USAF (Retired) (Private)
7167 iv. Clifford Cornelius II (Private)

4756. Clara Belle Buckalew (Private).
Clara Belle married Sam Heath.
They had one child:
7168 i. Rebecca "Becky"

4757. Mary Estelle Buckalew (Private).
Mary Estelle married Ike Hooten. Born in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia. Ike died in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia. Buried in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia.
They had the following children:
7169 i. Virginia
7170 ii. Louise

4758. Etta Mae Buckalew. Born on 14 July 1909. Etta Mae died on 25 June 1930; she was 20. Buried in The Rock Bap Ch, Rex, Clayton Co, Georgia.

Etta Mae died at an early adult age and is buried at the Rock Bap Ch, Rex, Clayton Co, Georgia

Etta Mae married Strawn.

They had one child:
7171 i. William Eugene

4759. James Stokeley Buckalew (Private).
James Stokeley married Pauline Moody (Private).
They had the following children:
7172 i. Robert Clifford
7173 ii. Kenneth
7174 iii. Donny

4760. Monroe Buckalew (Private).
4761. Lillian Buckalew. Born on 27 July 1916. Lillian died in June in 1978. Buried in Bethany Bap Ch, Ola, Henry Co., Georgia.

Lillian married Ralph Prichett. Buried in Bethany Bap Ch, Ola, Henry Co., GA.

They had the following children:
7175 i. Larry
7176 ii. Linda
7177 iii. Ronny

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