Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Goree, James L. 1853 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
 JAMES L. GOREE, lumberman and farmer of Deatsville, Elmore county, Ala., was
born in that county in 1853, the son of Hon. Langston F. Goree, born in
Montgomery county, in 1821, who was the son of Ephraim and Celia Goree, natives
of Newberry district, S. C. They came to Alabama in 1816 and settled in
Montgomery county, afterward removing to what is now Elmore county. He died in
the latter county in 1836, aged about fifty-two years, and his wife died in
1872. He was of French origin, a self-made man and devoted all his life to
agriculture. They had eleven children, only three of whom lived to maturity and
only one now survives. Langston F. Goree was a man of limited education. He was
reared as a farmer. He was married in March, 1844, to Mary Barrow of North
Carolina, who came with her parents, James and Pemilia Barrow, to Autauga, now
Elmore, county and later they removed to Arkansas, where they died. Since his
marriage, Mr. Goree has lived in Elmore county, where he has at times engaged in
the saw mill business, but his general and more proper occupation has been that
of a planter. He served in the Twenty-fourth Alabama battalion as an orderly
sergeant and was with the army of the Tennessee from 1863 until the close of
hostilities. He served through the Georgia and Atlanta campaigns and on to the
sea. In South Carolina he was promoted to the captaincy, and wounded. He served
six years as county commissioner from 1873. In 1880 he was elected to the
legislature, and served on the committee on corporations. He is a member of the
F. & A. M., Deatsville lodge, No. 475, and _affiliates with the Methodist
Protestant church. Mrs. Goree died October 7, 1885. She was a member of the
Methodist Protestant church for many years. They were the parents of one son and
four daughters, namely: Fannie, wife of T. W. Graves; Amanda, wife of O. M.
Norris; Zada, wife of W. E. Hagood, of Montgomery; James L. and Mollie, wife of
P. J. Rogers, of Birmingham. James L. Goree was reared on a farm and had but a
limited education. Nearly, all his life was spent at work in the saw mills, and
at his majority his father gave him his present mill and about 120 acres of
land. He has had two good mills destroyed by fire. He has built and operated a
number of good mills in the county, and disposed of them by sale, He owns about
1,400 acres of land; cuts in his mill, from 5,000 to 7,000 feet of lumber per
day and employs from ten to fifteen men; he has three miles of tram railway and
runs a large planer. At the age of twenty-two years he married Rhoda Thornhill,
who died about nine months after the marriage. She was a native of Elmore county
and the daughter of W. H. Thornhill. He was married twelve months after to
Martha, sister of his first wife. He has two children, one by the first, and one
by the second wife.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 937-938
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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