Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jessie McMillan February 24 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com August 2, 2003, 3:59 am The Talbotton New Era, February 25, 1904 The Talbotton New Era Thursday, February 25, 1904 Page 6 Miss Jessie McMillan Died In Atlanta Miss Jessie McMillan died in Atlanta at 4:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon from the effects of an operation for peritonitis which she had undergone at 8 o’clock that morning. Miss McMillan had been sick for seven or eight weeks, and last Wednesday she was taken to Atlanta to have an operation performed on her. She was taken to St. Joseph Hospital and the operation performed as state, but she died at the hour mentioned. She was 47 years of age and a member of the Methodist church and is survived by her mother, Mrs. E.J. McMillan, two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Jones, of Talbot County and Mrs. C.D. White of Philadelphia and three brothers, Mr. A.F. McMillan, Mr. J.W. McMillan and Mr. J.H. McMillan, of Forest City, Mo. The remains arrived in this city this morning and were taken to the residence of Mr. Rufus Jones, from whence the funeral took place at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. Theo Copeland, of St. Luke Church, the interment being in Linwood Cemetery, and the following gentlemen being the pall bearers: Dr. I.C. Evans, Messrs. M.A. Barnes, Loyd Bowers, Rufus Jones, W.H. Blankenship and George E. Barr. – Wednesday’s Ledger. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb

Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Van Uxen December 20 1903 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com August 2, 2003, 3:24 am The Talbotton New Era, December 24, 1903 The Talbotton New Era Thursday, December 24, 1903 Page 7 Mr. Van Uxen Dead Mr. Van Uxen of New York who has a splendid home in Upatoie, where he has been spending his winters for several years died in New York Sunday. It is not yet known what disposition will be made of his property in Muscogee and Talbot. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Muscogee-Talbot County GaArchives Marriages.....Anna Vivian Schley - D.L. Ernest November 18 1903 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com August 2, 2003, 2:56 am The Talbotton New Era, November 19, 1903 The Talbotton New Era Thursday, November 19, 1903 Page 6 Schley – Ernest A beautiful home wedding was celebrated on Rose Hill at 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon when Mr. D.L. Ernest, of Athens, led Miss Anna Vivian Schley to the altar. The pretty ceremony, which took place at the home of the bride’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. F.V. Schley, on Florida Street, was performed by Rev. Thomas H. Thompson, pastor of the Rose Hill Methodist Church. A delicious luncheon was served after the marriage, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest left the city over the Southern for their future home in Athens. The groom is a prominent young Georgian, being vice-president of the State Normal School at Athens. The bride, who is the well-known daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F.V. Schley, is one of the city’s most popular young ladies. She is a graduate of the State Normal College, and is possessed with much intellect and many beautiful traits of character. Many hearty congratulations and wishes go with this young couple to their new home in Athens. Prof. Ernest’s first wife was a beautiful Talbot County girl, Miss Lizzie Carter. His little girl, Susie, is still with her grandmother, Mrs. Susie Carter. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SIZEMORE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1332.1 Message Board Post: This lot lies in the area of Muscogee Co. that became Chattahoochee Co. on 13 FEB 1854. My g-gf Dock Solomon SIZEMORE (1871-1944) owned propery nearby. It became part of the Ft. Benning Military Reservation during the World War II era. I will email you privately with a scan of a lot map attached. John in TX

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boling/Boland/Bowling/Wood/Sizemore/Allred/Hobbs/Canaday Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1333 Message Board Post: Researching both these families and looking for parents of both Martin Bowling/Boland and William N. Allred b. abt. 1822. Sister to William N. Allred is Kindness B. Allred b. 1832. Martin Bowling b. 1794 Virginia married Loucinda (?) married unknown. Known to have a draw of land in Muscogee, was in Gwinnet County Alabama and last record was in Benton County Alabama (Calhoun.) William N. Allred b. 1822 married Elizabeth (?) . It is unknown if William was married twice but one census lists Elizabeth and another lists Sophronia. Sophoronia was married to William after 1860. Sophronia is the daughter of Martin Bowling. Known to be in Paulding County Georgia, Calhoun County Alabama and Lawrence County Alabama in 1870. Thank you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boling/Bowling/Boland/Wood/Allred/Sizemore/Odom/Hobbs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1332 Message Board Post: Can anyone help with location of a Land Lottery draw? The information collected reads: Martin Bawling Finchers Dist (Was living in Gwinnet Co) No. 6 Dist. 5 Sec 2 >From the information of the list Section 2 refers to Muscogee County. I would appreciate any help anyone can give as I'm not familiar with this. Thank You.

