CROCKER, Elder JACOB was a native of Wake County, and
was born near the city of Raleigh, N. C., date unknown. He was one of the old
Broad River pioneer preachers, and became a member first of State Line, then
of El Bethel, and last of Pacolet church, in Spartanburg Sounty, S. C. He
became a prominent minister of the Association, and was twice chosen to
preside over the deliberations of the body in the sessions of 1807 and 1819.
In 1805 at French Broad church he preached the introductory sermon, and again
in 1819 he performed the same service at Head of Tyger River. In the session
of 1823 he prepared the circular letter addressed to the churches, on the
manner in which a church of Christ should proceed in calling a pastor or
supply. Soon after this he emigrated to Pickens County, Alabama, and died,
having attained to a good old age.
Source: Sketches, Historical and
Biographical, of the Broad River and King's
Mountain Baptist Associations. By
John Randolph Logan
1887
CURRY, MILTON BENJAMIN, of Carrollton, was born near Carrollton, Pickens
county, May 10, 1867, and is the son of Rev. John H. Curry, a Baptist
minister and Confederate soldier, and wife Nancy L. Ferguson. He was educated
at the common schools; entered upon the practice of law November, 1899; was
mayor of Carrollton, 1890-91; was elected to the
legislature in 1900, and reelected in November, 1902. He is a Democrat, and a
Baptist. On January 31, 1894, he was married to Alva V., daughter of Wm. J.
Bonner and wife Virginia Cunningham, of Pickens
county.
Source: Alabama Official and Statistic Register by AL Dept of
Archives and History 1903
GILBERT, C. E. - Superintendent
of Public Buildings and Grounds - was born at Livingston, Alabama, July
4, 1855; removed to Eutaw, Ala., with his mother during the war between the
States, and after the war to Carrollton, Ala., where his father (who had
returned from the war and whose printing office had been burned by General
Wilson), established the "West Alabamian"; worked in his father's office from
1866 to 1876; came to Texas in the latter year; worked at Fort Worth and
Marlin; bought the "Tablet" at Navasota and ran the paper five years and then
sold it and in May, 1881, established at Abilene the "Reporter"; sold the
"Reporter" in 1886 and, in partnership with L. L. Foster, established the
"Herald," an evening paper published at Dallas : bought out Foster in 1887 ;
later consolidated the paper with the "Times," under the name of
"Times-Herald," which he continued to conduct until the spring of 1893;
published the "Georgetown Democrat" in Williamson county in 1894-5; sold the
paper in 1896 and returned to Dallas; was State Expert Printer from February,
1897, to January, 1901; bought the "Texas State Democrat" at Austin in 1897,
and continued to publish it until appointed Superintendent of Public Buildings
and Grounds by Gov. Lanham, January 23, 1903. He married Miss Gertrude Wilson
at Carrollton, Ala., and has five children, two sons and three daughters.
[Submitted by Janice Rice]
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GOING,
JAMES A. is a native of Pickens County, Alabama, and was born January 8, 1842. His
father was Eli T. Going, and his. mother, Jane M. Sommerville, and both were
natives of South
Carolina. His descent is Scotch-Irish. His great
grandparents were early settlers of Virginia, and on the father's side were in
the Revolutionary war. His immediate parents were early settlers of
Alabama, and have been residents of
Pickens
County for over fifty
years. His father lived a short while in Tuscaloosa County, but his parents were married in Pickens County. There were seven children in
the family, of whom the subject of this sketch is the second child. Five of
this family of children are still living, four of whom are residents of
Birmingham, and one in Pickens County. The subject was reared in Pickens County, and received his preliminary education
there, and finished his studies at the University of Alabama. In 1861 he left the
university and joined the first company that entered the Confederate
service, known as the Lane Guards. He entered the service as private, and
was in the war until April, 1865, when he was first lieutenant of a company
in the Forty-second Alabama Regiment. He was severely wounded at the battle
of Corinth, Mississippi, with the regimental colors in
his hand. He was disabled by this wound from active service for six months,
and a part of the time was in the signal service. Mr. Going was at the following
engagements: Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary
Ridge, Resaca, Stone Mountain, and from the latter place went to Atlanta,
Georgia, and then to Benton, North Carolina. He served in the Western Army
under Price, Pemberton, Cheatham, Hood, and Joseph E. Johnston.
