John Perkins Ralls
John Perkins Ralls (born January 1, 1822 in Greensboro , Georgia , † November 22, 1904 in Gadsden , Alabama ) was an American doctor and politician . He was also a Methodist pastor from the age of 19 .
Career
John Perkins Ralls was born in Greene County about seven years after the end of the British-American War . Nothing is known about his youth. He graduated in the spring of 1840 at the Medical College in Augusta ( Richmond County ) and then started in the summer of 1844 in Cassville ( Bartow County to practice). For further medical studies he was in Paris ( France ) from 1846 to 1847 . His student years and his first years as a doctor were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the following years by the Mexican-American War . On August 1, 1847, he married in Cassaville Agnes Mary Hamilton († 1899), daughter of Sarah T. Blount and Joseph Hamilton. The couple had eight children together, six of whom reached adulthood. In 1850 the family moved to Alabama , where they settled in Cherokee County . In early 1861 he represented Cherokee County as a delegate to the Secession Assembly. In November 1861 he was elected to the First Confederate Congress for the third constituency of Alabama , where he took up his post on February 18, 1862. In his re-election in 1863 for the second Confederate Congress , he suffered a defeat and then resigned from the Confederate Congress on February 17, 1864 . After the end of the Civil War , took part in 1875 as a delegate to the Constituent Assembly of Alabama. Ralls sat in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1878 .
Ralls died after several weeks of illness at the age of 82 in Gadsden ( Etowah County ) and was buried there in Forrest Cemetery .
literature
- Wilfred Buck Yearns: The Confederate Congress , University of Georgia Press, 2010, ISBN 9780820334769 , p. 243
- Nell H. Howard and Bessie W. Quinn: Moragnes in America and related families, Williams, Quarles, Read, Whorton, Forney, Abernathy, Young, Hughes, Hodges, Hillsman, Mynatt, Burns, Dobbins , Banner Press, 1971, pp. 233
- Settlers of Northeast Alabama , Volumes 1-5, Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society, 1962, p. 315
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agnes Mary Ralls in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ↑ The Confederate States almanac and repository of useful knowledge: for the year 1863 , Gale Cengage Learning, ISBN 9781432804930 , p. 33
- ↑ First Confederate Congress - John Perkins Ralls ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- John Perkins Ralls in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- John Perkins Ralls on The Political Graveyard website
- John Perkins Ralls on the familytreemaker.genealogy.com website
- John Perkins Ralls on the wikitree.com website
- Sons of Confederate Veterans - John Perkins Ralls
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ralls, John Perkins |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American doctor and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greensboro , Georgia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1904 |
| Place of death | Gadsden , Alabama |