Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Razell, J. W. July 9 1838 - living 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
  J. W. ROZELL, planter of Hatchet Creek, Ala., is a son of Enoch and Mary
(Sawyer) Rozell. EnocH Rozell was a native of North Carolina, and was brought to
Madison county, Ala., about 1820, by his parents. He arrived at mature years in
that county, married and had one child by his first wife, but both mother and
child died. He then married Miss Mary Sawyer, at Mardisville, Talladega county,
Ala. in 1837, and lived there a short time, when he removed to the neighborhood
where his son, J. W. Rozell, now lives. The second wife died in 1866, but the
father still lives. He married again some time afterward, Margaret Monroe, who
also still survives. By his second wife he had nine children, six of whom now
live, viz.: J. W., of Clay county; Samuel and Ashley, both of Clay county; Mary,
wife of E. C. Thompson of Clay county; Frank W. and Drewry. William Rozell, the
father of Enoch and Solomon Rozell, the brother of William, were orphan boys and
removed to North Carolina from Maryland. Solomon afterward removed to Tennessee,
where he became quite wealthy and prominent. The Sawyer family came from
Edgefield, S. C., and settled in the Cahawba valley in Alabama. J. W. Rozell was
born at Mardisville, July 9, 1838. In 1861 he enlisted in company D, First
Alabama heavy artillery, as a private soldier. This was the first company
mustered into the service of the Confederate States. His first years' service
was at Pensacola, Fla., and he went thence to Island No. 10., where he was
captured and remained prisoner about nine months at Camp Butler, Ill. He was
then exchanged and rejoined his company at Vicksburg. A short time afterward he
was again captured at Port Hudson. He was here paroled and after three months
was exchanged. He again entered the army and was stationed at Mobile several
months, and went thence to Dauphin Island. When Atlanta was threatened by Gen.
Sherman, he was ordered to support Gen. Johnston and reached that general in
time to participate in the battle of New Hope church. He was in all the rest of
the battles before Atlanta fell, and then he went back to Tennessee with Hood.
He was not in the battle of Franklin, and was too sick to take part in the
battle of Nashville, or of any subsequent important battles. He was at Hamburg,
S. C. when the final surrender was made. He returned home from the army and
lived for three years within seven miles of Talladega. He then removed to where
he now lives. This is eight miles north of Good Water, Ala. Here he has two
hundred and fifty-five acres of good farming lands and has his own cotton gin
upon it. He was married in 1866, January 3, to Elizabeth C. Chandler, of an old
Alabama family, by whom he has had seven children, viz.: Mollie, wife of Sebron
Pearson, of Hackneyville, Ala. ; Albert, living at home; Drury, Edward, Marvin,
John and Annis, the last two deceased. Politically Mr. Rozell is a democrat and
he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is a steward of his
church. Mr. Rozell is a very active and prosperous farmer, gives attention to
party politics and is always alive to whatever tends to benefit the community.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 650-651


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