James D. Flowers, third son of W. H. Flowers. is a native of Fayette County, 
Ga., and dates his birth from the second day of March, 1814.  He served in the 
late war in Col. Carter's cavalry regiment, the Second Alabama, from April 1861, 
till May, 1862, and on the latter date was transferred to the Seventeenth Alabama 
infantry, with which he took part in the battles around Atlanta and Hood's Tennessee 
raid and engagements incident thereto. He was captured at the battle of Nashville 
and sent north to Camp Douglas, where he was kept a prisoner until the cessation of 
hostilities, when he returned home, and for some time thereafter attended school in 
Butler county.  Subsequently he was employed in a sawmill at $1.25 a day, and in 
April, 1866, moved to Bolling, where he has since resided and where he now owns an 
interest in the large milling firm, notices of which appear elsewhere. Like 
his brothers, Mr. Flowers is a straightforward man, possessing that kind of 
courage which encounters obstacles only to surmount them, and he is thoroughly  
identified with the growth and prosperity of that part of the county in which 
he resides.

June 9th, 1866, he was married to Emma, daughter of D. A. Rutledge, Jr., and 
is now the father of seven children: Bettie Flowers, wife of J. H. Dunklin; 
William R. Flowers, James Henry Flowers, John J. Flowers, Mary Flowers, Emma 
Flowers, and Ruth Flowers, the last named accidentally shot and killed on the 
26th of July, 1889.

Mr. Flowers is an active worker in the Masonic fraternity, is steward
and Sunday school superintendent of the Methodist church at Bolling, and 
votes with the democratic party.  F. A. Fowlers, fourth son W. H. and Sarah 
Flowers, was born in Georgia, county of Fayette, February 2, 1846, and there spent 
the years of his youth, moved to Alabama, Butler County, December, 1857, farmed with 
his father two years, then engaged in the lumber business. His first practical 
experience in life was as sawyer for the lumber firm of Milner & Caldwell, in 
whose employ he continued until 1867, at which time he went to Bluff Springs, Florida, 
where he operated a sawmill about two years for Evans & Tait.  In 1873 he moved to 
Bolling, Ala., where he has since been identified with the lumbering interests of Butler 
county, as a member of the firm of Milner, Caldwell & Flowers.

Mr. Flowers is a practical lumberman, shrewd in the management of his 
business affairs and is one of the popular and highly respected citizens of Butler 
county.  He was married March 4, 1869, to Carrie, daughter of J. S. Wood, a 
prominent merchant of Greenville, and is the father of two children:  Mamie 
Flowers and Maude Flowers.  He is a democrat in politics, a member of the K. of P. 
fraternity, and, with his wife, belongs to the Baptist church of Greenville,  Ala.