POSEY, Sidney Cherry - The name of Sidney Cherry Posey is identified with the annals of Lauderdale. He was born in Pendleton district,
South Carolina, May 1803. His mother was a Miss Brooks. His family was among the earliest settlers of Madison, and
there he grew to manhood and was educated. When twenty years old ho taught school in Tuscumbia to obtain money to
enable him to read law. This he did, was admitted to the bar, and remained several years in Tuscumbia. In 1832 he
came to Florence, where he soon attained to prominence in his profession. In 1835 and '36 he represented the county in
the lower house;, and in 1837 served a session in the senate of the general assembly. He was again in the senate from 1844
to '47, and had previously served as judge of the county court live or six years. In 1847 he was elected circuit judge over
Messrs. John E. Moore and Wm. Richardson—a position he filled till 1850. He was a member of the secession convention, and refused to sign the ordinance, but was true to the
South. In 1801 he represented Lauderdale in the lower house. In 1865 he was appointed judge of the circuit court
by Governor Parsons, and served till the following May. He
died at his home four miles from Florence, Dec. 22, 1868.
Judge Posey was a man of decided ability, and left a character long to be respected and remembered by those who knew him. He married a Miss DePriest, and left descendants here.
Alabama - Her Resources and History by Willis Brewer 1872
PRICE, William Mason, A.M., M.D., son of James
B. and Frances (Mason) Price, natives of Tennessee and Virginia, and of Scotch-Irish and English
extraction, respectively, was born near Florence, June 3, 1837.
The senior Mr. Price who was a farmer during his lifetime, was one of the early settlers of Lauderdale County,
married here, reared his family of
four sons and two daughters, and here died in 1883, at the age of 78 years.
William M. Price took his Baccalaureate at the
Florence Wesleyan University, class of 1857, and
received the degree of M. A. from that institution
in 1800. As Doctor of Medicine he graduated
from the University of Nashville in 1865, and began the practice at Bayley Springs, Lauderdale
County, immediately after leaving college, and was
there until his coming to Florence in 1879. He
entered the army, in 1862, as a private and served
one year, most of the time on detail in the surgeon's
office. It was probably while in this department
that he conceived the idea of, and determined upon, the profession of medicine.
Dr. Price was married at Corinth, Miss., in 1858,
to Miss Martha Jane Fort. She died in 1863, leaving one son, now Dr. Percy I. Price, at Florence.
The Doctor's second marriage occurred in Maury
County, Tenn., September 13, 1865, when he led
to the altar Miss Nannie Henderson. To this
marriage are eight children born.
Dr. Price probably stands at the head of the
medical profession in Lauderdale County. He is
a member of the State Medical Society, president
of the Lauderdale Medical Society, chairman of
the County Board of Censors, a Knight of Honor,
and a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Northern Alabama Historical & Biographical
by T.A. DeLand and A. Davis Smith 1888 Birmingham AL
Died 29 Jun 1907
