Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Thrower, Stephen S. 1840 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. STEPHEN S. THROWER, physician and surgeon of Bradleyton, was born near
this place in 1840. He is a son of Thomas Whitfield and Ellen Lawrence Thrower,
the former born near Griffin in 1801, the latter in Edgefield district, S. C.,
in 1807. Mr. Thrower came to Alabama when a young man, where he married and
where his wife died. In 1830 he married the mother of Stephen S., who was then a
widow. Soon after this marriage Mr. Thrower settled in the woods, where Stephen
S. was born. Here he improved a farm, lived upon it until the death of his wife
in 1887, after which he lived with Stephen S. until his death, April 23, 1890.
Dr. Thrower's parents were members for many years of the Missionary Baptist
church. The former was a Mason in good standing, and a member of Helicon lodge,
No. 201. He was somewhat conservative in politics, but was a member of the
democratic party. He was a pioneer settler in this part of the country, and
suffered the privations and hard-ships incident to their life in the woods and
on the outskirts of civilization. He was one of six children born to Leon
Thrower, a Virginian by birth, who removed to Georgia, and then, in 1828, came
to what is now Crenshaw county, Ala., where he died while Stephen S. was still a
boy. He was of English descent, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and
served some years as justice of the peace. Stephen Lawrence, maternal
grandfather of Dr. Thrower, was a South Carolinian, and came to Crenshaw county
at an early day. He was also of English descent, and had a large family of
children, was a farmer by occupation, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary
war and died while Dr. Thrower was still a boy. Dr. Thrower is the third in a
family of eleven children, six of the sons being in the late war, viz.: William
M., served in Hilliard's legion from March, 1862, was captured near Richmond in
1864, and was imprisoned at Point Lookout until 1865; Starling J. was a sergeant
in the same command, was captured at Hatcher's Run, and was imprisoned at Point
Lookout until June, 1865; James was in the Fourteenth Alabama infantry from
July, 1861, until he died in front of Richmond in 1862; Benjamin F. was in the
First Alabama cavalry and died at Shiloh in 1862; George W. was in the
Fifty-ninth Alabama infantry from the beginning until he was captured at
Hatcher's Run and was then imprisoned at Point Look-out, Md. Stephen S. received
a good academic education and read medicine until April 1st, 1862, when he
joined the Fourth Alabama artillery of Hilliard's legion, and acted as sergeant
all through the war, in east Tennessee, until after the battle of Chickamaugua,
where he joined Longstreet's corps, went to Virginia and fought in numerous
severe engagements until April 3d, 1865; he was captured and taken to Point
Lookout and remained there till June, 1865. He was wounded at Petersburg, May
17th, 1864, and was in the hospital at Raleigh, N. C. a short time. He also
received several other, but minor wounds. His first fight of any consequence was
at Chickamauga, where eleven of his company were killed and thirty-three
wounded, some of whom afterward died. After the war he taught school and studied
medicine, graduating from Atlanta Medical college in 1868. He has since then
practiced medicine among the people with whom he was reared, being one of the
leading physicians of the county. He is a member of the State Medical
association, is a member of the Crenshaw Medical society, and was at one time
its president. He has also been engaged at different times in merchandising at
Bradleyton. He also has considerable planting interests, owning about 600 acres
of land. He is a member of Helicon lodge, No. 201, F. & A. M., and is P. W. M.
of that lodge. He was married July 1st, 1869, to Nancy H., daughter of William
Oliver. She was born in Montgomery county and died on March 1st, 1876. Her
father was a native of North Carolina, and her mother of South Carolina, but
they moved early to Alabama, settling first in Pike county and later in
Montgomery county. Mr. Oliver, though a man of limited education, is yet a man
of close observation and of rare judgment and talent for his opportunities. Dr.
Thrower had four children by his first wife. On Sepember 28th, 1878, he married
Cynthia M., daughter of John A. and Cynthia M. Ramsey, the former a native of
Alabama, and the latter of South Carolina. Mr. Ramsey was once tax collector of
Pike county, and died during the war while serving in the army of Virginia. Mrs.
Thrower was born in Brundidge, Pike county. Ala., and died March 22d, 1890,
leaving two children. Thee first wife of Dr. Thrower was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south, while his second wife was a member of the
Missionary Baptist church, to which he also belongs. From the above brief
narrative it is evident that Dr. Thrower is one of the most prominent citizens
of the county as also one of its leading physcians.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 795-797
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI



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