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CARLISLE, D. H. Biography

Among the self-reliant and truly self made men of Lauderdale county, Miss., may be mentioned Mr. D. H. Carlisle, who was born in 1850, in Choctaw county, Ala., where he grew to manhood on a plantation, and was married to Miss Cynthia Carlisle, a native Alabamian, also born in Choctaw county. Their union was blessed in the birth of the following children: Valentine, Monroe, Minnie, Mattie and Luther, living. Two children are deceased. Mr. Carlisle was educated in the common schools and was reared on a plantation, learning the details of that most noble and independent of callings, agriculture. The same year of his marriage ho removed to Lauderdale county, Miss. , settling in the eastern portion, where he engaged in farming and mechanical work. In 1806 he purchased land from a railroad company, to which he has since been constantly adding, until he now owns and controls five hundred and twenty acres of as fair land as there is in the county. A considerable portion of his land is covered with heavy timber of the most valuable kind. He cultivates about one hundred acres and raises on an average ten bales of cotton each year. In connection with his planting interests he is the owner of a good sawmill, which is fittc-d up with 81,000 worth of valuable machinery, the capacity of which is one-half million feet of pine yearl). He has considerable land which will yield forty thousand feet of lumber to the acre. His land is well watered, is in an excellent neighborhood, and being very fertile, is valuable accordingly. This property is the result of indefatigable industry and persistent endeavor, and Mr. Carlisle is a man of whom his section may well feel proud, for he is the soul of honor, is industrious, enterprising and public spirited. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and of the Farmers’ Alliance. He is a son of John S. Carlisle, who was born in the Old Nortli state about 1805. He came to Alabama when a boy and was married in that state about 1826 to Miss Amelia 'Witty. He died about 1SS9, his wife’s death occurring in 1881. His mother. Nancy Carlisle, lived to the remarkable age of one hundred and two years. She died in 1871. [Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Chicago, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891.]