Stewart and Allied Families of Laurens and Johnson Co., Ga.
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CHENEY, M. D., JOHN North.
Ellaville, Schley County, Georgia JOHN N. CHENEY, G. D., of Ellaville, Schley County, Ga., was born in Lawrence [sic - Laurens?] Canton Ga., August 14, 1845. His father, Rev. William West. Cheney, was born in South Carolina, but was taken to Georgia when a boy, and settled in Montgomery County, where he lived many years, and later on removed to Schley County, where he withal resides. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church building, has devoted a bully deal of his fourth dimension to the ministry, and is a man well known in southwest Georgia. His wife, Sarah (Hudson) Cheney, of South Carolina, bore him iii children, viz.: John N., Thomas G. and Corinne. J. Due north. Cheney, who is the eldest child of the in a higher place three, was brought up and educated in Schley County. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army equally a individual in Visitor B, Seventeenth Georgia volunteers, and served with that command until the boxing of Chickamauga, where he was severely wounded and was discharged. After regaining his wellness he commenced the study of medicine, and in 1867 graduated from the Eclectic Medical Higher of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He then commenced practice in Ellaville, and has been constantly and lucratively engaged in the same ever since. In 1869 he was elected clerk of the Schley County superior court, and still holds the position. December 3, 1867, he was married to Miss Ann Eastward. Stewart, daughter of Rev. William D. and Martha (Stovall) Stewart, of Schley County, and to this wedlock have been built-in iii children, viz.: William Eastward. Sallie and Eva .[Biographical Gift of Georgia and Florida by FA Battey & Co., 1889-Transcribed by LA Bauer]
DUNCAN, J. T. J. T. DUNCAN. The Democratic principle of rotation in part is in full general and with reasonable limitations a good ane, but it has non obtained in Georgia to the extent of excluding from the public service officials who by their honesty and efficiency have demonstrated their fitness of the various positions which they gave one time been called to fill. It seems that the people, when they one time discover an honest and capable officeholder, please in retaining him in the public service; and one oftentimes goes from one office to some other till he has filled all the offices in the county; then once more one will hold the same office many terms in succession. Such a custom is alike creditable to the officials and to the people. A good instance of this is plant in the case of John T. Duncan, of Laurens County . He is one of Laurens� oldest citizens and one of the near efficient and highly honored public servants. He is not a native, however, of Laurens, but was born in Taliaferro County , where his father, a native of Dutchess County , N. Y., settled when a beau. Estimate Duncan�southward mother was a descendant of an old Taliaferro County family, her maiden name existence Lancaster .
Dublin , Laurens County , Georgia
The subject of this sketch is the tertiary of six children. He was reared in Taliaferro County and educated at Mountain Lion Academy, in Hancock Canton , so resided over by the distinguished teacher and author, Col. Richard K. Johnson. He located in Dublin, then the county seat of Laurens County, at the age of xx quitting schoolhouse, and in that location began life and there has lived since. Afterwards a residence of iii years he was elected sheriff of the canton, which office he held six years by re-election. He was then elected clerk of the superior and inferior courts and held this position for half dozen years. Following his services in this capacity he was elected judge of the county court and held this office till the court was abolished in 1868. He represented the county in the State legislature in 1873-74. In Jan, 1877, he was elected ordinary and has held the office ever since. During all these years Judge Duncan has as well been engaged at once or another in mercantile pursuits and in farming. He has therefore been identified in involvement with his fellow-citizens whom he has and then variously represented. As well this he has been a zealous member of the Masonic fraternity for more than thirty years and a consistent communicant of the Baptist Church for more than twenty years. His graphic symbol has there fore been symmetrically adult and his life well rounded. It is not to exist so much wondered at that his swain-citizens find in him and honest, capable and faithful public servant; he has made himself such and justly deserves the recognition he has received. [Biographical Souvenir of Georgia and Florida by FA Battey & Co., 1889-Transcribed by LA Bauer]
