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MEMOIRS OF MISSISSIPPI.
He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, was a frequent contributor to various jour nals, and was a prominent physician and planter. He was quite well off. In June, IWI, Dr. Pipes joined the Adams troop as sergeant, and served all through the war in the Virginia army, lighting first at first Bull Run, then Cliancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg, geven days tight around Richmond, and many others in Virginia. Just before Lee?s surn-n-der he was sent with Gen. Wade Hampton into North Carolina, and fought at Beritonville. He was with his regiment at every roll call, and was slightly wounded at Srandy Ht.af.ion. He surrendered with General Johnston, and then returned home.
John C. Pitchford, planter and merchant, Shoccoe, Miss., was born in Warren county, X. C., on the 26th of January, 1834, and was the eldest of fourteen children born to the union of Thomas J. and Matilda H. (Cheek) Pitchford, natives of the Old North staff also. The father was quite a noted physician in his native state, and was also a prominent )>o]itician, serving as state senator for a number of years before the war. He died in 1883, and the mother in 1881. The paternal grandparents of our subject, Matthew and Elizabeth Pitchford, were natives of North Carolina, as were also his maternal grandparents, Robert T. and Mary A. Cheek. The Pitchford family is of Scotch-Irish origin. John C. Pitchford was educated in the private schools of North Carolina principally, attending school at Warrenton until seventeen years of age, and then entered the Baptist college at Wake Forest, where he graduated in 1855, taking first honors. He subsequently taught school, and continued this until 1861, when he began planting, and this has been his occupation since. He is the owner of one thousand two hundred acres of land, with four hundred acres under the plow, arid in connection he is also engaged in merchandising, carrying a stock of goods valued at S600. Mr. Pitchford has made all his property by his own exertions, and is honored and respected by all who are intimately acquainted with him. Miss Harriet E. Day, who became his wife in 1861, was born in North Carolina, and was the daughter of W. H. and Mary B. Pay, natives also of that state. The ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Pitchford arc- named in the order of their births as follows:	Robert L., Sterling, Lucy M., John C., Thomas J.,
William D., Annie L., Landon C. and Marshall N. Mr. Pifchford?s sympathies were with the South during the Civil war, and in 1862 he enlisted in the Madison artillery, with which he remained until cessation of hostilities. He was in the following battles:	Mine	Run,	Bris-
toe Station, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Hanover Junction, Cold Harbor, Appomattox Courthouse, and all the battles around Petersburg. He was dangerously wounded at the battle of Cold harbor, being struck three times in ten minutes, and was disabled for three months. In politics he is a democrat. He holds the offices of justice of the peace and postmaster, is public-spirited, and is a liberal contributor to all laudable enterprises such as schools, churches, etc. He has been unusually successful, and what he has accumulated in the way of this world?s goods is the result of his own unaided efforts.
*	George Planchet, Bay St. Louis, Miss., was born at the Logis de Romefort, department de la Charente, France, May 28, 1840, and is a son of George Planchet, who did a large agricultural business. He was educated in his native land, at the college of La Rochefoucauld. In 1859 he went to Angouleme city, and clerked there in a dry good-: store until about the middle of the year I860, and then went to Paris, where he also clerked in the same line of business until 1862. During this time he liecame familiar with the different lines of goods handled in the business, and went out as a traveling salesman. He was thus employed until 18<0. During that year he entered the corps of the Mobilwes. in the French army, and went through the Franco-Prussian w;tr, ending his service in March, 18/1. In October of the same year he sailed for America, lauding at New Orleans
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