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country. He is a democrat, and has been postmaster at Old Spring Hill for fourteen years.
MIMS WALKER, a prominent planter of Faunsdale, Ala., was born in Pulaski county, Ga., November 5, 1838. His parents were Charles and Margaret (Jemison) Walker, both of whom were natives of Georgia. George Walker, the originator of the Walker family in America, was a native of Ireland, and came with: his brother John to this country in 1750. He settled, lived and died in Georgia. He had twelve children, one of whom was named George. He was born and reared in Georgia, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He was the father of nine children, one of whom was named Charles, the father of Mims Walker. Charles Walker was also born and reared in Georgia, and was a planter all his life. He came to Alabama in 1820, and here married Miss Margaret Jemison, who was born in Georgia, and who was a daughter of William Jemison. She was a sister of Hon. Robert Jemison. well known among the public men of Alabama. She was about fourteen years of age when her parents came to Alabama in 1819, they settling in Tuscaloosa county. Charles and Margaret Walker had three sous and two daughters, who lived to mature years, viz. : David S., now deceased; Mims; John, who was a captain in the Thirty-sixth Alabama infantry, and was killed at Resaca, Ga. Sallie and Margaret were the daughters. In 1852 Charles Walker removed from Georgia to Alabama, settling in the cane brake region of Marengo county, where he died in 1878, at the age of seventy- eight years. The mother had died in Georgia in 1845. Mims Walker was fourteen years old when his father came to Alabama. He had attended school in Georgia, and after coming to Alabama he attended the university of North Carolina. at Chapel Hill, that state, taking two courses of study there, and then taking up civil engineering, which. how- ever, he did not complete. In April, 1861. he became a private soldier in the Fourth Alabama infantry, and served through the entire war. In 1862 he was appointed to the staff of Gen. E. M. Law, with the rank of captain, and served in that capacity until the surrender. At the close of the war, Mr. Walker took up farming in Marengo county, and has con- tinued in that occupation ever since. He is now one of the most exten- sive and successful planters in Alabama, He owns very large possessions in the cane-brake regions, the best section in the state for farming. Mr. Walker began with limited capital and under adverse circumstances, but by strict attention and correct methods, he has become a conspicuous success. He is now president, and has been for some years of the Wat- kins Mercantile and Banking company, of Faunsdale, Ala. He has been an ardent democrat in politics, and for eight years he was county com- missioner of Marengo county. From 1580 to 1886, he was a member of the legislature as a representative from Marengo county. In 1864 he was married to Miss Mary Gray Pitts, daughter of P. H. Pitts, of' Perry county, Ala., and by her he has four daughters and one son. He and his
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family are members of the Presbyterian church, and he is a royal arch Mason.
HENRY ASHBY WOOLF was a distinguished lawyer. He was born in Marengo county, Ala., 1826. His father. James B. Woolf, was a native of Kentucky, and in that state was married to a Miss Cook. He came from Kentucky to Alabama in 1818, and- was one of the earliest of Marengo county's pioneers. in which county he lived and died. He was a planter by occupation, and reared a family of four sons and four daugh- ters. Henry Ashby Woolf, one of these sons, was reared on a plantation and received a fair common school education in his youth. While still a a young man he removed to Linden, Marengo county. and began the study of law under the learned and distinguished Judge William M. Brooks. now of Birmingham. Being admitted to the bar he became a partner of his preceptor, and remained at the bar in Linden until his death in October, 1879. He represented Marengo county several times in the lower house of the state legislature, and was a member of the state constitutional convention. Aside from these he held no positions of importance, preferring to devote himself to his profession, and as a law- yer he enjoyed an enviable reputation. He. however, devoted consider- able time and energy to agriculture, and accumulated a fine estate by his efforts as an attorney and as an agriculturist. He was married in 1849 to Miss Frances Gholson. of Alabama, by whom he has had two sons and six daughters. One son died young and two of the daughters are deceased. The son living is Samuel Gholson Woolf, an attorney by pro- fession, and the probate judge of Marengo county. to which office he was elected in August, 1892. for a term of six years. In 1888-89 he repre- sented Marengo county in the legislature. He was born in 1853. and was educated at the university of Kentucky at Lexington, which he attended two years. He then studied law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. since which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of the law. He was married in 1879 to Miss Fanny Pickering, of Dayton, Ala. She died in March, 1891, leaving three children. Mr. Woolf is a member of the Baptist church. He is a royal arch Mason and a member of the order, Knights of Pythias.