PARKER, HERSHEL JOSEPH, a successful merchant of Baxley and incumbent of the office of school commissioner of Appling canton, was born on the homestead plantation in Laurens county, Ga., Nov. 2, 1878, and is a son of Jasper and Mary A. (Jones) Parker, both born in that county. At the inception of the Civil war the father went along in the defense of the cause of the Confederacy, enlisting in a Georgia regiment and standing in the ranks until the close of the bully internecine conflict between the states. Thereafter he turned his attention to agronomical pursuits, becoming one of the successful planters of Laurens county, where he died in the yr 1878, his married woman coming to Appling county in 1881. The subject of this review passed his adolescence and early youth on the home farm, and after duly availing himself of the advantages of the public schools of Appling, including the high school at Baxley, he entered, in 1896, Tifton institute, at Tifton, Tift county, where he took a general course. In the meanwhile, in 1894, he had become a teacher in the public schools of his native county, coming together with distinctive success in the pedagogic profession, to which he continued to give his attention until 1904, when he was compelled to carelessness the work by reason of his dumb wellness. In that year he was granted a state instructor'due south license, past W. B. Merritt, state school commissioner, the examination having been held in Baxley. In 1905 Mr. Parker engaged in the general merchandise business in Baxley, where he has a well appointed establishment and has built upward a very prosperous enterprise. He is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party and takes a loyal interest in its crusade. His interest in educational affairs continues unabating, and on Dec. 30, 1905, the board of teaching of Appling canton showed marked appreciation of his eligibility past appointing him to the office of county school commissioner, in which position he is according most excellent service. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church South, and he is affiliated with the following named organizations: Holmesville Lodge, No. 195, Gratuitous and Accepted Masons; Appling County Club, No. 216, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and Baxley Lodge, No. 48, Knights of Pythias. On Jan. iii, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Parker to Miss Frankie Bennett, daughter of Henry A. and Isabel (Leggett) Bennett, well known residents of Appling canton.
Source: Cyclopedia of Georgia Transcribed by Friends for Costless Genealogy
SMITH, HARDY HAMILTON, president of the Laurens Banking Company, of Dublin, Ga. was born in Laurens county, v miles e of Dublin, Feb. 28, 1854. His begetter, Thomas Marcus Smith, was born in the same county, May 12, 1825, and his mother, Martha (Bricklayer) Smith, was born in the Buckeye district of the same canton, Nov. 18, 1815. Mr. Smith's great-grandfather, Hardy Smith, was a native of North Carolina and was a soldier in the Continental line in the war of the Revolution. 1 of his maternal great-grand fathers was Turner Stonemason, who likewise was a North Carolinian and who served as a lieutenant in the Revolutionary war. Turner Mason was a son of Thomas Mason, who was born March seven, 1722, and died in 1768. Turner Mason was twice married, first to Elizabeth Burns, who died in 1783, having borne to him three children. In 1785 he married Mary Lowe and of their fourteen children the eldest was William Lowe Mason, granddaddy of the subject area of this sketch. Turner Mason was reared in Virginia, where he married his first wife, and afterwards the shut of the Revolution, in which he had been a valiant soldier, he removed to Halifax canton, North. C., where his 2d marriage was solemnized. In 1793 he removed with his family to Georgia, passed one yr in Jefferson county and then removed to the Buckeye commune of what is now Laurens canton. William Lowe Mason, grandfather of Mr. Smith, was for many years a prominent citizen of Laurens county, where he long served as county surveyor. He studied medicine in a private way and caused much skill, his ministrations being widely extended until college-bred physicians came into the field, when he retired. He was familiarly known every bit Md Bricklayer, though he never claimed the championship. Martha was one of the nine children of his first wedlock, her female parent's maiden name having been Margaret Pullen. She was married to Thomas Marcus Smith Dec 24, 1848, and died June eleven, 1888. The Mason family has been long identified with Georgia history and has many representatives within the borders of the state at the present time. Thompson Smith, grandfather of the subject of this review, was a sterling old farmer of the dues-bellum days, and Mr. Smith'due south begetter besides was an energetic farmer and had entered upon the road to success in a small way when the night cloud of Civil war bandage its pall over the nation. He sacrificed his life in the cause of the Confederacy, dying at the age of xxx-vii years and leaving his widow with five small boys to rear as all-time she could, on the trivial farm which he had labored so earnestly to bring under effective cultivation. He enlisted as a private soldier in the service of the land, in the summertime of 1861, and went into camp nigh Savannah in the autumn of the same yr, with