ALABAMA
STATE
BAGGETT, MRS. ALICE, educator, born in
Soccapatoy, Coosa county, Ala., 184-. Her maiden name was Alice
Phillips. On her mother's side she is descended from the Scotch
families of Campbell, McNeill, Wade, and Hampton, of Virginia. On her
father's side her ancestors were the Dowds and Phillipses, of North
Carolina. Her father, James D. Phillips, was a Whig who clung to the
Union and the Constitution, doing all that lay in his power to avert
the Civil War. Alice, just out of school, was full of the secessionist
spirit, but a strong advocate of peace. Her early desire to enter the
profession of teacher was opposed by her parents, but she resolved to
follow her inclination, when, at the close of the Civil War, her
family shared in the general desolation that lay upon the South. She
became a teacher and for several years made successful use of her
varied attainments. In 1868 she was married to A. J. Baggett,
continuing her school work after marriage. In a few years her husband
became an invalid and Mrs. Baggett then showed her mettle. She cared
for her family of three children and assisted her brothers and sisters
to get their education. Her husband died in 1875. Since that time she
has served mainly as principal of high schools in Alabama. She has
done much work for the orphans of Freemasons, to which order her
husband had belonged. Wherever she has worked, she has organized,
systematized and revolutionized educational matters. She now resides
in St. Augustine, Fla., where her work is highly successful. Her
family consists of one surviving daughter.
[Source:
American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897,
Submitted by Marla Snow]
BARBER, MRS. MARY AUGUSTINE, educator,
born in Newton, Conn., in 1789; died in Mobile, Ala., in 1860. She
entered the Visitation Convent in Georgetown, D. C, in 1818, with her
four daughters. She founded a convent of visitation in Kaskaskia,
Ill., in 1836, remaining there till 1844. She taught in a convent in
St. Louis, Mo., from 1844 till 1848, and in Mobile until the time of
her death.
[Source:
American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ.
1897. Submitted by Marla Snow]
BATTEY, MRS. EMILY VERDERY, journalist,
born in Belair, near Augusta. Ga., about the year 1828. She began her
career as a journalist soon after the close of the Civil War, writing
first for several Georgia newspapers, and traveling and corresponding
for the "Ladies Home Gazette" of Atlanta, under the editorial guidance
of her brother-in-law, Col. John S. Prather, an ex-confederate cavalry
officer. Mrs. Battey went to New York in 1870, securing editorial
positions at once on the "Tablet," the "Home Journal" and the
"Telegram" and occasionally writing for the "Star," the "Democrat,"
the "Herald" and "Harper's Magazine." The "Sun," under the management
of Hon. Amos I. Cummings and Dr. John B. Wood, frequently printed
reports, special articles and editorials from Mrs. Battey's facile
pen. In 1875 she became a salaried member of the staff of the "Sun,"
which position she held until 1890. While filling that position Mrs.
Battey wrote for several syndicates, as well as special articles for
newspapers in various parts of the country, signing various pen-names.
She is not and never has been one of those workers who desire to
acquire notoriety. Her aim has always been to do earnest work, and
that work has always been excellent. The story of her career she tells
in a lecture "Twenty Years on the Press." Her long experience on the
New York press has made her well acquainted with leading women of the
world, social, literary, political and religious. No woman knows
better than she the history of the founding and progress of the
various important women's clubs, guilds, temperance and religious
societies and associations of the United States. The fruit of this
wide knowledge has ripened for the delectation of those audiences that
have heard her lecture, "The Woman's Century." She is a highly
cultured and charming woman. Her home is now in Georgia and Alabama,
with her relatives of the Verdery family. Childless herself, she has
devoted her earnest life to her family ties and the study and
assistance of her own sex.
[Source: American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1,
Publ. 1897. Submitted by Marla Snow]
BATTLE, ARCHIBALD JOHN,
educator, clergyman, college president, author, was
born Sept. 10, 1826, in Powelton, Ga. He has been president of the
East Alabama female college; in 1865-72 he was president of Judson
female college; in 1872-89 was president of Mercer University; and in
1891-98 was president of Shorter College. He is the author of The
Human Will.
[Source: Herringshaw's National
Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand
Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the
United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Submitted by
Therman Kellar]
BECKWITH, CHARLES MINNGERODE,
educator, clergyman, bishop, author, was born June
3, 1851, in Prince George County, Va. in 1873-79 he was master of
grammar schools in the university of the South. In 1881 he became
priest in charge of St. Luke's cathedral of Atlanta, Ga. In 1886 he
became rector of Christ Church of Houston, Texas. In 1892 he became
rector of Trinity church at Galveston, Texas; and in 1902 was
consecrated protestant episcopal bishop of Alabama. He is the author
of The Trinity Course of Church Instruction; and The Teacher's
Companion to the Trinity Course.
[Source: Herringshaw's
National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five
Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of
the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Submitted by Therman
Kellar]
BELLAMY, MRS. EMILY WHITFIELD
CROOM,
novelist, born in Quincy, Fla., 17th April, 1839. She was
educated in Springer Institute, New York City. She taught in a female
seminary in Eutaw, Ala., for several years. Mrs. Bellamy has written
under the pen-name "Kampa Thorpe" "Four Oaks" (New York, 1867), and "
Little Joanna" (New York, 1876). Besides her novels she has written
many short prose articles and poems for the periodical press. Mrs.
Bellamy now resides in Mobile, Ala.
[Source: American Women Fifteen
Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897. Submitted by Marla
Snow]
CATO, STERLING G.,
lawyer, jurist, was born in Georgia. He removed to
Alabama, from which state he was appointed an associate justice of the
United States court for the territory of Kansas.
[Source:
Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains
Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life
and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909
– Submitted by Therman Kellar]
LEE, JESSE,
Baptist minister, was born in 1803, in Alabama, and died October 9, 1872.
He became a preacher in 1837, and removed to Caddo Parish, La., in 1847. He also served at Shreveport and Sumner Grove.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LEGRANDE, JOHN C., president of the medical association of Alabama,
1900.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LENNARD,
JOHN BORUM, planter, was born January 1, 1807, on his father's
plantation located on Kettle Creek, near Washington, Ga., and died
December 6, 1870, at Woodland, Freestone County, Tex.; son of John
Born in and Mary (Wood) Lennard, natives of Virginia, who after their
marriage removed to Wilkes County, Ga.; grandson of Thomas and Nettie
(Borum) Lennard, of Virginia, and of Capt. and Katherine (Price) Wood,
natives of Virginia, the former was either a captain or colonel in the
Revolutionary War, and was killed in battle, his widow, Katherine
Price Wood, married again, and removed to Georgia, where she was
celebrated during the war period for several acts of bravery, carrying
important dispatches and molding bullets for Washington's army. The
Lennards are descended from French Huguenots who migrated to Virginia.
The maternal lines are Scotch-Irish. John Borum Lennard received his
education at Washington, Ga., and after his father's death, which
occurred when he was fourteen years of age, he entered the mercantile
business. Upon suffering severe losses by fire, he engaged in
agriculture and left a valuable landed estate to his heirs. In 1847,
he removed from Washington, Ga., to Nixburg, Coosa County, but after
the War of Secession located in Texas. He was a major of cavalry in
the Florida Indian Wars, 1833, his regiment being commanded by Col.
Robert Toombs of Georgia. In 1861 he was a member of the Alabama
Secession convention; a Whig in politics and opposed to the State's
withdrawal from the Union, but finally yielded and voted with the
majority for the inevitable. He was a Methodist; and Mason. Married:
(1) December 2, 1829 to Sarah Frances, daughter of Joseph and Mrs.
Anne (Grinnage) Beard Marshall, of Columbia County, Ga. ;
granddaughter of Levi Marshall; great-granddaughter of 1037 Daniel
Marshall, a pioneer Baptist minister and closely related to Chief
Justice John Marshall, niece of Dr. Nathan Crawford, who was
grandfather of Senator Charles Culberson of Texas, and also
related to Gov. Crawford, W. H. Crawford, and Nathan Crawford Barrett,
notable characters in Georgia's political history; (2) April 14, 1835,
to Jane Daniel, also of Georgia; (3) to Eliza Townsend of Alabama.
Children: by the first marriage, 1. Joseph Marshall, graduate
Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, surgeon in the Confederate
Army, Nixburg; 2. John Borum, III, planter, lieutenant. C. S. Army, m.
L. A. Smith, daughter of Alexander Smith of Coosa County, a member
Alabama legislature before the War of Secession, resided at Alexander
City; by the second marriage, 3. Mary Ann, m. Alexander Kendrick; 4.
