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Jackson County, MS
Biographies
Bailey, Oscar L., M. D., a leading
physician and surgeon of Ocean Springs, Jackson county, merits
recognition among other representative members of his profession
whose names appear in this compilation. The Doctor was born in
Conehatta, Newton county, Miss., Jan. 12, 1870, and is a son of Dr.
John B. and Josephine (Day) Bailey, the former of whom was born in
Alabama and the latter in Newton county, Miss. The father has long
been one of the leading medical practitioners of Newton county and
is still engaged in practice at Conehatta. Dr. Oscar L. Bailey
completed the curriculum of the public schools and was early led to
formulate definite plans for preparing himself for the profession
which has been signally honored and dignified by the services of his
father, under whose preceptorship he gained his initial knowledge of
the sciences of medicine and surgery. He then was matriculated in
the St. Louis college of Physicians and Surgeons, in St. Louis,
Mo., in which old and well ordered institution he completed the
prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of
1892, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He served his
professional novitiate by engaging in practice in his native town,
Conehatta, and later was located in Lake, Scott county, whence he
came to Ocean Springs in 1897, since which time he has been in
general practice at this place, having built up a large and
representative business. He is president of the Jackson county
medical society, and is also identified with the Mississippi State
medical association and the American medical association. He was one
of the promoters and organizers of the Ocean Springs State bank,
which opened its doors for business March 27, 1905, and which has
received a representative support from the start. Dr. Bailey is
president of the bank, which is incorporated with a capital of
$15,000, Frederick M. Weed is vice-president, and Alfred L. Staples,
cashier. The Doctor is a stalwart adherent of the Democratic party,
but his interest in public affairs is of a broad and liberal sort
and not hedged in by partisanship. He is county health officer and
holds a similar office for the city of Ocean Springs, while he is
president of the board of education and is assistant acting surgeon
in the marine hospital service of the government. He is a Knight
Templar Mason, a noble of the Mystic Shrine, a member of the Knights
of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, while
his religious faith is that of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
On Jan. 2, 1895, Dr. Bailey was united in marriage to Miss Berdie
Anderson, daughter of A. R. Anderson, of Edwards, Hinds county,
Miss., and they have four children, Beryl, Bemiss. Clothilde and
Salome.
[Mississippi: Contemporary Biography
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AFOFG]
Bemise, John Harrison, physician,
educator, college president, was born in 1856 in Louisville, Ky. In
1878-83 he made a study of leprosy on the island of Maui, on which
he prepared several valuable papers. He was the first president of
the New Orleans polyclinic. He died in 1897 at Ocean Springs,
Miss.
[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 – Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
Bliss, William Wallace
Smith, soldier, was born in August, 1815, in Whitehall,
N.Y. During the Mexican war he was chief of staff to General Taylor;
and took an active part in the engagements of Palo Alto, Resaca de
la Palma, Monterey and Buena Vista. In appreciation of his conduct
as a soldier, the state of New York presented him with a gold medal;
and for gallant service he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. In
1849-50 he was private secretary to President Taylor, whose youngest
daughter he marrimed. He died Aug. 5, 1853, in East Pascagoula,
Miss.
[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 – Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
Denny, Walter M.
Denny, Walter M., of Pascagoula, is
one of the leading members of the Mississippi bar and has been a prominent
figure in public affairs, having represented his native commonwealth
in congress and having lent dignity and honor to the State through
his services in public office and in the practice of his profession.
Mr. Denny was born at Moss Point, Jackson county, Miss., Oct. 28, 1853,
and is a son of Walter and Nancy (McKennon) Denny, both native of
Greene county,
Miss. At the outbreak of the Civil war the father of the
subject of this review enlisted for service in a company of Mississippi volunteers,
but as he was too old for active field service he was transferred to
a clerical position in the Confederate military department. He
served as sheriff of Greene county, which he also represented in the
State legislature. He was engaged in lumber manufacturing during the
major part of his active business career, and the closing years of
his life were passed in Moss Point, Miss., where his wife also died.
Of their four children all are living. After duly availing himself
of the advantages of the public schools, Walter M. Denny entered
Roanoke college, Va., where he continued his studies for one year,
while his technical discipline preparatory to entering the work of
this profession was secured in the law department of the University
of Mississippi, at
Oxford, where he was graduated, receiving the degree of Bachelor of
Laws. In earlier life he was engaged in the mercantile trade, at
Moss Point, and in November, 1883, he was elected chancery clerk of
Jackson county,
continuing in tenure of this office for the long period of
eleven years and resigning the same upon his election to congress,
in November, 1894, from the Sixth congressional district of the
State. During his term in congress Mr. Denny accomplished a most
important work for his native State, securing an appropriation for
the surveying of the channel for the port of Pascagoula. This survey
was later completed and led to governmental appropriations for the
work of deepening the channel to seventeen feet in the river and to
twenty-one feet in the Pass. This work is now in process of
completion and will be of inestimable value as a public improvement.
Mr. Denny was a delegate from Jackson county to the State
constitutional convention of 1890, and he has at all times shown a
lively interest in the welfare of his home State, while he is an
influential factor in the councils of the Democratic party in Mississippi. Since
retiring from congress Mr. Denny has been actively engaged in the
practice of his profession, in which he is now associated with his
elder son, Walter M., Jr. Mr. Denny is a member of the Presbyterian
church, as was also his wife, whose death occurred June 24, 1903. On
March 30, 1875, Mr. Denny led to the marriage altar Miss Hulda
Randall, who was born and
reared in Jackson
county, Miss., having been a daughter of Lyman and
Celeste (Delmas) Randall, of Moss Point. Of this union were born
eight children, all save one of whom survive their mother, their
names being here entered in order of birth: Walter M., Jr.,
Catherine, Celeste and Huldah (twins, the former having died July
19, 1903), Lyman R., Nancy, Grace and Irene.
