-----Original Message----- From: MWal608508@aol.com <MWal608508@aol.com> To: cmccoy@frontiernet.net <cmccoy@frontiernet.net> Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 5:34 PM Subject: Article >>From the Monroe Journal Centenial Edition Supplement > >1873--J. S. Hines of Evergreen and Miss Hattie Savage were married at >Claiborne Oct. 15, 1873. >1873--Col. Bertrand L. Hibbard and Miss sallie B. V. Leslie were married in >Monroeville April 29. >1873--Thomas Thompson and Olivia Hammons were married near Claiborne >September 14. Chas. J. Torrey, register in chancery, tied the nuptial knot. > > >Vigilance Committee > > At a meeting reported Aug. 30, !861, the Vigilance Committee was named by >the officers of the Claiborne Home Guards. gentlemen to serve on the >committee for one month from that date were Harvey Lamber, J. M. Agee, Samuel >Busby, Thomas Howard, and Dr. A. B. Arthur. > >Cobb family came here from Wales > > Govenor Rufus Wills Cobb, born in Ashville, St. Clair County, Alabama, >the son of John W. and Catherine (Stevens) Peak Cobb, who settled on the >Alabama River in Monroe county. the Cobb family came from Wales to America, >first settling in Virginia, where John W. Cobb was born in 1800. He moved >from Monroe County to Ashville. He served as a colonel of a regiment in the >Creek War under General Andrew Jackson, and twice served as a member of the >Alabama Legislature. > > >HOME GUARD OFFICERS, 1861 > >1861--Officers elected at a meeting of the Clauselville Home guards June 5, >1861, were W. T. Nettles, W.H. Fountain and M. D. White, judges; W. W. >McMillan, captain; Thomas S. Wiggins, first lieutenant; T. J. Stevens, second >lieutenant; and T. J. McCants, third lieutenant. F E Richardson was chairman >of the committee to present the preambles and resolutions, which were >unanimously adopted. > >Captain --Shown above is Captain William Stephen Wiggins, Monroeville, uncle >of Theresa Lindsey Finklea. Capt. Wiggins was known as "Uncle Tobie" and >served during the War Between the States in Co.f, 36 Ala. Volunteer Infantry >CSA. I can photo copy picture is anyone needs it. > >Commission -- A commission issued by Gov. William W. Bibb of Alabama >Territory, appointeing Gerald Walthall Creagh a lieutenant of a volunteer >company of infantry by the name of the Jackson Blues, was given at the town >of Claiborne and stamped with the seal of the Territory April 22, 1818. > > > >