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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Horald Hugo Sorrell: Birth: 12 Sep 1900 in Penton, Chambers County, AL. Death: 21 Mar 1953 in Lanett, Chambers County, AL

  2. Theron Theodore Sorrell: Birth: 6 Aug 1902 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 12 Sep 1903 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL

  3. Gladys Sharp Sorrell: Birth: 18 Apr 1904 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 26 May 1905 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL

  4. Cliant Rae Sorrell: Birth: 17 Apr 1905 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 25 Nov 1988 in Rome, Floyd County, GA

  5. Curtis Worth Sorrell: Birth: 22 Feb 1907 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 8 Jul 1987 in Lanett, Chambers County, AL

  6. Rufus Glenn Sorrell: Birth: 28 Jan 1909 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 14 Jun 1971 in West Point, Troup County, GA

  7. Rubie Joy Sorrell: Birth: 6 Aug 1911 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 11 Oct 1980 in LaFayette, Chambers County, AL - Never married, no issue.

  8. O. D. Sorrell: Birth: 5 Aug 1913 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 22 Feb 2006 in Lanett, Chambers County, AL

  9. Henry Lewis Sorrell: Birth: 6 Apr 1916 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 17 Jul 1999 in Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

  10. Engman Riley Sorrell: Birth: 27 Oct 1917 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 13 Mar 2003 in Valley (Langdale), Chambers County, AL

  11. Jack Eliot Sorrell: Birth: 14 May 1921 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 29 Jul 2002 in Lanett, Chambers County, AL - Never married, no issue.

  12. Katharyne LeMerle Sorrell: Birth: 9 Sep 1925 in White Plains, Chambers County, AL. Death: 19 Feb 2001 in Hope Hull, Montgomery County, AL - Divorced. Had 3 children. DOB on stone is May 16, 1925.


Notes
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  She was nicknamed after her father, D. C. Sharp, and that's how you pronounce it (dee see). When she was a baby everyone said she looked just like her daddy so they started calling her "Little D. C." or "Dece."
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  She lived within 3 miles of the spot she was born her whole life.
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  The LaFayette Sun, Wed. Aug. 17, 1938
  Mrs. Odecie Sorrell Is Buried at Penton, 12th
  Mrs. Odecie Sorrell, age 60 years, wife of R. A. Sorrell, one of the county's best known citizens of the White Plains community, passed away at the home last Thursday morning at 5:30 o'clock following an illness of several months.
  Mrs. Sorrell was a member of the well-known and respected Sharpe family of Chambers County, a life-long resident of the White Plains community and a woman who had devoted a useful sixty years to her family and community.  She was a member of the Penton Church of God, and it was in the soils adjacent the church that she returned to earth last Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.  Rev. J. L. Mitchell and Rev. J. L. Duffee were the officiating ministers.
  Surviving are a husband, R. A. Sorrell, White Plains; ten children, Harold, Rae, Curtis, Glenn, O. D. and Lewis Sorrell, Lanett; Ruby, Jack, LeMerle and Engman Sorrell, all of Buffalo.  Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters, Charles Sharpe, Roanoke; Mrs. R. M. Jackson, Fort Payne; Hershel Sharpe, Mrs. B. B. Benton and Mrs. B. E. Earle, Buffalo.
  Pallbearers were the eight sons of the deceased.  Interment was in the family burying plot at Penton, with J. E. Cutler in charge of funeral arrangements.
  Corrections: Hershel should be Hershal, Sharpe should be Sharp.
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  Name: Mrs. Odecie Sorrell
 Death Date: 11 Aug 1938
 Death Place: Buffalo, Chambers, Alabama
 Gender: Female
 Age at Death: 60y 5m 4d
 Estimated Birth Date: 1878
 Spouse's Name: Rufus A. Sorrell
 Father's Name: Dewitt Sharpe
 Mother's Name: Jane Tomlinson
 Film Number: 1908568
 Reference Number: 17299
 Collection: Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974
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