Clay County AlArchives Photo person.....Kitchens, Ethel Malinda Mason ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres WwLSARANDOLPH@aol.com May 30, 2004, 12:48 pm Source: Linda Ayres Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/clay/photos/nph147kitchens.jpg Image file size: 27.6 Kb Ethel Malinda Mason Kitchens born app. 1835, died around 1900, thought to be buried in a unmarked at Old Pleasant Grove Cemetery Clay County This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2R.2ADE/1288 Message Board Post: Searching for any distant cousins researching these lines. My earliest are as follows: Edward Kitchens m. Malinda Mason John J or L. Burroughs m. (1st) Amanda Kitchens (2nd) Margaret Elizabeth Kitchens Daniel Middlebrooks b. 1884 (father said to be Daniel as well) m. Leola Burroughs. All of these families resided in Clay/Randolph counties. Thanks and hope to hear from someone! Jennifer

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hicks, Oliver, Lee, Freeman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2R.2ADE/1286 Message Board Post: Looking for info on these people in this census I all ready have info on Andrew Jackson Hicks he is my husbands GreatGreatGrandfather, I am looking for more info On John C Hicks and his Wife Elizabeth. They are also in the Coosa Co census in 1900 just the two of them with a farmhand living with them There son Andrew is living next door. Thank you for any help. 1880 Census Place Wicker And Pinckneyville, Clay, Alabama John C. HIX Self M Male W 39 GA Farming SC ---Elizabeth A. HIX Wife M Female W 42 GA Nancy M. HIX Dau S Female W 18 AL Serenia A. HIX Dau S Female W 12 AL Jessee W. Y. HIX Son S Male W 10 AL Andru J. HIX Son S Male W 8 AL

forwarded for DeAnn Monroe Steely ----- Original Message ----- From: DeAnn Monroe Steely To: ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:29 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Bio Clay County Bio - Duncan Munroe was born May 1786 in Scotland. It is unknown when he immigrated to the United States. Duncan married Nancy Tedder, daughter of William and Martha Tedder May 14, 1812 in Robeson County, North Carolina. Duncan and Nancy had seven children: Margaret born 1813, William born 1815, Colin born 1817, John Anthony born 1819, Mary born 1821, Archibald T. born 1827 and Susan born 1831. Duncan, Nancy and their children moved to Talladega County (now Clay County), Alabama between 1831-1840. Listed in the household of Duncan and Nancy Munroe on the 1850 Alabama Census, Talladega County is Peter Munroe, age 76, born Scotland. The relationship is unknown. Margaret Munroe married Daniel Carmichael, son of John Carmichael and Mary McEachin April 21, 1841 in Talladega County, Alabama. Daniel and Margaret had eight children and resided in Clay County, Alabama. William Munroe married Harriet (last name unknown). Listed in the household of William and Harriet Munroe on the 1850 Alabama Census, Talladega County is Patience Harper, age 70, born South Carolina. The relationship is unknown, possibly Harriet's mother. Listed in the household of William and Harriet Munroe on the 1860 Alabama Census, Coosa County is Martha A. Rush, age 10, born Alabama. The relationship is unknown. Colin Munroe married Margaret Keahey, daughter of Samuel Keahey and Isabella Patterson June 17, 1847 in Talladega County, Alabama. Margaret Keahey died shortly after the birth of their son - Samuel K. Munroe in 1848. Margaret is buried at Brownville Cemetery, Hatchett Creek Presbyterian Church, Clay County, Alabama. Colin married Elizabeth Robinson (Roberson), daughter of Mordica Robinson and Georgia Eunice Robinson July 20, 1852 in Talladega County, Alabama. Colin died in 1853 before the birth of their daughter Margaret Munroe. Samuel K. Munroe died in 1857. John Anthony Munroe married Sarah Ann Levie, daughter of Theodore Levie and Elizabeth Wheatley November 15, 1842. The family moved to Calcasieu Parish (now Beauregard Parish), Louisiana in 1865. The family finally settled in Rapides Parish, Louisiana about 1885. Mary Munroe married Robinson McMillian, son of James McMillian and Mary Ann Robinson March 17, 1842 in Talladega County, Alabama. The family moved to Vienna, Jackson Parish (now Lincoln Parish), Louisiana between 1860 and 1870. Archibald T. Munroe married Mary M. Smith, daughter of Daniel Smith and Susan Brown January 18, 1849 in Talladega County, Alabama. The family moved to Vernon, Jackson Parish, Louisiana between 1850 and 1852. Archibald T. Munroe died in a Confederate hospital in Virginia July 1862. Susan Munroe married Joseph McConatha about 1871 and resided in Coosa County, Alabama. Duncan Munroe died April 13, 1855 in Talladega County, Alabama. Nancy Tedder died March 25, 1864 in Talladega County, Alabama. It is unknown where Duncan and Nancy are buried. The source of these dates is the family Bible of Margaret Munroe Carmichael. The death date of Peter Munroe is also written in the Bible. Peter Munroe died July 26, 1854, age unknown but over 90 years. Submitted by: DeAnn Monroe Steely, dsteely@ev1.net or dsteely@yahoo.com Elaine Monroe Nagel, Elainenagel@earthlink.net

