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Julius A. Summers, an enterprising merchant of Williston, Fayette County, was born in Iredell County, N. C., April 16, 1839, and is a son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth (Baggaly) Summers, both natives of Maryland. The father was born in 1803 and died in North Carolina in 1859. The mother was born in 1812, and died in North Carolina in 1868. They married in 1828. They moved to North Carolina in early life. The father was a mechanic. Our subject is the third of nine children; he received a good education at Statesville, N. C., and farmed two years after leaving school; then traveled for a tobacco firm, Stevenson & Bro., of North Iredell, until the war. In the spring of 1861 he entered the Confederate service, enlisting in Company H, Fourth Regiment of North Carolina, R. S. Ewell, captain, and was received in Anderson’s brigade and Rhode’s divisions. Mr. Summers was with the army in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and participated in the battles of Manassas, Seven Pines, Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Cold Harbor, Anderson’s Ferry, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. After the return of Lee’s army he was in all of the battles fought between Lee and Grant. Mr. Summers was severely wounded May 16, 1863, and was disabled for six months; then returned and remained with his command until the surrender. He entered as a private and on December 12, 1861, was promoted first lieutenant of his company, and in January, 1863, was made adjutant of his regiment, which rank he held at the time he was wounded. After the war he farmed a year in North Carolina, then moved to Fayette County and settled eight miles southwest of Somerville and three miles west of Williston and farmed until 1879, when he established a store at Williston and has continued the mercantile business ever since. January 29, 1869, Mr. Summers married Miss Callie E. Burnett, a native of North Carolina, born October 30, 1846. They have had three children, all-boys. Mr. and Mrs. Summers and the children are members of the Methodist Church. He is a Democrat in politics, and a man of good business qualifications and strict integrity.