CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: - H. C. SPEAKE, Huntsville, AL

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
5 October 2001
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 141.

H. C. SPEAKE.

It was about the spring of 1860 that a young lawyer came to Tyler from 
Tuscumbia, Ala., by the name of H. C. Speake. He had received a good 
education and in addition was a recent graduate from the Lebanon (Tenn.) 
Law School.  He was of spare build, sandy hair and beard and had the 
gray eyes that usually go with that class of features; was of good 
address and gave promise of a bright future.  When the war came he 
returned to Alabama and joined the Confederate army, passing from our 
sight and almost from the memory of our people. But we have recently 
learned from good authority that he rose to prominence at the bar in 
North Alabama and served as district judge for five consecutive six-year 
terms, volun­tarily declining re-election thereafter.  He died at his 
home in Huntsville, Ala., in 1891, honored and regretted by the people 
whom he had so long served.  His funeral was under the auspices of his 
old Confederate comrades.