Colbert County AlArchives Biographies.....Chitwood, William P. September 3 1836 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILLIAM P. CHITWOOD, a prominent member of the Tuscumbia bar, and judge of
the district court of Colbert and Lauderdale counties, was born in Lincoln
county, Tenn., September 3, 1836. His father was Col. Stephen C. Chitwood, a
native of Virginia, who after his removal to Lincoln county, Tenn., filled
several important offices, was a colonel of the militia and was in many ways a
prominent citizen of the county. He removed to Lawrence county in 1843 and died
in 1882. Judge William P. Chitwood grew to manhood in Lawrence county, and was
educated at Moulton. He afterward attended Irving college, near McMinnville,
Tenn., and then read law with ex-govornor Lewis at Moulton, and continued the
study and practice of the law until the beginning of the war. He served in the
war with Roddy's cavalry, and after the war was over he resumed his law practice
at Moulton, remaining there until 1889, and was rewarded with abundant success.
In 1889 he removed to Tuscumbia and at once took position as one of the leading
members of the Colbert county bar. In March, 1891, he was appointed judge of the
district court, and his ad-ministration of the affairs of this court have been
eminently satisfactory to the people of the two counties composing the district.
He was married December 10, 1870, to Laura Lyon of Winona, Miss., and to this
marriage six sons and one daughter have been born. One of the sons, William
Lyon, graduated at Howard college in 1889. He then read law under his father and
was admitted to the bar in 1892. Judge Chitwood is a member of the Masonic
fraternity and of the Knights of Honor.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 692


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