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Flavius Thompson Appleby

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Flavius Thompson Appleby

Birth
Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee, USA
Death
20 Dec 1932 (aged 57)
Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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Married Mary Grider Mourning on December, 23, 1902 at Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky.

Married Ella Henry Johnson on January 6, 1909 at Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama.

". . . son of Samuel Argyle and Rebeckah (Ewing) Appleby, the former a native of Verona, Marshall County, Tenn., who lived at Lewisburgh and was a farmer and stock breeder; grandson of Samuel Bell and Emma Jane (Ewing) Appleby of Verona, Tenn. and of Lyle A. and Rebeckah (Leiper) Ewing, who lived at Farmington, Tenn. His great-grandfather, John Appleby, came with two brothers from Appleby, Westmoreland County, England, to South Carolina soon after the Revolution, and from there moved to Tennessee. The brothers went one to Pennsylvania, and the other to Georgia. His great-grandfather, John Leiper, was the founder of the Leiper's Mill community in Tennessee, and one of the founders of the old Presbyterian Church Bethberel. Mr. Appleby attended the country schools near Lewisburgh, Tenn.: was graduated from the University of Tennessee, B.S. 1901; took graduate work in Columbia University, New York and spent three summers at Winona Lake summer school, Indiana. He began teaching in a district school in Tennessee; then in a village school in the same state; became teacher of mathematics in Elmwood seminary for young ladies, Farmington, Miss.: was elected president of that school and held the position for four years; came to Alabama as superintendent of Tuscumbia city schools, 1906-1910; served as president of LaFayette College; was elected superintendent of city schools at Florence, 1919. . . ."

Excerpt from History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume 3 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Marie Bankhead Owen
Married Mary Grider Mourning on December, 23, 1902 at Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky.

Married Ella Henry Johnson on January 6, 1909 at Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama.

". . . son of Samuel Argyle and Rebeckah (Ewing) Appleby, the former a native of Verona, Marshall County, Tenn., who lived at Lewisburgh and was a farmer and stock breeder; grandson of Samuel Bell and Emma Jane (Ewing) Appleby of Verona, Tenn. and of Lyle A. and Rebeckah (Leiper) Ewing, who lived at Farmington, Tenn. His great-grandfather, John Appleby, came with two brothers from Appleby, Westmoreland County, England, to South Carolina soon after the Revolution, and from there moved to Tennessee. The brothers went one to Pennsylvania, and the other to Georgia. His great-grandfather, John Leiper, was the founder of the Leiper's Mill community in Tennessee, and one of the founders of the old Presbyterian Church Bethberel. Mr. Appleby attended the country schools near Lewisburgh, Tenn.: was graduated from the University of Tennessee, B.S. 1901; took graduate work in Columbia University, New York and spent three summers at Winona Lake summer school, Indiana. He began teaching in a district school in Tennessee; then in a village school in the same state; became teacher of mathematics in Elmwood seminary for young ladies, Farmington, Miss.: was elected president of that school and held the position for four years; came to Alabama as superintendent of Tuscumbia city schools, 1906-1910; served as president of LaFayette College; was elected superintendent of city schools at Florence, 1919. . . ."

Excerpt from History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume 3 by Thomas McAdory Owen and Marie Bankhead Owen


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