For six years after the
close of the war he was a planter in Pickens County, and in November, 1872, came to Birmingham, and
engaged in the general merchandise business, under the firm style of James
A. Going & Co., and continued in the trade until 1879. Since that time
he has been one of the most active, successful, and reliable real estate
dealers in Birmingham, few having handled as much
property as he. At various times he has served on the board of aldermen and
was one of its most influential members. He has also acted as mayor on many
occasions. Mr. Going
was married in 1865 to Miss Myrtis G. Billups, of Pickens County. Her ancestors came from
South
Carolina, and were early settlers in the
State. He has three
children, all of whom are living—William Rufus, with the Berney National
Bank; Henry S., and Richard B., both attendants at the public schools in
this city. Mrs. Going
died on the 21st of July, 1886. Mr. Going is a member of and elder in the
Presbyterian Church.
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Source: Jefferson
County and Birmingham, Historical and Bibliographical. John Witherspoon
DeBose. 1887
HUGHES, C. T. was
born in Pickens County,
Alabama, July 11, 1844, and is
son of James J. and Nancy Hughes. Mr. Hughes attended the county schools until
the age of fifteen, and in the spring of 1861 enlisted in Company D, Second
Alabama Regiment of Infantry, under Colonel Hardee, who was afterward General.
Mr. Hughes was wounded and taken prisoner at the siege of Vicksburg, and his
hearing was permanently impaired by the wound. He was soon paroled, but was
wounded again at the battle of New Hope Church, where he was shot three times.
He was sent to the hospital at Griffin, Georgia, where he remained one
week, and was then sent to his home. His wounds having disabled him he did not
again enter the army. He belonged to the sharpshooters, under General Price,
and was in ninety-five engagements in one year's time under
him.
After the war he engaged in farming in Marshall County, Mississippi,
which he followed for eight years. He sold out and moved to this county in
1873, and farmed one year, since which time he has been engaged in contracting
and building, and in the lumber business, and in 1884 added to his business a
planing mill.
In
December, 1885, he formed a partnership with F. K. Simmons, of Florida, and has added
to his business a carpenter shop and stair-building, employing thirty
men.
Mr. Hughes was married in October, 1867,
to Miss Kate Means, of Holly
Springs, Mississippi, and eight
children have been born to them.
Himself and family are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is
also a member of the American Legion of Honor.
Source: Jefferson County
and Birmingham, Historical and Bibliographical. John Witherspoon
DeBose. 1887
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JONES, ABRAM DALLAS
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Abram
Dallas Jones was the 5th son of Eli Jones and Elizabeth James. He was
born October 8, 1844 Carrolton, Pickens County, Alabama. On many
records he is listed as A.D. Jones.
He was raised as a
farmer. In 1861 he enlisted in Company B 40th AL Regiment (formerly
Pickens Planters). He was only 17 years old when he enlisted. His
brothers Robert A Jones and William Hansel Jones were also in Company B 40th
Alabama Regiment. On June 15th 1864, it was a very rainy and muddy
day. It had rained for several days. Company B 40th Alabama was
near Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia. On that day near the foot of Noon
Day Creek, Abram was shot in the left arm and he was carried off the
field. His arm was then amputated.
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By the 1870
Pickens County, Alabama census; Abram, 26 years old and was married to Mary
Simms Greer (daughter of James Smith Valentine Greer and Katherine Fair
Greer). They had one son named James Basham Jones who was a
newborn. Abram was a farmer which is something he was used to
doing.
Abram had 5
children by his first wife Mary Simms Greer. The children were James
Basham Jones born 1870; Mary Alice Jones born 1873; Eli Fair Jones born
1876; Katie Alabama "Bama" Jones born 1880 and Lilly Paschal Jones born
1882. Mary S Greer Jones died sometime after Lilly was born.
Abram was alone carrying for his 5 young children. By February 2, 1888
he married Martha S. Elmore (daughter of William Franklin Elmore).