I want to Thank each and every one that took the time to reply and give me the information on Greene County. I know now the one I was looking for was Greene County, Georgia. This was the route our ancestors took from the Carolinas down thru Georgia, including Greene, Twiggs, Gwennette, Coweta,Talbot, Haris and other counties in Georgia then crossing over into Alabama where many of our ancesters settled in Alabama and Mississippi. Thanks again. Sandra In Georgia ( Muscogee County.)

>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:39:17 -0600 >X-From_: rhester@greenlynk.com Wed Jul 30 15:39:16 2003 >From: "Ruth Hester" <rhester@greenlynk.com> > > >I would like any information on Louis Lanier and/or Mary Polly Taylor. >Their oldest son, James Jefferson, was born in Washington County.Ga. >Married Julia Morgan. He contacted typhid fever in CSA and died on 30 day >furlough The other children, Sophia, >Amelia, Louis Emanuel (appointed chief musician of his >Batt. in CSA ) Eliza WPN, Emma and possibly others were born in Muscogee >County, Ga. >Julia followed her parents to Greenville, AL where she was found in her >parents household in 1870 census. >Her parents were: James Olliver Morgan and Mary Dathney from Henry County, Ga. >Julia married second, James Castleberry and moved to >Escambia County, Alabama. Her son James Jefferson >"Albert" Lanier married Elizabeth Hughes and settled in Covington County >in early 1880's. He was one of three children born to Julia and James >Jefferson Lanier in >Muscogee County,, >ga. James Andrea b. 1858 died of measles and pneumonia in July of 1862. >His father died Dec. 1862. >Melissa, dau of Julia and J.J. Lanier married Thomas >Mosley of Butler Co.,Al and died soon after, childless. >Julia Morgan and James Jefferson's great grandchildren >are now old and would love to hear something about >Louis and Mary Lanier , their ancestors. Thanks, Ruth Virginia Crilley

Does anyone know of a Green County, Georgia and if so where is the location? Thanks for your help. Sandra From Georgia

I am searching for any Family info on Robert L William's and Cora Cornelia Kelly Williams who lived in Russell Co, Al and are buried at Society Hill, Al. Also Warren M Williams who died in Civil war 1863.He Married Eliza Hawkins Adams, I am trying to establish if they were related. Thanks for any help Betty Rackley Taylor Genealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin! Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.

Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lula A. Morris June 26 1903 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com July 29, 2003, 11:12 pm The Talbotton New Era, July 2, 1903 The Talbotton New Era Thursday, July 2, 1903 Page 7 Death and Funeral of Mrs. J.A. Morris Mrs. Lula A. Morris died at her home, No. 201 Seventeenth Street, Columbus, Ga., at 6 o’clock Friday afternoon after an illness of three weeks. She was thirty eight years of age and a member of the St. Paul M.E. Church and also a member of the order of Macabees of this city. She is survived by her husband, Mr. John A. Morris, and one daughter, Miss Murrie Morris, of this city, and by her mother, Mrs. Hawkins, and two brothers, Messrs. Henry and John Hawkins of near Talbotton. Her death was a great shock to her family and friends, as she was greatly beloved by all who knew her. The funeral took place from the house at 4 o’clock Saturday evening. The services were conducted by Rev. J.E. Wray and the interment took place in Linwood cemetery, the following gentlemen being the pallbearers: Messrs. L.J. Baldwin, W.O. Webster, I.F. Pearce, D.M. McCook, J.A. Lindsey, and J.S. Bambush. – Ledger. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb

Harris-Muscogee County GaArchives Marriages.....Annie Jeane McDowell - Joseph Hill Huff June 17 1903 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com July 29, 2003, 11:05 pm The Talbotton New Era, June 25, 1903 The Talbotton New Era Thursday, June 25, 1903 Page 6 McDowell – Huff On June 17th at 5:30 p.m., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G.Y. McDowell of Shiloh, was solemnized the marriage of their second daughter, Miss Annie Jeane to Mr. Joseph Hill Huff of Columbus. It was a quiet, though pretty home wedding. The rooms were beautifully decorated with cat flowers, potted ferns and palms. The bride and bridesmaid were exquisitely gowned in soft white mouseline, lace and ribbon, the bride carrying a bouquet of carnations and ferns, and made a pretty picture as with the groom they stood in the darkened parlor under a rose light. The bride’s going-away gown was of dark blue voile, white silk and lace. This is a genuine love-match which met with the sanction of both families. Rev. G.G.N. McDonell performed the ceremony, after which an elegant luncheon was served to the bridal party. The bridemaids were: Miss Susie Estelle Huff of Columbus, Miss Elizabeth Jackson MdDowell of Griffin, Miss Lora Alberta Cooke and Willie Eva Crawford of Shiloh. The bride is a young lady of rare attainments, beautiful, sweet in disposition, combining all the characteristics of true Christian womanhood. She is one of Shiloh’s fairest flowers; one of Georgia’s brightest jewels. As Miss McDowell, she was loved by all who knew her, a general favorite, not only in our little village, but in all the surrounding country. Any community is fortunate in having in its midst such a woman. Mr. Huff is an excellent young man of fine qualities, a noble Christian gentleman; and we feel sure that the luster of our jewel will not fade in his keeping. He has a splendid position as bookkeeper with Mr. L.A. Scarborough of Columbus. Mr. Huff has a lovely home luxuriously furnished and fitted with all modern conveniences on Rose Hill. It is said “God’s best gift to man is a good wife”, and Mr. Huff is fortunate in winning for himself this lovely woman. “Blessed is the bride the sun shines on”; if the day is typical then theirs will be a bright future. The happy couple left on the 7:30 p.m. train for their home in Columbus where a reception was tendered them. May the brightest flowers of happiness and prosperity be thickly strewn along their life’s path way. The many handsome presents of silver, cut glass, china and other articles too numerous to mention attested the high esteem entertained for the bride and groom. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb

Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....J.H. Worrill June 18 1903 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com July 29, 2003, 10:58 pm The Talbotton New Era, June 18, 1903 The Talbotton New Era Thursday, June 18, 1903 Page 5 Hon. J.H. Worrill Dead Well Known Lawyer Passes Away at His Home in Columbus Hon. J.H. Worrill died at his home about three o’clock Tuesday afternoon, after a lingering illness. Mr. Worrill was one of the best-known members of the Columbus bar. He was a native of Talbot County, being the son of the lamented Judge Worrill of this county, and was bout 48 years of age. He was solicitor-general of the Chattahoochee circuit for several years in the eighties and removed to Columbus about fifteen years ago. During his residence in this city, Mr. Worrill has been prominently identified with the affairs of the city. He has been in state and county politics for a good many years and exerted a great deal of influence. He possessed a great deal of personal magnetism and was especially strong before a jury. He was engaged in many of the most important criminal and civil cases in the Chattahoochee circuit. Mr. Worrill married a Miss Biggers, who, with several children survive him. Some eighteen months ago, Mr. Worrill was attacked by a hemorrhage, and the attacks have since recurred a number of times, gradually weakening him until the end came Tuesday afternoon. The news of the death of Mr. Worrill will give the entire city a sad shock. The funeral occurred a four o’clock Wednesday afternoon from the late residence on Fourth Avenue. It was conducted by Rev. Stewart of Hamilton, his former pastor, assisted by other minister. The interment will be at Linwood cemetery. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb

Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Zaidee Akin May 20 1903 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com July 29, 2003, 10:49 pm The Talbotton New Era, June 11, 1903 The Talbotton New Era Thursday, June 11, 1903 Page 6 Death of Mrs. Zaidee Akin On May 20th Mrs. Zaidee Akin, wife of the well known engineer, Mr. C.F. Akin of Columbus, niece of Mrs. J.D. Smith of Talbotton, died suddenly at her home, No. 1018, 18th St. East Highlands, from a stroke of paralysis. Dr. F.L. Cosby, formerly of Box Spring but now of Columbus, her family physician, had been summoned about midnight and gave her some medicine that helped her a great deal but when he returned about 8 o’clock he found her unconscious and in a few minutes she died. Her husband was out on his run on the B V & E, and came in to find his wife, who he had left well and joyful, a corpse. Mrs. Akin was 27 years old, was the daughter of Capt. And Mrs. J.H. Ritch, and was born and reared near Upatoie, Ga. Besides her parents and heart broken husband she leaves two little children. She was a devoted member of the Baptist church. The funeral was one of the saddest ever witnessed in Columbus. Following is a tribute published in the Ledger: In Memoriam Calmly sleeping in her coffin, Flowers strewn and wet with tears Thus I found dear cousin Zaidee, Thus were ended hopes and fears. Many times we’ve been together, Song and music whiled the hour; In the company of angels, Now her voice is heard with power. And her mother, bright and shining, Many happy greetings said; And with trembling, joying fingers, Placed a crown on Zaidee’s head. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb

Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Montague M. Moore October 14 1837 - Unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com July 29, 2003, 10:08 pm Author: Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II, 1895 Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895 Page 624-626 Montague M. Moore Montague M. Moore, Clerk of the City Council of Columbus, Ga., was born in that city Oct. 14, 1837, the son of James S. and Martha M.A. (Tarver) Moore. He is the eldest of three surviving sons, the other two of whom, James B. and George T., reside in the state of Texas, four sisters and four brothers being dead. The gentleman whose name heads this article had four brothers who saw service in the Confederate army during the civil war, viz.: Tiffany T. Moore, a member of the Columbus Volunteers, and afterward in the Confederate service on the Chattahoochee river, James B. Moore, who was a member of the Seventeenth Georgia Regiment, and was made a Major of Infantry and served throughout the war; Douglas C. Moore, who enlisted in January, 1861, served three months at Pensacola, Fla., and then enlisted in the Columbus Volunteers, was made an Orderly Sergeant, and was killed in a railroad accident when the company left Columbus, Aug. 14, 1861; and George T. Moore, who enlisted in Gen. John H. Morgan’s command and served under that renowned cavalryman to the close of hostilities. Montague M. Moore received a good education in the schools of Columbus, but before finishing his studies accepted a position in the Columbus Post Office under Col. Robert C. Forsyth, where he remained from 1855 to 1863. In 1861 he enlisted in the Columbus Volunteers and was assigned to the Seventeenth Georgia Regiment, but, owing to ill health, he saw no service. Later he was a lieutenant in a company of the militia reserve of Georgia and did service at Macon and Atlanta. In July 1863, he was elected Clerk of the City Council of Columbus, and retained that position while in the military service of his state, and since then to the present he has been re-elected by the people or by the city council to the same position. He married, June 16, 1869, Miss Sarah E., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Jordan) Peabody, of Columbus, and this union has been blessed by the birth of five children, viz.: James M., Mary P., Lulu D., John P., and Ethel T. Both Mr. and Mrs. Moore are members of St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Moore is a Knight Templar Mason and was recorder of St. Aldemar commandery for many years, and until it ceased to exist was master of Adoniram Lodge of Perfection. He is also a member of these fraternal orders: Knights of Honor, K. of L. of Honor, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Royal Arcanum, National Union, and the Improved Order of Red Men. Of the ancestors of Mr. Moore, Killian Hogeboom came to this country from Holland about the year 1712 and settled in the state of New York, in what is now Columbia County, where the original manor house is still standing and in the possession of his descendants, the present owner being the uncle of the gentleman whose name heads this article. Jeremiah, the eldest son of Killian, was born in Holland, April 5, 1712. He married Janita Van Allen, Nov. 11, 1741, and to them were born six children, the second of whom, Stephen, was born Aug. 16, 1744, and married Nov. 24, 1763, Hellitje Muller. He was for several terms a member of the assembly and senate of the State of New York, and of its constitutional convention in 1801; he died April 2, 1814, and his wife died March 10, 1812. To them were born six children, one of whom was the mother of Gen. James Watson Webb, and one, Nancy, born July 22, 1774, married Benjamin Moore, and was the mother of nine children. She died April 14, 1844, and he, born Jan. 28, 1766, died Nov. 29, 1829. James S. Moore, the father of Montague M. Moore, was the sixth child of Benjamin and Nancy (Hogeboom) Moore, and born May 6, 1800, in Coxsackie, Greene Co., N.Y.; came to New Orleans in 1831 and to Columbus, Ga., in 1832; married March 1, 1835, and died in Lee County, Ala., near Columbus, Ga., on March 24, 1879, a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He followed merchandising in Columbus, Ga. and Girard, Ala., until 1858, when he removed to Auburn, Ala., and kept a public hotel eight years, thence removing to Lee County, Ala., where he followed the business of agriculture until the year of his death. Prior to the civil war he was postmaster at Girard, Ala. for many years. Mrs. Martha M.A. Moore, wife of James S. Moore, was born in Clinton, Jones Co., Ga., Nov. 3, 1815, and was a daughter of Elisha and Maria L. (Sanders) Tarver. Her father, Elisha, son of Billison and Selah Tarver, was born Dec. 25, 1787, and died March 18, 1860. Her mother, Maria L. Tarver, was born Aug. 6, 1793, and died Sept. 9, 1851. Of the ancestors of Mrs. M.M. Moore, Francis Peabody, of St. Albans, England, born 1614, came to New England in 1635. He married Mary Foster, daughter of Reginald Foster, whose family is honorably mentioned in the Lay of the Last Minstrel and in Marmion by Sir Walter Scott. She died April 9, 1705. He died Feb. 19, 1697. They were the parents of fourteen children, of whom the eldest, John, was born in 1642; married, first, Hannah Andrews, Nov. 23, 1665; she died Dec. 4, 1702, and he married Sarah Moseley, Nov. 26, 1703. To his first wife were born ten children, of whom David was born July 12, 1678, and married Sarah Pope, of Dartmouth, Mass. He died April 1, 1726, and his widow died Sept. 29, 1756. They had eleven children, the first, Thomas, being the direct ancestor of Mrs. Moore, while the tenth, David, was the grandfather of George Peabody, Esq., of London. Thomas was born Sept. 22, 1705, and married Ruth Osgood, of Andover, Mass., Nov. 2, 1738. He died in April 1758. His widow married Isaac Osgood, and died in February 1803. Thomas was the father of nine children, the last, Nathan, born Aug. 31, 1756, married Polly Baker, July 30, 1786. Nathan was the father of John, the father of Mrs. Moore, who was born in Boston, Dec. 13, 1790, married in Washington County, Ga., Elizabeth Coles Jordan (afterward Hodges), June 7, 1826, and died in Columbus, Ga., Sept. 17, 1842. His wife, daughter of Jesse and Jane Jordan, was born in Washington County, Ga., June 25, 1809, and died Nov. 5, 1878, in Columbus, Ga. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.8 Kb

Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Gideon J. Peacock January 15 1837 - Unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com July 29, 2003, 10:03 pm Author: Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II, 1895 Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895 Pages 627-628 Gideon J. Peacock, a leading clothing manufacturer of Columbus, Ga., was born in Upson County, Ga., Jan. 15, 1837. His father was Washington Peacock, a native of North Carolina. He devoted his whole life to agricultural pursuits and came to Georgia about 1834, settling in Upson County, thence removing to Covington County, Ala., and departed this life there in 1881, at the age of eighty-one years. He was superintendent of schools in that county for several years. He had two sons, both of whom saw service in the Confederate Army, viz.: Benjamin, a member of the western army, who was captured after two months’ service, was sent to Johnson’s Island as a prisoner of war and was never heard of afterward. It is presumed that he died at that place. Gideon J. Peacock lived in Upson County, Ga., until the age of sixteen. Attended the Hootensville Academy in that county and in 1853 came to Columbus, where he began to clerk for Barnett, Ellison & Co., dry goods. He was with this firm until 1860, when Mr. Ellison retired and Mr. Peacock became a member of the firm, which was Barnett, Chapman & Co. In April 1861, Mr. Peacock went into the Confederate service as private in the City Light guards of Columbus, Ga., which, together with the Macon Volunteers, the Floyd Rifles and the Spalding Greys was afterward consolidated into the Second Georgia Battalion. After the Battle of Fredericksburg he was made Lieutenant and served as such until the close of the war, but during the last twelve months of the war commanded his company. He participated in the battles around Richmond, Seven Pines, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Drewry’s Bluff, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, battles at Petersburg and ten days of fighting on the retreat, which ended at Appomattox – one of the fights being at Farmville, Va. Lieut. Peacock, together with Maj. Charles J. Moffett of Columbus, Ga., and Lieut. J.W. English, now of Atlanta, Ga., received the demand of Gen. Grant on Lee for the surrender of Appomattox Court House. The circumstances were as follows: On the evening of April 7, 1865, two days before the surrender, two or three officers of the Federal army came in front of the Confederate lines near Farmville, Va., waving a flag of truce. Maj. Moffett, who was in command of that part of the Confederate lines, recognized the flag and inquired what was wanted. The Federal party replied that they were the bearers of important dispatches from Gen. Grant to Gen. Lee. Maj. Moffett commanded them to stand where they were until he could communicate with his superior officers, and later, the dispatches were taken by Maj. Moffett and Adjt.-Gen. Perry. When Maj. Moffett returned to his command Lieut. Peacock held the dispatches in his hand for a moment and saw the address. The dispatches were delivered to Gen. Lee soon afterward. After the surrender Mr. Peacock returned to Columbus, partly on foot, reaching that city May 1, 1865. He at once entered the dry goods firm of J.A. Chapman & Co. for two years. After that the firm of Peacock, Chapman & Co. was organized, with which he remained in business about four years, when Mr. Peacock sold his interest, and with E.S. Swift organized a dry goods firm, know as Peacock & Swift, which continued for three years. In 1875 Mr. Peacock sold his interest in the dry goods business to Mr. Smith*; and two years later started a clothing manufactory with a capital of $2,500. In 1892 the firm became the G.J. Peacock Clothing Company, with a capital stock of $26,000. They now do a business of $65,000 annually, and give employment to more than seventy-five persons. Mr. Peacock is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Chairman of the Board of Stewards of St. Luke’s. Mr. Peacock was married in 1873 to Miss Josephine, daughter of the late John Banks of Columbus, Ga., the founder of the Howard Factory of Columbus, now the Eagle & Phoenix Manufacturing Company. This union has been blessed by the birth of two sons and two daughters, viz.: Sarah Watkins Elberta, James G. and John B. Peacock. *Note – The biography lists Mr. Smith and not Mr. Swift as the buyer of Mr. Peacock’s interest in the dry goods business of Peacock & Swift. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb

Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....George A. Pearce August 8 1854 - Unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com July 29, 2003, 10:01 pm Author: Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II, 1895 Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895 Pages 628-629 George A. Pearce, president of the City Mills Company of Columbus, Ga., was born in Hamilton, Harris Co., Ga., Aug. 8, 1854. His father, Tillman I. Pearce, was a native of Harris County, was a carpenter before the war, and a miller after the war; and died in 1893. Tillman I. Pearce married Nancy Thomasson, and they had nine children, all of whom are now living. At eight years of age George A. Pearce removed with his parents to Russell County, Ala., locating at Seale, where he was reared and educated. He attended Mercer University, at Macon, Ga., for two years, and then he returned to Russell County, Ala., where his father owned two flour mills, and managed one of them for his father for five years. He came to Columbus in 1877, and started a small mill, ran it two years, then entered the city mills, operated by J.N. Embry; he worked there as assistant miller six months, and was then given charge of the whole business. Three or four years later J.N. Embry sold out to Frank Mitchell, who retained Mr. Pearce for four years when he bought Mr. Mitchell out. In 1890 it was incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000, and Mr. Pearce was made president, and Thomas Salisbury secretary and treasurer. George A. Pearce is a consistent member of the Baptist Church. He was married Nov. 15, 1878, to Miss Ida Embry, daughter of J.N. Embry, a native of Columbus, and who died in 1893. This union has been blessed by the birth of five daughters: Odelle, Effie May, Kate Mitchell, George Alma, and Mabel Clare. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb

Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Francis D. Peabody November 24 1854 - Unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com July 29, 2003, 9:59 pm Author: Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II, 1895 Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895 Pages 626-627 Francis D. Peabody, a noted lawyer of Columbus, Ga., was born on his father’s farm near that city, Nov. 24, 1854, and was the youngest of nine children of Charles A. and Frances Harriet (Williams) Peabody. His parents were born in Connecticut – his father in Bridgeport and his mother in Hartford – but came to Georgia and settled in Columbus in 1833. Mr. Peabody was prepared for college, by that distinguished educator, Prof. Otis D. Smith, in one of the famous “old field schools” of the day. His attendance upon school though was irregular, as he was often called upon to help get the crop “out of the grass.” At fourteen he was compelled to stop school and to go regularly to work on the farm. For three years he made a regular and steady “hand”, doing all kinds of work done on a farm; but he specially liked to plow, and could do more plowing in a day than any man on the farm. At seventeen he rented his father’s farm and stock, and made a fine crop, much to the amusement, and somewhat to the astonishment of his father, who was rather disposed to predict a failure at the beginning of the season. At eighteen he entered the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, at Auburn, where his old teacher had preceded him in the capacity of professor of English, which he afterward exchanged for mathematics. Here the struggle of his life began. Full-grown physically, his limited text-book learning almost all forgotten in his four years of farm-toil, he presented the anomaly of reciting side by side in the lowest class of college with little fellows that hardly reached his shoulders. But though illy prepared in text books, his life had been spent in an intellectual atmosphere; his father and mother both being people of culture and wide reading, and what the boy had unconsciously absorbed, now stood him well in hand; and the brawn that came to him from his out-door life backed up the demands made on it by his unremitting study. He was graduated in 1876 with the first honor of his class. Before graduation he had already secured a position as teacher of mathematics and tactics in a private military school in Hopkinsville, Ky. Here he remained three years, making a marked success as a teacher. During this time he read law at night and on Saturdays reciting to Judge Champlin, who kindly took an interest in his studies, and was admitted to the Kentucky bar before the close of his school term in 1879. In June of that year he went to St. Louis, Mo., and when the law school of Washington University for that year was formed, he entered both junior and senior classes, and before the end of the term stood an examination in open court for admission to the St. Louis bar. During his attendance at law school he earned the money to pay his expenses by teaching a night school. Thus single-handed and alone, without one dollar of help from any source, he fitted himself for his life calling. Early in 1881 Mr. Peabody returned to Georgia and married Miss Myrtice Nelms of Griffin, daughter of the late Judge William Nelms of that place. It was his intention at that time to locate in the far southwest; but taking a visit with his bride to his aged parents at the family homestead, they persuaded him to locate in Columbus. This decision he has probably never had cause to regret, for his rise at the bar has been rapid, and his position sure. He has been identified more or less with all the public enterprises of his city, and is known, not only as a sound lawyer of ability, but as an enterprising and progressive citizen. Mr. Peabody has never held public office, nor aspired to do. In 1892 he consented to stand as an alternate presidential elector on the democratic ticket, which ticket he has never failed to vote since attaining his majority. In 1894, owing to his keen interest in educational affairs, and because of his peculiar fitness for the place, he was appointed a member of the Board of Educators in Columbus, where he has since done faithful and efficient service. In 1895 Mr. Peabody was elected by the City Council of Columbus as Corporation Counsel for the City of Columbus, a position of great responsibility and importance. It is a matter of pride with him that his earnings have all been expended in the upbuilding and improvement of his native town. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb

Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....John Norwood 1836 - Unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory July 29, 2003, 9:57 pm Author: Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II, 1895 Memoirs of GA., Vol. II Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895 Page 627 Dr. John Norwood, of Columbus, Ga., was born in Hillsboro, N.C., in 1836. He received his primary education in the town of his birth, afterward becoming a student in the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, but never received a literary degree. He was graduated from the old Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1859, and located soon thereafter in Russell County, Ala., entering actively upon the practice of his profession. During the fall of 1861 Dr. Norwood volunteered as Assistant Surgeon to the Sixth Alabama Regiment, Confederate States Army, and the following year was commissioned Assistant Surgeon to Waddell’s Artillery, serving as such until the siege of Vicksburg. After the capture of Vicksburg by the Federals Dr. Norwood was made surgeon to the Sixty-fourth Georgia Regiment, with the rank of Major, though he failed to receive his commission, and several months later rejoined Waddell’s Battery, remaining with that command until it was mustered out of service at the close of the war. After the cessation of hostilities Dr. Norwood returned to his home in Alabama and was actively engaged in the practice of his profession until 1884, at which time he removed to his present residence in Columbus and has since been continuously engaged in the practice of medicine at that city. He sustains a desirable rank among the members of his profession. He is a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. His father, John Norwood, was a native of North Carolina, a lawyer, and practiced many years at Hillsboro, in that state. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb

Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Brick Miller February 14 1868 - Unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com July 29, 2003, 9:53 pm Author: Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II, 1895 Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895 Pages 623-624 Brick S. Miller, of the law firm of Miller, Wynne & Miller of Columbus, Ga., was born in Marion County, Ga., Feb. 14, 1868. He is a son of Judge E. A. Miller of Buena Vista, Ga., who was one of the best-known men in Georgia. He was born in Columbia County, but his family moved to Monroe County while he was yet a boy, and there he received his early education. In 1843 he moved to Marion County and commenced the study of law at Talbotton, in the office of George W. Towns (afterward governor) and L.B. Smith. His studies continued five years, and in 1848, when the county seat of Marion was established at Buena Vista, he moved there and went into partnership with John Campbell, who was at that time solicitor-general of the Chattahoochee circuit. The partnership continued several years, and when the firm dissolved the young lawyer formed an association with Mark H. Blandford, who later became one of the justices of the Supreme Court, and who now lives in Columbus, Ga. His next partnership was with Judge William B. Butt, who also now lives in Columbus. In 1852 he was elected the first ordinary of Marion County. In 1855 Judge Miller determined to try a new business, and he became the owner and editor of the “Buena Vista Advertiser”, which he continued to conduct with great success until the war broke out. As a major of militia, Judge Miller distinguished himself during the war, and at the battle of Griswoldville he lost a great number of his command. When peace was declared Judge Miller settled down as a lawyer and farm, and resided at Buena Vista until his death. On several occasions Judge Miller represented his county in the general assembly to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. He was a democrat from the time he was a young man until the time of his death, and was always foremost in the battle for the supremacy of democratic principles. In 1868 Judge Miller joined the Baptist church. Judge Miller’s family consisted of three sons and three daughters. The sons are: Mr. Edward Miller of Americus, and B.S. and T.T. Miller of Columbus. The daughters are: Mrs. Andrews Ashurst of Florida, and Mrs. C.H. McCaul and Mrs. William Crawford of Buena Vista. Brick S. Miller was reared and received his earlier education in the town of Buena Vista, and graduated from the University of Georgia, Athens, with the degree of Bachelor of Law, in the class of 1888. During his college course he established a fine reputation as an orator and in consequence was chosen one of the champion debaters of the Demosthenean Literary Society. He also delivered a eulogy on the life and character of Dr. Patrick H. Mell, the deceased chancellor of the university, which is classed as the finest tribute ever paid to the memory of that remarkable man. Soon after his graduation Mr. Miller returned to his home in Buena Vista and entered upon the practice of law, giving up his practice a year later in order to travel and thus broaden his views by actual contact with the population of the different sections of the country. In August 1890, he located in Columbus and formed a partnership for the practice of law with his brother, T.T. Miller, to which firm Mr. E.J. Wynne was admitted in September 1893. This law firm now does an extensive practice and its members are regular retained attorneys of some of the most important corporations and largest wholesale houses in Columbus. Mr. Miller was president of the Young Men’s Democratic League of Muscogee County in the spring of 1894, and took an active part in securing the registration of the voters of that county. He secured the actual best piece of political strategy ever enacted there. Mr. Miller was selected as a delegate to the convention, which nominated William Yates Atkinson as Governor of Georgia, and took a very active part in the campaign for Atkinson prior to the convention. He was also a delegate to the congressional convention, at Warm Springs, Ga., in August 1894. Mr. Miller has never sought political preferment; he was urged to be a candidate for the legislature in 1894, but sacrificed his own opportunities in favor of a friend. He is unmarried, a member of the Improved Order of Red Men and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb