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Item 6- Value of Real Estate owned. Item 7- Place of Birth Naming the State, Territory or Country Item 9-Miscellaneous J. Hugh LeBaron 100 South Rosebud Lane Starkville, MS 39759 HLeBaron@aol.com 1 John Lockhart was a member of Siloam Church in Marion, Alabama. [Lovelace, History of Siloam] 2 Eugenia Lockhart married E. H. Bernhard and graduated from Judson Institute in 1849. [History of Judson College] 3 Laura Lockhart graduated from Judson Institute in 1858 and married D. A. Pierson. [History of Judson College] 4 Lewis C. Tutt was one of the early managers of the Domestic Missions Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and a member of Siloam Church in Marion. [Lovelace, History of Siloam Baptist Church] 5 James Travis McCraw was the son of Abner Gary McCraw and Mary Jones. He was born in 1832 and died on November 7, 1853. [It is McCraw] 6 William M. Wyatt was one of the early managers of the Domestic Missions Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He married Elizabeth Ann Miller, the daughter of George Miller. [Lovelace, History of Siloam Baptist Church; England, Alabama Notes, p. 3] 7 Robert C. Hodge was the guardian of the minor heirs of Green B. Jackson 8 JOHN BESTON STONE was born on September 5, 1842 in Marion, Alabama. He served in the 4th and 62nd Alabama Infantry Regiments. 9 9 JULIA ZITELLA COCKE was born November 10, 1840 and died on December 3, 1929. She was selected to present the company flag to the Marion Rifles on the eve of the War for Southern Independence. The flag was made of silk and was the handiwork of Marion artist NICOLA MARSCHALL designed with a coiled rattlesnake under the words "Don't Tread on Me" in Latin. Zitella's speech at the presentation held to the theme that the men were going forward in a "just cause." SUMTER LEA accepted the flag for the company. This ceremony was attended by 400 students from Judson and Howard colleges, all dressed in white. Zitellas was educated by private tutors and by her mother who was a talented Latin scholar, musician and linguist. She attended Judson College in Marion and graduated with honors in 1856. She traveled in Europe and studied music there before settling in Baltimore, Maryland. In Baltimore she taught German and music and engaged in literary work, but moved again to Boston, Massachusetts, where she taught voice and piano while continuing to write. Zitella authored "Doric Reed," a volume of poems, "Grasshopper Hop," verses for children, "Cherokee Roses and Other Poems." Like many writers, she authored a variety of literature including short stories, verses for children and newspaper articles. Her writings were translated into foreign languages and met with favorable critical reviews. Cocke was a creative writer and some called her the greatest poet Alabama ever produced. She was the Poet Laureate of Alabama. [28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; Marion Cemetery; Heritage, v II, "Perry County Personalities" pp. 9-11; Owen, Alabama Biography, v III, p. 740] 10 Margaret Ann West graduated from Judson College in the Class of 1854. [History of Judson College] 11 Susan Lawson died in Marion, Alabama on April 6, 1856 at the age of eighteen years. [SW Baptist, April 24, 1856] 12 Andrew Martin Hazy moved to Greene County, Alabama before 1860. In 1860, he enlisted in Company C of the 36th Alabama Infantry Regiment. [Rita English Bowen] 13 Henry L. Hagy enlisted in Company A of the 5th Arkansas Infantry Regiment at the age of sixteen. He survived the war and died on April 26, 1935. [Rita English Bowen] 14 HENRY CLINTON LEA was born in Hancock County, Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia. His parents were Temple Lea and Nancy Moffett who married on October 8, 1797 in Hancock County, Georgia. His grandparents were George Lea and Lucy Talbert of Virginia. Lea was a constituting member of Siloam Church in Marion, Alabama founded in May 1822. From 1836 to 1842, he was the Alabama Senator from Perry County. He was again elected Senator from 1847 until 1851, and he died on November 7, 1854 at the age of fifty years. Physically he was six feet four inches tall and considered handsome. He is described as fluent, eloquent, popular and sociable. Henry died on November 7, 1854 at the age of fifty years and is buried in the Marion Alabama, Cemetery. [World Connect Project; England, Alabama Notes, p. 3; Brewer, Alabama History] 15 SERENA ROOTES was the daughter of Colonel THOMAS READE ROOTES (a distinguished Virginia lawyer and legislator) and SARAH RYNGE BATTAILE, the granddaughter of THOMAS READE ROOTES and MARTHA JACQUELIN SMITH of Virginia and the great granddaughter of JOHN SMITH and MARY JACQUELIN. Serena Rootes Lea was born on October 5, 1808, died on June 25, 1888 and is buried in the Episcopal Cemetery at Uniontown, Alabama. [Heritage, v I; Alabama Notes, p. 3; Marion Cemetery; Episcopal Cemetery; 28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll] 16 Lucy Ann Lea graduated from Judson Institute in 1846. She married J. M. Langhorne. [History of Judson College] 17 JOHN MOORE migrated to Perry County in 1834 with his parents from Wake County, North Carolina at the age of four years. He was educated at the University of Alabama and studied law under the Isham Garrott. During the War for Southern Independence, he served as a lieutenant in the 40th Alabama Infantry Regiment and was captured near Marietta, Georgia in June 1864. He was exchanged in October 1864 but his health was affected cutting short his military service. In 1865, he represented the county in the Alabama Legislature and in 1866 he was elected circuit court judge. He was removed from office by Carpetbaggers in April 1868 and reentered the practice of law with P. M. Lawson. [Brewer, Alabama History] 18 Mary Olivia Fagan graduated from Judson Institute with the Class of 1852. [History of Judson College] 19 STERLING S. SHERMAN was a native of Bennington County, Vermont. He moved to Tuscaloosa to open a private preparatory school and taught ancient languages at the University of Alabama. He moved to Marion in 1842 where Julia Ann Barron provided his with a $4,000 house and lot. He was selected President of Howard College and opened the school in January 1842 as a literary school. Knowledge of Greek and Latin were requirements for admission as well as English, history and mathematics. He left Marion and later returned to serve as president of Judson Female Institute, leaving Marion again in August 1859 and was succeeded by Dr. Noah K. Davis. While in Marion, Sherman was a member of Siloam Church. [Lovelace, History of Siloam Baptist Church] 20 THOMAS F. CURTIS was a professor of theology and moral science at Howard College. He was adept at translating Calvinist issues into ideas that could be understood by lay people. Howard College had six ministerial students in 1849. He pastured a church in Tuscaloosa and was described as "the freshest, most original and fertile of the preachers of his time." He advocated the belief that Jewish claims to a special relationship with God was the result of Jewish vanity and that the earth was inhabited 100,000 years before Adam. 21 JACK F. COCKE was born in Hancock County, Georgia to wealthy and prominent parents. He moved to Perry County in 1830 at the age of nineteen and became a planter. His attention to planting allowed him to accumulate wealth and he turned to politics. In 1845, he was elected to the Alabama Senate and served for sixteen years defeating Perry County's most prominent citizens such as Columbus W. Lea and John P. Graham for the office. Physically he was tall and robust and possessed cordial manners and popularity. [Brewer, Alabama History] 22 Sarah Jane Cocke graduated from Judson Institute with the Class of 1856 and married Quinn Thornton. 22 JULIA ZITELLA COCKE was born November 10, 1840 and died on December 3, 1929. She was selected to present the company flag to the Marion Rifles on the eve of the War for Southern Independence. The flag was made of silk and was the handiwork of Marion artist NICOLA MARSCHALL designed with a coiled rattlesnake under the words "Don't Tread on Me" in Latin. Zitella's speech at the presentation held to the theme that the men were going forward in a "just cause." SUMTER LEA accepted the flag for the company. This ceremony was attended by 400 students from Judson and Howard colleges, all dressed in white. Zitellas was educated by private tutors and by her mother who was a talented Latin scholar, musician and linguist. She attended Judson College in Marion and graduated with honors. She traveled in Europe and studied music there before settling in Baltimore, Maryland. In Baltimore she taught German and music and engaged in literary work, but moved again to Boston, Massachusetts, where she taught voice and piano while continuing to write. Zitella authored "Doric Reed," a volume of poems, "Grasshopper Hop," verses for children, "Cherokee Roses and Other Poems." Like many writers, she authored a variety of literature including short stories, verses for children and newspaper articles. Her writings were translated into foreign languages and met with favorable critical reviews. Cocke was a creative writer and some called her the greatest poet Alabama ever produced. She was the Poet Laureate of Alabama. [28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; Marion Cemetery; Heritage, v II, "Perry County Personalities" pp. 9-11; Owen, Alabama Biography, v III, p. 740] 23 Martha T. Benson was the daughter of Gabriel and Rosanna Benson. She died on November 26, 1850 at Marion, Alabama. [SW Baptist, December 18, 1850] 24 Jane Cornelia Elliott graduated from Judson Institute in 1857. [History of Judson College] 25 JOHN PATRICK immigrated to America from Londonderry, Ireland in 1837 following his brother JAMES PATRICK who arrived in 1830. John operated a saddle shop in Marion noted for a gold leaf saddle over the door and died in 1867. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama; Heritage of Perry] 26 Clement Billingslea married Mrs. E. D. Douglass of Selma, Alabama on October 15, 1851 in ceremonies performed by Reverend Abner Gary McCraw. He was a member of Siloam Church in Marion. [SW Baptist, November 12, 1851; Lovelace, History of Siloam Baptist Church] 27 Mary Louisa Billingslea died of pulmonary consumption on November 22, 1850 In Marion, Alabama. [SW Baptist, December 4, 1850] 28 Conda R. Billingslea died on Thursday, January 30, 1851 of typhoid fever at the age of seventeen and while a student at Howard College. [SW Baptist, February 19, 1851] 29 Mary W. Billingslea died in Tampa Bay, Florida on July 5, 1852 at the age of twenty-two. [SW Baptist, August 18, 1852] 30 Alexander W. Chambliss of Marion was a delegate in 1845 to the Baptist convention in Augusta, Georgia that led to the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention. He wrote a Catechetical Interpreter to aid in the religious education and conversion of slaves and free blacks. The 1846 Alabama State Convention adopted this catechism, and it was widely circulated and extensively used by Baptists in Alabama. In 1849, Chambliss became the editor of the Alabama Baptist newspaper and changed its name to the Alabama Baptist Advocate. In 1850, he changed the name of his newspaper to the South-Western Baptist and this name stuck for the next fifteen years. In 1852, Alexander resigned as the editor and Albert Williams and Samuel Henderson became the editors. During Chambliss' time as editor, he increased the number of subscribers from 600 to 1,600. [Wayne Flynt, Alabama Baptist (University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa and London, 1998) pp. 86-87,100 and 107] 31 Edward T. Fowlkes died on March 22, 1851 at the age of forty-four. He was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia and married Mary A. Foster. He became the proprietor of the King House Hotel in 1850. [SW Baptist, April 16, 1851] 32 This is the King Hotel. 33 MARY ANN FOSTER died on March 22, 1851 in Marion, Alabama. Mary Ann was born in Matthews County, Virginia on September 11, 1811 and died in Marion, Alabama on February 2, 1875. He married Mary Foster in Mathews County, Virginia in 1832 and the couple had eight children. They moved to Perry County in 1850. Mary owned twenty-six slaves in 1860. [SW Baptist, April 16, 1851; 1860 Slave Census, Perry County, Alabama; Memorial Record of Alabama, v 1, p. 869] 34 SUSAN LOUISA FOWLKES was born on April 11, 1843 and died on April 30, 1852. [Memorial Record of Alabama, v 1, p. 869] 35 John J. Bradford died in Marion, Alabama of pulmonic affection on August 4, 1851. He lived in Marion for eight years before his death. [SW Baptist, August 13, 1851] 36 SAMUEL H. FOWLKES was born on August 3, 1816 and died in Marion, Alabama on June 10, 1886. He owned fifteen slaves, and controlled an additional ten slaves as the guardian of RUFUS B. REID. Samuel was a member of Siloam Baptist Church in Marion and served as treasurer of the Alabama Baptist Convention in 1865. He served as a Trustee of Howard College from 1865 through 1867. [Lovelace, Siloam History, pp. 19 and 22; Marion Cemetery; 1850 Free and 1860 Slave Census, Perry County, Alabama; Owen, Alabama Biography; Memorial Record of Alabama, v 1, p. 869] 37 William Hornbuckle was one of the early managers of the Domestic Missions Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. [Lovelace, History of Siloam Baptist Church] 38 Lydia Ann Hornbuckle graduated from Judson Institute in 1854. [History of Judson College] 39 Sarah Catherine Shivers graduated from Judson Institute in 1857 and married E. C. Lattimore. [History of Judson College] 40 Lauren Upson was a native of Cheshire, Hartford County, Connecticut and was born on August 12, 1807. He moved to Perry County, Alabama around 1830. He was a lawyer, merchant, tin ware manufacturer and editor of the Whig party newspaper in Marion. In late 1847, he became the owner of the Planter's Hotel, which he purchased from William Hornbuckle. He became the editor of the Mobile Advertiser and in 1852 he moved to California. 