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Home of my second cousin, five times removed, General Tennent Lomax,in Montgomery, AL. He was killed in battle at the head of a "Confederate" Regiment, May 31, 1862. He married Miss Caroline Shorter, in Montgomery. He was also a soldier in the Mexican War and was a lawyer, and several years the editor of the Columbus, GA Times. The famous "Lomax Rifles", Capt. F.P. Davis, of Mobile, was named in his honor; so was the "Lomax Station," in the State of AL. James J. Gilmer, brother of George R. Gilmer, governor of Georgia built the house in 1848. Later he deeded it to Reuben C. Shorter, Jr., war-time governor of Alabama. Shorter's widow married General Tennent Lomax. The house is an office builing as of 1967.
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