[Mississippi: Contemporary Biography
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AFOFG]
Denny, Walter McKennon, lawyer and
statesman of Scranton, Miss., was born Oct. 28, 1853, in Moss Point,
Miss. In 1883-94 he was clerk of the circuit and chancery courts of
Jackson County, Miss. In 1895-97 he was a member of congress.
[Herringshaw's American Blue-Book of Biography
by Thomas William Herringshaw and American Publishers' Association,
1914, Transcribed by AFOFG]
Evans, Thomas Marshall
Evans, Thomas Marshall, who is engaged in the practice
of his profession in Gulfport, Harrison county, may consistently be designated
as one of the founders and builders of the progressive city which
has been evolved from the little village of about 500 population
which represented the town at the time when he took up his residence
here, less than a decade ago. Mr. Evans was born in Americus, Jackson county, Miss., July 13,
1862, and is a son of Wesley G. and Susan (Carter) Evans, both of
whom were likewise born in this State, the former in Greene county. Wesley G. Evans
was numbered among those loyal men who donned the gray uniform and
went forth in defense of the Confederacy when the Civil war cast its
dark pall over the national horizon. He became a member of Company
B, Stead's battalion of Mississippi volunteers, and during his
term of service was principally engaged in skirmishing with his
command in Mississippi
and Alabama. While thus battling for the cause of the South
he was elected to the legislature of his State, from Jackson county, and resigned his
place in the ranks to assume the no less important duties of the
office to which he had been chosen. He followed the vocation of
farming, timber getting, and saw milling during the greater part of
his active career and was also a minister of the gospel in the
Methodist Episcopal church, South, preaching in southeast Mississippi for more than
sixty-five years. Both he and his wife are now deceased and are
buried in Coalville cemetery, near Gulfport, Miss. Thomas M. Evans
was born during the climacteric epoch of the Civil war and his
boyhood days were passed under the conditions of the period of
"reconstruction," when uncertain governmental and civic policies
were in evidence here as elsewhere throughout the South. He,
however, was able to secure such educational advantages as were
offered by the public schools of the time, showing a marked
predilection for study and making the best use of his opportunities. In his
youth he was identified with farming and with the lumber industry,
but in the meanwhile he determined to prepare himself for a wider
sphere of endeavor. He accordingly took up the study of law at home,
applying himself with diligence and marked power of assimilation and
availing himself of such preceptorage as could be secured in
directing his technical reading. He continued to be concerned with
other lines of work until April 11, 1890, when he passed the
examination which gained to him admission to the bar of his native
State, said examination having been conducted before Judge Sylvanus
Evans, of Enterprise, Miss. He began the practice of his profession
at Purvis, Marion county, where he remained a short time and then located
in Poplarville, Aug. 1, 1890, remaining there engaged in practice
until 1893, when he removed to Scranton, where he continued his
professional endeavors until 1896, passing the ensuing two years in
Mississippi
City. In the fall
of 1898 Mr. Evans took up his abode in the embryonic city of
Gulfport, which, as before intimated, had at that time about 500
inhabitants. Here he became one of the pioneer representatives of
his profession, and in his office was held the first meeting of the
mayor and board of aldermen of the newly chartered city. At this
meeting he was elected city attorney, serving three years and being
then re-elected, in 1901, for a second term of equal duration. He
was one of the incorporators of the First National bank of Gulfport,
which absorbed the business of the Bank of Gulfport, of which he had
likewise been one of the organizers. In all that has touched the
prosperity and best interests of the city, Mr. Evans has manifested
an insistent and helpful interest, and he is regarded as one of its
most loyal and public-spirited citizens, while he also holds
precedence as one of the leading lawyers of Harrison county, retaining a representative
clientage and commanding the esteem of all who know him. For five
years he was a member of the board of education, in which capacity
he did much to forward the interests of education in Gulfport. On
the first Monday of January, 1907, he was elected to and assumed the
duties of the office of police justice of the city of Gulfport,
Miss., for the two ensuing years. He is an active worker in the
ranks of the Democratic party and is an able advocate of its cause,
while fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order and the
Knights of Pythias. He was one of the organizers of the Twenty-fifth
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, South, of whose first board of
trustees he was a member, as was he also of the building committee
which had charge of the erection of the present attractive church
edifice. On Dec. 17, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Evans
to Miss Cora A. Abney, daughter of Dr. Henry C. and Sarah (Slade)
Abney, of Poplarville, this State. Mrs. Evans was summoned into
eternal rest, at Mosspoint, Jackson county, in 1894, and is survived by one
child—Leah Abney. In March, 1895, Mr. Evans wedded Miss Mary C.
Abney, daughter of Jessie M. and Sarah (Crosby) Abney, of Covington,
La., and the three children of this union are: Stephen Glenn, Murcer
Griffin and Mary Susan.
[Mississippi:
Contemporary Biography Edited By Dunbar Rowland, 1907 – Transcribed
by Therman Kellar]
Gant, Harris Allen, one of the
distinguished physicians and surgeons of Mississippi and
ex-president of the State board of health, is actively engaged in
the practice of his profession in the city of Jackson, as a member
of the firm of Hunter & Gant. He was born in Columbia, Maury
county, Tenn., March 28, 1852, and is the son of John I. Gant and
Martha Jane Cocke. In 1854 his parents removed from Tennessee to
Mississippi and located in De Soto county, and in 1859, they moved
to Oxford, where he was reared to maturity and where he was for
three years a student in the State university. Being unable to
complete his university course, he moved with his parents to Water
Valley, Yalobusha county, in 1870, and turned his attention to
teaching. He soon formulated definite plans for his future life
work, deciding to take up the profession of medicine, and for
preliminary instruction took a position in a drug store at Water
Valley, Miss., where he was prescription clerk for two years, in the
meanwhile prosecuting his medical studies with earnestness. In 1874-5 he attended
his first course of medical lectures at Vanderbilt university,
Nashville, Tenn., and during the following winter at the University
of Pennsylvania, in which institution he was graduated with honors
as a member of the class of the Centennial year, 1876, receiving the
degree of Doctor of Medicine. Upon returning to Water Valley he
opened an office and began the practice of his profession and soon
rose to highest rank as a physician and surgeon. In 1878 he rendered
devoted service during the great scourge of yellow fever which swept
over the South, his labors being arduous and unceasing, and after
the abating of the epidemic the citizens of Water Valley presented
him with a gold watch in mark of appreciation of his devoting and
self-abnegating labors. In 1892 Dr. Gant was elected a member of the
State board of health and in 1900 was elected president of the
board, in which capacity he served during the four years of Governor
Longino's administration. In 1897, as a member of the board, he was
sent to investigate an outbreak of yellow fever at Ocean Springs,
Miss., being associated in this work with Drs. H. H. Haralson, of
Vicksburg, and S. R. Dunn, of Greenville, members of the State board
of health, and these three physicians were placed in charge of the
epidemic along the Mississippi coast, with headquarters in Biloxi.