Martha didn't have any of her own children, and she was a very good
step-mother to Abrams' 5 children.
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According to the
1900 census Abram was listed as a "merchant". Around 1904 to 1907 they
moved from Samanthy to Fosters,
AL.
Sometime after 1910 Martha
Elmore Jones had died and then Abram Jones was a salesman at the local
general store. He then married a 3rd wife named Ella Edgeworth; she
was 42 years younger than Abram. She was daughter of Jim and Lizzie
Edgeworth.
Abram and Ella had
2 children. A daughter named Lizzie born in 1912 and a son named Roy
born in 1918. Unfortunately, that very same year that their son Roy
was born; Abram was very sick. Ella could no longer take care of
Abram. On February 11th 1918, his wife put him in a nursing
home. He died a few months later on August 18, 1918 in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. - Written and submitted by Renee Dey - THANK
YOU
LOFTON, THOMAS, soldier of the American
Revolution, aged 73, and a resident of Pick- ens County; private, captain and
sergeant S. C. Militia; enrolled on February 2, 1833, under act of Congress of
June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $340; sums
received to date of publication of list, $1,020. — Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in vol. xiv, Sen. doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He came from
Pendleton District, S. C., to Alabama. The young people of his neighborhood
knew him as "Grandsire Lofton" and loved him for his kind and genial
disposition; some are still living who remember his interesting stories of the
Revolution. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. He is buried at
Bethesda church near Benevola; no stone marks his last resting place. — Mrs.
P. H. Mell, in Alabama Historical Society, Transactions, vol. iv, p.
554
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
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LONG, JOHN R., merchant, was born August 25, 1835, in
Pickens County; son of Richard and Mary H. (Coleman) Long, natives of
Virginia, who moved first to South Carolina, and in 1828, to Alabama,
settling on a plantation in Pickens County, near Pickensville, until the
death of the former in 1868. His paternal grandfather was born in
Ireland, and his
grand-mother in England. He began life for
himself as a clerk for Drury Miller, a merchant at Bridgeville, and remained
there for three years, when, on the death of his father, he returned home
and took charge of the plantation, at the same time conducting a farm of his
own In Noxubee County, Miss. He enlisted in the C. S. Army in 1861, joining
Co C, Forty-first Alabama infantry, and remained in the service of the
commissary department until the latter part of 1864, when he was discharged
on account of disability for service. In 1866, he formed a partnership in
the mercantile business with Dr. A. B. Wilkins at Pickensville, and at the
same time formed a partnership with S. W. Hood, at Franconia. He maintained the latter association until
1869, when he sold his interest in the business at Franconia, and gave his entire attention to the store
in Pickensville, assuming full control of the business in 1887. He was a
township trustee for twenty years, and is a Mason. Married: (1) in 1869, to
Dora Stinson, who was born in Pickens County, and died December, 1882, daughter of James
and Nancy (Cotton) Stinson; (2) in November, 1886, to Mary Archibald, a
native of Pleasant Ridge, Greene County. Children, by first marriage:
1. Walter, b. in January, 1871, a graduate of Marion military institute,
1892; 2. Julia, b. in March, 1873, attended Judson College; 3. Lillie, b. in
December, 1876, attended Judson college; 4. John R., Jr., b. in January,
1877, attended Pickensville institute; 6. Drury, b. in July, 1881; by second
marriage: 6. Annie b. in January, 1889. Residence:
Pickensville.
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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
LOWE, WILLIAM THOMAS, lawyer, was born
September 14, 1860, at Reform, Pickens County; son of Marcus Wilburn and Susan
(Shelton) Lowe, of Pickens County, the former a second lieutenant in the C. S.
Army ; grandson of John Franklin and Patsy (Munday) Lowe, and of Crispen and
Susan Shelton, all of whom lived near Reform, Pickens County. He was prepared
in the common schools, and was graduated from Florence normal school in 1884.
He studied law in the office of Judge W. P. Chitwood at Moulton, Lawrence
County, and began the practice of law at that place in 1887; was a delegate
from Lawrence County to the constitutional convention of 1901; represented
that county in the "State legislature, 1903; moved to Decatur where he has
since practiced law, 1904; and was elected to the State senate from the second
district, 1906. He is a Democrat, and a Knight of Pythias. Married: December
8, 1888, in Moulton, to Sarepta, daughter of William D. and Frances L. (Lynch)
. Irwin, of Moulton. Residence: Decatur.
