Source: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1911, page 128-29 Legislative Department, Russell County Boswell deGraffenried Waddell of Seale, was born August 25, 1863 at Columbus, Ga. and is the son of Major James Fleming Waddell, a native of Hillsboro, N.C. who removed to Seale, and wife Adelaide Victoria, daughter of Dr. Edward deGraffenried and wife Martha Kirkland, of Columbus, Ga. Major Waddell was a 2nd lieut. in the 12th U.S. Inf. Regt in the Mexican War. In the War of Succession he served as captain of Co H., 6th Ala Inf Regt; capt of Waddell's Battery, and major of the 20th Battalion of Artillery. Representative Waddell was educated at Columbus and at Seale; in April 1887, was admitted to the bar at Seale; was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1901, serving on the committees on militia and local legislation in that body; and at the general election of November, 1902, was elected to the Legislature. In Nov. 1910, he was re-elected. He is a Democrat; and a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mr. Waddell is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of North Carolina, being a representative therein of his ancestor, General Francis Nash, of the Revolution, who fell at Germantown. The only daughter of General Nash married Hugh Waddell, a colonial officer, the ancestor in the fifth generation of the subject of this sketch. On My 12th 1909, he was married to Miss Carrie B. Jennings, daughter of Benj. Jennings and wife Martha V. (McFarland) Jennings.