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From: "Jim and Terri Tait" <>
Subject: [DALELIST] STEAGALL, Henry Bascom
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:01:30 -0500

Source: "Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907" State of AL Dept
of Archives and History, compiled by Thomas M. Owen, L.L, D. Director, Brown
Publishing Co, Montgomery, AL, 1907

p. 95

Legislative Department, Dale County

HENRY BASCOM STEAGALL of Ozark, Dale county was born at Clopton, in that
county, May 19, 1873, and is the son of William Colinsworth and Mary Jane
(Peacock) Steagall, and the grandson of Ivey Finch and Sidney (Purifoy)
Steagall, and of Alex and Harriet Peacock. Mr. Steagall's father is a
physician; has been a State senator; enlisted in the calvary branch of the
Confederate service under W.T. McCall in 1861, but did not serve. His
grandfather, Ivey F. Steagall, was a Methodist minister in the Georgia
conference, coming to that State from Virginia, and originally, from Great
Britain. One of his paternal ancestors was fatally wounded during the
Revolutionary War at Charleston. Henry Steagall's education was obtained in
the common schools of his county and at the Southeast Alabama Agricultural
School at Abbeville, where he graduated in June, 1892. He is also an
alumnus of the law school of the University of Ala. having graduated there,
June, 1893. He was admitted to the bar at Union Springs in the summer of
the same year, ad has since that time practiced his profession at Ozark. In
1898 he was appointed county solicitor which position he still holds. He
has always been an active Democrat, serving has party both on county and
State committees. He is a Methodist; is a member of the Masonic order, and
of the Sigma Nu fraternity,. On Dec 27, 1900, he married Sallie Mae,
daughter of William Phillip and Mary (Jordan) Thompson, of Tuskegee, Ala.
Mr. Thompson was a Confederate soldier.

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