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
LYON, MATTHEW, publisher,
editor. Baptist minister, was born August 27, 1812, in Warren County, Tenn.;
son of Maj. James Lyon, who published papers in New Orleans before the War of 1812, and who
was the first person to publish a newspaper in the English language in
Mobile;
grandson of Col. Matthew, a native of County
Wicklow, Ireland, born July 14, 1760, who emigrated to
America some time after his father
had been put to death for engaging in a conspiracy against the British
crown…..
Elder Lyon attended the town academy for
several years in Cheraw, Chesterfield District, S. C, and was brought up as a
printer in the printing office of his father who established the first
newspaper in that town. From December, 1829, to Mardi, 1831, he worked during
the congressional sessions in the printing office of Gen. Duff Green, editor of the "United
States Telegraph," Washington, D. C. He returned home and became a printer at
Camden, S. C; in 1837, conducted "The Baptist,"
a monthly publication established at Nash-ville two years before; worked on the
"Huntsville Democrat" for Philip Woodson, 1838; taught school at Pleasant Ridge, Greene County, 1840; and in 1841 became a printer in
Pickensville, remaining in Pickens County for about fourteen years. He practiced law, and became register
in chancery at Carrollton for four years. Early in 1849. he
was licensed to preach by the Carrollton Baptist church, and later in the year
was ordained to the ministry. After preaching for two or three years, he
resigned from the law and taught school in con-nection with his duties as a
minister. He served in Pickens
County as pastor of the churches at
Ebenezer, Providence, Spring Hill, Carrollton and
Pickensville. In 1854, he moved to Brooksville, Miss., and taught school and preached there
for three years. In 1858, he was pastor of Grenada church, Mississippi, and a teacher in the Baptists
female institute at that place. In 1859, he started the Baptist Messenger," a
weekly publication which was discon-tinued during the first year of the war,
and while conducting the paper, preached in various churches in Mississippi. Moving
from Memphis, he lived successively in
Hernando, Panola, and Grenada, Miss., preaching, printing and teaching at
different times. He was a missionary of the Home Mission Board, 1865-1869;
settled at Winona,
Miss., in 1868, where he printed
and preached; moved to Moulton for a short time, was called back to Central
church. Holmes County, Miss.; became pastor at Carrollton in 1876, and in Moulton, in 1880, and after
that time served in churches at Danville, Enon, Harmony and Pleasant
Grove. Married: June 25,
1848, in Sumter
County, to Susannah
Muscogee Compere, daughter of Elder Lee Compere (q. v.). Children: 1. Compere
Adolphus, enlisted in the C. S. Army, participated at the battle of Shiloh,
and served until the last month of the war when he was dragged from a sickbed
and murdered by Federal troops; 2. Laura, m. W. P. Chitwood, Tuscumbia. Last
residence: Tuscumbia.
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
MABRY, MILTON HARVEY,
Judge, a native of Alabama, was born June 17,
1861, in Pickens County; son of Jesse Hughes and Sarah Caroline
(Prude) Mabry, the former of Alabama and
Mississippi, the latter of Alabama. He received
his early education in the public schools of Verona, Miss.; attended
the University of Mississippi, and received the degree of LL. B. from
the law school at Lebanon,
Tenn., 1872. He began the
practice of his profession at Tupelo, Miss., the year of his graduation. In 1879,
on account of ill health, he removed to Leesburg, Fla., where he
continued to practice law; was a member of the Florida house of representatives, 1883-84; lieutenant
governor, 1884-88; Justice of the supreme court of Florida, 1891-1903, and is
now clerk of the supreme court. Married: (1) in December, 1876, to Ella D.,
daughter of John W. Bramlett, an extensive farmer near Verona, Miss., who d.
Jan., 1908; and, (2) November 15, 1906, to Irene Washburn, of Louisville, Ky.
