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signed the position and became railroad agent at Harris. In addition to his duties as agent, Mr. Andrews is extensively engaged in farming, and is also administrator of the large estate of his father, which consisted of 3,000 acres of land owned jointly with B. B. Conner, and 1,500 acres be- longing exclusively to the Andrews family. Mr. Andrews has been a leading politician of Barbour county for some years, but not until recently would he permit the use of his name for any official position. At the earnest solicitation of his many friends he offered himself, in the spring of 1891, as candidate for the office of county treasurer, and such was his popularity that he was complimented by receiving the nomination on the first ballot by a very flattering majority. Mr. Andrews is deservedly popular with the people of Barbour county, and is certainly a business man of superior sagacity. He is a member of Ebenezer lodge, No. 210, F. & A. M., and also to the Pythian order. His wife, Lena Boyer, daughter of George Boyer, whom he married on the 25th of April, 1888. has borne him two children: Ernestine and Rhett. Dr. Andrews' father was born in Wilkes county, Ga., in the year 1819. He grad- uated from the medical department of the Pennsylvania university, began the practice at Eufaula, Ala., in 1841, and followed the pro- fession there till 1859, at which time located in the vicinity of Spring Hill. He married his first wife, Martha Daniel, in 1842, and by her be- came the father of several children, but one of whom, W. D. Andrews, is living. Mrs. Andrews died in 1856, and three years later the doctor took to wife Laura Wilson, who bore him three children, two of whom are living at this time, namely: Eloise, wife of G. W. Grant; Eva, at- tending school at Huntsville, and Alfred, a student of an educational in- stitution at the town of Midway, Ala. Dr. Andrews was a prominent member of the Methodist church and for many years exerted a powerful influence for good in the community. He departed this life in August, 1881.
J. K. BATTLE, M. D., a physician of well known ability and extended reputation, is a native of Barbour county, Ala., born in the city of Eufaula, August 25, 1830. He is the son of J. K. and Sarah Battle. His education in the common schools was supplemented by a course in Mer- cer university, Macon, Ga., which he attended from 1876 to 1880, and in the latter year began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. P. D. L. Barker, under whose instructions he continued for a period of twelve months. In the fall of 1880, he entered the medical department of Tulane university, New Orleans, and, graduating from the same in 1883, returned to Eufaula and engaged in the practice of his profession, in which his superior abilities have won for him a prominent place. He has distin- guished himself in all departments of his chosen calling, and, though still a young man, has made a reputation of which many older professional men might well feel proud. Dr. Battle was married December 6, 1886, to Effie Jennings, daughter of Robert and Flora Jennings. Mrs. Battle's.
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people moved to Barbour county, just after the late war, and she is one of a family of eight children, all daughters. Politically, the doctor is a democrat, and fraternally belongs to the F. & A. M. and Pythian orders. In religion the Baptist church represents his creed, while Mrs. Battle is a communicant of the Methodist church. Dr. Battles' father, a native of Barbour county, was a man of scholarly attainments and a graduate of Harvard college. He prepared himself for the Baptist ministry, but shortly after entering upon the duties of his sacred vocation was called away by death, leaving one son, Dr. J. K. His wife, Sarah Hunter, is connected with the noted Hunter family, as are also many of Eufaula's prominent citizens. The doctor's paternal grandfather, Cullen Battle, moved to Eufaula, Ala., from Milledgeville, Ga., in the year 1837, but was a native of North Carolina. In his last years he practiced the heal- ing art, later followed planting, and lived to the remarkable age of ninety- six years. Maj. J. L. Hunter, the doctor's maternal grandfather, was a son of Gen. J. L. Hunter, who for many years was a prominent man of South Carolina, where he served with distinction in the state legisla- ture as an opponent of Gen. Jackson's administration, taking an active part in favor of the nullification ordinance. He came to Alabama in 1835, and became quite prominent in the political affairs of the state, having served a number of years in the general assembly. He amassed great wealth, and was one of the largest slave-holders in Barbour county, while he lived.
