Tishomingo County Mississippi Biographies and Biographical Sketches

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CANDLER, E. S. Biography

E. S. Candler, Sr., is a leading lawyer of luka, Tishomingo county, Miss., and a prominent man in that part of the state. He is a son of Hon. Samuel C. and Martha (Beall) Candler. He is of an old and prominent family of Georgia, which, for a number of generations, has been intimately connected with the various interests of the state. Samuel C. Candler was born December 0, 1809, near Milledgeville, the former capital of Georgia. He was a son of Daniel Candler, of Cohunbia county, Ga., who was born in 1781, and whose father was a soldier in the Revolutionarv war, and also a native Georgian. His wife was Sarah Butler Slaughter, whose father was also a rebel. Daniel Candler was a planter, and died at the early age of thirty three years. His son, Samuel C. Candler, the father of our subject, was thus loft an orphan of tender age, and was reared by his mother on the plantation, but at the age of eighteen years he moved into Cherokee county, Ga., then inhabited by the Indians, and there engaged in the mercantile business. He was elected sheriff of this county when he was barely twenty-one years old, and then was elected to the legislature, and before his term of office expired. In 1830 he removed to Carroll county, Ga., and died therein 1873, at sixty-four years of age. During this time he was a member of the legislature several times. In 1860 he was a Douglas democrat, and was a member of the national democratic convention which met that year at Charleston, S. C., and in the memorable con test in which Mr. Lincoln was elected president he was an elector on the Douglas ticket. He opposed secession with all his power and influence, but after Georgia withdrew from the Union he believed it his duty to go with the state, and gave the Southern Confederacy his sincere and cordial support. He was married, December 8, 1833 to Martha Beall, daindi ter of Noble P. Beall, who was born December 6, 1819, and who is still living. Noble P. Beall was born in Franklin county, Ga., in 1798, and married Justiaua Hooper, who was born in 1800. Both of these were of Revolutionary ancestry. The mother of E. 8. Candler, Sr. , was one of twelve children. The subject of this sketch is one of eleven children: Hon. Milton A. Candler (who was a member of the XLVth and also the XLVIth congress), Ezekiel S., Noble D. (who died in 1887), Julia Florence, Jessie, William B. , Lizzie F., Asa G., Samuel C., Warren A. and John S. Warren A. is now president of Emory college, at Oxford, Ga., and John S. is solicitor general of one of the judicial circuits of Georgia. Samuel C. Candler and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Their children are all church members, being distributed among the Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian churches. The early life of E. S. Candler, Sr., was spent on the farm and at school. He received a classical education, graduating from Cherokee Baptist college in 1859, taking the highest honors of his class. He read law and was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession in I860 in Carroll county, Ga. He was born December 6, 1S3S, in Campbell county, Ga. , about twenty miles from the city of Atlanta. He came to Iuka, Miss., in 1870, and from then till January, 1875, was principal of the I nka male academy, and had a large and prosperous school. In 18 1 5 he resumed the practice of law at Iuka, which he has continued successfully until the present time. Iu August, 1800, he married Julia Bevill, of Bellville, Hamilton county, Fla., whose parents, Granville and Sarah Bevill, were of French descent, but natives of Georgia. The wife of E. S. Candler, Sr., was born February 27, 1842, and was the youngest of seven children. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Candler have only three children, all sons: Ezekiel S., Jr., Daniel Bevill and Milton A., the first of whom is a lawyer at Corinth, Miss., and one of the brightest and most promising of the young lawyers of the state. He was one of the electors, and as such cast a vote for Mr. Cleveland for president in 1888. He married Nannie Hazlewood, of Lawrence county, Ala., who was a daughter of Thomas B. Hazlewood. The other two, Daniel B. and Milton A., are members of their father’s family, the first engaged in farming and the latter still in school. Mr. Candler is a member of the Knights of Honor and Knights and Ladies of Honor, and a democrat of the strict construction school. His interest aud confidence in the improvement and development of Mississippi is unbounded. He is a strong friend to, aud an active promoter of, all educational enterprises, and is a member and president of the board of trustees of the Iuka normal institute, one of the most flourishing and noted institutions of the state. He is the owner of the largest acreage of lands iu his county, most of which is covered with the finest of timber, and is also fine farming laud; and it being in an exceedingly healthy country abounding in tine streams of water, Mr. Candler is enthusiastic in his description of its many beauties and excellencies. [Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Chicago, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891.]

CARMACK, Edward W. Biography

Edward W. Carmack (deceased) was born in Franklin county, Ala., in 1825, one of the four children of Cornelius and Agnes (Smith) Carmack. At an early day his father, who was a native of Virginia, removed to Alabama, and there became a public man, representing Franklin county iu the legislature. After coming to Tishomingo county, he was a member of the Mississippi legislature, and was elected speaker of the house. He located here in 1845, and was in every respect a man of public spirit and enterprise. In politics he was of the old Jacksonian democratic faith. Edward W. Carmack came with his father to this county, and his boyhood days were spent amid the scenes of a plantation life. He received a good literary education, having graduated from the old Franklin college. At the age of twenty he became a school teacher in this county, and continued in that profession for about eight years. During this time he was for some years principal of the Euclid academy. He was elected probate clerk of old Tishomingo county, and held that position for fourteen years. After the division of the county, he acquired control of the old county buildings, and established a school in the old Tishomingo courthouse, which he continued with much success until his death, which occurred in 1882. He was married, in 1850, to Elizabeth, one of the seven children of William and Nancy Turner, natives of Tennessee. Her parents moved to this county about 1840. Their childreu were Louise, Susan. Nancy, William, Elizabeth, Tennessee and Miranda. Mr. and Mrs. Carmack had eight children: Mary, now Mrs. Reynolds, of Jacinto, Miss.; Frank T., of Iuka; Nancy, who became Mrs. Cunningham, and resides at Booueville, Miss.; John C., who lives at Jacinto; Susan P., now Mrs. Miller, of Farmersville, Tex.; Edward W. , Mattie R. and Elizabeth. Mr. Carmack was an energetic and very prominent man, well educated, and in every respect highly esteemed. He was a man of very decided opinions. His school was one of the first, of Mississippi in this part of the state. The influence of Professor Carmack was such over his students that they, out of respect for his memory, placed a handsome monument to his grave. Mrs. Carmack, though quiet and retiring, was au active spirit in the life of her husband and the home of her children. Dr. Frank T. Carmack, of Iuka, Miss., is a son of Edward W. Carmack, above mentioned, and was born in Tishomingo county November, 1854. Ho received his primary education at Jacinto, and in 1880 was graduated from Vanderbilt medical college, at Nashville, Tenn. Ho began the practice of his profession at Iuka, Miss., in 1884, and has continued it with growing success until the present time. At this time he is health officer of Tishomingo county. He was married, in 1884, in Alcorn county, to Miss Villa Bynum, daughter of William and Emily (Gibson) Bynum, who was born in that county in 1861. Dr. and Mrs. Carmack have had three children: Dora, Ruth and Frank, the last mentioned of whom is deceased. Doctor is a Knight of Honor, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is au ardent supporter of the cause of public education, and is devoted heart and soul to the improvement and development of the county, and to the advancement of all its important interests. He is a democrat, and takes a helpful but quiet part in the local and state politics. [Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Chicago, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891.]