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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN D. ROQUEMORE, Attorney-at-law, and President of the Exchange Bank of
Decatur, was born in Barbour County, this State. August 27. 1846, and is a son
of Zachariah and Julia A. (McGibony) Roquemore, natives of Georgia.

  The senior Mr. Roquemore was born in 1809, and his wife in 1818. They came to
Alabama in 1836, locating first in Russell County, and later on in Barbour. Mr.
Roquemore was a self-made man. He was a planter by occupation, and carried that
business on mute extensively for some years prior to his death; he died in 1868.

  John D. Roquemore was reared on his father's plantation, and received his
primary education at the common schools. In 1864 he left the State University,
where he had but recently matriculated, and joined "Nelson's Rangers." His
company was assigned to Gen. Stephen D. Lee's escort, and with it young
Roquemore participated in many conflicts of arms.

  Returning from the army after the final cessation of hostilities, Mr.
Roquemore began the study of law at Eufaula, and in May, 1867, was admitted to
the bar. He began the practice at once at Eufaula, and readily rose to prominent
rank in the profession. The Montgomery & Florida Railway Company, of which he
was a director, made him their general counselor, and he is now, and has been
for some years, one of the trusted attorneys of the Central Railroad & Banking
Company of Georgia.

  In 1876 he was appointed one of the commissioners to codify the Alabama
statutes, and from 1878 to 1882 he represented his district in the State Senate.
In 1880 he was Adjutant-General of the State, and in the same year the Alabama
University conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M.

  He came to Decatur in September, 1887, for the purpose of continuing the law
practice, the style of his firm being Roquemore, White & Long, with offices also
at Montgomery and Eufaula. Here he soon became identified with various popular
enterprises, and is at this writing President of the Decatur Water-works
Company, Vice-President of the Decatur Street Railway Company, President of the
Exchange Bank, and one of the directors of the Decatur Land, Improvement and
Furnace Company.

  In addition to the duties incumbent upon him by reason of his connection with
these various industries, Mr. Roquemore continues the practice of law, and the
firm of which he is the head is recognized throughout the State as being among
the very best.

  At Eufaula, in 1867, Mr. Roquemore was married to Miss Mary L. Hunter, of that
place, and to this marriage five children were born. Mrs. Roquemore was the
daughter of James L. Hunter, and a niece of Mrs. Gen. H. D. Clayton, Mrs. J. L.
Pugh and Mrs. B. J. Hoole. and a cousin to A. H. Merrill, Esq. Her mother was a
sister of John Gill, Eli S. and Henry R. Shorter. Mrs. Roquemore died June 13,
1882, leaving five children: Charles H., Annie D., Mary L., John D. and "Zach."

  The present Mrs. Roquemore, to whom Mr. Roquemore was married October 25,
1887, is the accomplished daughter of Capt. David Brown, of Massachusetts.    
She is noted for her many rare and admirable qualities and her superior
educational attainments.

  Mr. Roquemore is a Knight Templar Mason and a Knight of Pythias.


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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.


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