William Daniel, died of fever in Virginia as a Confederate soldier; 5.
Eliza J., m. A. M. Kendrick; 6. Thomas C., killed at the battle of
South Mountain, fighting with the Confederates; 7. Sarah, m. John A.
Smith; by the third marriage, 8. Kate E., m. M. H. Harris, Freestone
County, Texas; 9. Alice L., m. W. P. Oden, Sylacauga; 10. Ellen, m, A.
J. Oden, Sylacauga. Last residence: Woodland, Texas.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of
Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen,
Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by
Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LEWIS, THOMAS H., major of Lewis' battalion Alabama
cavalry, C. S. Army.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LEVERT, ENGENE V.,
grand master, grand council, Masons, 1866-67.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LITTLETON, CHARLES,
Revolutionary Soldier. Died March 29th,
1848, at 3 o'clock P. M. Aged about 103 or 105 years. Mrs.
P. H. Mell, in Alabama Historical Society, Transactions, vol. iv, p.
554. There is a discrepancy in the age given in the official records
and on his tomb.
[Source: History of Alabama
and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LITTLETON, JESSE TALBOT, college professor
and dean, was born October 27, 1856, at Portsmouth, Norfolk County,
Va.; son of Oscar and Martha Elizabeth (Bernard) Littleton, the former
a native of Leesburg, Loudoun County, Va., who later by virtue of his
being a Methodist minister, lived at a number of Virginia towns, being
both pastor and presiding elder during his career; grandson of Thomas
and Elizabeth (Buffington) Littleton, also of Lees- burg, and of
Overton and Martha Jane (Thomas) Bernard of Portsmouth, Va. The
Bernard ancestry sprang from French Huguenot stock that belonged to
the old aristocracy. The Buffingtons were New England people and the
Littletons were of English ancestry. Dr. Littleton received his
preparatory education in his home from his father. He later attended
Locustville and Onancock academies in Accomac County, Va. He graduated
with the A. M. degree in 1880 from Randolph-Macon, where he won the
writer's prize in the college magazine, and also the mathematics prize
and the Pace medal for the best English essay. He was for two years at
Sauveur College des Langues, Amherst, Mass., and attended summer
schools in Paris and Brussels. In 1877 he was assistant . in Greek at
Randolph-Macon; was professor of modern languages Wesleyan female
college, Murfreesboro, N. C., 1881-83; taught Greek and German at
Wofford college, S. C., 1883-86; principal of Belle Haven academy,
1887-90; taught English and modern languages in the Danville college
for young ladles, 1890-93; and English and modern languages at Emory
Henry, Va., 1893-98. He also taught modern languages at the Southern
university, Greensboro, 1898-1910 and at Woman's college of Alabama,
of which last institution he was also for several years the dean.
Since 1914 he has been president of the Thomas industrial institute,
Florida He was the founder of the Literary and scientific association
at Greensboro. He is a Democrat and a Methodist. Author: "Story of
Captain Smith and Pocahontas"; "My pet cage bird" "Spencer and
Tennyson"; "The Drama"; "How shall I educate my girl"; "How shall I
educate my boy"; "King Lear"; "The Idyls of the king'; "Our
educational renaissance"; "Modern languages versus ancient." Married4
December 26, 1882, at Farmville, Va., to Lucile daughter of Leonidas
and Martha Woodward (Chandler) Rosser of Portsmouth, Va.;
granddaughter of John A. and Christina Elizabeth (Nollner) Chandler,
the former a lawyer of Norfolk, Va., who was a member of the house of
delegates from his county in 1831-32, president of the Virginia bank
of Portsmouth great-granddaughter of Kincher and Mary Rosser Henry,
and of Jane Nollner. The Nollners were originally of German stock.
Children: 1 Martha Elizabeth, M. A., University of Illinois professor
of French and German, Galloway college, Ark.; 2. Jesse Talbot, jr.,
Ph. D., University of Wisconsin; assistant professor of physics,
University Michigan, Ann Arbor m Bessie Cook; 3. Leonidas, Ph. D.,
University of Illinois, professor of chemistry, Emory- Henry college,
Va.; 4. Oscar Emory; 5. Lulie Bernard; 6. Wilbur Fisk; 7. Norman
Lunnison; 8. Wallace Duncan. Residence: DeFuniak Springs,
Fla.
[Source: History of
Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen,
Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company,
1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LLOYD, FRANCIS ERNEST, botanist, a resident of Alabama, 1908-12, was born October 4,
1868, at Manchester, Eng.; son of Edward and Leah (Pierce)
Lloyd, both natives of Wales, who removed to the United States about
1882. He was educated at the Liverpool institute, England;
York collegiate institute, Pennsylvania; Lafayette college, Easton, Pa., A. B.,
1891; and Princeton university, A. M., 1895, studied at Munich, 1898, and at Bonn, 1901.
He was instructor in biology at Williams college, 1891-92; professor
in biology and geology, 1892-95, and biology, 1895-97, at Pacific
university, Forest Grove, Ore.; adjunct professor of biology,
Teacher's college, Columbia university, 1897-1906; staff member of
Desert botanical laboratory, Carnegie institution of Washington, 1906;
instructor, Harvard summer school, 1907; cytologist, Arizona
agricultural experimental station, 1907; director of the department of
investigation, Continental-Mexican rubber company, 1907-08; professor
of botany and plant physiologist, Alabama polytechnic institute and
Alabama agricultural exprimental station, 1908- 12; and is now
McDonald professor of botany, McGlll university, Montreal. He was the
editor of The Plant World, 1905-08, and is the author of various books
and papers on botanical subjects. He is a Mason. Married: May 18,
1903, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Lucinda (Wotton) Hail,
respectively of Northfield and Boston, Mass. Children: 1. Mary
Elizabeth, deceased; 2. Francis Ernest L., jr.; 3. David Pierce C.
Residence: Montreal.
[Source: History of
Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen,
Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company,
1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer]
LLOYD, WILLIAM R., former secretary of the State tax commission
[Source:
History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas
McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke
publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LOCKETT, SAMUEL HENRY,
educator, civil engineer, was born July 7, 1837, in Mecklen-
berg County, Va., and died October 12, 1891, at Bogota, United States
of Colombia. He moved to Alabama with his father when he was a child;
was graduated from Howard college at (.he age of sixteen; and in 1854,
was appointed a cadet from Alabama to the U. S. military academy, at
West Point. He was graduated with the second highest rank in his
class, 1859; was made second lieutenant of engineers; appointed an
assistant professor at West Point; and assisted in the construction of
Forts Pn- laski and Jackson, near Savannah, until his resignation,
which immediately followed the secession of Alabama. He was made a
major in the engineering corps of the army of the state of Alabama, in
February, 1861, and served with Gen. Bragg at Pensacola, Fla., until
August, 1861; succeeded Gen. J. F. Gilmer a« chief engineer of the C.
S. army, with the rank of captain upon the staff of Gen. A, S.
Johnston; and at the battle of Shiloh acted with gallantry on the
field. Promoted to major, he served on the staff of Gen. Pemberton as
chief engineer, participating in the battle of Baker's Creek,
constructing and improving the defenses of Vicksburg. and performed
important duty all through the siege. After his exchange as one of the
Vicksburg garrison, he served with distinction on the staff of Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston, and during 1864-1865 had charge of the defenses of
Mobile, which he constructed with such ability as to win a wide
reputation as an engineer. He also planned and partly constructed the
defenses of Pensacola, Corinth, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and 1061
Jackson. At the close of the war, he surrendered with the troops of
Gen. Richard Taylor. After the war he became professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Judson institute,
Marion. 1865-1867; professor of mechanics and engineering,
and commandant of cadets, Louisiana State university, 1867-1873, and
director of the Louisiana topographical survey, 1869-1873; was president of a school in
Alabama, 1874-1875; was colonel of engineers in the
Egyptian Army, 1875-1877. Upon his return to this country, he became professor of
engineering and mechanics in the University of Tennessee;
was principal assistant engineer to Gen. C. P. Stone in the placing of the
Bartholdi statue of liberty, 1883-1884; constructed water and gas works in various cities of the
United States, 1884-1888; was sent to Chili in 1888, and secured a twenty million dollar contract
for the North and South American construction company; was appointed chief engineer to construct
water works by the United States of Colombia, and was
holding that position at the time of his death. Last residence: Bogota,
United States of Colombia.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of
Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen,
Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by
Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LOCKHART, H. C.,
lieutenant colonel of Lockhart's battalion, Alabama Exempts, during the War of Secession.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of
Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen,
Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by
Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LODOR, JOHN A., grand master, grand lodge.