On the termination of this outbreak Dr. Gant was presented with a
gold-headed cane and was subsequently appointed by Governor McLaurin
a member of the commission charged with the duty of visiting the
island of Cuba when the fever was prevalent in the island, for the
purpose of studying the causes of yellow fever and investigating as
to the best means of preventing the danger of infection in the
United States. Returning to Water Valley, Dr. Gant resumed the
active practice of his profession, but later received from the State
board of health the appointment of sanitary inspector, the duties of
which office caused him to be absent from home during the greater
portion of that year, and in the autumn he was placed in charge of
an outbreak of yellow fever at Orwood and Taylor, Lafayette county.
In 1899 he served in a similar capacity at Mississippi City, on the
gulf coast, being associated with Dr. J. J. Harry of Handsboro.
Early in 1900 he was offered a partnership in the practice of
medicine by Dr. John F. Hunter, of Jackson, secretary of the State
board of health, and they have since been associated, holding the
highest rank in their profession and controlling a large and
representative practice. After having maintained his home in Water
Valley for more than thirty years. Dr. Gant removed to the capital
city, finding there a broader field of endeavor. From his intimate
experience in preventing and controlling epidemics of yellow fever
Dr. Gant is considered one of the best authorities in this
connection to be found in the entire South, and his advice and
counsel are much in demand when dangers from the fever threaten. By
his prompt action in diagnosing the disease at Orwood in 1898 and by
his immediately instituting a legal quarantine, he undoubtedly
prevented the spread of the disease to adjacent territory, while the
adjoining States forthwith ordered a general
quarantine without waiting for further investigation. Dr. Gant has
continued to be a close student of his profession and his interest
in all advances made in medical and surgical sciences has been
insistent and unflagging. He is one of the prominent and valued
members of the Mississippi State medical society, as well as of the
American medical association. In 1892 he took a post-graduate course
in the New York Polyclinic, of New York city. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Honor and the Mississippi
historical society, and has held membership in the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, since his boyhood days. In the year 1888
was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Gant to Miss Mary Loy Rainey, of
Columbia, Tenn., and she presides with gracious dignity over their
attractive home. They have two sons—Albert Minter and Richard
Preston, aged respectively thirteen and ten years, in 1907.
[Mississippi:
Contemporary Biography Edited By Dunbar Rowland, 1907 – Transcribed
by AFOFG]
Holland Family
The Revolutionary services of Charles
Holland were for the entire war, 1776 to 1783. he was the battle of
Cowpens, at the seige of Ninety-Six, and at King's mt., to name a
few. jacob and Thomas seem to have been with him in all these. One,
William Holland, also had a land entry in Jackson Co., in 1811, and
while his relationship to the others is not of record, he was born
in S.C. in 1788 and had a son named Jacob.
The known choldren o
Charles Holland, R.S. are as follows:
2.
Margaret Holland, b. 11-25-1790 in S.C., to Robert Gammill, b. 1788
in S.C.; d. 3-23-1865 in Webster Co.
3.
Telve children
2. Absalom Holland, b. 1792;
d. after 1870 in Choctaw Co., Miss.; m. 7-12-1814 in Madison Co.,
Ala., to Elizabeth Douglas, b. 1793, S.C.; d. after 1850 in Choctaw
Co., Miss.
2. Charles Miller Holland b.
4-7-1793; d. 4-15-1879 in Webster Co., Miss.; m. 5-16-1816 in Ala.,
Dicy Childress, b. 12-12-1799 in S.C.; d. 11-3-1877 in Webster Co.,
Miss.
3. Ten children
2. Jacob Holland, a clergyman, b. 7-14-1794; d.
2-15-1872 in Choctaw Co., Miss; m. 11-19-1818, Drusilla Dearman, b.
1799 in S.C.; d. 1885 in Lauderdale, Co., Miss.
3. Elijah holland, b. 3-16-1820 in Jackson Co.,
Miss; d. after 1870 in Webster Co., Miss.; m. c1840 in Choctaw Co.,
to Sarah A. Gammill.
3. William H. Holland,
b. 12-20-1821 in Jackson Co., d. after 1872 in Choctaw Co.; m. c1844
Elizabeth _____
3. Elizabeth Holland, b.
2-22-1824 in Jackson County
3. Effie
Holland, b. 5-19-1826 in Jackson County
3.
Andrew Jackson Holland, b. 2-13-1828 in Jackson Co.; d. 10-17-1921
in Choctaw Co., buried in Fentress cemetery; m. c1849, Cynthia
Malinda _______
3. Jacob H. Holland,
Methodist Minister, b. 11-30-1829 in Jackson Co.; d. 1-18-1902 in
Berkeley, Cal.; m. ______
3. Eleanor
Holland, b. 12-16-1831 in Pickens Co., AL
3.
Charles Harris Holland, b. 11-30-1833 in Pickens Co.; m. Katherine
Frances Tull
3. Sarah Ann Holland, b.
11-14-1836 in Choctaw Co., Miss.
