Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Darby, James W. January 25 1840 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
  JAMES W. DARBY, a well known and reliable business man of Garland, Butler
county, is a native of Alabama, born in the county of Pike, January 25, 1840,
and is a son of Benjamin F. and Evaline Darby. He had the advantages of a common
school education and in April, 1861, entered the Confederate army, as a private,
enlisting in company E, Fourth Alabama infantry, with which he served during the
war, principally in Virginia, where he participated in the battles of Seven
Pines, second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Antietam, South Mountain, Suffolk,
Gettysburg and many others, in one of which, the engagement at Gaines farm, he
received a painful wound in the left leg just below the knee. He was made
captain of his company in 1864, and was with his command in all the battles
around Richmond, and at the final surrender at Appomattox laid down his arms,
bidding adieu to military life and returning to Butler county, Ala., and
engaging in the mercantile business at Garland, where he has ever since resided.
Mr. Darby was united in marriage with Mary J., daughter of J. J. Simkins, on the
27th day of May, 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Darby have three children, namely: John J.,
engaged in merchandising at Dunham, Ala.; Anna E., wife of A. W. Powell, and
William A. In his political belief Mr. Darby is identified with the democratic
party, fraternally he belongs to the K. of H. and Masonic orders, and in
religion is a communicant of the Baptist church, as is also his wife. He is a
man of fine intelligence and of good business capacity, and has stamped the
impress of his character upon the community of which for so many years he has
been a prominent factor. His father, Benjamin F. Darby, was born in Montgomery
county, Ala., on Line creek, about the year 1818, and was a man of much more
than ordinary powers of mind, a great reader, especially of literature
pertaining to the political history of the country. He was first married about
1838 in Pike county, Ala., to Evaline Rainer, who died in 1841, leaving one
child, the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch. His second
marriage was consummated in 1842 with Anne E. Moore, by whom he became the
father of seven children, namely: Benjamin C., Melissa, wife of J. B. Bockman;
Susan, wife of L. D. Bass; Martha, wife of Mr. Douglass, T. J., John W., and
Ida. Benjamin F. Darby was about one year old when the Indians forced the family
to move to Clarke county, where they remained a short time only, and then
removed to Pike county, Ala., remained until 1858, and then changed his
residence to Butler county, near Garland, where he lived until the breaking out
of the war, at which time he entered the Confederate service as a member of the
Seventh Alabama infantry. He was made a prisoner at La Grange, Ga., in 1864, and
taken to Camp Chase, where he contracted a disease, from the effects of which he
died the same year. James Darby, father of Benjamin F., was born of Scotch-Irish
parentage in Edgefield district, S. C., and became a resident of Alabama about
the year 1815, settling in Clarke county, thence moved to Pike county, where his
death occurred in 1849.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 555


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