Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Lamar, James I. 1830 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DR. JAMES I. LAMAR, physician and general merchant of Deatsville, Ala., was
born in Dallas county, Ala., in 1830, the son of John and Mary (Dubose) Lamar,
both natives of Georgia, who came to Alabama in 1824. They located first in
Dallas county, but removed to Autauga county, where they spent their lives. He
died in 1857 and she about a year later. They were Missionary Baptists, and were
both people of modern education. He was well-to-do, and served in the Indian war
of 1836. His father, James Lamar, was a distinguished man of Georgia, who
belonged to the illustrious family of which Justice L. Q. C. Lamar belongs, and
was of French origin. He was a cousin of Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar, who
distinguished himself in the Texan war of 1836, and was president of the Texan
republic. His wife came to Alabama, but returned to Georgia and died. She was
the mother of four sons and three daughters-Zechariah, died in Georgia; Mrs.
Fannie Smith, died in Geogia; Mrs., Mary McGinty, died in Louisiana; Mrs. Sarah
Dubose, died in Texas; Dent, died in Alabama, and Obediah, died in Arkansas.
Isaac Dubose, the maternal grandfather of Dr. Lamar, was born in Georgia, but
came to Dallas county, Ala., at an early day, where he died before the doctor
was born. He was a farmer and a man of large family. Dr. Lamar is the second of
two sons and three daughters, namely : Sarah, deceased wife of James Nunna, a
wealthy citizen of Autaugaville; Dr. James L.; Mary, deceased wife of Dr. W.
Wilkes, a Baptist minister; Martha, of Sylacauga; John Dent, now of Texas, who
served all through the late war and was several times wounded. Dr. James Lamar
received a good education in the schools of his home, at Selma and at Howard
college, and in 1851 graduated from the Medical college of Georgia, at Augusta,
and practiced at Autaugavilla till after the war. He was also in the army, but
being exempt, served but a short time. Soon after the war he located near
Prattville, where he was also engaged in farming until 1879, and since that time
has lived in Deatsville. He has a large practice and also is a general merchant.
He is a member of the State Medical association and of the County Medical
society. He was married in 1856 to Martha, daughter of Lewis G. and Mary
(Whetstone) Robinson, natives of South Carolina, but early settlers in Autauga
county. She died in 1869 and he in 1879. Dr. Lamar has three children: Ida, wife
of Rev. S. O. Townsend, a Methodist Protestant minister, of Troy, Ala.; John,
deceased; and James Dubose, a merchant of Deatsville. Dr. Lamar is a member of
Deatsville lodge No. 475, F. & A. M., and is a Missionary Baptist. His wife died
in 1892. She was a Methodist Protestant and a devout christian.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 939-940
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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