My Genealogy Hound

Dr. William L. Wynne was born in Wake County, N. C., in 1821, and is a son of Allen S. and Elizabeth (Thompson) Wynne, natives of the same county and State, born in 1800. In 1841 they went to Shelby County, Tenn., where the respective deaths occurred in 1865 and 1885. The father was Missionary Baptist minister for the last fifteen or twenty years of his life, and by occupation was a farmer. His father, Major William Wynne, was also a farmer, and was born in Virginia. Our subject is the oldest of four brothers, and during his youth attended the common schools of the neighborhood and Wake Forest College in North Carolina. After teaching school three years he read medicine two years in Memphis, Tenn., and then spent one year at the Memphis Medical College. He next practiced ten years in Marshall County, Miss., and in 1859 graduated in his profession from the above named institute, after which he resumed his practice in Marshall County. In 1862, owing to the excitement of war times, he went to Gilmore, Tex., where he practiced with success until 1871, at which time he came to Alma. He soon established himself here, but for the past few years, owing to poor health, has been obliged to confine his visits to the town and neighboring country. In 1851 he married Rebecca Jane, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Montgomery, natives of South Carolina, which was Mrs. Wynne’s native State. In 1836 the removed to Northern Mississippi, and in 1854 went to Tennessee, where Mr. Montgomery died in 1856, and the mother in 1878. Dr. Wynne and wife have had eight children, four of whom are living. Dr. Wynne owns ninety acres of land near Alma and is comfortably fixed. In politics he was formerly a Whig, and his first presidential vote was cast for Clay in 1844. Since the war he has been a Democrat. Himself and wife belong to the Missionary Baptist Church.