Montgomery County AlArchives Biographies.....Warren, James Raney 1837 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), page 766

James Raney Warren, grocery merchant of Montgomery, was born in Caswell county, 
N. C., in 1837, and was educated in his native county.  Leaving school at the 
age of eighteen, he lived in Caswell county until the age of twenty-two, 
clerking, and then commenced to travel through the south, selling tobacco for 
Graves, Burnham $ Co., of Grantville, N. C., making his headquarters in 
Montgomery, Ala., keeping this up for three years, and in 1863, he started into 
the tobacco business in Montgomery, together with W. W. Burch, and carried that 
on until 1878, when Mr. Burch retired, and Mr. Warren carried on the business 
alone until 1881, when the firm became J. R. Warren & Co.  Mr. Warren is a 
director in the Capital City Insurance company, and in the Central railroad 
company, and is a thorough business man.  He married, in 1866, to Fannie Leak, 
daughter of Judge Tilman Leak, of Wetumpka, and to them were born eight 
children, of who but two now survive, as follows:  Lucy, wife of Dr. Glenn 
Andrews, and William Warren.  Mrs. Fannie Warren died in 1884, leaving Mr. 
Warren in a state of disconsolate widowhood.  William Warren, father of James 
R. Warren, was born in Caswell county, N. C., in 1802, and there died in 1845.  
He was a farmer and tanner.  He married Sarah Henshaw, a native of North 
Carolina, and to them were born nine children, as follows:  Henry A., who was 
in Price’s army and was killed in the service in1862; Bartimus H., who served 
all through the war in the army of northern Virginia under Gen. Lee; William 
Boswell, who served through the war in the western army of the Confederacy and 
died just after the war; James R., Bedford B., Elizabeth, widow of Bentley 
McKee; Caroline, now Mrs. Malone; Eliza, wife of Sidney Malone, and Nancy, 
deceased.  The mother of this family died in 1843.  The Warren family came 
originally from England, located first in Virginia, and then moved to North 
Carolina.

Additional Comments:
The 1870 Montgomery Census shows James R. & Fannie A. with son, James W., age 
3, born in Alabama as was Fannie.  The 1880 Montgomery Census shows Jas. R. & 
Fanny A. with son Walter J, (James W.), age 13, daughter Lucy H., age 9 and 
sone William, age 2.

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