PRINCE, SYDNEY TROTTER, lawyer, was born May 20, 1847, at Bladon Springs, Choctaw County, and died January 7, 1910, at Mobile; son of Thomas McCarroll and Lucy Anthony (Trotter) Prince (q. v.). He attended the University of Alabama where he was a member of the cadet corps, and left the University early in 1865, to join the C. S. Army. With two other cadets, he organized a company of cavalry from military cadets, and was elected second lieutenant of the company. On account of the absence of the captain, he commanded the company under Gen. Forrest during Wilson's raid through Alabama, and until the end of the war, and received the rank of brevet mayor. For a number of years after the close of the war, he engaged in the mercantile business at Mount Sterling, and during that time studied law. He was admitted to the bar in Choctaw County, 1875; practiced at Butler, Choctaw County, until 1880; moved to Mobile and entered a partnership with Harry T. Toulmin and George W. Taylor, under the firm name of Toulmin, Taylor & Prince; and on the dissolution of the firm in 1887, continued his practice alone. He was lieutenant colonel and chief of staff under Maj. Gen. Whitney, Alabama state troops; represented Choctaw County in the State legislature; and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1875. He was a Democrat, serving as a presidential elector on the Tilden ticket in 1876, and on the Cleveland ticket in 1884; was an Episcopalian; and a Mason. Married: May 20, 1873, at Livingston, to Helen Maria Rhodes, who died in April, 1887. daughter of James and Maria Edna (Kornegay) Rhodes, who lived at Bladon Springs, the former of whom moved to Alabama from Goldsboro, N. C.; granddaughter of Gen. James and Anna (Bass) Rhodes; great-granddaughter of Dr. Andrew Bass, a native of Wales, who emigrated to North Carolina, where he attained great prominence, becoming a member of the provincial congress which met at Halifax, October 15, 1776, and assisting in the organization of a civil government. Children: 1. Annie, m. Dr. Eugene DuBose Bondurant, Mobile; 2. Sydney Rhodes, Mobile; 3. Helen, m. William Tolson Kelly, Mobile; 4. Carroll Thomas, Mobile; 5. Mary Kate, m. William Norman Hunter, Mobile. Residence: Mobile.
[History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Mrs. Marie (Bankhead) Owen, 1921 – Transcribed by AFOFG]
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