Wood & Torbert Families - Robert J. English

Robert J. English

b. circa 1823, d. 1857

Robert J. English was born circa 1823 in Alabama.
He married Georgia Ann Speight, daughter of John Speight and Matilda M. Wood, on 17 January 1849.
On 21 April 1849, Green Wood recorded in his travel journal: "Got to Cahauba 1/2 past 8 0clock. I left with Mr. Speight, went out to Doctor Englishes, 20 miles," and on the 22nd, "the next day at Doct Englishes."
Robert J. English and Georgia Ann Speight appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Cahawba, Dallas County, Alabama, with no children, only an overseer, enumerated next to physician J. A. English, age 38, and his large family. And nearby, Alexander William Ellerbe and his family.
He was a physician, according to the 1850 census.
He served in the Alabama general assembly as a representative from Dallas County during 1855-1856.
Robert J. English became a widower at the 1855 death of his wife Georgia Ann Speight.
Robert J. English died in 1857.
In the 1850 census, Georgia Speight and Robert English were enumerated next to Alexander Ellerbe and his wife Catherine Pegues, and in 1854, they named their son Alexander Ellerbe English.