J. T. BELL, the gentleman whose name introduces this mention is one of the enterprising planters of Barbour county, and also one of the best known representative citizens. The Bell family came originally from England and settled in South Carolina at an early period in the history of that state, and was first represented in Baldwin county, Ala., in 1832, by John Bell, father of J. T., who purchased a home about four miles southwest of the town of Clayton. John Bell was a soldier in the Indian war of 1836, and by occupation a farmer. He was married in the year 1828 in South Carolina to Laney Hurst and be- came the father of five children: Mary, William, J. T., Kervin and Melissa, wife of F. M. Farrier, the last-named member of the family de- ceased. The mother of these children died in 1875, and the father's death occurred in 1890, at the advanced age of eighty-four, having been born in South Carolina in the year 1806. J. T. Bell is a native of Barbour county, Ala., where he first saw the light on the 10th day of June, 1841. Denied the privilege of a collegiate training, he, nevertheless, received a practical English education in the schools of his county, which, supplemented by a life of close observation and general reading, has made him one of the most intelligent and well informed men of the community of which, for a number of years, he has been such a conspicuous member. Few men of Barbour county can boast of as brilliant a military record as Mr. Bell; note it: from the spring of
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1861, until the spring of 1865, from First Bull Run to the surrender at Appomattox. He enlisted in a company known as the Barbour Grays, for the Fifth Alabama infantry, and did valiant and efficient service in the campaigns of Virginia and participated in nearly all of the bloody battles from Bull Run to the final surrender, including Seven Pines, Seven days' fight near Richmond, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Wilderness, Freder- icksburg, Gettysburg, Winchester, Strasburg, and from May 4th till June 9, 1864, took part in nine different battles, none of which are in- cluded in the list enumerated. During the greater part of the year 1864, he was with his command in the trenches and was present when the ban- ner of the Confederacy went down with Lee at Appomattox. Mr. Bell was wounded in the hand about an half hour before Stonewall Jackson met his death, and was taken to the same hospital in which that noted general breathed his last; was also wounded in both legs at the battle of Strasburg and barely escaped capture at the Wilderness, he and a single comrade being the only ones who broke through the ranks of the surrounding enemy. Returning home when the war closed, Mr. Bell en- gaged in farming and has since followed that useful calling in Barbour county, where he now owns a large plantation of 1,000 acres, beside that amount of land in the town of Ozark. His home is a large, beautiful, typical southern place, his hospitality is unbounded, and, believing that the good things of this world were created for use, he is enjoying his prosperity. He is in every sense of the word a successful self-made man, and Barbour county boasts of few citizens who have made as much out of life as Mr. Bell. On the 7th day of March, 1861, Sallie, daughter of Jimsey and Rachel Cox, became the wife of Mr. Bell, and ten children are the result of this union, namely: John, Mack, William A., Sarah, wife of W. O. Stallings, Edward, Kervin, Thomas, George, Mary and Ben- jamin, all of whom are living.
C. H. BISHOP is a native of Alabama and was born within two miles of Clayton, in Barbour county, on the 28th day of June, 1858. His father, Bolin Bishop, was born in Florida in the year 1815, and came to Barbour county when a young man, settling near Spring Hill, where he lived until his death in 1873. He was married, about the year 1839, to Nancy Streater, and became the father of six children, three sons and three daughters, namely: Mary, wife of H. J. Williamson; Emma, wife of M. L. Passmore; W. S., merchant at Spring Hill; J. M., agent for the B. B. Comer estate; Carrie, deceased at the age of eighteen, and C. H. C. H. Bishop with a good common school education began life as a farmer, and from the early age of seventeen has been fighting his own battles. After re- maining on the home farm three years he engaged as clerk in a mercan- tile establishment at Spring Hill, and in 1877 became manager of the B. B. Comer business and farming interests, in which capacity he is still acting. He began this work at the insignificant remuneration of $10 per month, but, by successful management and superior business sagacity,
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has since been enabled to accumulate very valuable property and is now the possessor of two large plantations, one of 2,700 acres in Barbour county, and another, consisting of 1,070 acres, in the county of Bullock. Mr. Bisohp is systematic, punctual and correct in all his business trans- actions, and, possessing a genial nature and eminent social qualities, has become very popular among all with whom he comes in contact. He has a beautiful home and interesting family and is a true type of the courte- ous and intelligent southern gentleman. His first marriage was solemn ized in October, 1878, with Laura Long, whose death occurred in June of the following year. In December, 1831, Mr. Bishop married Edna Long, a sister of his first wife, and by her is the father of three children, two of whom, John Fletcher and Harry Brannon, are living. Mr. Bishop and wife are members of the Methodist church and he is a master Mason, belonging to Ebenezer lodge.