3. Thomas
J. Holland, b. 11-25-1838 in Choctaw Co.; served in C.S.A.
3. James D. Holland, b. 2-7-1841 in Choctaw
County
3. Elias Herron Holland, b. 7-15-1843
in Choctaw Co.
3. Martha Malvina Holland, b.
4-11-1845 in Choctaw Co.; m. 10-26-1865, Wm. Baylys Tull
3. Henry D. Holland, b. 11-30-1848 in Choctaw
Co.
2. Sarah Holland, b. 1804; d. 1867 in
Choctaw Co.; m. c1820, Ignatious Dudley, b. 1799 in Madison Co.,
Ga.; d. 1864 in Choctaw County
3. Ten
children
2. Reuben A. Holland, b. between
1800 and 1810; m. 8-20-1831 in Tuscaloosa Co., to Mary Dearman. In
1840 he was living in Choctaw Co., but no further record.
Notes on Jacob and
Thomas Holland
Jacob and Thomas Holland also
settled in Alabama after the Revolutionary War. jacob holland
married Sarah Miller, was in Madison Co., Ala; Green Co., in 1826;
Pickens Co., 1830; died in green Co., Ala. 10-1-1852. A land claim
for one Jacob Holland dated 1812 in Jackson County, Miss., was not
lived on.
Thomas Holland married
Jane Adair and moved from Ninety-Six District to Wilkes Co., Ga.;
back to Pendelton District, S.C.; back to Alabama and is reported to
have died Limestone Co., Ala., shortly after 1840.
[Four Centuries on the Pascagoula byCyril Edward Cain, 1953 – Transcribed
by Therman Kellar]
Jemison, William
Carlos newspaper editor and mayor was born December 2, 1850
in Tuscaloosa and died March 28, 1901 in Galveston Tex.; son of
William Henry and Elizabeth Ann (Patrick) Jemison (q.v.) and brother
of Robert, sr., and John S Jemison (q.v.). His education
was interrupted by the results of the War of Secession but with the
brave spirit that dominated the manhood of the period he met the
stern duties of life. For a while he engaged in planting and school
teaching pursuing his studies between hours of work He entered the
law department of the University of Alabama and graduated in 1874,
practicing only a few years, however, before engaging in the coal
and iron business. He was mayor of Tuscaloosa 1889 to 1890 and 1894
to 1900 and during his incumbency, he invited the Rivers and Harbors
convention to meet in his city and demonstrated to that body the
possibilities of the Warrior river as a navigable stream of
potential possibilities. He inaugurated the system of graded public
schools during his administration as well as barge line
communication with Mobile. He was editor and proprietor of the
“Tuscaloosa Times” at the time of his death. Married (1)
February 24, 1879 at Ocean Springs, Miss. to Eliska Leftwich,
daughter of J. G. W. Leftwich of that place; (2) July 10, 1889 at
Talladega to Clara Roberts. Children: by the first wife 1. Kate 2.
Allen, Birmingham; by the second wife 3. William 4. Margaret. Last
residence: Tuscaloosa.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
King Family
John King b. 1764 in Craven County,
N.C., was probably a Revolutionary Soldier; married in 1780 to Mary
Smith, also of Craven, they remained there until after their first
son was born; then to South Carolina where the next three children
were born; after 1804 they were for a while in Alabama and were in
Louisiana by 1826, purchasing land in St. Tammany parish; the 1830
census for that parish lsits John King and his three sons-in-law as
inhabitants; in 1833 he deeded his property to his
sons-in-law John Alexander, Spias Dixon, and William
Cooper, and moved to northwest jackson County, Miss. In 1836, Cooper
and Dixon sold their property, and moved near King in Jackson
County.
John King Family
Outline
1.
JohnKing, b. 1754 in Craven Co., N.C.; d. 1838 in Jackson Co.,
Miss.; m. 1780, Mary Smithb. 1764; dau. of David Smith, Sr. of
Craven Co.
2.James King b. 1781in N.C.; m.
Penny Jackson, b. 1790 in N.C.
3. John King,
b. 1815; m. Mary _____________
4. Henry
King
4. James King
4. Martha King
4.
Elizabeth King
4. Jonas King
4. Nathan King
3.
Jackson King, b. 1820; m. 1846, Matilda Smith
4. Lydia King
4.
Francis King
3. James King, b. 1823; m
2-27-1851, Caroline Binds
3. Nathan King, b.
1825
3. Sedy (Lidy) King, b. 1831
2. Timothy King, b. 1802 in S.C.; m.
12-13-1829, in St. Tammany Parish, La., to Latitia Jenkins, b. 1815;
d. 5-21-1881; dau of Abner Jenkins, vet of War of 1812 and his wife,
Mary Bennett
3. William dawson King, b.
1844; vet. of Civil War; m. Louisa (Sissy) Revere
4. Charles King, m. Mary Losanna Taylor
4. Timothy A. King, m. Octavia Tally
4. Hamp King, m. Rosetta Sharp
4. The next six children all died young; Jim
Bob, Preston, Jule, Letticia Ann, Sally, and Becky
4. John Griffin King, m. Daisy Sharp
4. Benjamin King, m(1) Annie Sharp; m(2), Miss
Johnson
4. Nancy King, m. Carlee Sharp
4. Alice King, m. Joseph Sharp
4. Mary Melissa King, m. Harvey Sharp
[Four Centuries on the
Pascagoula byCyril Edward Cain,
1953 – Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
Leslie, William Perry, lawyer, was
born in 1819, in Monroe County, and died October 10, 1867, at Pascagoula, Miss. He was
a brother of Judge John W. Leslie, who was born May 11, 1814, in
Pendleton District, S. C., and died September 10, 1897, in
Monroeville, who was judge of probate of Monroe County, and occupied
other prominent positions in the public affairs of the county. His
father was a planter. He was reared on a farm until he was eighteen
years of age, then became clerk in a store for two years. He moved
to Claiborne and read law in the office of A. B. Cooper for about
two years, and was admitted to the bar in 1840 or 1841. He practiced
law in Sparta in partnership with W. B. H. Howard for several years,
then returned to Claiborne in the spring of 1843, and formed a
partnership with Mr. Cooper which lasted until 1850, when Mr. Cooper
moved to Wilcox County. At that time he formed a partnership with
Judge R. C. Torrey, and remained in that association until 1861. In
1861, he was elected to the State senate from the district composed
of Monroe, Covington and Conecuh Counties. He was a Union man and
opposed to secession, but after war was actually in force, he raised
a company of artillery, principally from Monroe County, in the fall
of 1861, and volunteered as a private. He was assigned to a second
lieutenancy, and remained in service until some time in 1863, when
he was relieved because of ill-health. At the close of the war, he
sold his property in Monroe County and in 1866 moved to East Pascagoula, Miss., and
erected on the bay a large steam saw and planing mill. He was also
founder of several industrial establishments at Claiborne. On a
visit to Mobile on business in October, 1867, he contracted the
yellow fever and soon after died. Married: in April, 1847, to Miss
Agee, daughter of W. A. Agee of Monroe County, and sister of Hon. N.
A. Agee. He had six children. Last residence: Pascagoula, Miss.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
Lundy, Frank Jefferson, head of the
firm of F. J. Lundy & Company, dealers in general merchandise at
Ocean Springs, Jackson county, is also associated with his brother
in the ownership of the fine Ocean Springs hotel, one of the most
popular resorts on the gulf coast, while he is also cashier of the
local branch of the Scranton State bank, being recognized as one of
the most progressive business men and leading citizens of Jackson
county. Mr. Lundy was born in the historic old city of Mobile, Ala.,
Oct. 23, 1863, and is a son of William A. and Margaret Louisa
(Broughton) Lundy, both of whom were likewise native of that State
and representatives of prominent old families of the commonwealth.
Frank J. Lundy completed his specific educational discipline in the
Barton academy, in Mobile, and in 1879 he became a clerical employee
in the dry goods establishment of the firm of Wolf & Hogg, of
Mobile, with whom he remained about ten years, familiarizing himself
with the various details of the business and gaining an excellent
reputation as a salesman. In 1891 he located in Ocean Springs,
Miss., and engaged in the general merchandise business, forming a
copartnership with Wm. A. Horton, under the firm name of Horton
& Lundy. Mr. Horton retired from the firm in 1896, Mr. Lundy
acquiring his interest in the business, which he has since continued
most successfully, under the title of F. J. Lundy & Company. In
1898, discerning the need for better facilities in the line, Mr.
Lundy secured the establishing in Ocean Springs of a branch of the
Scranton State bank, and he has since been cashier of the local
branch, whose business has grown to be large and profitable. He is a
stockholder in the main bank at Scranton, and a member of its board
of directors. In 1900 Mr. Lundy became associated with his brother,
Louis A. Lundy, in the purchase of the Ocean Springs hotel, one of
the most attractive and popular resort hotels on the coast. The
hotel, which is thoroughly modern in structure and appointments, is
situated in a nine-acre grove of live oaks and cedars, with the
south front facing the gulf, while the great gallery or veranda of
the hotel is 500 feet in length. The place is ideal as a resort
during the entire year and its hold on popular favor is constantly
strengthening. Mr. Lundy is essentially and uncompromisingly an
adherent of the Democratic party, is a member of the Masonic
fraternity and holds membership in the Baptist church. In 1892 he
was married to Miss Vera Poitevent, daughter of Capt. June and May
(Staples) Poitevent, of New Orleans, La., and she died in 1895,
being survived by one child, Vera May. In September, 1902, Mr.
Lundy wedded Miss Mignon Coursen, daughter of Henry E. and May
(Swearinger) Coursen, of Chicago, Il1., and they have one child,
Margaret Louise.
[Mississippi: Contemporary Biography Edited By
Dunbar Rowland, 1907 – Transcribed by
AFOFG]
McCall, Charles
Roderick, consul and teacher, was born October 3, 1858, at
Perote, Pike County, and died August 24, 1898, at Troy; son of
Daniel Alexander and Serena (Dennis) McCall, the former a native of
Cumberland County, N. C., who came to Alabama in 1839, settled in
Barbour County where he engaged in planting, merchandising, and
steam boating until 1856 when he removed to that part of Pike
County, now embraced in Bullock, was elected probate judge of
Bullock, admitted to the bar early after the war and practiced in
Union Springs as a partner of Col. James N. Arrington; grandson of
Judge Charles A. and Esther (Maddox) Dennis of Orion, Pike County,
among the early settlers there, coming from Talbot County, Ga.,
represented Pike County in the legislatures of 1826-27-29-35. Mr.
