Dale County AlArchives Photo person.....Mayors of Ozark 1870-1970 ( J.R. Levy ) 
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        J. R. Levy
        1919- 1920

  James Richard Levy was born January 22, 1861, Wauchulla County, Flordia, son 
of John Washington and Mary Caledonia (Hawse) Levy,
  He was educated in the country schools Wauchulla County, studied law on his 
own, and was admitted to the Alabama Bar Associaton. He went into business in 
Midand City and served there as Justice of the peace and Mayor. He was elected 
Clerk of Circuit Court in 1902, and moved to Ozark where he held the Clerk's 
office for 18 years.
  He was a steward in the Methodist Church, where he taught a Sunday school 
class for many years, A Royal Arch Mason, A Shriner, and a Woodsman of the 
World.
  On December 24, 1886, he married Missouri Catherine Riley of Echo. He was the 
father of 8 children; two sons who died in infancy, Annie, Maude, Iva, James 
Richard, Jr., Wayne and Jake.
  He was Registar in Chancery when he died  on November 3, 1950.

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