Residence: Tallahassee. 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
MARTIN, ANDREW J., of the firm A. J. &
J. K. P. Martin, of Kennedy, Lamar County, and Raleigh, Pickens
county, Ala was born in Pickens county, this state, February 2,
1839, and is the eldest of a family of eight. His parents,
CASWELL and ELIZABETH (POWELL) MARTIN, were natives of North Carolina,
and among the first settlers of Pickens county, Ala. where CASWELL MARTIN
was engaged in farming and merchandising, and was quite prominent
as a citizen. His death occurred in 1877 at the age of
sixty-six. The paternal grandparents of ANDREW J. MARTIN were SEROD
D. and CHARITY MARTIN of North Carolina, and his maternal
grandmother was LUCY POWELL, of the same state. ANDREW J.
was reared and educated in Alabama. In 1862 he entered the
Confederate army and served until the close, but was not in any of
the leading battles, as his health was frail and did not permit
him to perform any very onerous duties. In 1886 he married
Mrs. KATIE B. ASHLEY, of Arkansas, widow of HENRY ASHLEY, and
daughter of GEORGE W. CARROLL of Maryland. For a number of
years Mr. MARTIN was postmaster at Raleigh and has always been
regarded as a sterling democrat and an upright business man. The
stock carried by the firm at Kennedy is valued at $10,000, and
that at Raleigh at $5,000, and the standing of the firm and its
credit are of the first class. Mr. MARTIN is a substantial citizen
and contributes freely to all public enterprises. He exercises his
right of suffrage with care, voting for good and competent
men.
Source: From Memorial Record of Alabama. By
Hannis Taylor, Brant & Fuller, Publishers, Madison, Wis. 1893.
Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney
MOORE, SAMUEL
B., sixth governor of Alabama, was
born in Franklin County, Tenn., in 1789, and died November 7, 1846, in
Carrollton. He
received a limited education and came to Alabama at an early day settling in Jackson County. He represented that county in
the legislature as far back as 1823, and after serving several terms in the
lower house, was elected to the State senate, in 1828, being president of that
body in 1831. When Gov. Gabriel Moore resigned to take his place in the
U.
S. senate, Mr. Moore succeeded him in the
executive office, and administered until December of the same year. At the
close of his term he returned to Pickens County, which he represented in the
State senate from 1834-1838, serving as president of it in 1835. He was Judge
of the county court of Pickens from 1835-1841. He was never married. Last
residence: Carrollton.
Source: History of Alabama and
dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, 1921
McGUIRE, JOSEPH
H., lawyer, was born September 29, 1848, in Tuscaloosa County, and died May 9, 1899; son of
Henry W. and Sarah (Embry) McGuire, natives of Alabama; grandson of John and
Nancy (Rogers) McGuire, natives of Tennessee, who came to Alabama in 1817, and
of Joseph Embry. He attended private schools and was graduated from the
University of
Alabama, LL. B., 1878. He
served as principal of the Holly Grove high school, 1876- 1877; began the
practice of law in Pickens County; remained there for one year, then removed
to Fayette where he continued in the practice of law until his death. He held
the office of register in chancery in Walker County, 1872-1876, and in Fayette County, 1880-1883. He was a Democrat and
a Missionary Baptist Married: in 1878. to Seleta J. (Anderson) Windham, a
native of Alabama. Children: 1. Everett; 2. Joseph Hilliard, Jr., b. September 13, 1883,
attended the University of Alabama; 3. Mary; 4. Florence, m. William B.
Bankhead . Last residence: Fayette.
Source: [History of Alabama and
dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, 1921
McKINSTRY, O.
L., public official, was born March 19, 1842, in Pickens County; son of Thomas W. and Perilla A.
(Mobley) McKinstry, natives, respectively, of South Carolina and of Troup
County, Ga, the former a farmer, who emigrated from South Carolina to Alabama
in 1836 and lived there until his death in 1869. The father of Thomas W.