Masons, 186?
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary
of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen,
Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by
Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LONGSTREET, JAMES, soldier, was born in
Edgefield District, S. C., January 8, 1821, and died
January 2, 1904; son of James and Mary Ann (Dent) Longstreet of New Jersey and
Maryland respectively. He removed with his parents to
Alabama in 1831 and was appointed from that State to the U. S. military
academy at West Point, where he was graduated in 1842 and
assigned to the Fourth U. S. infantry, and served in the Indian and Mexican wars. He
rose to the rank of lieutenant-general, C. S. Army, and was accredited to Alabama for his
whole Confederate service. After the war he united with
the Republican party; was appointed purveyor of customs at New Orleans
by President Grant; later was supervisor of internal revenue
of Louisiana; postmaster at Gainesville, Ga.; U. S. minister to Turkey;
U. S. marshal for district of Georgia; and after 1897, was
commissioner of Pacific railroads. Married: (1) March 8, 1848, to Maria Louise
Garland of Lynchburg, Va., who d. December 28, 1889; and (2) September 8, 1897, to Helen Dortch, of
Atlanta, Ga. Last residence: Washington, D. C.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of
Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen,
Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by
Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LORIMORE, T.
B., minister of the Christian
church. Residence: Mars Hill.
[Source: History
of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory
Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing
company, 1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LOVELL, WILLIAM
S.,
major, 1st battalion Georgia infantry regiment, C. S. Army; major,
36th, Villepigue's, Georgia infantry regiment; major, 1st Confederate
infantry regiment, formerly the 36th Georgia.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LOVEMAN,
ROBERT,
lyric poet and author, was born April 11, 1864, at Cleveland, Ohio;
son of David Reuben and Esther (Schwartz) Loveman, the latter the
daughter of Alexander Schwartz, all natives of Hungary, the parents
coming to America during the early eighties. He received his academic
education in th« schools of Crawford and Dalton, Ga., and graduated
from the University of Alabama with the A. M. degree, later studying
and traveling abroad. He has for the past twenty-five years
contributed to the highest class magazines. He has published several
books of verse, 1889, 1893, 1897, 1900, among them, "A book of verse;"
"The gate of silence," 1905; "Songs from a Georgia garden;" "The
blushful South," 1909, "On the way to Willowdale," 1912; "Sonnets of
the strife, 1917. Reviewers both in America and England, have given
Mr. Loveman's poems the very highest praise, and have compared his
work to the greatest lyric poets. His poem "The rain song," has been
declared by the critics to be "one of the best songs in American
poetry, and the most widely copied poem since the days of Longfellow
and Tennyson." Unmarried. Residence: Dalton, Ga.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
LUCAS, JOHN, soldier of the American
Revolution, private, particular service not disclosed; enrolled on
January 10, 1837, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832; annual
allowance, $20; no record made of any payment. — Pension Book, State
Branch Bank, Mobile.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by
The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer]
LUCAS, RANDOLPH, soldier of the American
Revolution, private, particular service not disclosed; enrolled on
January 10, 1837, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832; annual
allowance, $20; no record of any payment having been made. — Pension
Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by
The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer]
McRAE, COLIN JOHN,
Confederate financial agent, was born October 22, 1812, at
Sneedsboro, N. C, and died February, 1877, in Belize, British
Honduras; son of John and Elizabeth Mary McRae, natives respectively,
of Sneedsboro and Anson County, N. C., and residents later of
Winchester and Pascagoula, Miss., and of Mobile. He received a careful
preparatory education at the hands of tutors and later attended the
Catholic college, Biloxi, Miss. He was a cotton commission merchant at
Mobile; general of militia and member Mississippi legislature in 1838;
elected delegate to the provisional congress of the Southern States
and upon the termination of this service was commissioned financial
agent of the Confederate government and sent to Europe by President
Davis in the performance of his difficult duties. After the close of
the War of Secession he emigrated to Spanish Honduras, -where, in
partnership with the brother of Hon. J. P. Benjamin, he entered the
mercantile business. He was a Democrat, and a Presbyterian. Last
residence: Belize, British Honduras.
[Source:
History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 by
Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs. Marie (Bankhead) Owen, 1921
– Submitted by Therman Kellar]
PICKETT,
RICHARD ORRICK, lawyer, colonel of cavalry, C. S. Army, was
born August 22, 1814, in Fauquier County, Va., and died November 27,
1898, at Leighton, Va.; son of Steptoe and Sarah Orrlck (Chilton)
Pickett, who moved to Alabama in 1829 and settled in Limestone County;
grandson of Martin and Ann (Blackwell) Pickett, of Warrenton, Fauquier
County, Va., the former who was lieutenant colonel of the Third
Virginia infantry regiment, of Gen. Washington's Army, Revolutionary
War, who was a delegate to the convention at Williamsburg, Va., in
1776, which declared Virginia independent of the British Empire, was a
delegate from Fauquier County to the convention of 1788, which
accepted the Federal constitution, and of Charles and Elizabeth
(Blackwell) Orrlck; great-grandson of Joseph and Lucie (Steptoe) Black
well, and of Orrick and Felicia (Corbin) Chilton; great-great-grandson
of William and Sarah (Orrick) Chilton, of Currioman, Westmoreland
County, Va., the former a descendant of John Chilton, who came to
Virginia in 1660, bought a tract of land in Westmoreland County, and
called his estate Currioman, for whom the town of Chilton, Va., was
named; great-great-great-grandson of John and Susannah (Hamond)
Orrick, of Anne Arundel County, Md., the former a descendant of the
Orrick family of Scotland and Maryland, who signed the Regman Roll in
1296, were lairds of a barony in Scotland;
great-great-great-great-grandson
of Col. Thomas and Lady Rebecca (Larkln) Hamond. The Chiltons came
from an old English family of French origin, tracing their lineage to
the time of the Crusades. The name was written de Chilton. Col.
Pickett was educated in the common schools; studied law in the office
of James Irvine at Florence; was admitted to the bar in 1845; and
began the practice of law at Moulton, where he remained until the
outbreak of the War of Secession. He was elected judge of Lawrence
County in 1846; was a representative in the legislature in 1849, 1853,
1855, 1857, and 1861, and during the latter session was elected
adjutant and inspector general of the state. He resigned that position
soon after, and raised a company of infantry for the C. S. Army, which
became Co. H, Thirty-fifth Alabama infantry, and of which he was
elected captain. He led his company at Baton Rouge, Champion Hill and
Bakers Creek; was captured at Corinth, Miss.; exchanged at Vicksburg;
entered the cavalry and became colonel of the Tenth Alabama cavalry,
Roddy's command, with which he served until the end of the war. He
resumed the practice of law at Florence; was a member of the
constitutional convention of 1875; and was elected to the legislature,
1884-1885, and 1886-1887. He was a delegate to the Democratic national
conventions which nominated Seymour, Buchanan and Cleveland for
president; and was a Royal Arch Mason. Married: January 8, 1837, in
Florence, to Fannie Louisa, daughter of William and Margaret Sarah
(Wrenshall) Boggs, of Pittsburgh, Pa., the former a native of Ireland,
the latter born in England, a daughter of Lady Spencer who married
Frank Wrenshall of Ireland, and a descendant of the Duke of Argyle.
Children: 1. Sarah Benington, deceased, m. Samuel Darwin; 2. Richard
Orrick, d. in infancy; 3. Julia Plummer, deceased; 4. Fannie Corbin,
deceased; 5. Emily Irvin, m. Stephen Ewing Rice, Apalachicola, Fla.;
6. Lucy Blackwell, deceased, m. Charles H. Patton; 7. Steptoe, m. Paul
S. King, Leighton; 8. Richard Orrick, d. in infancy; 9. Katie Canton,
deceased. Last residence: Leighton.
