Date of birth: 04 Mar 1856
Date of death: 30 Jul 1923

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Burial Information

Section 09 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0131-14
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: US ARMY
Rank: LTC - Lieutenant Colonel
War/Campaign: SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

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Notes

SON OF LELAND & MARGARET SANDERS NOEL

Family Relations of Edmund Favor Noel
Parents:
Leland Noel
Margaret M. Sanders Noel

Siblings:
L. D. Noel
Edmund Favor Noel

Spouse:
Loula L. Hoskins Noel
Alice Josephine Tye (Neilson) Noel

Children:
Infant Noel

Research Notes
Edmund first married Loula L. Hoskins on 04 Jun 1890 (Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911, this site). Loula died after child birth on 17 Sep 1891. Edmund next married Alice Tye Neilson on 12 Sep 1905.

Biographical Information
EDMOND FAVOR NOEL

Edmond Favor Noel, Governor of the State of Mississippi, was born March 4, 1856, on his father's farm near Lexington, in Holmes County, Miss. He is the son of Leland Noel and his wife, Margaret M. (Sanders) Noel. His paternal ancestors came from France to England about the time of the Huguenot massacre, and from England to the Rappahannock River district, Essex County, Virginia, in 1680. There they lived until in 1835. The Governor's father, Leland Noel, came to Mississippi, settling in Holmes County, on the farm which is still in the possession of the family. He served in the Confederate Army, and while a prisoner in the hands of the Federals in 1863 suffered such exposure that he lost his eyesight therefrom, and was blind to the time of his death, thirty-three years later. Governor Noel attended irregular country schools until the fall of 1872, when he entered the high school at Louisville, Ky., taking a three years' course there. Each year he took one of the highest honors, and at the close of his last session was awarded the highest honor of his class. He did not enter a college or professional school, but read law under his uncle, Major D. W. Sanders, an attorney of Louisville; was admitted to the bar in March, 1877, at Lexington, after an examination in open court. He located for practice in Lexington, where he has since resided and practiced; his last law partner was A. M. Pepper. Governor Noel was elected Representative in 1881, District Attorney of Fifth Judicial District in 1887, State Senator in 1895 and again in 1899, candidate for Governor in 1903, elected Governor in 1907. During the Spanish-American war he was a Captain in the Second Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, under General Fitzhugh Lee, serving from May to December, 1898. He is a Democrat and has been a member of the State Executive Committee and Chairman of the County Committee for several years each; is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, a Knight Templar, a Shriner, Knight of Honor, Knight of Pythias and Woodman of the World. He was married September 12, 1905, at Pickens, Miss., to Mrs. Alice (Tye) Neilson, daughter of Col. J. F. Tye and wife, Josephine (Clarke) Tye. Mrs. Noel's ancestors came from Mecklenburg County, N. C, her grandmother's brother, Nathaniel Alexander, was one of the first Governors of North Carolina, and her great-grandfather, Abraham Clarke, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Governor Noel was the author of the present Primary Election Law, of the proposition to make all officers elective for terms of four years, presented as a Constitutional amendment to the Legislature in 1882, also of the amendment making judges elective, which received three-fourths of the popular vote. It may be noted of Governor Noel that though not winning in every political con- test, he has never failed of election to an office which he sought. His contests have always been purely individual, free from combinations or factional alignments, and the same may be said of his entire political career.

Extracted from: The Official and statistical register of the state of Mississippi., 1908, pp 951-952.

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