| | 
Cyrus Washington Ashcraft (1866-1940) —
also known as C. W. Ashcraft —
of Florence, Lauderdale
County, Ala.
Born in Clay
County, Ala., February
27, 1866.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; cotton mill business; mayor
of Florence, Ala., 1910-12; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1922-26; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Alabama, 1924.
Baptist.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in Florence, Lauderdale
County, Ala., June 24,
1940 (age 74 years, 118
days).
Interment at Florence Cemetery, Florence, Ala.
|
| |
Braxton Bragg Comer (1848-1927) —
also known as Braxton B. Comer —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Old Spring Hill, Barbour
County, Ala., November
7, 1848.
Democrat. Farmer; miller;
cotton manufacturer; Governor of
Alabama, 1907-11; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1920.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., August
15, 1927 (age 78 years, 281
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
|
| |
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) —
also known as "Wizard of the Saddle" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now Marshall
County), Tenn., July 13,
1821.
Democrat. Cotton planter; slave
trader; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
April 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate
troops under his command massacred
African-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners,
since the Confederacy refused to
recognize ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen as
a war
crime, sparked outrage
across the North, and a congressional inquiry;
in 1867, he became involved in the Ku Klux
Klan and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violent
tactics to intimidate
Black voters and suppress
their votes; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1868;
in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering that
the Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on to
denounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendly
speech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis,
calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of former
slaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southern
press.
English
ancestry. Member, Ku Klux Klan.
After his death, he became a folk hero among white Southerners,
particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws in
the early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rights
movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Slaveowner.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
29, 1877 (age 56 years, 108
days).
Original interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.; reinterment in 1904 at Health Sciences Park, Memphis, Tenn.; memorial monument at Myrtle
Hill Cemetery, Rome, Ga.; memorial monument at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
|
| |
Ernst Rudolph Holzborn (1849-1913) —
also known as Ernst Holzborn —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany,
August
21, 1849.
Cotton buyer; Consul
for Germany in Mobile,
Ala., 1889-1903.
German
ancestry.
Died in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., September
18, 1913 (age 64 years, 28
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
|
| |
John Lee Long (b. 1868) —
also known as J. Lee Long —
of Greenville, Butler
County, Ala.
Born in Greenville, Butler
County, Ala., January
12, 1868.
Democrat. Cotton buyer; delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1901; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1907, 1911, 1919; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1908,
1920
(alternate).
Episcopalian.
Burial location unknown.
| |  |
Relatives: Son
of John T. Long and Louisa (Thagard) Long; married, May 23,
1900, to Sallie Dickerson. |
|
| |
James Madison Tarleton (1808-1880) —
also known as James M. Tarleton —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.; Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in New Hampshire, 1808.
Cotton merchant; bankrupt in 1842; U.S. Consul in Melbourne, as of 1852-58; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1868-69.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
23, 1880 (age about 72
years).
Burial location unknown.
|
| |
Murray Wheeler (1854-1924) —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Alabama, November
27, 1854.
Insurance
agent; member, Mobile Cotton Exchange; Vice-Consul
for Russia in Mobile,
Ala., 1892-1911.
English
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Franklin, Hancock
County, Maine, September
2, 1924 (age 69 years, 280
days).
Interment at Pine Tree Cemetery, Hancock, Maine.
|
| |
Price Williams Sr. (c.1811-1884) —
of Livingston, Sumter
County, Ala.; Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Virginia, about 1811.
Cotton merchant; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1851-53; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; real
estate and insurance
business.
Methodist.
Died in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., November
10, 1884 (age about 73
years).
Burial location unknown.
|
|
|
![[Amazon.com]](https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/a150X70b.gif)