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DR. JAMES W. COLLINS, a prominent physician and surgeon of Guin, Marion county, Ala., was born in Lamar county, December 17, 1851. the sixth in a family of eleven children born to James T. and Mary M. (Shaw) Collins, natives respectively of Georgia and Tennessee. The paternal grandfather was George Collins of Georgia, and the maternal grandfather was Joseph Shaw of Tennessee. James W. Collins was reared in Alabama, and received his early education at private schools, prepara- tory to his entrance into the Louisville, Ky., Medical college, in 1874,
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where he was under training for one session, after which he returned to Lamar county, Ala .. where he practiced medicine until 1890, when he . removed to Guin, Marion county, where he now has a lucrative list of patients. He is also a merchant and farmer. In his capacity as merchant he carries a stock valued at 83,00), and his farm of 300 acres is a model of neatness. Besides his farm he owns town property valued at $5,000, and is altogether a prosperous and honored citizen. The marriage of the doctor took place in 1878, to Miss Frances Taylor, a native of Alabama, and daughter of Pinckney Taylor of Georgia. This union has been favored with the birth of five children, named as follows: William O., Charlie E .. Thomas E., James E. and Aggie. The doctor is a member of the Missionary Baptist church, and of the Masonic fraternity, in both of which bodies he has the admiration and esteem of all the other members. In politics he is a democrat, and although he has never himself 'aspired to political preferment, he does all in his power to elect good and efficient democrats to the county and state offices. Dr. Collins is a self-made business man. He began his career at the age of twenty, with no capital save determination and a sound intellect, his present comfortable circum- stances being the result.
DANIEL N. COOPER, United States commissioner, with residence at Hamilton, Marion county, Ala., is of ante-Revolutionary stock and of Scotch-Irish extraction. He was born in Knox county, Ohio, March 31, 1842, the fourth in a family of six children, born to Thompson and Rebecca (Craig) Cooper. His paternal grandparents were Daniel and Eilen Cooper, of New Jersey, the former being a relative of John With- erspoon, of that state-a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The maternal grandparents were William and Mary Craig, natives respect- ively of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Daniel M. Cooper was educated at Mount Vernon (Ohio) high school and passed his early years in the state of his birth. In 1862 he enlisted in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio infantry, was commissioned first lieutenant of the company, and served until the close of the struggle, taking part in the siege of Vicksburg, the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, around Mobile and at Grand Couteau. He was in Buell's army during that general's race with Bragg through Kentucky, and was finally mustered out at Mobile. In 1867 he came to Alabama and engaged in cotton planting in Lawrence county for ten years. In 1878 he was appointed deputy United States marshal, and filled the position four years, doing much to exterminate the "moonshin- ers" in western Alabama; he was then appointed United States commis- sioner, the office he at present holds. He is quite prominent in state politics, and has been a member of the republican state executive con- mittee for a number of years. He was a delegate to the republican national convention at Chicago in 1533, and to the convention at Minne- apolis in 1892. Mr. Cooper has not only taken an active part . in . politics in Alabama, but has also interested himself in her material progress. He was
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a director in the Warrior Coalfield Railway company, whose road was design- ed to penetrate one of the finest mineral regions of the state, and is very liberal in his contributions to all enterprises tending to develop the state's natural resources. He is the owner of 2,500 acres of fine land, of which 200 are under cultivation, and considerable other property. He is a thoroughgoing business man. full of enterprise and public spirit. which qualities have gained for him the high position he holds in the esteem of the community in which he so happily cast his lot.
