Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Clopton, R. W. March 1857 - living in 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 27, 2004, 7:48 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) R. W. CLOPTON, attorney-at-law, at Scottsboro, Ala., was born in Jackson county, Ala., in March, 1857. While he was a small boy, his parents moved to Winchester, Tenn., and he was educated at that place. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he went to his father's farm near Winchester, and remained there three years. He then removed with his father to Dallas county, Ala., and became clerk in a store, remaining there until the summer of 1875, when he removed to Jackson county, and began teaching school. After following this profession for two years, in 1877, he went to Huntsville, Ala., and there became a law student in the office of Humes & Gordon, and was admitted to the bar in 1878, at the fall term of court. He then returned to Jackson county, Ala., and, on account of ill health, taught school for three years, instead of practicing law. In 1888, he began his practice, however, in Scottsboro, and has remained thus engaged ever since. He has taken some little interest in politics, and has been a delegate to several democratic senatorial conventions. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He was married, in 1884, to Effie Barnard, daughter of J. L. Barnard, of De Kalb county, Ala., and to this marriage were born two children, Effie and Albert. The father of Mr. Clopton, Dr. A. G. Clopton, was born and reared in Madison county, Ala. He was a graduate of the medical department of the university of Kentucky, at Lexington. He practiced principally at Winchester, Tenn., and in Jackson and Madison counties, Ala. He organized a company at Winchester, Tenn., in the spring of 1862, for the Confederate service, and was made its captain. Soon afterward he was made regimental surgeon, and served in that capacity through the war. He was taken prisoner at Ft. Donelson, in 1862, and made his escape almost immediately, from the fact that he had on citizens' clothes, having removed his uniform to have it washed. He was thus caught inside the Federal lines, but was given a pass by Gen. Grant, who, later on, discovered, much to his chagrin, that he had given a pass to a Confederate officer. Dr. Clopton married Eliza Walton, daughter of Robert Walton, of Virginia, and to this marriage were born six children, of whom three survive, viz.: Mollie, wife of J. W. Jeffers, of Ft. Payne, Ala.; Elizabeth, wife of W. C. Quarles, of Lowndes county, Ala., and R. W. Of the three that died, two died in infancy, and Emma, wife of John M. Cowen, died in 1874. The mother of these children died in 1858, and the father married, for his second wife, Jennie M. McKenzie, nee Rigney, of Madison county, Ala., by whom he has five children, only one of whom is living, viz.: Mattie, wife of Mr. Fisher, of Florida. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1135 Published by Brant & Fuller (1893) Madison, WI This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb