Notable Men of Alabama NOTABLE MEN OF ALABAMA PERSONAL AND GENEALOGICAL WITH PORTRAITS HON. JOEL C. DuBOSE, Editor VOLUME I THE REPRINT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA 1976 Page 1 of 8 ** PAGE BREAK ** Notable Men of Alabama This volume was reproduced from a 1904 edition in The Tutwiler Collection of Southern History and Literature, Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, Alabama. Reprinted: 1976 The Reprint Company, Publishers Spartanburg, South Carolina ISBN 0-87152-225-X Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-45385 Manufactured in the United States of America on long-life paper. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Notable men of Alabama. Reprint of the 1904 ed. published by Southern Historical Association, Atlanta. Includes indexes. 1. Alabama—Biography. I. DuBose, Joel Campbell, 1855 CT221.N67 1976 920.71’09761 7545385 ISBN 0-87152-225-X (v. 1) ISBN 0-87 152-226-8 (v. 2) Page 2 of 8 ** PAGE BREAK ** Notable Men of Alabama NOTABLE MEN OF ALABAMA PERSONAL AND GENEALOGICAL WITH PORTRAITS HON. JOEL C. DuBOSE, Editor VOLUME I ATLANTA, GA. SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 1 1904 Page 3 of 8 ** PAGE BREAK ** Notable Men of Alabama JOSEPH WARREN HARRIS, of Troy, Ala., was born Dec. 9, 1847, near Troy, Pike county, Ala. He was the son of Edward Harris and his wife, Mary Ann (Faulk) Harris. Edward Harris was born Jan, 22, 1825, in South Carolina, but moved to Alabama in an early day, living for many years near Troy; he was a carpenter and farmer, settling on a fine farm on the west side of Manning’s creek, north of Trey; he enlisted as a private when the war opened, The great-grandfather of Joseph Warren Harris was Edward Harris, who was a native of North Carolina and emigrated to South Carolina, where he settled and raised a large family. His son, George Harris, and wife, Sophia, were reared in South Carolina, and married, having five children born while residents of that State: William [Harris] Ezekiel [Harris] Polly [Harris] Abigail [Harris] Edward [Harris] They emigrated to Alabama and settled in Pike county, where three more children were born to them: George [Harris] Ginsey [Harris] Jonathan [Harris] Ezekiel and George Harris enlisted in Company G, Sixtieth Alabama, and Edward enlisted in Company G, Sixty-First Alabama regiment, Battles brigade, and was killed in battle at Snicker’s Gap, near Martinsburg, Va., July 18, 1864. He was the father of Joseph Warren Harris. Edward and Mary Ann Harris raised a family of five children: William McDonal [Harris] , the oldest, was born Oct. 13, 1833, enlisted and served with the Twelfth Alabama for nearly three years, and was killed in battle near Spottsylvania Court House. Va., May 15, 1864, his head being shot off by a cannon ball Jonathan [Harris], sickened and died in the service, and was taken home for burial in the church yard cemetery at old Pleasant Hill church. Elizabeth [Harris] was born in 1845, married Bartholomew Floyd and emigrated to Woodruff county, Ark, in 1867, where Mr. Floyd soon died. She married a young physician, Dr. J. N. Ritter, they moved to Indian Territory, where they have since resided, and have reared quite a large family, living in or near Shawnee. Timothy Marron [Harris], born in 1850, married a Miss Malinda Bell, of Pike county, Ala., and settler in Montgomery county, where they raised a family of six children, two of who have emigrated to Texas, the rest having settled near them, three at Grady on the Atlantic coast line. John E. [Harris] was born in 1832, married a Miss Lucinda Gainus, and settled in Pike county, later moving to Coffee county, Ala, following farming and rearing five children. Page 4 of 8 ** PAGE BREAK ** Notable Men of Alabama Mary Ann Faulk Harris was the daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Soles) Faulk, who lived at Troy. Philip Faulk was born in North Carolina, Aug. 6, 1796, and emigrated to Tennessee, and from there to Lowndes county, Ala,, thence to Pike county about 1835. He served in the War of 1812 and also as Lieutenant of a company in the Indian war of 1836, the company being one raised in Pike county. He settled three miles southwest of Troy, then Centreville. He had previously married Elizabeth Soles, of a family that had also emigrated from Carolina and settled in Centreville, and was among the first settlers and business men of Centreville. Philip Faulk was the son of Philip Faulk, the first a veteran of the Revolution, two of his sons emigrating to Tennessee, the eldest. Richard [Faulk], having been born Aug. 1, 1793. Philip Faulk second raised five sons: Timothy S. [Faulk], born Oct. 2, 1845; William Warren [Faulk], born Sept. 4. 1820; Joseph Travis [Faulk], born May 1, 1823; Philip Marron [Faulk], born June 6, 1833; Crockett H. [Faulk], born Jan. 16, 1837. They also had three daughters: Mary Ann [Faulk], born April 7, 1826; Mahala E. [Faulk], born Oct, 26, 1828; Sarah Ann [Faulk], born Aug. 4, 1837. William W., Joseph T., Timothy S. and Philip all married and settled near Troy, Pike county, Ala,. and raised large and highly respected families, who are among the prominent citizens of that section, with the exception of Philip, who enlisted and served as orderly sergeant in Company G, Sixtieth Alabama, being paroled at Appomattox Court House and returned home, emigrating about 1875 and settling in Wood county, Tex., where he purchased a fine farm. He raised a large family, most of whom are living in the neighborhood of Big Sandy. Tex., among the best people of that part of the State. Joseph Warren Harris secured an education in the common common schools and academics of Troy, by constant study at home, and while engaged in teaching and by attending summer schools of pedagogy at the State Normal college at Troy. He has followed farmings and teaching, He was elected tax collector of Pike county in 1877 and again in 1880 and held to the end of the term