Choctaw-Mobile County AlArchives Biographies.....Prince, Thomas McCarrell abt 
1807 - 1871
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Author: From Willis Brewer's "Alabama:  Her History, Resources, War Record, and 
Public Men From 1540 to 1872," page 172

The late Thomas McCarrell Prince was a wealthy planter of this county.   He was 
from North Carolina, and was a graduate of Chapell Hill in 1827.  He resided 
for some years in Mobile, and represented that county in the legislature of 
1840.  IN 1855 he was elected to the State senate from Sumter, Chocta, and 
Washington, defeating Hon. Wm. Woodward.  He died at his home in this county in 
1871, aged about 64 years.  Co. Prince possessed a fin personal appearance, and 
superior social qualities.  When he was in Glasgow, some years ago, he 
registered as "Thomas McCarrell Prince of Mobile," and the upper class of 
citizens were very attentive to him as a nobleman till they found that the 
absence of a punctuation mark, and not "blue blood," made him "prince of 
Mobile."

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