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James
Mclester Van Hoose
JAMES
MCLESTER
VANHOOSE
son of JESSE and ANNA
EGGLESTON BAUGH VANHOOSE
was
born March 25, 1827, and
died April 16, 1902.
He married SUSAN
ALEXANDER
June 20, 1849.
James
McLester
VanHoose,
son
of
Jesse and
Ann
Eggleston
Baugh
VanHoose,
was
born
in
Fayette County,
Ala.,
March 25, 1827
and
died
in
Tusaloosa,
Ala.,
April
16, 1902.
The
senior
Mr.
VanHoose
was
born in
Montgomery
County, North
Carolina
in 1788
and was the son
of the
Revolutionary
Soldier;
removed to
Franklin
County
Ala., in 1819; removed
to Fayette County and
became its first judge
in 1824, and
was
elected to the
state senate from that county
in 1825.
He was a man of
high character. He
removed from Fayette
County to Northport,
Tuscaloosa County, Ala.
and died
March
23, 1852.
James M VanHoose
was educated in the
common schools with one
year (1842) at the
University of Alabama.
In 1847 he entered the
law office of Elisha W.
Peck, and in 1848 was
admitted to the bar. He
at once became the
partner of his
preceptor, the relation
continuing until 1854 in
which year he removed to
Birmingham.
Although
a staunch democrat, he
never entered the political
arena. As early as 1854,
he
was a member of the
Alabama Historical
Society, and at the
annual meeting of 1854
he
became secretary,
serving until the work
of the society was
discontinued owing to
the
approach of war.
Mr. VanHoose's
interesting
reminiscences appear in
this volume,
forming
a part of the
proceedings of the semi-continnial
meeting, June 18,1900.
He
was
a member of the
Protestant Episcopal
Church.
He was twice
married (1) June 20,
1849
to Susan Alewander, of
Campell County Virginia
and (2) in 1879 to Mrs.
Annie
(Hill)
Sorsby, widow of Dr. N.T.
Sorsby. Rev. James A.
VanHoose of Birmingham
and
G.W.
VanHoose, Esq. of
Tuscaloosa are sons of
the first marriage; and
Mrs. Susan
Alexander
Ross and Mrs. Mary Lee
Crutchfield, both of
Brimingham, are the
children
of
the second marriage.
Children
of JAMES
VANHOOSE
and SUSAN
ALEXANDER
are:
i.
GEORGE
WOLSEY8
VANHOOSE.
78.
ii.
JAMES
ALEXANDER
VANHOOSE,
b. 1852.
Source:
Charles Parson's
Book
"The
Van Hoose Family of
Eastern Kentucky"
Published
in 1964
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