41 Milo P. Jewett was the president of Judson Female Institute and a persuasive advocate of Alabama public Schools. He came to Marion, Alabama in 1839 at the invitation of Julia Ann Barron to talk about establishing a new school in Marion. He and his family moved into the Barron home, and he stayed to see the formation of Judson Female Institute. Jewett was one of the founders of the Alabama Baptist newspaper and served as its first editor. He left Marion in 1855 to move to Poughkeepsie, New York where he established Vassar College and his departure was a blow to Judson. Jewett made Judson Institute into an advance place of learning by emphasis on writing, foreign languages, mathematics, and history and by the treatment of the fine arts as meaningful academic disciplines instead of social graces. With the outbreak of the War for Southern Independence, Jewett called the action treasonable from his home in New York and was himself accused of making money from slave labor and then becoming indignant toward the South when he moved North. Anger at the former president caused a Marion woman to stab his portrait in the heart with a knife. 42 Julia Frances Comption graduated from Judson Institute in 1850. [History of Judson College] 43 Married John Holmes Lee 44 Georgiana Bennett married J. E. Bell. She graduated from Judson Institute in 1852. [History of Judson College] 45 Elvira Caldwell married John C. Lawrence. She graduated from Judson Institute with the class of 1852. [History of Judson College] 46 Mary Helen Hartwell graduated from Judson Institute in 1852. [History of Judson College] 47 Georgianna Jenkins married Rufus C. Burlson and graduated from Judson Institute in 1851. [History of Judson College] 48 CELIA NARCISSA HOLMES was born in 1835 and died in 1907. She married Dr. JAMES RUFUS POU and was the daughter of Charles and Mildred Holmes. [Heritage of Perry] 49 Mary Catherine McCraw was the daughter of Reverend Abner Gary McCraw. She died on September 23, 1855 after a short illness. [SW Baptist, October 4, 1855] 50 Mary Martha Outlaw graduated from Judson Institute in 1854 and married Robert E. Spencer. [History of Judson College] 51 GEORGE WILLIAM GOLDSBY was a member of the Alabama Legislature in 1849 and 1851. [Brewer, Alabama History] 52 Jesse B. Nave was a member of the Siloam Church in Marion. [Lovelace, History of Siloam Church] 53 Althera Ann Nave graduated from Judson Institute in 1845. [History of Judson College] 54 Ann Smith built the first hotel in Marion in 1822. 55 William Augustus Stickney established St. Wilfrid's School in 1849 and enrolled 80 students. He married Mrs. Louisa McKinley, widow of Dr. T. A Harrison in 1864. He was the son of Joseph Boldgett Stickney and graduated from the University of Alabama and studied in an Episcopal Theological seminary in the North. He settled in Marion, Alabama. He resolved to establish an Episcopal church and assembled a small congregation. With only a small congregation, he opened a boy's school to teach respect for the church and the school prospered. He built a schoolhouse and the house eventually became the church meeting place. With the income from the school, Stickley built a church building that was named St. Winifred Church and served for twelve years with no salary. Stickney continually pressed his church upon the community upon every opportunity and preached two sermons every Sunday. By visiting continually in the town, he came to know everyone there and greeted all he met with a smile and spoke evil only of the devil. After his marriage to Mrs. McKinley, Stickney managed her plantation that was deep in debt but was largely unsuccessful. Even though he left the school for the farm, he continued his ministerial duties preaching as a missionary to blacks on the plantations. He died in 1858. [DuBose, AHQ, 1947] 56 Alexander Graham was the principal at Marion Female Seminary that was founded in Marion in 1836. On March 1, 1850, the Board of Trustees rented the seventeen room Planter's Hotel and used it as a combination dormitory and for classrooms. The Planter's Hotel was destroyed by fire the next month on April 10, 1850 but no one was injured in the fire. Following the fire, a new three-story brick building was built to house the Marion Female Seminary, which remained in use as a school until the 1930s. The seminary closed its doors as a private school in 1915. [Heritage of Perry] 57 James Harvey DeVotie was pastor of Siloam Church in Marion for fourteen years and one of Alabama's most respected and influential antebellum Baptist preachers. At the time of the 1850 Census, DeVotie was near the apex of his influence in Alabama. He baptized an annual average of forty-two converts annually during years at Siloam with eleven becoming preachers in Alabama. While at Siloam, DeVotie helped establish Howard College and became a trustee, moderated the Cahawba Association, was corresponding secretary of the Alabama Baptist Convention, was president of the Alabama Bible Society (1836-1856) and the Southern Baptist Convention's domestic Board of Missions. He also established and edited the Alabama Baptist newspaper and was a delegate from Alabama to the 1845 meeting that formed the Southern Baptist Convention. DeVotie was an advocate of public education because of a belief in developing mental capital and erasing ignorance. When Howard College was destroyed by fire in 1854, DeVotie took responsibility for rebuilding it and traveled over 5,000 miles and raised $40,000. When the succession issue arose in 1860, DeVotie, although from the North, voted to secede from the Union. [DeVotie Journal] 58 Noble L. DeVotie attended Howard College for two years before graduating first in his class from the University of Alabama. He attended Princeton Theological Seminary for three years and returned to serve as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama. When the War for Southern Independence began, Noble volunteered as a Chaplin in the military. While serving at Fort Morgan, he fell from a wharf into Mobile Bay and drowned in a strong tide. 59 GEORGE DOHERTY JOHNSON was born in 1832 at Hillsboro, North Carolina where his father was a merchant. He was the great grandson of Major George Doherty. In 1833, his parents settled at Greensboro, Alabama where his father died the year of his arrival. His mother brought the family to Marion soon after her husband died and George was raised and educated in at Howard College. He obtained his law license at Lebanon, Tennessee and opened a law office in Marion in 1855. He was elected mayor in 1856 and to the Alabama Legislature in 1857. With the start if the War for Southern Independence, he joined the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment with the rank of lieutenant. During the war, he was commissioned a major in the 25th Alabama Infantry Regiment in January 1862. He led the regiment after the Battle of Shiloh until he was commissioned a brigadier general for his gallantry at Atlanta on July 22, 1864 where his regiment captured two flags and 350 stands of weapons. Three hours after receiving his commission on July 28, 1864, a bullet fractured his leg bone. He traveled to Tennessee with Hood's army although on crutches and assumed command of Quarles' brigade after the battle of Franklin, Tennessee. He led this brigade until the after the Battle of Bentonville and the army's reorganization at Greensboro, North Carolina. After the war, he practiced law with John F. Vary in Marion until 1868 and became the commandant of cadets at the University of Alabama. [Brewer, Alabama History] 60 ISHAM W. GARROTT was born in North Carolina in 1816. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and was admitted to the bar in that state. He moved to Alabama and settled in Greenville before moving to Marion to associate himself with James Phelan. He was elected to the Alabama Legislature and served from 1845 to 1849. When Alabama seceded, he was a commissioner to North Carolina by Governor Andrew Barry Moore with a request to the legislature to join the secession movement. Upon return to Alabama, he assisted in the recruiting of the 20th Alabama Infantry Regiment and was commission a colonel and developed a remarkable military talent. He saw action at Port Gibson and on the Big Black River and showed military talent handling his regiment. He participated in the siege at Vicksburg and was killed by a sniper's bullet when shot through the breast in June 1863. He was buried at Vicksburg having been commissioned a General four days earlier. [Brewer, Alabama History] 61 JOHN C. ROGERS was a veteran of the Mexican War. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile and discharge at New Orleans on May 27,1847. [Muster Roll] 62 JOHN R. MORTON was born about 1798 in Georgia and died in Perry County in September 1859 at the age of sixty-one years of dropsy. 63 JOSEPH WILLIAM MORTON married MARTHA LAVINA MELTON on November 21, 1855 in Perry County, Alabama. Joseph was born on October 31, 1831 and died about 1877. Morton served as a private in Company A of the 20th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Joseph owned 49 slaves in 1860. One of his slaves died in September 1859 of dropsy at the age of 50 years. [1850 and 1860 Slave Censuses of Perry County; 1860 Mortality Schedule of Perry County, Alabama; Muster Roll of the 20th Alabama] 64 IRA H. HUFF was conscripted into the Confederate Army and assigned to Company A of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He was discharged on March 13, 1863. Huff was born on May 30, 1825 and died on January 9, 1890 in Selma, Alabama. He was the son of MATHIAS HUFF and CHARLOTTE STOKES. [Herbert, 8th Alabama, p. 209; 1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama; Louise Birchfeld] 65 WILLIAM H. JONES was a Mexican War veteran. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers as a private in Mobile on June 13, 1846. He was discharged from the army at Tampico, Mexico on February 26, 1847. [Muster Roll] 66 John Warren married on December 20, 1823 Mary "Polly" Harbour who was the daughter of Talmon Harbour and Elizabeth Calloway 67 Lorenzo D. Jackson moved to Perry County in 1832 from North Carolina. He was born in 1811 and died in 1865. 68 Anna Winston was the daughter of James Winston. She married Lorenzo D. Jackson in 1833 and died in 1888. 69 DANDRIDGE MILTON HUFF died on March 10, 1896 in White County, Arkansas. He was the son of MATHIAS HUFF and CHARLOTTE STOKES. He owned two slaves in 1850. [1850 Slave Census of Perry County, Alabama; Louise Birchfeld] 70 ROBERT R. RADFORD enlisted as a private in Company K of the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment on August 28, 1862 at Selma, Alabama in Dallas County at the age of forty-two. He was wounded on August 31, 1864 when Hood's army attacked Federal forces under O. O. HOWARD at Jonesboro, Georgia and died on September 22, 1864 at Polk Hospital in Macon, Georgia. He was born on December 23, 1818 and was the son of Obadiah Radford and Lucy Rogers. Radford owned two slaves in 1850. [28th Alabama Muster Roll; Louise Birchfield] 71 PENINA B. FARRAR was the daughter of RICHARD FARRAR and OLIVE OLIVER. She was born on August 26, 1824 and died in Birmingham, Alabama. [Louise Birchfield] 72 JUDSON Y. RADFORD was born on April 3, 1849 in Perry County, Alabama and died on December 20, 1916 in Birmingham, Alabama. [Louise Birchfield] 73 NATHAN THOMAS EDWARDS was born in 1802 and died in 1882. He is buried in Pisgah Church cemetery in Perry County, Alabama. 74 JOHN A. LEACH was a veteran of the Mexican War. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile on June 13, 1846. He was left behind in the hospital at Vera Cruz, Mexico when his regiment moved into the interior of Mexico bound for Mexico City. Leach was mustered out of the army at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. [Muster Roll] 75 EPHRIAM Q. HEARD was born in 1811 and died in 1885. He married ELIZA KILGORE on February 2, 1834. THOMAS A. HEARD performed the marriage service. He owned six slaves in 1840, fourteen in 1850 and twenty-six slaves in 1860. [1840, 1850 and 1860 Free and Slave Censuses of Perry County, Alabama; Marriage Book 1832-1839, License # 731] 76 ELIZA KILGORE was born in 1818 and died in 1885. 77 MERCYLETT TERRIES A. HEARD was born on May 27, 1837. She married JAMES C. YOUNG and moved to Texas after the War for Southern Independence. 78 COLUMBUS T. HUFF married Edney Heard on December 23, 1852 and moved to Union Parish, Louisiana. He enlisted as a private in Company H of the 31st Louisiana Infantry Regiment on May 14, 1862 at Monroe, Louisiana. The Federals captured him when Vicksburg, Mississippi surrendered. [Louise Birchfeld] 79 Barron's Beat was known as Scott's Beat in 1860 and was commonly known as the Prairies. 80 JOHN W. DACUS was a Mexican War veteran. He mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 as a private at Mobile. He served in Texas and Mexico and was mustered out of the army on May 27, 1847. [Muster Roll] 81 JOHN N. WALTHALL was the son of Richard Booker Walthall. 82 Charles Hamilton Moore was born on March 7, 1811 in Spartanburg, South Carolina and died on September 14, 1862. He was the son of Charles Moore and Jane Barry and the grandson of Robert Moore. [Alabama Records, v 241, p. 19] 83 Elizabeth Billingsley was the daughter of Thomas Billingsley and Elizabeth Abercrombie. 84 JAMES A. MOORE was a Mexican War Veteran. He was mustered into the army as a private in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile on June 13, 1846. He was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas and on December 10, 1846 and mustered out in New Orleans on May 27, 1847. 85 BENJAMIN HOLMES willed all of his property to his nephew James Lee. The will was dated in 1863. [Perry County, Alabama Will Book B. pp. 277-278] 86 Tabitha Jordon Curry graduated from Judson Institute in 1847. She married Richard Lee. [History of Judson College] 87 Mary Ellen Curry graduated from Judson Institute in the Class of 1856. [History of Judson College] 88 David Lee was an Alabama delegate to the Baptist Convention in Augusta, Georgia in 1845 that led to the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention. [Flynt, Alabama Baptists, p. 107] 89 Haran Holmes died on January 28, 1859 at the age of fifty-seven in Perry County, Alabama. She is buried in Hopewell Cemetery in Perry County, Alabama. [SW Baptist, February 10, 1859] 90 ROBERT T. GOREE was a veteran of the Mexican War. He joined the Perry Volunteers at Perryville, Alabama on May 25, 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13 at Mobile. He was elected as the company's First Lieutenant on May 25, 1846. Goree sailed for Texas on June 29 and arrived in Texas on July 4 and was discharged on July 15, 1846 at Brazos Santiago, Texas. 