Dr. Claud Belton Lavender

It was Dr. Claud B. Lavender's son, Dr. Claude Wilson Lavender, who founded and built the Hartselle, Ala., Medical Center in 1948. Its 60th birthday was celebrated in Hartselle in 2008 (Decatur Daily, November 21, 2008). He bought an old frame house [in Hartselle] for his office and added a clinic. There were no surgery facilities until 1950. Dr. Lavender’s father, Dr. Claud Belton Lavender, joined him in Hartselle and died at the hospital in 1954 [it was Jan. 30, 1955].

• Lived 1900: Henry's Beat, Ethelsville area, Pickens Co., AL
• Lived 1909: Panola, Sumter Co., AL [Our Southern Home, June 30, 1909, p. 1]. Panola, which was on a railroad line, was in a building boom at the time.
• Lived 1910: Warsaw Beat, Sumter Co., AL w/ sister Jennie and her husband [1910 Sumter Co., AL census]
• Lived 1911-1912: Panola, Sumter Co., AL [Birmingham Age-Herald, March 1, 1911, p. 11, "Tuscaloosa News, August 24, 1912, p. 5]
• Occupation 1912: Physician, Panola, Sumter Co., AL: store was "Lavender & McLeod" [The ERA Druggist's Directory of the United Stares, Canada, Cuba, Porto Rico, Mainland Hawaiian Islands, 1912, 16th EDITION, p. 19] https://babel.hathitrust.trg/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011445981&view=1up&...
• Lived 1915: Preston Beat, Sumter Co., AL [Our Southern Home, November 24, 1915, p. 1]
• Lived 1916-1921: Reform, Pickens Co., AL and 1921 Elrod, Tuscaloosa Co., AL [ "The Columbus Dispatch, February 9, 1921, p. 3; birth place of son William in December 1921]
• Lived 1924: Reform, Pickens Co., AL [Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian, April 24, 1924, p. 6]
• Lived 1930-1943: Fairfield, Jefferson Co., AL [1930 Jefferson Co., AL census; 3/9/1943 letter from Claud to brother Louie Lavender]

NEWS FROM PANOLA... Dr. C. B. Lavender has returned from a post-graduate course in medicine taken in. the Tulane university. He resumes his practice here. --Birmingham Age-Herald, March 1, 1911, p. 11

Dr. C.B. Lavender, who has been practicing his profession in Reform the past five years, has the practice of the Pioneer Lumber and will move with his family to Elrod, Tuscaloosa county, within the next two months. Since locating in Reform Dr. Lavender has been quite successful in the practice of his professsion and it is with reluctance the people of this thriving little city release their claim on him --"The Columbus Dispatch, February 9, 1921, p. 3]

Claud Lavender and family moved to Fairfield, a suburb of Birmingham, in the early 1920s.

The following is from the Fairfield High School Alumni Association Newsletter, Winter 2014: "The area was originally called the Town of Corey and the name was later [1913] changed to the City of Fairfield...Corey Fairfield was a meticulously planned community to provide an industrial site with housing for workers and a family oriented environment with parks, churches as well as community services close to the workers' jobs. The development was monitored from 1910 to 1919. ... In 1907, U. S. Steel purchased the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company.... Railroad lines had already been established. The land also provided space for industrial housing for employees. Workers would want to bring their families to an area with sanitary, pleasant surroundings. This the Town of Corey was conceived and initially drawn up by George H. Miller."

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Claud Belton Lavender in household of John W Lavender, in 1900 US Census for Precinct 5 Henry, Pickens Co., Alabama District: 71

• Sheet Number and Letter: 7B Household ID: 151 Line Number: 87
• Household Gender Age Birthplace
• Head John W Lavender M 42 Ala
• Wife Bell Lavender F 39 Miss
• Daughter Jennie Lavender F 19 Ala
• Son Claud Lavender M 18 Ala b. Nov. 1882
• Son Louie Lavender M 13 Ala
• Daughter Rena Lavender F 11 Ala
• Daughter Sally Lavender F 9 Ala
• Son Newman Lavender M 5 Ala
• Daughter Helen Lavender F 2 Ala

Claud B Lavender in 1910 US census for Warsaw, Sumter Co., Alabama

• Father's Birthplace: Alabama
• Mother's Birthplace: Mississippi
• Sheet Number and Letter: 14A Household ID: 6
• Household Gender Age Birthplace
• Head Will A Mcleod M 37 Mississippi
• Wife Jennie Mcleod F 28 Alabama
• Brother-in-law Claude B Lavender M 27 Alabama

Registered for the World War I Draft in September 1918.

In 1920 census for Reform, Pickens Co., Alabama Household Gender Age Birthplace

• Head Dr. Claud Lavender M 37 Alabama
• Wife Maggie M Lavender F 30 Mississippi
• Son Belton N Lavender M 6 Alabama
• Son Cloud W Lavender M 4 Alabama

Claud Belton Lavender & Maggie Mae Neel Lavender in 1930 US census for Alabama, Fairfield, Jefferson County:

• Household Gender Age Birthplace
• Head Claude B Lavender M 45 Alabama
• Wife Maggie W Lavender F 39 Mississippi
• Son Neal B Lavender M 16 Alabama
• Son Claude W Lavender M 14 Alabama
• Son William D Lavender M 8 Alabama
• Son Robert E Lavender M 3 Alabama

Claud Belton Lavender & Maggie Mae Neel Lavender] at 4301 Parkway, Fairfield AL, in 1940 US census for Alabama, Jefferson Election Precinct 53, Ward 337-137...Company General Hospital:

• Household Gender Age Birthplace
• Head Claude Lavender M 57 Alabama
• Wife Maggie Lavender F 50 Mississippi
• Son Claude Lavender M 24 Alabama
• Son William Lavender M 18 Alabama
• Son Robert Lavender M 13 Alabama
• + 7 lodgers, workers at Birmingham Steel Mill

Died Jan. 30, 1955; buried at Hartselle City Cemetery, Hartselle, Ala.