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The Broadus Family of Decatur, Alabama by Phil Wirey
Charlotte Eleanor Sinclair
(Broadus) Sock 1840 housed
in SCB 168 and located in the
Special Collections
Department of Samford
University
Broadus Artifacts
at First Baptist
Church –
John A. Broadus
Bookcase
S. S. Broadus
April 15, 1911
CEB
(CEB - wife of John A. Broadus)
Photos of Broadus Family
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Broadus Family Tree of Decatur, Alabama By Phil Wirey
Samuel S. BroadusS. S. and Margaret Broadus’ Children
T. Harris
Charlotte
Jessie
Thomas
Margaret
Joseph
S. S. Broadus
Merchant Bank renamed
Tennessee Valley Bank on
Bank Street, Decatur, AL
S. S. Broadus one of the founding
members of Merchant’s Bank –
Tennessee Valley Bank (third
location) on Bank Street after name
change to State National Bank,
Decatur, AL
Samuel
Sinclair
Boyce
CarolineAlice Virginia
Ella
Eliza
Mary Broadus Pruitt
Dr. John A. Broadus’ Children ~ 1882
Joseph C. Broadus
Margaret Carlisle Broadus
Eliza Broadus
Edward Broaddus, M
B: About 1685 in Wales
M1: Dolly Gwynn
M2: Mary Shipley
D: About 1755 in VA
Left Gwynn’s Island 1715
Ancestors of Samuel Sinclair Broadus
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Broadus Family Tree of Decatur, Alabama By Phil Wirey
Thomas Broadus, M
B: About 1772
M: Susannah Ferguson White
D: 1811
2nd son of William
Major Edmund Broadus, M
B: May 5, 1793, VA
M1: Nancy Simms
M2: Somerville Ward
D: Jun 27, 1850, VA
Oldest son of Thomas
William Broaddus, M
B: About 1729
M: Catherine Gaines
D: About 1790
4th son of Edward from Mary
Dr. John Albert Broadus, M
B: Jan 24, 1827, VA
M: Twice married
D: Mar 16, 1895, KY
4th child of Edmund and Nancy
Maria Carter
Harrison, F
B: Nov 14, 1831
M: Nov 13, 1850, VA
D: Oct 21, 1857
Dr. Gessner Harrison, M
B: Jun 26, 1807
M: Eliza Lewis Carter
Tucker
D: Apr 7, 1862
Professor U of VA, friend
of Prof. Henry Tutwiler
Charlotte Eleanor
Sinclair, F
B: Oct 28, 1836, VA
M: Jan 4, 1859
D: Dec 13, 1913, KY
George Sinclair, M
B: May 18, 1806
M: Ruth Ann Belt
D: Dec 31, 1851
Built Locust Grove,
Charlottesville, VA
Maria Louisa
Broadus, F
B: Jun 6, 1856
D: Jul 15, 1860
Died of diphtheria
Eliza Somerville
Broadus, F
B: Oct 1, 1851
M: Never married
D: Oct 7, 1931, died
after being hit by
truck a block from
her home
Annie Harrison Broadus, F
B: Sep 17, 1853
M: Rev. Wickliffe Yancey
Abraham
D: May 26, 1895, Columbia, SC
Said to be buried under steps of
1st Baptist, unknown city
Boyce Broadus, M
B: Nov 24, 1874
M: Margaret Russell
Sargeant
D: Feb 25, 1902
Banker in Florence,
buried in Russellville
Samuel Sinclair
Broadus, M
B: Jan 10, 1860
M: Margaret Miller
Carlisle
D: Apr 1, 1916
Attended Furman and
then U of VA, founder
Merchants (Tenn.
