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    WALKER COUNTY BANK was organized in November, 1887, with Hinton E. Carr,
president, John B. Hughes, cashier, and a capital stock of $20,000, all paid in.
The business has been satisfactory from the first, and has doubled itself the
last two months. The deposits are larger than the managers had any reason to
expect, and the business is conducted on a strictly legitimate plan. The
managers will change it into a national bank November 1, 1888.

    HINTON EVERETT CARR, president of the bank, was born May 23, 1856, in
Coffeeville, Miss. His father, Louis F. Carr, moved from Coffeeville to Memphis,
Tenn., in the same year, and the subject of our sketch resided there until
fourteen years ago. In 1870 he went to Arkansas with his father, studied law
there and was admitted to the bar at Helena. He practiced law in Helena and
edited The Patriot, a daily and weekly paper. He came to Jasper April 1, 1877,
and soon after associated himself in the practice of law with Hon. A. E.
Stratton, which partnership continues.

    Mr. Carr was married in Helena in 1880 to Miss Emma, daughter of Joseph
Delaney. They have two daughters.

    Mr. Carr's father, Louis F. Carr, was a native of North Carolina, and a
graduate of the University of that State. His wife, Lucy, was a daughter of
Alfred Turner, one of the most extensive slave owners of Mississippi. He died
about the close of the war.

    H. E. Carr has fought his own way in the world and has been entirely the
architect of his own fortune, since the fortune he would have inherited was lost
on account of the war.

    JOHN BELL HUGHES, son of Daniel and Charlotte(Bell) Hughes, was born in
Tuscaloosa County, Ala., February 6, 1838. He was reared on a farm, attended the
country schools and the academy at Taylorville, spent some years in a tannery,
and at the breaking out of the war, became a member of Company G, Eleventh
Alabama Regiment. In the fall of 1861 he was elected lieutenant, and in 1862 was
promoted to a captaincy. He was in the first battle of Manassas, all the
important battles of the army of Northern Virginia, and was at Appomattox at the
surrender. He was once captured and imprisoned two months at Washington and Fort
Delaware; was wounded at the battles of Sharpesburg and Gettysburg.

    Mr. Hughes was appointed clerk of the circuit court at Jasper in 1881. At
the organization of the Walker County Bank, he was made its cashier, and still
holds that office. His father, Daniel Hughes, was a native of Tennessee, and his
mother was born in Georgia. The Hughes family was originally from near
Charleston, .S. C.


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Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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