Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Flowers, James D. March 2 1841 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JAMES D. FLOWERS, third son of W. H. Flowers, is a native of Fayette county,
Ga., and dates his birth from the second day of March, 1841. He served in the
late war in Col. Carter's cavalry regiment, the Second Alabama, from April 1861,
till May, 1862, and on the latter date was transferred to the Seventeenth
Alabama infantry, with which he took part in the battles around Atlanta and
Hood's Tennessee raid and engagements incident thereto. He was captured at the
battle of Nashville and sent north to Camp Douglas, where he was kept a prisoner
until the cessation of hostilities, when he returned home, and for some time
thereafter attended school in Butler county. Subsequently he was employed in a
saw mill at $1.25 a day, and in April, 1866, moved to Bolling, where he has
since resided and where he now owns an interest in the large milling firm,
notices of which appears elsewhere. Like his brothers, Mr. Flowers is a straight
forward man, possessing that kind of courage which encounters obstacles only to
surmount them, and he is thoroughly identified with the growth and prosperity of
that part of the county in which he resides. June 9th, 1866, he was married to
Emma, daughter of D. A. Rutledge, Jr., and is now the father of seven children:
Bettie, wife of J. H. Dunklin; William R., James Henry, John J., Mary, Emma, and
Ruth, the last named accidentally shot and killed on the 26th of July, 1889. Mr.
Flowers is an active worker in the Masonic fraternity, is steward and Sunday
school superintendent of the Methodist church at Bolling, and votes with the
democratic party. 



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 559-560


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