LEWIS, LORENZO DOW, Presbyterian minister, was born July 11, 1847, near
Gaylesville, Cherokee County; son of Chrisman and Annie (Webb) Lewis, the
former a native of Chestnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tenn., who lived at Davis
Cross Roads, Cherokee County, and was a blacksmith; grandson of Gabriel and
Debie Lewis, of Chestnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tenn., the former a soldier
in the War of 1812, and of Thomas Webb, of Chestnut Hill, Tenn.;
great-grandson of Shellie Lewis; great-great- grandson of George Lewis, who
came with his two brothers, Amos and Mordecai, to the United States from Wales
in 1794. He received his early education in Cherokee County, at Davis Cross
Roads, and attended the Cumberland university for three years. He became a
minister of the Presbyterian church, and served the greater part of his life
in that calling. Married: to Indiana Alabama, daughter of John Tyler and
Melvinie Culpeper, who lived near Gaylesville, after coming from Tennessee to
Alabama. Children: 1. Lottie, Birmingham, m. Robert L. McNutt, deceased, five
children; 2. Minnie, m. Robert Engle, one child; 3. Mack, married, four
children. Mill Creek, Okla.; 4. O. W., married, five children, Bessemer; 5. W.
M., married, two children, Rose- dale; 6. Leona, Birmingham. Residence:
Birmingham.
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
LEATH, JAMES HILL, manufacturer and
legislator, was born March 22, 1864, at Broomtown, Cherokee County; son of James Hill and
Hasseltine (Rickey) Leath, who lived at Centre, Cherokee County. He was educated in the
common schools of Centre; in 1880 he engaged in printing at Centre, on the "Cherokee
Advertiser"; in 1887 was editor of "The Telephone," a weekly paper at Centre, and in 1888
of the "Sylacauga Argus"; removed to Birmingham in 1889, where for ten years he was a
printer. He is a cigar manufacturer, and prominent in labor circles. He was one of the
representatives in the legislature from Jefferson County, in 1901, and was author of the
State printing bill, the union label bill and mechanics lien law for Jefferson County, and
a child labor law. He is a Democrat; and a Baptist. He is unmarried. Residence: Birmingham.
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
STONE, LUCIUS BENNETT,
business man, was born October 15, 1835, at Homer, Cortland
County, N. Y.; son of Jacob Thompson and Mary (Bennett) Stone; grandson of
Mary Webb Stone who was on the maternal side a direct descendant of Gov.
William Bradford and on the paternal side the Webb family is of Scotch origin,
tracing its line of descent back to Harry Webb who settled in Warwickshire,
England, in 1377; great-grandson of Thomas Stone who was a private in Col.
Artemus Ward's regiment in the Revolutionary War, and participated in many
battles among them being the battle of Bunker Hill, and of Asa Bennett and a
Miss Barrows, the former who served as a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War,
and the latter who was a daughter of Capt. Thomas Barrows. Lucius B. Stone
received his education in the Cortland academy at Homer, and at the age of
twenty years because of ill health he went to Georgia. On January 23, 1861, he
enlisted in Jackson's battery, Georgia state troops with whom he marched to
the coast; in April, 1861, enlisted in the second Georgia battalion of
infantry, going to Norfolk, Va.; was assigned to the Forty-ninth Georgia
infantry, C. S. A., as drill master; and later he was appointed ordnance
sergeant. In 1876, he came to Cherokee County; engaged in merchandising,
mining, and farming; was elected state senator from the twenty-ninth district,
1900, was re-elected in 1902, and again in 1903. Married: on December 3, 1874,
at Cave Springs, Ga., to Martha Shorten, daughter of Moses Rochester and
Elizabeth (Harper) Wright, of that place; great-granddaughter of Armstead
Richardson who served as major in the Mexican War, and served throughout the
War of Secession; greatgreat-granddaughter of Lieut. Daniel Richardson of
Culpeper, Va., who served three years in the Revolutionary War, and received a
land grant of four thousand acres for services rendered Virginia. Residence:
Farill.
Source: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume
4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by
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