Jefferson-Lowndes County AlArchives Biographies.....Houghton, William R. May 22, 1842 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 281-282

W. R. Houghton, eminent as a lawyer of Birmingham, was born in Heard county, 
Ga., May 22, 1842.  When he was seven years of age, his parents moved with him 
to what is now Lee county, Ala.  At the age of eighteen he commenced to teach 
school, and taught until the breaking out of the war, and the, in April, 1861, 
he entered the Confederate service, enlisting in the Columbus (Ga.) Guards, 
which was assigned to the Second Georgia regiment of infantry, and known as 
company E.  He went in as a private, and, in 1864, was made one of Gen. 
Longstreet’s scouts, and served as such until the war closed, taking part in 
the following battles:  Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, 
Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Spottsylvania Court House, Cold 
Harbor, and in all the battles around Petersburg and Richmond, and was paroled 
at Appomattox.  He was wounded seven times, seriously at Malvern Hill and 
second Manassas, and slightly at Chickamauga and elsewhere.  After the war he 
commenced to study law, and was admitted to practice in 1866, and located first 
at Haynesville, Ala., where he remained fifteen years, and then, in 1888, he 
moved to Birmingham where he has since practiced.  He belongs to the Masons but 
is not connected with any church.  He was married in December, 1875, to Anna M. 
Streety, daughter of John P. Streety, of Haynesville, Ala.; his wife died in 
1883, leaving one son, Harry Houghton.  W. R. Houghton’s father’s name was 
William H. Houghton, who was born in Greene county, GA.  He was a lawyer and 
moved to Alabama in 1849, and served as secretary of the state senate.  He also 
served in the Indian wars of 1836, and died in 1878.  He married Eliza A. 
Bennett, and to them were born five children, who lived to maturity, of whom 
three now survive:  W. R., M. E., and Mrs. B. L. Brooks, of Austin Tex.

Additional Comments:
William R. Houghton married Anna Mary Sreety on December 21, 1875.  According 
to her tombstone in the Hayneville Cemetery, Lowndes Co., AL, Anna was born 
April 23, 1856 and died November 23, 1882.  Her mother was Eleanor A. McCall.  
William and Anna had another child, Helen Streety Houghton, born November 30, 
1876.  Helen died March 10, 1877 and is buried in the same lot with her 
mother.  

William married 2nd Sarahetta Corley on December 17, 1887, Lowndes Co., AL 
marriage book B, page 330, married by W. D. Judge,  JP.

William is in the 1900 US Census, Jefferson County, living in Birmingham, again 
widowed.

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