a visitor known every bit the Troup Volunteers, under command of his cousin, Helm James M. Smith. Thomas Thou. Smith was a homo of fragile constitution and the exposure to which he was subjected in military camp life soon brought on an attack of typhoid pneumonia, which caused his death, Feb. 17, 1862. He was honorably discharged from the service a brusk time before his demise, which occurred at the home of his father-in-constabulary, Dr. William L. Ma on. He was on his style home to join his wife and little sons but grew so weak while en road that he was compelled to stop over at Doctor Mason'southward, where he died after many days of severe suffering. Both he and his married woman were professing Christians and taught their children to reverence and obey God. Their five boys, nether the careful training of the widowed female parent, grew up to be noble Christian men. They are still living in the city of Dublin, Ga., and their names, with respective dates of birth, are as follows: William Thomas, Dec. 14, 1849; James Thompson, April 17, 1851; Henry Turner, Oct. 10, 1852; Hardy Hamilton, Feb. 28, 1854; and Joseph Daniel, March 5, 1857. The eldest of these brothers is the veteran cotton-warehouse man of the "Gem City on the Oconee." Every one likes to have his cotton to clever, honest, large-hearted "Billy" Smith. The second of the brothers, Rev. James T. Smith, was graduated in Mercer university equally a member of the class of 1877. He has devoted nearly all of his mature life to educational and ministerial piece of work, is now pastor of Bay Springs church building, near Scott; Ga., and has been county superintendent of schools of Laurens canton for the past half dozen years. The third of the brothers is Rev. Henry T. Smith, of Dublin. He likewise was graduated in Mercer university and since he reached manhood has given his attending about entirely to the Gospel ministry building. He is a man of scholary attainments, is an able clergyman, and has been pastor of some of the best churches in his section of the state. The subject of this sketch was the adjacent in order of birth, and the youngest, Joseph D., of Dublin, is in some respects the near remarkable of the 5 brothers. He has been phenomenally successful as a farmer, and dealer in real estate, mules and horses. He has probably done more than whatever other man in forwarding the development and material upbuilding of Dublin and Laurens county and has the high esteem of all who know him. Hardy Hamilton Smith, whose name initiates this article, labored difficult and faithfully with his brothers on the abode subcontract until he had attained to the historic period of twenty years, his noble mother being the inspiration, the ability backside the throne, the uncrowned queen who led him and all his brothers to worthy manhood and definite success in connection with life's activities. Schools were very few and exceedingly meager in facilities when Mr. Smith was growing up in the country, only his affectionate and far-sighted mother embraced every opportunity of sending him and his brothers to the petty log-cabin school. The schools in the land were and so hardly ever in session longer than three months in the yr, just Mrs. Smith would manage to send some of her boys to every school taught inside access of her humble cottage. The event was that by laboring industriously on the farm about nine months in the year and spending three every alternate year in the school, the Smith boys, naturally alert and apt, each caused a good working instruction. At the historic period of twenty Hardy H. Smith entered upon a business course for himself. He borrowed a little money and a horse from his mother, and with this reinforcement started out as a traveling salesman or agent for the Gate City nurseries. In the first year he realized a turn a profit of about $700. He paid his mother for his year's time, repaid her the amount of money which he had borrowed, and still had enough cash left to buy a good horse and to defray his necessary expenses while he was soliciting orders for nursery stock the second year. He pursued his business with unabating energy for twelve long years, working for only 2 firms within this menstruation, and at the expiration of that time he had about $35,000 every bit the net proceeds of his labors. He then entered the mercantile business, to which he devoted his attention for a few years, selling full general trade and besides buggies and wagons. Later on he engaged in the stock concern and he nevertheless continues to deal in horses and mules. In 1898 Mr. Smith and a few of his friends established the Laurens Banking concern, of which he was fabricated president, which role he has since retained. The banking business has been very successful, and in fact well-nigh everything that Mr. Smith has undertaken has prospered. He is a very prudent, cautious conservative business concern human, and at the present time is worth at least $120,000-representing the results of his own efforts and able business methods. In politics he is a conservative Democrat, but never allows politics to