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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
Mississippi companies to form the Eighth Mississippi.
After participating in a number of minor
engagements, some of which were fierce and sanguinary
enough in their way, he had the pleasure
of sharing the glory with which his command covered
itself at Shiloh, one of the greatest pitched
battles of the war and one hallowed in the memories
of Southern men and women by the fact that the
heroic Albert Sydney Johnston there laid down his
noble life, a life which he had consecrated to the
cause of civil liberty and constitutional freedom
many years before upon the plains of Mexico and
Texas. After further service, Mr. Pritchett was
captured by the Federals at Murfreesboro and taken
to Louisville, Ky., and from thence to Camp Morton,
Indianapolis, Ind., where he remained until
the close of the war. He was wounded at Murfreesboro
in the head and knee, honorable wounds
that testify to the fact that he was a good and
faithful soldier.
Mr. Pritchett moved to Texas in the fall of 1869,
and located in Rusk County, where he remainedfour years and then moved to Cherokee County,
where he has since resided. His well-improved
farm, consisting of 200 acres in cultivation and 300
well clothed with timber, is situated six and a half
miles distant from the pleasant town of Jacksonville.
Mr. Pritchett has been a very successful farmer;
has been enabled to care well for his family and
has given his children all social and educational
advantages and now, in his old age, possesses a
competency.
He was married in October, 1857, to Miss
Lurana Murphey, daughter of Wiley and Luzina
Murphey, of Alabama. She was born December
9th, 1837, and is a most refined and accomplished
lady.
They have had ten children, five of whom
are now living: L. A. Pritchett, a farmer and
ginner, living four miles from Jacksonville; M. E.,
now wife of W. B. Clayborn, a farmer living seven
miles from Jacksonville; Martha E., wife of E. M.
Roundtree, a farmer living six miles from Jacksonville;
W. L. and Miss Eula Delle, living at home.FELIX JOHNSON McCORD,
TYLER.There are few better known, abler or more highly
esteemed lawyers and occupants of the district
bench, than the subject of this notice, Judge F. J.
McCord. He was born in Tichimingo County,
Miss., and was educated in the Schools at Corinth.
His father, C. W. McCord and mother, Mrs. Hannah
McCord, were natives of and died in Mississippi.
Judge McCord came to Texas in 1869 and settled
in Upshur County, where he worked upon farms and
in saw-mills as a laborer until 1872 and then went to
Jefferson, where he entered the office of Hon. D. B.
Culberson and began the study of law. A year
later he was admitted to the bar after standing an
exceptionally creditable examination and moved to
Longview, where he engaged in the practice, and in
1877 formed a connection with Hon. John M. Duncan,
now General Attorney of the I. noltoe District Attorney of the Seventh Judicial
District, an office that he held until 1880, when
be '-as defeted by Ion. James S. Hogg, afterwards
Governor of Texas. Later, Judge McCord
was nominated and elected by the Democracy of
Smith and Gregg counties to the Seventeenth Legislature
and, while a member of that body, introduced
and secured the enactment of a bill reducing railway
passenger fare from five to three cents per
mile and took an active part in all legislation of the
session. He declined renomination and, August
17th, 1883, was appointed by Governor Ireland
Judge for the Seventh Judicial District, to succeed
Hon. J. C. Robertson, resigned. He has since
been re-elected at three successive popular elections
and is now the incumbent of the office.
In 1894 he was a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Congress and led all competitors
for six thousand ballots, one of the longest deadlocks
ever known to the political history of Texas,
and then withdrew his name from before the convention.
Had he remained in the race for the
nomination, no nomination could have possibly
been made as he was the strongest man before the
convention. He desired party success more than
personal aggrandizement and was determined ibt;
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