Good Morning, Since we discussed this person several days ago, the following is a short bio on him. The conviction of this Methodist minister for killing his wife's 15 year old sister, may give us some insight into who was the William DANIEL who plead to the GA Senate for the life of this Methodist minister. The LAMARS were originally from Maryland but Judge LAMAR's line moved from Montgomery County, Maryland to the Columbia, Warren, Putnam and Jefferson County, GA areas. Quite a few of them, later, settled in the Milledgeville, Baldwin County, GA before moving to other locations. They were a well educated, affluent family of the highest degree of integrity, which I think is exemplified in the life and even the death of Judge L. Q. C. LAMAR, Sr.. <<< JUDGE LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR: b. 15 July 1797, d. Milledgeville, Ga., 4 July 1834; son of John Lamar and his cousin Rebecca Lamar, the sister of wealthy Milledgeville merchant Zachariah Lamar; brother of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, second President of the Republic of Texas; brother of Loretta Lamar who married Congressman Absalom H. Chappell; in 1819 married Sarah Williamson Bird, daughter of Dr. Thompson Bird of Milledgeville; father of U.S. Senator and Supreme Court Justice Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Jr.); studied law in Milledgeville under Congressman Joel Crawford; compiled Georgia Reports 1810-20 under order of the Legislature; judge, Ocmulgee circuit, 1830. The youngest member of the Georgia judiciary, he was famed for his integrity and honesty. Judge Lamar presided over the murder trial of a local Methodist preacher who was charged with death of his wife's fifteen year old sister. Proclaiming his innocence, the minister was sentenced to hang. Several years later, in Mississippi, another condemned murderer confessed to the crime, and Judge Lamar, despondent that he had executed an innocent man, took his own life in his Milledgeville garden. >>> John R. Clarke Thomasville, GA