interfere with business. When about seventeen years of age he united with the Baptist church, of which he has since been a consequent member. He is loyal and true-blue to his church, always fix to do his office in connexion with all departments of its piece of work and to bear his quota of its expense. He was married, June 12, 1889, to Miss Annie Augusta Melt, girl of James T. and Celeste K. (Sands) Cook, of Columbus, Ga., and to them have been born five sons, all of whom are living except one. Their names, with respective dates of birth, are every bit follows: Campbell Wallace, Nov. 9, 1890; Hisell Hamilton, Aug. 9, 1893, died at the historic period of five years and three months; Thomas Cook, Feb. 22, 1896; Edmond Carlisle, April 25, 1900; and Hardeman Hill, December. 12, 1905. Mr. Smith has never united with whatever other organizations than his church and a temperance club. During the life of his female parent he was always devoted to her. When he was a child and on coming home at any time found his female parent absent-minded from her usual place he was non satisfied until, past calling and hunting, he had determined her whereabouts. He certainly honored his begetter and female parent. It is not strange that he has made so betoken a success in life. "Honor thy male parent and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." "Seest one thousand a human being diligent in business,-he shall stand earlier kings; he shall not stand before mean men." The success which Mr. Smith has wrested from the hands of fate, rising from poverty and obscurity, forcibly illustrates what whatsoever cautious, honest and energetic young man may reach if he will just do his all-time in every way. He is the soul of honor and integrity. When he makes a argument it is certain that information technology is the truth. His words are gilt, and honesty with him is not merely a policy-it enters into his character and forms his moral makeup.
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WADE, PEYTON Fifty., chaser and counselor at police force, Dublin, is one of the leading members of the bar of Laurens canton, and is a scion of distinguished ancestry. He was born at "Lebanon Forest," his grandfather'due south home, in Screven county, Ga., January. 9, 1865, a son of Robert M. and Frederica (Washburn) Wade, the former born in Screven county, March four, 1840, and the latter in the city of Savannah, Aug. 31, 1844. His paternal gramps, Rev. Peyton L. Wade, of Screven county, was the possessor of an all-encompassing landed manor and more than 500 slaves at the time of the inception of the Civil war. He was well known in his twenty-four hours as a man of broad information, profound scholarship and great wealth. He was for a time in the Georgia briefing of the Methodist Episcopal church, when a immature homo, and continued a zealous member of that church until his decease, in 1866, when well advanced in years. His second wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Robert, was a descendant of the Huguenot, Pierre Robert, from whom many of the patrician families of S Carolina claim descent. Her maternal grand�father was Samuel Maner. The starting time wife of Rev. Peyton Fifty. Wade was the widow of Isaac Grand. Crawford, a blood brother of Gov. George Due west. Crawford, of Georgia, simply no children were born of this union. Frederica (Washburn) Wade was a girl of Joseph Washburn, who was born in Massachusetts, whence he came to Georgia equally a swain and here passed the residue of his life. For many years prior to his death he resided in Savannah, and for a long period held the presidency of the erstwhile Savannah depository financial institution, ane of the leading fiscal institutions of the entire Due south. He was a brother of Gov. Emory Washburn, of Massachusetts, a very distinguished lawyer, who was Bussy professor of law in Harvard university for many years, and the author of "Washburn on Existent Belongings," besides equally many other works. He was the terminal Whig governor of Massachusetts. Joseph Washburn was thrice married, and the field of study of this sketch is a descendent of his second married woman, whose maiden name was Martha Ingersoll, of the well known Ingersoll family of Massachusetts. The maiden proper name of his first wife was Bird, and she was of a South Carolina family, while his concluding married woman, who bore him no children, was a resident of Savannah at the time of their union, her maiden name having been Habersham. Joseph Washburn was an agog secessionist, and all of his sons, two by his beginning and 2 by his second matrimony, were valiant soldiers of the Confederacy during the Civil state of war. He died about the get-go of the war, having been a citizen of wealth and a man of unspotted integrity. The Washburn family unit is descended from Joseph Washburn, whose begetter married a granddaughter of Mary Chilton, the outset woman who stepped from the "Mayflower" on Plymouth Rock. The original progenitor of the family unit in America was one of the first Puritan settlers of Massachusetts and was secretary of the