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Phenix City, AL 36867
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Phenix City AL Obituaries and Death Notices
Sunday, February 12, 2017Darby started as a sports writer and became the sports editor.Sammy Howard, former mayor of Phenix City, knew Darby on multiple levels — first as a standout player for Central High School in the 1950s, then as a coach at Hardaway and Glenwood.“He’s the best sportswriter we’ve ever had,” Howard said of Darby, a longtime friend.Even today, Howard pulls out the tattered old newspaper clips and reads Darby’s words.“He really, and I mean really, cared about high school sports and you could tell by the way he wrote it was dear to him,” Howard said. “I was recently reading the article about the 1956 game we played against Columbus High.”Central lost 14-13.“It was just like I was there again,” Howard said. “He got it right. Just like I remembered it.”In 1969, Howard coached a Yazoo City team that won the Mississippi state championship.“He called me up to do a story and I remember he was so easy to talk to,” Howard said. “We ended up at Hardaway the next year. You could always trust him to get it right.”Darby, the son of Cecil Albert Darby Sr. and Jewel Owen Darby, worked in the Ledger for 36 years. He was a 1942 Columbus High School graduate, he briefly attended the University of Florida.He spent nearly three years in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, mostly in the Pacific.After his retirement from the newspaper, Darby was honored for his work many times.He was inducted into the Chattahoochee Valley Sports Hall of Fame. Darby went into the South Atlantic League Hall of Fame in 1995 in a class that included pitcher Bob Gibson, catcher Al Lopez and the legendary Enos Slaughter.He kept meticulous records and in 2006 donated much of what he had accumulated to the Columbus State University archives. The collection ...
Monday, July 25, 2016Bill was immortalized by a listing in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Slave's monument to former masterGrave of John GodwinGodwin Family CemeteryPhenix City, ALTypical for wealthy white men of his time, John Godwin (Oct. 17, 1798-Feb. 26, 1859) of Phenix City was a slave owner, and the story of his special bond with a talented slave is forever etched on his tombstone. Horace King was born into slavery and was sold to John Godwin. However, Godwin, a builder who recognized King's innate talent for bridge building and architecture, treated King as his partner on numerous building projects, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama. Unlike most slaves, King married a free woman of color, he earned good wages for his work, and he earned a reputation as an outstanding builder. In his later life, he served in the Alabama House of Representatives.Numerous bridges and buildings in Alabama were built by King and his former owner Godwin before King bought his freedom and continued his work on his own. One of King's best-known projects is the double spiral staircase in the Alabama State Capitol Building. When Godwin died in 1859, it was King who erected the monument on his grave in the Godwin Family Cemetery on the family's plantation.It says: "This stone was placed here by Horace King, in lasting remembrance of the love and gratitude he felt for his lost friend and former master."The train engineer who gave allGrave of Joseph AveryOdd Fellows CemeteryGainesville, ALJoseph Avery (1826-March 22, 1862) was a railroad engineer with the Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad who died after what was known as a heroic train run in an effort to...
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Sunday, February 12, 2017Darby started as a sports writer and became the sports editor.Sammy Howard, former mayor of Phenix City, knew Darby on multiple levels — first as a standout player for Central High School in the 1950s, then as a coach at Hardaway and Glenwood.“He’s the best sportswriter we’ve ever had,” Howard said of Darby, a longtime friend.Even today, Howard pulls out the tattered old newspaper clips and reads Darby’s words.“He really, and I mean really, cared about high school sports and you could tell by the way he wrote it was dear to him,” Howard said. “I was recently reading the article about the 1956 game we played against Columbus High.”Central lost 14-13.“It was just like I was there again,” Howard said. “He got it right. Just like I remembered it.”In 1969, Howard coached a Yazoo City team that won the Mississippi state championship.“He called me up to do a story and I remember he was so easy to talk to,” Howard said. “We ended up at Hardaway the next year. You could always trust him to get it right.”Darby, the son of Cecil Albert Darby Sr. and Jewel Owen Darby, worked in the Ledger for 36 years. He was a 1942 Columbus High School graduate, he briefly attended the University of Florida.He spent nearly three years in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, mostly in the Pacific.After his retirement from the newspaper, Darby was honored for his work many times.He was inducted into the Chattahoochee Valley Sports Hall of Fame. Darby went into the South Atlantic League Hall of Fame in 1995 in a class that included pitcher Bob Gibson, catcher Al Lopez and the legendary Enos Slaughter.He kept meticulous records and in 2006 donated much of what he had accumulated to the Columbus State University archives. The collection ...
Monday, July 25, 2016Bill was immortalized by a listing in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Slave's monument to former masterGrave of John GodwinGodwin Family CemeteryPhenix City, ALTypical for wealthy white men of his time, John Godwin (Oct. 17, 1798-Feb. 26, 1859) of Phenix City was a slave owner, and the story of his special bond with a talented slave is forever etched on his tombstone. Horace King was born into slavery and was sold to John Godwin. However, Godwin, a builder who recognized King's innate talent for bridge building and architecture, treated King as his partner on numerous building projects, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama. Unlike most slaves, King married a free woman of color, he earned good wages for his work, and he earned a reputation as an outstanding builder. In his later life, he served in the Alabama House of Representatives.Numerous bridges and buildings in Alabama were built by King and his former owner Godwin before King bought his freedom and continued his work on his own. One of King's best-known projects is the double spiral staircase in the Alabama State Capitol Building. When Godwin died in 1859, it was King who erected the monument on his grave in the Godwin Family Cemetery on the family's plantation.It says: "This stone was placed here by Horace King, in lasting remembrance of the love and gratitude he felt for his lost friend and former master."The train engineer who gave allGrave of Joseph AveryOdd Fellows CemeteryGainesville, ALJoseph Avery (1826-March 22, 1862) was a railroad engineer with the Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad who died after what was known as a heroic train run in an effort to...
