Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Cornelius, H. M. ? - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   H. M. CORNELIUS, a popular and prosperous merchant of Walnut Grove, Ala., is
the son of Harvey and Elizabeth (Fite) Cornelius. The family came to Virginia in
colonial times. The grandfather, William Cornelius, located in a later year in
Blount county, Ala. He was a man of large family and much property. The father
of H. M. Cornelius was married in Tennessee and settled in his father's place at
Walnut Grove. He was a man of deep religious conviction, a Missionary Baptist in
his faith, and a great worker in the church. A physical difficulty in his hip,
which caused him to limp, prevented his service in the army, but he was always
ready with his means or influence to aid the cause of the Confederacy, and the
hospitality of his home was always open to the soldier. So enthusiastic was he
for the success of the cause that he had espoused, that he was marked by
deserters from the army as a man to be disposed of, and an attempt was
accordingly made upon his life. The night for the terrible deed was set (March
3, 1865) and the visit made, but the father being absent from home, their
fiendish plans were frustrated. His home and store, however, were burned to the
ground, and several of his neighbors were murdered. He died in 1876. He reared a
family of twelve children, the following eight of whom survive: Emily H., wife
of J. E. Murphree; Delia, wife of John Randal; Montgomery; Marcellus; Dayton;
Grace, wife of John Sproul; Bethel and Maude. The mother of these children died
in 1890. She belonged to one of the first families of Tennessee, one of her
brothers being a general in the Union army. H. M. Cornelius was reared in Walnut
Grove, Ala. He was educated principally by a private tutor, and taught school
four or five years. He bought a part of the old homestead and embarked in the
mercantile business, which he has carried on for three years with great success.
He was married December 29, 1881, to Mary D. Garlington, daughter of Dr. H. S.
Garlington. The union has been blessed with the birth of three children, named
as follows: Verna, Reginald and Paul. Mr. Cornelius is a democrat, a deacon in
the Missionary Baptist church, and has taught the same Sunday-school class for
twelve years.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1014
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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