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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES E. PRIDE was born at Tuscumbia, this State, July 2, 1832, and is the
eldest son of John F. and Susan Smith (Barrett) Pride, natives of North Carolina.

  The senior Mr. Pride was married in Limestone County, and, in 1822, settled at
Tuscumbia, where he lived a great many years. From there the old gentleman
removed to his present home at Pride Station, and at this writing (1887) is
upward of ninety-six years of age. His wife died in August, 1885, at the
advanced age of eighty-two years.

  The Prides came originally from Wales, and the Barretts from France. John F.
Pride was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his father was a minister of the
gospel away back in the colonial days. It is related of the Rev. Mr. Pride that,
for selling a negro woman that she might go with her husband, who was being
carried to another part of the country, the authorities of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of whose ministry he was, revoked his license as preacher. The
old grandfather Barrett was also a colonial minister, but of what church, the
data is not at hand. The Prides settled first in Virginia, thence into the
Carolinas, from whence, they came, later, into Alabama. Of the seven children
born to John F. Pride, in addition to the subject of this sketch, we have the
following data: two of the sons, William M. and Dr. J. P., and a daughter,
Jacquiline, who married Col. Sam Thompson, reside at Pride Station; George was
killed at the battle of Fishing Creek, Ky., where he participated as a member of
the Sixteenth Alabama Infantry, when found his body lay beside that of
Zollicoffer. John F., Jr., died in Mississippi: he was also a member of the
Sixteenth Alabama Infantry, and was a paroled prisoner at the time of his death;
one daughter died in infancy.

  William M. Pride was a gallant soldier of the late war, and served under Forrest.

  James E. removed from Tuscumbia to Florence in 1885. He was married, at
Charlotteville, Va., September 10, 1856, to Miss S. A. Price, a native of that
place, and has had born to him five children, one of whom died in infancy, Mr.
Pride is a member of the Masonic fraternity.


Additional Comments:
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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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