{"id":284,"date":"2018-07-10T19:50:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T00:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/?page_id=284"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:04:03","slug":"a-peal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/a-peal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Peal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285\" src=\"http:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/peal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/peal.png 282w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/peal-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Alfred Peal (Marshall County)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>State House:<\/strong> 1874-1875<\/p>\n<p><strong>Born:\u00a0<\/strong>c. 1832 in Mississippi<\/p>\n<p>Listed on the 1870 census in Marshall County with wife Emeline and five children. He was a farmer. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mlc.lib.ms.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digitized%20Microfilms%20\/Marshall%20County.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPA history of Marshall County<\/a>, he had been enslaved by Dr. Robert Hunter Peel.<\/p>\n<p>Note on spelling: while the enslaver and Alfred Peal&#8217;s descendants used the spelling &#8220;Peel(e),&#8221; the House journal and all newspaper articles use &#8220;Peal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4830\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4830\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/peal.png\" alt=\"Signature of Alfred Peal\" width=\"499\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/peal.png 689w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/peal-300x78.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signature of Alfred Peal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4777\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/charles-caldwell\/petition-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4777\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/petition-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Petition to Governor Ames, Feb 12, 1874\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/petition-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/petition-1-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petition to Governor Ames, Feb 12, 1874\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5850\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/a-peal\/the_weekly_mississippi_pilot_1875_03_13_page_6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5850\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5850\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Weekly_Mississippi_Pilot_1875_03_13_Page_6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Weekly Mississippi Pilot, March 13, 1875\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Weekly_Mississippi_Pilot_1875_03_13_Page_6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Weekly_Mississippi_Pilot_1875_03_13_Page_6-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weekly Mississippi Pilot, March 13, 1875<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2130\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/resolution.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2130\" src=\"http:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/resolution-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/resolution-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/resolution-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daily Mississippi Pilot, August 1, 1875<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred Peal (Marshall County) State House: 1874-1875 Born:\u00a0c. 1832 in Mississippi Listed on the 1870 census in Marshall County with wife Emeline and five children. He was a farmer. According to the WPA history of Marshall County, he had been enslaved by Dr. Robert Hunter Peel. Note on spelling: while the enslaver and Alfred Peal&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/a-peal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alfred Peal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-284","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5851,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284\/revisions\/5851"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}