Limestone County AlArchives Biographies.....Francis, William R. Jr. 1843 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WILLIAM R. FRANCIS, Jr., Attorney-at-law, and editor and proprietor of the
Athens Democrat, a live democratic weekly paper, published at Athens, was born
in Franklin County, Tenn., September 25, 1843. His father, William R. Francis,
Sr., a native of Virginia, is now a planter in Franklin County, Tenn.

    The great-grandfather Francis was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and
Mr. Francis' grandfather fought in the war of 1812.

    The subject of this sketch was educated at the public schools of Tennessee;
studied law under John Frizzell, at Winchester, and was admitted to the bar in
1867. He first began the practice of law at Winchester, and remained there until
1879, and in the fall of that year came to Athens, where he has since been in
the practice. In 1880 the Limestone County Publishing Co. established the
Democrat, and Mr. Francis was made its editor.

    At Winchester, Tenn., in the fall of 1801, Mr. Francis enlisted as a private
in Company I, Forty-first Tennessee Infantry. C. S. A., and served through the
war. At Chickamauga. September 20, 1863, a minie ball crushed the upper section
of the left femur, resulting in crippling him for life. While not thereafter in
active service, he was in the Retired Corps to the close of the war. Before
Chickamauga, he had participated in the battles of Raymond, Miss., Port Hudson,
Jackson, Black River and Corinth. His regiment was captured at Fort Donelson,
but he being sick, he was allowed to escape. After that time, he served in the
Seventeenth Tennessee. He was paroled in May, 1865, and in August of that year
returned to Tennessee, and thence, as has been seen, came to Athens.

    Mr. Francis is a wide-a-wake, active democratic worker, and runs a red-hot
paper.


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.


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