Samuel Gordon Frierson (1805-1857) and Frances W Harding

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FRIERSON, SAMUEL GORDON, lawyer, was born in 1805 in Williamsburg District, S.C., and died April 5, 1857, in Tuscaloosa; brother of Judge Gideon Blackburn Frierson. He was educated in the common schools of Tennessee; read law in Tuscaloosa with Eli Shortridge; admitted to practice, 1826; represented Tuscaloosa in the legislature, 1834 and 1835; postmaster of Tuscaloosa in 1838; elected state Treasurer 1840, serving until 1847, when he resumed the practice of the law. Last residence: Tuscaloosa.

Authorities: Owen, Thomas McAdory, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Spartanburg: The Reprint Company Publishers, 1978 (1921), III, 619.

Appeal from the circuit court of Tuscaloosa : Governor vs. Frierson et al., Supreme Court of Alabama. by Gordon Frierson; Alabama. Governor; Alabama. Supreme Court. Language: English Type: Book Publisher: [Montgomery, Ala.? : s.n. ], 1854. OCLC: 65396549

Timeline

• 1805 - Born in Williamsburg District, SC to Col. Elias Currin Frierson and Charlotte McCauley
• 1826 - Admitted to practice law
• 1834 - 1835 Served in the Alabama State Legislature
• 12 April 1837 - Married Frances W. Harding in Perry, Maury Co, Alabama
• 1838 - Postmaster Tuscaloosa
• 1838 - Daughter Virginia Maria Frierson born and died
• 1839 - Daughter Gordon Anna Frierson born (d. 1914)
• 20 Sep 1839 - Land Record, acres 38.95; St Stephens Meridan, Tuscaloosa County, Township 24-N, Range 5-E, Section 12
• 1840 - Elected Alabama State Treasurer
• 1842 - listed among alumni at the University of Alabama
• 1842 - Daughter Sarah Frances Frierson (Wiggins) born (d. 1907)
• 1840 - Enumerated Federal Census Tuscaloosa, AL
• 1845 - Daughter Katherine (Kate) Frierson born (d. 1915)
• 1847 - Left State Government to return to law practice
• 1849 - Daughter Margaret Ella Frierson born (d. 1863)
• 1850 - Enumerated in Tuscaloosa, AL State Census
• 1852 - Son Joseph Harding Frierson born (d. 1854)
• 1853 - Son Samuel Gordon Frierson born (d. 1872)
• 1856 - Daughter Jessaline Josie Frierson born
• 5 April 1857 - Died in Tuscaloosa, AL
• Obit in "The Monitor", Tuscaloosa, Alabama, April 9, 1857, page 2, column 5
• Buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
• 1860 - Wife, Frances enumerated as Frances Beebee in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
• 1870 - Wife, Frances enumerated in Friersons, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
• 1880 - Wife, Frances enumerated in Hale County, Alabama
• 27 Feb 1890 - Wife, Frances died and is buried at Carthage Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hale County, Alabama

Census

1840 Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Name: S G Faierson
Township: Tuscaloosa
COUNTY: Tuscaloosa
State: Alabama
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 1
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 7
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total Slaves: 3
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 7

1850 Tuscaloosa County, Alabama State Census

S. Gordon Frierson

White males under 21 - 3
White males over 21 - 2
White males between 18 and 45 - 1
White males over 45 - 2
White females under 21 - 7
White females over 21 - 8

Number of slaves - 16
Total inhabitants - 32

1860 Federal Census Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Francis Beebee, age 49, hotel keeper, value of real estate $10,000, born VA (most likely Frances Harding Frierson)
empty house
Catherine Friersen, age 15, born Alabama
Margerate, age 12, born Alabama
Samuel, age 6, born Alabama
Jeslein, age 3, born Alabama

1870 Federal Census Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

W. Francis Frierson, age 50, born Virginia, keeping house
Samuel G Frierson, son, age 16, born Alabama, attending school
Joselin J Frierson, daughter, age 12, born Alabama, attending school

1880 Federal Census Carthage, Hale County, Alabama

Francis W Frierson, age 66, born ca 1814, Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Maryland, widowed
Jeseline J. Frierson, age 23, born ca 1857, Alabama, father born South Carolina, mother Frances W Frierson