**Family history as told by Michael Breazeale:

                                        "This Alabama story started out in South Carolina about 1818 when my ancestor grandfather John Blocker Breazeale and his cousin Aiken Breazeale married the
McMillan sisters..John to Susannah....Aiken to Nancy...daughters of Abner McMillan.
The McMillan clan and several Breazeale's moved to Tuscaloosa County first about 1818...then emerged in Cahaba in Dallas County about 1820 sometime.
James Breazeale and Elizabeth Breazeale had already been born in South Carolina before the move...and John and Susan had many children after their arrival.
In 1839, John Blocker Breazeale died of a bad fever (probably meningitis or a mosquito born disease) which left Nancy alone to handle all of these children by herself.
She moved in with her father Abner...and then she died too in 1843 and Nancy died the next year,  Abner carried on until about 1845 and then he died.
In the McMillan will, Abner McMillan left Aiken Breazeale in charge of all the children..but he was not very good with handling the estate and Absolom sued him for
guardianship and for misappropriating the McMillan Estate (which was a cotton growing empire of thousands of acres along the Alabama River)
Aiken lost in the civil suit..had to return control of the estate back to Absolom...and he left Alabama and returned to South Carolina before 1850..he died in 1856 in
Anderson County SC and is buried at the Dorchester Baptist Church in Belton SC.
Absolom married Susan Barker...daughter of S. "Shoestring Barker" of Cahaba...the owner on one of the two brickyards in Dallas County. Absolom ran for clerk of
the court of Cahaba in 1857 and won. He became a civil servant for Dallas County for the rest of his life. He also married off his wife's sister to a member of the
Hoot family..the owners of the other brickyard in Dallas County. The wedding was held in his home..but by then he was known as Captain AD Breazeale so he
must've been made an officer of the Home Guard in preparation for the war.
Daniel McMillan Breazeale, Issac Newton Breazeale, James Breazeale, and Francis M Breazeale were all his brothers and all served in the civil war. Francis served
in the Orr's Rifles of South Carolina. James Breazeale served in an Alabama Calvary unit but was killed outside of Selma during the Union Army siege of the city.
Daniel McMillan Breazeale must have been one tough guy..he rode with the Calvary all through the entire war and was never wounded or captured. Out of his whole
group there were only 118 of them left, according to the history of his unit, when they surrendered at the end of the war in Gainesville Al.
Issac Newton was a private in a Louisiana Infantry Unit....there are a lot of Breazeale's in Louisiana..so he must've decided to fight with them....three of his Breazeale
uncle's were Colonel's in the CSA. Winter Wood Breazeale was a Colonel...and two others whose name I cannot recall off hand.
The reconstruction era after the end of the war in Dallas County must've been pretty bleak. Absolom stayed on as a public servant....but it appears the rest left during
the subsequent decades and moved into Mississippi and Texas.
I have a transcribed letter written by Absolom to his cousin in Neshoba County Miss in 1886. He had had a stroke by then but he was still justice of the peace in Selma
and lived at 683 Washington Street , Selma Al at the time of the letter.
He and Susan must've had a lot of property because I find her in two 1880 census....one as head of house for Cahaba Township and then listed as wife of Absolom
in Selma.
Issac Newton Breazeale went on to operating hotels and finally moved to Calera, Alabama
Daniel McMillan Breazeale moved to Mobile apparently after trying to give it a go as a farmer. I have been told that his son Clarence Breazeale became a Texas Ranger
and was killed in a shoot out with John Wesley Harding...but I am still checking on that too.
The Texas factor came into the family through Marabou B Lamar, one of the Presidents of the Republic of Texas. Mr. Lamar had been a newspaperman in Cahaba
and had rented from Absolom Breazeale. This was told to me by a representative of the Cahaba Restoration Project when I went there years ago in search of my family
and graves. Once she found out who I was, she gave my mother and myself a guided tour of Cahaba Town..showed me where Absoloms house once stood. She told
me a Breazeale girl married into the Sturdivent family...she kept telling me that one of her couches at the Restoration Project Headquarters used to be in the Breazeale home
Francis M Breazeale appears to have moved of Texas..I am still checking on that.
I need to find out if William E Breazeale of the Breazeale Nuclear Research Facility is one of my families offspring...Jennie E Breazeale, the wife of Daniel Breazeale,
was born in PA.

