Presley Groves was the son of Iredell County (I. C.) Groves and wife, Sarah (Leflore) Groves. His paternal ancestors were Scotch-Irish; his maternal grandfather, Benjamin Leflore, who negotiated the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, by which the Choctaws conveyed their lands to the United States. Mr Groves attended primary schools of Leake County, Madison College at Sharon, MS, and the University of Mississippi at Oxford; studied law; admitted to the bar on examination before the Chancellor; also engaged in farming; elected Justice of the Peace in the early 1880s; elected to the House of Representatives for Leake County in 1886; State Senate in 1888; House of Representatives in 1900; State Senate November 3, 1903. He served four years as a Confederate soldier; was a Corporal in a battery of Peague's Battalion of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, A.P. Hill's Corps; wounded at Cold Harbor; surrendered at Appamattox; was commissioned by Governor Sharkey as Captain of a Law and Order company after the war. He was a Democrat and was a Presidential Elector in 1896 on the Bryan ticket. Mr. Groves was married in March 1861 to Mariah Josephine Charles, daughter of David Charles and wife, Caroline Sullivan Charles of Ofahoma.
This taken from the Seventeenth District records of Leake and Neshoba Counties, Population 1900 - 30,086.
This taken from the Seventeenth District records of Leake and Neshoba Counties, Population 1900 - 30,086.
Presley Groves was the son of Iredell County (I. C.) Groves and wife, Sarah (Leflore) Groves. His paternal ancestors were Scotch-Irish; his maternal grandfather, Benjamin Leflore, who negotiated the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, by which the Choctaws conveyed their lands to the United States. Mr Groves attended primary schools of Leake County, Madison College at Sharon, MS, and the University of Mississippi at Oxford; studied law; admitted to the bar on examination before the Chancellor; also engaged in farming; elected Justice of the Peace in the early 1880s; elected to the House of Representatives for Leake County in 1886; State Senate in 1888; House of Representatives in 1900; State Senate November 3, 1903. He served four years as a Confederate soldier; was a Corporal in a battery of Peague's Battalion of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, A.P. Hill's Corps; wounded at Cold Harbor; surrendered at Appamattox; was commissioned by Governor Sharkey as Captain of a Law and Order company after the war. He was a Democrat and was a Presidential Elector in 1896 on the Bryan ticket. Mr. Groves was married in March 1861 to Mariah Josephine Charles, daughter of David Charles and wife, Caroline Sullivan Charles of Ofahoma.
This taken from the Seventeenth District records of Leake and Neshoba Counties, Population 1900 - 30,086.
This taken from the Seventeenth District records of Leake and Neshoba Counties, Population 1900 - 30,086.
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