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Note: He died in a head-on train collision, however the date and place are not known. He left Mammy Surls and the only thing she ever heard about him was that Uncle L.B. talked to the man who was the fireman on the train and he verified that he had been killed. Mammy never got any compensation from the railroad company. The family never gave him a pet name, they just called him Mr. Surls. He was married previously in Columbus, Georgia and had several children by his first wife. It is not known whether the marriage ended by divorce or death of his first wife. When Mama and Papa left Jackson Gap, they moved first to Columbus and actually lived on the same street that Mary Surls Cook, one of the children lived on. The 1880 census for Tallapoosa County , Alabama, lists him as SURELS. It also has his occupation as "mill hand." It also lists him as being born in NC not SC . It is not known if these are errors on the part of the census taker, or fact. It also lists his date of birth as 1834, age 46 at time of census. This also raises the question of whether he served in the Confederacy or not, and where.
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