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Amelia Glover was born on January 1, 1830, in Greene County, Alabama, to Williamson Glover and Amelia Walton Glover. She married James Alcorn in 1850 and moved onto the Mound Place Plantation where they enslaved nearly 100 men, women, and children. Alcorn served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and state Senate during the 1840s and 1850s. He helped found the levee system to protect the Delta from flooding. During the Civil War, he was commissioned a brigadier general, but his political differences - he was a Whig - kept him from even actually serving, spending most of his time and money raising troops. After the war, he emerged as one of the wealthiest men in the south. In 1865, he was elected to the US Senate but was never seated because of his service in the Confederacy. He was elected governor in 1869, serving until 1871 when he took a US Senate seat, serving until 1877. He died in 1894 and is buried in Alcorn Cemetery along with Amelia, who died in 1907.