Milam was a prominent surname in Meriwether County, GA in last half of 1800's. I belive the famiy came from SC. Some of them married members of the Elijah Evans family, and some of the Evans family in Meriwether married members of the Bowles family there. Note the following items from from the Meriwether County, GA GENWEB website: Biographies from Memoirs of Georgia This page is part of US GENWEB and GEORGIA GENWEB, an all-volunteer effort to make genealogy information accessible and free for everyone. Biographies of Meriwether County, GA citizens from Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895 transcribed by Carla Miles (thanks, Carla!) . . . L. J. Milam page 516-517 L. J. Milam, a prosperous Meriwether county farmer, is a native of Lawrence County, S.C., born in 1825, a son of John and Sallie (Fuller) Milam. The father was a Virginian, who came to South Carolina at the age of twenty-one; he served in the war of 1812, during which period he took yellow fever at Charleston, but he recovered and lived to a ripe old age. His parents were also Virginians, who made the home of their later years in South Carolina. Mrs. Sallie (Fuller) Milam was a daughter of Isam Fuller, a native of North Carolina, who settled in South Carolina. Young L.J. Milam was reared on the South Carolina farm and enjoyed but meager school privileges. The school house of logs, as was then common, not only was floorless, but also without chimney. Consequently, as the fire was built in the middle of the house, after the fashion of an Indian wigwam, the pupils were often almost suffocated by the smoke. Mr. Milam made agriculture his chosen calling and by assiduity in its pursuit has made it a success. Some years ago he came to Meriwether county, Ga., and established himself upon a farm near Jones’ Mill, in which place for twelve years he also carried on a profitable mercantile establishment, but though successful in this, his chief interest has always centered in his farm. During the war he served for a short time in the state militia. Mr. Milam is one who by his steadfast uprightness in all the relations of life wins the true respect of all who come to know him. His marriage occurred in January, 1846, his wife being Miss Mary. J. Workman, a daughter of Hugh and Mary (Taylor) Workman, both of South Carolina, but of Irish parentage. Mrs. Milam was born Aug. 29, 1827, and was reared upon the farm in South Carolina, where her parents lived and died. Both she and her husband were honored members of the Methodist Episcopal church. She died on Oct. 9,1890. Mr. and Mrs. Milam were blessed with ten children: Oscar L., Mary A., Sarah J., Robert H., Irena, Emilia A., Irvin and Margaret A. Oscar L., the first born, and Feril A., the third, died in South Carolina, and the fourth, Lafayette I., was murdered in Arkansas, Sept. 9, 1893. Mr. Milam was married the second time, July 24, 1894 to Lucretia G. McCrary, a daughter of Willis and Maria L. (Gary) Wallis, of Lawrence, S.C. From Meriwether Vindicator March 10, 1905: Elijah Evans - This pioneer was one among the noteworthy accessions to our early citizenship from Putnam County. He built his home and opened a farm on the late Indian hunting grounds in the fork of the Creeks Little and Big Red Oak, and there dwelt independently until his decease at octogenarian longevity. Combining sound practical sense with unremitting energy his property increased while he nurtured sons and daughters. He was not only thrifty as a tiller of the soil but engaged profitably many years in a tannery and shoe manufactory enterprise on his plantation. Such was his honesty, skill and reliability in these industreis that he was patronized by the surrounding denizens from Dan to Beersheba. It seemed that no husbandman in that section considered his family and negroes substantially and fitly shoed unless the work had been done at the Evans shop. The only complaint made against the Evans hand made shoes came from the boys who would often become impatient at the lasting qualities of therir brogans. Mr. Evans amassed a comfortable estate, and was much respected for his integrity and other moral and neighborly traits. He was firm in his friendship and dislikes and had decided convicgtions on all questions. He took no leading part in politics nor wanted any office, voting as we recollect with the Democratic party. We are not surely advised as to his religious faith, only that he favored Christianity. Mr. Evans was first married when a citizen of Putnam to Miss Mary Reed of that County. She was an attractive lady endowed with brain and heart and of fine lineage. The male offspring of this marriage were Philemon, Robert, Reed, William, and Elijah