Saintclair County AlArchives Military Records.....Beeson, Edward Revwar - Pension ************************************************ 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: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 23, 2006, 12:57 pm Pension Application Of Edward Beeson, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 203, Application # S12984 EDWARD BEESON, a resident of St. Clair County, AL, aged between 70 and 80 years: “He entered the service as a volunteer from the state of North Carolina, Guilford County, now Randolph. It was the spring of the year 1778, as he believes. DAVID BROWER was his captain, JAMES WOODS-Lieutenant, this deponent ensign, and ___ sergeant. ROBERT MCLEAN was their major, THOMAS DOUGAN, colonel, BUTLER- general. Their object was the destruction of the Tories. Next day, after they left Johnsonville, their place of rendezvous, their captain and three men were killed by the Tories who waylaid them (the Tories were commanded by Major RAINS) and fired on them from a steep hill on the side of Brush Creek.” “After BROWER was killed, WOODS became captain and this deponent Lieutenant. They pursued the Tories about forty miles to Fork? Creek, and there besieged them in a house belonging to one JOHN NEEDHAM [per The Old North State, Eli W. Caruthers, this was in the fall of 1781]. In the morning before they got to NEEDHAM’s, their colonel (DOUGAN) joined them. This deponent was then ordered with half of his company to the back of the house under concealment of an orchard, while the rest were to attack in front. This deponent’s company were the first who took possession of the same, those in front having feigned a retreat to draw out the Tories, which accordingly succeeded. Twenty-one were killed, seven at the house and fourteen at the place where they kept the horses, the Tories having fled there, to where they were concealed on the bank of Deep River, and where Colonel DOUGAN himself had gone with a detachment to surprise them if they should be driven from the house.” “They then marched down to Cape Fear (or Fair)Town and from there to the Brown Marsh near Wilmington, where they again had to battle with the Tories on open ground [per the Old North State, Eli W. Caruthers, after the Battle at Cane Creek, which was on Sept. 13, 1781]. They there (again) defeated the Tories who, being reinforced by the British from their shipping at Fort Johnson, they returned and defeated us in turn. From thence they (the Americans) returned by Cape Fear to Guilford (now Randolph). At this time they were out three months and were discharged.” “Soon after this, the Tories gathered and took Hillsborough when this deponent and his company were again ordered out. This deponent having been elected on the very next day after his return from his first service as captain, one WOODS being his competition for the same. JOHN JOHNES or [JONES] was his lieutenant and WILLIAM BROWN his sergeant. They then marched down to Hillsborough and joined with the Orange and Wake men and some from Chatham for the purpose of attacking the Tories and rescuing Governor BURKE [per David Fanning Narrative, Burke was taken by the Tories September12, 1781]. This, he believes, was the fall of the year, but is not certain. They marched to Cane Creek [the Battle of Lindley’s Mill, per Heitman, September 13, 1781, also see pgs.55-56 in David Fanning’s Narrative], and there attacked the Tories, at which time John LUTTERAL who acted as colonel was killed, and a number of our men. We were defeated ____ ____. After a short time? __ this deponent was then ordered with half of his company to Guilford. The Tory general HECTOR MCNEIL was killed in a skirmish [per The Old North State, Eli W. Caruthers, this is confirmed, he died in the Battle at Cane Creek, Sept. 13, 1781] and their Colonel FANNING had his arm broken. This deponent’s company had permission to return home for a short time. This term of service was something less than four, though over three months.” “His next term of service was again as a volunteer. This he believes was the next year. At this time they were roused by the Tories who came and burned Colonel DOUGAN’s house, and Colonel BALFOUR’s house, at the same time killing Colonel BALFOUR [per Eli W. Caruthers in The Old North State, this occurred on Sunday, March 10th, 1782]. They also killed JOHN BROWN and burned his house. Also MILLIGAN’s and COLLIER’s houses were burned. They pursued them under the command of Colonel BLETCHER (or BLEECHER) [Brashear?], this deponent being still captain and remaining so until the close of the war, the same lieutenant and ensign were with him at this time as at the last.” “This deponent, previous to the last service mentioned, had been on another tour, which through mistake was not put down previous to the others as it ought to have been. He went out from the same district and state. REED was their colonel, BLETCHER their major, and LILLINGTON their general, after they arrived at Charleston. They arrived there at the time the British were lying at St. John’s Island. This deponent was with his company at the time Charleston [per Heitman, May 12, 1780] was taken, at the place and in the town. The regulars being intrenched down on the wharf were taken, but his company escaped. At this time he was out in the service four months, and was discharged by General LILLINGTON. He received a written discharge which is lost or destroyed.” “This deponent served several other times for a short space, not here mentioned, and the particulars of which he cannot either recollect or describe as this deponent’s memory is so impaired by age that almost common occurrences are forgotten by him. This deponent has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, except his commission as captain. His first commission was given him by Colonel DOUGAN, which he lost during the War. ___ the colonel to supply its place afterwards ____ ___ evidence had it supplied by the governor of __ __. This was done that he might receive his pension for his services. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/saintclair/military/revwar/pensions/beeson226gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.3 Kb

