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. 100 Legislative Department, Henry County J.R. VANN of Headland (R.F.D. No. 3) Henry county, was born near Abbeville, Sept9, 1871 and is the son of W.C.H. and Martha (Kennedy) Vann and the grandson of William Wesley and Ruth (Kennedy) Vann and of Robert and Martha (Gamble) Kennedy. Robert Kennedy was an Irish immigrant. The Gamble and Vann families are of Scotch-Irish descend. W.C.H. Vann served as a private soldier in the Confederate army; was captured at Mobile, and held as a prisoner of War for several months at Ship Island. Representative Vann attended the Southeast Alabama Agricultural School, and afterwards the A.P.I at Auburn until his junior year. In 1896, entered the Medical Department of the University of Alabama from which he was graduated in 1899. Since graduation has been continuously in the practice of medicine at Brown's Cross Roads; is also largely interested in mercantile and farming interests. Dr. Vann is a Methodist and a Knight of Pythias.