Caswell County NcArchives 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 [Alabama], 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 [Alabama], 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, 
[Alabama] 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.

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