Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Cassady, B. F. October 25 1843 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JUDGE B. F. CASSADY, a prominent jurist of Alabama, was born in Henry county,
Ala., October 25, 1843. He is a son of Michael H. and Caroline C. (Willis)
Cassady, the former of whom was a native of South Carolina and came to Alabama
about 1830. He was always a farmer. He was a son of Hugh Cassady, a native of
Scotland. Mrs. Caroline C. Cassady was a native of Georgia, and was a daughter
of Rev. William Willis, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church of Georgia,
who lived to be one hundred years old. Judge B. F. Cassady was reared on the
farm and received only a common school education. In 1862 he enlisted in Captain
Sloan's company, of the Seventh Florida infantry, but in a month or two was
transferred to company C, Second Florida cavalry, under Captain Chambers, and
served in that company untill the close of the war. After the war he returned to
his home and began teaching school and read law at the same time, being admitted
to the bar in 1869. He formed a partnership with his preceptors, Wood &
Carmichael, of Newton, Ala., remaining with them one year. He then practiced
alone until December, 1885, when he removed to Henry county, Ala., and formed a
partnership with D. C. Blackwell and practiced in Henry county until 1887, when
the firm removed to Anniston, opened an office and remained intact until August
24, 1889. At this time Mr. Cassady was appointed judge of the city court of
Anniston by Governor Seay, and held that position for one term. He is engaged in
the practice of law at Anniston, Alabama, at this time. He was married in 1879
to Miss Georgia E. Rigell, daughter of Mark and Frances S. (Kelly) Rigell, both
natives of Georgia. To this marriage there have been born three children, viz.:
Lela; Zula, and Lida. Mrs. Cassady was born and reared in Dawson, Terrell
county, Ga., and both she and her husband are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south. Judge Cassady is one of those of whom it may be truly said that
he is a self-made man. He began the study of law under most adverse
circumstances, but such was his application, and such was his persistence that
he overcame all obstacles, and by hard study and close application rose to the
front rank as a lawyer, and is known far and wide, not only as a sound lawyer
and an upright judge, but also a true christian gentleman.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 587-588

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