Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Warren, William H. 1846 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILLIAM H. WARREN, planter of Clintonville, Ala., was born in Wilkinson
county, Ga., in 1846. He is a son of Jesse M. and Mary (Breedlove) Warren, the
former of whom was a native of Greene county, Ala., born in 1811, and the latter
of Hancock county, Ga., and born six or seven years later. James M. Warren was
reared on a farm, was brought by his parents when quite young to Georgia, where
he received a common school education and married, and in 1856 came to Barbour
county, Ala. The next year he moved to Dale county, and two years afterward to
Coffee county, where he spent the rest of his life, dying March 12, 1878. His
widow is still living and is seventy-two years of age. Both were members of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Warren was a hard-working, industrious man, was
a farmer and a Mason for many years. His father, Robert Warren, was probably a
Virgianian by birth but moved to Georgia and died there. Grandfather Breedlove
died in Hancock county, Ga. He was probably a Virginian by birth and reared a
large family. Mr. William H. Warren was the third of a family of six sons and
one daughter, viz.: Sidney A., was a physician, served in the Thirty-third
Alabama Infantry and died in 1862 at Mobile; Lizzie, wife of H. D. Goynes;
William H. Warren; Benjamin F.; Frances M., deceased; Erasmus L.; Jesse J.
William H. Warren at sixteen years of age joined the Eighteenth Alabama
infantry, company A, and went to Mobile, but was soon discharged on account of
being too small or too young, but in the fall of 1862 he enlisted again, reached
the army during the Chickamauga battle and fought at Missionary Ridge, at
Lookout Mountain and at Dalton, where he was taken sick, and sent to the
hospital at Atlanta for thirty days. He then returned home, remaining till fall,
when he rejoined his command and was in the battle of Nashville and on the
retreat to Mississippi and on to Mobile and was in the siege of Spanish Fort. He
then went to Meridian in Mississippi, where his regiment surrendered. He was
wounded twice during the war. After the war he remained at home till 1871. In
January of that year he married Sally, daughter of John and Nancy Fleming, the
former of whom was born in Warren county in 1810 and the latter in Columbus
county, Ga., in 1811. In 1851 they came to Coffee county, Ala., where Mr.
Fleming is still living, Mrs. Fleming having died in 1881. Mr. Fleming has been
a farmer all his life and is now one of the oldest men in Coffee county. He has
served as tax assessor and collector in both Georgia and Alabama. Mrs. Fleming's
father, James Watson, was also a Georgian but came to Coffee county in an early
day. He lived the life of a farmer and died here during the war. Mrs. Warren was
born in Harris county, Ga., and is the mother of ten children all of whom are
living. Mr. Warren since his marriage has lived near and at Clintonville, except
one year in Pike county. He owns nearly one thousand acres of land in four
tracts. Four hundred acres of it are covered with fine pine timber. He has a
small farm and a fine home at Clintonville, where he has lived for five years;
he has followed farming all his life and for five or six years he was also
engaged in merchandising at Clintonville. He has accumulated nearly all his
property through his own efforts, inheriting only a small amount. While he is
not a politician he is enthusiastic and liberal in the support of his party.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 683-684

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