Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Rorex, James K. P. 1845 - ************************************************ 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: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 8, 2011, 8:33 pm Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers JAMES K. P. ROREX, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, son of David and Sarah A. (Wilkinson) Rorex, was born the 3d of March, 1845, in Fayettesville, Lincoln County, Tenn. His father, David Rorex, was born in East Tennessee October 16, 1806. He was a merchant; moved to Alabama in January, 1858, and died in Scottsboro March, 1880. His wife, Sarah Ann Wilkinson, died in March, 1863. They had six children, two boys and four girls. Dr. Rorex received a common-school education at Stevenson in the ante-bellum days. He entered the Confederate Army at the age of fifteen, in the Sixth Alabama Infantry. He was in the Seven Days' Fight before Richmond in 1802: at the battle of Chancellorsville, where he was wounded; at Gettysburg, and the second battle of the Wilderness, where he received a wound which crippled him for five or six years. After the war he attended school at Stevenson for one year. Then he went to the University of Virginia, after which he came home and taught school for three years, studying medicine in the meantime. He attended two courses of lectures in Nashville: took his degree of M. D. at Mobile, in March, 1875; attended Louisiana State Medical College in New Orleans in 1884; and has practiced medicine in Scottsboro since 1875. He is a member of the State Medical Association and a counsellor therein since 1881: was County Health Officer five years, and is President now of the Jackson County Medical Society. He is a member of the Christian Church and of the Odd Fellows fraternity. Dr. Rorex was married November 6, 1876. to Miss Ella Lou Whitworth, a daughter of Wm. Whit worth, of Tennessee. The Doctor has three children: Louis Wyeth, Fannie Polk and William David. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land 1888 PART III. HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE. CEREAL BELT. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/jackson/bios/rorex862gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb