Selma Fire Company Rosters

From "Selma; Her Institutions, and Her Men" by John Hardy, pub. 1879:

At an election held by the firemen on the 14th day of May 1864, The following officers were elected for the Fire Department for the ensuing year: Thomas B. Pierce, Chief Engineer; Henry Gatchell, First Assistant Engineer; Harry G. Noble, Second Assistant Engineer; A. Stevens, Secretary. The following is a list of the Phenix fire company No. 1, at this date: John H. Henry, Foreman; Wm. W. McCollum, First Assistant foreman; John S. Daimwood, Second Assistant Foreman; M. J. A. Keith, Treasurer; Wm. B. Gill, Secretary; S. D. Rodifer, A. Elkan, H. G. Noble, C. Haverstick, C. Wouerline, Joe May, J. Kenner, S. P. Stoddard, J. M. Huggins, J. A. Works, L. A. Daniels, P. Huff, M. J. Williams, Wm. A. Kelley, C. B. Andrews, John Erhart, F. Laporte, A. F. Wise, J. J. Ryan, St. John Tavell, J. L. Jones, Charles Blalock, Geo. Williams, G. F. Stevens, C. E. Butts, K. Jones, J. Morehead, P. B. Lane, John Haralson, J. J. Williams, Frank Fleet, A. J. Jones, M. Myers--numbering thirty- eight members.

The following is a list of the officers and members of Franklin fire company No. 2: Henry Gatchell, Foreman; John McElroy, First Assistant Foreman; C, Hatch, Second Assistant Foreman; E. G. Gregory, Treasurer; John Batton, Secretary; J. B. Covill, J. A. Tilton, W. R. Bill, J. Yokers, A. McElroy, H. S. Smith, E. A. Gracier, O. R. Floyd, R. Hall, J. Wilkins, Dan Hughes, S. Dunham, S. C. Pierce, J. C. Waite, J. C. Hinehart, J. Graham, E. B. Watson, W. Cannon--numbering twenty-three members.

On application to Col. Lockhart, the conscript officer, the Mayor, Councilmen and all the city officers were exempt form conscription into the Confederate army. A resolution was passed requiring a policeman to be discharged if found on the streets drunk, and as a general thing it was preferable to be a policeman under Dr. Henry, just about this date, than going into the Confederate army. A negro boy belonging to W. S. Curtis, was found with a gun, and Mr. Curtis, his owner, fined twenty dollars. A resolution proposing to divide the city into eight wards, after much discussion, was defeated by the following vote; for adoption--Gatebell and T. B. Pierce; against--Marlow, Williams and S. C. Pierce. A committee on education was appointed as follows; B. Eliasberg, John McElroy, W. M. Smith, Geo. F. Marlow, M. J. Williams, C. E. Thames, and Henry Gatchell. Maj. John C. Graham was offered ten thousand dollars, in the old issue of five dollars bills, which caused some misunderstanding between the city and the confederate officers. And after considerable squabbling, by order of Quartermaster General A. R. Lawton, the five dollar bills were received as that much paid on the wharf, by the city. An office was ordered to be constructed on the river bluff, at the foot of Franklin street for the Wharfinger.

A. W. Crail and Hiram Granger were dismissed form the police for drinking too much. The City Clerk was ordered to Issue sixty thousand dollars of bonds to the Alabama And Tennessee railroad and take a certificate of stock for the same, thus making the bonded debt of the city, for aid to railroads, Three hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, all bearing eight per cent. Interest.

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