The name is pronounced with long e's ..Bree zeal...but some pronounce it Bra zeal so the phonetics must've tortured the census takers and many others. "

1 John Blocker Breazeale

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Birth:                      1780, Abbeville District, South Carolina

Death:                     1839

They migrated to Alabama in 1818, locating at Cahaba, Dallas County in 1820. John B. Breazeale and his four brothers were apparently the second or third generation in South Carolina.
Henry Breazeale having obtained a land grant on Long Cave Creek in 1764.

Spouse:                  Susan McMillian

Father:                   Abner McMillian

 

Children:               Drewry

                                      Francis M.

                                      Mary

                                       Nancy E.

                                      Sarah Ann Matilda

                                      Elizabeth A. (1813-1888)

                                      Absolem David (1822-1889)

                                      Daniel M. (1828-)

                                      Isaac Newton (1831-)

 

1.1 Drewry

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1.2 Francis M. Breazeale

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1.3 Mary Breazeale

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1.4 Nancy E. Breazeale

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1.5 Sarah Ann Matilda Breazeale

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1.6 Elizabeth A. Breazeale

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Birth:                      23 Nov 1813

Death:                     13 Dec 1888, Liberty Cemetery, Dallas Co. Ala

 

Spouse:                   Milton Parish

Birth:                      1 Apr 1810

Death:                     8 Mar 1885, Liberty Cemetery, Dallas Co. Ala

 

1.7 Absolem David Breazeale

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Birth:                      22 Aug 1822, Dallas Co., Alabama

Death:                     29 Apr 1889

 

Spouse:                   Susan Norvil Baker

Birth:                       5 Jul 1829

Death:                     21 Jul 1889

Marriage:                7 Jul 1851

 

Children:              Daniel Milton (1852-)

                                      Stephen Browning Barker (1854-1880)

                                     Nat Cook (1857-1861)

                                     Lula (1858-)

                                      Fannie Matilda (1860-1889)

                                     Icadella (1862-1892)

                                      Sallie (1863-1863)

                                     Mary (>1865-)

                                     Albert Farley (1865-1929)

                                     Alberta (1865-1929)

 

1.7.1 Daniel Milton Breazeale

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Birth:                      24 Apr 1852

Daniel and family were living in Selma, Alabama on Dallas Street in 1880

Picture of Daniel and Jennie Breazeale

 

Spouse:                   Virginia “Jennie” Alexander

Birth:                       1857, PA

Marriage:                 24 Apr 1874

 

Children:                John Alexander (1877-)

                                       Alberta (1879-)

                                       Stephen (1881-1939)

 

1.7.1.1 John Alexander Breazeale

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Birth:                      4 Jul 1877

 

1.7.1.2 Alberta Breazeale

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Birth:                      1879

 

1.7.1.3 Stephen Breazeale

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Birth:                        3 Jan 1881

Death:                     19 Nov 1939, Atlanta, DeKalb Co. Georgia

Burial:                     20 Nov 1939, Hill Crest Cemetery, East Point, Georgia

 

Stephen was a Spanish American War Soldier, Pvt, Co. M, 29th Volunteers, Phil. Ins.

He enlisted 26 July 1899 at Atlanta, Georgia. At the time he enlisted he was 21 years 6 months old, 5 feet 5 inches tall.

Stephen died of Pheumonia.

1.7.2 Stephen Browning Barker Breazeale

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Birth:                      27 Aug 1854

Death:                     29 Aug 1880

 

1.7.3 Nat Cook Breazeale

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Birth:                        7 Jan 1857

Death:                     20 Jan 1861, “New” Cemetery at Old Cahaba, Ala

Picture of headstone, Pic1, Pic2

1.7.4 Lula Breazeale

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Birth:                      13 Feb 1858

 

Spouse:                   William Bebee

Marriage:                 8 Jan 1883

 

1.7.5 Fannie Matilda Breazeale

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Birth:                      15 Apr 1860

Death:                       1 Jan 1889

 

1.7.6 Icadella Breazeale

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Birth:                      15 Mar 1862

Death:                     11 Nov 1892

 

Spouse:                    Charles Chambers

Marriage:                 26 Nov 1889

 

1.7.7 Sallie Breazeale

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Birth:                      14 Dec 1863

Death:                     31 Dec 1863

 

1.7.8 Mary Breazeale

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Birth:                      aft 1865

 

1.7.9 Albert Farley Breazeale

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Birth:                      24 Jan 1865

Death:                     18 Apr 1929

 

Twin to Alberta b. 24 January 1865 6:10 p.m., Albert was born at 6:00 p.m.

