Greene County AlArchives Biographies.....Kirksey, Foster M. 1817 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    FOSTER M. KIRKSEY is a son of Jehu and Nellie (Foster) Kirksey, natives of
North and South Carolina, respectively. His grandfather, John Kirksey, Sr., was
a Scotchman, and emigrated to America some time prior to the Revolutionary War,
in which he took part. His father came to Alabama in 1804, and settled in what
is now Madison County, and engaged at planting. In 1816 he moved to Tuscaloosa;
in 1822 to Greene County, this State, and settled at Erie, the county seat, and
in 1824, to Greensboro, now the county seat of Hale.

    F. M. Kirksey was born at Tuscaloosa, Ala., June 10, 1817. In 1834 we find
him at Erie, where he received most of his education. In 1839 he removed to
Eutaw, where he has since resided. As an interesting part of his career in the
county of his adoption, it may be mentioned that at one time he knew personally
every man living within its bounds. He has been engaged in planting and
merchandising during his residence in Greene Comity, in both of which callings
he has been successful. He has served the public in different capacities. In
1836 he was Deputy Sheriff of Greene County, and was Sheriff from 1845 to 1848.

    Mr. Kirksey was married the first time October 20, 1845, to Jane
Merriweather, daughter of Dr. Z. Merriweather, of Greene County, Ala. She died
in 1857. All of the children by his first wife are dead. He was married the
second time to Margaretta Liston, of Indiana, who was a daughter of Jonathan J.
Liston, a prominent lawyer of that State. By his second wife he has four living
children, three sons and one daughter: Liston, Robert, Harold, and Margaretta.

    The Hon. Stephen F. Hale married Mary E. Kirksey. a sister of our subject.
He was a Kentuckian by birth, and came to Erie in 1838 and from there to Eutaw
in 1839. He was a lawyer by profession, and served in the State Legislature in
1843. He went to the Mexican war in 1846, and served there two years as a
lieutenant, He was again in the Legislature from 1857 to 1859. In all his
political acts and affiliations he was a Whig, and in them all proved himself a
man of great force. He was Attorney-General of the State in 1861, under the
Confederate Government. Afterward he joined the Army of Virginia, with the rank
of lieutenant-colonel, and was killed in one of the battles around Richmond, in
1862, while gallantly leading his command in action. In 1866 the Legislature
formed a new county out of a part of Greene and portions of other counties, and
named it Hale, in honor of the man who had proved himself a lawyer of ability, a
worthy citizen, an intelligent lawmaker and a brave soldier.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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