McCall received his early education in Union Springs where he was
taught by B. J. Mclver, Angus McDonald, and C L. McCartha; graduated
at the University of Alabama with the degree of A. B. in 1878, and
M. A., in 1879. Of five prizes competed for by his class he won the
prize in Greek and the two first prizes offered in English. On the
day of his first graduation, he was elected instructor in Latin and
English in the university and held this position for two years. In
1880 he resigned from his professional duties to become editor of
the "Greenville Advocate." Three years later he removed to Troy to
become editor and part proprietor of the "Troy Messenger." In 1885
he was appointed by Secretary of State Bayard, vice-consul general
of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, was promoted by President
Cleveland to be consul at Santos, Brazil, which promotion was made
on recommendation of Assistant Secretary of State, James D. Porter:
"for merit and for tried efficiency in the consular service." During
his residence in Brazil he learned to speak Portuguese and Spanish
and increased his knowledge of French and German. He resigned the
consularship in 1889, shortly before President Harrison was
inaugurated, and returning to Alabama became editor and part owner
of the "Union Springs Herald." In 1890 he was unanimously elected
teacher of languages in the State normal school at Troy where he
taught Latin, Greek and French until his death. During the summer of
1896-97 he taught Latin, Greek and Spanish in the schools of the
Monteagle assembly, Monteagle, Tenn., besides delivering a course of
lectures before the assembly on literary and historical subjects. He
was a Democrat and a Presbyterian. Married: November 28, 1889, at
Ocean Springs, Miss., to Emily, daughter of Thomas C and Sarah
Foster. Last residence: Troy.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
McCann, James
Edwards, Methodist minister, was born September 3, 1857, at
Newbern. Hale County; son of John Wilson and Jane Teresa (Goff)
McCann, the former spent his boyhood in his native state and his
early manhood in Alabama, where he taught school in Clay County,
admitted to the Methodist ministry by the Conference in 1845 at
Mobile, and of which he was a member for forty-four years; grandson
of Michael and Polly (Bishop) McCann of Hawkins County, Tenn., the
former a member of the Tennessee bar who died at the age of
forty-one; and of Edmund and Lucretia (Wells) Goff, of Jackson
County, Miss.; greatgrandson of James McCann who immigrated from
Ireland and settled in Virginia, a Roman Catholic in religion, a
physician by profession, surgeon in the Revolutionary War, twice
married, his second wife, a widow Arnold, who bore two children,
Michael, and a daughter, who married a Reese. James E. McCann was
educated in the village schools, and graduated at the Southern
university, A. B., 1877; taught school for two years after
graduation, joined the Alabama conference at Tuskegee, December,
1879, has held pastorates in Alabama and California conferences
continuously since admission to the ministry. Married: October 1,
1884, at Santa Maria, Calif., to Sarah Ann, daughter of Irving
Noland and Sarah Esther (Condit) McGuire. Her father was a
"Forty-niner," and her mother was from Ohio. Children: 1. James,
jr.: 2. Irving Goff, pastor Green street congregational church,
Chicago, m. daughter of William H. Sands, Richmond, Va.; 3. Annie
Ezell, m. a Russell of Columbus, Ga.; 4. John Wilson; 5. Christine
Esther; 6. Ruth Aline; 7. Allie Boone; 8. Mary. Residence:
Eufaula.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
McEachern, Charles G., M.D.
Although but five years
have come and gone since Dr. Charles G. McEachern opened an office
in Denver, he has won a place as one of the eminent surgeons of the
city, his professional colleagues and contemporaries, as well as the
general public, recognizing the fact that his surgical work is the
expression of the latest scientific researches and discoveries.
Dr. McEachern was born in Vaiden, Mississippi, January 24,
1875. His father, Angus T. McEachern. was a native of Mississippi and a
representative of an old and prominent family of that state of
Scotch descent. The founder of the family in America was Daniel
McEachern, who after crossing the Atlantic established his home in
North Carolina, where he became a planter and slaveholder. His son,
Angus T. McEachern, was reared and educated in Mississippi and he, too, became a
successful planter. With the outbreak of the Civil War he espoused
the cause of the Confederacy, joining the army as a private when a
youth of sixteen years. He resided throughout his life in Carroll
County, Mississippi,
and was a respected and valued citizen of that section of the
state. He took a deep interest in political matters and civic
affairs and gave stanch support to democratic principles. His death
occurred in August, 1917, when he had reached the age of seventy-one
years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Guerring Shipp, is a
native of Mississippi
and a descendant of an old and prominent family of that state
of Scotch lineage. She yet occupies the old family homestead in
Carroll County, Mississippi, where she reared her family
of eight children, five sons and three daughters.
Dr. McEachern of this review, who was
the second son in the family, began his education in the public
schools of Carroll County and afterward attended the West Point Military School at
West Point, Mississippi.
He then became a student in the University of Nashville at
Nashville, Tennessee, where he pursued his professional course,
being graduated from the medical department with the class of 1900.
His early life had been spent on his father's plantation and his
youthful experiences were those of the farmbred boy, but after his
graduation he entered upon active practice at Vaiden. whence he
removed a year later to Moss Point, Mississippi, continuing in
the latter place until 1913. He then came to Denver, Colorado, where
he arrived on the 1st of June, 1913. While engaged in active and
continuous practice in Denver, he specializes in surgery, to which
he devotes his attention exclusively. He is a member of the medical
staff of the National Jewish Hospital, also of the Denver County
Hospital and of the orthopedic department of the University of
Colorado.
Dr. McEachern was married in Chicago,
Illinois, October 26, 1905, to Miss Laura Griffin, a native of Moss Point, Mississippi.
Her parents were James Wyatt and Katherine (McCallum)
Griffin, prominent pioneer people of Mississippi. Dr. and Mrs. McEachern have
become parents of two sons: Wyatt Griffin, born October 26, 1908, at
Moss Point, Mississippi;
and Charles Malcolm, born in Denver, August 16, 1914. Dr.
McEachern has recently erected a beautiful residence at No. 721
Emerson Street and there he and his family are most pleasantly
located.
While in school Dr. McEachern had a most
thorough military training and was captain of Company A. On May 7,
1918, Dr. McEachern was appointed captain in the medical section of
the United States army and has engaged in hospital work in various
camps. He gives his political endorsement to the Democratic Party.
He was made a member of the Masonic craft at Vaiden, Mississippi, in 1901 and
he belongs to Colorado Chapter, No. 29, R. A. M., and Denver
Commandery, No. 25, K. T. He also has membership with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being identified with the lodge at
Moss Point, Mississippi.
He is likewise connected with the Denver Athletic Club and
his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Central
Presbyterian church of Denver. Along strictly professional lines he
is connected with the American Medical Association, the Colorado
State Medical Society, the Denver City and County Medical Society
and the Tri State Medical Society, which includes Mississippi, Arkansas and
Tennessee, and is also a member of the National Surgeons
Association. With a nature that could never be content with
mediocrity, he has put forth every effort to gain the highest degree
of efficiency possible, continually studying along lines of greatest
benefit to professional ability. With purpose strong and steadfast
he has achieved much and the progress that he has already made
indicates that his future career will be well worth the watching.
