Baldwin County AlArchives Biographies.....John Hadley 1820 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JOHN HADLEY, stock grower of South Baldwin county, with post-office at Swift,
was born in Baldwin county, Ala., in 1820. He was early employed as a farm hand
and while yet a young man rode United States express for nine years, under Ward
Taylor, after which he gradually went into the stock business in company with
his brother, and in that manner did business for a number of years. He took part
in the late war, after which he continued to grow various kinds of stock. In
1882 he bought a section of land where he now lives (Section sixteen, township
six, range four, east) and a tract of 160 acres laying on Blackwater river in
southeast Baldwin county. He moved his family to this place shortly after
purchasing and brought 1,400 head of sheep with him, and now owns a flock of
5,000 to 7,000. He also has a fine herd of 320 cattle. He raises hogs, cows and
some horses, and also has a herd of tame deer, on his premises; he has a number
of different wool-growing sheep, amongst which may be found the Merino, the
Cotswold, the Southdown and the native sheep. Mr. Hadley was united in marriage
September 15, 1848, to Miss Nellie Johnson, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth
Johnson. She was born in Georgia in 1820, and was young when brought to Baldwin
county, Alabama, where she grew up, becoming proficient in all domestic pursuits
of usefulness. She was married in her twenty-fifth year and became the mother of
six children. all of whom are now deceased, born in the following order :
Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary, John, Joseph, and Otis. John reached maturity and
married Miss Sarah Cruit, whose four children were born in the following order:
J. Cruit, John T., Sarah E., and Joseph W., all of whom find a comfortable home
with Mr. Hadley, their grandfather, and are also receiving a liberal education.
Early in life the wife of Mr. Hadley united with the Missionary Baptist church,
and has lived a good and consistent life ever since. In coming to her present
home she left many kind friends and church going people with whom she was loath
to part. She is now in her seventy-third year, and enjoys comparatively good
health. Mr. Hadley is a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Kenelson) Hadley.
Benjamin was a native of North Carolina and took part in. the war of 1812. He
was a farmer by occupation. He was married in North Carolina and emigrated south
in 1818 and settled in Florida, which was later taken in as Baldwin county,
Ala., and subsequently moved to north Baldwin county, near Montgomery Hill. He
there bought a farm and became one of Baldwin county's progressive farmers and
stock growers, and prominent as a whig. His death occurred in 1826. His father
was killed by the tories in Revolutionary times. The mother of Mr. Hadley was a
native of Mississippi, where she spent the early part of her life. She was
married in her twenty-fifth year and was Mr. Hadley's second wife and had seven
children, five boys and two girls, five of whom still survive. The mother's
death occurred in 1822. John Hadley was thrown upon his own resources early in
life and has made all that he now owns by careful investments and good
management; his mode of life is primitive, yet he is surrounded by plenty and
has everything to supply his few wants. His home is in the great sheep range of
Alabama in the heart of the forest, with neighbors few and far between.



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