McKinstry was a native of Ireland, who emigrated to South Carolina and became a farmer in that state,
married a Miss Allston, a close relative of Gov. Allston of South Carolina, and a native of Scotland. Judge McKinstry enlisted
in the C. S. Army in 1861, Joining Co. D, Second Alabama
infantry regiment, and served
with that command one year, then Joined the Forty-second Alabama infantry. He
participated in the battles of Corinth, siege
of Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, New Hope Church, Peach Tree Creek, and
Bentonville, at which last place he was taken prisoner. After the war he
returned to his home and engaged in farming, and in 1876- 1877 represented
Pickens
County in the State
legislature. He was appointed probate Judge of Pickens County in 1890, to fill
a vacancy caused by the death of Judge T. O. Williams, and was elected to that
office in 1892. Married: in 1868, to Hester Mayhew, daughter of Joseph H. and
Susanna (Collier) Mayhew, both natives of South
Carolina, who emigrated to Alabama in the early days of the
state. Children: 1. Thomas H., b. October, 1869, physician; 2. O. L., Jr., b.
April, 1874; 3. Hester, b. November, 1880. Residence: Carrollton.
Source: History of Alabama and
dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, 1921
MURPHY, SAMUEL
DAVIDSON, lawyer, was born April 21, 1870, at Bethany, Pickens County; son of Dr. Adolphus Sadler and
Virginia Caroline (Davidson) Murphy, the former who served as a surgeon of the
Twentieth Alabama regiment during the War of Secession. Judge Murphy received
his early education in his native county and afterwards attended the
University of
Alabama, where he studied
law. . He was appointed judge of the juvenile court of Jefferson County upon its creation in 1911 and
since that time has been reappointed by three succeeding governors. He was
author of the child welfare laws of the state and was largely responsible for
progress made in working out a program for such work. He is a Democrat; an
elder in the Presbyterian church; and a Mason. Married: November 27, 1896, at
Indianapolis, Ind., to Elizabeth Todd, daughter of Dr. L.
L. Todd of that city. Children: 1. Luther Todd; 2. Samuel Davidson, jr.
Residence: Birmingham.
Source: History of Alabama and
dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, 1921
NABERS, FRANCIS D.,
lawyer and business man, was born May 14, 1854, in Carrollton, Pickens County; son of Judge Zacharias Lee and
Sara Rebecca (Nabers) Nabers of Laurens,
S. C, and brother of Zach Lee Nabers .
He was educated in the schools of
Carrollton and Mobile; graduated from the Mobile military institute, in 1872. In 1883, he removed
to Birmingham and engaged in the accountant
business; in 1886-87, was clerk in war department, under President Cleveland; 1889-90, a law student, at the University of
Virginia; has
practiced law in Birmingham since that
date. He is a Democrat. Residence: Birmingham.
Source: History of Alabama and
dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, 1921
NABERS, ZACH LEE, jr.,
banker, was born May 6, 1858, at Carroll ton, Pickens County; son of Judge
Zacharias Lee and Sara Rebecca (Nabers) Nabers, of Laurens, S. C, who removed
to Athens, Ga., and later to Carrollton; grandson of Jacob and Elizabeth
(Powers) Nabers, and of Francis Drayton and Matilda (Mullens) Nabers, all of Laurens, S. C,
who removed to Ala-bama later; great-grandson of Isaac
Nabers, who was killed by Tories during the Revo-lutionary War. He was
educated in the schools of Carrollton and
Mobile; after
a business course in
Mobile he became an accountant, doing expert
work in St. Louis, Mo., Dallas and Texarkana, Texas, and
Little Rock, Ark., where he was made teller of the First
national bank. His business called him to Connecticut, New York
City and Chicago; in 1884, he
located in Birmingham, where he is connected with the
First national bank. He is a Democrat Married: April 28, 1885, in Birmingham, to Alice Pickney, daughter of Benjamin
Pickney and (Caroline (Mitchell) Worthington, the latter a daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth Mitchell, native Alabamians. Children: 1. Nellie Lee, m. William
S. Mudd, of Birmingham; 2. Margarite. Residence: Birmingham.
Source: History of Alabama and
dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie
Bankhead Owen, 1921
Stewart, George W. - M. D. While the
professional position and attainments of Doctor Stewart are such as to command
respect throughout Kiowa County, where he has lived since the opening of the
reservation to settlement, and over the state at large, it is a matter of
knowledge to comparatively few how vigorously he contended with difficulties
and embarrassments in his early youth to gain what his ambition craved. Doctor
Stewart is a Southerner by birth and training, and his early youth was spent
in the section of the South ravaged by the Civil war. It was only after
reaching his majority that he was able to take up his long deferred plans for
gaining an education, and was a farmer, a merchant and teacher before
beginning the practice of medicine.