in 1884, when he retired. He was elected county superintendent of schools in 1898 for two years and re-elected in 1900. He has been annually elected to the offices of secretary aid treasurer of the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance association of Pike county for eight years. In his sixteenth year he enlisted as a private in Company 1, Fifteenth regiment, and served nine months under Lee and Longstreet around Petersburg and Richmond, Va. He never entered a hospital, and the only tine he was absent from duty was the result of remaining at his post on vidette duty and nearly frozen, by the picket commander’s going to sleep aid letting him remain on duty long beyond the regulation time. Mr. Harris did not report him and asked his comrades not to do so, the officer being an exceptionally good man and exhibiting much distress over the affair. The young recruit was in all the terrible fighting on the James river at Page 5 of 8 ** PAGE BREAK ** Notable Men of Alabama Forts Gilmore and Harrison, Sept. 27-29 and Oct. 7, 13 and 27, between the James and Chickahominy and on the 9th of December, 1864, and up to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. He is a Democrat first, last and all the time, strictly Jeffersonian in principle, and believes in constitutional “States rights.” He was originally a Presbyterian, but after the war closed joined and affiliated with the Baptist church of the Primitive faith, and held the position of clerk. He was married Dec. 5, 1867, to Nancy Jane Hinson, daughter of William and Martha Hinson, living near Troy. William Hinson was born and raised to manhood in North Carolina and came to Pike county, Ala., when about twenty-five years of age. He engaged his services and worked on a farm with Silas Lee, two miles west of Centreville, He married Miss Martha Pugh, daughter of Masten Pugh, a well-to-do farmer and slave holder, living about six miles from Centreville. They settled on public lands near Centreville and entered and bought from the government until they harl a fine body of land, on which they lived and reared a fine family of five children, namely: Ritty Ann [Hinson] Masten Asbury [Hinson] Caroline [Hinson] Nancy Jane [Hinson] Everett E. [Hinson] Ritty Ann married H. A. Pugh, and lives on the place in the old residence and cares for the aged mother, Masten A. married Miss Lule Rushing, a daughter of Hon. William Rushing, a noble and worthy citizen, who was honored several times with office, and was a good farmer and miller, and a venerable citizen. Everett E., the youngest of the family, married a Miss Turner and emigrated West, settling at Pleasant Grove, Tex., and purchased a fine farm, where he now resides, having reared quite a large family, some of whom have married and settled wear him, aud all of them are highly respected citizens, Miss Caroline married Mr. John O. Brown, who was then a teacher by profession, hurt later settled in Troy and engaged in the mercantile business, still living in that city. He has been twice elected to the office of county treasurer, serving the two terms with honer to himself and to the satisfaction of the people, Speaking of some of those things which have influenced his life along political lines, Mr. Harris says: My ancestors had all along been what were called Constitutional States Rights Democrats, but opposed to secession as long as there was any hope of preventing it. They were opposed to the political measures of the New [England] States in their efforts to override the Constitutional principles of States rights. This, it seems, I had imbibed or inherited, and if my name ever goes down in any history, I wish it to appear as a patriotic defender of that principle of Constitutional right so dear to us all. They had not forgotten the very important principles learned from their forefathers in the care maintained in the act of accompanying their State Constitution with a bill of rights in which it was declared that the people possessed certain inalienable tights of which they could not be deprived, which were specified in the creation of a government with delegated and strictly limited powers only. And for greater security for their liberty and rights they provided that the power and rights not Page 6 of 8 ** PAGE BREAK ** Notable Men of Alabama therein delegated were reserve] to the States and that they retained jurisdiction over local questions as well as all domestic institutions, etc. So when the people of the North and East commenced agitating, with influence and crusade, for the abolition of slavery without the consent of the States, they began a revolution with distinct violation of the Constitution and laws, thus making themselves a lawless, revolutionary party, and became rebels against the constitutional government of the United States, and when they levied war to carry out their policy they became traitors to all intents and purposes, to the United States principles of government as we saw and understood them. Hence those things fired the hearts and souls of all Southern heroes and made men fight as never men fought before. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Harris are: Martha Jane Elizabeth [Harris], born Dec. 16, 18468, married George W. Smith in Troy, Ala,, and now resides neat Big Sandy, Tex., Joseph Edward [Harris] born Oct. 17, 1871, was educated in the Troy city schools and Highland Home college, married Miss Allie Faulkner, of China Grove, Pike county, Ala., and settled in the City of Troy, where he is a prominent business man of high character; William Masten [Harris], born Aug. 9, 1876, reared and educated in Troy, emigrated to Texas, married Miss Fannie Smith, settled near Big Sandy, and is a farmer and carpenter; Miss Annie Lucretia [Harris], born May 8, 1881, educated in Troy city schools and Troy State Normal college, married William J. Pugh, and lives near Troy. 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