Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Jack, James M. ? - liiving in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    CAPT. JAMES M. JACK, tax assessor of Hale county, was born in Hale, then
Greene, county. His father, Capt. James Jack, was born in Elbert county, Ga., in
1800, and died in north Hale county, in 1875. His father was Patrick Jack, a
native of North Carolina, and a son of James Jack, also a native of North
Carolina, but of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He carried the famous Mecklenburgh
declaration of independence from North Carolina to Philadelphia. He was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war, and in that war won the title of captain.
Capt. James Jack was a farmer by occupation, and came to Alabama in 1824. After
living in Jefferson county two years he removed, in 1826, to Hale county, where
he lived and died. He was industrious and thrifty, and accumulated a large
amount of property. He was highly respected and beloved by many on account of
his purity of character and charity to all. He was married twice and had born to
him several children. His first wife was Miss Ann Gray of Georgia. She was the
mother of Capt. James M. Jack. His second wife was Miss Mary Julia Witherspoon
of Tennessee. He was a very ardent and devoted Methodist. Capt. James M. Jack
was reared in Hale county, and received his education in the Greene Springs
school, under Prof. Henry Tutwiler. At the age of twenty-one he quit school and
began life for himself as a farmer, and continued to follow that pursuit until
1884. He was elected to the legislature in 1876 and served one term. In 1884 he
was elected tax assessor of Hale county and served one term. He was married in
1867 to Miss Mary Spencer of Tuscaloosa county, by whom he has had five
children. The two sons are named Edwin S. and Houston C., and are both graduates
of the Southern university, the former being a lawyer at Greensboro, and also
editor of the Greensboro Beacon. Capt. Jack went into the army in 1861, and at
Malvern Hill lost his right leg. He was discharged and returned hone, serving
for a while as captain of the home guards, hence his title. He and his family
belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He has small farming interests
but has not followed farming since 1889, when he moved into Greensboro.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1063-1864
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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