ALBERT J. HAMILTON, of Hamilton. Marion county, Ala., is a native of the county, and was born December 7, 1833, the second of eight chil- dren born to John and Jane (Hamilton) Hamilton, natives, respectively, of Georgia and Tennessee. Martin Hamilton, his paternal grandfather, was a native of Indiana, and his maternal grandfather, George Hamliton, was born in Tennessee. Albert J. Hamilton was reared and educated in his native county, and in 1861 enlisted in company G, Sixteenth Alabama infantry, in which he performed active duty for fifteen months, when he was released on account of ill health. After an absence from the army of about four months, he assisted in organizing company I, Fifth Missis- sippi cavalry, and was elected its third lieutenant, and was wounded at the battle of Thompson's Station, while leading his company. After serving some time in this company, he raised a company in Marion county, Ala., of which he was made captain, and which became com- pany F, of the Seventh Alabama regiment. This copmany he led until the end of the war. During his miliatry service, he took part at Thomp- son's Station, Harrisburg, Nunon and Athens. In the battle at Thomp- son's Station he was wounded. as above mentioned, in the left shoulder. by a minie ball, which caused his retirement for two months. after which he returned and fought until the close of hostilities, when he was paroled at Decatur. Capt. Hamilton has taken quite an active part in the politics of Marion county, and of the state, being an ardent demo- crat, and never having voted any other ticket. In 1865 he was elected sheriff, and served one term: he also served in the legislature in 1869, 1872-4 and 1875, with much credit to himself, and to the entire satisfac- tion of his constituents. In his vocation as planter he has been alto- gether successful, and in conjunction with farming. he conducts a grist mill. His real estate interests comprise 8.000 acres. 300 of which he keeps under cultivation. In 1965 the captain was happily married to Miss Mary L. Terrell, a native of Alabama, and daughter of Judge John D. Terrell, of Georgia. who was a judge of probate for forty con- secutive years, in Marion county, Ala. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton seven children have been born, viz. : Albert J., Ella, Ida, Effie, John, Icy and Harry. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, while Mr. Hamilton has been a mem- ber of . the Masonic fraternity for many years, and the family enjoy the respect of the entire community.
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NEDOM W. HULSEY, merchant and farmer of Guin, Ala., is a native of Carroll county, Ga., and was born July 23, 1843. He is the third of a family of eleven children born to Kenion and Millie (Sanders) Hulsey, also natives of Georgia. His paternal grandparents were Charles and Nancy (Pate) Hulsey, and his materral grandparents were Jonathan and Lucy (Adair) Sanders, all of the state of Georgia. In 1849 Kenion Hul- sey came to Alabama, and settled in Cherokee county, where he followed farming until 1856, when he removed to Jefferson county, and there passed the remainder of his days. dying in 1972, highly respected by all who knew him. Nedom W. Hulsey was reared in Alabama, and here received his education. In 1862 he enlisted in company D, Third Con - federate cavalry, Gen. Joe Wheeler's corps, and took part in the battles of Fort Donelson, Bowling Green, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Chicka- mauga, New Hope Church, Atlanta and Franklin. He rose to the rank of captain, and served in that capacity for two years. While at home on furlough, he was captured in Jefferson county, Ala., and was sent to Montgomery, and detained as a prisoner of war twenty-one days, when he was paroled. On his return home, he engaged in farming, which vocation he followed until 1876, when he became a merchant at Guin, in which business he still continues, in conjunction with farming. He is still the owner of 200 acres of good land in Jefferson county; he owns, beside five building lots in Guin, and his store is well stocked; he does a thriving trade, which justifies him in placing some of his surplus capi- tal at interest. Mr. Hulsey has been twice married. His first wife, whom he wedded in 1868, was Miss Sarah A., daughter of Nicholas J. Sanders of Alabama, and to this union was born one child. Parlee. For his second wife Mr. Hulsey chose Miss Margaret, daughter of Moses Edes, of the same state, and this marriage has been blessed with one child, Julius. Mr. and Mrs. Hulsey are members of the Missionary Bap- tist church, while he is a Mason in good standing. He began his busi- ness life at the age of twenty-one, without any capital: but strict appli- cation to business, economy and fair dealing, have brought their reward. In politics he is a democrat, and though he aspires to no political office, he exercises his franchise toward the election of good and capable men to the various offices of the county and state, within the gift of the people.
