Download or read book The Confederate Colonel who Could Have Been King written by James A. Gabel and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Henry Rion was born April 17, 1828 in Montreal, Canada, son of Henri de Rion and a Miss Hunter. After his father's death in March 1828, James and his mother left Canada. By 1841 they had settled in Savannah, Georgia. In 1843 they moved to South Carolina. He married Mary Catherine (Kitty) Weir (b. 1829) in 1851. They lived in South Carolina where he died Dec. 12, 1886.