Evans and the daughters were Mrs. [mjwatts note an Anselet? Evans, m. a John Carlton 31 Dec. 1857] Carter, Mrs. [mjwatts note: Lucy Evans m. Thomas] Crouch and Mrs. [mjwatts note: Irene Evans m. 1 John Milam; m. 2 Reuben A.] Bowles. All these now deceased were true and useful men and women in their generation. The Messrs. Carter near Forest, the Messrs. Crouch near Gay, Mr. P. [mjw note Philemon] P. Evans near Greenville, Robert Evans, Luthersville, David Evans - all highly esteemed citizens - are surviving grandsons of Elijah Evans. By his second nuptials [mjwatts note: to Martha Jane Godfrey, abt. 1863], late in life, the aged patriarch left a few infant children [mjw note: these would be: William, b. 1864; Emma Margaret, b. 1866--my great grandmother, who m. Andrew Jackson Bowles; Annie Ruth, b. abt. 1868, who m. Rowe Roberts; Jennie Belle, b. Feb. 1870, who m. Nelson Bowles] -----Original Message----- From: Linne Gravestock [mailto:linne@gravestock.name] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 1:59 AM To: BOWLES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Jesse P. Bowles vs. N. W. Warfield, Milam Co., TX, 1858 If it's Milam Co., TX in 1858, the Bowles there should be mine. So this one had me stumped until I realized that I's and J's were interchangeable during an era of our history. This is Jesse P. Bowles, my gggrandfather's brother, who had a store in Milam Co. My guess is that he's suing a customer for an unpaid bill, or a supplier, but my guess could be wrong. If anyone has any information about Mr. Warfield or Milam Co., please do let us all know. Yours, Linne ===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: TXMILAM-L@rootsweb.com From: milamco@yahoo.com Subject: Bowles, I. P. vs. N. W. Warfield This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bowles, Warfield Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8792 Message Board Post: Belton Weekly Independent, 16 Jan 1858 Milam Co. ’ I. P. Bowles vs. N. W. Warfield, suit for $18.35 =====================================================================

Thanks, Michael, for the education on the Milam and Evans families. Since our Southern families stuck so closely together and Evans is in my Bowles tree, I'll see if I can find out if there is any connection there. Yours, Linne >Milam was a prominent surname in Meriwether County, GA in last half of >1800's. I belive the famiy came from SC. Some of them married members of the >Elijah Evans family, and some of the Evans family in Meriwether married >members of the Bowles family there. Note the following items from from the >Meriwether County, GA GENWEB website: > >Biographies from Memoirs of Georgia >This page is part of US GENWEB and GEORGIA GENWEB, an all-volunteer effort >to make genealogy information accessible and free for everyone. >Biographies of Meriwether County, GA citizens from Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. >II, Atlanta, Ga., Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895 >transcribed by Carla Miles (thanks, Carla!) . . . >L. J. Milam page 516-517 >L. J. Milam, a prosperous Meriwether county farmer, is a native of Lawrence >County, S.C., born in 1825, a son of John and Sallie (Fuller) Milam. The >father was a Virginian, who came to South Carolina at the age of twenty-one; >he served in the war of 1812, during which period he took yellow fever at >Charleston, but he recovered and lived to a ripe old age. His parents were >also Virginians, who made the home of their later years in South Carolina. >Mrs. Sallie (Fuller) Milam was a daughter of Isam Fuller, a native of North >Carolina, who settled in South Carolina. > >Young L.J. Milam was reared on the South Carolina farm and enjoyed but >meager school privileges. The school house of logs, as was then common, not >only was floorless, but also without chimney. Consequently, as the fire was >built in the middle of the house, after the fashion of an Indian wigwam, the >pupils were often almost suffocated by the smoke. Mr. Milam made agriculture >his chosen calling and by assiduity in its pursuit has made it a success. >Some years ago he came to Meriwether county, Ga., and established himself >upon a farm near Jones’ Mill, in which place for twelve years he also >carried on a profitable mercantile establishment, but though successful in >this, his chief interest has always centered in his farm. During the war he >served for a short time in the state militia. > >Mr. Milam is one who by his steadfast uprightness in all the relations of >life wins the true respect of all who come to know him. His marriage >occurred in January, 1846, his wife being Miss Mary. J. Workman, a daughter >of Hugh and Mary (Taylor) Workman, both of South Carolina, but of Irish >parentage. Mrs. Milam was born Aug. 29, 1827, and was reared upon the farm >in South Carolina, where her parents lived and died. Both she and her >husband were honored members of the Methodist Episcopal church. She died on >Oct. 9,1890. Mr. and Mrs. Milam were blessed with ten children: Oscar L., >Mary A., Sarah J., Robert H., Irena, Emilia A., Irvin and Margaret A. Oscar >L., the first born, and Feril A., the third, died in South Carolina, and the >fourth, Lafayette I., was murdered in Arkansas, Sept. 9, 1893. Mr. Milam >was married the second time, July 24, 1894 to Lucretia G. McCrary, a >daughter of Willis and Maria L. (Gary) Wallis, of Lawrence, S.C. > > >From Meriwether Vindicator March 10, 1905: > >Elijah Evans - > >This pioneer was one among the noteworthy accessions to our early >citizenship from Putnam County. He built his home and opened a farm on the >late Indian hunting grounds in the fork of the Creeks Little and Big Red >Oak, and there dwelt independently until his decease at octogenarian >longevity. Combining sound practical sense with unremitting energy his >property increased while he nurtured sons and daughters. He was not only >thrifty as a tiller of the soil but engaged profitably many years in a >tannery and shoe manufactory enterprise on his plantation. > >Such was his honesty, skill and reliability in these industreis that he was >patronized by the surrounding denizens from Dan to Beersheba. It seemed that >no husbandman in that section considered his family and negroes >substantially and fitly shoed unless the work had been done at the Evans >shop. The only complaint made against the Evans hand made shoes came from >the boys who would often become impatient at the lasting qualities of therir >brogans. > >Mr. Evans amassed a comfortable estate, and was much respected for his >integrity and other moral and neighborly traits. He was firm in his >friendship and dislikes and had decided convicgtions on all questions. He >took no leading part in politics nor wanted any office, voting as we >recollect with the Democratic party. We are not surely advised as to his >religious faith, only that he favored Christianity. > >Mr. Evans was first married when a citizen of Putnam to Miss Mary Reed of >that County. She was an attractive lady endowed with brain and heart and of >fine lineage. The male offspring of this marriage were Philemon, Robert, >Reed, William, and Elijah Evans and the daughters were Mrs. [mjwatts note an >Anselet? Evans, m. a John Carlton 31 Dec. 1857] Carter, Mrs. [mjwatts note: >Lucy Evans m. Thomas] Crouch and Mrs. [mjwatts note: Irene Evans m. 1 John >Milam; m. 2 Reuben A.] Bowles. All these now deceased were true and useful >men and women in their generation. The Messrs. Carter near Forest, the >Messrs. Crouch near Gay, Mr. P. [mjw note Philemon] P. Evans near >Greenville, Robert Evans, Luthersville, David Evans - all highly esteemed >citizens - are surviving grandsons of Elijah Evans. > >By his second nuptials [mjwatts note: to Martha Jane Godfrey, abt. 1863], >late in life, the aged patriarch left a few infant children [mjw note: these >would be: William, b. 1864; Emma Margaret, b. 1866--my great grandmother, >who m. Andrew Jackson Bowles; Annie Ruth, b. abt. 1868, who m. Rowe Roberts; >Jennie Belle, b. Feb. 1870, who m. Nelson Bowles] > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Linne Gravestock [mailto:linne@gravestock.name] >Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 1:59 AM >To: BOWLES-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Jesse P. Bowles vs. N. W. Warfield, Milam Co., TX, 1858 > > > If it's Milam Co., TX in 1858, the Bowles >there should be mine. So this one had me stumped >until I realized that I's and J's were >interchangeable during an era of our history. > This is Jesse P. Bowles, my >gggrandfather's brother, who had a store in Milam >Co. My guess is that he's suing a customer for >an unpaid bill, or a supplier, but my guess could >be wrong. > If anyone has any information about Mr. >Warfield or Milam Co., please do let us all know. > Yours, > Linne > > > >===================================================================== >Match: Bowles >Source: TXMILAM-L@rootsweb.com >From: milamco@yahoo.com >Subject: Bowles, I. P. vs. N. W. Warfield > > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Bowles, Warfield >Classification: Biography > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8792 > >Message Board Post: > >Belton Weekly Independent, 16 Jan 1858 > >Milam Co. ’ I. P. Bowles vs. N. W. Warfield, suit for $18.35 > > > >=====================================================================