Valley) Bank
Caroline “Carrie”
M. Broadus, F
B: Feb 21, 1863
M: Never married
D: 1934
Alice Virginia
Broadus, F
B: Feb 10, 1867
M: Samuel Chiles
Mitchell, President of
U of SC and other
colleges
D: 1943
Son Broadus Mitchell
was nationally known
author and activist
Charlotte Sinclair Broadus on 1900 Census states having 7 children, 4 surviving with Eliza Somerville (step-daughter) and Ella Thomas living with her
Eleanor (Nellie)
Broadus*, F
B: Dec 26, 1864
D: Jun 9, 1866
Julia Duval
Broadus*, F
B: Jul 9, 1869
D: Jul 25, 1869
Ella Thomas
Broadus, F
B: Apr 19, 1872
M: Archibald
Thomas Robertson
D: Dec 5, 1945
She and husband
wrote numerous
books
*Buried in Springwood Cemetery, Greenville, SC
Descendants of Samuel Sinclair Broadus
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Broadus Family Tree of Decatur, Alabama By Phil Wirey
Samuel Sinclair Broadus*, M
B: Jan 10, 1860, Greenville, SC
M: Margaret Miller Carlisle
D: April 1 1916, Decatur, AL
Member of both 1st and Central
Baptist. On building committee
for 1st Baptist and secured funds
for Carnegie Library, Decatur
See Page 1
Margaret Miller Carlisle*, F
B: 1873, Lafayette, AL
M: Dec 25, 1895, Lafayette, AL
D: Sept 18, 1949, Decatur, AL
Attended Lafayette Female
College
Joseph A. Carlisle, M
B: Aug 12, 1840, AL
M1: Margaret Ann Etchison
M2: Louisiana V. Hutchinson
D: May 18, 1924, AL
Fought for AL 37th Inf., CSA
James Whatley Carlisle, M
B: Feb 24, 1802, GA
M: Mary Pace in 1826
D: 1887, New Site, AL
Edmund Griffith Carlisle, M
B: About 1760, NC
M: Elizabeth Ann Whatley
D: Apr 13, 1828, GA
Fought in Revolutionary War
Two children
that died young
in Florence, AL
May have been
twins, believed to
be buried in
Florence City
Cemetery
Carlisle Broadus, M
B: 1896, Florence,
AL
D: Dec 3, 1896 as an
infant in Florence,
AL, believed to be
buried in Florence
City Cemetery
John Albert
Broadus*, M
B: Jul 19, 1900,
Florence, AL
M: Never married
D: Sep 10, 1973,
Decatur, AL
Had a hog farm
south of Decatur on
hwy 67, drove horse
(Dolly) and cart
Charlotte Sinclair Broadus*, F
B: Feb 7, 1903, Florence, AL
M: Fiancé passed away and she never
married
D: Nov 16, 1989, Decatur, AL
Attended Judson College, graduate of
Greenville Woman’s College, public
school teacher, civil servant
Theodore Harris Broadus,
M
B: Apr 15, 1904, Decatur,
AL
M: Lucy Sharpe Eastwood,
Apr 28, 1935, Birmingham,
AL
D: Dec 26, 1986, Knoxville,
TN
Changed name to Thomas,
W&L and Harvard
graduate, started insurance
company in Knoxville. Both
he and wife buried at
Highland Memorial
Cemetery, Knoxville, TN
Joseph Carlisle
Broadus, M
B: Oct 22, 1908,
Decatur, AL
M: Ann Bowen
D: May 3, 1992,
Manhattan, NY
Washington & Lee
(W&L) and Harvard
graduate, VP of Chase
Manhattan Bank
Both he and wife are
buried at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bluewell,
WVa
Margaret Carlisle Broadus*,
F
B: 1906, Decatur
M: Charles Stark
D: 1961
Attended Randolph Macon
Woman’s College and UNC
Ella Virginia Broadus, F
B: Sep, 1910, Decatur, AL
D: Oct 17, 1910, Decatur, AL
Dr. Boardman Worney
Watson attending physician,
death cause given as
malnutrition, buried in
Florence
Mary Daniel Broadus*, F
B: Feb 8, 1912, Decatur,
AL
M: Isaac Pinckney Pruitt,
Jr.*, 7-24-1936
D: Apr 16, 1983, Peking,
China, body cremated
brought back to Decatur
Attended Mary Baldwin
College, VA, University
of Alabama, and
Northwestern University
* Buried in Decatur
City Cemetery,
Decatur, AL
Dr. John A. Broadus
Born 1827 in Northern Virginia and attended U of VA in Charlottesville
where he was both pastor and professor at the college.
