Escambia County AlArchives Biographies.....Pridgen, Wiley W. July 21 1865 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILEY W. PRIDGEN.-The gentleman whose name introduces this caption is one of
the wide-awake citizens of Brewton, a native of the Lone Star state, and son of
Wiley W. and Elizabeth (Williams) Pridgen. The father was born of Scotch-Irish
parentage in DeWitt county, Tex., about the year 1842, and was a farmer and
stock dealer by occupation. He served two years in the late war with Wall's
Texas legion, was for some time thereafter in the government employ as freighter
between Indianola and another point in Texas, and met with his death at the hand
of a cruel and cowardly assassin in 1874. His wife, whom he married in 1864, was
Miss Elizabeth Williams, a native of Tennessee, born near the city of Memphis
about the year 1844. She bore her husband three children, Wiley W., Mary and
John L. In 1877 she married a second husband, A. W. Eatman, with whom she now
lives in DeWitt county, Tex. Mr. Pridgen's grandfather, also named Wiley W., was
a native of North Carolina, and son of a well-known and popular Baptist minister
of that state. He early removed to Greene county, Ala., thence moved to DeWitt
county, Tex., where his death afterward occurred. Wiley W., Jr., was born in
Victoria county, Tex., July 21, 1865, spent his youthful days in the county of
DeWitt, and at the age of fifteen began life for himself as an agriculturist on
the home farm. One year later he moved to Kansas with a herd of cattle, and for
a period of about three years was on the trail between that state and Texas,
during which time he became thoroughly conversant with the stock business. He
next turned his attention to buying and selling horses, and followed the same
for some six years, traveling extensively during that time throughout the states
of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama, and meeting with
encouraging success in the business. On the first day of January, 1891, he
purchased the livery barn of T. S. Sowell at. Brewton, and since that time has
given his entire attention to the business, which, under his successful
management, has been greatly enlarged, representing at this time a capital of
about $5,000. He keeps on hand about twenty superior roadsters, his vehicles are
all of the latest improved pattern, and his barn is a capacious structure with
capacity sufficient to accommodate from thirty to forty horses. Mr. Pridgen is a
notable type of the vigorous young Texan, full of life and energy, a shrewd
dealer and one of the popular men of Brewton.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 989-990
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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