Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....Batson, James P. January 10 1845 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JAMES P. BATSON, merchant, of Rockford, Ala., is a son of William and Mary
(Kelly) Batson, the former of whom was born in Milledgeville, Ga., in 1823. At
the age of eleven he was brought by his parents to
Alabama, they settling in Autauga county, near Kingston. After living here eight
or nine years they moved to the western part of Coosa county. William Batson
married in Coosa county in 1843, and lived in that county until 1867, when the
new county of Elmore was formed, or rather when the county lines were changed,
and then without moving he became a resident of Elmore county. He died in 1877.
He was a planter by occupation and was always a very quiet man; He was a
thoroughgoing and thrifty farmer and accumulated same property. He was highly in
favor of educating the young, and he gave his youngest children especially a
good education. There is a legend that the first Batson coming to this country
was a sailor who settled in Virginia. The Kelly family were from North Carolina
and are of Scotch ancestry. Mrs. Mary Batson was born and reared in Cumberland
county, that state. William and Mary Batson reared a family of seven children,
viz.: James P., a merchant at Rockford; Margaret A., wife of W. C. Culver, of
Verbena, Ala.; Z. T., merchant, of Good Water, Ala.; Sarah C., wife of William
J. Curlee, of Weoka, Ala.; John W., attorney-at-law, of Good Water, Ala.; George
W., merchant, of Sykes' Mills, Ala.; Angus A., merchant, of Fort Worth, Texas.
The mother of these children lives with her daughter, Sarah, at Weoka. James P.
Batson was born in Coosa county, Ala., January 10, 1845. He began business for
himself at the age of twenty-two, and followed farming near Equality until 1875
in the northern part of Elmore county, Ala. Being successful at farming, and
having accumulated some capital, he commenced business as a merchant at Sykes'
Mills, Elmore county, and removed his business to Rockford in 1886, where he has
since remained. He carries an average stock of general merchandise of about
$8,000. He was married November 4, 1866, in Elmore county, to Susan M. Wingard,
by whom he has seven children, viz.: Lavinia, single; James W., clerk in probate
judge's office; Osee, David C., Orestus, Viola and Adin, the last five at home.
Mr. Batson is a democrat and a master Mason, and he is a prominent and
successful merchant.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 721-722

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