Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Roper, Henry Bently 1839 - ************************************************ 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: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 20, 2011, 8:08 pm Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers HENRY BENTLY ROPER, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Huntsville, Ala., son of William M. and Lavinia (Bently) Roper, was born near Huntsville January 10, l839. He received a common-school education, and, at the age .of fifteen years, came into Huntsville, where he was clerking in a mercantile establishment at the outbreak of the war. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in the Fourth Alabama Infantry, and at the first battle of Manassas was wounded. In the winter following he re-enlisted, and was connected with the service until the close of hostilities. He was in all the battles around Richmond, and, in the second day's fight at Gettysburg, was shot through the body and left on the battle-field for dead. He was at that time a lieutenant. He lay at Gettysburg, in hospital, for two months, when he was taken to Fort McHenry, and there and at Point Lookout was kept in prison eight months. Being exchanged he returned to Alabama, where he remained to the close of the war. He was married January 30, 1869, to Miss Cornelia Clopton, the accomplished daughter of Dr. James A. Clopton, and has had born to him two children: Irene C., February 24, 1870, and Bell G., March 18, 1874. Mrs. Roper died April 1. 1874. William M. Roper, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Cumberland County, Va., March 31, 1801, and died in Madison County, Ala., December 8, 1883. He was one of the most substantial planters of this county. He started in life without money, but the beginning of the war found him possessed of a handsome competency. His eldest son, William M., was born December 6, 1830: was clerk to the quartermaster of the Fourth Alabama Regiment during the war, and is now a farmer in Texas. The second son, Alex B., was born December 19, 1832, and died September 10, 1835; Mary E., born April 4, 1835, died September 22, 1837; Elvira G., born November 4, 1837, died November 15, 1878; Ellen M. born March 8, 1851; Caroline, born June 17, 1855. James Roper, father of said William M. Roper, also a Virginian, married Mary Sims, and came to Alabama in 1813. He died in 1814. Additional Comments: Extracted from: 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/bios/roper139nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb