Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Hannon, William P. 1824 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    WILLIAM P. HANNON, one of Elmore county's citizens, was born in Montgomery
county, Ala., in 1824, son of Thomas and Jane Taylor Hannon, natives of South
and North Carolina, respectively, who removed to Montgomery county in 1818, and
in 1836 removed to Coosa county, where they died, he in 1870, and she in 1886.
He was a well-to-do planter, was many years justice of the peace and deputy
sheriff of Montgomery county, and was in the war of 1812 under Gen. Jackson. He
was one of a large family, but only he and his brother, Prof. Edwin Hannon, who
died in Montgomery, came to Alabama. Their father, William Hannon, was born in
South Carolina, and was of Irish descent. The maternal grandfather, John Taylor,
was a colonel in the Revolutionary war. He was a native of North Carolina, and
his wife was Margaret Bludworth. They came to Montgomery county in 1818, and
spent most of their lives there. They died about 1830, she one month before him.
They were stanch Presbyterians. He was of Scotch, and she of Irish, descent.
William P. Hannon was educated in Montgomery and Coosa county. He was married in
1850 to Mary, daughter of W. K. and Caroline Oliver, natives of South Carolina,
where they lived till about 1835, when they removed to Alabama, and settled near
Wetumpka, where they died. Mrs. Hannon is a native of South Carolina. She was
born in 1829, and is the mother of two sons-Thomas W., a wholesale merchant, of
Montgomery, and Arthur Templeton, a manufacturer of Montgomery. Mr. Hannon was a
teacher for twenty-five years of his early life. During the war he was detailed
to furnish supplies to the army, and did not carry arms. He was county
superintendent of education for seven years. He is an excellent teacher and a
shrewd business man, and has accumulated a good fortune by his energy and
industry. He has never sought office, or taken any further interest in politics
than that of a good citizen, He and wife are Methodists. He had the following
brothers and sisters: John E., deceased, lieutenant in the late war; Thomas J.,
deceased, a farmer; George W., killed after fighting gallantly at Seven Pines;
Joseph B., of Elmore county, shot through the body with minie balls at
Gettysburg; Margaret, widow of J. M. Collins and Mariah, widow of J. D. Edwards.



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

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