Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Glover, W. October 21 1822 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. W. GLOVER, one of the oldest settlers in Calhoun county, was born in
South Carolina, October 21, 1822, a son of Willis and Susan (Wightt) Glover,
both natives of Virginia. The father, Willis Glover, was always a farmer. The
mother was a daughter of Truman and Martha (Burt) Wightt. The grandmother, Burt,
had seven brothers who fought through the Revolutionary war, and not one ever
received a wound, although they stayed through the seven years. Dr. W. Glover
was reared until seventeen years of age in South Carolina and then came to
Alabama with his guardian, Alfred Wightt. His father having died when the doctor
was but one year of age, the latter's early advantages were very poor for
schooling, but when he became twelve years of age his guardian sent him to
school at Pendleton Court House, S. C. He attended one year and then went to
Anderson, in Anderson district, where he attended four years, and then in 1839,
came to Alabama, and entered the Louisville (Kentucky) school of medicine,
remained one term and came home. Preferring the quiet life of a farm to that of
a professional life, he dropped medicine and began farming, of which he made a
great success. He first began with three slaves, and at the close of the war he
lost fifty-two. But he sold his farm for $14,000. In 1846, he had enlisted in
the Mexican war under Capt. Earle, who was afterward lieutenant-colonel in that
war and was a general in the late war. He served about six months, when he was
taken sick and was discharged. In 1864, he enlisted in the late war in company
A; Thirty-first Alabama regiment, under Gen. John T. Morgan and served about one
year; he was detailed to assist in working lead mines in Calhoun county, and the
war closed while he was at this point. When the war ended he was bankrupt, but
began again to regain his lost fortunes, has succeeded well and now owns 600
acres of fine land, which is under a good state of cultivation. He also runs a
gin in connection with his farming. In 1847 he married Angeline S. Killough,
daughter of Isaac and Martha (Beard) Killough. Of the eight children born to
this marriage four are living: William, John M., Henry B., and Thomas M. The
mother was born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1832; she died in 1884, a member of the
Presbyterian church, of which he has been an elder thirty years. The doctor is
one of the leading citizens of the county and says "he was born a democrat and
does not know anything else."



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 595-596

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