Bullock County AlArchives Biographies.....Blue, Patrick 1834 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DR. PATRICK BLUE, now one of the most prominent merchants of Union Springs,
Ala., was born in Monroe county, N. C.; in 1834, a son of Hector and Mary
(McKinnon) Blue, both of whom were natives of the state named. In 1835, the
family came to Alabama and settled in the woods of Pike (now Bullock) county.
Hector Blue took part in. the Indian war of 1836, and was always ready to
perform the duty of a good citizen, although he never sought an office. He led
the life of an honest, industrious man, and consequently successful planter, and
died in, the Presbyterian faith, in 1878, at the age of seventy-six years, his
widow being laid by his side in 1884, at the age of seventy-two. Hector Blue was
a son of Peter Blue, a native of Scotland, but a resident for many years of
North Carolina, where his death occurred. Of his six sons, all but one became
citizens of Alabama. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Blue was John McKinnon, a
native of North Caorlina, of Scotch descent. He came to Alabama in 1835, and
settled in Pike county, where he passed the remainder of his years in following
his calling of planter. Dr. Patrick Blue is a member of a family of eight
children, comprising six boys and two girls. Of these the boys all were
soldiers: Duncan, a lawyer by profession, served in the Confederate service one
year at Pensacola, Fla., and then joined the Fifty-third Alabama volunteers and
served until the close of the war, dying afterward in Texas; Hector also served
his first year in the army at Pensacola, and then in the army of Virginia until
the end of hostilities; John served with Gen. J. E. Johnston's command all the
way through, and was killed by a runaway horse about 1880; Archie served under
Gen. Johnston to the close of hostilities, and Eugene did the same under Joe
Wheeler. The doctor passed his youthful days on the home farm, performing such
duties as usually fall to the lot of farmer lads and attending school at the
proper time. In 1855 and 1856 he attended the medical college of Charleston, S.
C., graduated, and then practiced at Geneva, Ala., until 1862, when he joined
the Fifty-third Alabama reigment and served as steward and acting assistant
surgeon in the army of Atlanta, and after the fall of the latter place, was left
to watch the movements of Sherman; some time later he was sent to South
Caorlina, and was at Statesburg at the time of the final surrender. He was never
captured nor wounded, nor ever away from his post of duty, excepting on one
occasion, when he was at home a short time, on a furlough; all his brothers,
however, were wounded, so that, there was plenty of the Blue blood shed in the
Confederate cause. After the war, the doctor passed a year in practice at his
old home in Pike county, and then, in 1867, located at Inverness, where he
engaged in merchandising with a brother, and also practiced medicine, until
1871, when he settled in Union Springs, where he has since devoted his attention
exclusively to his business as a merchant, being now one of the most extensive
traders in the county. The doctor is also a stockholder in the Union Springs
cotton mill, and with brother, Hector, is engaged in merchandising at Omega. He
also is occupied extensively in planting. The doctor was united in marriage, in
1869, with Miss Sarah A., daughter of Robert Boyd, who came from Georgia to
Alabama and died in this state in 1886. The doctor had the misfortune to lose
his wife in 1889. She was a native of this state, was a Prsebyterian for many
years, and was the mother of five children; two are dead and three living:
Ernest L., a rising young lawyer of Union Springs, who graduated at Clarksville,
Tenn., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., and before he was twenty-one years old he was
appointed receiver; the second child is Hector P., and the third is Mary M. The
doctor is a self-made man, as he started his business life with almost nothing,
and what he now has is the result of his, own effort and business talent. His
example is certainly worthy the emulation of the youth of the entire state.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 517-518

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