Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....Slaughter, John N. November 4 1828 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JOHN N. SLAUGHTER, of Good Water, Ala., is a son of John R. and Temperance
(Harris) Slaughter. The grandfather of John R. Slaughter, John Slaughter, lived
in Culpeper county, Va., and was of English descent. He reared a large family of
children. Three granduncles of John N. Slaughter were soldiers in the
Revolutionary war. The older members of the family were Episcopalians in their
religious belief, and the entire family is inclined to the professions. John
Slaughter, the grandfather of John N. Slaughter, together with five brothers,
emigrated to Georgia about 1790. They settled in different counties, John
Slaughter himself settling in Greene county, and rearing his family. John R.
Slaughter married in this county and removed to Heard county, and thence to
Tallapoosa county, Ala., settling four miles east of Dadeville. This was about
1837, and here he lived until his death in 1884. He was a man of remarkable
energy, very benevolent, and a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church,
south. He was one of the originators of the Savannah & Memphis, now the Columbus
& Western railroad, and was its first president. He was an old line whig, and
was once sheriff of Tallapoosa county. He was a man of thrift and accumulated
much valuable property, both in lands and negroes. Matthew Harris, father of
Mrs. Temperance Slaughter, was reared in Mecklenburgh county, N. C., and was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war. Two of his brothers, Robert and James Harris,
signed the Mecklenburgh declaration of independence. Samuel Harris, the father
of Matthew Harris, came from Ireland and was the first settler in Mecklenburgh
county. The family were Presbyterians. John R. and Temperance Slaughter reared a
family of five sons and one daughter. John N. was the eldest of their children
and was born November 4, 1828, in Greene county, Ga. He was educated first in
the common schools and then in the university of Georgia, graduating in 1851.
Two of his brothers graduated at Oglethorpe college near Milledgeville, and the
sister at the Synodical institute of Talladega, Ala. She is now Mrs. Rev. G. R.
Foster, a widow, and superintendent of the Orphans' Home at Talladega. Ala. A
brother, A. H. Slaughter, is a prominent business man in Opelika, Ala. John N.
Slaughter studied medicine for some time but, never practiced. As there was a
demand for classical teachers, he became a school teacher, and taught in the
three counties of Coosa, Talladega and Tallapoosa for thirty-nine years, though
not regularly. He was living in Coosa county when the war came on, and raised
company B, Thirty-fourth Alabama infantry, and led it to the field as its
captain. Afterward he became major of this regiment. He served over three years
in the army of Tennessee. He was engaged in the battles of Murfreesboro,
Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and in the Georgia campaign down to Atlanta. He went
back with Hood to Tennessee, and fought at Franklin, and also during the first
day of the battle of Nashville, where he was wounded in the arm, but not
severely. He then went around to North Carolina and was in the last battle of
Kingston, being in the state at the time of the surrender. He has been engaged
in farming and teaching ever since the war. In 1881 he was elected to represent
Tallapoosa county in the legislature and served one term. He was married in
Coosa county, December 20, 1835 to Celia R. McAdory, by whom he has three
children. These are Robert M., a teacher who makes his home with his father. He
graduated in the class of 1881 at the university of Alabama; Emily T., single,
and a graduate of the Southern female college at LaGrange, Ga., in 1881. She is
a teacher of note, and is engaged to teach at Maysfield, Texas, during the
school year of 1892-93; M. J., a student at La Fayette college, Ala. Politically
Mr. Slaughter is a democrat, and he is a master Mason and an elder in the
Presbyterian church. He owns land in the three counties of Clay, Tallapoosa and
Coosa, to the amount of 1,100 acres, and also considerable real estate in Good
Water, where he has resided since 1888. Mr. Slaughter is a man of influence in
the community in which he resides, and is a most reputable citizen. Celia R.
Slaughter is the daughter of Robert and Emily (McKinney) McAdory. Her
grandfather McAdory came from Ireland, settled in Christian county, Ky., and
married Celia McShan and emigrated to Jefferson county, Ala., where he died soon
after. He left four sons and one daughter. Three sons, James, Robert and Thomas,
reared familes, and were men remarkable for energy and enterprise. Robert died
in the year 1837 in Tuscaloosa county, Ala. He left three children, Col. P. J.
McAdory, a prominent citizen and planter of Coosa; Mrs. M. Y. Baker, widow of
Dr. W. H. Baker, the same county, and Celia R. Slaughter, who was born November
9, 1837. Her maternal grandfather, Harris McKinney, was born in Virginia,
emigrated to Warren county, Ga., and married Jane Ivey. He then emigrated to
Tuscaloosa county, Ala., before the admission of the state, afterward to Coosa,
where he died in 1864. He reared five children, two boys and three girls. Emily
(McKinney) McAdory was married a second time, to Alfred Massengale, emigrated to
Texas and died in 1861. Harris McKinney was one of the most remarkable men of
this section. He commenced life without a dollar, accumulated by agriculture
alone, over 8100,000 and was distinguished for his energy, enterprise, probity
and sagacity. He and family were Baptists.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 739-741



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