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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES HANCOCK. Wholesale and Retail Grocer, of the firm of J. McPeters & Co.,
Florence, was born in Franklin County, this State, February 22, 1832. His
parents, Benjamin and Mary (Ramsey) Hancock, natives of Virginia and Tennessee,
respectively, were married in the latter State; came to Alabama, and lived in
Franklin County from 1827 to the death of Mrs. Hancock, which occurred in 1864.
Mr. Hancock died in Lauderdale County in 1810, at the age of 73 years. They
reared a family of two sons and seven daughters; one of the former, Benjamin F.,
died in the Southern Army.

  The subject of this sketch was educated in Franklin County, where he grew to
manhood on his father's farm. At the age of about twenty-one years, he accepted
a clerkship in a mercantile establishment at Russellville, where he remained
eight years. At the end of this time he became a partner in the concern, the
style of the firm being Hillman & Hancock. The firm subsequently carried on
business in Florence for some time, winding up soon after the outbreak of the war.

  February 4, 1862. Mr. Hancock enlisted in the Fourth Alabama Cavalry, and
served to the close of the war. He went into the army an orderly sergeant and
came out with the rank of captain. Returning to Florence in October, 1855, [sic]
he again engaged in mercantile business, the firm being Hancock, Jones & Co. In
1871 Mr. Hillman withdrew from the firm, and the business was continued up to
1876, under the style and firm name of Hancock & Jones. In 1882 he engaged in
his present business, having entire charge of the concern.

  Mr. Hancock was married at Russellville in 1858 to Miss Pauline Ladd. She died
in 1870, leaving four children, the oldest of whom, James W., is a merchant in
Memphis; Annie H., is the wife of Mr. F. F. Woods; the others are named Kate
Rivers and Pauline Wickliffe.

  In 1881, at Holly Springs, Miss., Mr. Hancock was married to Miss Mattie
Jackson, of that place. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a
Freemason, a Knight of Honor, in which organization he is Past Dictator, and a
member of the Legion of Honor.


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

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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