History of Stokes County North Carolina United States of America

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Francis Strother Lyon, representative, was born in Stokes county, N.C., Feb. 25, 1800; son of James and Behethland (Gaines) Lyon; grandson of James and Bettie (Strother) Gaines and a descendant of Francis Strother of Culpeper county, Va. He removed to St. Stephens, Washington county, Miss. Ty., with his brother, James G. Lyon, in 1818, and was employed in the office of the clerk of the court. He studied law under Abner S. Lipscomb, W. H. Crawford and Henry Hitchock; was admitted to the bar in 1821, and practised at Demopolis, Ala. He was secretary of the Alabama senate, 1820-30; state senator, 1833-34, and president of the senate in 1834. He was a representative in the 24th and 25th congresses, 1835-39, and in 1845 when the state bank and its branches were placed in liquidation he was selected with William Cooper and Clement C. Clay as a commissioner to adjust all claims, and after their report in 1847 he continued as sole commissioner until the final settlement in 1853. He was a representative in the Alabama legislature in 1861; declined to serve as a representative in the provisional Confederate congress, but was a member of the 1st congress under the Confederate constitution, 1862-64. He was re-elected to the 2d Confederate congress in 1864, and served until the close of the war. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1875 and made the draft of the constitution adopted by the convention, and was a state senator in 1876. He was married, March 4, 1824, to Sarah Serena, daughter of Allen Glover of Marengo county, Ala. He died in Demopolis, Ala., Dec. 31, 1882.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Gabriel Moore, senator, was born in Stokes county, N.C., about 1785. He practised law in Huntsville, Mississippi Territory, served in the territorial legislature for several years and was a member and speaker of the only territorial legislature in Alabama in 1817. He was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of Alabama in 1819, was the first state senator from Madison county in 1820, and was elected a representative in the 17th congress in place of William Kelly, elected to the U.S. senate, and was re-elected to the 18th, 19th and 20th congresses, serving 1823-29, defeating Clement Comer Clay for the 20th congress. He was elected governor of Alabama without opposition in 1828, serving 1829-31, and resigned in 1831 to take his seat in the U.S. senate, where he served, 1831-37. He incurred unpopularity by voting against the confirmation of Martin Van Buren as U.S. minister to Great Britain in 1832, and was requested by the legislature to resign from the senate in 1833, which he refused to do. He was defeated for representative in the 25th congress in 1836 and in 1843 removed to Caddo, Texas, where he died, June 9, 1844.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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