Source: "Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907" State of AL Dept of Archives and History, compiled by Thomas M. Owen, L.L, D. Director, Brown Publishing Co, Montgomery, AL, 1907 p. 48 Sketches of Circuit Court Judges AUGUSTUS HOLMES ALSTON is a native of Bibb county, GA. and was born Nov 17, 1844. His parents, Willis and Elizabeth Alston, were natives of Georgia and South Carolina, respectively, and of English descent. Willis Alston was born in Hancock county, Ga. in 1806; married at Georgetown, S.C. in 1823 to Elizabeth Howard, and died in Texas in the year 1846. Mrs. Alston was the daughter of Rev. John Howard of North Carolina, for many years a distinguished minister of the Methodist Church and her death occurred near Decatur, Ga in January 1866. Judge Alston's paternal grandfather was Robert Alston, who moved in an early day from Halifax, NC to Hancock county, GA. thence later to Fla., but subsequently returned to Georgia, and died at Thomasville, that state. Judge Alston is a native of Georgia, but came to Alabama immediately after the war. He served a short time as a member of Co "C", Ninth Tenn. Calvary, Duke's Brigade, Gen John H. Morgan's command; was captured at Mt. Sterling, Ky and remained a prisoner of war at Rock Island, Ill., married Miss Anna M. Ott, daughter of Col. Edward S. and Amanda A. Ott of Barbour county; served two terms as judge of probate, having first been appointed and afterwards elected by a very large majority. Has served as chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the 3d district, and as chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Barbour county. Is a Mason and a member of the M.E. Church, South. When the office of supernumerary judge was created in 1899 he was elected by the Legislature to fill the office, and in 1904 he was without opposition re-elected by the people of the State at large. He resides at Clayton, Barbour county.