The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1922-11-16
Col. j. M. Shivers
Passes to Reward
Veteran Citizen, Patriot, Lawyer,
Official Buried Last
Sunday

confined to his home Tor two months
but was fatally striken only few
days before he passed away.
James McLauren Shivers was born
in Marengo County, Alabama, Feb
ruary 10, 1884, the son of DR.. O..
L. Shivers and Mrs. Catherine Wood
fin Shivers. He was educated in
the public schools of the home
neighborhood and in Howard Col
lege, Alabama, which institution he
entered while in his teens. Before
his eighteenth birthday, and just
after he graduated from college, the
war notes sounded, calling the sons
of the South to arms and he entered
the Confederate army, in April 1861,
as a private in the Fourth Alabama
Infantry, a regiment which, for its
bravery and fighting qualities, earn
ed the sobriquet of the GLORIOUS
Fourth" and was attached to the
Army of Virginia. At the first bat
tie of Manassas the young patriot
was severely wounded, and before he
4 recovered was stricken with typhoid
fever. Crippled and emaciated he
was given an honorable discharge
and returned to his home in Ala
bama. There he taught school for
a few months, and also served with
the State troops at Fort Gaines, on
Mobile Bay. In 1862 another COM
pany was organized and the intrep-
id young patriot re-entered the SER
vice for period of ninety days, but
before the time elapsed he re-enlist-
ed in the regular army, joining the
First Alabama Light Infantry, at
tached to the Army of Tennessee,
with which command he fought dur
ing the remaining years of the war,
: and for his gallantry was elevated
to a lieutenantcy. He was with his
command in the engagements at
Shiloh, Pennington, Munfordville,
Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamau
ga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, New
hope Church, Atlanta, and at Span
ish Fort. After making glorious
record, when the cause went down
at Appomatox, he was paroled at
Meridian, Miss, May IA, 1865.
Col. Shivers came from a fight
Ling family. His great-grandfather
I served in the Revolutionary war;
his grandfather was an Indian fight
er in Florida, and his father, at the
age of 81, raised company for the
aid of the Texas revolution in 1886.
All of them noted for bravery and
intrepidity in battle. -
After the cessation of hostilties
| Col. Shivers went back to Alabama
and lived in Perry County for some
time. In May 1867 he was mar
: ried to Miss Corinella F. Cooke, of
Marion, Alabama, and filled the
position of depot agent at Green's
boro, Alabama.
He and his family came to Poplar
vile in 1884, about the time of the
completion of the New Orleans. and
Northeastern Railroad, now the
Southern, and he engaged in the
lumber business. When the division
of Marion County was made and
Pearl River County organized Col.
Shivers was appointed as the first
sheriff of the new county, and serv-'
ed one full term. He studied law
and was admitted to the bar and
continued in active practice until
flew weeks before his death. He
held the office of attorney for the
Town of Poplarville for a number
of years. .
Col. Shivers and the late Judge
James H. Neville, both noted for
their bravery and rugged honesty,
were intimate friends, and were
factors in this section in the recon-
struction period. The Col. was sher-
iff at the time that Judge Neville
was District Attorney, and together
they were the terrors of the evil
doers.
He was prominent member of
the Baptist Church and was Ma
son, and could always be found on
the right side of every moral issue.
For short while Col. Shivers
, owned and edited The Free Press
!. back in the early days of the papers
life.
He is survived by his widow, with
: whom he celebrated their Golden
: Wedding anniversary few years
: ago, and by three children; Hon. j.
t C. Shivers, attorney at law, of Pop
5 larville; F. Edward Shiyers, mer-
) chant, of Poplarville, and Mrs. Hugh
. Morton, of Marion, Alabama. Two
0 children died in infancy and one
: daughter in early womanhood. He
also leaves two brothers, Edward
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