(1838-1924)
« return to database listDuring the Civil War DeBernier Waddell served with Alabama troops at Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Knoxville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Richmond. At the close of the war he returned to Alabama where he engaged in farming while pursing divinity studies. Rev. DeBernier Waddell was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1869, and was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Wilmer in 1873, at St. John’s Church, Montgomery, Alabama. His first charge was Searle, Alabama. He built churches in Union Springs, Troy, and Auburn, Alabama. In 1887, he was the first rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Sheffield Alabama, and St. John’s Church, Tuscumbia. In 1891, he was called to the Church of the Mediator in Meridian, Mississippi. He served as archdeacon of East Mississippi. Rev. DeB Waddell was a Democrat, member of United Confederate Veterans, and a Mason. He married Mary Bellamy of Russell County, Alabama, and they had eight children: Claudia, William Bellamy, George Thornton, Eveline, Catherine Isabelle, Mary Haynes, Henry DeBerniere, and Ina Weems. Rev. DeB Waddell played chess.
Occupations for DeBerniere Waddell include:
Clerk, farmer, priest; enlisted as 2nd Lt. Sixth Alabama; Adjutant, Fifteenth Alabama Infantry, Capt. Company G.
De Berniere Waddell was born on January 31, 1838, in North Carolina. He died on September 1, 1924, and was buried in Lauderdale County, AL.
, Catherine Shaw Waddell (1829-1854), Elizabeth Fleming Waddell (b. 1831) and Sally Nash Waddell (1836-1855).