DR. ALFRED BOYD .- Capt. Archibald Boyd, father of Dr. Alfred Boyd, was a native of South Carolina and was a successful merchant and farmer at Prosperity, Newberry district, that state. He was the father of two sons, Alfred and Joseph, and two daughters, Eliza and Polly. Dr. Alfred Boyd was born in Newberry district, S. C., began his school days at Prosperity, and completed his literary education at Lexington, S. C. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestory. He was married to Carrie A. Jones in December, 1834, and in 1835 they went to Fayette county, Tenn., to spend a few months with relatives, but about this time the Indians began hostilities and they were compelled to remain much longer than they at first intended, and he therefore began teaching as principal of the school at Somerville, his wife assisting, and they occupied themselves in this way for two years. During this period the two important events, both to the country and to them, occurred-the removal of the Indians west of the Mississippi river, and there was born to them a son, Caspar W., the eldest of a family of eleven. Caspar W. was educated at Tuskegee, Ala., and, in 1861, enlisted in the southern army to defend the cause of the Confederate States. He was at this time preparing for the practice of medicine. He was ordered with the Fifteenth Alabama infantry to Vir- ginia, and there served faithfully in Jackson's army until the battle of Port Republic, June 8, 1862, in which he fell mortally wounded. Of the other ten children, three girls died in infancy. Following are the names of the other sons who grew to maturity: James P., who enlisted in August, 1862, and died at home, in 1864, from exposure and disease con- tracted in the army; Joseph A. E., enlisted November, 1862, and died at Chattanooga, Tenn., of injuries and exposures in the early part of 1865; Hansford D. enlisted at a youthful age in April, 1865, but was soon dis- charged because of the termination of the war. He is now, and has been for twenty-five years, a practicing dentist of reputation at Troy, Ala .; was one of the originators of the Alabama Dental association in 1869, and has been many times honored by election to important offices in the
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association; Milton P. died at the age of eighteen years, a bright and promising young man; William P., now a successful merchant and planter at Nevada. Tex .; Archibald J., who was a practicing dentist for several years and died at Chipley, Fla., in May, 1891; Clary L., the youngest of the eleven children, is a dentist of eight years' practice, residing at Eufaula, Ala. He was born February 11, 1860, at Dublin, Ala. The father of these children, Dr. Alfred Boyd, had no political aspirations. He was a royal arch Mason, and a loyal and pious member of the Baptist church. Socially and otherwise he was a citizen worthy of all respect. After leaving Ten- nessee in 1837, he settled with his family in Pike county, Ala., and taught school at Orion and at Troy until 1844. He then took up the study of med- icine and went to Charleston, S. C., where he attended the medical college during two regular winter courses, graduating in the spring of 1846. He immediately returned to Alabama, locating at Dublin, Montgomery county, and during his first year's residence both he and his wife taught school, he at the same time building up his medical practice. At the expiration of this first year his practice had become so extensive that he was under the necessity of devoting to it his entire time, and followed it closely and exclusively until 1862, when he removed to Ramer, in the same county, and here had a large practice until 1869. In this year he removed to Troy, Pike county, soon building up a fine practice, which he followed until broken down by overwork and age, when he died of general debility, September 21, 1882, being within a few months of sixty-nine years of age. In his nature he was most humane, and dispensed to the suffering poor much service and medicine free. He lived the life of a devout Christian, with character unassailed and unimpeached. He was encouraged in his life work by a devoted and pious companion, and his children were reared to maturity as models of respectability and piety. Many incidents connected with his forty-eight years of married life might be related which would be of great interest to his posterity, but such a relation would seem out of place in a work of this kind. . A few sentences are added in reference to his youngest son, Clary L. Boyd. The education he received at the common schools of Ramer, Montgomery county, and Troy, Pike county, was supplemented by a short course at Hickory Withe high school, Fayette county, Tenn., and in 1889 he graduated from the dental department of Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn. In April of the same year he located at Eufaula, where his office is elegantly fitted up with all the modern appliances of his profession. He is a member of the Alabama Dental association, and is now its president. He is also a member of the Baptist church, a Knight of Pythias and a democrat. He was married October 13, 1886, at Pine Level, Montgomery county, to Miss Willie L. Crow, daughter of William L. and Mattie E. Crow. To this union have been born three children: Molena, who died at the age of three months; Willie Wray (son) and Artie Lynn (daughter). Few, if any, dentists in the state stand higher in their profession than Dr. Boyd.