His great-grandfather Charles Stewart emigrated from
Scotland to Virginia in the closing
years of the eighteenth century. From Virginia he moved into Georgia, and thence into Alabama, followed his vocation as a farmer in those
various localities, and died in Pickens County,
Alabama, but near the city of Columbus, Mississippi. Doctor Stewart's grandfather
was John Stewart, who was born in Georgia in 1795, and died in Milam County, Texas, in 1860. He was likewise a farmer,
lived in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, and a short time before the war moved to
Texas, where
he died.
Doctor Stewart was born in Itawamba County, Mississippi, September 10, 1856. His father
was Wiley S. Stewart, who was born in Pickens
County, Alabama, in 1831, and died
at Fulton, Mississippi, in 1872. He was a farmer and
stock raiser all his active career, and from Pickens County removed to Itawamba County, Mississippi, and was living there when the
war came on. He saw four years of service in the Thirty-second Mississippi
Regiment of Infantry, was shot through the arm in the Battle of Chickamauga,
and returned home from the war a physical wreck, and never fully regained his
health. He married Mary A. Cobb, who was born in North
Carolina in 1833 and is now living at the venerable age of
eighty-two with her son Doctor Stewart at Hobart. There were eight children in the
family, a brief record of them being as follows: John A., a farmer at Hobart,
Oklahoma; Dr. George W.; Wiley M., a farmer near Hobart; Sidney Jackson, a
farmer at Denton, Texas; Mary, who is now living at Gorman, Texas, the widow
of T. L. Gates, who was a merchant in Gorman, Texas, and died there; W. P.,
who is with the Warden Printing Company at Oklahoma City; R. L., a farmer at
Sentinel, Oklahoma; and L. F., who is an educator and is vice president of the
Panhandle Agricultural School at Goodwell,
Oklahoma.
As one of
the older members of this family and with his youth passed in the time and
under the conditions briefly suggested above, Doctor Stewart had a youth of
many cares and responsibilities besides those immediately concerned with his
individual advancement. His common school education was derived from the
schools of Itawamba County, Mississippi, and in 1878, at the age of twenty-two, he
graduated from Fulton Academy in that county. For a few years
he combined merchandising with farming and was a teacher for six years. In
1888, with such savings as he had managed to accumulate in addition to
supporting his own home and family, he entered the Memphis Hospital Medical
College at Memphis, Tennessee, and was graduated M. D. in 1890. Doctor Stewart
is still a close student of his profession, and in 1908 took a post-graduate
course in the Chicago Post Graduate School.
His practice began at Fulton, Mississippi, in 1890, and in 1893 he removed to Cause in
Milam County, Texas, practiced there until 1896, and practiced in
Hill County, Texas, until 1901. In that year he came to
Hobart as one of the pioneer physicians to
locate in Kiowa
County, and has since
enjoyed a large general medical and surgical practice. Since Oklahoma entered statehood he has been county
superintendent of health of Kiowa County, and is also prominent in medical
organizations, having served two years as president of the Kiowa County
Medical Society and is now its vice president, and is a member of the State
Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His offices are in the
Jones
Building on Fourth
Street.
Doctor Stewart is a democrat and served three terms on the Hobart City
Council. He is a member and president of the board of trustees of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is a charter member of Hobart Lodge No.
198, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, being a past master by service; and is
a charter member of Hobart Chapter No. 37, Royal Arch Masons, and is also
affiliated with Hobart Camp No. 84, Woodmen of the
World.
Doctor Stewart in 1883, when a young man still struggling to fit
himself for his chosen work back in Mississippi, was married at Fulton to Miss
Margaret E. Nabors. She died in Fort
Worth, Texas, in 1907.