[Sourece: History of Alabama and dictionary
of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
RAWLS, JAMES
BENJAMIN,
lawyer and probate judge, was born at Suggsville,
Clarke County; son of John Franklin and Lucretia Jaqueline (Davis)
Rawls, the former a native of Harris County, Ga., later a resident of
Mobile; grandson of William and Frances (Dancy) Rawls of Harris
County, Ga., and of Shugan Ransom and Mary (Sorsby) Davis of near
Ransom's Bridge, Halifax County, N. C, the former served in the War of
1812, from North Carolina, stationed at Norfolk, Va.; great-grandson
of William and Amy (Ransom) Davis, of North Carolina, and of Benjamin
and Susan (Davis) Sorsby, the former was of English descent, and
served in the Revolutionary Army, enlisted in Nash County, N. C, under
Capt. Jacob Turner's company, 3rd North Carolina infantry regiment,
commanded by Col. Jethro Sumner. He received his early education in
private schools in Mobile and at Summerville institute, Noxubee
County, Miss. He read law by a correspondence course and entered upon
the practice, having successfully passed an examination before the
presiding judge of the circuit court of Washington County, 1905. He
has served as notary public and justice of the peace several years;
was county commissioner two terms; probate judge one term, and elected
tax commissioner of Washington County, 1907, an office he still holds.
He was a member of the home guard of Mobile at the close of the War of
Secession, having been taken prisoner at the capture of Mobile and
held until Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He is a Democrat, Methodist,
and Mason. Married: February 4, 1873, near Columbus, Ky., to Ruth
Morrison, daughter of Edwin Ruthven and Harriet Magruda (Brown) Ray,
of that place; granddaughter of Col. Peter W. and Susan (Ray) Brown of
Lebanon, Ky., and Dennis and Nancy (Hayes) Ray of Clinton, Ky.
Children: 1. Carrie L., m. John C Maclay, Moss Point, Miss.; 2.
Harriet M., m. William R. Leon, Deer Park; 3. James B., Jr.,
unmarried, Lucedale, Miss.; 4. Mary D., m. Dr. Warren D. Ratliff,
Lucedale, Miss.; 5. Ellen H., unmarried, St. Stephens; 6. Ruth R., md.
Samuel E. McGlathery, Chatom; 7. Dennis B., Mobile; 8. Robert M.,
Francis, Okla.; 9. Fletcher H., St. Stephens; 10. Antoinette, St.
Stephens; 11. Louise D., Mobile; 12. Edgar D., St. Stephens; 13.
Ebenezer T., St. Stephens. Residence: St. Stephens.
[Source: History of Alabama and
dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen,
Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921 - Submitted by
AFOFG]
RAYBURN, SAMUEL KING,
merchant, major-general of militia, was born in Beach
Grove, Bedford County, Tenn., October 15, 1812, and died July 15,
1892, at Guntersville; son of John and Elizabeth (Shanklin) Rayburn,
both natives of Botetourt. Va., the former who moved to Barren County,
Ky., about 1795, and thence to Tennessee, where he settled about fifty
miles from Nashville, the latter who was a daughter of Capt. John
Shanklin, who served in the Revolutionary War; grandson of John and
Jean (McClarin) Rayburn, the former who was a large land owner, and
settled in Botetourt County, Va., near Salem, the latter who was of
Scotch birth; great-grandson of Henry Rayburn and a Miss Ross, the
former who emigrated to America from the north of Ireland some years
before the Revolutionary War, and settled in Virginia, east of the
Alleghanies, near the Roanoke River, the latter who was a native of
north Ireland. He received a common school education, and in 1819 came
to Alabama with his parents. In 1834 he went to Guntersville, where he
engaged in the mercantile business, and with the exception of two
years was in that business until 1847, when he volunteered as a member
of Capt. John M. Gee's Independent company, and served in the Mexican
War. He returned to Guntersille in 1848; was elected, in 1849, as
clerk of the circuit court of Marshall County, which office he held
for eight years; in 1857, was elected to the State senate; and in
November, 1858, was elected president of the Tennessee & Coosa
Railroad Company, holding that office until 1868. In 1861, at the
outbreak of the War of Secession, he was elected by the people of
Marshall, Jackson, DeKalb, and Cherokee Counties, major-general of
militia, resigned in 1862, and was appointed on the staff of Gov.
Moore. In the fall of the same year he raised a company of volunteers,
was commissioned captain of Co. B, Forty-eighth Alabama infantry, was
compelled by sickness to resign, returned home, and in the early part
of 1863, was appointed deputy collector of revenue, which position he
held until the close of the war. In 1866, he was appointed register in
chancery, holding the office until his death; from 1870-1876, he was
county solicitor; was justice of the peace; and mayor of Guntersville,
several times. He was one of the organizers of the Tennessee &
Coosa Railroad, was one of its directors and for about ten years held
the position of its secretary. He was a Democrat and a member of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church. Married: (1) in 1840, to Mrs. Sarah
Davenport, who died in January, 1860; (2) in May, 1861, to Mrs.
Evergreen (Rainney) Findley, who was killed by the explosion of a
shell of the enemy at Guntersville, in 1862; (3) in December, 1863, at
Guntersville, to Nannie Nix, who died November, 1874; (4) in May,
1880, to Jane Warren of DeKalb County. Children, by first marriage, 1.
Capt. John Rayburn, a graduate of Cumberland University, and a captain
in the Ninth Alabama infantry, commanded by Col. Wilcox, who lost his
life at Sharpsburg, Md.; by third marriage, 2. Mrs. Brooking; 3.
Samuel King, jr., b. June 21, 1876, teacher, Guntersville academy, d.
December 23, 1888; 4. John S.; 5. William C.; 6. Mrs. John D.
Chandler. Last residence: Guntersville.
[Source: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama
biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921
- Transcribed by AFOFG]
SMITH, WILLIAM RUSSELL, lawyer, statesman and litterateur, was born at
Russellville, Ky., on March 27, 1815. His parents were Virginians, and
were both of revolutionary stock, and his father was a captain in the
war of 1812. His parents moved to Alabama in 1819, and in 1822 he was
left an orphan. His early education was obtained in private schools of
Tuskaloosa, and in 1831 he entered the University of Alabama on its
opening day. He left the university shortly before graduation and
studied law, commencing practice in 1835. He began to edit the
Tuskaloosa Monitor in 1838, and in 1839 was elected mayor of
Tuskaloosa. From this time his political advancement was rapid. He was
elected twice to the Alabama House of Representatives, then
brigadier-general of state militia, then judge of the Seventh judicial
circuit, resigning this position to take his seat in the national
congress in 1851, where he represented the Tuskaloosa district in the
Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses. He was
elected to the two later congresses as an independent democrat on the
platform of the American party. Almost immediately after taking his
defeat in congress in 1851 he attained national reputation by his
speech against Kossuth, and to him principally has been given the
credit of preventing the foreign entanglement into which this
government was being led by an espousal of Kossuth’s cause. From this
time Judge Smith was the leader of the American party in
Congress.
At the Philadelphia
convention of 1856 which nominated Millard Fillmore and Andrew J.
Donelson, Judge Smith was at first the most prominent candidate for
the nomination for vice-president, A. H. H. Stewart of Virginia and
Kenneth Baynor of North Carolina being the other candidates. Donelson
of Tennessee was finally nominated as a compromise candidate. At this
convention he delivered a speech which prevented a threatened
disruption of the convention, and which the Philadelphia North
American of the day said “was electrical in its effect, completely
changing the current of feeling among the southern members. In this
speech the combated the already growing secession sentiment, and
declared that he believed “that the union is a political
indestructibility.”
Judge Smith was
elected to the Alabama convention of 1861 as a co-cooperationist, and
with a large minority opposed immediate secession, but in the
prophetic speech against the adoption of the ordinance of secession he
closed by saying: “It but remains for me to add that when your
ordinance passes through the solemn forms of legislative deliberation
and receives the sanction of this body, I shall recognize it as the
supreme law of the land. My scruples will fall to the ground, and that
devotion which I have heretofore, through the whole course of my
public life, given to the union of the state, shall be concentrated in
my allegiance to the state of Alabama.
Immediately after the formation of
the confederate government he raised a regiment and was commissioned
colonel of the Twenty-seventh Alabama, but relinquished his command to
take a seat in the Confederate Congress, to which he was elected in
1861 and re-elected in 1863. In this Congress, with a small but
enlightened minority, foreseeing the inevitable termination of the
unequal contest, his leading and persistent policy was to press for
the earliest honorable accommodation with the United
States.
In 1865 Judge Smith resumed the
practice of law, having withdrawn from the race for Congress upon
learning that he would be refused his seat if elected. He afterwards
made the race for governor as an independent democrat upon a platform
recognizing the status quo and demanding a reorganization of the state
in conformity therewith – a course the wisdom of which is now
universally acknowledged – and was defeated by a narrow
majority.
In 1870 he was elected president
of the University of Alabama, which position he resigned for political
reasons in 1871.
He then returned to the practice
of law, from which he retired in 1894. He has since resided in
Washington.
