Conner, Lemuel P. (Lemuel Parker), 1827-1891.

Lemuel Parker Conner (1827-1891) was born in Natchez, Miss. He attended Yale University and studied law under John T. McMurran of Natchez. In 1848, he married Elizabeth Francis (Fanny) Turner; the couple had ten children. He served as a lieutenant colonel under Gen. Braxton Bragg during the Civil War. After the war, he managed Killarney and Rifle Point plantations in Concordia Parish, La.

In the 1880's, he resumed practicing law and opened a firm with his son, Lemuel P. Conner, Jr. (1861-1943), in Vidalia and St. Joseph, La. Lemuel P. Conner, Jr., graduated from, Louisiana State University in 1882, and he married Mary Macrery Britton in 1888. They had four children and lived at Clover Nook, Adams County, Miss. Conner practiced law in the area. In 1927, he was elected to the office of City Clerk in Natchez, and he served in that position until his retirement in 1941.

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