"EARLY SETTLERS OF ALABAMA" BY COL. JAMES EDMONDS SAUNDERS, LAWRENCE COUNTY. ALA. WILEY OLIVER, of Twiggs county, Ga., moved, in 1833, to Barbour county, Ala, Among his children were: 1. William Oliver, b. Twiggs county, Ga., 24th February, 1829; d. at Wesson, Miss., July, 1891; married, first (12th October, 1847), Mary Milner Callaway (d. January 10, 1888), and settled in Eufaula, Ala.; moved to Minden, La., 1853, and ten years after to Trenton, La., and formed partnership with Mr. Drake in merchandising; captain in Thirty-first Louisiana Regiment in C. S. A., in quartermaster's department; engaged in cotton business in 1866, in New Orleans, with John T. Hardie. They bought the Wesson (Miss.) Manufacturing Company in 1870, and he moved to Wesson, and took charge of the mills as secretary and treasurer. The plant was then estimated at $100,000; Mills burned in 1873, when Col. Ed. Richardson, the Commercial king of Mississippi, bought the stock, and established a new company, with $344,000 stock and Captain Oliver general manager, and the stock increased, by 1891, to $2,000,000. His daughter, Mary Ella, married John P. Richardson, son of Colonel Richardson, who, after his father's death, became president of the company. Rilla E. Oliver (eldest daughter) married Dr. R. W. Rea. John M, Oliver, the only son, is a merchant of Wesson. Col. Wm. Oliver married (secondly) a niece of his wife: Melissa D. Callaway. He joined Dr. Palmer's church (Presbyterian), in New Orleans, in 1867. 2. A. B. Oliver, of Osyka, Miss. 3. (???) Oliver. Has a son, Wiley E. Oliver, merchant, Wesson, Miss. (from whom these notes are obtained). MCDONALD OLIVER, of Twiggs county, Ga., was twice married. By last wife, who was Lurena Holmes, had issue: 1. Augustus L. Oliver m. (???). Issue: eight children. 2. Nancy A. Oliver m. George W. Roberts. Nine children, among them: Clarence P. Roberts, of Eufaula, Ala. 3. McDonald Oliver m. Paine Ricks. Issue: 1. McDonald, d. s. p. 2. Lamar Oliver, of Houston, Texas. Mrs. Oliver m. (II) Captain Hart, and her daughter, Lila Hart, m. Washington Toney Flournoy. Oliver, of Alabama. SAMUEL WHITE OLIVER, lawyer; born in Virginia, came to Dallas county, Ala., when quite young, and engaged extensively in cotton planting; married a sister of Judge John Hunter, of Dallas. He was speaker of the House, and Attorney General of Alabama, and ran for Governor in 1836. Died at the age of 36. One of the must popular men ever in the State. Issue: 1. Henry Oliver, d. 1862, at the old home in Dallas county. (Issue not known.) 2. Virginia married Paul Ravisies, of Mobile, Ala. Issue: 1. Gertrude, now widow of Cecil Fleming, of Alabama. 2. Paul. 3. Betty, a belle and beauty of Mobile, in ante-bellum days, married Gen. James Hagan and died 189--. Issue: James, Oliver, and others. 4. Samuel White Oliver, d. Dallas county 1894; married Pauline, eldest daughter of Samuel W. Allen. Children: 1. Amandine m. (???) Clarke; 2. Pauline died young; Samuel W. and Starke H. 5. Frances m. Aristide Bienvenue. (Issue not known.) 6. Starke Hunter Oliver, Mobile, Ala., married Kate Hopkins,(*) daughter of Judge Hopkins, Supreme Court of Alabama. Issue: 1. John Walker Oliver, Thomasville, Ala. ---------------------------------------------------- Maybe this will help someone....