Judge Smith has published several
legal works, and was commissioned by the Alabama legislature to
condense the first forty-five volumes of Alabama reports.
In addition to his professional
and political work Judge Smith has done much literary work, both in
prose and verse. He has published a translation in heroic couplets of
several book s of the Iliad, several drama and volumes of poems,
besides three or four novels, which, while not published for general
circulation, have earned for him a fame throughout the south – [John
M. Martin, in State Herald]
[Source: The Hamilton
Appeal, Marion County AL, March 6,1896, submitted by Veneta
McKinney]STEADMAN, JOHN ELBERT, is a
young lawyer of Denmark, a community in which he has spent practically
all his life, and in which he is highly esteemed as a citizen. He was
born there August 9, 1891. The Steadmans came to South Carolina during
the Revolutionary war. His grandfather was a native of Lexington
County, and he took part in the War Between the States. His father is
John E. Steadman, who was born in Lexington County and was a merchant
and died in his seventy-seventh year. He was a second lieutenant in
the War Between the States, and was wounded. The mother, Sarah
Merritt, was born in Lexington County and is still living, a resident
of Denmark. Her parents were from Alabama. John
Elbert Steadman was the sixth child and third son in a family of eight
children, all living. He has three brothers in Denmark. Boyce, and
Elmore were in the World War, Elmore a finance officer at El Paso,
Texas, and Boyce was in the quartermaster's department at Bordeaux.
Gordon is with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. He was well educated,
spending one year in Clemson College and taking the law course in the
University of South Carolina, where he graduated in 1915. He was
admitted to the bar in June of the same year, and at once opened his
office at Denmark, specializing in commercial law. In addition to his
growing and substantial law practice he represents some of the leading
fire insurance companies, and is also owner of a farm in Bamberg
County.
In
1919 he married Miss Dessie Hungerpiller, a daughter of J. E.
Hungerpiller, of Elloree, South Carolina. They are planters and South
Carolinians.
[Source: History of South Carolina,
Volume 5, Edited by Yates Snowden and Harry Gardner Cutler, 1920 –
Transcribed by AFOFG] STONE, BARTON WARREN,
planter, was born March 24, 1800, at Oglethorpe, Ga.,
and died January 14, 1884, in Montgomery; son of Warren and Martha
(Bedell) Stone; grandson of John and Mary (Warren) Stone, the former a
Revolutionary soldier. After her husband's death Mrs. Stone removed to
a farm near the Dan River, Pittsylvania County, Va., below the Blue
Mountains, carrying her children and servants. Her sons, Boston,
Absalom and Warren, settled at a very early date west of Montgomery.
Barton establishing himself upon a large plantation ten miles from the
present city of Montgomery and built a handsome residence which he
furnished suitably. He was a Methodist. Married: (1) to Caroline
Walton, widow, of Macon County, Ga.; (2) to Carolina, daughter of
Henry and Louisa (Houser) Whetstone, of Autauga County; (3) to
Beatrice Wall of Coosa County. Children: by the first wife: 1. Mary,
m. John Harris; 2. Sarah, m. Robert Motley of Texas; 3. Warren, m.
Helen Benton; 4. Callie, m. Joe Harris; 5. George, killed at the
battle of Seven Pines; 6. Eliza, m. James M. Lewis; by second wife; 7.
Henry Lewis, physician, m. Willie Eliza Frazier; 8. Barton William. No
children were born of the third marriage. Last residence: Montgomery
County.
[Source: History of Alabama and
dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen,
Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921 - Submitted by AFOFG]
STONE, FRANK SINGLETON, Sr.,
steamboat owner, was born October 3, 1839, at
Bladen Springs, Choctaw County, and died at Montrose, Baldwin County;
son of Capt. Sardine Graham Stone, and brother of S. G. Stone,
treasurer of Mobile County. His parents removed to Mobile in 1847, and
he received his early education in that city. At the age of twelve he
entered the shipyard of J. and D. Howard, Jeffersonville, Ind., for
the purpose of learning the business, a year later he went to
Mississippi where he completed his literary studies under Alexander
Demitry. In 1854, he returned to Mobile and worked as shipping clerk,
and the next year he began his career as a river man. His first
position was that of second clerk on the "Ben Lee," running in the
Tombigbee River trade. In 1858, he was on the "Eliza Battle" as clerk
and when that boat burned during a passage he saved several lives for
which act he was commended by rescued persons and the Masons of the
state, the latter giving him a gold medal for his daring. In 1864, he
became captain of the steamer "The Admiral," plying the Tombigbee
River, and later had command of a company of boats. Later in life he
retired from the river man's life to his home "Montrose" in Baldwin
County, and became widely known as a scientific horticulturist.
Married: September 4, 1862, to Mary, daughter of Dr. Augustus C
Hawkins, the latter a native of Georgia, who practiced medicine in
Union Springs before finally locating in Waverly, Miss., where he died
in 1856. Children: 1. Frank S. jr., student University of Alabama,
1880-83; LL. B., University of Georgia, 1886; clerk, supreme court of
Georgia, 1887-88; solicitor, Baldwin County, 1894-99; tax
commissioner, Baldwin County, 1899-1900; m. Mary Alice Staats, of
Daphne; 2. Mary, deceased; 3. Robert O. Last residence: Baldwin
County.
[Source: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama
biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921
- Submitted by AFOFG]
STONE, SARDINE GRAHAM,
Confederate naval officer, was born February 4, 1841,
at Bladen Springs; son of Captain Sardine Graham and Mary Ann
(Richardson) Stone, the former a native of the territory of
Mississippi, and a river steamboat captain; brother of Frank S. Stone
(q. v.); grandson of Columbus C. and Caryntha (Graham) Stone, the
former a native of Ohio, the latter of Darlington District, S. C., and
of William Richardson, a native of Kentucky. The Stone family is
descended from Gregory Stone, who came from England to America in
1634, settling in Massachusetts. Lieut. Stone was educated in the
public schools of Mobile and attended the University of Tennessee for
one year. He was appointed a cadet to the U. S. Naval academy, in
1857, entering September 24, of the same year, and resigning January
13, 1861, on account of the secession of Alabama. He returned home and
was appointed February 11, 1861, lieutenant of artillery, by Gov.
Andrew B. Moore, and on the same day appointed first lieutenant in the
revenue service of the State of Alabama, by Thaddeus Sanford, the
collector of customs at that port. He performed the duties of revenue
officer until the Confederate States government was established, being
appointed by President Jefferson Davis, April 13, 1861, a midshipman
in the Confederate Navy, and was attached to the seagoing vessel
McCree. From that date until June, 1862, he served first as
midshipman, then as master, and finally as lieutenant on the McCree,
the ironclad ram Manassas, and the Gen. Polk. He was sent to Mobile in
June, 1862, made lieutenant on the ironclad Baltic; in November, 1862,
ordered to the seagoing steamer, Florida, as lieutenant and navigating
officer, and continued on that vessel until she was surprised and
seized by the Federal steamer, Wachusetts, in the Bay of All Saints,
October 7, 1864. The crew of the Florida was taken as prisoners to
Point Lookout, Md., from there to Washington City, and later to
Boston. He was paroled, February 1, 1865, on the condition that he
quit the jurisdiction of the United States in ten days. He at once
sailed for Liverpool, England, remained abroad in London and Paris
until November, 1865, when he returned to Mobile. For several years he
ran a steamboat between Mobile and New Orleans; was appointed a clerk
in the probate court of Mobile in November, 1868, served until March
24, 1881, when he was appointed treasurer of Mobile County, by Gov.
Rufus W. Cobb; elected in 1884, 1888, and 1892, to the same position.
He is a Democrat; Mason; and a member of the United Confederate
Veterans. Married: December 28, 1865, to Eliza J., daughter of Judge
Gustavus Horton (q. v.). Children: 1. Sardine Graham, physician of
Marengo County; 2. Raymond, cadet, Annapolis, 1890-94; naval cadet,
1894-96; naval officer; m. Esther King Suydam, of Elizabeth, N. J.; 3.
George Edwin, lawyer; A. B., A. M., 1895, LL. B., 1896. University of
Alabama; assistant chemical laboratory, University of Alabama,
1894-95; treasurer, Mobile County, 1900-; m. Claudia lone Kirkpatrick,
of Selma. Residence: Mobile.
