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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    LEWE SESSIONS, M. D., President of the Bullock County Bank, was born March
27, 1825, in Spalding County, Ga. His parents were Frederick and Mary (Kendall)
Sessions, who were Georgians by birth

    John Sessions, the grandfather of our subject, was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War, and by birth a North Carolinian. Frederick Sessions was a
farmer, and died when his son Lewe was only two years of age.

    Our subject, in consequence of the death of his father, as already noted,
was thrown on his own responsibilities early in life. He did not have what would
be termed good educational advantages, but made the best use of such
opportunities as were offered. He studied medicine at Augusta, Ga., where he
graduated from the medical college of that city in 1848. He came to Bullock
County, where he practiced his profession for nineteen years, and practiced one
year in Bibb County. After the war Dr. Sessions retired from the practice and
engaged in the general merchandising business and farming until 1879.

    In that year he organized the Bullock County Bank, in company with J. F.
Leary. He was made president of it, and still holds that position. The bank is
now a chartered State institution. He was one of the organizers, and a
stock-holder of the Montgomery State Bank, and also sustains the same relations
to the Clayton Banking Company of Barbour County.

    Dr. Sessions was married in 1847 to Miss Angeline, daughter of Jonathan and
Margaret Musick, of Chambers County, Ala. To their union one child has been
born, Statira. She is the wife of Dr. Benjamin F. Coalman, of Florida.

    The first Mrs. Sessions died in May, 1853, and the Doctor was married again
in August, 1854, to Miss Carrie, daughter of William H. and Exie (Maddox)
Simmons, of Pike County, Ga. To them two children have been born: Don. F. and
Bettie. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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