Memorial based on the obituary published in the Press-Register (Mobile Alabama) December 1, 1996 page B3 and the report "The Polee, Rose and Lucy Allen Lines: Genealogical Descents from Africa, the Slave Ship Clotilda, and Africatown, Alabama to the Present" (2nd Edition) by Llewellyn Lew Toulmin (2022).
Press-Register December 1, 1996, page B3
Dorothy Camelia Ellis Arthur, a resident of Prichard for 63 years and former longtime teacher in Mobile public schools, died Friday. She was 87.
Mrs. Arthur was born in Magazine, Ala., a descendent of Cudjoe Lewis*, one of the last African slaves brought to Plateau.
She was baptized at Union Baptist Church in Plateau. In 1928, she graduated from Mobile County Training School in Plateau and later received her bachelor's degree from Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery.
She taught elementary school in Mobile for 42 years.
Survivors include her husband, the Rev. Theodore Arthur Sr. of Prichard; two sons, Theodore Arthur Jr. and Preston L. Arthur; and three grandchildren.
Arrangements will be announced by Johnson-Allen Mortuary.
*According to the Llewellyn Lew Toulmin (2022) report referenced above and US Census data, Dorothy Arthur was a descendent of Polee Allen who, like Cudjoe Lewis, was a Clotilda survivor and a co-founder of Africatown, Alabama.
Memorial based on the obituary published in the Press-Register (Mobile Alabama) December 1, 1996 page B3 and the report "The Polee, Rose and Lucy Allen Lines: Genealogical Descents from Africa, the Slave Ship Clotilda, and Africatown, Alabama to the Present" (2nd Edition) by Llewellyn Lew Toulmin (2022).
Press-Register December 1, 1996, page B3
Dorothy Camelia Ellis Arthur, a resident of Prichard for 63 years and former longtime teacher in Mobile public schools, died Friday. She was 87.
Mrs. Arthur was born in Magazine, Ala., a descendent of Cudjoe Lewis*, one of the last African slaves brought to Plateau.
She was baptized at Union Baptist Church in Plateau. In 1928, she graduated from Mobile County Training School in Plateau and later received her bachelor's degree from Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery.
She taught elementary school in Mobile for 42 years.
Survivors include her husband, the Rev. Theodore Arthur Sr. of Prichard; two sons, Theodore Arthur Jr. and Preston L. Arthur; and three grandchildren.
Arrangements will be announced by Johnson-Allen Mortuary.
*According to the Llewellyn Lew Toulmin (2022) report referenced above and US Census data, Dorothy Arthur was a descendent of Polee Allen who, like Cudjoe Lewis, was a Clotilda survivor and a co-founder of Africatown, Alabama.
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