LARGUS PEARCE. a prosperous young merchant, was born in Guin, Marion county, Ala .. where he still resides, on November 12, 1862. He is the second in a family of twelve children born to A. C. and Adeline (West) Pearce, natives of Alabama, and of Irish extraction. His paternal grandparents were John M. W. and Elizabeth Pearce of Georgia. but residents of Alabama since 1340. His maternal grandparents were Will- iam M. and Mary West, natives of Alabama. Largus Pearce was reared and educated in Mississippi until he had attained the age of twenty-one, when here turned to his native state and engaged in merchandising,
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being the junior partner in the firm of James Pearce & Co., which firm carries a well selected stock of general merchandise, valued at 85,000, and doing as good a trade as any firm in the county. On March 20, 1888, Mr. Pearce married Miss Agnes Monts, of Mississippi. and to this happy marriage has been born one child, Lucy F. Mr. Pearce, though still a young man, has acquired a fine reputation in the community in which he lives. He began his business life with little or no capital, and has made all he possesses through his own industry and a strict adherence to honest dealing.
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ALBERT G. HENRY, one of the oldest and most respected merchants of northeastern Alabama, is a native of Tennessee, born in Sevier county, December 5, 1816. His education was limited to the primitive schools of his native county. He came with his father, Hugh Henry. to Ala- bama at the age of twelve years. His father opened a mercantile house in Jackson county, and at the age of eigheen years the son entered the store as a clerk. At the age of twenty he was given an interest in the concern, and five years later he went into business for himself, and with the exception of two years during the war, he has been since that time a merchant at Guntersville. Before the war he had control of almost the entire patronage at the point. and was the first man in Alabama to introduce the continued credit system, by which he carried his patrons, rich and poor, upon his books from year to year, and upon the close of the war his patrons being nearly all financially broken up, he, with the protection furnished by the crop mortgage law now in vogue in the south, was enabled to advance nearly $50,000 of goods to his patrons without serious loss to himself. For some years he has been recognized as one of the most reliable and substantial business men of the south. He has acquired large wealth by his astute business qualities, thrift and energy. He was married first. August 8th. 1538. to Mary Anne Henry of Tennes- see, who became the mother of eight children, and died December 31, 1884, at the age of sixty-four years. The present wife was Mrs. Julia Waitt, née Julia Brown. The following memoranda is made of Mr. Henry's children: Wallace H .. deceased; Hugh, Margaret, wife of Dr. Clifton, of Waco, Tex. ; Mary, wife of Dr. J. Miller: Sallie B., wife of J. D. Bell, of Texas; Albert G .. Jr .. and Samuel. Mr. Henry is a com- municant of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his wife of the Christian.
