Alene Gaines is notable as the spouse of Clarence LaVaughn Franklin, an American Baptist minister, and civil rights activist. Alene has led a quiet life that is not known to the public and prefers to keep certain details about her life secret. Details about her life are restricted online, and there are no information about her life before the age of 18 and age, as well as dates of birth, tuition and parents’ identities and siblings’ identities, as well as other pertinent information. She was married to Rev. Clarence L Franklin but their union ended at the beginning of 1936. This page will be updated to reflect her profile as we come to stumble upon any information that is new about Alene Gaines her life.
Alene Gaines’ Relationship With Clarence L Franklin
Alene Gaines was was married to the popular Minister and Civil Rights activists Clarence L Franklin also known as C. L. Franklin. The ex-husband of her was famous because of his sermons “The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest” and “Dry Bones in the Valley”. Alene Gaines and Clarence L Franklin were married on the 16th of October 1934. The couple broke up in early 1936.
Alene Gaines’ Ex-husband
Alene Gaines’ former husband was Clarence LaVaughn Franklin, born on the 22nd January 1915. The alternative names for him were Clarence LaVaughn Walker and C. L. Franklin. He was the son of the sharecroppers Willie as well as Rachel (nee Pittman) Walker in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.
Clarence L Franklin is an American Baptist minister and civil rights advocate who achieved notoriety as the man with”the “Million-Dollar voice”. He was the Pastor at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, from 1946.
Alene’s former friend was a preacher from the age of just 16 years old. He began his job with an itinerant black preaching network, before making his way to New Salem Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. He then moved to the pulpit of Friendship Baptist Church in Buffalo, New York, and was named pastor at New Bethel Baptist Church. His sermons were recorded throughout the 1970s, and broadcast sermons by radio on Sundays.
The majority the sermons he preached were published under Joe Von Battle’s JVB label. A few of his sermons, as well as his life’s story written with his personal words were published in a collection produced by Jeff T. Titon in conjunction with The University of Illinois Press. He was involved in Civil Rights movements, too and was a tireless advocate for ending the discrimination for African-American United Auto Workers members in Detroit.
Clarence L Franklin was also famous for his voice and mastery of a particular style of preaching with music that was a tradition within the Black Baptist church called “whooping”.He could charge up to $4000 for each public appearances.
It was his father who was American artist and singer Aretha Franklin. He was is also being the dad of 5 more children which include Vaughn Franklin, Erma Franklin, Cecil Franklin, Carolyn Franklin as well as Carol Ellan Kelley.
Does Alene Gaines’ former husband alive Or Is He Dead?
Alene Gaines’ ex-husband, Clarence L Franklin is dead. He was wounded and shot on the 10th of June 1979. He was twice shot at point-blank range in what was believed to be an attempted murder at his residence in the city’s West Side. He was taken at Henry Ford Hospital on nearby West Grand Boulevard and endured an indefinite coma that lasted for five years.
He died on the 27th of July 1984 at Detroit’s New Light Nursing Home. He was 69 when his death. He was interred in Detroit’s Woodlawn Cemetery on North Woodward Avenue.