Madison-Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Clay, Clement Claiborne December 17, 1817 - January 3, 1882 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 21, 2006, 9:50 pm Author: "Alabama: Her History, REsources, War REcord, and Public MEn From 1540 to 1872,: by Willis Brewer, pages 357-359 Clement Claiborne Clay, a statesman and a citizen of national reputation, is a native and resident of Madison, and son of the foregoing [Clement Comer Clay]. He was born Dec. 1817, and was graduated at our State University in 1834. He read law at the University of Virginia and was licensed in 1840. HE began the practice at Huntsville, but early gave his attention to public questions, and entered the general assembly in 1842. In 1844 and ’45 he was again elected to that body, and by it elected judge of the county court in 1846. This office here signed two years after, and again betook himself to his profession. In 1853 he was a candidate for the lower house of congress, but was defeated by Hon. W. R. W. Cobb of Jackson. When the legislature met, that winter, his party in that body nominated him for a seat in the U. S. Senate over several distinguished members of the party, and he was elected for a term of six years, to succeed Col., Clemens, receiving 85 votes, to 37 for Hon. R. W. Walker. He at once took his seat in the federal senate, where he remained nine years. He was re-elected in 1859, receiving every vote cast. When his State dissolved her relations with the federal Union, he withdrew with his colleagues. The legislature of 1861 elected him a senator in the 1st congress of the Confederacy, the vote standing 66 for him, to 53 for Col. Watts of Montgomery, and 5 for Geo. P. Beirne, esq., of this county. In this capacity Judge Clay was unremitting in his efforts in behalf of Southern independence. He served two years, and went before the general assembly of 1863 for re-election. He was opposed by Col. Seibels of Montgomery and Hon. J. L. M. Curry of Talladega, and after several ballotings, he withdrew in favor of Hon. R. W. Walker, who was chosen. In April 1864 he departed on a secret and confidential mission to the British provinces of this continent, and only returned in Jan. 1865. When the surrender of the confederate armies in Virginia and North Carolina took place, he started on horse-back for Texas, but hearing that he was charged with complicity in the murder of President Lincoln and that a reward was offered for his apprehension, he rode one hundred and fifty miles to surrender himself to the federal authorities at Macon, Georgia. Instead of appreciating this manly vindication of his honor, the federal authorities immured him in the casemates of Fortress Monroe, and retained him there twelve months without bringing him to trial on the false charges of treason and assassination. He was cruelly and disgracefully treated and released in broken health. Since that time he has been planting in Jackson county. Judge Clay is of ordinary highth, and frail and thin appearance. His features are of the refined and intellectual mould, and his eyes brown, with a meditative expression. His manner is easy without cordiality, and grave without austerity. He is a cultivated scholar, whose mind has been ripened by study, reflection, and experience. His letters and speeches are few in number, but models of their kind. He is moderate and prudent in council, and, as Lord Bacon said, “not strong-headed, but stout-hearted.” His moral character unites all the qualities of a christian gentleman, and he commands the respect of every one. His influence in matters of public import, as well as otherwise, has been always for good. Judge Clay married the daughter of Dr. P. R. Tunstall, then of Baldwin, a lady of fascinating attributes of mind, and elevated qualities of heart. While her husband was in Washington Mrs. Clay was one of the brightest ornaments of society there. Additional Comments: In 1843 Clement Claiborne Clay was married to Virginia Caroline Tunstall who was born in North Carolina in January 16, 1825 and died in 1915 Clement is buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. They had no children. Virginia remarried to David C. Clopton and was his third and final wife. Virginia wrote a memoir of her time in Washington DC in a book calle "A Belle of the Fifties" (1904). David C. Clopton again left Virginia a widow when he died in 1892. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/bios/clay37nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb

Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Clay, Clement Comer December 17, 1789 - September 7, 1866 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka ctolowka@prodigy.net June 21, 2006, 8:07 pm Author: "Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men," by Willis Brewer, published 1872, pages 356-357 Clement Comer Clay was an early settler of Madison. He was born in Halifax county, Virginia, Dec. 17, 1789, and was the son of Wm. Clay, a soldier in the colonial rebellion. His mother was a Miss Comer, whose mother was a Claiborne. During his boyhood his parents removed to Granger county, Tenn., where he grew up. Completing his education at a college in Knoxville, he read law under Hon. Hugh L. White. Licensed in 1809, he came to Huntsville two years later, and here resided till his demise fifty-five years afterwards. During the Indian war of 1813 he was adjutant of a battalion which acted as a corps of observation. In 1817 he represented the county in the territorial legislature, serving in the only two sessions of that body. He was also a member of the convention of 1819, and was chairman of the committee which reported the constitution. The same year he was elected a judge of the supreme court by the legislature, and his associates selected him as the first chief justice, though he was the youngest of their number. This high dignity he held four years, then resigned and resumed the practice. Soon after this he was a principal to a duel, in which he shot Hon. Waddy Tate of Limestone in the leg. His retirement was interrupted in 1828, when he was elected to the legislature, and at the meeting was made speaker without opposition. The year after he was elected to congress, defeating Capt. Nich. Davis of Limestone after a warm canvass. He was twice re-elected, serving continuously till 1835, and incurring no further opposition. In that year he was elected governor, over Gen. Enoch Parsons, of Monroe, by a vote of 23, 297 to 12, 209. The Creek troubles occurred during his administration, and their repression is largely owing to his prompt exertions. Before the expiration of his term he was elected (June 1837) to the senate of the United States without opposition. He sat in that then eminent body till 1841, when financial embarrassments caused him to resign. He was then selected to prepare a digest of the laws of the State, which he did, and laid it before the legislature of 1842. In June 1843 he was appointed a justice of the supreme court by Gov. Fitzpatrick, and held the position till the ensuing winter. His last public trust was as one of the three commissioners to wind up the business of the banks in 1846. The remainder of his life was spent in dignified repose, unrelieved by any important event save the harsh treatment he received at the hands of the Northern troops when they occupied the Tennessee valley. He died at Huntsville, Sept. 7, 1866. Gov. Clay was of medium size, but erect, and with dark and restless eyes. His bearing was naturally austere, and, though sociable with a few, he was intimate with none. He was honorable in all relations of life, and sensitive of the slightest imputation derogatory thereto. As a jurist and public officer he was very laborious and energetic, and his official career was characterized by a proper sense of responsibility, dignity, and fidelity. Gov. Clay married a sister of Gen. Jones M. Withers of Mobile, and left three sons, well known citizens of this county: Major J. Withers Clay, the able editor for may years of the Huntsville Democrat; Col. Hugh L. Clay, a lawyer and gentleman of much talent; and – [the biography of son Clement Claiborne Clay follows in the book] Additional Comments: See the biography of Clement Claiborne Clay at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/bios/clay37nbs.txt Clement Comer Clay married Susanna Claiborne Withers, daughter of John Withers and Mary Herbert Jones, on April 4, 1815 in Madison County, Alabama. Both Clement Comer and Susanna are buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. Among their children were John Withers Clay, Hugh Lawson Clay, Clement Claiborne Clay and Catherine "Kate" Withers Clay. Catherine was 10 in 1850 where as Hugh, who was living with his parents at the time, was 28. Catherine would have been born when Susanna was 41 if she is a daughter of Clement and Susanna. It is possible that Cahterine is a niece and not a daughter. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/bios/clay732gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb

Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Walker, John Williams August 12, 1783 - April 13, 1823 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 21, 2006, 4:39 pm Author: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress WALKER, John Williams, (father of Percy Walker and great-great-grandfather of Richard Walker Bolling), a Senator from Alabama; born in Amelia County, Va., August 12, 1783; attended a private school; graduated from The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1806; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Huntsville, Ala.; member, Territorial house of representatives 1817, and served as speaker; president of the State constitutional convention in 1819; upon the admission of Alabama as a State into the Union was elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate and served from December 14, 1819, to December 12, 1822, when he resigned; died in Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., April 23, 1823; interment in Maple Hill Cemetery. Additional Comments: This information found at: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000061 John Williams Walker was married to Matilda Pope, daughter of Leroy Pope and Judith Sale in 1810. Their children included Percy Walker, Leroy Pope Walker and Richard Wilde Walker. John was the first senator from Alabama. See biographies of these children at: Percy Walker http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/mobile/bios/walker35nbs.txt Leroy Pope Walker http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/bios/walker31nbs.txt Richard Wilde Walker http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/bios/walker32nbs.txt Richard Wilde Walker had a son, Richard Wilde Walker, Jr. who became an Alabama Supreme Court Judge and later was appointed a judge in the United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. You can see a biogrphy for him at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/bios/walker32nbs.txt File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/bios/walker36nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb

Mobile-Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Walker, Percy December 1812 - December 31, 1880 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 21, 2006, 4:32 pm Author: "Alabama: Her History, Resources, War REcord, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872,:" By Willis Brewer, page 397 Percy Walker is a resident of Mobile, but a native of Madison. He was born at Huntsville, December 1812, and is the son of Hon. John W. Walker, deceased, of that county. He was educated at Greene Academy and the University of Virginia. After attending the medical school of Transylvania University, he received a diploma at Philadelphia in 1835. He located in Mobile the same year, and was a practitioner here for a year or two. He then invested his patrimony in drugs, and lost it in the financial crash of 1837. In 1839 he represented the county in the general assembly, which was his first appearance in public life. While reading law in 1840, he was elected solicitor of the judicial circuit. He informed the court that he had not been admitted to the bar, and was directed to have himself enrolled at once. He at once entered on his duties and served four years. In 1847 he was the only member of the ticket of his party elected to the legislature from this county, and was returned in 1853. Two years after, he was the candidate of his party for congress, and was elected over Hon. J. A. Stallworth of Conecuh. Though the candidate of the American party, he denounced any attempt to proscribe persons for their religious faith. He represented the county again in the able delegation sent by it to the general assembly in 1859, and served as chairman of the judiciary committee. He was adjutant and inspector general of the forces of the State during the war, and has since devoted his time to his profession. Col. Walker has a tall and graceful figure, a dignified bearing, and intellectual features. He is very prominent in his profession, and is fluent and chaste in oratory. He is an honorable man, and a cultivated gentleman and scholar. He married a daughter of Hon. A. S. Lipscomb. Additional Comments: Percy Walker married Ellen Lipscomb. The 1850 through 1880 census show no children and that Percy was a practicing attorney. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/mobile/bios/walker35nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb

Montgomery County AlArchives Biographies.....Warren, James Raney 1837 - ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 20, 2006, 1:54 am Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), page 766 James Raney Warren, grocery merchant of Montgomery, was born in Caswell county, N. C., in 1837, and was educated in his native county. Leaving school at the age of eighteen, he lived in Caswell county until the age of twenty-two, clerking, and then commenced to travel through the south, selling tobacco for Graves, Burnham $ Co., of Grantville, N. C., making his headquarters in Montgomery, Ala., keeping this up for three years, and in 1863, he started into the tobacco business in Montgomery, together with W. W. Burch, and carried that on until 1878, when Mr. Burch retired, and Mr. Warren carried on the business alone until 1881, when the firm became J. R. Warren & Co. Mr. Warren is a director in the Capital City Insurance company, and in the Central railroad company, and is a thorough business man. He married, in 1866, to Fannie Leak, daughter of Judge Tilman Leak, of Wetumpka, and to them were born eight children, of who but two now survive, as follows: Lucy, wife of Dr. Glenn Andrews, and William Warren. Mrs. Fannie Warren died in 1884, leaving Mr. Warren in a state of disconsolate widowhood. William Warren, father of James R. Warren, was born in Caswell county, N. C., in 1802, and there died in 1845. He was a farmer and tanner. He married Sarah Henshaw, a native of North Carolina, and to them were born nine children, as follows: Henry A., who was in Price’s army and was killed in the service in1862; Bartimus H., who served all through the war in the army of northern Virginia under Gen. Lee; William Boswell, who served through the war in the western army of the Confederacy and died just after the war; James R., Bedford B., Elizabeth, widow of Bentley McKee; Caroline, now Mrs. Malone; Eliza, wife of Sidney Malone, and Nancy, deceased. The mother of this family died in 1843. The Warren family came originally from England, located first in Virginia, and then moved to North Carolina. Additional Comments: The 1870 Montgomery Census shows James R. & Fannie A. with son, James W., age 3, born in Alabama as was Fannie. The 1880 Montgomery Census shows Jas. R. & Fanny A. with son Walter J, (James W.), age 13, daughter Lucy H., age 9 and sone William, age 2. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/montgomery/bios/warren34nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Obituaries.....Shaw, Peter March 7, 1908 ************************************************ 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: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 June 18, 2006, 7:54 pm Lamar Democrat, Mar 11, 1908, Page 3 We learn Monday morning that "Uncle" Peter Shaw living seven miles east of town died Saturday of pneumonia. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/obits/s/shaw595gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.7 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Obituaries.....YOUNG, Laura Alice March 7, 1908 ************************************************ 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: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 June 18, 2006, 7:52 pm Lamar Democrat, Mar 11, 1908, Page 3 We regret to note the death of Capt. J. P. Young, which sad event occurred at his home in the Bedford neighborhood Sunday night. Only two days before, his daughter, Miss Alice, died and suffering from a severe attack of la grippe too, he broke down with the result above mentioned. Mr. Young has many friends in town and the county generally whom the democrat joins in extending condolence to the bereaved relatives and friends. [Lamar Democrat, Mar 11, 1908 Page 3] File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/obits/y/young594gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Obituaries.....YOUNG, James Paul March 8, 1908 ************************************************ 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: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 June 18, 2006, 7:50 pm Lamar Democrat, Mar. 11, 1908, Page 3 We regret to note the death of Capt. J. P. Young, which sad even occured at his home in the Bedord neighborhood Sunday night. Only two days before his daughter, Miss Alice, died and suffering from a severe attack of la grippe too, he broke down with the result above mentioned. Mr. Young has has many friends in town and the county generally whom the democrat joines in extending condolence to the bereaved relatives and friends. [Lamar Democrat, Mar 11, 1908 Page 3] LAMAR DEMOCRAT, JUNE 17, 1908, PAGE 2 IN MEMORY OF BRO. JAMES P. YOUNG Brother Yong was born Nov. 13th 1829 and departed this life March 8, 1908. He was married to Miss MARTHA T. BOX April 30th, 1854, who has preceded him to the gloryland 10 years. To this union were born 7 sons and 3 daughters, five of whom have already passed over the River. He was a loving and tender husband and father, a kind friend and hospitable neighbor, his home being always a resting place for the weary and especially was his pastor always welcomed. Bro. Young was a devoted member of the Methodist Church from early childhood, and was for many years one of the pillars of New Hope Church. When his country was called to arms in defense of all that was true and good, he was among the first to tender his services, and being commissioned a lieutenant in Co. F., 26th Ala. Volunteers, rendered acceptable service and made a valiant soldier. He was made a Mason in Old Moscow Lodge on the 14th day of May 18589, and lived a consistent member till it surrendered its charter in 1873. He became a member of Sulligent Lodge on the 17 day of May 1902. On the day following his death as an evidence of the love and respect in which he was held, his body was laid to rest in New Hope Cemetery by his Masonic brethern in the presence of a large concourse of friends and relatives who had gathered to witness the last sad rites. He believed in that which was right and fair - in fidelity, in adhering to right and justice, in rendering to every man his just dues, with charity to all and special privileges to none, he was the embodiment of all those virtues essential to a Christian gentleman. Therefore, be it resolved that whereas the Grand Master of Heaven and earth, in His allowing providence has seen fit to remove from our midst our beloved brother, and whereas we His creatures with reverence humbly bow to our Sovereign's Will and while we feel that our loss is his eternal gain, yet we have no language to express our grief at the loss of our dear brother, felling that, as the years pass, we shall miss him more and more. Be it further resolved that Sulligent Lodge tender to the bereaved and stricken family and especially to those loving daughters who ministered so faithfully to his wants during his last illness, the sympathy of our hearts. May God less them and may the angels of mercy camp around and about them - supply them with grace sufficient for each day. Resolved further that a copy of these resolutions be spread on the minutes of the Lodge and a copy sent to The Lamar Democrat for publication. J. S. GUYTON R. D. REDDEN, Committee File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/obits/y/young593gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb

