Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....McAdory, P. J. March 10 1833 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   P. J. MCADORY, a prominent farmer of Coosa county, is a son of Robert and
Emily (McKinney ) McAdory, the former of whom was a native of Christian county,
Ky., born there in 1808. His parents moved to Alabama in 1818, settling on the
present site of Birmingham. Thomas McAdory, the father of Robert, was born in
Union district, S. C., and his father, Thomas, was a native of Ireland, where he
learned and followed for some years the weaver's trade. The father of Robert was
a hatter by trade. He lived on the site of Birmingham until his death in 1825.
Here Robert was reared to manhood and was married. He was a teacher in the early
days and afterward a farmer. He was a democrat in politics. He reared a faimly
of three children, viz.: P. J.; Mary J., widow of Dr. Baker, and living near
Good Water; Celia, wife of Dr. Slaughter of Good Water. The father of these
children died in 1837, and his widow married A. M. Massengale, moved to Texas,
and there died in 1858. The McKinney family was of Scotch origin, but removed
from Virginia to Georgia, and thence to Alabama, settling in Jefferson county.
Mrs. Emily McAdory was born near Warrenton, Ga., and reared in Alabama, P. J.
McAdory was born March 10, 1833, in Jones' Valley, Jefferson county, Ala., and
began life for himself at the age of eighteen. He inherited some little
property, from his father's estate, and followed farming until the war. He was
married in Jefferson county, December, 22, 1857, to Eliza N. Sadler. Her parents
moved to Jefferson county from North Carolina in 1818. Mr. McAdory and his wife
have no children. They have, however, reared several orphan children, and
others. One is a boy named Daniel O. Dyson. Another was a girl named Millie
Epperson, who married David Abernathy, and now lives near Hanover. They are
rearing a nephew named W. J. Cannon, five years old. Mr. McAdory moved to his
present home immediately after his marriage, and has ever since resided in the
same house. He has a planation there of 800 acres, and he has ohter lands in
Alabama aggregating 2,000 acres, beside 1,000 acres in Texas. When the war came
on he enlisted as a private soldier in company B, Thirty-fourth Alabama
infantry, and served mostly in the western army. At Perryville he was in the
reserves, but was in the battle of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge,
the Atlanta campaign, and after this was over he was transferred to the cavalry
service and served in that arm of the service until the close, at which time he
was in South Carolina. Since the war he has continuously followed farming. In
politics he is a democrat, and is a royal arch Mason, and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is a man of great energy and thrift, and
is probably the most prosperous farmer in the county.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 729-730



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