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Mrs. Mary E. Hunter, was the first Black principal in Jackson County, Alabama and matriarch of a prominent Black family in Scottsboro, Alabama. Mary E. Hunter Avenue and Mary Hunter Homes in Scottsboro, Alabama are named in her honor. She is the mother of Thomas E. Weatherly, Sr., notable educator, grandmother of the poet Thomas E. Weatherly, Jr. and educator Yvonne D. Weatherly. She is the great-grandmother of Regina R. Nicholson, the only Black Jackson County Jr. Miss (crowned in 1981, 50 years after the Scottsboro Boys (1931)) and a Miss Alabama A&M University and Thomas E. Weatherly, III.
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