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 1920 - 1998 (78 years)
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| Name |
William Samuel McAliley |
| Suffix |
Sr. |
| Birth |
14 Feb 1920 |
Chester, South Carolina  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
7 Apr 1998 |
Austell, Cobb, Georgia |
| Person ID |
I910 |
Georgia Society Member Graves Registry |
| Last Modified |
4 May 2007 |
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| Headstones |
 | McAliley, William
GPS: 34° 40.935' N, 81° 10.847' W
Marked by the Daniel Morgan Chapter (Mark Anthony), South Carolina |
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| Notes |
- William Samuel McAliley was born February 14, 1920 at the McAliley plantation three miles south of Chester, South Carolina. He was the third and youngest son of Charles C. and Mabel Kittrell McAliley. He was educated at Dora Jones Elementary School and at Chester High School from which he graduated with honors. He received an A.B. degree in Social Studies and English from Erskine College in 1941, having the distinction of having the highest scholastic standing of any male student in his class. From 1941-1946 he served as principal and teacher in schools in South Carolina.
He entered Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA in 1946 and graduated in 1949 with a Master of Divinity degree. After ordination in the Presbyterian Church US (now Presbyterian Church U.S.A.) he served churches in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky.
On March 6, 1950, while traveling alone, his car was hit by the Illinois Central “City of Miami” passenger train. His left leg was injured and had to be amputated. On December 27, 1951 he was married to a nurse, Opal Gray Ivey of Graceville, Florida. William and Opal had five children: William Samuel, Jr., Ruth Kittrell (Harper), David Carl, Richard Leigh, and Sarah Ivey (Oba). There are now twelve grandchildren. Opal Ivey McAliley died following a bout with cancer on September 7, 1975.
On August 11, 1979 he was married at the First Presbyterian Church, York, SC, to the Reverend Elizabeth Henry Dunlap, a former missionary in the Congo and at that time a staff associate with the General Assembly Mission Board of the PCUS. In 1988 when the national offices of the PC(U.S.A.) moved to Louisville, KY, the McAlileys took up residence in Louisville, staying there until 1996 when they returned to Georgia to retire at the Presbyterian Village in Austell. Mr. McAliley died on April 7, 1998.
Though William McAliley had physical handicaps form birth, he never felt sorry for himself. The handicaps did not stop him from helping those who needed him. He became a role model for many who watched him serving God – as a husband, a father, a teacher, a scout leader, and a pastor who visited the sick, befriended the lonely and the elderly. His life was full and blessed and he was a blessing to all who knew him.
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