Alexander B. Clitherall

Alexander B. Clitherall

• Father: Dr. George Clitherall
• Mother: Caroline Elizabeth (?)

• Alexander B. Clitherall was born on 12 December 1820 in Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina.
• He married Catherine G. Hayes or Chandler Chandler, daughter of (?) Hayes or Chandler and Unknown (?), on 12 November 1845 in Noxubee County, Mississippi.
• Alexander B. Clitherall and Catherine G. Hayes or Chandler Chandler appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Carrollton, Pickens County, North Carolina.
• He was a lawyer, according to the 1850 census.
• Alexander B. Clitherall and Catherine G. Hayes or Chandler Chandler appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Carrollton, Pickens County, Alabama, and Alx B. Clitherall appears in the 1860 Slave Schedule with 14 slaves (mostly children) and 2 slave houses.. Other members of the household included Minnie Clitherall, Mattie Clitherall and Allie Barron Clitherall.
• He was a lawyer, according to the 1860 census.
• Alexander B. Clitherall died on 17 February 1869 at age 48 in Montgomery, Alabama.
• The following appeared on 18 February 1869 in the Montgomery [Alabama] Mail: We regret to announce the death of Judge Alexander B. Clitherall, which occurred at his residence, near this city, yesterday. Judge Clitherall had been in very feeble health for many years from dropsy. We might say he has lived for the last three or four years upon a bare thread of life. /P/ Judge Clitherall was a lawyer by profession, and he held many positions of honor and usefulness, having repeatedly been a member of both branches of the State Legislature, where he ranked high among the foremost men in those bodies. He was for a number of years Clerk of the House of Representatives, the duties of which poistion he performed with great dispatch and efficiency. He was at one time a Circuit Judge in this State. /P/ Judge Clitherall had many firiends throughout the State. He was sociable and kind in his disposition, and exceedingly fond of innocent fun and sportive jokes, in which few persons excelled him. He was born in North Carolina, and was at the time of his death forty-five or fifty years of age. He had lived in Montgomery for the last nine years, previous to which he lived in the western part of the State. He leaves a wife and children to mourn his loss.

• Last Edited: 30 Dec 2007