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Lafayette Haughton was a Confederate officer and later a chancellor of Mississippi’s First District.
Born in Alabama on July 29, 1827, Haughton moved to Mississippi and became a practicing attorney. He married Sarah Priscilla Brownrigg from Columbus, Mississippi, in 1857 and the couple had three children that survived to adulthood. During the Civil War, Haughton served in the Mississippi Militia and the Confederate army, attaining the rank of colonel by the end of the war. After the Civil War, he resumed his law practice, and in 1876 was appointed chancellor of the First Chancery District.
On July 10, 1883, Haughton died at his home in Aberdeen, Mississippi, from injuries he sustained from a fall from a carriage. He was 55 years old. Haughton is buried in Aberdeen, Mississippi.
(FindaGrave; Confederate Veteran, March 1902, No. 3, p. 101; The Aberdeen Examiner, Aberdeen, MS, July 12, 1883)
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See also: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115380907/lafayette-haughton
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