Baldwin County AlArchives Biographies.....Howell W. Slaughter June 11 1857 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   HOWELL W. SLAUGHTER, sheriff of Baldwin county, Ala., is one of its most
progressive young planters and citizens. He is a native of Baldwin county and
was born near his present plantation, June 11, 1857, a son of Dr. William H. and
Harriet (Hays) Slaughter. He was reared on his father's place and early began to
assist in its management. He developed good business traits, when quite young,
and passed much of his spare time in study at home, his only schooling
consisting of a nine months' course, in 1872. He became an expert bookkeeper,
and for a number of years kept his father's accounts in most excellent
condition, and conducted the plantation on the strictest business principles. He
also turned his attention to the accumulation of realty in connection with his
father's business, and bought the beautiful property he now occupies and
formerly known as the old Booth estate. He married Miss Eliza Belt, daughter of
Dr. T. W. and Eliza (Booth) Belt, the former of whom was a native of North
Carolina, but was a young man when he settled in Baldwin county, Ala., a
graduate of Chapel Hill, N. C. He began the practice of medicine soon after his
arrival, and met with success as a practitioner, and was married to Miss Eliza
Booth, one of Baldwin county's fairest daughters. The doctor was a democrat,
affiliating with the Missionary Baptist church, and was a highly esteemed
citizen. His death took place in 1865, after which his family removed to Texas,
where they still reside, and where Howell W. Slaughter was married. The mother
of Mrs. Slaughter was born in Baldwin county, Ala., and was a member of one of
its best families. Mrs. Slaughter was married in her twenty-second year, and is
the mother of four children, born in the following order: William, September 2,
1886; Wright B., December, 1888; Howell, April 21, 1890, and Morton, August 19,
1891. Mrs. Slaughter united with the Missionary Baptist church early in life and
has ever since adhered strictly to its teachings; she is a lady of culture and
is an admired member of the society of the neighborhood. Sheriff Slaughter is
the owner of 2,000 acres of choice land, mostly composed of river bottom. In
1890, he erected the handsome residence he now occupies, and has put the grounds
immediately surrounding it under cultivation in all kinds of fruit trees and
vines, and his family is surrounded with all the comforts and luxuries of life.
Mr. Slaughter was elected sheriff of Bald-win county, in August, 1892, with
little or no opposition. He has always taken reasonably active interest in
politics, but never to the detriment of his private business, and the democratic
party has always placed implicit reliance on his active support. He has freely
assisted in. building up the schools and churches of the county, although he is
not of any religious denomination. He is, however, a bright Mason.



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