[Source: History
of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas
McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by
AFOFG]
STOUGH, THOMAS JEFFERSON,
physician, city commissioner of Montgomery,
1915-1919, and legislator, was born June 7, 1865, at Highland Home,
Crenshaw County; son of Daniel Jackson and Mary Allen (Cox) Stough,
the former was a native of Upson County, Ga.; grandson of Jacob and
Sophy Stough, and of William and Clementine Cox, all residents of
Dadeville. He was educated in the common schools; at Highland Home
college; and graduated M. D., March 24, 1893, from the University of
Tennessee. He entered upon the practice of his profession in April,
1894, at Petry, Crenshaw County, but later removed to Montgomery. He
represented Montgomery County in the legislature of 1915. He was one
of the city commissioners of Montgomery from 1915 to 1919. He is now
engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a Democrat; a
Methodist; and a Knight of Pythias. Married: at Moss Point, Miss., to
Carrie Bell, daughter of Jerold and Hortense Reed, of Evergreen.
Children: 1. Vivian, m. Stuart May; 2. Bernard Hill. Residence:
Montgomery.
[Source: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama
biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921
- Submitted by AFOFG]
STONE,
THOMAS OSWALD, physician, lieutenant colonel, 40th Alabama infantry
regiment, was born April 3, 1834, in Mobile, and died May 5, 1864, at
Dalton, Ga.; son of William De Saix and Elizabeth (Lewis) Stone, a
resident of Liberty County, Ga., who removed to Alabama and died in
Mobile in 1855; grandson of Thomas and Ann (Maxwell) Stone and of John
and Elizabeth (Kennon) Lewis; brother of Lewis Maxwell Stone (q. v.).
The grandparents were all residents of Georgia. The Lewises and
Kennons were of well known Virginia families. Dr. Stone studied
medicine under Dr. Levert. and was for four years at the Charity
hospital, Mobile; took a course in New Orleans and graduated from the
Medical college in Philadelphia. He began the practice of his
profession at Fairfield, Pickens County, January 1, 1856; entered the
Confederate States Army, in the spring of 1862 as a lieutenant of Co.
G, 40th Alabama infantry regiment, and was elected major of the
regiment. Later he was promoted lieutenant colonel, which rank he was
holding at the time of his death. He was a Democrat; and a
Presbyterian. Married: in November 1855, to Ellen, daughter of John
Drakeford and Elizabeth (Goodwin) Sanders, who lived in South
Carolina; granddaughter of Daniel and Sarah (Owens) Goodwin, of South
Carolina, later of Pickens County, and descendant of Gen. Robert Lewis
of the Revolutionary Army. Children: 1, Elizabeth Rebekah, m. Woodson
Kennon Saulsbury, of Birmingham; 2. Mary Frances, m. George S. Root;
3. Thomas Oswald, daughter, m. (1)—Williams, (2) Arthur C. Sharpley.
Last residence: Pickensville.
[Source: History
of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas
McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by
AFOFG]
SWANN, JOSEPH CHARLES,
physician; born in Alabama, Feb. 22, 1869; son of W.
A. J. and Nancy (Taylor) Swann; attended Bowdoin College, Georgia,
1887-1888; married in Alabama, Jan. 18, 1898, Cassie Dobson; six
children. Engaged in practice of medicine twenty years; four years
physieian-in-charge of United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia.
President Bank of Wedower. Republican. Baptist. President Randolph
County Medical Society.
[Source:
Herringshaw's American blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of
1912- An Accurate Biographical Record of Prominent Citizens of All
Walks of Life, Submitted by AFOFG]
WADDELL, BOSWELL DEGRAFFENRIED.
lawyer, was born August 25, 1865, at Columbus, Muscogee County, Ga.;
son of James Flemming and Adelaide Victoria (deGraffenried) Waddell,
the former who was a native of Hillsboro, N. C., served during the
Mexican War as a second lieutenant in the Twelfth U. S. infantry, was
appointed U. S. consul to Matamoros, Mexico, was captain of a company
in the Sixth Alabama regiment, and raised a battalion of artillery,
was captured at Vicksburg, Miss., was paroled and served until the
close of the war; grandson of Haynes Waddell who served as first
lieutenant in the War of 1812, and of Dr. Edward and Martha (Kirkland)
deGraffenried of Columbus, Ga.; great-grandson of Hugh Waddell who
married the daughter of Gen. Francis Nash, the later who was killed at
the battle of Germantown in the Revolutionary War; great- great-
grandson of Gen. Hugh Waddell who was a colonial officer and resided
in North Carolina. The deGraffenrieds came from Switzerland and
settled in New Berne, N. C., and the Kirklands came from Scotland,
settling near Wilmington, Ky. Mr. Waddell was educated at Columbus and
at Seale. He studied law; was admitted to the bar in April, 1887, at
Seale; became a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1901,
serving on the committees on militia and local legislation in that
body; at the general election of November, 1902, was elected to the
legislature; and was re-elected in 1903. He is a Democrat; an
Episcopalian; and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of North
Carolina. Residence: Seale.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by
The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer]
WADDELL, JAMES FLEMING, lawyer,
soldier, consul and probate judge, was born in 1826, in Hillsboro, N.
C., and came to Alabama when a young man; was appointed 2nd lieutenant
in the 12th U. S. infantry, and served in the Mexican war; was
appointed consul to Matamoros in 1849, and was wounded in the attack
on the town by Caravajal's men, in 1851; enlisted in the C. S. Army as
captain of a company in the 6th Alabama infantry regiment, but later
organized a light battery; served his guns at Baker's Creek and at
Vicksburg where he was captured; was later promoted to the rank of
major, and commanded a battalion consisting of Barrett's, Bellamy's,
and Emery's batteries, and doing faithful service in the
Dalton-Atlanta campaign. He was appointed probate judge of Russell
County in 1865, and elected in 1866, serving in this capacity until
1868. He practiced law in Seale during his later years. Last
residence: Seale.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
WAILES, WILLIAM EDWIN, soldier, merchant
and author, was born August 12, 1837, at Salisbury, Wicomlco County,
Md., and died September 28, 1910, at Dalton, Ga.; son of Dr. William
Handy and Sarah Ann (Leonard) Wailes, the former of Salisbury,
graduate of the Baltimore medical college, and eminent physician for
many years; grandson of Benjamin and Anna (Handy) Wailes, who lived at
Handy Hall, Somerset County, Md., the former a native of Scotland who,
in 1770, settled in Somerset County, Md., the latter a descendant of
Samuel Handy, native of England, who came in 1675, in the bark
"Assurance" from London to Maryland, and whose descendant was a signer
1713 of the Declaration of Independence, of Maryland, July 26,
1775, and of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Stanford) Leonard, who lived in Somerset
County, ancestors of the
former coming from the north
of Ireland; great-great-grandson of Joseph Leonard, a Protestant, who, for
religious reasons, came to
Maryland, settling in Somerset
County, the plantation which he bought being still in the possession of his
descendants. Mr. Wailes
received his academic education in the private schools in
Salisbury; was a clerk there
and in Baltimore. In January,
1860, he came to Selma, and
was a book-keeper until the beginning of the War of Secession. From November, 1866
to January, 1873, he was a
member of a dry goods firm,
but afterwards, in 1890, joined a company of cotton commission merchants; was
director of the City national
bank, and for thirteen years
director in the Central city insurance company. During many years he was
a trustee of the Dallas
academy, and chairman of the
board of education of Selma. In November, 1861, he joined the Confederate Army
as a member of Captain S. J.
Murphy's company of cavalry.
In May, 1862, he was promoted to a second lieutenancy, Co. F, 3d Alabama
cavalry. After the battle of
Murphreesboro he was promoted
to a majority and joined the staff of Major-General Joseph Wheeler,
having acted as his assistant
staff adlutnnt for some
months. After the battle of Bentonville, again he was promoted lieutenant-colonel
and chief of staff to Gen.
Wheeler. He was vice- president and later president of the Dallas
County United Confederate
veterans and vice- president
of the State association of veterans. He was a demitted Mason; a Democrat; and a
Methodist. Author: "Campaign
of Wheeler and his cavalry,"
1898. The facts contained in this narrative of the operations of Wheeler
and his cavalry were furnished
by General Wheeler himself and
compiled by Col. Wailes and others of Wheeler's itaff, the greater part of the
data being from private papers
which Col. Wailes had
preserved from the time of war, for his personal library. Married: December 22,
1864, at Plantersville, Dallas
County, to Georgia, daughter
of Thomas Stanford and Emily Stanford (McGee) Driskell, who lived on a plantation
home at Plantersville, Mrs.
