Death certificates were kept---- these don't indicate race but in the right place

Ancestry has a death records database for Alabama

This could be him....worth a shot

Name: Jim Percevall
Death Date: 03 Nov 1920
Death County: Montgomery
Volume: 45
Roll: 2
Page #: 22479

Others of interest:

Name: Vernon Percival
Death Date: Oct 1930
Death County: Montgomery
Volume: 49
Roll: 3
Page #: 24096

Name: Wollie Perseville
Death Date: Aug 1936
Death County: Montgomery
Volume: 62
Roll: 3
Page #: 30885

Name: Pauline Percival
Death Date: Aug 1935
Death County: Montgomery
Volume: 37
Roll: 3
Page #: 18262

Name: Mollie Perserville
Death Date: Jul 1936
Death County: Montgomery
Volume: 50
Roll: 3
Page #: 24614

Name: Georgia Percival
Death Date: Mar 1938
Death County: Montgomery
Volume: 14
Certificate: 6937
Roll: 3

Name: Addlph Percival
Death Date: 20 Apr 1945
Death County: Montgomery
Volume: 16
Certificate: 7713
Roll: 4

Name: Sophronia Percival
Death Date: 17 Sep 1954
Death County: Montgomery
Volume: 37
Certificate: 18384
Roll: 6

Name: Willie D Percival
Death Date: 30 Jan 1958
Death County: Montgomery
Volume: 5
Certificate: 2016
Roll: 6

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