Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Shivers, S. B. September 19 1833 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    S. B. SHIVERS, of the firm of S. B. Shivers & Co., mill and ginnery, meal,
corn, and feed business, at the corner of Water and Sylvan streets, Selma, Ala.,
was born in Warren county, Ga., September 19, 1833. His parents were James and
Elizabeth (Wood) Shivers, the former of whom was born and raised in Warren
county, Ga. James was a son of Jonas. Shivers, who was from England, and who
came here with two brothers some time before the Revolutionary war, in which he
and one of his brothers were soldiers, the other brother having died shortly
after reaching this country. Jonas Shivers married and settled in South
Carolina, but some time afterward removed to Warren county, Ga., where he lived
and died. He bought the Ogeechee shoals, and there built and operated a grist
and flouring-mill, to which he afterward added a cotton-mill, and became a
wealthy and influential man. The mother of S. B. Shivers was born near Macon,
Ga., her ancestors, it is said, being of French origin. She became the mother of
two sons and one daughter. She was the second wife of James Shivers. He had by
his first wife three sons and two daughters, and by his third wife one daughter.
He was throughout his life a farmer and miller, succeeding his father in his
business at his death. In 1833 he removed to Columbus, Ga., and there continued
in the same business until his death. S. B. Shivers was reared at Columbus, and
received a common school education. He learned milling under his father, who
died in 1858. When the war came on he enlisted, in 1861, as a private soldier in
Croft's battery, at Columbus, Ga., in which he served throughout the war. He
participated in many of the most important battles of the war, as in the siege
of Vicksburg, at Holly Springs, Miss., in all the battles in Johnston's great
retreat; with Hood into Tennessee to Nashville, and after Nashville, covered
Hood's retreat, and then with Jackson's division was paroled. After the war Mr.
Shivers returned to Columbus, Ga., and followed farming for one year, near Union
Springs; then engaged in the livery business for one year, and in 1867 he went
to Mobile, where he engaged in the milling business two years for Turner &
Oates. He remained in Mobile in all thirteen years, being with Ober & Anderson
eleven years. In 1879 he settled in Selma, where he has since remained, and all
the time engaged in the milling business. He at first built for a stock company,
at Selma, a flouring-mill, which he operated up to 1881, when, with partners, he
operated a mill on the corner of Water and Sylvan streets up to 1883, and this
mill he now operates under the firm name of S. B. Shivers & Co., which is the
only firm, in the business at Selma. In 1870 he married, at Mobile, Miss
Cornelia E. Hooks, born and raised in Sumter county, Ala. They have but one son,
Samuel J. Shivers, two other children having died. This son is associated with
his father in the milling business. Mr. Shivers is a Member of the Presbyterian
church, while his wife and son are members of the Methodist Episcopal church,
south. Mr. Shivers is a Knight of Honor, and is an excellent citizen.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 916-917
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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