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LACKEY, WILLIAM, soldier of the American Revolution,
aged 80, and a resident of ' Lawrence County; private Virginia Militia; enrolled on April 23, 1833, under act of
Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $79.78; sums received to date of
publication of list, $239.34. — Revolutionary Pension Roll, in vol. xiv, Sen. doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess.,
1833-34. He resided in Lawrence County, June 1, 1840, aged 87.— Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148. LEEPER, JAMES THEOPHILUS,
judge, was born September 23, 1832, at Moulton,
Lawrence County; son of Samuel and Elanora (Stone) Leeper, the former born
in Georgia in 1800, was taken to Tennessee in 1809, and came to Alabama in
1821, settling in Lawrence County, was merchant in early life, later
studying law, and twice representing Shelby County in the legislature, and
died in 1871. In the extreme youth of James T. Leeper, his parents moved
to Talladega County, where he received a common school education. In 1848,
young Leeper moved to Shelby County, but in 1850, returned to Talladega to
be employed as clerk in the probate office, a position he held for a year
and a half. Coming again to Shelby, he was employed in the same capacity.
In 1854, he was admitted to the bar. In 1855, he assisted M. H.
Cruickshank, register in chancery for Talladega, with the duties of his
office. The next year he was himself appointed register for Shelby County
by Chancellor James B. Clark, of Eutaw. In connection with his duties as
register, he entered upon the practice of law, in co-partnership with his
father. He was elected a member of what is known as the "Parson's
Convention" of 1865. In 1865, he was appointed solicitor for his circuit
by Gov. Parsons; in 1866, formed a partnership with Mr. Lewis; two years
later, was appointed register in chancery for the district of three
counties, Jefferson, St. Clair and Shelby, by Chancellor Woods, afterward
associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. The year
folowing, 1869, he was appointed judge of probate for Shelby County by
Gov. W. H. Smith. He held that and other important offices continuously
for the greater part of fifty years. He was a prohibitionist; a
Presbyterian; a Mason; and Odd Fellow. Married: November 1, 1857, to
Antoinette M. Bandy. Children: 1. Samuel B. ; 2. James T., attorney at
Columbiana; 3. Olive, m Frank Nelson of Birmingham; 4. Charles
Stone, banker of Birmingham; 5. Lucile, m. Andrew GrizzardPatterson, of
Falkville. Last residence: Shelby County.
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer  ©2009 Genealogy Trails |
