Biography:

Baptist clergyman; superintendent of children’s home. Born April 3, 1875, Coosa County.  Parents– Jesse Allen Colley and Frances Akin Colley.  Married Berta Hitchcock, May 9, 1907. Children– Six. Education– Howard College; Southern Baptist Seminary. Served as pastor of several Baptist churches including ones at Enterprise. Superintendent of Alabama Baptist Children’s Home at Troy, 1922-1942.  Named superintendent emeritus on his retirement in 1942.  Died November 27, 1957.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; ancestry.com

Joint_Publication(s):

The Story of Alabama Baptist Children’s Home. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1945-1955.