91 MARTHA PRICE BENSON 92 NANCY TUBB was the widow of Richard Tubb who died in 1842. Nancy died at her home in Perry County on April 14, 1858 at the age of fifty-three. [SW Baptist, May 20, 1858] 93 MARTHA SUSAN TUBB was born on April 16, 1832 and died January 22, 1929. She married David Scott Hogue December 1, 1853. [SW Baptist, December 16, 1853 and May 20, 1858] 94 John Baron was a member of Siloam Church in Marion. [Lovelace, History of Siloam Baptist Church] 95 Oliver Massey married Keziah Welch who was born on December 20, 1774 in South Carolina and died on October 7, 1855. She is buried in Hopewell Cemetery. [Dr. Judy's Family Tree] 96 JOHN DORROH migrated to Perry County, Alabama around 1822 and settled on land located between Bogue Chitto and Washington Creeks. John acquired nearly 2,000 acres. He was from Laurens District, South Carolina and married Jane Cunningham who was the daughter of William Cunningham and Martha. Dorroh. John Dorrah was the nephew of Martha Dorroh. [Heritage of Perry] 97 JANE CUNNINGHAM was the daughter of William Cunningham and Martha Dorroh. Jane's husband John was her mother's nephew. [Heritage of Perry] 98 MARTHA DORROH was the widow of William Cunningham of Laurens District, South Carolina. William died in 1822 in South Carolina leaving Martha with nine children. In 1835, she followed her son John Cunningham to Perry County where she died in 1855. [Heritage of Perry] 99 Dr. RICHARD CLARKE practiced medicine in Uniontown in partnership with Dr. JOHN M. LANGHORNE. 100 ALEXANDER CATHEY was born in 1783 and died on August 27, 1866 in Dallas County, Alabama. He married MARY LOCKE on August 22, 1805 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Mary Locke was born in Roane County, North Carolina on November 2, 1788 and died on October 12, 1840 in Perry County, Alabama. Mary Locke was the daughter of FRANCIS AND BLANCHE LOCKE. [Cathey-Locke Gravesites near Hamburg, Alabama] 101 ELIZABETH and WILLIAM ADAMS were living with Robert Mosely in 1860 in Hamburg District. [1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 708] 102 JULIA ANN HOLMES was the daughter of John Holmes. [Perry County, Alabama, Orphans Court Records, Book E, p. 207] 103 This is the JAMES WILSON family. [1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 722 104 Henry W. Crawford was the son of Nancy and James W. Crawford [James W. Crawford Estate Papers # 53-007-0349] 105 WILLIAM CHAPMAN died on May 15, 1859 at his home in Perry County, Alabama at the age of fifty-one. [SW Baptist, June 16, 1859] 106 SAMUEL ALLEN was from Pitt County, North Carolina. He was the brother of Ichabod, Aaron Tyson and Thomas Allen also of Pitt County, North Carolina. 107 William C. Crawford was the son of Nancy and James W. Crawford. [James W. Crawford Estate Papers # 53-007-0349] 108 ELIHUE CARLISLE died at his home ten miles west of Marion, Alabama on August 31, 1851 after an illness lasting five days. Elihue was born in Lincoln County, Georgia on April 18, 1812. [SW Baptist, November 5, 1851] 109 LUCRETIA C. M. NORTON was born in Goshen, Connecticut. [SW Baptist, November 5, 1851] 110 stable boy 111 Elizabeth H. Hudson graduated from Judson Institute in 1858. [History of Judson College] 112 JOHN K. KNIGHT was a dentist living in the Bruce Hotel in Uniontown in 1860. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama] 113 JOSEPH R. JOHNS was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1814 where he grew up and was educated. He moved to Perry County in 1838 from North Carolina to practice law. He secured employment as a schoolteacher and taught two years in Uniontown while he studied law. Johns had a polished, gentlemanly manner about him, and he married JANE SMITH. He was licensed to practice law after two years of study. He was politically a Whig and served his party in the Alabama Legislature in 1847. In 1856, John moved to Selma in Dallas County, Alabama where he promoted the building of the Alabama and Mississippi River Railroad. He became a judge in Dallas County and served in that post from 1861 through 1865. John was a man of high moral and social standing. [DuBose, AHQ, 1947; Brewer, Alabama History] 114 Parham Nicholas Booker moved to Perry County in 1832 and settled in the Uniontown area. [AQH, 1947] 115 THOMAS K. HOOPER served as a private in the Cane Brake Rifle Guards that became Company D of the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence. He traveled to Harper's Ferry, Virginia where he joined the regiment on June 14, 1861. [Hudson, 4th Alabama, AHQ] 116 There is no dwelling 21 listed in the original census. 117 JESSE B. EDWARDS was a Justice of the Peace in Perry County, Alabama in the 1830s. 118 Robert W. Nicholson came to Perry County in 1834 and settled at Uniontown. [AHQ, 1947] 119 Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Uniontown. 120 Sarah A. Talbert was the daughter of Ezra G. Talbert and the granddaughter of Anderson Holmes. She married Wayne E. Lee on September 15, 1846 in Perry County, Alabama. [Perry County, Alabama Marriage Book 1840-51, No. 1846; Minutes of the Probate Court of Perry County, Alabama, Book M, pp. 184-185] 121 William B. Shields executed a deed in trust to Henry Chambers on the 28th day of August 1849. In the trust, Shields emancipated his children and all of the Mulatto children listed in this census and another named Sarah who is not listed. This deed in trust was filed in Perry County, Alabama on June 10, 1857. 122 BENJAMIN SHIELDS was married to Sarah Archibald. 123 MARTHA SHIELDS married John J. Johnson. 124 DELAWARE SHIELDS married John Q. Bane. 125 MISSOURI SHIELDS married Leander Hooker. 126 CATHERINE CADY is the sister of William B. Shields. She had a daughter named Amanda Blue Cady. 127 MILDRED HOLMES died on September 5, 1851 in Perry County, Alabama. She was born in Edgefield District, South Carolina and arrived in Alabama in 1833. Mildred was the widow of William Holmes and the mother of Nancy, Hannah, Willis, William, Henry, Jesse, Samuel, Bethel and Anderson Holmes. She embraced religion and joined the Red Bunk Baptist Church in 1804. [SW Baptist, September 24, 1851; Perry County Will Book A, pp. 267-268] 128 NANCY and HANNAH HOLMES were lauded in their mother's will saying they "have waited on me and paid great attention and kindness in my affliction . . . " Hannah willed her property to her niece Celia Narcissi Holmes. [Perry County, Alabama Will Book A, pp. 267-268 and Will book B, pp325-326] 129 On April 20, 1864, the Probate Court of Perry County issued a ruling that Anderson Holmes "is unsound of mind, and incapable, mentally and physically of taking care of himself and managing his affairs." [Minutes of the Probate Court of Perry County, Alabama, Book K, pp. 84-85] 130 LOUISA PATRICK died in 1854. [SW Baptist] 131 DRURY ANN HOLMES graduated from Judson College in the class of 1859 and married John Caine. [Louise Manly, History of Judson College, 1838-1913, p. 175] 132 MARY A. HOLMES was the daughter of ANDERSON AND LOUISA HOLMES. She was born in 1825 and died in 1898. She married JACOB GIVHAN on December 18, 1839. [England, Alabama Notes, p. 26-27; Perry County, Alabama Deed Book I, p. 11; Perry County Marriage Book--1818-45, p. 165; Perry County, Alabama Deed Book I., p. 11] 133 EZRA G. TALBERT was born in 1805 and died in 1870. His first wife was EMILY ANN HOLMES, the daughter of ANDERSON HOLMES. He served one term in the Alabama Legislature but preferred private life and farming to public service. At the time of the 1860 census, Talbert had his 1,280 acres Canebrake Plantation, located ten miles south of Uniontown, up for sale and owned sixty-eight slaves. He moved to Marengo County, Alabama and settled in the McKinley Community. [Harris, Heritage v. I, p. 167; 1860 Slave Census of Perry County, Alabama; Heritage of Perry] 134 By the age of 17, WILLIAM P. POPE had become a physician. 135 WILLIAM DOCK KING donated four acres of land for the use of a missionary Baptist Church in Section 13, Township 16, Range 6 in Perry County, Alabama on December 1, 1854. The land was located on the public road leading from Athens in Dallas County to Uniontown in Perry County, Alabama. The gift was conditional and the transfer valid for only as long as it was used for a church. [Perry County, Alabama Deed Book M, p. 31] 136 BUSHROD JONES was born in Perry County, Alabama in 1836. His parents migrated to the county from Virginia in 1835. He graduated from the University of Alabama and studied law in Lebanon, Tennessee after which he practiced law in Uniontown beginning in 1858. In January 1861, he enlisted in a Dallas County militia company and served six weeks duty at Fort Morgan on Mobile Bay. He served as a private at the battle of first Manassas and was promoted to lieutenant. He was elected captain of a company in the 9th Alabama Battalion and he became the lieutenant colonel and later colonel of the 58th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He led the 58th Alabama at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia where sixty-three per cent of his regiment was lost. He was engaged at the battle of Missionary Ridge, Dalton, Georgia, Rocky Face, Resaca, New Hope and the battle of Atlanta. Jones led a brigade at Jonesboro, Georgia, Nashville, Tennessee and Spanish Fort, Alabama. He was paroled from the Confederate Army at the end of the war. He returned home and was appointed a probate judge of Perry County by the governor and elected by the citizens in 1865. In 1868, the Carpetbaggers evicted him from office and he practiced law until his death on September 27, 1872 at Uniontown, Alabama. [Brewer, Alabama History] 137 ORAN MARTIN was a member of Ocmulgee Baptist Church. [Ocmulgee Church Book] 138 YOUNG L. ROYSTON was born in Perry County, Alabama about 1827. His parents migrated to the county from Georgia in 1819. Royston was educated at the University of Alabama, studied law and practiced law in Marion. In 1855, he became the solicitor of the judicial circuit and served in that position for a decade. During the War for Southern Independence, enlisted in the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment and served as a company captain and rose to the rank of colonel of the regiment. He was conspicuous for his bravery and was wounded twice at Gaines' Mill and Salem Church, Virginia. His wounds required his absence from duty with the 8th Alabama, and he was posted to duty in Selma, Alabama where he continued to live after the war ended. Physically, he was six feet, seven and one-half inches tall and sparse of physique. [Brewer, Alabama History] 139 COLUMBUS W. LEA was born in Clarke County, Georgia in 1800. He was from a wealthy family and was graduated from the University of Georgia. He opened a law office in Marion, Alabama as a young man and was a law partner of Andrew Barry Moore and later John P. Graham. He profited as a lawyer and retired to become a planter and involve himself in politics. He was elected to the Alabama legislature from 1832 until 1838 and again in 1844. He was a member of the Alabama Constitutional Convention in 1865. He retired after the War for Southern Independence and died in 1869. He was brusk in manner but shrewd, practical and socialable. [Brewer, Alabama] 140 Frances A. Pope was a private in Company D of the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, which he joined in on August 26, 1861 at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. [Hudson, 4th Alabama, AHQ] 141 In her will, Eliza Howlett names John B. Howlett as her stepson. [Perry County, Alabama Will Book A, p. 272] 142 Elizabeth Phillips was the widow of Solomon Phillips. 143 James Phillips was the youngest son of Solomon Phillips. He married Melissa Shannon in 1867 in Perry County, Alabama. He died in a railroad accident in Louisiana. 144 No dwelling 88 was used in this census. 145 JOHN W. DACUS was a veteran of the Mexican War. He served as a private in the Perry Volunteers and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile. Dacus served for twelve months in Texas and Mexico and was mustered out at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. [Muster Roll] 146 ROBERT F. SOUTHALL married Celia Brown Walker on April 12, 1843 in Perry County, Alabama. [Marriage Records of Perry County, Alabama] 147 Isaac B. Vaiden operated a private school near Uniontown. In 1855, his school had forty-one students. 148 JAMES LEWIS PRICE was born and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He is described as a man "of fortune, a handsome person and gracious manner. He came with the prestige of high lineage, his family associated with the family of George Washington." Price was educated at the University of Virginia and moved to Alabama about 1833 where he became a lawyer, businessman and planter. Price built Westwood at the head of Uniontown's main street, and it became the center of society in the Canebrake region. [DuBose, AHQ, 1947] 149 In the June 16, 1850 issue of the Alabama Journal, Ransom R. Pool posted this notice: "Runaway from the subscriber, six miles east of Union Town, Perry County, Alabama, on the 10th of June, 1850 a Negro man names JACK. He is about thirty-four years old, of medium size, dark complexion." [Alabama Journal, June 16, 1850] 150 James L. Crawford was the son of Nancy and James W. Crawford [James W. Crawford Estate Papers # 53-007-0349] 151 Martha S. Crawford was the daughter of Nancy and James W. Crawford. [James W. Crawford Estate Papers # 53-007-0349] 152 Rosannah S. Trammel died in Perry County on May 16, 1855 at the age of thirty-four years of "typhoid pneumonia". She was a native of Perry County and married Elias Trammel on March 14, 1837. [SW Baptist, June 14, 1855] 153 Emma M. L. Latimer died on March 15, 1855 in Marion, Alabama at the age of eighteen. [South Western Baptist, March 29, 1855] 154 THOMAS ALLEN was from Pitt County, Alabama. 