Bibb, John Dandridge, lawyer, legislator, judge and planter, was born March
10, 1788, in Prince Edward County, Va., died May 9, 1848, in Carroll County,
Miss., and is buried in Montgomery; son of William and Sally Wyatt Bibb;
brother of Gov William Wyatt Bibb (q.v.); Gov. Thomas Bibb (q.v.); Rev. Peyton
Bibb (q.v.) and of Benajah Smith Bibb (q.v.). He studied law in the office of
Judge William H. Crawford, of Georgia, and later entered into a partnership
with him. He removed to Madison County, Mississippi Territory, in 1814, where
he became a planter. In 1818, he removed to Montgomery, was judge of the
territorial court, a member of the constitutional convention of 1819, and
State senator from Montgomery County, in 1822. He then located above Decatur,
in Morgan County, later returned to Montgomery, and finally settled on his
plantation on the Yazoo River, Carroll Parish, Mississippi. Married: May 6,
1812, at Petersburg, Ga., to Mary Xenia, daughter of John and Frances
(Thompson) Oliver, the former a native of near Petersburg, Va., who removed to
Petersburg, Elbert County, Ga., where he became an extensive planter and
merchant and who owned the point of land from which plied a ferry to both the
South Carolina and Georgia side; granddaughter of Dionysius and Mary Ann
(Winfrey) Oliver, the former a native of Petersburg, Va., who removed to Broad
River settlement, Ga., when he served in the Revolution as captain of a
privateer, was with General Lincoln at the sieges of Savannah and Augusta, in
the battles of King's Mountain and Kettle Creek, in Wilkes County, Captured by
the British, a most successful planter, and slave holder, and of William and
Mary (Wells) Thompson, the former a native of Chesterfield County, Va.; great-
granddaughter of Valentine Winfrey, of Virginia, of Thomas and Mary (McCartie)
Oliver, of York County, Va., who sometime before the Revolution removed to
Petersburg, Va., and of Thomas and Mary Wells, the former a native of Bristol
Parish, Chesterfield County, Va., of Robert Thompson, who married twice, his
second wife being Sarah Farley, and who accumulated great wealth and is
thought to have been a goldsmith; great-great-granddaughter of John Oliver of
York County, Ga., of Florance and Mary (Wright) McCartie, of York County, Va.,
the former son or nephew of Dennis McCartie, the Irish immigrant, who was a
lawyer of Virginia, of Robert and Elizabeth (Stewart) Thompson, the former a
goldsmith and planter of Henrico County, Va., and of Thomas and Grace Wells,
the former a planter of Chesterfield County, Va., and holder of several land
grants of Virginia; great-great-great-granddaughter of Dionysius Wright,
justice of James County., Va., in 1702. Children: 1. Charles Sydney; 2.
Elvira Antionette, m. Dr. Samuel B. Malone, of Columbus, Miss., 3. Sarah
Frances; 4. Mary Dandridge; 5. William Crawford m. (1) Priscilla E. Sims, of
Tuscaloosa, (2) Rebecca Lanier Harries, parents of William Crawford Bibb, Jr.,
(q.v.); 6. Edwin Augustus; 9. Dandridge Asbury, m. Emma Taylor; 10. Algernon
Sydney, m. (1) Mary Carraway, (2) Miss Hoard, of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; 11. Mary
Cornelia; 12. Laura Angerone, m. Henry L. Rogers, of LaGrange, Ga., and
Tuskegee. Last residence: Carroll County, Miss."

Source Citation and Source Information:
History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Thomas McAdory Owen,
Marie Bankhead Owen. Published by the S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. 1921.
Item Notes. V. 3. Original from Harvard University. Digitized Jan. 18. 2008.
P:142.