Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....Neighbors, J. H. before 1844 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   J. H. NEIGHBORS, prominent planter of Coosa county, is a son of William and
Nancy (Cato) Neighbors. The former was a native of Newberry district, S. C., and
was reared and married in the same district in which he was born. In 1832 he
removed to Campbell county, Ga. In 1839 he came to Alabama and settled in
Chambers county, two and a half miles from La Fayette toward the north. He
removed to Tallapoosa county in 1850, and to Coosa county in 1875. Here he died
in 1886 at the age of eighty-three years. He was a very quiet man, taking some
little interest in politics, but never seeking office. Before the war he was a
whig. He accumulated considerable property. He was married three times and
reared twenty-three children. He was of a very robust and powerful physical
constitution. He was a Methodist in his religious belief. J. H. was the fourth
child of his first wife. The family are of French extraction and came to America
before the Revolutionary war, in which struggle different members of the family
took part. They settled in South Carolina. Nothing is known of the Cato family.
Mrs. Nancy Neighbors died in 1844. J. H. Neighbors was born February 8, 1831 in
Newberry district, S. C. He became possessed of his time when the family lived
in Tallapoosa county. He taught school in early life but has been a farmer ever
since. He was married in 1854 in Coosa county, to Sarah Matthews, by whom he has
had eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, viz.: William N., living
near Good Water; James A., at Good Water; John M., Bradford. Ala.; Thomas L.,
Crewsville, Ala.; Benjamin H., deceased; N. L., at home; Reuben P., at home;
Marvin D.; Martha A.; Eudora C.; Annie B., are daughters. The mother of these
children died July 18, 1888. Mr. Neighbors was married the same year to E. C.
Porch, by whom he has two children, Robert M. and Oliver P. He enlisted in 1864
in the state troops, and served a short time. He was justice of the peace after
the war for nine years, and he was county commissioner ten years. In 1886 he was
elected a representative in the legislature and served one term, during which
time he was on the committee on local legislation. Politically he is a democrat.
He is a master Mason, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a trustee
of his church. He is one of the wealthy planters of the county, owning 320 acres
of land, most of it under good cultivation.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 735-736



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