Edgefield County ScArchives Biographies.....Clisby, Alfred A. September 29, 1848 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 254-255

Dr. A. A. Clisby, the well-to-do capitalist and physician of Birmingham, was 
born September 29, 1848, in Coosa county, Ala., and was educated in the schools 
of that and Montgomery county.  He studied pharmacy after leaving school, in 
South Carolina, whither he had gone at the age of eighteen years, locating in 
Edgefield.  He went into the drug business there, and remained with good 
success in that business about eleven years.  He was married in Edgefield in 
1875, to Fannie T. Glover, and to them were born five children, as follows:  
Warner C., Fannie L., Alfred A., Kathleen, and John H.  The mother of these 
children died in 1888.  In 1882, Dr. Clisby removed to Birmingham, and engaged 
in the drug business one year, which he abandoned for real estate, his present 
occupation.  He married the second time, November 19, 1891, Daisy, daughter of 
Gen. T. K. Irwin, of Mobile.  He was one of the promoters and organizers of the 
East Lake Land company, and one of its vice-presidents, and during his 
residence in Edgefield, S.C., was m ayor of that city several years.  His 
father was John Clisby, born in Boston, Mass., in 1813.  He came to Alabama in 
1826, and located in Montgomery, where he was an extensive merchant until 
1887.  He commanded a company of Montgomery troops in the Seminole war.  He was 
married in 1839 to Emily Hughes, a daughter of John Hughes.  Eleven children 
were born to the union, the following ten of whom grew to maturity:  John H., 
now a leading citizen of Montgomery, Ala.; George C., who served through the 
last war, was wounded five times, and last at Gettysburg; Emma, wife of C. L. 
B. Marsh, of Birmingham; Elizabeth, wife of J. M. Cobb, of Edgefield, S.C; Dr. 
A. A. Clisby, of Birmingham; Steven H. Clisby, killed at the battle of Peach 
Tree Creek, at the age of seventeen years; Rosa, wife of Col. S. W. John, of 
Birmingham; Lorenzo, of Birmingham; Hattie, wife of John Morris, of Birmingham, 
and Annie.

Additional Comments:
Alfred A. Clisby was buried in the Oakhill Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson 
County,.  In the same cemetery are his sister Annie M. Clisby, Hattie Clisby 
Morris, and mother, Emily D. Clisby.  Emily D. was the daughter of John & 
Elizabeth Hughes, born about 1823.  She married first Benjamin Hill on January 
16, 1838 in Montgomery County, Alabama.  Benjamin died between February 6, 1838 
when he wrote his will and February 12, 1838 when his will was proved in 
court.  Emily remarried February 4, 1839 to John Clisby in Montgomery County, 
Alabama.  From the 1850 and 1860 Coosa County, Alabama census, the 1870 Elmore 
County, Alabama census and the 1880 Chilton County census records, their eleven 
children, all born in Alabama, are as follows:

John H. Clisby, b. abt 1840
George C. Clisby, b. abt 1842
Freling, b. abt. 1844 (a son, d. before the 1860 census)
Stephen H., b. abt. 1846
Alfred A, b. Sep 29, 1848
Emma, b. abt 1852
Elizabeth, b. about 1855
Lorenza, b. abt 1857
Rosa M., b. abt 1859
Hattie, b. abt 1861 (died Jun 1907)
Annie M., b. abt. 1865 (died Oct 1953)

In the 1880 US Census, Edgefield County, SC, Alfred is there with his wife, 
Fannie, and first son, Warner C., born 1878 in Edgefield Co., SC.  Fannie is in 
the Dr. A. A. Clisby plot in Oakhill Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL.  
She was 29 years old and was buried Jan. 20, 1889.  Warner is in his own plot 
(died August 1956) with wife Lila Gaines.  

The 1900 Census, Jefferson County, Alabama, shows Alfred has been married for 9 
years to Daisy who was born in December 1868 in Alabama and that they have two 
children together:  Irwin P., b. September 1893 and Charles K., born September 
1897.  Also living with them are his children with Fannie:  Warner C., b. June 
1878; Fannie L., b. June 1881; Alfred L., b. August 1883; and Kathleen, b. 
February 1886.  John H., named as a son to Alfred and Fannie in this biography, 
is not listed in either 1880 or 1900 census records.

In the 1910 census, Daisy Irwin Clisby is a widow living with her father, T. K. 
Irwin in Mobile. With them is her son, Charles K., now 12 years old.  


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