colony. The granddad of Joseph Wash� burn, of Savannah, was Col. Seth Washburn, of Leicester, Mass., who served as colonel in the Revolutionary ground forces. He was a man of distinction in his day, and held various public offices subsequently the war, including that of fellow member of the Massachusetts firm of representatives. The Wade family is of Welsh derivation, the family crest existence a dove with an olive co-operative. The original American settlement was made in Spottsylvania county, Va., whence representatives came to Georgia in an early twenty-four hour period. Robert M. Wade, begetter of the discipline of this review, was a soldier of the Confederacy during the Civil war, having enlisted, in 1862, as a member of the First Georgia regulars, in which he was a lieutenant, and remained in agile service until the close of war, having been with the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at the time of the give up. He was graduated in the Georgia military machine institute at Marietta, equally a member of the grade of 1860, and was afterward on the staff of Gen. Frank W. Capers, in the Georgia militia. After the disbanding of the militia he was a fellow member of the Twenty�2d Georgia bombardment of arms, as infirmary steward, having been a medical educatee from 1860 until the fourth dimension when he entered the army. Afterward the evacuation of Savannah he was in the quartermaster's department. He was in Virginia during the early on part of the state of war, and subsequently almost a year was in that location stricken with typhoid fever. A few weeks later on his return home, for recuperation, he joined the army in Savannah, and served until the close of the war, equally noted. He was graduated in the medical section of the Academy of Maryland at Baltimore, as a member of the grade of 1872, and thereafter was engaged in the practice of his profession until 1898, when he retired, by reason of impaired health. For a quarter of a century he was a resident of Athens, Ga., where he died on December. 7, 1904. His married woman however survives him. Peyton L. Wade, to whom this commodity is dedicated, was graduated in the University of Georgia, as a member of the grade of 1886, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts and standing fifth in a form of forty-seven members. He was junior speaker of his class, the identify existence awarded in contest for limerick, and was class tree orator; he was likewise senior speaker, the identify existence awarded on course standing, and was class poet at the commencement exercises, in July, 1886. Afterward graduation he taught one twelvemonth in the Dublin high school, and thereafter was editor of the Dublin Postal service for six months. He studied law in the office of his uncle Ulysses P. Wade, of the business firm of Dell & Wade, Sylvania, Ga., and was admitted to the bar in Screven canton, in November, 1888. Immediately after he went to the paternal home in Athens, where he remained six months, during which he served his novitiate in his profession. He then established himself in Dublin, where he has since been engaged in practice. He has enjoyed a expert do in Laurens county for xv years and for the past decade has confined himself entirely to ceremonious business organization. He is counsel for diverse local corporations, and is local counsel for the Wrightsville & Tennille and the Central of Georgia railway companies. He is a fellow member of the Georgia bar association and has the largest professional library in his section of the land, likewise as the largest individual and general library, the law library comprising over 800 volumes and the general library more than than 2,000, including many special and limited editions. Mr. Wade is affiliated with Kappa Deuteron Chapter, of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at the University of Georgia, and as well with the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arcanum. He is a Democrat in his political allegiance, just has seduously avoided and refused to enter politics or to accept function. On April thirteen, 1895, he was united in spousal relationship to Miss Gussie 1000. Black, who was at the time a resident of Atlanta, a daughter of George R. and Georgia A. (Bryan) Black, of Screven canton. Her father and paternal grandad, Edward J. Black, accept both served Georgia as members of Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Wade have 1 child, Frederica Washburn Wade, born Sept. 11, 1905. Wadley, a boondocks in Jefferson county, is located at the junction of the main line of the Cardinal of Georgia, the Stillmore Air Line and the Wadley & Mount Vernon railways. The Louisville & Wadley railroad likewise connects it with the county seat. In 1900 the population was 630 in the boondocks and ii,815 in the district. Information technology has a money club post part with rural free delivery, a banking company, express and telegraph service, several important mercantile concerns and is the master hipping point for that section of the state. The people are well supplied with schools and churches.
