Melissa Dearing became the wife of Dr. W. S. Wyman, and Alice married Mr. George A. Searcy, son of Dr. Reuben Searcy, who was, at his death, president of the Merchants Bank and Trust Company of Tuskaloosa. At the preparatory schools and at college I was the intimate friend of T. Alex. Dearing, and all our families were intimate friends. Pleasant Dearing was blind, his eyes having been put out by a charge of powder flashed in his face by his brother James whilst playing in the large garret above the family residence. Peddy Dearing he was always called by his intimate friends. He had been given all the education that was, at that day, considered possible in the use of books with raised letters, and was also quite proficient in the use of his hands. I remember amongst other things seeing hair and clothes brushes of his man ufacture. T. Alexander made a splendid Confederate soldier, and surrendered with Lumsden's Battery, after the close of the war, somewhere between Gainesville and Mobile. I was at Tuskaloosa at the time trying to get clothing for members of the battery who were almost naked, having been detailed, and sent to Tuskaloosa a few weeks previously for that purpose. Alex., as my messmate, was paid my last year's moneys due me as a Confederate soldier, in Confederate money, most of which I still have on hand as a memento of those strenuous days. He died of consumption a few years after the end of the war.  

 

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