[History of Colorado, Volume 4 by The S. J.
Clarke publishing company, 1919, Transcribed by AFOFG]
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.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
Pilley, Henry
Bascom, lawyer and legislator, was born August 20, 1857, at
Hardaway, in Macon County, son of Stephen Fatherly and Sarah B.
(Graham) Pilley, the former a native of Darlington, S. C., who lived
in Butler County; the latter was of Moss Point, Miss.; grandson of John
Graham, of that place. Both maternal and paternal grandparents were
soldiers in the War of the Revolution. He was educated in the common
schools; admitted to the bar at Greenville, in November, 1878; and
was appointed in December of that year register in chancery of
Butler County. In 1903 he was one of the representatives in the
legislature from Butler County. He is a Democrat; and a Methodist.
Married: December 19, 1877, to Missouri A., daughter of William
Porter and Martha (Hammons) Shine, of Butler County. Children: 1.
Robert Floy; 2. Effie Gertrude; 3. Henry B., jr.; 4. Bettie Lewis;
5. Stephen Porter. Residence, Greenville.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
Ramsay, Charles Horace, M. D.
Ramsay, Charles Horace, M. D., a skilled physician and
surgeon of Collins, Covington county, and an interested principal in
the Williamsburg Drug Company, in the county seat, was born in Jackson county, Miss.,
Dec. 6, 1858, and is a son of Alfred H. and Jane (Fairly) Ramsay,
the former native of Jackson county and the latter of Greene
county, this State.
The father of the doctor was a stanch supporter of the cause of the
Confederacy when the inevitable conflict was precipitated between
the North and the South, having become a member of Company B, Fourth
regiment of Mississippi
cavalry, in which he served with all of devotion and loyalty
until the close of the war. He devoted the greater part of his
active career to the lumber industry and died at Mt. Olive, Miss.,
Sept. 14, 1862, in the service of the Confederate army. His wife is
now living at Gulfport. Doctor Ramsay secured excellent advantages
in the schools of his native State, and for some time was a
successful teacher in the free schools of Covington county, in the meanwhile
deciding to prepare himself for the profession of medicine and
surgery. With this end in view he was matriculated in the medical
department of Tulane university, in New Orleans, La., where he was
graduated and received his degree in 1886. He forthwith located in
Jaynesville, Covington county, where he built up a fine
practice and where he continued his labors most successfully until 1899, when
he removed to Collins, discerning the superior advantages of this
place and identifying himself intimately with its business, civic
and social affairs, while his practice is of the most representative
character and constantly increasing in scope, so that he finds his
time and attention fully occupied. He is a valued member of the
Covington county
medical society
and also that of the State, is a stalwart Democrat in his political
adherency and has been both a member of the board of aldermen and a
director of the school board since the town of Collins was
incorporated. He is affiliated with the Masonic order, in which he
has taken the ancient craft degrees, and with the Knights of
Pythias, while both he and his wife hold membership in the
Presbyterian church. On Sept. 6, 1893, Doctor Ramsay was united in
marriage to Miss Lela Hubbard, daughter of William J. and Ella
(Magee) Hubbard, of Simpson county, Miss., and they have four children, Ella
Hubbard, Archie Carr, Granville Storey and Jane Fairly.
[Mississippi: Contemporary Biography
Edited By Dunbar Rowland, 1907 – Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
Rape, Jacob Nathaniel, M.D.
Rape, Jacob Nathaniel,
M. D., is to be noted as
one of the representative members of the medical profession in Jackson county and is
located in practice at Mosspoint. Doctor Rape was born in
Harperville, Scott county,
Miss., Feb. 18, 1859, and is a son of Cyrus M. and Dorcas
(Graham) Rape, the former native of Georgia and the latter of South
Carolina. The father of the doctor enlisted in a Mississippi regiment of
the Confederate forces at the outbreak of the Civil war, and he
proceeded to the front with his command, while he died at
Gainesville, Ala., just after the battle of Shiloh, as the result of
an attack of pneumonia. Doctor Rape secured his early educational
training in the schools of his native State, having been for a time
a student in Centerville Institute, in Newton county, and he later carried out his
well defined plans by entering the medical department of Tulane
university, in the city of New Orleans, from which he was graduated
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, as a member of the class of
1891. Prior to having taken up his work as a student of medicine the
doctor had devoted his attention to farming and teaching school. He
began the practice of his profession in Tchula, Holmes county, where he remained
until 1900, when he located in Mosspoint, where he has built up a
representative practice, ramifying throughout this section of Jackson county. He is a
member of the American medical association, the Mississippi State medical society and
the Jackson county
medical society, of which last mentioned he is secretary at
the time of the preparation of this sketch. He is a stanch Democrat
in his political allegiance and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, while his wife holds membership in the Missionary
Baptist church. On Nov. 11, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of
Doctor Rape to Miss Bertha Amis, daughter of Capt. Albert and
Augusta (Petty) Amis, of Gulfport, Harrison county, and of the children of this
union we here enter the names -with respective dates of birth:
Cyrus, Jan. 12, 1900; Woodson, Aug. 28, 1902; Jacob N., Jr., Aug.
12, 1904 and Alfonso Gallatin, June 12, 1906.
[Mississippi:
Contemporary Biography Edited By Dunbar Rowland, 1907 – 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.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
Rhodes, Rufus Napoleon, journalist,
was born June 5, 1856, at Pascagoula, Jackson County, Miss., and
died January 12, 1910, at Birmingham; son of Rufus Randolph and
Martha (Fisher) Rhodes, the former who was for many years a
prominent lawyer practicing at Washington, D. C., and at New
Orleans, was a soldier in the war under Johnston and Lee and was a
personal friend of Jefferson Davis. He received his education under
his mother's direction; in the public schools and high school; in
Stewart College; and was in the Southwestern Presbyterian University
at Clarksville, Tennessee, until 1873. He also attended the grammar
school of Dr. J. B. Shearer at Chester Springs, Va.; studied law
under Hon. James E. Bailey at Clarksville, Tenn., was admitted to
the bar at nineteen; in 1876-77 served as private secretary to Mr.
