Lowndes County AlArchives Biographies.....Middleton, David Hinton March 24, 1844 - June 17, 1923 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Golowka http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002972 February 1, 2005, 1:00 pm Source: Confederate Veteran Vol. XXXI (1923) DAVID H. MIDDLETON David Hinton Middleton, who died at his home in Collirene, Lowndes County, Ala., on the evening of June 17, 1923, was born March 24, 1844, near Mulberry, Autauga County, Ala., his boyhood being spent in and around Benton, Ala. On his eighteenth birthday he ran away from home and enlisted in Company C, 1st Regiment of Alabama, Quarles Brigade, Walthall's Division, Army of Tennessee, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. He was thrice taken prisoner, once on board the Albatross on the Mississippi for three days,, eight months in Camp Butler, and six months in Camp Douglas, and was discharged on June 19, 1865. He never tired of relating incidents of the war, and when he had a good listener, his eyes would kindle and he would hold one spellbound as he laughingly told of narrow escapes. On January 21, 1873, he was married to Maria Ellen Dudley, of Farmersville, Ala. Thirteen children - nine sons and four daughters- were born to them, three of whom preceded him to the grave, the twelfth, and his namesake, having made the supreme sacrifice on the battle fields of France. Three sons, T. J., T. O., and L. F. Middleton, reside at Collirene, also two daughters, Mrs. F. G. Lyon and Miss Florence Middleton; two sons in California - E. D. Middleton of Delano, and H. H. Middleton, of Thermal; Dr. W. R. Middleton, of Andalusia; Dr. C. C. Middleton, of Birmingham, and Mrs. H. B. Stringer, of Selma, Ala. On the 21st of January 1923, he and his wife celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, surrounded by most of their children and grandchildren. His hospitality will long be remembered, far and wide. Besides a widow and ten children to mourn his loss, he leaves two brothers and three sisters. He was a consistent member of the Methodist Church. His was a full and useful life, ever interested in things beneficial to his community, and was also very ambitions for his children. His sons were pallbearers at the funeral at Pleasant Hill, Ala. [Mrs. H. B. Stringer.]