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Ancestors of Thomas Ervin Lolley

Generation No. 2

      2. Roscoe Lee Lolley, born October 16, 1900 in Victoria, Coffee County, Alabama; died March 05, 1988 in Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina. He was the son of 4. Lijah Mathanael Lolley and 5. Lou Ada Delilah Grimes. He married 3. Mary Sarah Nunnelee November 29, 1925 in Elba, Coffee County, Alabama.

      3. Mary Sarah Nunnelee, born August 29, 1899 in Good Hope community near Troy, Pike County, Alabama; died October 27, 1967 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of 6. John Thomas Bartow Nunnelee and 7. Ida Jane Raley.

Notes for Roscoe Lee Lolley:
Roscoe and Eva were cousins (2nd cousins once removed). Roscoe's gr-grandmother Grimes was a Harrison. Roscoe had planned to marry Mary Nunnelee before he married Eva. He would never explain why he married Eva when he and Mary were planning to marry. After Eva died from complications from childbirth a year later, Eva's parents raised the baby Juanita. Three years later Roscoe married Mary. Juanita never lived with them.
My theory after thinking about it since Tom and I married in1958 is that Eva and Roscoe had been sweethearts since they had grown up together. The new school teacher, Mary Lolley, evidently caught Roscoe's eye, and they began dating. Apparently, Roscoe asked Mary to marry him; she said yes. She went home to Pike County to spend the Christmas holidays and to plan their wedding.
When she returned to Coffee County, she found out that Roscoe had married Eva Dec. 22, 1922!! Knowing Roscoe's personality, I believe Eva said, "Roscoe, why don't we get married?" and he replied, "Okay!"

More About Roscoe Lee Lolley:
Burial: March 1998, Goodhope Baptist Chuexh cemetery, Co. RD. 25, 1 mi. no. of US 29, Pike Co. Alabama
Fact 1: Buried at Good Hope Baptist Church, Troy, Pike Co., Ala.
Fact 2: Owned a feed mill in Samson, Ala.
Fact 3: Bet. 1972 - 1988, Lived with son Tom and his family in N.C.
Marriagge: December 22, 1922, Marriage performed by Justice of Peace Joe Holloway at his home
Religion: Peasant Gardens Baptist, Marion, NC

More About Mary Sarah Nunnelee:
Burial: October 31, 1967, Goodhope Baptist Chuexh cemetery, Co. RD. 25, 1 mi. no. of US 29, Pike Co. Alabama
Education: Graduate of Troy State College
Fact 1: Elementary school teacher in Coffee, Pike, and Geneva counties
Fact 2: Died in Winston-Salem, NC, 3 weeks after being moved to a nursing home there.
Religion: First Baptist, Samson, Ala.

Children of Roscoe Lolley and Mary Nunnelee are:

Dr. William Randall Lolley, born June 06, 1931 in Good Hope community near Troy, Pike County, Alabama; married Clara Lou Jacobs August 28, 1953 in Geneva, Geneva County, Alabama; born July 21, 1932 in Geneva, Geneva County, Alabama.

More About Dr. William Randall Lolley:
Fact 1: Minister of Piney Grove, Good Hope Baptist churches in Ala.
Fact 2: Pastor of Pine Ridge and Poplar Springs Baptist churches in Franklin Co. NC/
Fact 3: Assistant pastor, First Baptist, Greensboro, NC
Fact 4: Assistant pastor, Broadway Baptist, Ft. Worth, Texas
Fact 5: Pastor, First Baptist, Winston-Salem, NC
Fact 6: President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fact 7: Pastor, First Baptist, Raleigh, NC
Fact 8: Pastor, First Baptist, Greensboro, NC
Religion: First Baptist, Raleigh, NC

More About Clara Lou Jacobs:
Religion: First Baptist, Raleigh, NC

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Rev. Thomas Ervin Lolley, born March 17, 1937 in Good Hope community near Troy, Pike County, Alabama; married Sydney Marilyn Harrell August 17, 1958 in East Gadsden Baptist Church, East Gadsden, Etowah Co., Ala..

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