155 Nancy Crawford was the widow of James W. Crawford who died in 1848 in Perry County. [James W. Crawford Estate Papers # 53-007-0349] 156 Matthias Crawford was the son of Nancy and James W. Crawford [James W. Crawford Estate Papers # 53-007-0349] 157 MARY A ROCHELLE BRYANT was the widow of Thomas G. Bryant who was born January 12, 1834 and died November 24, 1848. She joined Ocmulgee Church May 28, 1843 by a profession of faith. Mary A. Rochelle Bryant was born in 1817. The value of the slaves in 1850 is estimated at about $46,000. Mary employed John A. Barnett as overseer to handle daily farming operations. She was the daughter of Anderson and Nancy Rochelle and the spouse of Thomas Bryant of Fairfield District, South Carolina. She was also the sister of Sarah E. Rochelle, who married James W. Ross. Mary's children included James R. (1833), Sarah H. (1836), Virginia C. (1838), Harville R. (1843), Anderson R. (1845) and Thomas L. Bryant (1847). 1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, Oak Grove Beat, Family 5, p. 332; Alabama Records, Volume 118, p. 67. Ocmulgee Headstone Inscriptions 158 SARAH E. ROSS married Reverend Elias George of Union Parish, Louisiana on October 1, 1851 in Perry County, Alabama in services performed by Reverend John S. Ford. [SW Baptist, October 8, 1851] 159 THOMAS B. KILGORE, JR. was the son of Thomas B. Kilgore, Sr. He was born on February 2, 1847 and died on December 14, 1865. [Fellowship Cemetery, Union Parish, Louisiana] 160 SARAH J. CROW married James F. McAdams on August 28, 1859 in ceremonies conducted by Abner Gary McCraw. [SW Baptist, September 8, 1859] 161 OLIVER HAZARD PERRY married LUCY ALLEN GLENN on August 25, 1836 before Reverend GEORGE EVERETT. Perry owned eight slaves in 1850 and seven slaves in 1860. Perry served as a private in Company H of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of Alabama Reserves. Oliver was the son of BRITTON PERRY, who died in 1831, and the brother of JOHN, MATHIAS, WILLIAM, DENNIS, BENJAMIN F., ELIZABETH, ELEANOR, SARAH, REBECCA JULIAN AND MARTHA PERRY. Oliver joined Ocmulgee Church in Perry County on January 26, 1833 and was a deacon in that church for over five decades. He attended the Alabama Baptist Convention in 1847, 1849, 1850, 1859, 1860 and 1861 as a delegate from Ocmulgee Church. Perry died on May 10, 1888. [Ocmulgee Church Book; 1850 and 1860 Slave Censuses; Alabama Records, v. 182, p. 61; Marriage Book, 1832-1839, License # 948; Perry CountyWill Book A, p. 44; Muster Roll of the 3rd Alabama Reserves] 162 MARY DENNIS PERRY was the wife of Britton Perry and the mother of Oliver H. Perry. She died on August 15, 1859 and the daughter of Joseph Dennis of Jones County, Georgia. Elijah Moseley baptized her in 1815 into the fellowship of Rooty Creek Church in Hancock County, Georgia. In 1819, she moved to Alabama with her husband and family and united with the Beard's Baptist Church and two years later joined the Ocmulgee Church in Perry County. [SW Baptist, September 8, 1859] 163 LEONARD BUTLER died on the evening of February 21, 1851 at his home in Perry County, Alabama of typhoid fever. He was born in South Carolina on June 5, 1808 and migrated to Alabama with his father Ephraim Butler. He joined the Ocmulgee Church in December 1828. [SW Baptist, March 12, 1851 and March 26, 1851] 164 Champion Butler was born on July 2, 1802 and died on March 5, 1854. He is buried in Ocmulgee Church Cemetery in Perry County, Alabama. 165 LUCY ANN WILLIAMS joined Ocmulgee Church on September 25, 1847 by letter, [Ocmulgee Church Book] 166 ANDREW C. HAYWOOD HARVILL was the son of Thomas Harvill, a wealthy Perry County planter and slave owner. Andrew married Emily T. Mastin on November 2, 1847 in Dallas County, Alabama. He was born in 1826 in Perry County, Alabama. He enlisted in the Perry Volunteers in May 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers. In Mexico, he was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on November 30, 1846 and rejoined his company at Jalapa, Mexico on April 30, 1847. He was mustered out at New Orleans, Louisiana on May 27, 1847. Haywood was a member of Ocmulgee Baptist Church in southeastern Perry County, joining on December 4, 1852, and was excluded for "excessive and frequent drunkenness" on April 24, 1853. 167 JESSE M. MAYES married Sarah Perry on January 3, 1835 in Perry County, Alabama. He was a member of Ocmulgee Baptist Church. 168 Tabitha Mayes was born in February 1843. She married Charles William Smith. 169 WILLIAM CURTIS MAYES was born in Perry County, Alabama on April 13, 1847 and raised on his father's farm in Perry County. In 1859, at the age of twelve, he was sent to Kechi, Louisiana to Kechi College, a Baptist institution, to be educated. While at school, the War for Southern Independence erupted, and at the age of fourteen, he enlisted in A. J. Handley's company on September 16, 1861 and was mustered into the Confederate Army at Camp Moore, Louisiana on December 11, 1861. However, he was discharged for being under the age of eighteen. Mayes re-enlisted at the age of 16, on December 22, 1863 and was elected second lieutenant in Company D of the 62nd Alabama Infantry. He participated in the fighting at Spanish Fort and Blakeley, Alabama. He escaped the fall of these places and surrendered at Meridian, Mississippi. He was paroled on April 19, 1865. William attended the Confederate Veterans Reunion in Birmingham, Alabama and was elected as the Lieutenant Commander. He died on March 10, 1911 and was survived by his wife, four daughters, and one son. [Confederate Veteran, Vol. XIX, October 1911, No. 10.] 170 JOHN ANDERSON is buried at Ocmulgee Church in Perry County, Alabama. He was born in Ireland in 1782. Although illiterate, John accumulated land valued at $2,500 and nine slaves. John's spouse, Mary, joined Ocmulgee in June 1828 and John joined that church on September 27, 1828. John and Mary Anderson were the parents of Jane Anderson, George Washington Anderson, Jesse B. Anderson, Emeline Anderson, Rebecca Anderson, Amaranth Anderson and Trissa Anderson. Anderson's slaves mentioned in the will were Peter and Canses. George Hopper witnessed his will. He died on September 9, 1852. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 333; Will of John Anderson, dated September 3, 1852 and probated February 28, 1853; Ocmulgee Church Book] 171 GEORGE W. ANDERSON was born on April 18, 1816 and died on August 24, 1852. He is buried at Ocmulgee Church. 172 According to the will of his father, JESSE B. ANDERSON was principally responsible for the support of his parents. 173 ABNER GARY McCRAW was the pastor at Ocmulgee Baptist Church. He was born in Newberry County, South Carolina and moved to Perry County, Alabama in 1818 with his father Stephen McCraw. The McCraws were a pioneer family in Alabama. Abner was a student of Reverend Charles Crow and was ordained by Ocmulgee Church. 174 Abner Johnny McCraw died on the evening of June 8, 1851 of measles. [SW Baptist, June 18, 1851] 175 GEORGE C. TILLMAN was a Mexican War veteran. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile, Alabama and mustered out on May 27, 1847 at New Orleans, Louisiana. [Muster Roll] 176 JESSE M. CROW was the son of Charles Crow and Sarah Harlan. 177 Melissa C. Hopper died on June 23, 1859 at the home of her father. She was the daughter of George Hopper. She was baptized at the age of eleven years by Abner Gary McCraw and became a member of Ocmulgee Church in Perry County. [SW Baptist, July 14, 1859] 178 MILO CINCINNATI CURRY was the son of THOMAS CURRY and REBECCA PERRY and the grandson of JOHN PERRY. Milo was born on October 18, 1813 in Putnam County, Georgia and died on April 28, 1903 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana where he is buried in the Old Friendship Church Cemetery. On May 25, 1846 enlisted in the Perry Volunteers as a private at Perryville, Alabama and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile, Alabama. Milo served his full enlistment of one year in Texas and Mexico and was mustered out on May 27, 1847 at New Orleans, Louisiana. In later years, Milo received a pension for his service amounting to eight dollars a month. He moved to Louisiana in the 1870s where he settled in the Flat Lick Community of Claiborne Parish. Milo had one full brother, BERKLEY PERRY CURRY, a half brother, JAMES H. CURRY and three half sisters, SALLY, MARTHA and MARGARET CAROLINE CURRY. [Mrs. Grace T. Watson, Minden, Louisiana; Alabama Records, v 241, p. 24] 179 Jerman Fike was the son of William and Mary Fike. [England, Alabama Notes, p. 19] 180 David Fike was the youngest son of William and Mary Fike. [England, Alabama Notes, p. 19] 181 Mary Fike was the widow of William Fike. [England, Alabama Notes, p. 19] 182 THOMAS EDWARD MCCRAW was born on December 4, 1787 and died on February 1, 1854 in Perry County, Alabama. It is McCraw not McGraw (Third Edition, 1998) 183 SARAH MITCHELL was born on March 25, 1790 and died on February 1, 1854 in Perry County, Alabama. [Ibid.] 184 SARAH ANN MCCRAW was born on February 5, 1825 and died in 1858 in Fayette County, Alabama [It is McCraw] 185 SELINDA CATHARINE MCCRAW was born on December 21, 1828 and married Alsey F. Bell on August 13, 1852 in Perry County. 186 WILLIAM SMITH MCCRAW was born on April 23, 1831 and on November 9, 1852 married Mary Frances Crow, the daughter of Sarah A. Martin and Silas Harlan Crow. 187 JAMES W. MCCRAW was born on December 17, 1833 and died in 1855 in Perry County, Alabama. [It is McCraw] 188188 The Morton children living in the McCraw household were grandchildren and the children of NANCY CAROLINE MCCRAW and THOMAS MORTON. [Ibid] 189 JOHN H. MOON's first wife was Rehama McCraw, the daughter of Thomas Edward McCraw and Sarah Mitchell. Rehama was born on November 1, 1813 and died on October 7, 1842 in Perry County. John joined Ocmulgee Baptist Church on February 25, 1837 and resigned on November 25, 1838. [It is McCraw; Ocmulgee Church Book] 190 ELIZABETH BECK was the widow of Samuel Smith. [It is McCraw] 191 CHARLOTTE H. MOON was born on June 11, 1836 and married F. M. Grissom on September 11, 1854. Her mother was Ruhamy McCraw. [It is McCraw] 192 MARTIN J. MOON was born on May 4, 1838 and his mother was Ruhamy McCraw. His guardian after the death of his father was William W. Ferguson. [It is McCraw] 193 LOUISA FRANCES SMITH married Thomas H. McCullough. [It is McCraw] 194 MARY POLLY BROWN married Wesley J. Worrell after the death of George Marlowe Nichols. 195 WILLIAM MADISON MCCULLOUGH was born on January 9, 1815. [It is McCraw] 196 Chloe McCraw was the daughter of Thomas Edward McCraw and Sarah Mitchell. She was born on August 4, 1818 in Alabama. [It is McCraw] 197 SARAH MITCHELL MCCULLOUGH was born on December 3, 1848 in Perry County, Alabama and died on September 22, 1887 in Dallas County, Alabama. She married Thomas Chisholm on October 21, 1875 in Perry County. Thomas Chisholm was the son of Patrick Chisholm and Catherine Craig. 198 NANCY HOBSON was the widow of Joseph Hobson. [McCord, Bibb Baptists] 199 Virginia Eiland was the widow of Asa Eiland and the mother of Ovid C., Euphemia L., Julia A., Oliver G., Mariah H., Angeline E. and Maro Virgil Eiland. [Flora D. England, Alabama Notes, v 3, p. 1] 200 ERASMUS D. EILAND served as a surgeon in Company F of the 3rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment. He owned nine slaves in 1860. [1860 Slave Census of Perry County, Alabama; Muster Roll of the 3rd Alabama Cavalry] 201 LEMUEL J. MCCRAW was the son of Thomas Edward McCraw and Sarah Mitchell. He was born on January 11, 1812 in Orangeburg, South Carolina and died on October 15, 1870. He is buried at Mount Pleasant Church cemetery. [It is McCraw] 202 MARTHA JANE MCCULLOUGH was born on November 21, 1817 in Warren County, Tennessee and died on October 15, 1902. She is buried at Mt. Gilead Cemetery in Bibb County, Alabama. [Ibid] 203 MARY ANN K. MCCRAW was born on March 15, 1837 in Perry County, Alabama and died in Livingston, Texas. She married James Francis Edmonds on April 1, 1852 and moved to Nacogdoches, Texas around 1855. [Ibid] 204 ELIZABETH CHLOE MCCRAW was born on March 22, 1839 and died on March 22, 1864 in Newton, Texas. She married John Adam Whitman on October 22, 1854. [Ibid] 205 JAMES MADISON MCCRAW was born on October 29, 1840 and died on January 17, 1917 in Bibb County, Alabama. He married Amaritta Alzira Stanley and they were the parents of ten children. James served in Company F of the 11th Alabama Infantry Regiments as a private, enlisting at Centreville, Alabama. He was captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July 1863 and imprisoned at Fort Delaware Prison. He was released on June 16, 1865. [Ibid; Alabama State Archives] 206 WILLIAM THOMAS MCCRAW was born on December 20, 1848 and died on August 5, 1923 at Duncanville, Alabama. He married Virginia Cosby Smith on November 12, 1884. She was the daughter of William Winn Smith and Elizabeth Young. [It is McCraw] 207 John Adam Whitman married Elizabeth Chloe McCraw. [Ibid] 208 Wesley J. Worrell's second wife was Mary Polly Brown who was the widow of George Marlowe Nichols. 209 Catherine Dunkin was the daughter of Abel Dunkin and Elizabeth Byerly. 210 The village of Radfordville was named for William Radford who was an early settler in this region of the county who accumulated considerable land holdings in the area. In 1853, the family donated land in the town for the Radfordville Academy that was operated by families in the region. This school continued to function until 1928. Radfordville developed into a prominent local place with a post office and brick store. It was the scene of elections and local affairs. [Adair, Harbour, Radford and Watters Families] 211 WILLIAM OAKES was born on October 28, 1809 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and died January 15, 1901 in Perry County, Alabama. He was the son of Thomas Oakes and Nancy Watters and the grandson of Isaac Oakes, Sr. and Rachael Crane. William married Elizabeth Ann Edwards on December 31, 1833 in Perry County. She was born April 1, 1815 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and died on September 11878 in Perry County, Alabama. 212 SUSAN C. OAKES was born about 1846 and died in February 20, 1905 at the age of 59 years. She is buried in Pisgah Cemetery in Perry County. She married Azakid Kinady Metus Bledsoe, the son of William Miller Bledsoe. 