Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....S. J. Flournoy 1819 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   S. J. FLOURNOY, member of the well known business firm of Flournoy & Godwin,
Eufaula, Ala., is a native of Putnam county, Ga., and son of Josiah and Martha
(Rosser) Flournoy. Josiah Flournoy, a planter by occupation, was born in Georgia
in 1819, and after his marriage came to Alabama, settling in Barbour county, on
the river, about four miles above the city of Eufaula, in the year 1838. He died
on the home place July 27, 1840, and his widow afterward returned to Georgia and
married. S. A. Wales; she died in Muscogee county, that state, in the year 1850.
S. J. Flournoy was born on the 17th day of September, 1840. He was left an
orphan at the age of ten years, and from that time until his eighteenth year
lived with different relatives and attended school. When eighteen years of age
he took possession of his father's plantation, which he obtained by inheritance,
and from 1858 until the breaking out of the great Civil war was actively engaged
in cultivating the soil. February, 1862, he joined the Eufaula light artillery
and served with the same, first in the army of Gen. Bragg, and later went with
Johnson and Hood, and took part in all the great battles in which the armies of
those leaders were engaged. Among the battles in which he participated, were
Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, Mission Ridge and the fights around Atlanta. After
the evacuation of Atlanta, he joined Hood's army at Columbus, Miss., and later
was ordered to Meridian, Miss., where his battery surrendered at the close of
the war in 1865. Mr. Flournoy's military experience of four years was somewhat
remarkable in that he passed through the hottest period of the war, and
participated in many of the bloodiest battles without receiving the slightest
injury, and, with the exception of, a brief furlough, never missed a day active
duty. From the close of the war until 1874, Mr. Flournoy was engaged in farming
the home plantation, but in the latter year removed to Eufaula where, until
1892, he followed various vocations, at one time serving as assistant postmaster
of the city during the administration of President Cleveland. In 1892, in
partnership with John D. Godwin, he engaged in the grocery trade, under the firm
name of Flournoy & Godwin, and he is now one of the representative business men
of the city. Mr. Flournoy was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Toney, daughter
of Washington Toney, in 1861. Mrs. Flournoy died September, 1864, the mother of
two children, Josiah (deceased) and Washington. In November, 1866, Mr. Flournoy
was married to Eliza J. Toney, a sister of his former wife, and by her is the
father of three children, namely: Sarah, wife of Thomas Irby; Josiah, died in
infancy, and Rosser, wife of Saffold Johnston. The Toneys are an old and highly
respected family of Alabama and have always moved in the very best social
circles of Barbour county. Mr. and Mrs. Flournoy are members of the Episcopal
church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama"


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