Clay-Coosa-Talladega County AlArchives Biographies.....Munroe, Duncan May 1786 - April 13 1855 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: DeAnn Monroe Steely dsteely@yahoo.com and Elaine Monroe Nagel Elainenagel@earthlink.net May 25, 2004, 11:15 am Author: DeAnn Monroe Steely Duncan Munroe was born May 1786 in Scotland. It is unknown when he immigrated to the United States. Duncan married Nancy Tedder, daughter of William and Martha Tedder May 14, 1812 in Robeson County, North Carolina. Duncan and Nancy had seven children: Margaret born 1813, William born 1815, Colin born 1817, John Anthony born 1819, Mary born 1821, Archibald T. born 1827 and Susan born 1831. Duncan, Nancy and their children moved to Talladega County (now Clay County), Alabama between 1831-1840. Listed in the household of Duncan and Nancy Munroe on the 1850 Alabama Census, Talladega County is Peter Munroe, age 76, born Scotland. The relationship is unknown. Margaret Munroe married Daniel Carmichael, son of John Carmichael and Mary McEachin April 21, 1841 in Talladega County, Alabama. Daniel and Margaret had eight children and resided in Clay County, Alabama. William Munroe married Harriet (last name unknown). Listed in the household of William and Harriet Munroe on the 1850 Alabama Census, Talladega County is Patience Harper, age 70, born South Carolina. The relationship is unknown, possibly Harriet's mother. Listed in the household of William and Harriet Munroe on the 1860 Alabama Census, Coosa County is Martha A. Rush, age 10, born Alabama. The relationship is unknown. Colin Munroe married Margaret Keahey, daughter of Samuel Keahey and Isabella Patterson June 17, 1847 in Talladega County, Alabama. Margaret Keahey died shortly after the birth of their son - Samuel K. Munroe in 1848. Margaret is buried at Brownville Cemetery, Hatchett Creek Presbyterian Church, Clay County, Alabama. Colin married Elizabeth Robinson (Roberson), daughter of Mordica Robinson and Georgia Eunice Robinson July 20, 1852 in Talladega County, Alabama. Colin died in 1853 before the birth of their daughter Margaret Munroe. Samuel K. Munroe died in 1857. John Anthony Munroe married Sarah Ann Levie, daughter of Theodore Levie and Elizabeth Wheatley November 15, 1842. John and Sarah had at least seven children. The family moved to Calcasieu Parish (now Beauregard Parish), Louisiana in 1865. The family finally settled in Rapides Parish, Louisiana about 1885. Mary Munroe married Robinson McMillian, son of James McMillian and Mary Ann Robinson March 17, 1842 in Talladega County, Alabama. Mary and Robinson had five children. The family moved to Vienna, Jackson Parish (now Lincoln Parish), Louisiana between 1860 and 1870. Archibald T. Munroe married Mary M. Smith, daughter of Daniel Smith and Susan Brown January 18, 1849 in Talladega County, Alabama. Archibald and Mary had five children. The family moved to Vernon, Jackson Parish, Louisiana between 1850 and 1852. Archibald T. Munroe died in a Confederate hospital in Virginia July 1862. Susan Munroe married Joseph McConatha about 1871 and resided in Coosa County, Alabama. Susan and Joseph had two children. Duncan Munroe died April 13, 1855 in Talladega County, Alabama. Nancy Tedder died March 25, 1864 in Talladega County, Alabama. It is unknown where Duncan and Nancy are buried. The source of these dates is the family Bible of Margaret Munroe Carmichael. The death date of Peter Munroe is also written in the Bible. Peter Munroe died July 26, 1854, age unknown but over 90 years. Submitted by: DeAnn Monroe Steely, dsteely@ev1.net or dsteely@yahoo.com Elaine Monroe Nagel, Elainenagel@earthlink.net Additional Comments: Additions and corrections welcome. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb

Clay County AlArchives Photo person.....Mitchell, Lobina Elizabeth Knight ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres WwLSARANDOLPH@aol.com May 23, 2004, 8:22 pm Source: Unavailable Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/clay/photos/gph400mitchell.jpg Image file size: 25.9 Kb This is a picture of Lobina Elizabeth Knight born Mar 7, 1862, murdered on Jun 30, 1881, daughter of David E. Knight at Charlotte Dean, she is buried in Cragford Cemetery This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Tallapoosa-Chambers-Clay County AlArchives Marriages.....Lauderdale, Sarah Virginia - Cash, Hiram R. December 28 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tony Southard jsouth2687@aol.com May 21, 2004, 9:57 pm Marriage License Marriage License found at Court House in Dadeville This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.6 Kb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: rarden Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2R.2ADE/836.2 Message Board Post: Please send any information you have on these Dysons,Wealthy was my great or great grand mother. My grandmother was wealthys son George's Daughter or niece as I have one,site reading Thomas as Ida's father and another saying it was George. Ida was born 1875 and died in 1913,an is buried in Cooksprings Ala. Sarah Parrish e mail samipa@cox.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Peoples-Peeples-Peebles Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2R.2ADE/221.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello list members, I am searching for ancestors, parents, & siblings of my g/gf BOOKER PEOPLES. My brick wall is 1860-1869. The only info I have on him is that he came from VA. I have info on him & his descendants from 1870-2004. Thank you for any help…Andy Descendants of Booker PEOPLES, 17 May 2004 1. Booker PEOPLES (b.1822-VA;d.1879-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) SP: Mrs. Delphia Peoples (b.1838-Virginia;d.1872-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) 2. Nancy PEOPLES (b.1849-VA) SP: Daniel EDWARDS (b.1849-Camilla,Mitchell,GA;m.1872) 2. George PEOPLES (b.1851-VA) SP: Jane JONES (b.1858-Camilla,Mitchell,GA;m.1874) 2. Sandy PEOPLES (b.1852-VA) SP: Mariah LEWIS (b.1850-Camilla,Mitchell,GA;m.1880) 2. Fredrick PEOPLES (b.1855-VA) 2. Warren PEOPLES (b.1856-VA) SP: Isabella HALL (b.1862-AL;m.1882) SP: Sallis WASHINGTON (m.1889) 2. John H. PEOPLES (b.1861-VA) 2. Calvin PEOPLES (b.1866-VA) SP: Mrs. Mattie Peoples (b.1869-Camilla,Mitchell,GA;m.1892) 2. Orange PEOPLES (b.1870-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) 2. Dora PEOPLES (b.1872-PELHAM,GA;d.1939-Detroit,Wayne,MI) SP: Aaron Madison BROWN Rev. (b.1866-Clarksville,GA;m.1887;d.1909-Florala,Covington,AL) SP: Amanda MOORE (b.1842-GA;m.1873;d.1906-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) 2. Columbus PEOPLES (b.1861-GA) 2. Egypt PEOPLES (b.1863-GA;d.1930-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) SP: Sarah WILKES (b.1868-NC;m.1885;d.1941-Carmilla,GA) 2. George Washington PEOPLES (b.1866-GA) SP: Mrs. Martha Peoples (b.1869-Camilla,Mitchell,GA;m.1889;d.1937-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) 2. Salena PEOPLES (b.1867-GA) SP: Willie MCCROW (b.1866-Camilla,Mitchell,GA;m.1897) SP: James WILLIAM (b.1866-Camilla,Mitchell,GA;m.1883) 2. Victoria PEOPLES (b.1870-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) 2. Europe PEOPLES (b.1872-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) 2. Green Delano PEOPLES Sr. (b.1874-Camilla,Mitchell,GA;d.1932-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) SP: Ludela BEECH (b.1892-Columbus,GA;d.1967-Detroit,Wayne,MI) SP: Mariah STEWART (b.1870-Camilla,Mitchell,GA;m.1897;d.1954-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) 2. William PEOPLES (b.1879-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) 2. Alexander PEOPLES (b.1884-Camilla,Mitchell,GA) Peoples-Peeples-Peebles

Please remove me from your list. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: <ALCLAY-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <ALCLAY-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 7:00 PM Subject: ALCLAY-D Digest V04 #28

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2R.2ADE/18.1 Message Board Post: If you have any information on James E. Burks and Lizzie Weed I would appreciate hearing from you. According to the information I have gotten from family members these are my great grandparents You may contact me at JonesEdwill@ aol.com Thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2R.2ADE/558.562.699.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I do have more on James Warren Carpenter and Sarah (Sally) Ann Harlen, and will be happy to share it with you. I am sure that Mary Jane and Nancy Jane are one in the same. Nancy may have been a nickname for Mary as Sally is for Sarah. Mary had eight brothers and sisters. Her brother Zachariah Thomas was my gr-gr-grandfather

Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Razell, J. W. July 9 1838 - living 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 8:13 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) J. W. ROZELL, planter of Hatchet Creek, Ala., is a son of Enoch and Mary (Sawyer) Rozell. EnocH Rozell was a native of North Carolina, and was brought to Madison county, Ala., about 1820, by his parents. He arrived at mature years in that county, married and had one child by his first wife, but both mother and child died. He then married Miss Mary Sawyer, at Mardisville, Talladega county, Ala. in 1837, and lived there a short time, when he removed to the neighborhood where his son, J. W. Rozell, now lives. The second wife died in 1866, but the father still lives. He married again some time afterward, Margaret Monroe, who also still survives. By his second wife he had nine children, six of whom now live, viz.: J. W., of Clay county; Samuel and Ashley, both of Clay county; Mary, wife of E. C. Thompson of Clay county; Frank W. and Drewry. William Rozell, the father of Enoch and Solomon Rozell, the brother of William, were orphan boys and removed to North Carolina from Maryland. Solomon afterward removed to Tennessee, where he became quite wealthy and prominent. The Sawyer family came from Edgefield, S. C., and settled in the Cahawba valley in Alabama. J. W. Rozell was born at Mardisville, July 9, 1838. In 1861 he enlisted in company D, First Alabama heavy artillery, as a private soldier. This was the first company mustered into the service of the Confederate States. His first years' service was at Pensacola, Fla., and he went thence to Island No. 10., where he was captured and remained prisoner about nine months at Camp Butler, Ill. He was then exchanged and rejoined his company at Vicksburg. A short time afterward he was again captured at Port Hudson. He was here paroled and after three months was exchanged. He again entered the army and was stationed at Mobile several months, and went thence to Dauphin Island. When Atlanta was threatened by Gen. Sherman, he was ordered to support Gen. Johnston and reached that general in time to participate in the battle of New Hope church. He was in all the rest of the battles before Atlanta fell, and then he went back to Tennessee with Hood. He was not in the battle of Franklin, and was too sick to take part in the battle of Nashville, or of any subsequent important battles. He was at Hamburg, S. C. when the final surrender was made. He returned home from the army and lived for three years within seven miles of Talladega. He then removed to where he now lives. This is eight miles north of Good Water, Ala. Here he has two hundred and fifty-five acres of good farming lands and has his own cotton gin upon it. He was married in 1866, January 3, to Elizabeth C. Chandler, of an old Alabama family, by whom he has had seven children, viz.: Mollie, wife of Sebron Pearson, of Hackneyville, Ala. ; Albert, living at home; Drury, Edward, Marvin, John and Annis, the last two deceased. Politically Mr. Rozell is a democrat and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is a steward of his church. Mr. Rozell is a very active and prosperous farmer, gives attention to party politics and is always alive to whatever tends to benefit the community. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 650-651 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb

Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Phillips, E. A. November 9 1859 - living 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 8:06 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) E. A. PHILLIPS, probate judge of Clay county, is a son of John B. and Martha J. (Avery) Phillips. The Phillips family came originally from Virginia, but removed to Georgia at a very early date. Both the grandfather and great-grandfather were Georgians. The grandfather, Edmund Phillips, reared his family in Newton county, Ga., with the exception of the years 1856-7; when he lived in Monroe county, Mississippi. John B. Phillips was reared in Newton county, Ga., with the exception of two years in Mississippi, and lived there until 1868, when he removed to Clay county, Ala. He served in the late war in company B, Fifty-third Georgia infantry, and was in Cobb's Legion and Longstreet's corps during the entire war. He now lives two miles east of Ashland, Ala. He reared a family of five children. E. A. Phillips, the eldest son, was born November 9, 1859, in Newton county, Ga. He was married November 13, 1884, in Clay county, to Martha E. Blackstocks, and has only one child living, John La Fayette, who was born in Ashland, Ala., September 17, 1892. He was educated in the common schools, and then taught school four years. In 1886 he was elected circuit court clerk and served one term of six years, or until 1892, when he was elected by the populists probate judge of Clay county. He is very enthusiastic in the new movement, and. was a delegate to the first populist convention ever held in. Alabama, which was held in Birmingham in June, 1892, where he was chosen a delegate to the National convention at Omaha, Neb. He was an excellent circuit court clerk, and it is confidently anticipated of him that he will be at least equal in the performance of his duties as probate judge. He is a member of the Baptist church, and is highly esteemed by all. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 649-650 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb

Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Owens, S. W. April 11 1853 - living 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 7:58 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) S. W. OWENS, M. D., a physician of Bluff Springs, Ala., is a son of Sebron W. and Nancy L. (Tate) Owens. The father of Sebron W. Owens came to this country from Wales when a young man, was a school teacher by profession, married and reared his family in Wilkes county, Ga. Sebron W. Owens was born in that county, was a mechanic by trade, and died in Wilkes county, in 1855, when Dr. S. W. Owens was one year old. His mother married again, the second time to Sebron Jones. Dr. Owens was the only child by the first marriage, but by her second marriage his mother had two children, Alice T., now the wife of Dr. A. J. Nolen, of New Site, Ala., and Robert O., a physician at Fish Pond, Ala. Dr. S. W. Owens was born April 11, 1853, in Danburg, Wilkes county, Ga. He was reared on a farm in the eastern part of Coosa county, Ala., and his early education was received at the country schools. At the age of eighteen he went to Texas, and lived five years in Smith county, working on a farm. In 1875, when in Texas, he began reading medicine with a cousin, Dr. H. L. Tate, and after reading medicine there a year he moved back again to Coosa county, and there continued the study of medicine with Dr. A. J. Nolen. In 1882-3 he took lectures at Louisville Medical college, and in the following year he passed an examination under the examining board of Clay county. He has been practicing medicine since 1883 in the immediate vicinity of his home. He was married January 22, 1880, in Coosa county, to Eliza T. Nolen, daughter of Hon. R. S. Nolen, of Coosa, county, by whom he has six children, viz.: Arthur Hazelton, Sebron Jackson, Estin Talula, Robert Battey, Victoria Bell, Darsey Nolan. Politically, Dr. Owens is a democrat. He is a Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and he is steward of his church. He is a member of the State Medical association, and is vice-president of the Clay County Medical society. Besides his professional practice the doctor is interested in real estate and farming lands, and has a farm of 120 acres. He is an excellent physician and a genial gentleman, lives in a fine home at Bluff Springs, and is very popular with all classes of people. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 649 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb

Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Northen, Thomas February 17 1845 - living 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 7:54 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) THOMAS NORTHEN, M. D. - Dr. Thomas Northen, a practicing physician, of Ashland, Ala., was born in Chambers county, Ala., on the 17th day of February, 1845. His father, William S. Northen, was born in Georgia, emigrated to Alabama and settled in Chambers county, about 1840. About 1842, he was married to Mrs. Vicy Anne Bunch (nee Wilson), from which union were born six children, viz.: Amanda C., deceased; Thomas, the subject of this sketch; Margaret A., deceased; Sarah E., who was married to Samuel E. Whitlow, and now resides at Bartlett, Texas; Ephraim D., deceased, and George W., now of Holland, Texas. When William S. Northen first came to Alabama, he was engaged in farming. Later, he became interested in the mercantile business, in which he was finally unsuccessful, losing almost his entire fortune. He afterward became the victim of disease and died on the 29th of May, 1855. From this time, Thomas assisted in the care and support of the family, and was thus deprived almost entirely of the privileges of attending school. At the age of seventeen, he enlisted as a private soldier in the Confederate army, joining company I, Thirty-seventh Ala. His first service was under General Price, in Mississippi. He participated in the battles of Iuka and Corinth and the siege of Vicksburg. He was surrendered at Vicksburg and returned home, remaining until the Vicksburg prisoners were exchanged. He then joined his command at Demopolis, Ala., and was there selected as one of the color guards of his regiment. His command was soon ordered to Chattanooga, and he was present in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. On Missionary Ridge he received a wound in the right hand, which disabled him for active service in the field. In May, following, he was retired from active service for six months. This gave him an opportunity to attend school, of which he availed himself. At the expiration