DR. JAMES MONROE JACKSON. one of the oldest and most experienced physicians of Marshall county, Ala., was born in Maury county, Tenn., April 12, 1826, and was educated at Jackson college, Columbia, in the same state. In 1843, he came to Alabama, and began the study of medieine at Somerville, Morgan county, under Dr. William G. Hill, and subse-
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quently attended the university of Kentucky, at Louisville, and then the Medical college of South Carolina, at Charleston, graduating from the . last named institution in 1548. He then returned to Somerville, Ala., where he was in practice until 1856, when he located in Guntersville, and has here practiced ever since, standing at the head of his profession, until the opening of the Civil war, when he enlisted in a company of infantry, organized at Guntersville, by Capt. Isaac Henry. He accompa- nied this company to Clarksville, Tenn., where he organized Stuart col- lege hospital, of which he was made house surgeon, and there remained until the battle of Fort Donelson, when he was ordered to that fort by the medical director, and was there captured by the enemy. He was car- ried to Camp Chase, and confined from February 1862. to April, of the same year; thence he was conveyed to Johnson's Island, and there was made chief surgeon of the Confederate hospital, and served both Confederate and Federal soldiers until released, under general order in . June. He then went to Richmond, Va .; soon afterward was present at the battle of Cedar Run, and was then ordered to Jackson, Miss., as sur- geon of post, and to assume charge of the wounded removed to that point from the battle field of Perryville, Ky. After properly caring for these brave unfortunates, the doctor was ordered to Port Hudson, La., and remained there until the fall, and was then appointed surgeon of the Forty-ninth Tennessee regiment, remaining with it until the troups were ordered to Vicksburg, then returned to Jackson, Miss., for a few days, and later, went on to Vicksburg, and remained there through the siege. From Vicksburg he was transferred to Chickamauga, passed through that battle. and fought all the way to Jonesboro, on Johnson's retreat, and was in the battles at Atlanta, and Peach Tree Creek, and then at Franklin, Tenn. At the latter point he was left in charge of the wounded, and there organized the McNutt hospital, of which he had charge until April. 1863. When the wounded were all disposed of he was sent by the Federals to the military prison at Camp Morton, Indian- apolis, Ind., where he was held until the surrender at Appomattox, and President Lincoln issued his proclamation of peace. After his release, he returned to Somerville, Ala., where his children then were, and a few weeks later resumed his practice at Guntersville, with a greatly enlarged experience, both in medicine and surgery. He stands very high in the · community, and is a master Mason. The marriage of the doctor took place in 1850, to Miss Eliza Wilkinson. daughter of Dr. John Wilkinson, of Augusta, Ga., but he had the great misfortune to lose this estimable lady as early as 1856. She had borne him three children, of whom two still sur- vive, viz. : James L., of Nashville, Tenn., and Alice Lee, wife of Robert McKinney, of Memphis, Tenn. Harbard Jackson, the father of Dr. J. M. Jackson, was a native of Madison, Ga., and was all his days a farmer. He married Miss Martha Gill, and by her, became the father of six chil- dren, named as follows: Elizabeth, deceased wife of Henderson McDonald,
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of Maury county, Tenn .: Susan, deceased wife of Andrew Culp, of Maury City. Tenn. : Dr. J. Monroe: Joseph T., of Taylor, Tex. : Catherine, deceased wife of Robert Bryant. of Maury county, Tenn., and Priscilla, deceased wife of Mr. Montague, of Perry county, Tenn. Harbard Jack- son died in 1844, at the age of fifty-nine years, and his widow the year following. Mark Jackson, the grandfather of Dr. J. M. Jackson, was a native of Georgia, was a captain in the war of the Revolution, and died about the year 1828, at the advanced age of one hundred years.
EDWIN O. NEELY, the able editor of the Guntersville Democrat, was born near Columbia, Tenn., June 25, 1859, the son of J. N. Neely, a car- riage maker who had acquired a comfortable fortune at his trade, and purchased a flouring mill at Columbia. It thus transpired that the son learned the business of a miller, and worked at that calling at various points, until his twenty-third year. In that year he stopped work in the mill and began to prepare himself for a business life. He accordingly took a course at the Goodman's Knoxville Business college, after which he entered the employ of a firm of Nashville contractors and builders, and spent four years in traveling for the firm. He came to Alabama in the spring of 1887, and first leased, and then purchased, the Guntersville Democrat, which paper he has since published with great success. Octo- ber 4, 1884, he was married to Miss Lois Peck, daughter of Hon. Joseph A. Peck, of Monroe county, Tenn., and their union is brightened by the presence of a little daughter, Ethel, and two sons, Carl and Albert.
