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This article has been submitted to the Alabama Heritage Book Series for Tuscaloosa County. It also appears in the biographical section of the book, Necessary Fried Chicken. |
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John Elmore Winbourne DuBois (1841-1910) |
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(c)1999 Elizabeth DuBois. All rights reserved. |
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In 1863, Sergeant DuBois was granted leave from Mobile General Hospital "in order to enjoy a change of air, climate, water, and the comforts of home, having been for the past four months having chills every other day...." The 36th participated at Chicamauga, Lookout Valley, and at Missionary Ridge. The regiment wintered at Dalton, Georgia, and was engaged at Crow's Valley, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, the Atlanta battles, Jonesboro, and middle Tennessee, including Nashville. Company C, as a part of the army under Brigadier General J. T. Holtzclaw, CSA, and commanded by Captain W.N. Knight surrendered 5/4/1865 at Citronelle, Alabama. |
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By 1876, Jack and his brother, Joseph Cornelius DuBois, formed The DuBois Manufacturing Company in Tuscaloosa. They purchased land, buildings, and a steamer, "The Ella D," in order to set up a business to manufacture cotton gins including the DuBois Cotton Gin, invented by Jack's father, Reverend John DuBois. |
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About four years after the war, Jack married Bettie Hatch Daves of Mobile on 3/17/1869. The daughter of Thomas H. Daves and Elizabeth N. Hatch, Bettie lived only a few months after the marriage. She was buried in Eutaw.
In 1870, Jack was living in Greensboro where he was a merchant with real estate valued at $10,000 and personal estate valued at $5000. Not too far away lived the family of John R. Webster, including nineteen year old Jane Rebecca Webster. Three years later Jack and Rebecca were married in Mobile, on February 6, 1873. |
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