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LAFOY, JAMES, a soldier of the American Revolution, and a resident of Washington County; private in infantry and cavalry, particular service not disclosed; enrolled on September 9, 1836, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $25. — Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.
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
LIPSCOMB, ABNER SMITH, lawyer and associate justice supreme court, was born February 10, 1789, in Abbeville, S. C., and died December 3, 1857, near Austin, Tex.; son of Joel and Elizabeth (Childs) Lipscomb, natives of Culpeper County, Va., the former a Revolutionary officer, having moved to South Carolina prior to that event, afterwards migrated to the Mississippi Territory and settled on the Tombtgbee River in Washington County, now a part of Alabama. Abner Smith Lipscomb secured the educational advantages afforded by the common schools of the period; studied law in the office of John C. Calhoun and George Bowie at Abbeville, S. C.; and settled in the practice in 1811 at St. Stephens, then Mississippi Territory. The following year he served as captain of a company of volunteers, raised to suppress the Indians of the southern frontier who had been excited by the War of 1812. He was a member of the Alabama Territorial legislature, 1818; judge of the supreme court of the State of Alabama, 1820-24; and chief justice, 1824-35. He resigned his seat upon the bench and removed to Mobile and in 1838 was elected from Mobile County to the legislature. Through his infiuence the common-law system of pleading was simplified and the judicature of the state rendered more uniform and expeditious, la 1839, he removed to Texas and in that state rendered public service of as high value as he had done in Alabama. President Lamar of the Republic of Texas invited him to accept the part of secretary of state in his cabinet and later he warmly espoused the policy of Texas annexation. He was elected to the Texas convention of 1845, and introduced the resolutions accepting the terms of annexation proposed by the Federal government. The provisions of the Texas constitution, adopted at that time, relating to homestead exemptions and marital rights, were largely the result of his infiuence. His services were recognized by his appointment to the supreme court of Texas, a position which he adorned for eleven years, and until his death. Lipscomb County, Texas, was named in his honor. The University of Alabama conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D. in 1834. Married: (1) in 1813, in the Mississippi Territory, to Elizabeth Gaines, daughter of a planter; (2) in 1843, to Mrs. Mary P. Bullock, daughter of Dr. Thomas Hunt of Austin, Texas. Children: he left a family of nine or ten children, among these, Ellen, m. Percy Walker (q. v.) and several of whom resided in Texas. Last residence: Austin.
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
LONG, ROBERT A., member of the constitutional convention of 1875, from Washington County, father of Judge D. J. Long of Chatom.
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
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