Bullock County AlArchives Biographies.....Culver, Isaac F. 1831 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    MAJOR ISAAC F. CULVER, the famous planter and live-stock breeder of Bullock
county, Ala., was born in Hancock county, Ga., in 1831, and is a son of Isaac
and Margaret (Grace) Culver, natives of the same county. In 1851 the family came
to Alabama and located in Henry county, where the father died in 1858, at the
age of sixty-two years, and the mother in 1867, at seventy-eight years of age,
both members of the Methodist church. Isaac Culver began life a poor man, but
was energetic and enterprising, and amassed quite a fortune. He served in the
Florida war and was active in all public affairs affecting the section in which
he lived, although he never sought public office. He was a son of John Culver, a
native of England, who was brought, when young, to America, by his parents, who
first located in Delaware, but subsequently removed to Georgia, where John
married, lived and died. The maternal grandfather of Isaac Culver was Jephtha
Grace, who was a planter, and lived and died in Hancock county, Ga. Maj. Culver
is the youngest but one of the ten children born to his parents, of whom two,
beside himself, served in the late war: George W., a planter, and for a short
time a colonel in Hilliard's legion, and who died in Henry county, Ala.;
Jephtha, who served with the state troops under Gov. Brown for about a year, and
who died at Jonesborough, Ga., soon after the fall of Atlanta. The major
received a good education in his early days and completed it at Mount Zion, in
Hancock county, Ga. In 1850 he married Miss Mary, daughter of John Boran, a
native of Georgia, who died in Washington, Wilkes county. Mrs. Culver was born
and educated in Washington, Ga., and died in 1858, leaving three daughters,
viz.: Maggie, widow of the late J. J. Ramsey, a well-known horse breeder of
Union Springs; Mary L., wife of William R. Ethridge, and Fannie H., wife of D.
F. Sessions. The major took for his second wife Mrs. Nancy Pugh, widow of Dr.
Thomas Pugh, a cousin of United States Senator James L. Pugh. This lady was born
and educated in Barbour county, Ala., and is a daughter of Roderick McSwain, a
native of Scotland, who, when a young man, settled in North Carolina, where he
married, and in 1836 came to Alabama, became a wealthy planter, and died in
Barbour county. To his second marriage the major has had born to him two sons,
viz.: Roderick McSwain, now a well-to-do planter, and Rev. Frank Pugh, of the
Methodist church. Both are graduates of the Southern university of Greensboro,
Ala. When Maj. Culver first came to Alabama, in 1851, he located in Henry
county, where he resided until 1860, when he removed to Bullock county; which
has since been his home. In May, 1861, he joined Company A., Sixth Alabama
infantry, as a private, and was at once sent to Virginia. He fought at Seven
Pines, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Boonsboro Gap, Sharpsburg,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and many other points. He was
severely wounded at Malvern Hill, at Boonsboro Gap, and at Gettysburg, returning
home each time for treatment. At the expiration of his first term of enlistment
for one year he was commissioned captain, and after the battle of
Chancellorsville he was promoted to be major, and in the trenches at Petersburg
he was made lieutenant-colonel, and from that time on had command of his
regiment, which he led with gallantry and valor. Although common courtesy would
lead a person to greet him as Col. Culver, the major is too modest to claim a
higher title than the one he bears. The major is one of the most popular man in
Bullock county, where he has been placed in various positions of honor and
trust. In 1878 he was elected to the legislature, and again in 1880, and during
both terms was chairman of the committee on temperance. When his last term had
expired he was elected superintendent of education of Bullock county, which
office he filled six years, holding also, during this period, the office of
president of the state agricultural society and of the Alabama State Fair
association. He is progressive in all things. He is a large stock-holder in the
Union Springs cotton mills, a director in the oil mill company, and has one of
the most extensive and complete stock farms in Alabama, as well as a cotton
plantation. He is a man of broad views and commanding presence, and was at one
time worshipful master of Aberfoil lodge, F. & A. M., and is at present a member
of St. John's lodge, No. 62, F. & A. M., at Union Springs, He is active iu
politics and all public matters, and has a wide acquaintance at the north as
well as at the south.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 523-524

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