- C - CAMPBELL, William P. - Banker, was born in the County Donegal. Ireland, December 2, 1842, and came with his parents, four brothers and two sisters to America in 1851. The family located upon a farm near Franklin, Tenn., and there the two old people spent the rest of their lives. The oldest son, Joseph L., color-bearer of the First Tennessee Infantry, was killed at Chickamauga, and a portrait of him forms the frontispiece in a recently published history of Tennessee. Wm. P. Campbell was educated at Franklin, Tenn., became a clerk in a dry goods house at Nashville when sixteen years of age, and came to Florence at the age of eighteen. September 1. 1862, he entered the Confederate service as a private in Company F, Fourth Alabama Cavalry, and served to the close of the war, participating in all the engagements for which the Fourth Regiment is somewhat famous in history. He was captured at Selma in April, 18*15, by Wilson's Cavalry; escaped, rejoined his command, and surrendered finally at Wheeler's Station. Upon his return to Florence he arrived at the south side of the Tennessee River, the possessor of but one dollar in the world, and this he gave to the ferryman to carry him over. To his best friend, Mr. I. W. McAlester, he was indebted for clothes and money furnished while in the army. So if the road to ultimate prosperity appeared to young Campbell as one of great length, it is not to he wondered at. He went at once into the store of McAlestcr & Ervine and clerked for them six years, applying his net earnings to the liquidation of his wartime indebtedness. In 1872, he engaged in the dry goods business for himself, and, in 1880, organized the banking house of W. P. Campbell & Co., in the management of which he has made money and reputation as a financier. He is largely interested in agriculture and manufacturing: is treasurer of the Florence Land Company, president of the Florence Compress Company, a member of the Legion of Honor, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Notwithstanding the fact that the Campbells started in life minus the advantages of wealth, it appears that they have all succeeded reasonably well. One of the brothers, John, is connected with the Nashville Cotton-Seed Oil Company, at Nashville: Andrew is cashier of the First National Bank of Natchez. Miss., and Patrick is a prosperous merchant in the capital city of Tennessee. William P. Campbell was first married in Florence to Miss Sarah Andrews, in 1871. She died in January, 1877, leaving one child, Sarah. January 20, 1886, Mr. Campbell led to the altar the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Capt. Alexander D. Coffee and the granddaughter of the famous Gen. John Coffee. Source: Northern Alabama Historical & Biographical by T.A. DeLand and A. Davis Smith 1888 Birmingham AL CARMACK, C., had long represented the people of Lauderdale in the House, and with such acceptability that for several years he had desired to retire, but his fellow-citizens persisted in electing him. He told me in 1838 that he hoped he would be beaten the ensuing year, as then he would have a good excuse to decline any further attention to public affairs, which did not suit his taste. Mr. Carmack was a plain, unpretending gentleman, rather re served in his intercourse with the members investigated closely all the subjects upon which he was required to act and vote, and took his course from the stand-point of honest conviction ; and this, once determined upon, no whispers of policy, or anything short of principle, could change him. He was much respected in Legislative circles, and invited frequently to the social meetings of his fellow-members. Here, while his strict temperance habits were maintained, he would relax the reserve of public intercourse, and enjoy the freedom of such occasions with lively jest and anecdote. Soon after this year he removed to Mississippi, where he remained in private life until 1851, when the State called a Convention to consider the political questions then culminating. He was elected as a Union man, and on the assembling of the Convention, he was made its President. The labors of this position were no doubt too much for his physical ability, which was always below medium condition, and on his way home, after the adjournment, sickened and died. He was a Democrat, not because anybody else was or had been, but solely from principle, and wherever his principles led him, he went. This course of action frequently separated him from friends of the policy school, but did not on his part produce any misunderstanding, or ill blood. He was a Christian gentleman without austerity, and had universal charity toward his fellow-beings. Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama 1872 CLARK, Thomas Marion - "Mountain Tom" Co B 2nd MTD Inf USA (joined and deserted) He became leader of "Clifton Shebang" and outlaw gang of bushwackers of Al and Tn. was captured by Wm Blair and put into jail. An angry mob stormed the jail, took Clark out and hung him. Legend told that he is buried under Tennessee Street because he said that "no one runs over Tom Clark" Contributed by Sandra Hughes (Find-A-Grave) COFFEE, John - was among the early settlers of this county. He was Gen. Jackson's right arm through all his campaigns against the Creeks, and led the mounted Tennesseans at the battle of New Orleans. He was a planter in this county for twelve or thirteen years, and died here July 17, 1833. Capt Alexander D. Coffee, of this county, is his son, and nearly all his children and descendants reside here. His wife was a sister of Mrs. Gen. Jackson, and died a year or two ago. CRITTENDEN, MOSES H., business man, was born August 31, 1851, in Lauderdale County; son of Wm. H. and Octavia (Ingram) Crittenden. He was educated in common schools of Florence; studied medicine for a short time; in 1873 removed to Birmingham, where he engaged in mercantile and real estate business. He is a Knight of Pythias. Married: November 14, 1878, to Sallie J. Goodrich, of Kentucky. Children: 1. Lula O.; 2. Erllne, m. J. Q. Smith; 3. Inez, m. Homer E. Starks, Montgomery. Residence: Birmingham. Source: Goodspeed Biographies McNairy County TN CROW, James McCollough, business man, was born March 16, 1836, at Florence, Lauderdale County; son of Thomas J. and Elizabeth (Hooks) Crow, the former a native of Adair County, Kentucky., who later removed to Florence, where he resided until his death in 1869, an architect and contractor, and proprietor of Crow's hotel, alderman and Mason; grandson of Thomas and Nancy (Donally) Crow, the former a native of Botetourt County, Va., soldier of the Revolutionary War, surveyor and teacher who settled in Kentucky prior to 1800, and of David and Mary (McCollough) Hooks of Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn.; great-grandson of William and Margaret (Lewis) Crow, and of Hilary and Elizabeth (Cannon) Hooks, of North Carolina; great-great- grandson of John and Margaret (Lynn) Lewis; great-great-great-grandson of David Lynn of Loch Lynn, Scotland. Two great-uncles, Andrew and Charles Lewis, were generals in the Continental Army, and another great-uncle, Thomas Lewis, was a member of the house of burgesses, and also a member of the Virginia convention of 1776. Mary Hooks, sister of Hilary, married Col. Ezekiel Slocum of the Continental Army. Andrew Lewis Crow, great- uncle, on the paternal side, married Margaret Montgomery, sister or daughter of Gen. Montgomery, who was killed at Quebec. The Lewis family were Huguenots who fled from France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1655 and settled in North Ireland. There were three of the brothers, William, Samuel and John. The Crows, on account of persecution, left Scotland during the reign of James I and II, and settled in northern Ireland, from whence they removed to America. James McCollough Crow was educated in the common schools of Florence, and early entered upon a business career. He was bookkeeper for a mercantile firm in Florence from 1858 to 1861 at which latter date he entered the C. S. Army in which he fought gallantly in Wilcox's brigade from the beginning of hostilities to the surrender at Appomattox. He was first a lieutenant in Co. D., 9th Alabama infantry regiment, and was promoted to the captaincy in the fall of 1861. After the battle of Gettysburg, he was promoted major. After that date, he located in St. Louis, Mo., where he was bookkeeper for a business house for five years. In 1866 he returned to Florence and went into the mercantile business, the firm being Crow and Miller. Later he disposed of his interest and became chief clerk on river steamboats. After four years in this capacity he removed to Saltillo, Tenn., where once more he entered the mercantile business, dealing principally in cotton and white oak timber for foreign shipments. He was assessor of Florence, 1897- 1901. He is a Democrat; Christian Scientist; Odd Fellow; Elk; Mason and was a Ku-Klux. Married: April 30, 1867, at Florence, to Mary Josephine, daughter of Washington M. and Mary (Munn) Brandon, who lived near that place, the former a successful planter and manufacturer of cotton goods, the Brandon cotton mills on Cypress Creek, Lauderdale County, being his property. Children: 1. Thomas Wood, civil engineer and contractor, educated at the Florence Wesleyan university, Florence; assisted in building Colbert shoals canal on the Tennessee River, and has done much other work for the government in Colorado and Montana in irrigation canals and also work on the Mississippi River levees; has been connected with railroad work in Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana; is now operating phosphate mines in Florida and Tennessee and coal mines in Walker County, by the process of removing the overburden instead of tunneling, the operation being known as strip mining: in. Louise Allen Finley, reside in Jasper; 2. Mary Elizabeth, m. Jeff H. Johnson, Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., who. has charge of the phosphate operation in Tennessee. Last residence: Jasper. Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography Thoms McAdory Owen 1921