213 GEORGE W. GRISSOM was a veteran of the Mexican War. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers as a private at Mobile on June 13, 1846 and departed by ship for Texas and Mexico on June 29, 1846. Grissom was mustered out of the army at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. [Muster Roll] 214 ALFRED MUCKLE was a Mexican War veteran. He joined the Perry Volunteers and served in Mexico in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers as a private. He was mustered in at Mobile on June 13, 1850 and discharged at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. [Muster Roll] 215 ALFRED W. WEST was a Mexican War veteran. He served as a private in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers. He was mustered in at Mobile on June 13, 1846 and discharged on May 27, 1847 in New Orleans, having served out his one-year enlistment. [Muster Roll] 216 JOHN K. CALDWELL was a veteran of the Mexican War serving in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers. [Muster Roll] 217 SAMUEL TURNER HARRISON married on March 1, 1832. [Louise Birchfeld] 218 ANN WHITE was born on March 14, 1812 and died on December 29, 1899 in Cherokee County, Texas. [Louise Birchfeld] 219 ELIZABETH WHITE was the widow of Abner Hill Lockett who was born on October 10, 1812 in Georgia and died on December 10, 1845 in Perry County, Alabama. She was born on July 29, 1818 and died on October 23, 1856 in Perry County, Alabama. [Louise Birchfeld] 220 PERRY W. LOCKETT was born on May 24, 1840. [Louise Birchfeld] 221 WILLIAM WHITE was born on April 29, 1808 and died on July 21, 1895 in Lisbon, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. He married Sophia M. Findley on November 35, 1831 in Perry County, Alabama and after Sophia's death William married Mrs. Nancy Elizabeth Foster Kilgore on August 15, 1865 in Union Parish, Arkansas. Nancy Foster was born on June 2, 1838 and died on February 17, 1910 in Louisiana. White moved his family to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana in the early 1850s. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 222 SOPHIA M. FINDLEY was born on February 2, 1816 and died on June 16, 1864 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 223 JOHN P. WHITE was born December 25, 1832 in Perry County, Alabama and died on December 9, 1852 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 224 ELIZABETH S. WHITE was born on September 12, 1834 in Perry County, Alabama and died on August 3, 1878 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. She married Jasper B. Kilgore on July 27, 1854 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 225 Catherine M. White was born on April 3, 1838 in Perry County, Alabama and died on October 11, 1855 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 226 Mary Ann White was born on July 8, 1840 in Perry County, Alabama and died on Jun 29, 1865 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 227 George W. White was born on February 27, 1842 in Perry County, Alabama. He married Mary Burns on October 16, 1877 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 228 Sarah A. White was born on January 1, 1844 in Perry County, Alabama and died on June 16, 1854 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 229 Joseph F. White was born on October 22, 1845 in Perry County, Alabama and died on August 8, 1923 in Lillie, Union Parish, Louisiana. He married Mary A. Kilgore on January 9, 1872 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 230 Zechariah Taylor White was born on October 4, 1847 in Perry County, Alabama and died on December 2, 1919 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. He married Josie McCasland on December 20, 1877 in Claiborne Parish. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 231 Barbara E. White was born on August 1, 1849 and died July 22, 1851 in Perry County, Alabama. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 232 DAVID SMITH was born in 1779 and died in 1855. 233 BENJAMIN MATHIAS HUFF was the son of MATHIAS HUFF and CHARLOTTE STOKES. He died in 1866 in Perry County, Alabama. [Louise Birchfeld] 234 ELIZABETH FORD died on July 17, 1851 in Perry County, Alabama. [SW Baptist, August 13, 1851] 235 MARY BOROUGHS was the widow of FREEMAN WINFIELD who died in 1839 236 HOMER M. FORD was a veteran of the Mexican War. He enlisted in the Perry Volunteers in May 1846 and mustered into Company C of the 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment at Mobile and sailed for Mexico. During the War for Southern Independence, he enlisted in Company K of the 28th Alabama Infantry at Perryville, Alabama on March 29, 1862. He enlisted as a private and achieved the rank of Sergeant in October 1862. Homer was later promoted to Captain of the Company K. He was paroled at Selma, Alabama on June 9, 1865. [First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers Muster Records; 28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll] 237 ANN RADFORD was the widow of Samuel Watters and the daughter of Reuben Radford who died on December 20, 1819 in Morgan County, Georgia. [Adair, Harbour] 238 ELIZABEH HACKWORTH was the widow of Reuben Radford who died December 20, 1819 in Georgia. [Adair, Harbour, Radford, and Watters Families] 239 SARAH RADFORD was the daughter of Reuben Radford and she married Reuben Bennett about 1806 in Georgia. 240 JAMES BENNETT was a veteran of the Mexican War. He enlisted in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile, Alabama on June 13, 1846. He was discharged at Tampico, Mexico on February 26, 1847 while his regiment was on garrison duty there. During the War for Southern Independence, he served in the Gid Nelson Light Artillery Battery. [Muster Roll of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers and the Gid Nelson Artillery Battery] 241 MARION A. EILAND was a veteran of the Mexican War of 1846-48. He served as a private and Assistant Surgeon in the hospital at Matamoros, Mexico after October 31, 1846. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile, Alabama on June 13, 1846. Eiland was mustered out at New Orleans, Louisiana on May 27, 1847 when his regiment was deactivated. [Muster Roll] 242 JOEL H. HUNDLEY was a veteran of the war with Mexico. He enlisted in the Perry Volunteers in May 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile on June 13, 1846. He was mustered out a year later on May 27, 1847 at New Orleans. 243 WILLIAM RADFORD was born on June 26, 1782 in Campbell County, Virginia and died on October 23, 1862 in Perry County, Alabama. He married four times but information is available for only three wives. His first marriage was to NANCY ELIZABETH JAMES on July 17, 1804. On August 19, 1841, he married ELIZABETH HEARD, the daughter of JOHN HEARD and the widow of OWEN GRIFFIN. After Elizabeth's death, Radford married MASSEY LEACH on July 13, 1858. He owned twenty slaves in 1840 and twenty-four slaves in 1860. William was an early settler in the County and accumulated considerable land holdings in the area of the county that became known as Radfordville. The family donated land in the village to establish Radfordville Academy. In 1860, William Radford was declared non compos mentis [a lunatic] by jury proceedings in Perry County and placed under the guardianship of DUKE NALL. [Heritage of Bibb; 1840 Free and 1860 Slave Censuses of Perry County, Alabama; Louise Birchfield; Adair, Harbour, Radford and Watters Families] 244 THORNBURN BOLLING was the son of Samuel Bolling. He married Nancy J. Radford on August 16, 1838 in Perry County, Alabama. [Louise Birchfield] 245 NANCY J. RADFORD was the daughter of William Radford. She was born on February 18, 1823 in Perry County, Alabama. [Louise Birchfield] 246 MARY ANN RADFORD was the daughter of Reuben Radford and Sarah Wilbanks. [Louise Birchfield] 247 WILLIAM WATTERS was born on September 21, 1805 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and died on December 11, 1859 in Cherokee County, Texas. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 248 AMY WHITE was born on January 14, 1810 and died on March 23, 1860 in Alto, Cherokee County Texas. She married William Watters on January 7, 1830 in Perry County, Alabama and was the daughter of Catherine Huff and John White. [Louise Birchfeld and Carol Anne Childress] 249 JAMES MADISON WATTERS was born on December 20, 1820. [Louise Birchfeld] 250 ANN CATHERINE WATTERS was born on August 28, 1832 in Perry County, Alabama and died on September 10, 1906 in Alto, Cherokee County, Texas. She married John William Richardson on October 25, 1851 in Perry County. [Louise Birchfeld] 251 JOHN WHITE WATTERS born in November 8, 1833 in Perry County, Alabama and died on September 15, 1895 in Falls County, Texas. He married Melinda C. Seay on September 19, 1860 in Cherokee County, Texas. [Louise Birchfeld] 252 JANE ELMIRA WATTERS was born on July 17, 1835 and died in Polock, Angelina County, Texas. She married John Morris Finley on August 9, 1860 in Cherokee County, Texas. [Louise Birchfeld] 253 SAMUEL REUBIN JACKSON WATTERS was born on January 26, 1837. [Louise Birchfeld] 254 MARGARET ELIZABETH WATTERS was born on January 13, 1837. [Louise Birchfeld] 255 MALACHI CALHOUN WATTERS was born on December 27, 1840 and died on August 6, 1921 in Alto, Cherokee County, Texas. He married Alma Zone Houston on December 27, 1866 in Cherokee County, Texas. [Louise Birchfeld] 256 PENELOPE PETURA WATTERS was born on November 15, 1842 and died on July 31, 1864 in Cherokee County, Texas. She married Edward D. Manning on September 20, 1860. [Louise Birchfeld] 257 WILLIAM CORNELIUS WATTERS was born on January 1, 1844 and died in 1934 in Cherokee County, Texas. He married Patience Elizabeth Spain on January 18, 1877. [Louise Birchfeld] 258 ZACHARIAH REEVES WATTERS was born on November 20, 1845 and died on January 20, 1921 in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. [Louise Birchfeld] 259 AMY BALSORA WATTERS was born on August 6, 1847 and died in 1933 in Angelina County, Texas. She married Robert Finley in 1867. [Louise Birchfeld] 260 SARAH ETTA WATTERS was born on August 27, 1850 and died in 1910 in Dimmitt, Castro County, Texas. [Louise Birchfeld] 261 JOHN W. ROGERS was a veteran of the war with Mexico. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile on June 13, 1846 and sailed for Texas and Mexico on June 29, 1846. He was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on December 11, 1846 and did not rejoin his regiment until April 29, 1847 at Jalapa, Mexico. Rogers was killed at Chickamauga, Georgia on September 20, 1863 while serving as 3rd Sergeant in Company K of the 28th Alabama Infantry during the War for Southern Independence. He enlisted at Perryville, Alabama on March 29, 1862 at the age of 41. After his death, his wife NANCY H. ROGERS filed a claim for $165.09 owed to John. In 1850, he operated a grocery store in the Town of Hamburg. In 1860, he owned one slave. [28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; 1850 Free and 1860 Slave Census of Perry County, Alabama] 262 JOHN WHITE was born February 24, 1822 and died May 22, 1900 in Perry County, Alabama. He was the son of JOHN WHITE and CATHERINE HUFF and the granddaughter of JAMES HUFF and AMY BUCKLEY. White owned five slaves. [1860 Slave Census of Perry County, Alabama] 263 CATHERINE HUFF was the widow of John White who was born about 1804 in Georgia and died around 1843. John White was the son of John White and Joanna Bradley. 264 THOMAS OAKES was born on April 10, 1783 in Albemarle County, Virginia and died on October 27, 1857. He married Nancy Watters in December 31, 1808 at Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Nancy was the daughter of Joseph James Watters and Sarah Collins. Nancy died around 1815 and Thomas married Hannah Martin on February 22, 1816 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. 265 HANNAH MARTIN was born in 1792 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. 266 WILLIAM T. FORD served in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers during the Mexican War. He was mustered in at Mobile on June 13, 1846 and was discharged at Camp Alabama, Mexico on August 19, 1846. During the War for Southern Independence, Ford enlisted in Company K of the 28th Alabama Infantry at Perryville on March 29, 1862 at the age of forty-six. He was appointed a Lieutenant on March 29, 1862 and resigned five months later on September 7, 1862. In 1860, he owned four slaves. [28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; 1860 Slave Census] [Muster Roll] 267 SARAH WILBANKS was the widow of Reuben Radford. 268 SARAH RADFORD married M. L. McMAHON. [Louise Birchfield] 269 AMY P. RADFORD married Henry Wells. [Louise Birchfield] 270 MARY FRANCES CROW married William Smith McCraw on November 9, 1852 in Perry County, Alabama in services performed by the Reverend Lovick P. Ramsey. This family moved to Deaf Smith County, Texas. [It is McCraw] 271 JAMES EDWARDS was born on November 23, 1803 and died on October 7, 1883. He is buried in the Edwards family cemetery in Perry County, Alabama. [Headstone Inscriptions] 272 ALICE HUNTER was born on November 25, 1812 and died on July 4, 1884. She is buried in the Edwards family cemetery in Perry County. [Headstone Inscriptions] 273 JOSEPH RADFORD WATTERS was the son of Samuel Watters and Anna Radford. [Adair, Harbour] 274 SARAH ANN FRANCES GRIFFIN married Joseph Watters on January 17, 1843. She was born in Wilkes County, Georgia and was the daughter of OWEN GRIFFIN and ELIZABETH HEARD and the granddaughter of JOHN HEARD, OWEN GRIFFIN and ELIZABETH STOVALL. She married Joseph Radford Watters on January 16, 1843 in Perry County, Alabama and was the mother of seven children. [Heritage of Bibb; Adair, Harbour] 275 JOHN O. WATTERS was born in October 1845. He enlisted as a private in Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment on May 16, 1861 at the age of sixteen years. He survived the war and lived out his life in Perry County. [Herbert, 8th Alabama; Adair, Harbour] 276 GABRIELLA MURVELLE WATTERS was born on May 8, 1847. She married ELISHA TALMAN HARBOUR after the Civil War. She was described as a petite woman with auburn hair. SAMUEL WATTERS and ANNA RADFORD were her grandparents. Gabriella died on March 31, 1923 as the result of burns when her clothes caught on fire. [Heritage of Perry; Louise Birchfield; Adair, Harbour] 277 ELIZABETH ANN WATTERS was born on February 26, 1849. She married WILLIAM ELLIOTT and lived in Perry County until her death in 1929. [Adair, Harbour] 278 JOSEPH P. HARRIS married MATILDA JANE MELTON on June 12, 1865. Matilda Melton was the daughter of William Allen Melton and Susannah West. 279 MARGARET NALL was the widow of JAMES B. NALL whom she married in September 1829. James Nall's first wife was Elizabeth Waggoner whom he divorced in 1823. [Gandrud, Marriage, Death and Legal Notices From Early Alabama Newspapers, 1819- 1893 (Southern Historical Press, POB 1267, Greenville, SC 29602-1267) p. 7; Murray, Bears, p. 31] 280 DUKE NALL married Sarah A. Bennett. He served as a private in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers in the Mexican War, enlisting on June 13, 1846 at Mobile. In the War for Southern Independence, he served as captain of Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to major in 1864 and wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness with a wound to one of his lungs. This wound led to Nall's death on November 4, 1864. 