History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Mrs. Marie (Bankhead) Owen, 1921
Transcribed by AFOFG
James Oscar Prude
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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PRUDE, JAMES OSCAR, planter and
county official, was born September 23, 1856, on his father's
plantation in
Tuscaloosa County; son of William Wellington and Lucretia Eliza (Owen)
Prude,
the former a native of Jefferson County, the only child of his parents,
although each by former marriages had large families, and after the
death of
his parents he became a member of the household of his half brother and
guardian. Col. James McAdory, was placed in the Jack Baker school at
Jonesboro,
where he remained four years, receiving a sound practical education,
grew to
manhood and became a large planter and slave owner in Jefferson County,
owning
the "Glenn Springs" property, west of the present city of Bessemer,
going in 1848 to Tuscaloosa County, was for many years member of the
commission
board of Tuscaloosa, rendered great aid to the Confederate cause as a
manufacturer
of clothing and shoes for the soldiers, died and is buried in Evergreen
cemetery, Tuscaloosa; his wife, was born at what is now Birmingham, the
Owen
home standing on the site of the present Louisville &
Nashville
depot; grandson of William and Celia (McAshan) Prude, the former a
native of
Laurens District, S. C., who in 1815 settled on the Jones Valley trail
in the
Pleasant Hill community, near what is now McCalla, Jefferson County,
removing
to Tuscaloosa County in 1825, where he purchased lands twelve miles
from the
county site, in the Sipsey River bottoms, and conducted a cattle ranch,
the
latter a native of Ca Ira, Buckingham County, Va. . who removed with
her father
to Christian County, Ky. , where she met and married her first husband,
Thomas
McAdory, whose widow she was at the time of her marriage to Mr. Prude,
and of
Thomas and Mary Eliza (Elmore) Owen, the former a native of Abbeville
District,
S. C., was educated at the old LaGrange college, near Guntersville;
located in
Okolona, Miss., in 1849, and passed the remainder of his life there;
great-grandson of John and Mary Prude, of Laurens District, S. C., the
former a
Revolutionary soldier, and of David and Lucy (McGraw) Owen, the former
a
Methodist minister who are both buried at Russellville, Franklin
County;
great-greatgrandson of John Prude of Manchester, England, who came to
America
prior to the Revolutionary War, and located in Charleston, S. C. The
Prude
family is of French extraction, having emigrated from Normandy to
England. The
McAdory family is of Scotch-Irish origin, and the Owens are of Welsh
stock. Mr.
Prude received his preparatory education at the Pleasant Hill academy,
under
Prof. I. W. McAdory, 1870-73, and entered the University of Alabama
from which
he graduated with the B. S. degree, 1876. After completing his own
education he
was made principal of a rural school in Tuscaloosa, which position he
held
during 1877-79. During that time he read medicine under an eminent
practitioner, but later abandoned the idea of becoming a physician. He
was
appointed clerk of the probate court of Tuscaloosa County, serving
under Judge
Newbern Hobbs Brown, and held that position during 1880-84, after which
date he
was elected sheriff for a term of four years. In 1892 he became clerk
of the circuit
court, and served six years. In 1898 he opened a bond and brokerage
business in
Tuscaloosa which he conducted until 1909, after which time he retired
to his
plantation. "Owenwood," to devote his entire time to agriculture and
livestock. He is a progressive farmer and applies all modern methods to
his
business. He is a Democrat and a Methodist. Married: December 20, 1882,
at
Bolton, Hinds County, Miss., to Lucy Avery, daughter of Alonzo Latham
and Agnes
Emily (Brumby) Brown, residents of Hinds County, Miss., who refugeed in
1863,
to Greensboro, during the War of Secession, the family residence in
Bolton
having been taken by the Federal troops for use as a hospital, the
former a
graduate of the University of Mississippi, a merchant and delta
planter, a
large slave owner, and soldier of the Mexican War, being under Col.
Jefferson
Davis, in the siege of Monterey, and during the War of Secession raised
a
cavalry company for the Confederacy in which he served; granddaughter
of Jesse
and Ann (Stevenson) Browne, of Benton, Holmes County, Miss., and of Dr.
Robert
Horatio and Agnes (Benlow) Brumby, the latter a native of Charleston,
S. C., a
Baptist and graduate of Judson college, Marion, and a descendant of
Richard and
Elizabeth (Hesse) Haynesworth, who settled in Sumter District, S. C.,
in 1738,
and from whom descended a line of distinguished educators, and
professional men
of the south; great-great-granddaughter of Henry and Lucy (Warmack)
Browne, of
Wake County, N. C., Whigs and Episcopalians; great-great-granddaughter
of Jesse
Browne of South Hampton County, Va., native of Jerusalem, Va., born
1768, a
physician, Episcopalian and Whig, who migrated to North Carolina; great
- great
- great - granddaughter of Jesse Browne who emigrated to America from
England about
1735, whose father, prior to coming to the United States, was an
eminent
physician in Manchester, England, of Irish descent;
great-great-great-great-
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