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Dr Francis Winfield Sykes

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Dr Francis Winfield Sykes

Birth
Chatham County, North Carolina, USA
Death
6 Jan 1883 (aged 63)
Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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REST IN PEACE..
IN ALL THINGS AN HONEST, JUST AND BENEVOLENT MAN. THIS MONUMENT WAS REVERENTLY ERECTED BY HIS DAUGHTERS.

INFORMATION FROM MORGAN COUNTY, ALABAMA CEMETERIES VOL II
BY MARILYN SUE SHORT MARINE & IVYDENE SIMPSON WALLS..

The Democrat, January 10, 1883

Died at Decatur, Ala., January 6, 1883, DR. FRANCIS W. SYKES, of Lawrence County, Ala. Dr Sykes was a native of North Carolina and at an early age came to Morgan County, afterwards settling near Courtland in Lawrence County. He represented Lawrence County repeatedly in the Legislature and in the Const Convention of 1875. A Democratic Legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate since the War, but a radical Senate refused him his seat
REST IN PEACE..
IN ALL THINGS AN HONEST, JUST AND BENEVOLENT MAN. THIS MONUMENT WAS REVERENTLY ERECTED BY HIS DAUGHTERS.

INFORMATION FROM MORGAN COUNTY, ALABAMA CEMETERIES VOL II
BY MARILYN SUE SHORT MARINE & IVYDENE SIMPSON WALLS..

The Democrat, January 10, 1883

Died at Decatur, Ala., January 6, 1883, DR. FRANCIS W. SYKES, of Lawrence County, Ala. Dr Sykes was a native of North Carolina and at an early age came to Morgan County, afterwards settling near Courtland in Lawrence County. He represented Lawrence County repeatedly in the Legislature and in the Const Convention of 1875. A Democratic Legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate since the War, but a radical Senate refused him his seat


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