281 WILLIAM TARPLEY RADFORD was the son of William Radford. He was born on August 12, 1821 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and died about 1854 in Perry County, Alabama. [Louise Birchfield] 282 AMENDA E. VARNELL was the daughter of Ebenezer Varnell and Ann Suttle. She was born on April 30, 1825 and died on September 9, 1881 in Zion, Freestone County, Texas. Amanda moved to Texas about 1855 and settled near Freestone in Leon County. She married William T. Radford on October 10, 1842 in Perry County, Alabama. [Louise Birchfield] 283 EBENEZER DUVAL RADFORD was born on December 22, 1843 in Perry County, Alabama and died on September 21, 1922 in Freestone County, Texas. He married Jane Elizabeth Brown on December 28, 1870. During the War for Southern Independence, he served in the 28th Texas Cavalry Regiment. [Louise Birchfield] 284 ELBERT WADE RADFORD was born on October 21, 1845 in Perry County, Alabama and died on November 4, 1872 in Freestone County, Texas. [Louise Birchfield] 285 GEORGE W. RADFORD was born on January 30, 1847 in Perry County, Alabama and died on October 15, 1871 in Freestone County, Texas. 286 JOHN B. FULLER was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile, Alabama and elected to Sergeant Major on June 27, 1846 and to 2nd Lieutenant on August 1, 1846. Colonel John R. Coffee requested his commission on August 12, 1846 following his election by the company. Fuller was the son of John Alfred Fuller and Susannah Burford, the grandson of Elijah Fuller, Sincy Browning, John Browning and Elizabeth Demorest. Fuller married Sarah Elizabeth Roden. He was born in Greene County, Georgia and was a farmer. He was thirty-five years old, married and the father of eight children when he enlisted. John's sons Richard and George served in Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Richard was severely and taken a prisoner at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 but was released due to the severity of his wounds. He surrendered at Appomattox. George was wounded at Gaines Mill, Virginia so severely that he had to be detailed to the Arsenal at Selma, Alabama. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 347B; 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 693; Robert S. Davis, Jr., Alabama Officers in the Mexican War 1846-1848, pp. 10-11; 1850 Slave Census of Perry County; Owen, History of Alabama, p. 986] 287 WILLIS OSBORN married Lucy Oakes on April 6, 1822 in Perry County, Alabama. 288 LUCY OAKES was the daughter of Isaac Oakes and Rachael Crane. 289 SALINA E. OSBORN married Erasmus Donaghey and died in White County, Arkansas in 1913 at the age of seventy-two years. [Goodspeed's Eastern Arkansas] 290 EPHRAIM A. YOUNG died on July 12, 1872 at the home of his son in law. He owned three slaves in 1840, sixteen slaves in 1850 and twenty-two in 1860. 291 JAMES C. YOUNG was wounded and captured at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863 and spent he next year and a half in Fort Delaware Prison. He was exchanged on February 18, 1865 and returned to Alabama. He was paroled at Selma, Alabama in June 1865. James was conscripted into the Confederate Army on March 17, 1862 and assigned to Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He moved to Texas after the war. [Herbert, 8th Alabama, p. 317] 292 ELIZABETH ANN YOUNG married William Winn Smith. 293 GEORGE W. YOUNG served as a private in Company K, 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment, enlisting at Radfordville on May 16, 1861. His service record states only that he was a patient at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia for five months in 1862. [Herbert, 8th Alabama, p. 317] 294 HENRY C. YOUNG enlisted at the age of seventeen with his older brother, GEORGE, in Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He was captured during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863 and sent to the Federal prison at Fort Delaware on July 6, 1863. On October 23, 1863, he was transferred to Fort Lookout Prison and exchanged on February 18, 1865 after nineteen months in a Yankee prison. Henry was released three months before the war ended and was paroled at Selma, Alabama in June 1865. [Herbert, 8th Alabama, p. 317] 295 JOEL W. ENGLAND was a miller. 296 WILLIAM ALLEN MELTON married NANCY HAYNES in Greene County, Georgia on January 20, 1807. Nancy was born on May 4, 1790 in Georgia and died on June 19, 1829 at the age of 39 years in Perry County. William's second wife was SUSAN WEST born on July 25, 1809 and died on September 30, 1841 in Perry County at the age of thirty-two years. They were married on July 15, 1832 in Perry County. William Melton was born on December 25, 1787 in Edgefield County, South Carolina and died on May 16, 1864 in Perry County. William's third wife was MARY JANE WARE whom he married on June 8, 1842. William was a principal organizer of the Pisgah Baptist Church in southeastern Perry County in 1834. He owned thirty- three slaves in 1850 and twenty-eight slaves in 1860. William's published obituary in the August 11, 1864 issue of the South Western Baptist read as follows: "William Allen Melton died in Perry County, Ala. May 16, 1864 in the 77th year of his age. He was born in Edgefield Co. S C in 1787. The following year he moved with his parents to Georgia. Melton was a veteran of the War of 1812 having served in the 3rd Regiment of Georgia Militia. In 1816 he moved to Montgomery Co. Ala and in 1822 to the place where he died." William's children included JASPER (died 1829), MARTHA J. (died 1836), NEWTON (died 1839), WILLIAM H. (died 1846), ALBERT G. (died 1847), BENJAMIN B. (died 1841), JAMES (1852) and MALINDA J. (born 1846 and died 1866). The 1860 Mortality Schedule notes that D. E. MELTON, a female aged four months, died in Perryville Beat of whooping cough in November 1859. [Perry County Marriage Book D, p. 616; 1850 and 1860 Slave Census; Alabama Records, v. 73, p. 15; Melton Burial Plot Headstone Inscriptions; The History of Pisgah Baptist Church (Coffee Printing Company, Selma Alabama) p. 1; 1860 Mortality Schedule of Perry County, Alabama] 297 MARY JANE WARE was born on May 7, 1811 and died on May 12, 1889. She inherited several slaves from her husband on the condition that slave families were kept together. The will was date February 18, 1860 and filed September 12, 1864. [Will Book 3, Perry County, Alabama, p 253; Alabama Records, v 73, p. 19] 298 MARTHA LAVINA MELTON was born on September 29, 1838 in Perry County, Alabama and died in 1920 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. She married Joseph William Morton on November 21, 1855. 299 JOSEPH ALLEN MELTON was born July 3, 1839 in Perry County, Alabama and died on August 3, 1852 in Perry County, Alabama. 300 MATILDA JANE MELTON was born on April 17, 1846 in Perry County and died on November 13, 1866 in Perry County. She married J. P. HARRIS on June 12, 1865 in Perry County. 301 JAMES H. PITTS served as the First Lieutenant of Company C in the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers during the Mexican War. He was mustered into the regiment at Mobile on June 13, 1846 and mustered out at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. 302 ROBERT M. HOLMES was a veteran of the Mexican War. He enlisted in the Perry Volunteers and was mustered into Company C of the 1st Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846. He served for a year and was mustered out at New Orleans in May 1847. During his war service, he was commanded by Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott and took part in the amphibious landing and siege at Vera Cruz. 303 MARTIN MERCER BUCKLEY married Martha Ann Huff on September 26, 1829 in Perry County, Alabama. Martha was born about 1811 in Georgia. Buckley was a minister. Martha Ann Huff was the daughter of Mathias Huff and Charlotte Stokes. [Louise Birchfeld] 304 JOHN B. MARTIN was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile on June 13, 1846 during the Mexican War. He was hospitalized at Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 17, 1847 when his company marched into the interior or Mexico to Jalapa. He was mustered out of the army at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. 305 LUCINDA MARTIN was the daughter of Claiborne Martin. 306 ANDREW GOIN enlisted as a private in the Perry Volunteers at Perryville, Alabama on May 25, 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile, Alabama. He served for one year in Texas and Mexico and was mustered out of the army on May 27, 1847 in New Orleans. 307 WILLIAM CHANDLER HARBOUR was the son of TALMON HARBOUR and ELIZABETH CALLOWAY from Georgia. William married TEMPERANCE HACKWORTH RADFORD on July 12, 1832. Temperance was born on May 12, 1818 in Georgia and died about 1840 in Perry County. After Temperance's death, Harbour married Lucretia Nalley on October 12, 1843. He owned one slave in 1840, six in 1850 and five slaves in 1860. William died in 1866. [Louise Birchfield; England, Alabama Notes, v 1 and 2, p. 24; 1840 Free and 1850-1860 Slave Censuses of Perry County; Heritage of Perry; Robert L. Adair, An Account of the Harbour, Radford, and Watters Families of E. T. Harbour, and the History of the 8th Alabama Volunteer Infantry (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1995)] 308 WILLIAM CHANDLER HARBOUR, JR. was born on October 10, 1835. In 1855, he moved to Kemper County, Mississippi where he married CAROLINE JONES and lived out his life there. In Mississippi, William became a wealthy and respected businessman, dying in 1911. [Adair, Harbour, Radford and Watters Families] 309 NANCY JANE HARBOUR married JAMES MIDDLETON FULLER, a young man who lived in the Harbour neighborhood. [Adair, Harbour] 310 CHRISTOPHER, JOHN R., EZEKIAL and BAZEL DAVID HARBOUR were sons of Lucretia Nalley and William C. Harbour. [Adair, Harbour, Radford and Watters Families] 311 SAMUEL P. BURFORD FULLER was the son of Alfred Fuller and Susannah Burford and the grandson of Elijah Fuller and Sincy Browning. Samuel married Delano Heard on February 4, 1845 in Perry County, Alabama. Fuller was a veteran of the war with Mexico. He served as a private in the Perry Volunteers, which he joined in May 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile. Samuel was promoted to second sergeant of Company C on April 19, 1827 at Jalapa, Mexico. He was mustered out of the army at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. [Muster Roll] 312 JESSE S. FULLER died of typhoid fever in a Richmond, Virginia hospital on August 14, 1862. He joined Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment on March 17, 1862 in Perry County, Alabama. [Herbert, 8th Alabama, p. 309] 313 WILLIAM A. KELLEY served in the army during the Mexican War. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers. He was left behind in the hospital at Matamoros, Mexico on August 27, 1846. [Muster Roll] 314 WILLIAM J. LILES was a veteran of the war with Mexico. He served as a private in the Perry Volunteers that he joined in May 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile. He was hospitalized when his regiment marched into the interior of Mexico. He was mustered out of the army at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. 315 DANIEL ALLEN was a veteran of the Mexican War. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile on June 13, 1846 and served for a year in Texas and Mexico in the Armies of General Zachary Taylor and General Winfield Scott. Allen was mustered out of the army at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. [Muster Roll] 316 GEORGE WASHINGTON WATTERS was the son of Samuel Watters and Polly Ann Radford. He was born on September 30, 1808 Oglethorpe County, Georgia. [Louise Birchfield] 317 NATHAN J. B. SUTTLE was born on December 28, 1811 and died on April 2, 1884. He married ANN BENNETT on December 14, 1847. He owned eleven slaves. [1860 Slave Census of Perry; Suttle Cemetery, Perry County] 318 ANN BENNETT was born on June 14, 1827 and died on January 9, 1892. [Suttle Cemetery, Perry County] 319 Almeda Lowery was a member of the Ocmulgee Baptist Church, which she joined on October 19, 1844. She separated from Thomas Lowery in 1855 and was excluded from the church on March 24, 1855 for "living in disorder." [Ocmulgee Church Book, unpublished] 320 JOHN W. GRIFFIN was a veteran of the Mexican War. He enlisted in the Perry Volunteers in May 1846. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile on June 13, 1846 as a private and sailed for Texas and Mexico on June 29, 1846 on board the steamer Fashion. Griffin was twenty- four years old when he enlisted. He enlisted at the age of twenty-eight, leaving his wife Barbara Ann Harbour and two children at home. Barbara was the daughter of William Harbour and Temperance Radford. John contracted typhoid fever during the Mexican War but served his full enlistment, mustering out with his regiment in New Orleans on May 27, 1847. He was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on December 11, 1846 and was left in the hospital at Vera Cruz on April 17, 1847. During the War for Southern Independence, he was conscripted on May 17, 1862 and assigned to Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment that was part of the Army of Northern Virginia. Following the Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, he displayed exceptional bravery and his name was placed on the regimental ROLL OF HONOR to honor him. He served as a private until the end of the war and surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. After the war, Griffin moved to Kemper County, Mississippi where he died on October 26, 1897 and is buried in the Hopewell Methodist Church Cemetery. [Muster Roll] 321 BARBARA ANN HARBOUR was born on November 17, 1833. She was the daughter of William C. Harbour and Temperance Hackworth Radford. [Louise Birchfield] 322 JOHN COLLINS OAKES married Winnie Radford on January 18, 1837. [Adair, Harbour, Radford and Watters Families] 323 JAMES JONES was a veteran of the Mexican War, enlisting in the Perry Volunteers in May 1846 and mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile. He arrived in Texas on July 4, 1846 and was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on December 10, 1846. He was discharged on May 27, 1847. [Muster Roll] 324 WILLIAM MILLER BLEDSOE was born about 1808. He was the son of MOSES BLEDSOE and POLLY TURNER. His daughter MARY F. BLEDSOE married WILLIAM LAWRENCE MIDDLETON. William's father was born about 1780 in Orange County, Virginia, and his mother was born about 1830. William Bledsoe's grandparents were MILLER BLEDSOE and JEAN ELIZABETH BOLLING. 325 AZAKID BLEDSOE was born on April 19, 1842 in Perryville, Alabama. He enlisted as a private in Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry on May 16, 1861 at Radfordville. He served throughout the war and surrendered with General Lee at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. After the war, Bledsoe returned Perry County, married SUSAN OAKES, and operated a farm near Radfordville. He died on March 18, 1932 and is buried in the Pisgah Church Cemetery. [Herbert, 8th Alabama, p. 307; 1907 Census of Confederate Veterans; Heritage of Perry County, Alabama] 326 GEORGE H. HANSON was a veteran of the Mexican War. He enlisted in the Perry Volunteers in May 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June13, 1846 at Mobile, Alabama. He was mustered out of the army at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. 327 SEABORN AYCOCK was a veteran of the war with Mexico. He enlisted as a private at the age of twenty-six in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers and served for a year in Texas and Mexico. He was mustered in on June 13, 1846 at Mobile and discharged from the army on May 27, 1847 at New Orleans. He moved to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana in 1850. [Muster Roll; Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana (The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1890] 328 LEROY E. DAVIS served in the Mexican War as a private in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers. He was mustered in on June 13, 1846 at Mobile and sailed for Texas and Mexico on June 29, 1846. He served in the armies of Genera Zachary Taylor and General Winfield Scott before mustering out at New Orleans, Louisiana on May 27, 1847. He was born on December 27, 1825 and died on June 4, 1894. He is buried at Pisgah Cemetery in Perry County, Alabama. [Muster Roll; Pisgah Headstone Inscriptions] 329 Pernnia J. Hay 330 JOHN B. BURFORD was born on July 11, 1789 and died on March 17, 1871 in Union Parish, Louisiana. [Inscription, Fellowship Cemetery, Union Parish, Louisiana] 331 EDNA JACKSON was born on March 5, 1797 and died on September 11, 1881 in Union Parish, Louisiana. [Fellowship Cemetery, Union Parish, Louisiana] 332 FRANCES H. BURFORD married W. H. Lowe. She was born on November 16, 1832 and died on December 27, 1902 in Union Parish, Louisiana. [Fellowship Cemetery, Union Parish, Louisiana] 333 WILLIAM BURFORD was born in September 1835 and died on March 27, 1859 in Union Parish, Louisiana. [Headstone Inscription, Fellowship Cemetery, Union Parish, Louisiana] 334 SARAH EDNEY BURFORD was born on November 30, 1837 and died on July 15, 1860. She married T. B. KILGORE. [Fellowship Cemetery, Union Parish, Louisiana] 335 SETH B. FORD was born on November 5, 1805 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and died November 3, 1858 in Perry County, Alabama. 336 ELIZABETH P. MELTON was born on February 6, 1811 and died on April 15, 1853 in Perry County, Alabama. She married Seth B. Ford in 1832. 337 JESSE F. JACOBS died of consumption in Perry County, Alabama on January 24, 1852 at the home of his father in law S. B. Ford. He was born on February 14, 1818 in Greenville District, South Carolina and migrated to Alabama in 1841 where he set up a medical practice in Perryville, Alabama and its vicinity. He married Nancy Ford on November 12, 1845. He volunteered for service in the Mexican War in May 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile on June 13, 1846 and arrived in Texas on July 4, 1846. He served for less than two months being discharged on August 19, 1846 at Camp Alabama, Mexico during a diarrhea epidemic in his company. [SW Baptist, March 24, 1852] 338 NANCY H. FORD was the daughter of S. B. Ford. [SW Baptist, March 24, 1852] 339 ELIHAH WILLIAM FULLER was born in Greene County, Georgia and died in October 1867 in Perry County, Alabama. He was the son of John Alfred Fuller and Agnes Burford and married Cenith Browning on January 20, 1829 in Perry County, Alabama. 340 PERMELIA R. JACKSON was the widow and the third wife of Thomas Harvill who died about 1849 in Perry County, Alabama. She married Harvill on July 17, 1829 in Perry County and was the daughter of Blake and Cynthia Jackson. Permelia was born in 1812 in Greene County, Georgia. [Alabama Records, v 182, p. 64, Perry County, Alabama Marriage Book 1] 341 THORNTON R. HARVILL died in Richmond Virginia on from a wound he received in the leg at the Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia on June 27, 1862 at the age of twenty-two. His leg was amputated on July 3 and he died on July 4, 1862. [SW Baptist, September 4, 1862] 342 SAMUEL B. HARVILL was the son of Thomas Harvill and was the father of Rebecca, Luticia J., Cynthia J. and Thomas B. Harvill. 343 JESSE AYCOCK was a veteran of the Mexican War, enlisting in May 1846 in the Perry Volunteers at Perryville. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile, Alabama on June 13, 1864 and served for twelve month mustering out at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. While in the army, he was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on November 30, 1846. He moved to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana around 1850 with his former commander Captain William G. Coleman. 344 JOHN CROWLEY was a veteran of the Mexican War. He served as a private in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers beginning with his mustering in at Mobile on June 13, 1846. He sailed for Texas and Mexico on June 29, 1846 and was mustered out of the army on May 27, 1847. [Muster Roll] 345 MICHAEL COOK, JR. enlisted in the Perry Volunteers in May 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile on June 13, 1846 and sailed for Texas and Mexico on June 29. He was mustered out of the army on May 27, 1847 in New Orleans, Louisiana. 346 ELIJAH GREEN FULLER was born in 1809 in Greene County, Georgia and married Lucinda Cook on October 21, 1831 in Perry County, Alabama. He was the son of Jesse Franklin Fuller, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Jackson and the grandson of Green B. Jackson and Clara Yeates. 347 SEABORN W. HARVILL was the son of Thomas Harvill. 348 JEFFERSON F. FULLER was the son of Jesse Franklin Fuller and Mary Elizabeth Jackson and the grandson of Green B. Jackson, Clara Yeates, Sincy Browning and Elijah Fuller. He married Letha J. Harvill in 1849. 349 HILLARY T. COOK enlisted in the Perry Volunteers in May 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers as a private at Mobile on June 13, 1846. He served in the Mexican War and was mustered out of the army on May 27, 1847 at New Orleans, Louisiana. [Muster Roll] 350 JOHN ALFRED FULLER, SR. was born on July 29, 1824 in Perry County, Alabama and died on August 21, 1900 in Perry County. He married Cynthia Powell Miree on February 25, 1849 in Perry County. He was the son of Jesse Franklin Fuller, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Jackson and the grandson of Green B. Jackson and CLARA YEATES. John enlisted in the Perry Volunteers at Perryville, Alabama under Captain William G. Coleman on May 25, 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers. He was elected as second corporal and served a full year in Texas and Mexico. Fuller was mustered out at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. 351 MARY E. FULLER was born in November 1850 and died on September 12, 1864. 352 JAMES ROBERT FULLER was the son of Jesse Franklin Fuller and Mary Elizabeth Jackson. He died on January 10, 1891. He married Nancy Isabella Heard on July 15, 1868 in Union Parish, Louisiana. 353 Jane Jones was the second wife of Green B. Jackson who died in 1849 in Perry County, Alabama. She was the widow of John Adair at the time of her marriage to Jackson. Jane was born in 1776 in South Carolina and died in 1852. 354 Joseph Alexander Adair was the son of Jane Jones and John Adair. 355 George Washington Pardue operated a store in Perryville and served as the Postmaster for several years. [Heritage of Perry] 356 David McGee died on Sunday evening on June 10, 1855 at the age of sixty-two years in Perry County, Alabama. [SW Baptist, August 2, 1855] 357 Reverend Washington Wilkes married Georgia Alabama McGee to David T. Vincent on June 26, 1859 in Perry County. [SW Baptist, July 14, 1859] 358 MARY MILLER was the widow of Elijah Miller. 359 JOHN G. HEARD was a veteran of the Mexican War. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers at Mobile on June 13, 1846 and sailed to Mexico with his regiment on June 29, 1846, landing at Brazos Santiago, Texas on July 4, 1846. He was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on November 30, 1846 and discharged from the hospital on March 1, 1847. He was mustered out of the army at New Orleans on May 27, 1847. [Muster Roll] 360 JOSEPH HEARD was a veteran of the war with Mexico. He enlisted in the Perry Volunteers in May 1846 at Perryville and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile. He was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas from November 30, 1846 until March 1, 1847. He was mustered out of the army on May 27, 1847 at New Orleans. 361 THOMAS B. HEARD served as a private in Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers in the Mexican War. He enlisted with his brother at Mobile on June 13, 1846 and was mustered out of the army on May 27, 1847 at New Orleans. [Muster Roll] 362 Nancy Isabella Heard married John Robert Fuller, the son of Jesse Franklin Fuller and Mary Elizabeth Jackson. 363 WILLIAM G. COLEMAN was of Irish descent. He married Frances A. Johnson of South Carolina who was the daughter of William S. Johnson of Virginia. Frances died in 1840 and Coleman moved to Perry County, Alabama in 1844. He was a learned man who made contributions to Nicholson Encyclopedia and the secular press of South Carolina. With the outbreak of war with Mexico, Coleman raised a company of men known as the Perry Volunteers for service in Mexico. The company accumulated about one hundred men by May 25, 1846 and traveled to Mobile to be mustered into the First Regiment of Volunteers on June 13, 1846. Coleman led the Perry Volunteers, designated as Company C, until they were mustered out of the army on May 27, 1847 in New Orleans. After he returned from Mexico, he moved to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana in late 1850 where he was an outstanding citizen and political figure. In addition to his Mexican War service, he was a veteran of the Indian Wars of 1837. [Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana (The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1890); Stephen R. Butler, Alabama Volunteers in the Mexican War, 1846 - 1848 (Descendants of Mexican War Veterans, 1996)] 364 ELIZABETH P. MCLENDON was the daughter of Louis McLendon of Georgia. She was born on November 13, 1805 in Wilkes County, Georgia and died in Perry County, Alabama on June 13, 1860. She moved to Perry County, Alabama in 1822 with her husband and was baptized in 1826 into Shiloh Church in Perry County, later moving her membership to Pisgah Church in 1834. [SW Baptist, June 28, 1860] 365 JOHN ALFRED FULLER was the son of Elijah Fuller and Sincy Browning. Alfred was born on May 12, 1784 in Caswell County, North Carolina and married Susannah Burford on February 21, 1840 in Perry County. Fuller may have been a twin of Jesse F. Fuller. Alfred served in the War of 1812 as a private in a volunteer militia unit. 366 SUSANNAH BURFORD was born about 1793 in Greene County, Georgia. 367 BLAKE J. FULLER was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 while serving as a Lieutenant in Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment. [Herbert, 8th Alabama, Alabama Historical Quarterly] 368 The Town of Marion had a population of 1,544 free white persons in 1850. 369 MARY ELIZABETH MCCRAW was the daughter of Thomas Edward McCraw and Sarah Mitchell. [It is McCraw] 370 PEACHY BLEDSOE was a veteran of the Mexican War. He enlisted in the Perry Volunteers at Perryville, Alabama in May 1846 and was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers under the command of Colonel John R. Coffee on June 13, 1846 at Mobile. He served in Texas and Northern Mexico under General Zachary Taylor and in Southern Mexico under General Winfield Scott. Peachy was hospitalized at Tampico, Mexico and discharged on April 4, 1847. He was mustered out of the army on May 27, 1847 at New Orleans. 371 MURRELL W. OLIVER was the son of Thomas M. Oliver and Lucinda Tubb. Thomas Oliver was one of the constituent members of Siloam Church in Marion. 