Memorial Record of Alabama: A. R. Lauderdale sketch (John Lauderdale and Rebecca McElrath; Alma F., wife of Edward Webb)

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From the archive.org text layer, pp. 728–729 ("twTo", "wTar" and similar OCR slips corrected):

A. R. Lauderdale, merchant of Good Water, Ala., is a son of John and Rebecca (McElrath) Lauderdale. So far as traceable this branch of the Lauderdale family came from Ireland. The great-great-grandfather of John Lauderdale emigrated from Ireland in colonial days. […] Robert Lauderdale, great-grandfather of John, took part in the Revolutionary war under Gen. Morgan; after the war he settled in Virginia, and later went to Kentucky and finally to Tennessee, where he died. His wife was a Lytle. Joseph, the father of John, was reared in Green county, Tenn., and when quite a young man came to Alabama, settling in Morgan county. This was in 1817. He married Luvina Couch and reared his family in that county. In 1836 he removed to Coosa county, and located about two miles south of the present site of Good Water, where he died in 1871. John Lauderdale was born in Morgan county in 1822, removed with the family to Coosa county in 1836, and has since lived on the same old homestead, his wife being also still alive. He was married in 1849 in Coosa county, and had four children, viz.: Milton K., deceased; A. R.; Ella J., single, and living at home, and Alma F., wife of Edward Webb of Kellyton, Ala. John Lauderdale served in the late war in company D, Seventeenth Alabama infantry, as a private soldier. He was stationed at Mobile until the Atlanta campaign was in progress, and then he joined Johnston at Resaca, remaining with that general until after the fall of Atlanta. He started back with Hood, but was taken sick and lay in a hospital till the general was on his return to the south, when he joined his command again and went to North Carolina, where he was at the time of the surrender. He was a quiet man; a member of the Presbyterian church and of the Masonic fraternity. The McElrath family are of Scotch ancestry and came from South Carolina to Alabama in 1835, settling in Coosa county. Mrs. Rebecca Lauderdale was born in Georgia, but was reared in Alabama. A. R. Lauderdale was born June 1, 1852, on the old homestead near Good Water. […]

The rest of the sketch concerns A. R. Lauderdale's career (teacher, then merchant at Goodwater from 1881, justice of the peace) and his own family (married J. Scott, 21 October 1881; four daughters).

Citation: "A. R. Lauderdale," in Memorial Record of Alabama: A Concise Account of the State's Political, Military, Professional and Industrial Progress, Together with the Personal Memoirs of Many of Its People, vol. 1 (Madison, Wis.: Brant & Fuller, 1893), 728–729; Internet Archive item memorialrecordof00tayl, scans n725–n726, https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n725/mode/1up?q=Lauderdale.