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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  SAMUEL D. WEAKLEY, one of the pioneers of Florence, is a native of Davidson
County, Tenn., and was born October 2, 1812.

  His parents, Samuel and Sarah (Vaughan) Weakley, were natives of Halifax
County, Va., and descended from Irish and Welsh parentage. The senior Mr.
Weakley was a planter and surveyor during his life, and died in 1832, at the age
of sixty-five years. Of his four sons the subject of this sketch is the
youngest. He was educated at Nashville, Tenn., and came to Florence in 1831,
where an elder brother, James H. Weakley, Surveyor-General of Alabama, then
resided.

  Samuel D. Weakley was then about twenty years of age. He had learned surveying
under his father, and at once, upon coming into Alabama, took a position in the
office of his brother. He spent about ten years re-tracing old survey
field-notes which had been largely obliterated by fire. In 1849, in company with
James Martin and others, he engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods and yarns
near Florence. In the spring of 1861 he was elected major-general of militia, a
position he held about one year and a half, when, the act of conscription having
placed every able-bodied man from seventeen to fifty years of age in the army
and leaving him nobody to command, he resigned. Early in his life he was a
lieutenant-colonel in a State regiment, so, at the time of his appointment as
major-general, he possessed more than ordinary knowledge of military affairs.

  Up to 1863 General Weakley was an active business man, interested largely in
railroads and steamboats, but since that date he has been living in virtual
retirement. He was married in Lauderdale County, in 1836, to Miss Eliza B.
Bedford, a daughter of the late John R. Bedford, and they have reared one son
and five daughters.


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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