PORTER KING was born April 30, 1824, in Perry County, Alabama and died on January 3, 1890, in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were GENERAL EDWIN DAVIS KING and ANN ALSTON HUNTER. On April 19, 1852, King married CALLENDER McGREGOR LUMKIN in Athens, Georgia. Porter was educated at the University of Alabama and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island during the years 1842 and 1843. He began to study law in 1843 under Colonel THOMAS CHILTON in Marion and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He served in the Ala-bama legislature in 1847 and in 1848 and 1849 worked at his plantation. In 1850, he was elected a Circuit Court Judge and served until early 1861 when he turned in his resignation to enter the Confederate Army. He became a Captain of Company G in the 4th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which was made up principally of students at Howard College. King fought in the First Battle of Manassas, Virginia on July 21, 1861. After the battle, the 4th Alabama Infantry was reorganized, and Porter was not elected Captain. He resigned and returned to his plantation near Uniontown and became a Circuit Judge in 1863, serving until 1865, when the Union Mili-tary Governor of Alabama removed him. He had ninety slaves in 1860. After his removal from office by the mili-tary government imposed on Alabama by Radical Republicans, Porter devoted himself to planting and financial interests. From 1877 through 1879, her served as a Probate Judge. He was also a director of an insurance com-pany and President of the Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad before General NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST assumed the job. He was a member and deacon of Siloam Church in Marion and Superintendent of the Sunday school. . There is a stained glass window in the Siloam Church in Marion in memory of Porter King and Callender Lumpkin installed by their son TOM COBB KING. His first marriage was on February 25, 1849, to MARGARET ERWIN, daughter of Colonel JOHN ERWIN, a distinguished Greensboro lawyer, and ELIZA M. SHORTRIDGE. Un-fortunately, Margaret died on April 30, 1850, at the age of twenty-two years and is buried in the Erwin plot in the Greensboro, Alabama Cemetery. His second wife was CALLENDER McGREGOR LUMKIN whom he married on February 19, 1852, at Athens, Georgia. In 1872, he was severely injured when he fell from a ladder. King was president of the Judson Institute Board from 1868 until 1887, and he was a Howard and Judson College trus-tee for twenty years. In his later years, Porter was described as “stoutly built and his manner unpretentious and staid. He is energetic, moral, and practical, and his mind is enriched by literary culture.” [Lovelace, Siloam His-tory, pp. 2, 49 and 66; Harris, Heritage, v I, pp. 166 and 193; Laine, Law’s Alabama Brigade, p. 9; 4th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; 1860 Slave Census; The Southern Argus, June 7, 1872; Owen, Alabama Biography, v III, p. 982; Brewer, History, p. 495]

Dr. RICHARD CLARKE practiced medicine in Uniontown in partnership with Dr. JOHN M. LANGHORNE. In 1861, these men established a hospital in Uniontown. In 1860, Clarke owned fours slaves consisting of two adult female slaves and two children that he used as house servants. He owned another forty-three slaves that he maintained on a plantation near Uniontown. In 1850, Clarke lived in the Hamburg Beat and worked as an over-seer for WILLIAM B. CATHEY. With the commencement of war, Dr. Clarke organized and served as Captain of the Canebrake Rifle Guards until he resigned on April 22, 1862. The Canebrake Guards became Company D of the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment and Clarke led the company through the First Battle of Bull Run. At Bull Run, or Manassas, the 4th Alabama Infantry was in the Brigade of General B. E. BEE and played a prominent role in the battle. It was to Captain Clarke that General Bee gave the famous order at Manassas, “Come with me and go yon-der where [THOMAS J.] JACKSON stands like a stone wall.” The folks back home regularly supplied the men in Company D with clothing and food. Clarke wrote his daughter BETTIE LOU on the subject saying, “I hear good accounts of your industrious efforts in behalf of . . . the gallant boys who have left the comforts of home and the endearments of family to risk life and limb in the service of their country.” JAMES HUDSON described Clarke this way: “Captain Clarke is noted throughout the whole regiment for his kindness, care, attention, and watch-fulness which he manifests toward his men. Such is his popularity not only with nearly all the members of his own Company, but with the Regiment, that hundreds of them would defend him to the last, and follow him into the most imminent danger.” Captain ROBERT COLES described Clarke saying, “Dr. Clarke not only looked after the health of his own company, but he was untiring in looking after the welfare of other members of the regi-ment. He was a grand old man and several of us would have suffered had it not been for his watchful care and attention immediately after the battle of Manassas.” After the war, Clark moved to Selma, Alabama where he died on January 29, 1887, at the age of seventy-three years. [Laine, Law’s Alabama, p. 355; Harris, Heritage v I, p. 189; Heritage, v II, “Perry County Personalities” p. 9; 4th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; Kenneth W. Jones, “The Fourth Alabama Infantry: First Blood” Alabama Historical Quarterly, Spring 1974, p. 50 and Volume 23, 1961 pp. 139-140; Stocker, From Huntsville to Appomattox, pp. 35 and 242-243; 1850 and 1860 Census of Perry County]