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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOSEPH S. SUGARS was born in Decatur, May 12, 1845, and was reared and
received his education at the common schools of this place. In the fall of 1862
he enlisted in the Confederate Army, in Company E, First Alabama Cavalry, and
was detailed on special duty in General Roddy's Escort. He was in the
engagements at Pond Springs and continuous skirmishes in front of Wilson. He was
present at the battles of Harrisburg and Tupelo, Miss., East Point, Ga., and the
siege of Atlanta, which was his last battle in the war. He was at Montgomery at
the time it surrendered, and at once returned to his father's farm, where he
remained about two years. He then came to Decatur, and as a member of the firm
of Levy, Sugars & Son, jewellers, met with good success. He is a director in the
North Alabama Oil and Asphalt Company, of Birmingham, Ala., and owns
considerable property in Decatur.

  Mr. Sugars was married in November, 1872, to Miss Ann Callahan, daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Bird) Callahan, of Decatur, and they have three children,
viz.: Ethel, Chas. C. and Josephine.

  Mr. Sugars and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He
is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Knights  of Pythias, Knights of Honor,
and of the Knights and Ladies of Honor.

  J. S. Sugars is a son of Levy and Mary Jane (Lock) Sugars. The father was born
in Lancaster, Pa., in 1809. He learned clockmaking in Connecticut, and remained
there seven years, after which he travelled selling clocks in Virginia, Kentucky
and Tennessee, eight years. About 1840 he located at Huntsville, Ala., and
manufactured surveyors' compasses, and did a general watchmaking and silversmith
business in connection with David Knox. About 1842 he located in Decatur, and
engaged in the jewelry business, which he continued until 1872, excepting three
years during the war, which he spent on a farm in Lawrence County. He died in
1875. He was married three times, and reared two children.

  Mary Jane Sugars, our subject's mother, died in 1847.


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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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