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Carrie Ann Boyd, relict of Dr. Alfred Boyd, died at Nevada, Tex., July 23, 1892, at the mature age of seventy-three years and three months. She was as lovable a character as a human could be; she was a persistent and consistent Christian, exerting always an influence for good on those with whom she came in contact.
J. J. BRADLEY, prominent farmer and business man of Mt. Andrew, is a native of Alabama, born in the year 1847, January 20th, in Barbour county. Paternally he is descended from Irish ancestors, his grandfather, Hobbs Bradley, emigrating to America from the Emerald Isle at an early date and settling in Delaware, thence moving to Edgefield district, S. C., where his death occurred many years ago. Robert Bradley, father of J. J., was born in Edgefield district, S. C., about the year 1809, and shortly after his marriage in 1831, to Elizabeth Kemp, emigrated to Alabama and settled near the village of Clayton. He belonged to a class of well-to-do planters and was noted for his general intelligence and thorough acquaint- ance with political matters, having been an ardent whig and vigorous opposer of secession. After the state seceded, however, he felt it to be his duty to stand by the Confederacy, accordingly he and eight of his sons, three of whom fell in battle, fought during the war, under the stars and bars and did valorous service for the southern cause. He had previously been a soldier in the Indian war of 1836, and his military record was replete with duty bravely and conscientiously performed. He departed this life in 1881; his wife preceded him to the grave, dying in 1873. Of the ten children born to Robert and Elizabeth Bradley, the following are now living, namely : Salathial, George, J. J., Mrs. Martha Kennedy and Robert T. J. J. Bradley was reared a farmer and appears to have inherited the military instinct of his father. He responded to the call of his beloved state in 1863, as a private in company A, First Alabama volunteer infan- try, and served as such until the close of the war, participating in the bat- tles of the Atlanta campaign, Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., and surrend- ered at Greensboro, N. C., in 1865. For two years following the war he lived under the parental roof and at the end of that time took service with Col. Clark, as superintendent of that gentleman's large plantation, in which capacity he continued for a period of nine years. With the money realized during that period he purchased land near Mt. Andrew, and has followed the farmer's vocation with gratifying success ever since, owning at this time a fine plantation of 350 acres, the greater part of which is under an advanced state of cultivation. In 1875 Mr. Bradley embarked in the goods trade at Mt. Andrew, and is still conducting that line of business with financial profit, having a very extensive trade in the town and adjacent country. He has borne no little part in matters political, and as a democrat was elected to the office of county commis- sioner, the duties of which he discharged with credit to himself and sat- isfaction to all concerned, for one term. Mr. Bradley is a gentleman of straight forward unassuming manner, correct in his deportment and hon-
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orable in all of his transactions with his fellow-citizens. As a member of the Methodist church he has exerted a wholesome influence for religion and morality in the community, and his connection with the Masonic fra- ternity has brought him into prominent notice with the active workers of that order in Barbour and other counties. Mr. Bradley was happily mar- ried on the 27th of April, 1871, to Eliza C., daughter of Jere Smith, and one child, a daughter, Roxie, a young lady of seventeen, is the issue of the union.