One of four founding fathers of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary first in Greenville, SC (1859) and later Louisville, KY (1877).
During the Civil War he served for a while as chaplain to
Robert E. Lee's army in Northern Virginia and missionary to General
Stonewall Jackson in 1863.
Referred to as the Billy Graham of the 1900’s, had connections with the
Rockefeller’s (Fifth Avenue Baptist), Carnegie's, and Morgan’s.
Broadman Hymnal – Combination of his and Basil Manley, Jr’s name.
Women’s Mission UnionBuried in Louisville in 1898
Cave Hill Cemetery
“The Lord sent a chariot for Elijah, and a truck for Eliza.”
Converted and
baptized
Lottie Moon in
Charlottesville
Samuel Sinclair Broadus
Born 1860 in Greenville, SC and attended Furman then U of VA
in Charlottesville.
After graduating college went to work for John D. Rockefeller and
Standard Oil for six years.
In 1891 he was training with Theodore Harris in the banking
business in Louisville, KY.
In 1892 he was head cashier for the Merchant’s Bank in Florence he
founded (brother Boyce joins him). In 1897 branch opened in Tuscumbia,
by 1904 headquarters had moved to Decatur and by 1910 twelve branch
banks had been formed with the name changed to Tennessee Valley
Bank.
From Merchants to BBVA Compass some $4 billion later.
Building of new First Baptist church in Decatur, Carnegie Library,
Horseshoe Bend National Park, Howard University Trustee, etc.
Wrote “Chronological History of the Church” for First Baptist cornerstone
laying August 11, 1908. Joined Central Baptist March 1912.
“Sam sent his love to the next king
and queen I saw”
(John A. Broadus traveling abroad)
Buried in Decatur in 1916
with wife and three children
… or was he?
Broadus Home in Florence, AL
Lady below supposedly nanny
to Helen Keller
1906
1935
Samuel Sinclair Broadus
Home in Decatur, AL
1945
First Baptist
Church 1908
Oak Street
Lafayette Street
Carnegie Library 1904
Margaret Miller
Carlisle Broadus
Born 1873 in Lafayette, AL.
Her father served in 37th
Alabama Infantry and great
great grandfather in the
Revolutionary War.
Had ten children with six
making it to adulthood
Friends with Annie Wheeler
Ella Virginia’s death record,
died of malnutrition
John A. Broadus
had a pig (he called
it a hog farm) farm
outside of town,
would hitch up his
horse Dolly and
wagon each morning
and go out to the
farm.
Portrait now housed
at Archives.
“And her children
shall arise and call
her blessed”
Harvard 1930
Theodore and Joseph Broadus
Both attended Riverside High, Washington and Lee in
Lexington, VA, and Harvard University.
Joseph - Senior Vice President Chase Manhattan /
Morgan Bank in New York City, friends with David
Rockefeller (grandson of John D. Rockefeller)
Thomas (?) – President of Broadus Insurance
Company in Knoxville, TN, father of Dr. Arthur Broadus,
professor at Yale University
Both loved golf (Sam Snead story) and founded and
gave to charitable institutions
Joe Broadus – True
as the needle to the
pole, Or the sun dial
to the sun
Margaret
Carlisle
Broadus
Attended Randolph Macon
Woman’s College and UNC
Judson College Book by
Emmie Polhill Wolfer
Died at Western State
Hospital, Bolivar, TN
Mary Daniel Broadus
University of Alabama
Mary in 1950’s
Mary Daniel Broadus
From Riverside High to Mary Baldwin in VA
to U of A. Married Isaac Pinckney Pruitt
1936, moved to Chicago, Norfolk during
the war, San Francisco, Fairfield, CT,
Nashville, Dallas, Louisville, Los Angeles,
and retired to Decatur in 1973, had three
daughters, died in Beijing, China
Charlotte Sinclair Broadus
Judson College, Greenville Woman’s College
(voted prettiest), Decatur 2nd Grade Teacher
(1930-1940, salary $600/yr), Hostess for USO,
30 Years of Civil Service, retired Decatur McNeil
Lyons Apartments, died in Montgomery
“A daughter of the
gods, divinely tall,
and most
divinely fair”