Oscar Stewart, the oldest child of this marriage, is now one of the prominent
men of Oklahoma, and is superintendent of the
State Institute for the Blind at Muskogee. He is a graduate of the School for
the Blind at Austin, Texas, afterwards attended Vanderbilt University at
Nashville, Tennessee, is an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, and in 1914 was urged to take the nomination for Congress from
his district, but refused that honor, though his abilities insure him many
substantial distinctions in public affairs. He is an active democrat. Oscar
Stewart married Miss Jane Robertson of Virginia, and their two children are
Wilhelm, born August 12, 1907; and Virginia Elizabeth, born in October, 1908,
these being the only grandchildren of Doctor Stewart. Otho, the second child
of Doctor Stewart, is a graduate of the Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas, and
is now pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Coweta, Oklahoma; Oland,
the youngest child, is now a student in the University of Oklahoma at Norman. Doctor Stewart was married at
Hobart in 1908 to his present wife, Miss Ida
Wilkie, who is of German descent and came to Oklahoma from Wisconsin.
Source: A Standard
History of Oklahoma V 4 by Joseph Bradfield Thoburn - 1916
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STINSON, THOMAS AUSTIN, of Columbus,
was born March 21, 1845, in Pickens County,
Alabama, the son of John Thomas Stinson and his
wife, Mary Brooks (Haynie) Stinson. His father was a native of South
Carolina and served in the Confederate Army during 1864-65. The subject of
this sketch was educated at Spring Hill Academy, Pickens County, Alabama,
when that well known institution was under the supervision of Rev.
Matthew Lyon. At the age of seventeen he entered the Confederate service as
private in Company C, Forty-first Alabama
Regiment, Col. M. L. Stansel commanding; took part in battles of
Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Drury's Bluff and Petersburg and minor
engagements and was several times wounded; was with the army on retreat from
Petersburg and surrendered at Appomattox April 9, 1865. From 1867 to 1885 he
was engaged in mercantile business, and since then has given his attention
to farming. Mr. Stinson was Justice of the Peace in Lowndes County 1888 to
1892, and represented that county in the State Legislature in 1892 and 1894.
He is a Democrat, a Baptist, a Mason and an Odd Fellow. Was elected to the
House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He was married May 16, 1876, in
Memphis, Tenn., to Susan Emily Weaver, daughter of Frederick Tolbert Weaver
and wife, Susan Elizabeth Weaver, of Lowndes County, Miss. Mr. and Mrs.
Stinson have eight children: Tolbert Weaver, Annie Eloise, Curtis Austin,
William Haynie, Susan Emily, Tom Brooks, Corinne and Frederick Quimby.
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Source: The Official and Statisical
Register of Mississippi, Vol. 2, Mississippi Dept of Archives and History,
1908
STONE, LEWIS MAXWELL, speaker
of the house Alabama legislature, State senator and member constitutional
convention, was born December 11, 1819, in Baldwin County, Ga., and died June
26, 1890, in Carrollton; son of William De Saix and Elizabeth (Lewis) Stone,
the former a native of Liberty County, Georgia, and died while in Mobile about
the middle of January, 1855; grandson of Thomas and Ann (Maxwell) Stone, and
of John and Elizabeth (Kennon) Lewis, all of Georgia, brother of Thomas Oswald
Stone. The Lewises and Kennons were of Virginia stock. Mr. Stone received his
early education in Georgia, and came with his parents to Alabama in 1834. He
completed his education at the University of Alabama in 1839, graduating with
the degree of A. M. He studied law at Harvard University from which he was
graduated in 1841. Having acquired a license to practice his profession he
located in 1843, in Carrollton, where he soon acquired a large and lucrative
practice. He represented his county in the lower house of the legislature in
1849-50 and 1851-52 and in the senate in 1859-63. He was a member of the
constitutional convention of 1861, and again represented his county in the
lower house in 1868-69, the reconstruction period, in which he was speaker of
the house; member of the constitutional convention of 1875. He represented his
county the fourth time in 1888-89. which was his last legislative service. He
was a Baptist. Married: the widow of Mr. Gershom Kelly of Pickens County, nee,
Elizabeth Brooks. Last residence: Carrollton.
Source:
[History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas
McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921 - Transcribed 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 grand-parents 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]