 

Spouse:                   Virginia A. Cannon

Birth:                         4 Oct 1869

Death:                     14 Apr 1942

 

Children:               Alberta Lavender (1891-1938)

                                      Albert (1893-)

                                      Virginia Norvil (1895-1977)

                                      William Richard (1897-1952)

                                      John Bridges (1899-1965)

                                      Absalom Farley (1901-1954)

                                      Thomas Cannon (1906-1971)

                                      Maxwell Gray (1909-1957)

 

1.7.9.1 Alberta Lavender Breazeale

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Birth:                      1 Jun 1891, Selma, Alabama

Death:                     1938

 

Spouse:                   James McMurtray Barnett

Birth:                       abt 1876

Father:                     John Barnett

Mother:                   Emily McMurtray

Marriage:                31 Jul 1911, Mississippi

 

Children:                  James

 

1.7.9.1.1 James Barnett

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1.7.9.2 Albert Breazeale

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Birth:                      11 May 1893, Selma, Alabama

Died in infancy

 

1.7.9.3 Virginia Norvil Breazeale

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Birth:                      30 Sep 1895, Selma, Alabama

Death:                     10 Jan 1977

 

Spouse:                   Ian Milroy

 

1.7.9.4 William Richard Breazeale

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Birth:                      15 Jul 1897, Selma, Alabama

Death:                     15 Jun 1952, Vicksburg, Mississippi

 

William Richard was living in Lauderdale Co., Ms. and working in Hattiesburg, Ms. when he registered for the draft abt 1915-1917.

 

Spouse:                   Ardith O. David

 

Children:                 Elise

                                        Melba

 

1.7.9.4.1 Elise Breazeale

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1.7.9.4.2 Melba Breazeale

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1.7.9.5 John Bridges Breazeale

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Birth:                      27 Jul 1899, Selma, Alabama

Death:                     25 Dec 1965, Mississippi

In his early teens an attack of spring fever, complicated by an unusually virulent siege of unrequited puppy love, prompted him to run away from home. He hoboed a bit, worked on a Florida
Logging Road, shipped out of Pensacola on snapper schooners for Campeche Banks, made one long cruise on a four-masted square-rigger, and finally joined the Navy. This was in 1915.

Two years later at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, it happened. There was a premature explosion from a salute gun. There was also a case of cerebrospinal meningtis. Either or both might
have been responsible for the decay that destroyed the auditory innervation of John Breazeale’s ears. John went back to Mississippi, honorably dischared because of “total deafness originating
in the line of duty:. (See: The Saturday Evening Post article, December 2, 1939)

John was living in Lauderdale Co., Ms when he registered for the draft abt 1915-1917. (See microfiche of original draft cards, Military Records--World War I)

He was a reporter for the New Orleans Item, the United Press and the Brandon Weekly News. John could not listen to the words because he has been stone deaf since about 1916.

Deafness is not silence. It is the damnest racket you ever heard in all your life. A roar like a hurricane blowing in a cave and it goes on forever. There is no end to it, day or night.
----John Breazeale

 

Spouse:                   Jesse May Owen

Birth:                      15 Jun 1895, Brandon, Mississippi

Father:                     William Owen

Mother:                   Mary McGilvra

Marriage:                23 Sep 1922, Brandon, Mississippi

 

Children:                John Ballard

                                       Virginia

                                       Orville Willett

                                       Jerry Lacombe

                                       Albert Farley

 

1.7.9.5.1 John Ballard Breazeale

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1.7.9.5.2 Virginia Breazeale

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1.7.9.5.3 Orville Willett Breazeale

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1.7.9.5.4 Jerry Lacombe Breazeale

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1.7.9.5.5 Albert Farley Breazeale

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1.7.9.6 Absalom Farley Breazeale

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Birth:                      2 May 1901, Selma, Alabama

Death:                     28 May 1954

 

Spouse:                   Dorothy Kate Bayley

 

Children:                 Albert Farleigh (1931-1972)

                                        John Robert

 

1.7.9.6.1 Albert Farleigh Breazeale

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Birth:                      27 Jul 1931, Montevideo, Uruguay

Death:                     18 Apr 1972, Miami, Florida

 

1.7.9.6.2 John Robert Breazeale

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1.7.9.7 Thomas Cannon Breazeale

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Birth:                      22 Mar 1906, Meridian, Mississippi

Death:                     8 Aug 1971

Burial:                     Magnolia Cemetery, Meridian, Mississippi

 

Spouse:                   Selva Avara

Birth:                      9 Jun 1904

Death:                     24 Sep 1987

Marriage:               1927

 

1.7.9.8 Maxwell Gray Breazeale

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Birth:                      25 Mar 1909

Death:                     17 Nov 1957

Burial:                     Magnolia Cemetery, Meridian, Mississippi

 

Spouse:                   Katie Patricia Creel

 

Children:                Maxwell Gray Jr.