WADLEY, WILLIAM MORRILL, a pioneer of the railroad evolution of Georgia, was born in Brentwood, Northward. H., Nov. 12, 1813, of Puritan ancestry. He learned the blacksmith'south trade and when he was about twenty years of age went to Georgia, where he worked as a blacksmith in diverse places, until he became a railroad contractor on the Central of Georgia railroad. By his ability and close attention to details he rose quickly and in 1849 was fabricated superintendent of the route. From that time until his expiry he occupied a prominent identify in Southern railroad circles. During the war he was appointed superintendent of transportation for the Con� federacy by President Davis and after peace restored he was chosen upon to rebuild the Key railroad. He died August 10, 1882. The employees of the Primal railroad have erected at Macon a magnificent bronze statue, defended to "Our President and Friend."
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WARREN, QUEEN (FAIRCLOTH) - Warren, John M., of Abbeville, judge of the court of ordinary of Wilcox county, and i of the representative citizens, was born on his male parent's plantation, in that county, March 26, 1862. He is a son of Thomas and Queen (Faircloth) Warren, the erstwhile born in Dooly canton, Ga., and died in Wilcox county, Nov. 14, 1891, at the age of lx-six years. The latter was born in Laurens canton, Ga., and her death occurred, in Wilcox county, in 1864. Of the two children the discipline of this sketch is the elderberry, the other having died in infancy. Thomas Warren was one of the extensive land owners of Wilcox canton and a citizen of prominence and influence. He was judge of the junior court of the county at the time of the Civil war and was thus exempt from war machine duty, but he became captain of a visitor in the state militia, and in 1863 he entered the Confederate service with his command, with which he continued to serve until the close of the state of war, as captain of Company D, Sixty-sixth Georgia infantry. He was a fellow member of the board of county commissioners for a menses of 16 years and held other pocket-size offices of public trust. John 1000. Warren secured his early on educational discipline in the public schools of Wilcox canton and at the age of twenty years engaged in agricultural pursuits on his own responsibility, his father having given him 400 acres of land, in Wilcox county. At the age of twenty-one years he was elected justice of the peace, in which office he served four years. In 1886 he was elected taxation receiver remaining the incumbent of this position two years. In 1889 he removed to Rochelle, having erected the outset house in the place, which is now a thriving village of 800 population. He there established a general store and built up a prosperous enterprise, which he connected until 1893, when he disposed of the business organization. In the meanwhile he served three years equally justice of the peace, and in 1896 he was mayor of the town. In 1897 he was elected judge of the court of ordinary of the county, taking upward his residence in Abbeville at that fourth dimension, and he has since remained the incumbent of this office, by successive reelections. He has given a most careful and pragmatic administration, and the affairs of the office take been handled with the utmost power. Approximate Warren is a stanch adherent of the Autonomous political party, is identified with the lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Society of Odd Fellows; and both he and his wife are members of the Baptist church. On Dec. 29, 1881, he was united in marriage to Miss Eva D. Fenn, girl of Z. Southward. and Mary T. (Everett) Fenn, of Dooly county, both of whom are at present deceased. Gauge and Mrs. Warren became the parents of nine children, of whom 7 are living: Lena died at the age of twelve years and the sixth kid died at birth. The surviving children are Pearl, Eva, Mamie, Thomas, Ethel, Charles and Ola.
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