Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Ivey, James W. 1855 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JAMES W. IVEY, general merchant and lumber manufacturer, postmaster and
railroad agent, at Petrey, Ala., was born in Pike county in 1855. He is a son of
Rev. John and Caroline (Dickey) Ivey, the former a native of North Carolina, the
latter of Georgia. They came to Alabama when young, married and settled in Pike
county, where Mr. Ivey spent the rest of his life, dying September 22, 1887. He
followed farming all his life. He was also a minister of the gospel, being a
regularly ordained Missionary Baptist minister, and preached for many years. He
was a man of ability, character and conservatism. He served three years in the
Fifty-fourth Alabama infantry as a private soldier, and lost his left arm at
Atlanta. His mother died in North Carolina when he was quite small, and his
father, Harbard Ivey, who was a native of North Carolina, came to Alabama about
1838, and died in Pike county. The mother of the subject is still living, aged
about fifty years. She is a daughter of Samuel Dickey, born in Georgia, and who
at an early day settled in Pike county, followed farming successfully, and died
in 1863 at the age of eighty years, his wife dying when she was ninety years
old. They reared a large family, Mrs. Ivey being the youngest of their children.
James W. Ivey is the fourth of three sons and two daughters, viz.: William
Daniel, John Franklin and Samuel Greene, all died young; James W.; Sarah
Frances, wife of S. Nedham of Pike county, and Mary J., wife of W. D. Carter of
Petrey. J. W. Ivey was reared on a farm with but limited educational advantages,
and at the age of twenty began life for himself, following farming four years.
He then engaged in merchandising at Indian Creek, in Pike county, where he
continued in business with success until 1887. He then removed to Forkland, a
station which has since been changed to Petrey. When he came here there was
nothing but a little warehouse. He established himself in mercantile business,
and also, in the saw-mill business, and now carries on the most extensive
business in Crenshaw county. He has just erected one of the most commodious
store houses in Crenshaw county, beside which he owns nearly all the town of
Petrey. He also owns 1,177 acres of fine land in Pike and Crenshaw counties. He
has about twenty-five men in his employ and carries a monthly pay roll of about
$300. His annual business amounts to about $20,000. He started in life with no
capital but energy, ambition and pluck, and is now one of the most prominent
business men in the county. He was married in 1873 to Tolitha Emma, daughter of
Thomas and Mrs. Underwood. She was born in Montgomery county, and reared and
educated in Troy. Her mother died in Montgomery county when she was a little
girl, and her father who was a farmer, died in Pike county.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 781-782
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI



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