372 LUCINDA OLIVER was the widow of Thomas H. Oliver and died June 7, 1860 at her home near Marion, Alabama. She was born in Greenville District, South Carolina and moved to Perry County early in its history. She was a constituting member of Siloam Church in Marion. [SW Baptist, June 28, 1860] 373 THEOPHILIS H. LOCKETT died in 1852. [SW Baptist, February 2, 1852] 374 SAMUEL DONAGHUE was born in 1783 in Ireland are arrived in American as a stowaway on board a ship. 375 ERASMUS DONAGHUE enlisted in Company A of the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment at the age of thirty-one at Marion, Alabama on January 24, 1862. He was hospitalized on October 22, 1863 and discharged due to disability on March 31, 1864. He overcame his illness and rejoined his regiment in time for the fighting around Atlanta, Georgia where he was wounded on July 28, 1864 at the Battle of Ezra Church. In 1879, he moved to White County, Arkansas hoping to improve his financial status where he died at the age of forty-eight years. Erasmus was a Baptist and married Salina Osburn, the daughter of Willis Osborn and Lucy Oakes and the granddaughter of Isaac Oakes and Rachael Crane. [28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; Goodspeed's Eastern Arkansas] 376 WILLIAM C. HEARD was a veteran of the Mexican War. He was mustered into Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers as a private on June 13, 1846 at Mobile and was mustered out at New Orleans on May 27, 1847, having served for one year in Texas and Mexico. 377 ELIZABETH B. NELMS married Joseph Barron on November 2, 1853 with Reverend Washington Wilkes conducting the services. [SW Baptist, November 11, 1853] 378 JOHN C. BLASSINGAME's was elected as Second Lieutenant of Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers and John D. PHELAN, R. B. WALTHALL and J. P. GRAHAM, Election Tellers certified his election, on May 25, 1846. It is difficult to determine from the records that he actually served in the position to which he was elected.] 379 JOHN CUNNINGHAM died at his home on July 17, 1852 in Perry County, Alabama after a short and painful illness of six days. He was born in Lawrence District, South Carolina in September 1796. He moved to Perry County, Alabama about 1837. [SW Baptist, August 4, 1852] 380 REBECCA CUNNINGHAM married Dr. George W. Browder on May 6, 1851. [SW Baptist, May 14, 1851] 381 D. H. BRAME was the widow of Judge George Brame. She was born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia on April 11, 1786 and died on May 17, 1851. [SW Baptist, July 9, 1851] 382 EDWIN D. KING was a wealthy Baptist layman and trustee at the University of Alabama. He was an Alabama delegate in 1845 to the Augusta, Georgia meeting that led to the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention. He placed the following advertisement in the CAHAWBA PRESS: "Ran away on the 28th of July last [1822], my Negro man CHARLES: he is about twenty-four years of age, about five feet eleven inches high and well proportioned, his right arm is stiff occasioned by being broke in the elbow joint. Edwin D. King" [CAHAWBA PRESS, August 17, 1822] 383 MARGARET ELIZABETH KING married Joseph T. Lumpkin of Athens, Georgia on May 7, 1851 in Marion, Alabama. Milo P. Jewett performed the marriage rites. [SW Baptist, May 14, 1851] 384 MARY LOUISA KING married William W. Lumpkin of Athens Georgia on March 15, 1852 in Marion in services conducted by Reverend J. H. DeVotie. She graduated from Judson Institute in 1849. [SW Baptist, March 24, 1852] 385 JESSE M. COLE was born on January 19, 1799 in Newberry District, South Carolina and died on December 12, 1854 at his home in Perry County. He moved to Perry County in November 1819. He was a member of Hopewell Baptist Church and was considered by his peers and those who knew him as a "most estimatable and worthy member of" the church. [SW Baptist, March 22, 1855] 386 CATHERINE LOUISA COLE married Alexander J. Warford of Cahaba, Alabama on October 22, 1851 in services directed by Reverend Milo P. Jewett. Catherine graduated from Judson Institute with the class of 1857. [SW Baptist, October 29, 1851; History of Judson College] 387 THOMAS BILLINGSLEY was the first schoolteacher in Perry County, Alabama. He was born on February 16, 1781 in Montgomery County, North Carolina and died on October 9, 1850 in Perry County, Alabama. He married three times: 1) Elizabeth Abercrombie, daughter of Isaac Abercrombie, 2) Mary Crow, October 10, 1826, daughter of Charles Crow and Sarah Harlan, and 3) Mary E. Rutland, October 29, 1837. 388 Wife of ISAAC BILLINGSLEY. [SW Baptist, August 21, 1856] 389 JOHN HOWZE was born on January 25, 1822 at Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina and died on April 26, 1902 at Marion, Alabama. He was the son of HENRY YARBOROUGH HOWZE and KEKOMOISA MITCHELL and the grandson of JOHN HOWZE and DR. THOMAS MITCHELL. Howze was educated in the common schools of North Carolina. As a young man, he went to Mobile, Alabama to learn the cotton business in order to become a commission agent but moved to Perry County to become a farmer. He soon became a merchant and followed that occupation for fifty years. He operated a grocer store in Marion in partnership with LEWIS C. TUTT. The store became Howze and Hendrix in 1861. John was Captain of Company C (know as the Wyatt Guards) of the 4th Alabama Volunteer Militia in 1861 and was stationed at Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines on Mobile Bay. The Wyatt Guards were raised to fill a requisition of the Governor for state troops to provide for coastal defense. Howze married CLAUDIA CAROLINE CLAYTON in Athens, Georgia on October 1, 1845. Claudia was the daughter of AUGUSTIN SMITH CLAYTON and JULIA CARNES. Augustin Clayton was a prominent citizen, judge and member of Congress in Georgia. In 1860, John Howze owned ten slaves. The 1860 Perry County Mortality Schedule records that BRADLY HOWZE, aged one year, died in October 1859 in the Town of Marion of diarrhea after an illness of two weeks. After the war in 1868, Howze became a director of the Cahaba, Marion and Greensboro Rail Road. [Marion Cemetery; 1860 Slave Census, Perry County, Alabama; Owen, Alabama Biography, v III, p. 853; AHQ, v 24, 1962; Company C, 4th Regiment of Alabama Volunteers] 390 EMILY PARISH was the widow of Joel Parish and died at her home in Marion, Alabama on September 3, 1855 in her seventieth year. She was born May 1, 1785 and married Joel on December 18, 1804. She was converted to Christianity in 1820 and joined the Sandy Field Baptist Church in Orange County, North Carolina. She emigrated to Alabama in 1833. [SW Baptist, November 1, 1855] 391 Martha Ann Pleasant graduated from Judson Institute in 1858 and married W. B. Harrison. [History of Judson College] 392 ANDREW BARRY MOORE was born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina on March 7, 1807. His brother was General Thomas Moore represented his home state in the U. S. Congress. Moore was well-educated and first visited Perry County in 1826 on business and was persuaded to remain and start a school that he ran for two years. He then read law in the offices of Elisha Young and Sidney M. Goode. He became a justice of the peace and was elected to the Alabama Legislature in 1839 and again in 1842. He became Speaker of the House in 1843 and 1844. In 1852, he became a Circuit Judge where he served until 1857 when he resigned to run for governor of Alabama. He won the election and was reelected in 1859 in time to preside over the secession of Alabama and the formation of the Confederacy. Moore threw himself into the cause of Southern Independence as governor and served his successor as a special aide-de-camp. With the collapse of the Confederacy, Moore was imprisoned at Fort Pulaski near Savannah, Georgia. He was released in August 1865 because of his health. He returned to Marion, Alabama and practiced law. Physically he was six feet tall, stoutly built, with pleasant features and a florid complexion. He was the model of decency, sincerity, cordiality and public spirit and was universally popular. His fortune was lost during the war. [Brewer, Alabama] 393 JAMES FRANCIS BAILEY was born on January 21, 1811 in Wilkes County, Georgia and died on April 18, 1889 at Marion, Alabama. His parents were JOHN GUINN and MARY BAILEY of Wilkes County, Georgia who moved to Perry County about 1818 and settled in the eastern part of the county near Perryville, then the county seat of government, where he became a farmer. James graduated from the University of Alabama in 1834 and studied at the University of Virginia. He opened a law office in Marion in 1837 where he associated himself with attorney JOHN N. WALTHALL. With the outbreak of the Mexican War, he joined the Perry Volunteers and was mustered into Company C of the 1st Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846 at Mobile. He represented Perry County in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1847-48 and was elected the first Probate Judge of the county serving until 1865. Bailey was a secessionist, attended the 1861 Alabama Secession Convention, and voted to withdraw from the Union. After Alabama seceded from the Union, Governor ANDREW BARRY MOORE placed Bailey on the Alabama Committee on Military Affairs. He was a member of Siloam Baptist Church in Marion. In 1860, Bailey owned seventeen slaves. Judge Bailey was a student of meteorology and developed into a pioneer student of the subject, writing and publishing his theories that stand up well in the weather predictions of today. He was a Democrat and a member of the Siloam Baptist Church in Marion. He was a trustee of Howard College from 1853 through 1880. [Lovelace, Siloam History, p. 18; Heritage, v. I, p. 180-183; 1860 Slave Census of Perry County; Owen, Alabama Biography, v III, p. 72; Steven R. Butler, Editor, Alabama Volunteers in the Mexican War 1846-1848, (A Publication of The Descendants of the Mexican War Veterans, Richardson, Texas, 1996) p. 66; Brewer, Alabama History] 394 Allen P. Bland married Mary A. Futrell on April 21, 1857 in Perry County, Alabama and married a second time to Martha A. E. Ferguson. He moved to Choctaw County, Mississippi after the War for Southern Independence where he died and is buried in the Providence Methodist Cemetery north of Maben Mississippi. Martha was born on December 7, 1846 and died on October 22, 1921 in Webster County, Mississippi. [William G. Latham] 395 Jane Cannon died in Perry County, Alabama on November 27, 1850 seven miles north of Marion, Alabama. She was born in Pendleton District, South Carolina and migrated from there to Alabama with her parents. Jane married John Sanders on September 24, 1829. She was the daughter of William Cannon of Kemper County, Mississippi. [SW Baptist, November 12, 1850] 396 GEORGE W. CARTER was born May 1, 1839 and died on February 24, 1906. He is buried in the Woolley Family Cemetery in Perry County. 397 JAMES ANDERSON BOYLES died on November 1, 1865. 398 James Tubb was born on July 10, 1799 in Greenville, District, South Carolina and died on April 20, 1856 of heart disease at the age of fifty-six years. He moved with his parents to Dickson County, Tennessee as a child and migrated to Perry County, Alabama on November 25, 1826. Tubb was received into the membership of Union Church by Baptism in December 1828 and was dismissed by letter from that church in November 1845. As the census record shows, he left a wife and a large number of children. [SW Baptist, May 22, 1856] 399 John Tubb died at his father's home on September 4, 1850 of typhoid and intermittent fever at the age of almost 21. [SW Baptist, September 18, 1850] 400 Margaret Tubb was the widow of Richard Tubb died at her home in Perry County, Alabama on November 19, 1857 at the age of sixty-six years. She joined the Baptist Church in 1817. [SW Baptist, February 4, 1858] 401 JAMES SCARBOROUGH married ELIZABETH MITCHELL in February or March of 1829. He died October 13, 1855. 402 CATHERINE NANCY SCARBOROUGH married ROBERT LEWIS MOORE and moved to Milam County, Texas. 403 Sarah Ann Scarborough was the daughter of James Scarborough and Mary Elizabeth Mitchell. 404 Elizabeth Derdin died of consumption at her home thirteen miles north of Marion at the age of twenty-nine years. [SW Baptist, February 12, 1851] 405 Samuel Wherry was the son of Samuel Wherry. 406 Robert B. Richardson died in Perry County, Alabama on February 12, 1857 at the age of fourteen years, one month and twelve days. "The deceased was taken with typhoid fever in September which brought on dropsy." [SW Baptist, February 26, 1857] 407 OBEDIAH BELCHER was born on January 28, 1805 and died on September 11, 1869. He owned fifteen slaves in 1860. He enlisted in the Jeff Davis Artillery on August 26, 1863 at Randolph, Alabama at the age of 58 years. His enlistment came less than two months after the battle of Gettysburg and helped to replace losses at that battle. He reported to duty at Morton's Ford on the Rapidan River in Virginia to help guard against a Federal advancement at that place. However, Obadiah was unable to tolerate the hardships of camp life in Virginia during the winter of 1863 because of his advanced age. He was discharged from the Confederate Army due to physical disability on January 1, 1864 after three months of service. The nature of his disability is not stated on his Certificate of Disability. Belcher was the son of BEVERLY BELCHER who died in 1834. The known siblings of Obadiah were WASHINGTON, THOMAS M., ROBERT, MARY, NANCY, WILLIAM and JOHN. [Wooley-Edmonds Cemetery in North Perry County, Alabama; 1860 Slave Census; Lawrence R. Laboda, From Selma to Appomattox, The History of the Jeff Davis Artillery (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1994) pp. 163, 183, 328 and 362; Heritage of Perry County, Alabama, p. 65; Compiled Service Record for Alabama Soldiers] 408 MARY COON was born on November 13, 1805 and died on August 14, 1866. She is buried in the Woolley Family Cemetery. [Headstone Inscription] 409 Frances Thomas Edmonds graduated from Judson Institute in the Class of 1860. 410 PERRY M. DUKE was born on November 10, 1835 and died on January 8, 1867. He is buried in the Wooley family cemetery in Perry County, Alabama. [Headstone Inscriptions]