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William Alonzo Covington
W. A. COVINGTON was born January 19, 1869, in the back- woods of northwest Cherokee County, Ga., being oldest child of Sidney Stanhope Covington and Honor Adeline Burns, and a grandson of A. J. Covington and Olivia Ellis Covington, and of Henry Burns and Anne Rhine Burns. Both parents of W. A. Covington are natives of Georgia. His paternal grandparents were natives of Rutherford County, N. C., and his maternal grandparents were natives of Spar- tanburgh district, S. C.
W. A. Covington is a graduate of Reinhardt College (1887), and of Emory College (1896). He is a Methodist, a Mason, a K. of P., a W. O. W., and an Odd Fellow. He
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W. A. and BURNEY S. COVINGTON
has been mayor of Moultrie several terms, and a representa- tive of Colquitt County in the General Assembly of Georgia in 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908. Also in 1919-20 and in 1923-24. He was the author (with L. G. Hardman), of Georgia's Prohibition Statute of 1907. He is responsible for the action of Georgia's Legislature in the destruction of the Convict Lease System, in 1908.
He came to Colquitt with J. H. Smithwick in 1898, and with him organized a partnership for the practice of law. He was appointed Judge of the City Court of Moultrie by Governor Candler, and served till his election to the Legis- lature.
W. A. Covington married Miss Burney Sheffield on May 12, 1897, at Arlington, Ga. She is a daughter of Hon. Henry Sheffield, Judge of the Superior Courts of the Pataula Circuit of Georgia, and of his wife, Ida Holder Sheffield. Her progenitors are all prominent among the pioneers of
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original Early County, Ga. She is an alumna of Wesleyan Female College (1896).
Children of W. A. Covington and Burney S. Covington are:
Sidney S. Covington, died June, 1934.
Dorothy Covington (Mrs. J. L. Pilcher), Meigs, Ga.
Wm. N. Covington, Brooklyn, N. Y. Philip Stanhope Covington, Moultrie Attorney. Drew Roberts Covington, died in infancy.
Catherine Covington, died in infancy.
Waldo DeLoache
THE SUBJECT OF THIS SKETCH was born on March 3, 1898, at Glennville, Tattnall County, Ga. His education was re- ceived in the common schools of Tattnall County, and was finished at Mercer University, from which he was graduated in 1919, with the degrees of A.B. and LL.B. He was ad- mitted to the practice of law at the date of his graduation in Macon, Ga. He is a Baptist and a Democrat.
He was a private in the World War, serving in the United States forces at Fort Screven, Ga. He removed to Moultrie, in Colquitt County, immediately after graduation, where in a very short while he built up a very lucrative practice.
In 1931 he was appointed Judge of the City Court of Colquitt County by Governor Richard B. Russell, Jr. He was elected to succeed himself in this office in September, 1934. He resigned in January, 1935, in order to accept appointment as State Director for the Georgia Federal Housing Administration. This office he resigned in Decem- ber, 1936, and re-entered the practice of law at Moultrie, Ga., and entered the management of his extensive business interests in this section.
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Mr. DeLoache was the son of Alexander Joseph DeLoache, who was born September 30, 1854, in Tattnall County, Ga .; married on December 28, 1876, in Tattnall County, Ga., in which county he passed out of this life on August 17, 1930.
The maiden name of the mother of Waldo DeLoache was Sarah Elizabeth Burkhalter, who was born on September 17, 1861, in Tattnall County, Ga., and who still survives.
The name of the paternal grandfather of Waldo DeLoache was Jesse DeLoache, who was born on March 12, 1816, in Tattnall County, Ga .; married in the same county in 1836, and passed out of life in Tattnall County in 1874. He was a soldier in the armies of the Southern Confederacy.
The maiden name of the paternal grandmother of Waldo DeLoache was Elizabeth Smith, of Tattnall County, Ga., who died in that county on March 31, 1890.
The maternal grandfather of Waldo DeLoache was John Michel Burkhalter, who was born February 27, 1825, in Tattnall County, Ga .; married in June, 1848, in the same county, and died on January 8, 1863, at South Newport, while on active duty in the armies of the Confederacy.
The maiden name of the maternal grandmother of Waldo DeLoache was Mary Elizabeth Smith, who was born on Jan- uary 30, 1831, in Tattnall County, Ga .; died on September 11, 1908, in that county.
Mr. Waldo DeLoache was married on July 28, 1921, in Clay County, Ga., to Miss Clyde Killingsworth, a native of Clay County, Ga., having been born April 5, 1899. She was the daughter of Emmett Walton Killingsworth, who was born March 12, 1866, in Clay County, Ga., and who was married in Clay County, Ga., where he still survives.
The maiden name of the mother-in-law of Waldo DeLoache and the wife of E. W. Killingsworth was Susan Sanders, a native of Clay County, Ga. She survives with her husband.
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The children, being the issue of the marriage of Waldo DeLoache and Clyde Killingsworth DeLoache, are:
Waldo DeLoache, Jr., born August 5, 1924, departed this life on April 14, 1933.
Michel DeLoache, born October 3. 1934, who, with his parents, lives at Moultrie, Ga.
Mr. DeLoache is genial and philosophic in his tempera- ment, is an excellent lawyer, and a highly successful busi- ness man. He has a healthy interest in the social and polit- ical problems; reads extensively, and is a very eloquent pub- lic speaker. His friends are very proud, and have every right to be, of his accomplishments in the ordinary activities of a young man of this age, and are well convinced that the most of the achievements of his life are in the future.
Mrs. Waldo DeLoache is deservedly popular among all classes, in Moultrie in her own right, and by virtue of many charms of manner and heart. The entire community has therefore been much pleased at the recent return of the DeLoaches to permanent residence here.
Montgomery M. Folsom
THE SUBJECT OF THIS SKETCH was born near Hahira, in Lowndes County, Georgia, on January 31, 1857. His grand- father, Randall Folsom, a scholarly man over in Lowndes had a namesake and cousin of the same name, who for many years lived over on the eastern side of Colquitt, and who died there a few years ago, at the great age of ninety-three. All the Colquitt Folsoms are kin to Colquitt's Randall Folsom, and consequently to Montgomery Folsom.
Montgomery also taught school down in the southeast corner of Colquitt for one term, at least. One of his pupils
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was Frances Edna Croft, daughter of Nathaniel Croft and Mary Anne Hiers Croft, both of whom were born in South Carolina. Montgomery married Frances Edna on November 13, 1879.
All this by way of showing that although strictly speaking, Montgomery Folsom is not one of Colquitt's sons, he might, with perfect justice and propriety, be claimed by Colquitt, as her distinguished son-in-law. This historian saw him only once-in 1891, when he was doing work on one of the At- lanta papers; but we were already familiar with his fine poetry and prose writings. When we moved to Colquitt, we were much pleased to meet the Colquitt County Folsoms, as well as his wife's relatives, the Crofts.
Afterward, we met his wife and some of his fine children in Atlanta, when we were in the legislature from Colquitt County. We once asked Mr. D. MacDonald about him, he, being a cousin of Folsom, and a schoolmate at one time. He stated, among other things, that one day he found Mont- gomery then a mere child, weeping over a flower, which he had accidentally crushed.
We subjoin here in conclusion of this chapter two of Montgomery Folsom's best poems. If the reader cares to read more about him, we refer him to the Appendix to this book.
JEFF HANCOCK'S BULL (By MONTGOMERY M. FOLSOM) (Copyrighted in Scraps of Song and Southern Scenes)
Jeff Hancock's my neighbor. One mornin' last spring When skeeters were jist a beginnin' to sing, I went over thar to git one of his plows, And found him a pennin' a fine bunch of cows.
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"What news?" says I, "neighbor, you've jist come from town?" "No news, 'cept I've arrangements with Brown,
To git my supplies of guanner an' bacon;
He said 'twer the fortieth mortgage he'd taken."
"You've got some fine stock." "Yes, jist look at that calf ; He's the fines' bull yearlin' round 'ere by half ; His horns sets jist right, and do look what a neck! His daddy's half Jersey, and his mammy's Ole Speck.
"His hair is jist es soft an' es fine as split silk; I'll let 'im run out an' have all of her milk, An' then, he'll improve all my cattle, ye know." "Well, yes," says I, "Jeff, that is shore to be so."
The yarlin', he growed and got powerful fat, An' 'is hide were es slick es the Parson's new hat; His horns set es purty as purty could be, An' the beatenes' neck that ye ever did see.
One day, 'twere along 'bout the middle of June, An' I were a smokin' an' takin' my noon- I looked an' seed Jeff come apokin' along, An' I knowed right imejitly sumthin' were wrong.
"Come in-have a chair-been to dinner?" says I. "I've been through the motion," says he, mighty sly; "But as shore's ye're borned, it's a mighty poor eat, When a feller's got dinged little bread an' no meat.