Montgomery County AlArchives Marriages.....Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth - Harris, Stephen W. May 22, 1830 ************************************************ 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: Bushy Hartman mihartmanexpressway.net June 18, 2006, 6:29 pm marriage book D, pg 148 Stephen W. Harris )The State of Alabama To )Montgomery County Elizabeth Fitzpatrick)To any ordained Minister of the Gospel, Judge of the circuit or county Courts, or Justice of the Peace for Said County...Greetings You are hereby authorized to celebrate the Rites of Matrimony between Stephen W. Harris and Elizabeth Fritzpatrick and this Shall be your Sufficient authority for So doing Given under my hand and Seal, this 22nd day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty and of American Independance the Fifty 9th Year James E. Blses Registered Executed May 24th 1835 [document cut off on very bottom] Additional Comments: This marriage record was on the bottom of my requested record and I have no connection or further information on the above families. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/montgomery/vitals/marriages/fitzpatr236gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb

Montgomery County AlArchives Marriages.....Monny, Dorcas - Rollo, John A. October 28, 1834 ************************************************ 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: Bushy Hartman mihartmanexpressway.net June 18, 2006, 6:22 pm marriage record pg 148 John A. Rollo) The State of Alabama To ) Montgomery County Dorcas Monny ) To any ordained minister of the Gospel Judge of the Circuit or County Courts, or Justice of the Peace for Said County Greetings You are hereby authorized to celebrate the rites of matrimony between J A Rolla and Dorcas Monny and this Shall be your Sufficient authority for So Doing Given under my hand and Seal this 14th day of March A.D. one thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty four and of American Independance the Fifty 8th year James E. Belsen Register (Seal) I do hereby certify that I have celebrated the Rites of matrimony betwixt the within named persons Oct 28th 1834 William Urquhat Additional Comments: Original image on the "Rollo Cousins" web page just put the name in a search engine it will come up. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/montgomery/vitals/marriages/monny235gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb

Henry County AlArchives Photo Place.....Rosa Parks Lived Here (Grandparents Home) June 9, 2006 ************************************************ 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: Christine Thacker CGT714@aol.com June 16, 2006, 6:31 pm Source: Christine G. Thacker Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/henry/photos/rosapark3520gph.jpg Image file size: 25.6 Kb ROSA PARKS LIVED HERE Not sure if this is the home place, but this is where the marker is located, Hwy 10 outside of Abbieville going toward Blue Springs. Additional Comments: Hwy 10, Henry Co., Al. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/henry/photos/rosapark3520gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb

Henry County AlArchives Photo Place.....Rosa Parks Lived Here (Historical Marker Side 2) June 9, 2006 ************************************************ 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: Christine Thacker CGT714@aol.com June 16, 2006, 6:27 pm Source: Christine G. Thacker Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/henry/photos/rosapark3519gph.jpg Image file size: 214.6 Kb ROSA PARKS LIVED HERE (continued from other side) Rosa McCAULEY married Richard PARKS of Pine Level in 1932. She returned to Henry County in 1944 on behalf of the NAACP to investigate the alleged rape of a young black mother by seven white youths. Rosa McCAULEY PARKS gained national attention on December 1, 1955 when she refused to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama public bus to a white man. Her refusal to go to the back of the bus sparked a successfull bus boycott that earned Rosa McCAULEY PARKS the title of " Mother of the Civil Rights Movement in America". She died at her home in Detroit, Michigan, on October 24, 2005. Additional Comments: Hwy 10, Henry Co., Al. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/henry/photos/rosapark3519gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb

Henry County AlArchives Photo Place.....Rosa Parks Lived Here (Historical Marker Side 1) June 9, 2006 ************************************************ 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: Christine Thacker CGT714@aol.com June 16, 2006, 6:26 pm Source: Christine G. Thacker Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/henry/photos/rosapark3518gph.jpg Image file size: 203.7 Kb ROSA PARKS LIVED HERE Civil rights pioneer ROSA McCaULEY PARKS was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Shortly after her birth her parents James and Leona Edwards McCAULEY, moved here to a 260 acre farm owned by her grandparents, Anderson and Louisa McCAULEY. Her father, a builder, designed and constructed the Henry County Training School for black students in 1914. After a few years in Henry County, Rosa and her mother moved to Pine Level, Alabama, to live with her maternal grandparents, while her father went north seeking new building opportunities. (continued on other side. Additional Comments: Hwy 10, Henry Co., Al. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/henry/photos/rosapark3518gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb

Montgomery-Lauderdale County AlArchives Biographies.....Walker, Richard Wilde, Jr. March 11, 1857 - April 10, 1936 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 16, 2006, 2:41 pm Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 765-766 Judge Richard Wilde Walker [Jr.], now the junior member of the Alabama supreme court, was born in Florence [Lauderdale County], Ala., on March 11th 1857. His father, Judge Richard Wilde Walker, whose name he bears, was a learned and distinguished judge of the same court for many years, resigning the position to accept that of senator in the Confederate States government in 1863. His uncle, Gen. Leroy Pope Walker, was a noted lawyer and a great advocate, being generally known as the first secretary of war for the Confederate government. Another uncle, the Hon. Percy Walker, was also a lawyer and politician of renown and prominence in Alabama. Young Walker attended Washington and Lee college, Lexington, Va., one year, and afterward went to Princeton college, New Jersey, where he achieved scholarly distinction, graduating with the class of 1877. His father and paternal grandfather had each graduated in the same institution, way back in the past generation. After attending the Columbia Law school in New York city, one session, he was admitted to the bar at Huntsville, Ala., in the fall of 1877, which had been the chief theater of his father’s and uncle’s greatest forensic triumphs. He practiced law in St. Louis, Mo., for about one year; went to New Mexico, but remained on two or three months, and in 1881 went to New York city, where he engaged in the practice of his profession for more than two years. Mr. Walker in these three years was engaged in storing his mind with a wealth of knowledge. With his great industry and power of legal discrimination, he laid the sure foundation of a predestined success. Not being impressed with a fondness for life in so large a city as New York, where his modesty of manners , probably, contributed to conceal his merit so as to prevent his success from keeping pace with his ambition, he left New York and returned to Huntsville, Ala., early in 1884. Here he devoted himself assiduously to the practice of law, each year adding to his growing reputation, until his success was so complete that he was retained as counsel on one side of nearly every important litigated case. His arguments before the supreme court were models worthy of imitation. Pleasant and persuasive in address, earnest in manner, thoroughly conversant with the law and the facts of his case, and logical in his presentation of them, he always commanded the attention of the judges. They felt, when he had finished talking, that a flood of light had been turned into every dark corner of an often voluminous and uninviting record. On February 23, 1891, he was appointed by the governor to the office of associate justice of the supreme court of Alabama, being then not quite thirty-four years of age. He is probably as young a judge as occupies such a position in any of the forty-four states of the Union. The present chief justice of the same court, the Hon. G. W. Stone, was an associate justice of the same court the year Judge Walker was born, and the present supreme court reporter also occupied the position of reporter at the same time – in 1857. The father of Judge Walker was on the bench at the same time with Judge Stone. This mantle of Elijah thus gracefully falls upon the young Elijah, who bids fair to prove as mighty a prophet as his illustrious predecessor. Additional Comments: Richard's mother was Mary Ann Simpson. He married Shelby White in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama on June 22, 1886. They had no children. Richard was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit. He reached senior status in 1930 and remained with the court until his death in 1936. Shelby was born January 14, 1862 and died March 12, 1948. Both Richard and Shelby are buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/montgomery/bios/walker33nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb

Madison-Lauderdale County AlArchives Biographies.....Walker, Richard Wilde February 16, 1823 - June 16, 1874 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 15, 2006, 4:04 pm Author: Alabama: Her History, Resources, War REcord, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872," by Willis Brewer, published 1872, pages 355-356 Richard Wilde Walker, brother of the foregoing [Leroy Pope Walker], is also a native and resident of this county [Madison]. He was born Feb. 16, 1823, and was educated at Spring Hill College, Mobile, the University of Virginia, and Princeton. Graduating at the latter in 1841, he returned, read law, and was licensed in 1844. Locating in Florence, he was elected district solicitor in 1845 over the incumbent E. A. O’Neal, esq., of Lauderdale. This position he resigned three years later. In 1851 he was elected to the legislature from Lauderdale, and in 1853 was nominated by his party for governor, but made no contest. He again represented Lauderdale in 1855, when he was chosen to preside over the house. In June 1859 he was appointed by Gov. Moore a judge of the supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Rice, and at the succeeding session of the legislature was elected to the same office for a full term. While filling this place he was selected by the constitutional convention as a delegate for the State at large to the provisional congress, in which he served a year. In 1863 he was elected a senator in the Confederate congress to succeed Hon. C. C. Clay, and entered on his new duties in February thereafter. He was thus engaged when the downfall of the confederacy respited him to private life, from which he has not since emerged. At the close of the war between the States he again made Madison his home, and is now devoting himself to his profession, associated with Hon. James Robertson. Judge Walker is frail in physical structure, with a dark complexion, and Hebrew cast of features. In the social circle he is noted for the quiet and unostentatious urbanity of his manner. As a lawyer he has few equals, bringing to bear on the abstract principles of his profession patient and unremitting study, intense thought, and a logical mind. As an advocate he wins rather by a thorough mastery of his subject, and the clearness and fairness of his propositions, than by vehement manner. As a jurist his decisions evince research and profound legal erudition. Nor are his literary attainments disproportioned to his professional lore. To these are added a purity of morals, and an elevation of sentiment which alone are needed to finish the portrayal of one of the most distinguished sons of the State. He married a daughter of Mr. John Simpson, one of the most respected citizens of Lauderdale. Additional Comments: Richard Wilde Walker was born to John Williams Walker (1789-April 23, 1823) and Matilda Pope in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. He married Mary Ann Simnpson June 18, 1845 in Lauderdale County, Alabama, married by Jeptha Simpson, MG. In the 1850 census, son Simpson was a year old. Also with them were Clifton Walker, age 12, and Percy Walker, age 7. These were the sons of Richard's brother, Leroy Pope Walker. All were born in Alabama. In the 1860 census, Lauderdale County, Richard and Mary are living with John Simpson, age 69, likely her father, and John Simpson, Jr., age 30. With them are sons John S., age 10, Margaret P., age 8, and Richard W., Jr., age 3. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/bios/walker32nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb

Madison-Lauderdale-Montgomery County AlArchives Biographies.....Walker, Leroy Pope February 7, 1817 - August 23, 1874 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 15, 2006, 2:30 pm Author: Alabama: Her History, REsources, War REcord, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872," by Willis Brewer, published 1872 Leroy Pope Walker was a native and a resident of Madison, and son of the preceding [John Williams Walker]. He was born in 1817 and was thoroughly educated. He read law under Judge Hopkins, was admitted to the bar, and at once removed to Canton, Miss. He practiced there with but little promise a short time, then returned and located in Bellefonte, Jackson county. A year later he removed to Moulton and became the partner of Hon. D. G. Ligon. In 1843 and in ’44 he represented Lawrence in the house, but the year after he removed to Lauderdale. That county elected him to the house in 1847, when he was made speaker. In 1848 he was a Cass elector for his district and for the State at large for Pierce and Buchanan. In 1849 he was re-elected to the house, but the year after was elected judge of the circuit court. This position he held nine months, and resigned it. In 1853 he again represented Lauderdale, but in 1855 made his residence at Huntsville, where he has been the law partner of Messrs. R. C. Brickell and Septimus D. Cabaniss. In 1860 he was a delegate to the historic Charleston convention, and when the State seceded was sent as commissioner to Tennessee, where his speech before the legislature urging co-operation was able and eloquent. He had just returned, when, in February, President Davis summoned him to a place in the cabinet of “the storm- cradled nation that fell.” To the duties of this high position Mr. Walker brought inexperience, but which was to a great extent if not fully compensated for by zeal and energy. The task of organizing and equipping armies almost without materials and with resources limited to the patriotic ardor of the people, was an Herculean one. His labors were incessant, and when he resigned in the autumn of 1861 his health was shattered. The precise motive for his retirement from the cabinet is not known., and will probably not be from his lips; but the belief is general that the self-confidence of Mr. Davis first exhibited itself in the war office, and that Gen. Walker had too much respect for the responsibility and dignity of his position to permit it to be subordinated to a mere clerkship. Gen. Walker is censured for his speech in Montgomery when announcing the fall of Fort Sumter, his utterances being regarded as official, but Mr. Stephens, in his “War Between the States,” (Vol. I, pp. 415, 412,) exonerates him in a great degree of all blame. He was commissioned as brigadier general on his retirement, and ordered to report to Gen. Bragg. He was placed in command at Mobile, but held it only a short time. In the spring of 1862 he resigned his commission because he was not assigned to duty. The following year he was appointed judge of a military court, and served till the close of the war. Since that time he has practiced his profession very profitably and successfully in Huntsville. In person Gen. Walker is about five feet ten inches high, with less than medium flesh, and fair complexion; his appearance and manners indicating cultivation and refinement. Though he has occupied various stations of honor and responsibility, it is as an orator that he has earned his most enduring fame. “He is the clearest, most transparent, speaker I ever heard, in the pulpit, on the stump, or at the forum,” says Col. Nich. Davis, who compares Gen. W.’s skill in his profession to Helen’s description of the son of Laertes: “That is Ulysses, man of many arts, Skilled in every form of shrew device, And action wisely planed.” Gen. Walker first married a lady of Mississippi; his second wife is a daughter of Hon. Wm. D. Pickett of Montgomery, deceased. His eldest son, Capt. Clifton Walker, a gifted gentleman, was on Gen. Tracy’s staff, and died in Mississippi within the past few years. Additional Comments: Leroy Pope Walker was born to John Williams Walker (1789-April 23, 1823) and Matilda Pope in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. He married Eliza Dickson Pickett, daughter of William Dickson Pickett and Eliza Goddard Whitman on July 29, 1850 in Autauga County, Alabama. They had at least three children: Matilda, born about 1851; Eliza Pickett Walker, born December 23, 1853, died January 1, 1854; and Pope (Leroy Pope, Jr.?), born about 1854 in Alabama. Matilda only shows up in the 1860 Census in Huntsville (page 233B) and Pope shows up in both the 1860 and 1870 census, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, with his parents. Leroy Pope and Eliza Dickson Pickett Walker, along with their daughter Eliza Pickett Walker, are buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/bios/walker31nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 5.4 Kb

