Horace Stringfellow

Horace Stringfellow

• Father: Horace Stringfellow b. 9 November 1799, d. 26 December 1883
• Mother: Louisa Gibbs Strother b. 2 November 1807, d. 10 July 1847

• Horace Stringfellow was born on 6 August 1827 in Petersburg, Virginia.
• He married Mary Muir Green, daughter of James Green and Jane Muir, circa 1849.
• Horace Stringfellow and Camella Harris appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Petersburg, Virginia. Other members of the household included Horace Stringfellow, Eliza Stringfellow. Also in the household were children Charles (14), Henry (11), Louisa (9), Robett (7), Anges (3) and Hamp (1), not yet recorded.
• Horace Stringfellow and Mary Muir Green appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Alexandria, Virginia, enumerated as a student of divinity in the household of cabinet maker James Green.. Horace also is enumerated in his father's household in Petersburg.
• The following appeared on 28 August 1881 in The Macon Telegraph and Messenger: This morning Mr. Thomas G. Watkins, a young lawyer of this city, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Rev. Horace Stringfellow, before Judge E. M. Mann, charging that Mr. Watkins and Mr. Waverly N. Ragland were about to engage in a duel. Mr. Watkins was placed under a bond of $2,000 to keep the peace. Mr. Ragland's whereabouts are not known. The hostile correspondence resulted from an editorial published in the Virginian Readjuster, a journal of this city in which Watkins was characterized as a political scavenger, of which Ragland admitted he was the author.
• Horace Stringfellow died on 6 November 1893 at age 66 in Montgomery, Alabama.
• His wife Mary Muir Green became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.
• The following appeared on 7 November 1893 in The Macon Telegraph: (Montgomery, Nov. 6) The Rev. Horace Stringfellow, D. D., for twenty-four years pastor of St. John's Episcopal church, in this city, died at his home at 12:30 o'clock this morning, after an illness of about four months.
       He has been a delegate from this state to every general convention of the church since 1870. Prior to his removal to Montgomery he was rector of St. Paul's Cathedral church, Indianapolis, and during his administration Thomas A. Hendricks and Joseph E. McDonald were confirmed as members of his church. He was 66 years of age. There is universal sorrow here over his death.
• The following appeared on 9 November 1893 in the Columbus Daily Enquirer-Sun: (Montgomery, Nov. 8) The funeral today of Rev. Horace Stringfellow, D. D., was conducted by Bishop Wilmot, Assistant Bishop Jackson, and some of the visiting clergy, and was attended by an immense concourse of people, both at the church and at the cemetery.

• Last Edited: 3 Apr 2015