Blount County AlArchives Biographies.....McPherson, Lewis 1836 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
  LEWIS MCPHERSON, one of the thriving farmers of Blount county, was born in
1836. His parents, Lewis and Narcissa (McPherson) McPherson, were both natives
of Tennessee. The father was raised on a farm, came to Alabama and lived to be
one of the prominent farmers of Blount county. The mother was a daughter of
George and Nancy (Kincheo) McPherson, also natives of Tennessee. The grandfather
was a captain through the whole war of 1812, and in 1815 came to Alabama. He had
gone security for a friend in Tennessee, which broke him up and he left
everything in the state of his nativity and came here a poor man. He settled
among the Indians and became a kind of a moderator among them. If they became
involved in dispute they would go to him and would abide by his decision.
Although he came to Alabama a very poor man, he accumulated property very fast,
and before his death was one of the substantial citizens of the county. Lewis
McPherson was raised in Blount county. He attended school very little and that
attendance was between crop time and fodder pulling time. The school-house was a
log cabin with puncheon floor and seats and stick and dirt chimney. He had to
walk about four miles and had his chores to do night and morning beside. In 1862
he enlisted in company F, Twenty-ninth Alabama regiment, under Capt. Sapp, and
was with Gen. Joe E. Johnston in his famous retreat. He served until the fall of
1864, when he came home on furlough, and before the time for his return the war
ended. After the war, he for a few years took care of his widowed mother, and in
1866 married Mary A. Hunley, daughter of John and Martha S. J. (Gill) Hunley,
natives of Virginia. The father was a soldier in the Mexican war. He came to
Alabama about 1842, and the mother came with her parents in 1816. To the union
of Mr. and Mrs. McPherson, have been born four children, three living: William
C., James and John T. The mother was born in 1846 and reared in Jefferson
county, Ala. In 1869 Mr. McPherson moved to the farm where he now lives, on
which he has built a good frame dwelling and barn. The close of the war found
him without anything, but by close economy and good management he has done well,
and now owns 600 acres of good land, which he has made through his own industry.
He is one of the substantial citizens and representative farmers of the county,
and with his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 509

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