Montgomery-Autauga-Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Pickett, William Dickson 1802 - November 1837 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 14, 2006, 7:20 pm Author: From "Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public MEn From 1540 to 1872,: by Willis Brewer, page 452 William D. Pickett resided in this county. He was the son of Hon. Wm. R. Pickett of Autauga, and was well educated. Having read law, he practiced for several years at Washington, in Autauga, but came to reside here about the year 1830. The legislature of 1829 elected him solicitor of the circuit court over Hon. Nathan Cook of Butler, and he held the office a short time. He was elevated to the bench in 1834, and died in the flower of his manhood in November 1837. He possessed a high order of talent, and lent the dignity of a virtuous life to the culture of a jurist and scholar. Additional Comments: William was a son of William Raiford Pickett and Frances Amelia Dickson. He parents immigrated to Autauga County, AL from Wadesboro, Anson Co., NC in about 1818. William Dickson married Eliza Goddard Whitman on June 10, 1829 in Washington, Autauga Co., AL. She was from Providence, RI. Eliza had died by 1835 when William made a will in Rhode Island. The will was probated in Montgomery County, AL January 15, 1838. Eliza Dickson Pickett, their daughter, was born March 10, 1832 in Alabama. After her father's death, Eliza lived with her uncle, Albert James Pickett. Eliza married Leroy Pope Walker in Autauga County, Al on July 29, 1850 and died November 26, 1885 in Huntsville, Madison Co., AL File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/montgomery/bios/pickett30nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb

Lee County AlArchives Obituaries.....Parker, Miss Lassie Lamar October 27, 1962 ************************************************ 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: Patsy McCoy pmccoy@pacifier.com June 14, 2006, 3:23 pm Opelika Daily News Opelika Daily News Saturday, Oct. 27, 1962 Miss Parker Dies At Home Here, Funeral Sunday Miss Lassie Lamar Parker died suddenly at her home on Opelika Rt. 2 Friday night. She was 79. A native and lifetime resident of Lee County, Miss Parker was a member of Pierce Chapel Methodist Church. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. E. E. Chafin and Mrs. Henria? Freeman and one brother, John E. Parker all of Opelika. Services will be Sunday at 3:00 pm from Pierce Chapel with Rev. R. C. Warren officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Frederick’s Funeral Home is in charge. Additional Comments: **Note** Not my line just sharing Thanks to Delilah for sharing File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lee/obits/p/parker592gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb

Jefferson-Hale-Greene County AlArchives Biographies.....Carson, Shelby Chadwick, M.D. January 26, 1846 - ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 14, 2006, 1:58 pm Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 252--253 Shelby Chadwick Carson, M.D., was born in Greensboro, Ala., January 26, 1846. He was educated at the Southern university and the university of Alabama. He left the latter school in March, 1863, and went into the war with a company of cadets, who afterward rendered efficient escort duty to both Gens. Pillow and Adams, and also participated in the battles and skirmishes of Fayette Court House, Ebenezer Church, Selma and Montgomery. While acting as escort to Gens. Forrest and Adams at Ebenezer Church, they were attacked by a squad of Gen. Wilson’s (Federal) raiders, seventeen in number, all of whom were killed, Forrest slaying three of them in a terrible hand to hand encounter, Dr. Carson receiving a saber cut on the shoulder. Later, the doctor did some dangerous and important duty as a carrier of secret dispatches between Confederate generals, viz.: from gen. Adams, then at Tuskegon, Ala., to Gen. Dick Taylor at Meridian, Miss., and from gen. Taylor to the war department then in Georgia. At the close of the war he clerked for his father in Greensboro till 1871. He studied medicine from 1871 to 1873 and went to the Louisville medical college one year later, and then to the Tulane university at New Orleans, graduating there. The first five years of his practice was in St. Clair county, and the succeeding then years in Greene county. In 1888 he went to Bessemer, his present home. He is a member of the Jefferson county (Ala.) Medical society and the Alabama state Medical association, and has been vice-president and president of the Jefferson and Greene county societies, respectively. June 22, 1869, Dr. Carson was united in marriage to Annie Burt Ridgway, the estimable daughter of B. H. Ridgeway, of Eutaw, Ala. They have no children. Dr. Carson is an elder in the Presbyterian church. His father was Thomas K. Carson, of North Carolina, and was a successful merchant in Greensboro, Ala., for nearly fifty years. He died in 1890, aged seventy-eight years. The mother’s maiden name was Adelaide L. Chadwick, of Kentucky. She died in 1885, aged sixty-five years. There are for living children of this union, as follows: Mary, wife of R. B. Douglas, of Greensboro, Ala.; Dr. S. C.; Maggie, wife of G. W. Shackelford, of Birmingham, and Fannie, wife of H. M. Lovelace, Crescent City, Fla. Dr. Carson’s brother, John R. Carson, was captain of Company K, Forty- fifth Alabama regiment, and was killed in the battle of Franklin in 1864. Additional Comments: Shelby Chadwick Carson and his wife, Annie B., were in the Greensboro, Hale County, AL census in 1900. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/jefferson/bios/carson29nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb