Alfred Waugh Delchamps

This was written by my Grandmother, Grace Nugent Nicol, my grandmother. He is 4th of the sons of J.J. Delchamps (My great, great, great grandfather).

I have very little on Uncle Alfred. He died when Alfred was six - the date of his marriage is not known, and some of the family are mean enough to say he never was, but mamma always said he was, against Grandpa J.J.'s wishes, because "the woman was beneath hiim, and he was too ill for the responsiblity of matrimony.) Alfred adores the memory of his mother, so she couldn't be too bad.
Anyway, here goes... He was born and raised in a large family of brothers and sisters, and did not marry young. He was educated about the same as the others, and in young manhood went to Mobile, where he, his brother Willie Boyles and a man named Graham engaged in a small printing business, and paper industry. They delivered paper bags, wrapping material, etc. to grocery stores and other places of business in a covered wagon, pulled by mules. He engaged in this before he became too ill to earn a livelihood. He was far from being a well man long before his demise. He was not well before the birth of his first son, Alfred, and seemed to never fully recover after he once became ill. He would gain a bit, then slip back.
Before his marriage in his early manhood he lived at home. After the death of his mother (Sarah Bancroft D., who died of cancer) and during his last illness, his sister, Sally, kept house for her father and the brothers still at home, until her marriage to James Hopper. Sally married James D. Hopper. They had one son, Harold Earl. Sally died at the of age of 29 years.