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THOMAS AARON RUMBLEY
Thomas A. Rumbley was the son of Richard Henry Rumbley (1799-1895) and his wife, Mary McMillan Rumbley (1808-1861). R.H. Rumbley was the son of Maryland native John Rumbley and his wife, Jane Austin Rumbley who came to Monroe County in the early 1800s. Thomas Rumbley served in the Confederate army and was in a number of fierce battles. When the war ended, Lt. Rumbley walked from North Carolina to his Alabama home. Tom Rumblry was a farmer and the highly respected surveyor of Monroe County for many years. His obituary mentions his impeccable honesty. He was an elder in the Burnt Corn Presbyterian Church, which was locaated in Puryearville. His children remembered him as a loving father, but capable of administering stern punishment if they strayed from the stright and narrow. His wife was a tiny woman, a talented musician, and possessed of a kind and sweet disposition that endeared her, to all who knew her of both black and white races. Thomas and Alabama Rumbley are buried in the Puryearville Cemetery beside the graves of her parents, William B. and Martha Crook.
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