of this time, he rejoined the army at Mobile and was assigned to duty in the commissary department of Baker's brigade. He went with this command to North Carolina and was present at the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, at Greensboro. He then returned home and attended school for a short time, after which he began to teach. He soon became prominent as a teacher, and his services were solicited by the leading schools of the section at that time. After ten years, he abandoned teaching and began the study of medicine under Dr. M. J. Eley, of LaFayette, Ala. He graduated with distinction from the Atlanta medical college, in February, 1878. He moved from his home in Chambers county, to Lineville, Clay county, Ala., where he soon built up an extensive and profitable practice. He remained here ten years, after which he moved with his family to Oxford, Ala. In 1889, he returned to Clay county and settled at Ashland, where he still practices with devotion his profession. Dr. Northen was married on December 13, 1866, to Miss Josephine C. Wilson, who became the mother of ten children, viz.: Charles S., a physician of Ashland; Arthur A., a druggist; Cora; Ola; Cressie W.; Eva, deceased; William L.; Vicy A. O.; Allen G. Thurman and Pattie, deceased. The mother of these children died on the 29th of July, 1891. Politically, Dr. Northen is a democrat, is a master Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is a member of the state medical association, and was at one time one of the counsel-ors of the association. He is president of the Clay county Medical society, and health officer for the county. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 648-649 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb

Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Lackey, W. M. March 31 1856 - living 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 7:48 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) W. M. LACKEY, lawyer of Ashland, Ala., is a son of James M. and Elizabeth (Wiley) Lackey. Adam Lackey, the father of James M. Lackey, emigrated from South Carolina to Tennessee when a young man, and settled near the Alabama line. He married and moved to Tallapoosa county, Ala., in 1835 and there reared his family. In 1866 he moved to Jackson county, and thence to DeKalb county, where he died in 1891. James M. Lackey was reared in Tallapoosa county, married in Talladega county, and returned to Tallapoosa county, but soon moved to what was then Talladega, now Clay county. Here he enlisted in Hilliard's legion and served about a year, when he contracted a fever and died in a hospital at Chattanooga, Tenn. The family consisted of but one child, W. M. The mother afterward married Judge Hiram M. Evans of Clay county, whose memoir appears elsewhere in this work. W. M. Lackey was born March 31, 1856, in Tallapoosa county. Ala. His literary education was received at Lineville, Clay county. He began the study of law under W. J. Pierce, and in 1880 graduated from the university of Alabama in the law depaitment. He has been practicing in Alabama since that time. In 1890 he was elected to the senate from the eighth senatorial district, composed of Talladega and Clay counties, and is now serving in that position. Politically Mr. Lackey is a democrat, and is a leading lawyer and politician. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 647-648 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb

Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Gibson, L. B. April 1 1863 - living 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 7:45 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) L. B. GIBSON, a farmer and merchant of Gibsonville, Ala., is a son of Col. L. A. and Rebecca (Sample) Gibson. Abel Gibson, the father of Col. L. A. Gibson, lived in Fairfield district, S. C., until 1834 when he moved with his family to Troup county, Ga., settling near La Grange, where he lived until his death. His son, Col. L. A. Gibson, was born July 3, 1820, and was consequently fourteen years old when he was taken to Troup county, Ga. He grew to manhood and married in that county, his marriage occurring October 23, 1845. In 1850 he came to Alabama and settled in the southern part of Talladega county (now Clay county), in what is now known as the Bluff Spring neighborhood. He lived there until 1870, when he moved to and settled on the place upon which Mr. L. B. Gibson now lives. Here he died January 13, 1888. He was a farmer and a merchant and was industrious, energetic and thrifty. He accumulated considerable property and represented the county in the legislature in 1876, having been nominated and elected without any effort on his part. He was a man of strong religious convictions, and a deacon of and an active member