GEN. SAMUEL KING RAYBURN. - The name Rayburn was originally spelled Reyburn, but it was changed by John Rayburn, father of S. K. Rayburn to Rayburn-that way of spelling it suited him better. Gen. Samuel King Rayburn's great-grandfather, Henry Rayburn, and Joseph or James) Rayburn, his cousin, emigrated from the north of Ire- land to America some years before the Revolutionary war, and settled in Virginia. east of the Alleghanies, near the Roanoke river. After living in this country for some years, Henry Rayburn, great-grandfather of S. K. Rayburn, went back to the north of Ireland and married a Miss Ross and brought her with him to his "new world" home. They had but one son, John, who married Miss Jean MeClarin, a Scotch lady, and set- tled in Botetourt county, Va. He was a large land owner, his farm being on the head waters of the Roanoke river, near a little town called Salem. To John and Jean ( McClarin) Rayburn were born two sons and several daughters; the eldest son, Henry; the second, Jolin: there was about ten years' difference in their ages. They married two sisters, Sarah and Elizabeth Shanklin, daughters of Capt. Robert Shanklin, who served in the Revolutionary war. John Rayburn. father of Samuel K .. moved to Barren county, Ky., about the year 1795, his father having given him land warrants. He moved from Kentucky to Tennessee and settled in Bedford county, where took up 1,000 acres of land about fifty miles from Nashville. Samuel King Rayburn was born on this place
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September 15, 1811. In the year 1518 his parents moved to north Ala- bama. Samuel King was John Rayburn's seventh child. There were ten children, all of those reaching maturity being highly respected men and women. Gen. Rayburn was a man of literary tastes, and had a mem- ory remarkable for its retentiveness, and it never failed him, even to the last day of his life. His character combined that strength and that ten- derness and gentleness which we only find in one who is truly noble. He was a man whose very bearing and appearance commanded respect from all who came in contact with him. He took a lively interest in all pub- lic affairs and his mind was an encyclopedia of information on all matters of importance that had transpired since his earliest recollection up to the time of his deatlı. He settled at Guntersville in 1834, where, with the exception of two years, he merchandised until 1847. As a member of Capt. James M. Gen's company, he participated in the Mexican war. In 1849 he was elected clerk of the circuit court of Marshall county, and served eight years in that capacity. He was elected to the state senate in 1857. He also had the office of president of the Tennessee & Coosa railroad company until 1868. At the outbreak of the Civil war he was elected major-general of the militia by the people of Marshall, Jackson, De Kalb, and Cherokee counties. This position he resigned in 1862 and was appointed on the staff of Gov. Moore. In the fall of that year he raised a company of volunteers and was commissioned captain of company B, Forty-eighth Alabama infantry. In 1866 Gen. Rayburn was appointed register and master in chancery, and he was continued in the office by the various chancellors up to the time of his death. which was July- 15, 1892. Gen. Rayburn was married, in 1840, to Mrs. Sarah Daven- port; the son of this marriage was John Rayburn, captain of the Ninth Alabama infantry, who was killed at the battle of Sharpsburg, Va. Mrs. Evergreen Findlay became the second Mrs. Reyburn, in 1861. She was killed by a shell from Federal gunboats in 1862, the year after marriage. In December, 1863, Gen. Rayburn married Miss Nannie Nix, a young lady of rare mental attainments and extreme amiability of character. Their tastes and feelings were so in harmony that he counted the eleven years which they lived together the happiest of his life. The fruits of this happy union were five children-three boys and two girls, all of whom are living except the second son, his father's namesake, Samuel King Rayburn, Jr. This young man inherited all the good qualities of mind and character of both mother and father, but "whom the gods love die young," and lie died December 23, 1888, in the twenty-first year of his age, of typhoid fever, a few months after his return from the United States Military academy. The remaining children are Mrs. Brook- . ing, Samuel. John S., William C., and Mrs. John D. Chandler. After remaining a widower for six years and nobly acting the part of both father and mother to his family of small children, he thought it to their best interest to marry again, and accordingly, in May, 1-80, he married
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