EDWARD COURTENAY BULLOCK .- A former biographer opens his sketch of this gifted man with these words: "Barbour cherishes the memory of the beloved and matchless Bullock. What a splendid future was for- bidden to be realized by Fate's harsh mandate in his untimely fall." It is not easy at this distance of time to get together a complete sketch of the life of this eminent subject, but from various authentic sources we are able to present the following:
Col. E. C. Bullock was a son of a Charleston, S. C., merchant, who had come to that city from the state of Rhode Island, His mother was a Courtenay. He was born on the 7th of December, 1822, and was gradu- ated at Harvard college in 1842, and the following year settled in Eufaula. For two years he engaged in the profession of school teaching, but used. his spare time to such advantage that he was admitted to the bar in 1845. From this time until his death his career was one of marked success. He soon became connected in a law partnership with John A. Calhoun, a nephew of the immortal John C., and afterward a member of the firm of Pugh, Bullock & Buford. This was known as the strongest law firm in Alabama in days when the law was a profession worthy the best minds the country could afford. In 1857 he became the candidate of the demo- cratic party for the state senate, and, being elected, filled that responsi- ble position for four years with credit to himself and profit to the district. he represented. Being an earnest advocate of the principles of democ- racy, as interpreted by Calhoun, he very early in the struggle sup- ported the doctrine of secession, and upon the election of Jefferson Davis to the presidency of the Confederacy he was selected to represent his state in the delivery of a formal address of welcome to the president and his party, as they entered her precincts for the inaugural ceremonies. The tocsin of war found him ready to defend his principles by action, and, resigning his seat in the senate, he became a private in the Eufaula rifles. While stationed at Pensacola his legal abilities were ยท recognized by Gen. Bragg in the appointment of judge advocate, and upon the organization of the Eighteenth Alabama he was appointed its colonel. The regiment was stationed at Mobile, and it was while in the discharge of his duties here that he contracted the typhoid fever, which proved fatal to him. He had begged Gen. Bragg to let him be present at the bombardment at Pensacola, and the telegram announcing that event came on the very day he was first stricken. Rallying under the excitement of
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the occasion, he went immediately to Pensacola, but soon had to yield to the strong arm of disease. After three weeks he was removed to Mont- gomery by his friend, Dr. W. O. Baldwin, at whose house he died two weeks later, the 23d of December, 1861. He was buried Christmas day at Eufaula. Cut off in the very threshold of a brilliant career, Col. Bullock is mourned by a host of friends and his devoted family, while the state cherishes his memory in the name of one of her best counties. In his appearance he was most prepossessing. Tall and well-formed, in weight about 160 pounds, with broad, intellectual forehead and large mouth, "his noble features in repose were only the princely castle at dusk- before the lamps are lighted, and gave no idea of the magic transformation which in an instant the splendid illumination of his mirthfulness and genius could effect." Senator James L. Pugh said of him: "He was the best organized man I ever knew. His temper and taste were perfect. His whole nature was genial, refined and gentle. His mind was remarkable for its activity and brilliancy. His personal integrity and devotion to principle, duty, and truth were very striking. He was a fine lawyer and an able advocate; and his high personal character, honorable nature, and irresistible wit and elegance made him a lawyer and statesman of as high promise as any man who ever lived in Alabama." Those who were hon- ored with his acquaintance in life remember him as a most brilliant con- versationalist, and possessed of most wonderful powers of witticism. Indeed his happy facility in the use of wit was something remarkable. There was no effort; simply an irresistible bubbling up that convulsed his auditors while it left no impression of a studied effort. Col. Bullock was married in Eufaula, in December of 1845, to Mary Julia, daughter of Capt. William Snipes. To the marriage there were born four children: Eliza M., in charge of the Girls' high school, Montgomery, Ala .; Edward C., Jr .; Sallie, wife of I. R. Moulthrop, Eufaula, Ala., and Hattie, who died in infancy.
Edward C., Jr., only son of Edward Courtenay Bullock, was born on the 20th of June, 1849, in Eufaula, Ala. After attendance at the Jesuit college, near Mobile, Ala., for several sessions, he, in 1868, entered the drug house of Weedon & Dent, Eufaula, since which time he has. given his entire attention to the business. He clerked for several years, then started a business of his own. Again he clerked for a period, when, in 1877, he began at his present location, where he conducts one of the finest drug stores in the city. He was married in Eufaula on the 26th of April, 1883, to Eva, daughter of John O. Martin, and to the union have been born four children: E. C., Jr., Lela M., John M. and Clayton D.
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