Edward (Edmond) Evans Glover

Edmond/Edward  E. Glover

 Barbour County Pioneer

The name Edmond/Edward  E. Glover shows up on a lot of court documents in Barbour County Alabama.  He was the administrator for many estates and other legal proceedings.    Edmond came to the County in the early years around 1840; he was a young man of about 20 years old, educated and handsome. This would be his home for the rest of his life.  This was an exciting time in Eufaula (Irwinton) everything was new and the town was beginning to grow.  New churches, a newspaper and talk of getting a bank.  The bridge had only been built a couple of years and with it came commerce and opportunities for a young man to find his fame and fortune.  Wealthy planters were moving to the area and bringing with them money and hope of a prosperous time ahead. This was the time of great plantations. His father was one of those planters but this was not for Edmond.  Edmond wanted what the city had to offer.  Social gatherings, dances and refined young women.   There would be plenty of time for marriage; this was his time, time to make of his life what he wanted without being hindered by a wife and family.  All in good time.   The city must have at least 10,000 inhabitants in the early 1840’s.  Edmond bought a home in Eufaula and worked for the newspaper as an agent for number of years.  He also bought and sold real estate.  

Edmond was the son of John Paschal Glover and Drucilla Evans, daughter of William Evans of Putnam County Georgia.  Edmond decided to marry Sarah J. Sims and they were married at the home of her father in Stewart County Georgia June 7, 1859.  His mother died January 1860.  It was a great loss to Edmond.  His mother was a loving, caring person that always put others before herself.  When her sister died she helped raise Tabitha’s children and her home was always filled with children and the sounds of laughter.

Sometime before 1862 Sarah was no longer in Edmund’s life.  Many diseases that took the lives of the inhabitants during those years, the most dreaded of them all was typhoid.  Edmond’s two sisters Susan K. and Mary Jane died during those years, and both left small children. 

The ill winds of war were blowing and soon all the town folk were stirred up as the election of 1860 neared.  Lincoln the “Black Republican” was elected and the citizens of Barbour County burned Lincoln in effigy.   Military companies were organized.  Being from a long line of soldiers, Edmond joined Lovard Lee Jr.’s Company Barbour County, Alabama Militia Reg. And was a 2nd Corporal.

Edmond met and married a widow Mrs. Charles Salina Dubose Bush, July 5, 1862. Edmond and Salina had two children Maxmillian and Marcellus both born in Barbour County.

Edmond could not have imagined that he would be the one to settle the estates of many of the men that went off to war and never came back.  His brothers Samuel, Nathan, Andrew and John Paschal Glover, Jr. were all in the effort.  Samuel was dead, Nathan had been wounded and lost the use of his hand, and Andrew injured in Tennessee. John Jr. was the only one that had decided not to move to Barbour County when the other family did.  He was serving for Georgia.  Samuel, James (William E.’s son), John R., and William J. Glover had all joined the 37^th and all were now dead .  Edmond could not wait for the war to be over and know that his family would be coming home at last.

 July of 1862 brought sorrow for Edmond, his father died.  John Paschal Glover’s will appointed Nathan O’Neal Glover as administrator of the estate.  There was only one problem.   Nathan was in the hospital in Richmond Virginia and could not fulfill the duties as administrator. Nathan married Elizabeth Fort in April of 1846 in Barbour County, was a merchant in Union Springs and had two children. After Elizabeth died Nathan married Sarah D. McNair on Sept. 11, 1860 in Macon County, Alabama. 

Edmond received a letter from Nathan saying “ I know not what father meant by naming me as the administrator being bound to this man’s government and cannot fulfill the responsibilities of administrator.”  Nathan asked that Edmond take the task to hand and administer the estate.

Edmond out lived all his siblings except Andrew who lived near Clayton and Elizabeth Ann Glover Fowler living in Georgia, Susan K. and Mary Jane both died before 1859, John P. Jr. August 1879, Nathan July 1878, William E. in 1890,  Samuel 1862 during the Cause.  Edmond died in 1891 and is buried at New Hope Church.

Edmond was there when folks were afraid of the Indians, saw the first newspaper and first bank.  Helped hold land together for those that were in distress. Many once wealthy people had been reduced to poverty because of the war.  Thy had lost their loved ones if not to the war, then to disease because of the blockades that prevented medicine from getting through and many died without it.  The price of land dropped by 90 %, land that had been bought for fifty dollars an acre was selling for five dollars an acre.  The only God send was that the town had not been looted and burned like so many others.  This was the time that carpetbaggers and just cutthroat thieves were about to take advantage of and take whatever they could, within the law or outside the law.

The Glover family is of Scottish descent.  Edmond’s ancestors came to this country before the American Revolution and both of Edmond’s grandfathers John Glover and Samuel Paschal fought in the American Revolution.

Written by:  Margie Glover-Daniels

References: Barbour County estate, newspapers, CSA records.

1. EDWARD EVANS³ GLOVER (JOHN PASCHAL², JOHN¹) was born Abt. 1820 in Georgia, and died December 1891. He married SALINA DUBOSE January 05, 1862 in Barbour County, Alabama, daughter of SEABORN J. DUBOSE. She died July 02, 1891 in Barbour Co., AL.

Children of EDWARD GLOVER and SALINA DUBOSE are:

2. E. MARCELLUS⁴ GLOVER (EDWARD EVANS³, JOHN PASCHAL², JOHN¹) was born Abt. 1863, and died October 1932 in Barbour Co., Al..

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