Bailey, then United States senator; from 1877 to 1881 was city
attorney at Clarksville; was a member of the Tennessee legislature
1881-82; from 1883-87 practiced law in Chicago and in 1887 located
in Birmingham. He founded the Birmingham News on March 14, 1888. He
was one of the promoters of the old Commercial Club, afterward the
Chamber of Commerce which he served as president. He was a democrat
and served as a delegate at large from Alabama to the National
Democratic Conventions of 1892 and 1904; was a member and vestryman
of the Church of the Advent, Episcopal; and held military
commissions from the governor of Tennessee, the governor of
Illinois, the governor of Alabama and at the time of his death was
brigadier general of the Ninth Congressional district. In 1906 the
University of Alabama conferred upon him the LL. D. Degree. At the
time of his death he was second vice president of the Associated
Press. Married: June 27, 1882, at
Clarksville, Tenn., to Margaret Smith, daughter of Christopher H.
and Lucy (Dabney) Smith. Last residence: Birmingham.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
Rhodes, Rufus Napoleon, journalist,
lawyer and statesman of Birmingham, Ala., was born June 5, 1856, in
Pascagoula, Miss. He is a brigadier-general in the national guard of
Alabama.
[Herringshaw's American Blue-Book
of Biography by Thomas William Herringshaw and American Publishers'
Association, 1914, 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.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
Whittle, James William, a successful
merchant of Belzoni, was born in Dekalb, Kemper county, Miss., Dec.
12, 1862. He is a son of James E. and Sarah E. (McCrory) Whittle,
the former born in Georgia on Sept. 30, 1830, and the latter on Jan.
16, 1843, in Vienna, Pickens county, Ala. Richard Whittle, the
paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of
North Carolina who moved to Georgia from his native State, thence to
Mississippi, being one of the pioneers of the State. Robert McCrory,
the maternal grandfather, came to Mississippi, early, from Alabama,
and was also one of the first settlers. His father, James McCrory,
was a soldier of the Revolution under General Gates. Some papers
which the family preserved for some time gave an account of the
capture, single-handed, by James McCrory, of three British
officers. James E. Whittle served as a private in Capt. Henry
Gully's Mississippi company throughout the Civil war. After the war
he settled down to farming. As an evidence of his prosperity and
square-dealing is the fact that for more than fifty years he dealt
with one mercantile establishment and the books of that
establishment show that he was always prompt in the settlement of
the claims against him. James W. Whittle studied in a private school
of Kemper county. His early training was received on a farm. In 1883
he entered the mercantile business, and has been engaged in it ever
since. He is today the leading hardware merchant of Belzoni. Like
his father and other male ancestors, he is a believer in the
principles of the Democratic party, but has never aspired to office.
His church affiliations are with the society founded by John Wesley.
On Sept. 1, 1891, he married Theodora A., daughter of Calvin G. and
Martha A. Joyner of Moss
Point, Miss., and to this union five children have been born—
Theodore E., July 25, 1892; Martha E., May 11, 1894; Irma E., Feb.
10, 1896; Katie U., Dec. 30, 1898; and James C., April 21, 1901. Mr.
and Mrs. Whittle are members of the Knights and Ladies of Honor. Mr.
Whittle is distinctively a self-made man. Early in life he exhibited
those traits that make for success and his popularity and prosperity
attest the fulfillment of early promises.
[Mississippi:
Contemporary Biography Edited By Dunbar Rowland, 1907 – Transcribed
by AFOFG]
Williams, Price, commission merchant, was born June
4, 1811, in Buckingham County, Va., and died November 10, 1884, in
Mobile; son of
Warner and Elizabeth (Price) Williams, the former a native of Amelia
County, Va.; grandson of Philip Williams and wife, who was a Miss
Hundley, of Virginia, and of John Price of Cumberland County, Va. He
received a common school education in his native county and located
in Livingston in 1835, for thirteen years was clerk of the county court, at that
time a very lucrative position. In 1848 he removed to Mobile where he became a partner in
the commercial house of Baker Williams and company. In 1851 he was
elected on the Southern Rights Democracy ticket to the legislature,
and was made chairman to the committee on banks and banking and also
a member of the ways and means committee. On account of his age he
could not enter the Confederate Army but was captain of the
Mobile home guards and did efficient
county service in 1864-65. He was chairman of the Democratic
executive committee of the Mobile district, 1874; was a Methodist; and a Mason.
He was an ardent believer in drawing the line between the races and
took an active part in redeeming the State from Republican rule and
negro domination in political affairs during reconstruction days.
Married: (1) December 17, 1833, in Buckingham County, Va., to
Pauline W., daughter of Daniel and Kesiah Nash, of Livingston,
Nelson County, Va.; (2) June 3, 1873, in Moss Point, Jackson County, Miss., to Emma, daughter of
Ebenzer and Sarah (Burleson) Clark, the former a native of New York
City, the latter of Savannah, Ga.; granddaughter of Aaron Burleson;
great-granddaughter of Jesse Burleson who was a soldier of the
Revolution. Children by first wife: 1. Fannie, m. John R. Tompkins;
2. Price Williams, jr. (q. v.); 3. Pauline, m. Victor Von Schellar;
4. Robert S., physician; by second wife: 5. Marvin Clark Price, m.
Julia Helm Moss;
6. Emma Price, m.
Ashbel Hubbard; 7. Lolla Price, m. Louis Jorite Meader; 8. Bettie
Price; 9. James Osgood Andrew, m. Caro Belle Colsson; 10. Jefferson
Hamilton Price, m. Agnes Cleveland. Last residence:
Mobile.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
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.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed 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.
[History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography, Volume 4 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Mrs, Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
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