of the Missionary Baptist church. He was also a Mason. He reared a family of eleven children, seven of them to maturity, and five of whom still survive, viz.: Annie, single and living at home; Sarah, wife of Dr. J. L. Simpson, of Anniston, Ala.; L. B.; Lauritis, wife of E. J. Smith, merchant of Sylacauga, Ala.; Joseph A, a physician of Olive, Texas. The mother of these children is still living on the old homestead with L. B. Gibson. Both the Gibsons and the Samples are of Irish decent. Mr. L. B. Gibson was born April 1st, 1863, in Tallapoosa county, Ala. He received a liberal education, and at twenty-one years of age, bought his father's interest in the store he was then managing and has since conducted it. He was married October 7, 1890, at Lineville, Clay county, Ala., to Miss Mittie Nichols, of an old and highly respected family. Politically Mr. Gibson is a democrat and he is a member of the Missionary Baptist church. He and his family have always been highly esteemed by the community in which they have lived. To show the estimation in which Col. L. A. Gibson was held at the time of his death, the following short obituary notice, taken from the Clay County Watchman, of February 17, 1888, is here introduced. "Thus to the grief of all has passed away one of the best, truest and noblest of men. No eulogy can enter the still, cold ear of death; but we would fain say something in praise of one who so quietly and unostentatiously shed an influence for good over every life he touched. As a husband he was faithful and true; as a father, devoted and tender; as a friend upright and stanch, and as a Christian, conscientious and truthful." The first child born to L. A. and R. E. Gibson was Mattie Elizabeth, a woman of superior mental endowments who was married to Mr. J. R. Gilbert, a merchant of Pinckneyville, Ala., in 1866. She was the mother of eight children, six of whom survive her: Minnie wife of Dr. A. L. Harlan of Alexander city, Ala. Cora wife Prof. J. M. Leverette of Waverly. Ala.; Annie wife of J. R. Irvin, a merchant of Millerville, Ala; Albert E. who is still with his father; Georgia B., wife of Byron Bryant of Reagan, Texas; Pearl, single and still at home. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 646-647 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb

Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Evans, R. D. January 6 1838 - living 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 7:38 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) R. D. EVANS, dentist of Lineville, Ala., is a son of William and Susan (Knowles) Evans. William Evans was born in Newton county, Ga., and was reared in that and Harrison counties, Ga. He was married in Harrison county and lived there until 1847, when he removed to Alabama, locating in Elmore county. After the war he removed to Coosa county, near Rockford, and died there in 1868. His widow died in 1887. They were the parents of nine children, six of whom are now living. The father of William Evans was David Evans, who was reared in Georgia. The father of David Evans came from England, but was a native of Wales. Mrs. Susan Evans was a daughter of Daniel Knowles, an Irishman. R. D. Evans was born January 6, 1838 in Newton county, Georgia, and was brought to Alabama by his father when eleven years old. He received but an ordinary literary education, was married in 1861, in Coosa county, to Amanda C. Parish, by whom he had two children, M. C., deceased, and Claude L., single. He was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in 1868, and preached for ten years. He then studied dentistry and has since been engaged in that profession. During the war he performed service in the mechanical department. In 1892, he was elected by the people's party, a member of the legislature, belonging, of course, to that party. He is a royal arch Mason and has held all the offices in Masonry. He is now high priest of the chapter, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is a genial gentleman and is highly popular with the people of his county. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 646 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb

Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Blake, Wyatt Heflin June 21 1856 - living 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 7:35 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) WYATT HEFLIN BLAKE, B. S., M. D., physician of Lineville, Ala., is a son of John and Marietta (Heflin) Blake. The Blake family came originally from Hall county, Ga. Thomas Blake, the father of John Blake, left Hall county and removed with his family to Randolph county, Ala., about 1833. He was the first representative in the legislature of Alabama, from Randolph county. He reared his family in that county, and was a planter and stock raiser by occupation. John Blake came to maturity in Randolph county, and married in 1852. He lived at what is known as Blake's Ferry. He was a merchant and planter, a man of thrift and energy, and accumulated considerable property. He was not a public man. His family consisted of six children, viz.: Wyatt Heflin; Young, of Roanoke, Ala.; Henry W. of Anniston, Ala.; Stell, of Wedowee, Ala.; Marietta, wife of James B. Steed of Lineville, Ala.; Rogers M., a minor. The mother of this family died in 1876, and the father in 1885. Wyatt Heflin Blake was born June 21, 1856, at Blake's Ferry. The old homestead was originally the site of an Indian village, on a reservation owned by a Creek Indian. The doctor has the original Indian deed in his possession at the present time. Dr. Blake was educated at Lineville in early life. In 1874 he went to Newnan, Ga., and there attended an academy one year. In 1875, he went to the A. & M. college at Auburn, Ala., and in 1879 graduated from that institution with the second honors of a class consisting of nineteen young men. He was captain of company A, corps of cadets. While at college he gave considerable attention to oratory, and has since leaving school delivered a number of addresses which have been highly spoken of. He delivered an address before the alumni association of his school in 1891, on the Aborigines of Alabama; and in this address made a strong plea for a school history of the state. This address was highly spoken of by the critics of the day. After graduating he taught at Roanoke during the years 1880 and 1881. He then went to Vanderbilt university, where he graduated in the spring of 1883 in the medical department of that institution. He then secured the appointment of assistant to the chair of chemistry in that institution, and remained there a short time. His father's illness called him home, and for some time he managed his fathers mercantile business, and at the same time practiced his profession. In 1888 Dr. Blake moved to Lineville, Ala., where he still lives. He was married July 26, 1885, at Roanoke, Ala., to Mattie L. Shaffer, daughter of Dr. J. P. Shaffer of Dadeville, Ala., whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. By this marriage he has three children, viz.: John, Jephtha H. and Margaret E. Politically Dr. Blake is a democrat, and is the Clay county member of the democratic executive committee of the fifth congressional district of Alabama. He is a member of the Chi Phi fraternity of the state medical association, being a counselor in that body of the Clay county medical society, and he is one of the censors for the county. He graduated with the degree of bachelor of science at the A. & M. college of Ala., and with the degree of doctor of medicine at Vanderbilt university. He is an excellent physician and a man of considerable merit in literary matters. His address before the alumni association of his college in 1891 has already been referred to. The following extracts from that address are here introduced: "I have recently examined a number of the popular school histories in use throughout our country, and I find that the greatest space devoted to a history of our own state in any of the books examined is ten lines." "Should our children be taught of Salem witchcraft, the Acadians in Nova Scotia, the Pequod war, or the prosecution of the Quakers, to the neglect of the history of our own state? I think not. Our children are taught of the adventures of John Smith in Virginia, but are told nothing of the equally romantic life of Samuel Dale of Alabama." They read of the patriotic eloquence of Patrick Henry, but know nothing of the equally eloquent and no less patriotic appeals of William Lowdnes Yancey. What citizen of Alabama does not feel a keener sense of state pride when he remembers that William Rufus King, Jabez L. M. Curry and J. Marion Sims, together with scores of others whose names would honor the pages of a nation's history, were Alabamians either by birth or adoption? Is it justice to these men whose lives have given character to our state to allow their names to be forgotten? What is more cruel than neglect? And in addition to the crime of ingratitude we are losing the greatest possible influence known in developing in our youth a feeling of state pride, that element so essentially important to a higher order of citizenship. An individual without personal or family pride, a professional man without professional pride, or citizen without state pride is an inferior product of his kind, and can we expect to develop a feeling of state pride among our youth when they are ignorant of the history of our state?" Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 644-646 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.7 Kb