Obediah Berry
The mayor the raised
the white flag of surrender for Tuscaloosa
Born a Yankee, and relocated in Tuscaloosa, Mayor Obediah Berry (his grave marker spells his name Obediah instead of Obadiah) served Tuscaloosa during the turbulent times of the Civil War. On perhaps one of the saddest days in this town, on April 4, 1865, Mayor Obediah Berry and Father William F. McDonough, the local Catholic priest, went down to the bank of the Black Warrior River under a white flag to surrender the town. Croxton’s Raiders had already pillaged both Northport and Tuscaloosa, burning buildings and confiscated goods as well as putting torches to the University of Alabama, when the Mayor offered the surrender of Tuscaloosa.
After the war, Berry served two more terms as Mayor before his death.
To locate the final, solve:
33 11.2AB
87 33.4CD
A = Subtract the third digit in the year of his birth from the third digit in the year of his death.
B = Subtract the first digit in the date of his death from the second digit in the date of his death.
C = Subtract the third digit in the year of his birth from the fourth digit in the year of his death.
D = Subtract the third digit in the year of his birth from the second digit in the year of his death.