Dale County AlArchives Photo person.....Mayors of Ozark 1870-1970 (W.W. Kirkland) 
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W. W. Kirkland  
     1897-1898 and 1903-1904
  William W. Kirkland was born April 7, 1864,in Henry County, six miles from 
Abbevilte, son of Washington and Martha Ann Kirkland. He was the grandson of 
the Honorable William T. and Sarah Ann Kirkland and Malcolm and Theresa Murphy.
  He was educated in the Oakey Grove Church in Henry County and at Abbeville 
and Skipperville. Afterwards he went into farming in Henry County.
  January 17, 1884, he married Miss Laura Matthews, daughter of James M. and 
Mary J. Matthews.
  n 1888 he moved to Ozark. He studied Law, practiced in Ozark, and was later 
elected Justice of the Peace. In 1900 he was presidential elector at large for 
the state, and in 1901 he was elected a member of the state constitutional 
convention.
  He was Vice-President of the bank at Headland for a number of years and was a 
director of "the Planters and Merchants Bank of Ozark. He was also a Democrat 
and a Mason.
  He died February 19, 1906, in Ozark.

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