Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....C. B. Wellborn November 29 1842 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    C. B. WELLBORN, son of Solon A. and Frances W. Wellborn, was born in Barbour
county, Ala., November 29, 1842. He was educated in the common schools, and in
January, 1861, entered the First Alabama volunteer infantry as member of company
A, with which he served twelve months, his first battle being at Pensacola,
Fla., where he was under fire during the bombardment of that city. He
subsequently enlisted for three years in Reeve's battalion, Hilliard's legion,
and was assigned to duty in the western army, and during his period of service
took part in the battle of Chickamauga, and the Atlanta campaign, receiving a
painful wound by a piece of exploded shell in the engagement near Atlanta. For
some time after receiving the injury, Mr. Wellborn was absent from his company,
at home, but when sufficiently recovered he rejoined his regiment at Corinth,
Miss., and after Hood's retreat from Nashville, was not engaged in. any battle
of note. He surrendered at Augusta, Ga., at the close of the war, and returning
home engaged in farming, which he still carries on. In 1881, he embarked in the
mercantile business and is now proprietor of a fine store valued at $6,000, with
a yearly business representing an aggregate of from $20,000 to $25,000. His
plantation is a well improved place of 364 acres and his residence is a large,
spacious structure, comfortably furnished, and presents the appearance of being
a typical home of a well bred southern gentleman. Mr. Wellborn is a business man
of fine abilities and a gentleman who commands, in a marked degree, the respect
and confidence of a large circle of friends and acquaintances in Barbour and
other counties. A democrat in politics he has never been a partisan nor sought
official honors, but always attends the conventions of his party in Barbour
county and takes no little interest in their proceedings. In addition to his
farming and mercantile interests he operates a steam grist mill and gin, the
latter having a capacity of from 400 to 500 bales. Mr. Wellborn was married in
May, 1872, to Elsie C., daughter of Edward and Mary Garland, and is the father
of one child, Eula C., a young lady of nineteen. Solon A. Wellborn, the
subject's father, was a native of Wilkes county, Ga., born in the year 1820. He
came to Alabama as a soldier in the Indian war of 1836, and being pleased with
the country decided to make it his home; accordingly he settled in Barbour
county, where; in 1841, he married; Miss Frances W. Nelson. He first lived on a
plantation near Cochran Station, but afterward moved to Eufaula, where for some
years he clerked for a mercantile firm, and subsequently, in 1854, engaged in
business for himself, which he carried on till 1859. During the war he served in
Kolb’s battery, enlisting in 1863, and after a limited period in the army of
Tennessee, was appointed to a position in the quartermaster’s department. After
the war he was bookkeeper for a dry goods house in Eufaula for some years, and
died in October, 1888. The following children constituted the family of Solon
and Frances Wellborn, namely: C. B.; R. W., member of company K, Fifteenth
Alabama infantry, killed at battle of Shiloh; S. N.; A. J., died in 1886, and W. F.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" Vol I, p. 469-470

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