Wailes' paternal and maternal
ancestors were descendants of
David and Elizabeth Stanford of Somerset County, Md. Children: 1. Laura Stanford,
m. David K. McKamy, Dalton,
Ga.; 2. Sarah E.; 3. Will D.,
Dalton, Ga.; 4. Catherine Eugenia, m. Norris N. Smith, Rome, Ga.; 5. William
Edwin, m. Cleo Johnson,
Hattiesburg, Miss. Last
residence: Dalton, Ga.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
WALLER,
CHARLES E.,
speaker of the house of representatives, State of Alabama, 1898-99.
Residence: Greensboro.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by
The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer]
WANNAMAKER, OLIN DANTZLER,
teacher for about four years a teacher in Alabama, was born July 16,
1875, at Bamberg, Barnwell County, S. C.; son of Francis Marion and
Eleanor Margaret (Bellinger) Wannamaker of South Carolina. He received
his early education in the public schools of St. Matthews. Wofford
college, Spartanburg, S. C 1896; M. A., Vanderbilt university, 1900,
and Harvard university, 1902; post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins
university, 1908-09 and Columbia university, 1911-12. He has been
connected with various colleges in the United States and China; was
head of the department of English, Alabama polytechnic institute,
1911- 14; and on leaving Alabama went to Dallas university. Married:
February 7, 1907, at Canton, China, to Katharine Miller, daughter of
Edward Sackett and Charlotte Elizabeth (Chandler) Hume, of New Haven,
Conn., and Bombay, India. Residence: Dallas, Tex.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by
The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer]
WARDEN, SAMUEL, soldier of the American Revolution, aged 84, resided
in Benton County, June 1, 1840, with David Barnwell. — Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
WARNER, WILLARD,
U. S. senator, was born
September 4, 1826, in Granville, O., and died November 23, 1906, in Chattanooga,
Tenn. He was raised on a farm
and was graduated at Marietta
college, Ohio, 1845. Four years later he struck out for California and dug
gold for several years, after
which he returned to Ohio and
built and managed a machine plant at Newark. He entered the U. S. Army as
major of the Seventy-sixth
Ohio infantry regiment, December 3, 1861; was promoted to
lieutenant colonel, December
15, 1863; served as inspector
general on the staff of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman; appointed colonel of the
One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio
volunteer infantry, October
27, 1864; brevet brigadier general of volunteers "for gallant and
meritorious service in the
Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina campaigns," March 13, 1865; and
major general "for gallant and meritorious conduct during the war,
March 13, 1865." After the close of the War of Secession, he served in
the Ohio state senate, 1865-1867; located in Alabama in 1867 and
engaged in planting and raising cotton; was elected to the Alabama
state legislature, 1868; elected to the U. S. senate as a Republican,
June 25, 1868, and served until March 3, 1871; served as collector of
customs of the port of Mobile, 1871-1875; was appointed by President
Grant as governor of New Mexico, but declined the appointment; went
into the iron business in Alabama and organized the Tecumseh Iron
Company in 1873, acting as president and manager of the company until
1890 when the plant was shut down; moved to Tennessee, where some
years before he had built other blast furnaces; settled in Chattanooga
where he became identified with various interests; was elected to the
Tennessee legislature in 1900; and in 1905 served one term as
commander of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Last residence:
Chattanooga, Tenn.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by
The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer]
WARREN,
JAMES M., major 22nd battalion Alabama cavalry, C. S. Army,
lieutenant colonel, 5th Alabama cavalry, C. S. Army
.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by
The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer]
WARREN, WILLIAM H., captain of
Warren's battalion, Alabama cavalry, C. S. Army.
[Source: History of
Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen,
Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company,
1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
WEAKLEY, JAMES HARVEY,
surveyor-general of
Alabama, was born in 1798 in Halifax County, Va., and died in 1856, in New
Orleans; eldest Eton of Samuel
and Sarah (Vaughn) Weakley, of
Halifax County, who removed to Tennessee in 1799; grandson of William
Vaughn, and wife, a Miss
Barksdale, of Halifax, and of
Capt. Robert Weakley and wife, who was a Miss McCarthy, the former a
Revolutionary soldier, in
Halifax, Va., whose second wife was Jane Locke, of Salisbury, N. C.;
brother of Gen. Samuel Davies
Weakley (q. v.). The first
American ancestor of this branch of the
Weakley family was from Devonshire, England, who settled in Cumberland
County, Pa,, about 1735. He was educated at the Cumberland university;
studied surveying under his father, who laid off Nashville and was one
of its settlers. In 1817, Judge Weakley was appointed by Gen. John
Coffee, surveyor of public lands in Alabama and took up his residence
at Huntsville, where he served under Gen. Coffee until the death of
the latter, after which Pres. Andrew Jackson appointed him to the
office of surveyor-general. This office was abolished in 1851, and he
removed to New Orleans where he engaged in the cotton business until
his death. He was a Demcorat; and an Episcopalian. Married: in 1830 at
Huntsville, to Ellen M. Donegan, a native of Ireland, who after Judge
Weakley's death, entered the convent of St. Cecilia, at Nashville. No
children. Last residence: New Orleans.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
WEBB, JAMES DANIEL, lawyer, legislator and Confederate brigadier-general,
was born February 26, 1818, in Lincoln County, N. C., and died July
19, 1863, on Elk River, Tenn.; son of Henry Young and Elizabeth
(Forney) Webb (q. v.). He came to Alabama with his parents in infancy,
and after completing a college course read law under Pleasant N.
Wilson, in Livingston and in Hillsboro, N. C.; entered upon the
practice at Greensboro, 1838; represented Greene County in the
legislature of 1843 and 1851; State senator, 1853; was on the Bell
electoral ticket of 1860, and elected a member of the secession
convention, over his brother; member constitutional convention, 1861,
and signed the ordinance of secession; and trustee University of
Alabama, 1858-63. At the beginning of hostilities between the States
he entered the 5th Alabama regiment as a private, but was promoted to
quartermaster and served in this capacity for a year. He assisted in
raising the 51st Alabama cavalry, and was appointed
lieutenant-colonel, acting as regimental commander a great deal of the
time, owing to the absence of Colonel Morgan on detached service.
While his regiment was guarding the rear of General Bragg's retreat on
Chattanooga, July 2, 1863, and skirmishing on Elk River, he was
mortally wounded and captured. Two weeks later he died from pneumonia
incident to his wounds, being promoted brigadier-general just prior to
his death. Married: August 2, 185—, Jestina I. Walton. Children: 1.
Jessie, m. Cocke; 2. Minnie C. Last residence:
Greensboro.
[Source: History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921;
Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
WEBB, JOHN COX, planter and
Confederate officer, was born in Hillsboro, N. C., where he was
educated at the military institute. Leaving school in May, 1861, he
entered the Confederate service, and was sent to Fort Macon, N. C., as
a drill master, and later to Norfolk, Va., where he was engaged In
drilling the Third North Carolina infantry regiment. In 1862, he
assisted in raising the Orange light artillery with which he served
first as a private, later being promoted to orderly-sergeant, and
finally to first lieutenant, and was in command of the battery at the
close of the war. He participated in the battles of Seven Pines and
Galnes' Mill, in Virginia, and later was on duty in North Carolina. He
served against Sherman in the spring of 1865. In June, 1866, he
removed from Hillsboro, N. C., to Demopolis, and engaged in planting.
He held the rank of major on the staff of General Harrison, commanding
the Alabama division, United Confederate veterans. Married: in
December, 1870, to Sallie C. Creagh, of Demopolis. Children: five.
Residence: Demopolis.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by
The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer]
WEBB, LUCIUS de YAMPERT,
physician and planter, was born at Greensboro, June 18, 1846; son of
John Henry Young and Julia (de Yampert) Webb. He was a student at the
University of Alabama, 1863-64, and graduated in the medical
department of the University of New York, and practiced in Greensboro.
Married: February 21, 1883, to Sarah Christian Brown.
