Robert Joseph Alderman Sr.
(1874-1932)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Malvina Elizabeth Geer

Robert Joseph Alderman Sr. 1 2 3 4 5

  • Born: 30 Sep 1874, Wallace, Duplin, NC 1 3 5
  • Marriage (1): Malvina Elizabeth Geer on 21 Dec 1904 in , Clarendon, SC
  • Died: 21 Dec 1932, , Anderson, SC at age 58 3 5
  • Buried: Belton: Belton Baptist Church, Anderson, SC 3

   FamilySearch ID: LHNW-X4W

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Book: Aldermans in America, 1957. 5
In many respects Robert J. Alderman was a reproduction of his father, showing the same business capacity and keen insight into men and affairs. On graduating from Furman University, his father called him to share in the responsibilities of a great and heavy business at Alcolu, S. C., where he had acquired a vast territory of heavily timbered land, enough to supply their great lumber mills for many years. They had their own railroads and equipment for moving the timber and lumber. The town of Alcolu, which David Wells established and named, was exclusively the property of the Alderman Lumber Company. They had their own handsome church building, hotel, school building, and other necessities for a well appointed community town. On the death of his father, Robert and his brother, Paul, assumed charge of the business and continued to operate it with the same vigor as before.
Robert married Mallie E., a native of Anderson County and a daughter of Solomon Geer, a well known scholar and manufacturer of Belton, S. C. Mallie was educated at the Greenville Woman's College. She possessed those rare gifts and graces that well fit one for presiding over such a happy family as theirs. They made their home in Alcolu where they were members of the Baptist Church, but he was buried at Belton, Mallie's native town.

Robert Joseph Alderman born Sep. 30, 1874 died Dec. 21, 1932 married Dec. 21, 1904 Mallie E. Geer born Jul. 28, 1875.
Issue:
Mary E. \emdash Born: Dec. 25, 1905 | Married: Aug. 31, 1929 to Howard D. Dobson
Ben Geer \emdash Born: Jun. 24, 1907 | Married: Dec. 10, 1935 to Mary W. Jones
Jennie T. \emdash Born: Nov. 14, 1908 | Married: X (Single)
Mattison Wells \emdash Born: Dec. 4, 1914 | Married: Sep. 18, 1940 to Betty Marilyn Bury
Robert Joseph \emdash Born: May 17, 1917 | Married: Jan. 11, 1938 to Sallie E. Dubrow.


Robert married Malvina Elizabeth Geer on 21 Dec 1904 in , Clarendon, SC. (Malvina Elizabeth Geer was born on 28 Jul 1875 in Belton, Anderson, SC,1 died on 23 Mar 1958 in Manning, Clarendon, SC 3 and was buried in Belton: Belton Baptist Church, Anderson, SC.)


Sources


1 FamilySearch.org, Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1775-1991, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VFW3-SMY Marriage Record for Mattison Wells Alderman and Elizabeth Marilyn Bury, 1940.

2 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=97172809.

3 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=97172821.

4 FamilySearch.org, North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H44M-KH6Z Mattison Wells Alderman, 1986 NC Death certificate 054200, father Robert J. Alderman, mother Malvina Geer, informant daughter Sarah Gornstein.

5 William Alderman Parker, "Aldermans in America" (Available free on FamilySearch.org Books: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/539054-aldermans-in-america), Pages 150-153.



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