Source: Source: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1911, page 87 Legislative Department, Twenty-Fifth District, Coffee, Crenshaw, and Pike Counties, Senator FELIX FOLMAR, of Luverne, Crenshaw county, Ala. member of the State Senate from the 25th senatorial district, was born Dec 4, 1874 at Goshen Hill, Pike county, Ala. and is the son of George Anderson and Sarah Emma (Walker) Folmar, and the grandson of James and Mary Ann Folmar, and of Felix and Eliza Ann Walker, the latter of Pike county, Ala. while the former lived at Luverne until the time of their death. George A. Folmar was a native of Pike county, and resided at Troy and Luverne. He never held official position, but always followed commercial pursuits. He was not old enough for service in the war. Senator Folmar was educated in the public schools of Troy, Ala. at the Marion Military Institute, 1889, at the University of Virginia 1889-1890, but he did not graduate. He read law in the office of Judge J.C. Richardson of Greenville, Ala, 1896, and was admitted to the practice of the Supreme Court of Ala. in Jan 1897. He practiced for four years in Troy, but is not now engaged in professional labors. He never held public office until elected to the State Senate in 1910. He is a Democrat, a Methodist, and Knight of Pythias. On Dec 3, 1893 at Luverne, he was married to Mary Coston, daughter of John Irving and Harriet Cope Clopton of China Grove, Pike county, Ala.