 

1.7.9.8.1 Maxwell Gray Jr. Breazeale

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1.7.10 Alberta Breazeale

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Birth:                      24 Jan 1865

Death:                     28 Dec 1929

 

Twin to Albert Farley (Farleigh), born 24 January 1865 at 6:10 p.m.

 

Spouse:                   William Purifoy

Marriage:                 19 Oct 1885

 

Children:                Absalom David (1886-)

 

1.7.10.1 Absalom David Purifoy

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Birth:                      30 Jul 1886

 

1.8a Daniel M. Breazeale*

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Birth:                      15 Sep 1828, Cahaba, Dallas Co. Alabama

Died:                       Between 1907 -1910

Enlisted in the Confederate States Army as a Private, Co. A, Lewis Battalion, C.S.A.

Confederate Pension, Pg1, Pg2, Pg3, Pg4, Pg5, P6
1907 Confederate Census (Last name spelled "Breasch" on the census)    

In 1880 Daniel and his family were living in Escambia Co. Alabama
In 1900 Daniel  was living with his  daughter  Sallie E.  in Jackson  Springs,  Escambia Co. ,  Alabama

Spouse:                  Susan Agnes McElroy

Birth:                      25 Dec 1831

Death:                     Blunt-Rogers Cemetery, Dallas Co., Alabama

Died of scarlet fever at the age of 19
Article of  Susan's  death

Other spouses:          Lucy Caroline Avery

 

1.8b Daniel M. Breazeale* (See above)

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Spouse:                    Lucy Caroline Avery

Father:                     William Avery

Marriage:                 18 Dec 1859, Baldwin Co. Alabama

 Notice of marriage to Lucy Avery

Children:           Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth (1864-1941)

                                   C. E. (1867-)

                                   William A. (1871-)

                          Walter (1874-)

 

Other spouses:          Susan Agnes McElroy

 

1.8b.1 Sarah Elizabeth Breazeale

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Birth:                      26 Feb 1864

Death:                     14 Jan 1941

Burial:                     Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery, Latham, Baldwin Co., Alabama

 

Spouse:                   Guy McGowen

Birth:                       7 Sep 1864

Death:                     23 Aug 1921

Burial:                     Latham United Methodist Church, Latham, Baldwin County, Alabama

 

1.8b.2 C. E. Breazeale

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Birth:                      1867

 

1.8b.3a William A. Breazeale*

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Birth:                      13 March 1868

Death:                     17 June 1932

Burial:

Death Certificate for William A. Breazeale

Spouse:                    Ruth L.

Marriage:                 28 January 1897, Manistee,  Alabama

Divorce:                   23 October  1908, Mobile County, Alabama

Children:                  Edna (1898-)
   Inez (1904-)
   Norman (1906-)

Other Spouse:           Mammie Myers

1.8b.3b William A. Breazeale* (See  above)

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Spouse:                    Mammie Myers

Children:                  Daniel M. (1914-1923)


1.8b.3b.1 Daniel M. Breazeale

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Birth:                  1914

Death:                 06 November 1923

Burial:                 Little River, Alabama

Death certificate for Daniel M. Breazeale


                                     

1.8b.4 Walter Breazeale

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Birth:                      1874

 

1.9 Isaac Newton Breazeale

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Birth:                      1831

Death:                    23 October 1913 6:18 p.m.

Burial:                    Salem Cemetery, Calera, Shelby County, Alabama

Death Certificate for Isaac Newton Breazeale

Spouse:                   Emma M. Hill

Birth:                      1841

Death:                     1937

Marriage:                25 August 1867, Dallas County, Alabama

Confederate Pension Application, Pg1, Pg2, Pg3, Pg4, Pg5, Pg6, Pg7

At the time this application was filed Emma's Post Office address was: 1819, Herschel St., Jacksonville, Florida

 

Children:                  Jessie E. (1870-)

                                     Marian V. (1872-)

                             William Enoch (1874-)

 

1.9.1 Jessie E. Breazeale

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Birth:                      1870

Death:                     09 August 1907

Burial:                     Salem Cemetery, Calera, Shelby County, Alabama

Spouse:                   Harry E. Graham

 

1.9.2 Marian V. Breazeale

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Birth:                      1872

 

1.9.3 William Enoch Breazeale

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Birth:                      06 February 1874

Death:                     August 1957

Spouse:                   Minnie May

Birth:

Death:                     July 1962

 

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