Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....John M. Thweatt September 11 1850 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JOHN M. THWEATT. - Among the successful self-made men of Barbour county, who
have risen from penury to affluence through their own exertions, the name of
John M. Thweatt, a leading merchant of Eufaula, is deserving of special mention.
The parents of Mr. Thweatt, John and Elizabeth Thweatt, were natives
respectively of South Carolina and Georgia. John Thweatt was born in Edgefield
district, S. C., in 1818 and accompanied his parents to Georgia when fifteen
years of age, and in 1836, came to Alabama and took part in the Indian war of
that year. He was married in Chambers county, Ala., about the year 1842, to
Elizabeth Sharp, and after residing fifteen years in the county of Macon,
changed his residence to Eufaula, where his death occurred in 1862. His widow is
still living, at the age of sixty-eight years, and makes her home with the
subject of this sketch. Three sons and one daughter constituted the family of
John and Elizabeth Thweatt: namely, Alonzo M., and Mosanna, wife of W. S. M.
Willis, twins, both deceased; Levi M., deceased, and John M. Thweatt. John M.
was born in Macon county, Ala., on the 11th day of September, 1850. He received
a common school education and his first practical experience in life was as
clerk for the mercantile firm of Bernstein & Stowe, at Eufaula, in whose employ
he continued for a period of about eleven years, obtaining a thorough knowledge
of the business in the meantime. In 1872, in partnership with a brother, who had
previously engaged in merchandising, Mr. Thweatt embarked in the dry goods
business at Ft. Browder, Barbour county, under the firm name of Thweatt & Bro.,
but for sometime thereafter continued to look after the interests of his
employers, whose business he managed until 1876. In that year Thweatt & Bro.,
moved their store to Eufaula, since which time the subject has had charge of the
same, and since 1880, when his brother died, had been sole owner and proprietor.
Mr. Thweatt is essentially a business man and cares little for the
unsatisfactory excitement and empty honors of political or public life. He
deserves great credit for raising himself from poverty to a prominent position
in the commercial world, and his success is due to a well ordered mind and
business qualifications of no mean order. Personally he is very popular with the
people of his town and his sociability and honorable dealing have made his store
a favorite trading place for a large section of the county. Mr. Thweatt was
married December 30, 1875, in Waverly, Lee county, Ala., to Mildred, daughter of
Allen Bailey who came to Alabama in an early day from Georgia. Mr. and Mrs.
Thweatt are the parents of six children whose names are as follows: Manning L.,
died at the age of four years; Maydie I.; Mary Lizzie; Edward Stowe; John Allen;
and Boyce M. Mr. Thweatt affiliates with the democratic party, is a Baptist in
his religious belief and belongs to the Phythian order.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" Vol I, p. 464-465

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