[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by
The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer]
WITHERS, JONES MITCHELL,
planter, lawyer, merchant, editor, legislator, and
major-general C S. Army; was born January 12, 1814, in Huntsville, and
died March 13, 1891, in Mobile; son of John Wright and Mary Herbert
(Jones) Withers, the former a planter and native of Dinwiddle County,
Va., the latter a daughter of William Frederick Jones, and a native of
Brunswick County, Va. The family to which General Withers belonged was
of English descent, registered in 1487, in the College of Arms, and
settled in Fairfax County, Va., in 1745, descendants of Col. Augustine
Claiborn of "Windsor," King William County, Va. He attended the Greene
academy in Huntsville until he was seventeen years of age, going from
there to the military academy at West Point, from which he graduated
July 1, 1835, resigning December 5, 1835, and returning to his home in
Huntsville. In May of the following year he enlisted for the Indian
campaign, on the staff of Major-General Patterson, and was later
transferred to General Jessup's staff. In 1838 he was admitted to the
bar and later became private secretary to Governor Clay, and secretary
of the senate. He removed to Tuscaloosa, where he was elected a
director of the State bank. In 1841, he made his home in Mobile, where
he practiced law, and was a commission merchant. He was appointed
lieutenant-colonel April 9, 1847, of the 13th Alabama infantry
regiment, for the War with Mexico, and on September 13 of the same
year was appointed colonel of the 9th Alabama infantry regiment. He
resigned May 23, 1848, and returned to commercial life in Mobile. In
1855, he was elected a representative from Mobile County, on the
American ticket; was mayor of Mobile, 1858-61. At the outbreak of the
War of Secession he was commissioned colonel of the 3rd Alabama
infantry regiment, and was promoted brigadier-general, July 10, 1861,
and commanded the defenses of Mobile. On September 12, 1861, the war
department of the Confederate States placed him in charge of the State
of Alabama and that portion of Mississippi east of Pascagoula River.
His command, known as the "Army of Mobile," was extended on December
20, 1861, westward, so as to include Pascagoula Bay and that portion
of Mississippi east of Pearl River. In the battle of Shiloh, April
6-7, 1862, he commanded the 2nd division of the 2nd corps, and later
the 2nd division of the 1st corps, and was promoted major-general
August 16, 1862, to rank from April 6, 1862. On October 7, 1862, he
was detached from General Bragg's army and sent to reinforce Gen.
Kirby Smith near Salvisa, Ky. On February 6, 1864, he was assigned to
the northern district of Alabama. At the close of the war he became
the editor of the "Mobile Tribune." He was a Democrat; Mason; and a
Presbyterian. Married: January 12, 1837, Rebecca Eloise, daughter of
Hon. Daniel Morgan and Harriet (Brevard) Forney, both of Lincoln
County, N. C., the latter a descendant of Gen. Peter Forney and of
Capt. Alexander Brevard of the Revolution. Children: 1. Harriet
Brevard, m. Major Daniel E. Huger, who served on the staff of his
father-in-law, Major-General Withers, and was by him, on July 14,
1864, recommended to be appointed brigade-commander; 2. Daniel Forney,
deceased; 3. Mary Jones, m. Gen. Bryan M. Thomas; 4. Sylla McDowell,
m. H. E. Witherspoon, deceased; 5. Jones Mitchell, deceased; 6.
Charles Hopkins; 7. Herbert, deceased; 8. Eloise Forney, deceased; 9.
Virginia Clay, m. G. B. Cleveland, deceased; 10. Daicey L. , m.
Collier Humphreys, deceased. Last residence: Mobile.
[Source: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama
biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921
- Submitted by AFOFG]
WITHERS, S. J., physician, was
born in 1828, in Limestone County; son of Dr. John W. and Palmyra S.
(Jordon) Withers, both natives of Virginia who removed to Alabama
where the latter became a physician of note; grandson of Judge John
and Mary Herbert (Jones) Withers, who came to Alabama from Virginia in
1808, settling near Huntsville, and of Samuel and Jane (Scott) Jordon,
natives of Virginia who removed to Alabama in 1818, locating in
Limestone County; great-grandson of Thomas and Priscilla (Wright)
Withers, the former a native of England, who emigrated to America,
locating in Nansemond County, Va., where he married, later removing to
near Petersburg, at one time private secretary to Governor Dinwiddie,
and of Frederick and Susannah (Claiborne) Jones, of Dinwiddie County,
Va.; great-great-grandson of Sam Jordon, a native of Virginia, and of
Col. Augustine and Mary (Herbert) Claiborne, of Prince William County,
Va.; great-great-great-grandson of Bulwer and Mary (Stith) Herbert, of
Petersburg, Va., the latter at one time maid of honor to Queen Anne;
great-great-greatgreat-grandson of Lord John Herbert, a descendant of
the first Earl of Pembroke. Dr. Withers was reared on a farm; received
a good elementary education; studied medicine under John Y. Bassett,
in 1847; entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1848, graduating in
1850. He located in Alabama, practicing in Madison County for one
year; removed to Arkansas, where he remained three years; returned to
Alabama and began the practice of his profession at Mooresville. He
was an Episcopalian; Methodist; and a Knight of Honor. Married: in
1851, to Emma, daughter of Charles E. and Elizabeth M. (Stewart)
Collier. Children: 1. Elizzie; 2. C. S.; 3. John W., and 4. Charles
W., twins; 5. Ella Lee; 6. Emma B. Last residence:
Mooresville.
[Source: History of Alabama and
dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen,
Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921 - Submitted by AFOFG]
WITHERSPOON, ANDREW JACKSON,
Presbyterian minister, was born July 10, 1824, at
Waxhaws, S. C. , and died October 25, 1891, while on a business trip
to Moss Point, Miss.; son of Col. James Hervey and Jane (Donnom)
Witherspoon, the former a native of Williamsburg County, S. C., who
removed to Lancaster Court House where he was district ordinary,
commissioned as colonel of a militia regiment, 1818, elected
lieutenant governor, 1826, and as candidate for the U. S. congress, at
the time of his death; grandson of Capt. James and Nancy (White)
Witherspoon, the former of Williamsburg District, and a captain in the
Revolutionary Army, of the King's Tree company of South Carolina, and
of Isaac and Sarah (Crawford) Donnom, of Colleton District, S. C.;
great-grandson of Robert and Elizabeth (Heathly) Witherspoon, the
former a native of County Down, Ireland, who emigrated with his father
and grandfather to America and settled in Williamsburg District, S.
C., and of Jonathan and Margaret (Dunwoody) Donnom, the former a
native of England or Scotland who emigrated to America and settled in
Colleton District, S. C.; great-great-grandson of James and Elizabeth
(McQuoid) Witherspoon, both natives of County Down, Ireland, who
emigrated to America on the "Good Intent" and settled in Williamsburg
District, S. C.; great-great-great-grandson of John and Janet
(Witherspoon) Witherspoon, both natives of Scotland, moved to County
Down, Ireland, emigrated to America with many relatives and settled in
Williamsburg District, S. C. Rev. Dr. Witherspoon attended Davidson
College, N. C.; studied law under his brother. Col. Isaac Donnom
Witherspoon, at Yorkville, S. C.; abandoned the study of law and
graduated from the Theological seminary at Columbia, S. C., 1850. In
1851 he moved to Greensboro, later to Marengo county, where he
preached in the churches at Montpelier, Shiloh and Geneva, 1856-61. At
the beginning of the War of Secession, he raised a company, called the
"Witherspoon Guards," was offered its command, but declined, later to
become chaplain of the 21st Alabama infantry regiment. He was taken
prisoner at the battle of Shiloh and was held for five months at
Johnson's Island. After his release he returned to his command, but
his health gave way entirely, causing him to give up his work for a
time. He soon secured another commission and continued in the
Confederate service until the close of the war. After the war he was
pastor and evangelist at Mobile. He went to New Orleans, 1873, where
he established the Seamen's Bethel, of which he became the chaplain
and remained in this work until his death. The degree of D. D. was
conferred upon him by Erskine College, S. C., in 1880. Married:
December 24, 1850, to Mary Way, his distant cousin and daughter of Dr.
James Minto and Amarintha (Dick) Witherspoon (q. v.). Children: 1.
Amarintha Mary, m. Rev. Dr. R. Q. Mallard; 2. Jane Donnom, m! Charles
Coffin, son of Robert H. and Eliza (Bowie) Wardlaw, of Abbeville, S.
C., and great nephew of Alexander Bowie (q. v.); 3. James Minto,
merchant, New Orleans, La.; 4. Isaac Hervey, d. in infancy; 5. Jackson
Thornwell, manager of American sugar refining company, New Orleans, m.
Elvira, daughter of John and Josephine (Herndon) Barkley, of New
Orleans; 6. Frances Dick, unm.; 7. Thomas Sydenham, member of Refined
sugar brokerage company, m. Grace, daughter of F. A. and Jane (Reese)
Jones of New Orleans. Last residence: New Orleans.
[Source:
History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By
Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921 - Submitted by
AFOFG]
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