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Facts and Events
- appears to have left North Carolina around 1840, settling briefly in Georgia and then Alabama.
- US Census 1850 - living in Barbour County, AL with wife and children
- US Census 1860, 1870 - living in Grove Hill, Clarke County, AL with wife and children
- The area that is now Grove Hill was originally inhabited by Creek and Choctaw Indians. The county seat of Clarke County was established at what later became Grove Hill in 1832 as the spot was most central to the rest of the county. Known variously as Smithville, then Macon, the name Grove Hill was selected around 1850 for the large grove of oak trees on the plateau. The town was officially incorporated and chartered in 1929. In 1853, a yellow fever epidemic struck the town, killing many residents, almost wiping out the town.
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