"That yearlin' is not near so fine es he wus; His hair it aire sorter beginnin' to fuzz; His neck aire so spinlin' he never can fight; His legs aire too long, an' his horns don't set right ;
"He are gittin' to be-though I 'spose he aire sound- The ugliest yearlin' on top o' the ground; My craps but half made, an' my store account's full, An' it's do on short rashuns, or butcher that bull."
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"Hol' on," says I; "Jeff, ye're in too big a haste; To kill that bull yearlin' aire absolute waste." "I know it; but I can't work 'thout eatin', ye know." "Well, yes," says I; "Jeff, that aire shore to be so."
So this were the end of Jeff's big specerlation, Improvin' 'is stock with 'is big calkerlation. They eat up 'is meat, used his tail for a cracker, An' bartered 'is hide fur some salt an' terbacker.
Now this aire the moral, or else I'm mistaken: Ye can't have fine stock till ye raise ye're own bacon; Men's notions aire big when their stummicks are full; It were skacety of bacon kilt Jeff Hancock's bull.
WHIP POOR WILL By MONTGOMERY M. FOLSOM (Copyrighted in Scraps of Song and Southern Scenes)
When purpling shadows westward creep, And stars through crimson curtains peep, And south winds sing themselves to sleep; From woodlands heavy with perfume Of spicy bud and April bloom, Comes through the tender twilight gloom, Music most mellow, "Whip po' Will-Will, oh! Whip po' Will-Will, oh! Whip po' Will, Whip po' Will, Whip po' Will-Will, oh!"
The bosom of the brook is filled With new alarm, the forest thrilled With startled echoes, and most skilled
To run a labyrinthine race,
The fireflies light their lamps to chase
The culprit through the darkening space- Mischievous fellow, "Whip po' Will-Will, oh! Whip po' Will-Will, oh! Whip po' Will, Whip po' Will, Whip po' Will-Will, oh!"
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From hill to hill the echoes fly,
The marshy brakes take up the cry,
And where the slumbering waters lie In calm repose, and slyly feeds The snipe among the whispering reeds, The tale of this wild sprite's misdeeds Troubles the billow : "Whip po' Will-Will, oh! Whip po' Will-Will, oh! Whip po' Will, Whip po' Will, Whip po' Will-Will, oh!"
And where is he of whom they speak? Is he just playing hide and seek
Among the thickets up the creek, Or is he resting from his play In some cool grotto, far away, Where lullaby-crooning zephyrs stray, Smoothing his pillow? "Whip po' Will-Will, oh! Whip po' Will-Will, oh! Whip po' Will, Whip po' Will, Whip po' Will-Will, oh!"
Richard Lewis Free
R. L. FREE was born September 17, 1874, near Damascus, Early County, Georgia. Graduated from Mercer Univer- sity in 1901, B.S. Degree. Taught school 1901-5. Naval stores operator, 1905-10. In banking business Doerun, Geor- gia, as officer and stockholder, 1909-27. Also farming during this time.
Baptist, Democrat, Mason, Woodman, Elk. Councilman, City of Doerun, Georgia, 1909-15. Member of Board of Education, Doerun, 1915-30.
R. L. Free was child of Lewis Manly Free, who was born September 25, 1839, in Edgefield County, South Carolina, married February 4, 1868, in Miller County, Georgia, and
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died on November 4, 1911, at Damascus, Georgia. He served four years in the Civil War, being a member of Stone- wall Jackson's corps in the army of Northern Virginia, sur- rendered under Lee at Appomattox. Baptist and successful farmer.
Mother of R. L. Free was Julia Alice Hardy, born on May 14, 1850, in Edgefield County, South Carolina, and died on August 12, 1924, at Arlington, Georgia. Active member of the Baptist Church. Educated in advance of her time, she did real pioneer work in the church, organizing and carrying forward Sunday School work. Having studied medicine, she gave freely of her time to the relief of suffering in the com- munity in which she spent her life. Richard Hardy Free was the paternal grandfather of R. L. Free, and was born on Feb- ruary 11, 1815, in Edgefield County, South Carolina, and died in Decatur County, Georgia. He served with distinction as captain during the Civil War, was a Baptist and a large planter in Decatur County.
Maiden name of maternal grandmother of R. L. Free was Julia Ann Lanier, born December 20, 1818, in Edgefield County, South Carolina, and died in December, 1912, in Miller County, Georgia.
R. L. Free married Stella Pickren, on October 19, 1910, in Savannah, Georgia. She was born on October 14, 1885, in Coffee County, Georgia. Graduated from Andrew Female College, Cuthbert, Georgia, in class of 1906, with A.B. de- gree. Taught school a number of years. Methodist, Demo- crat.
Father-in-law of R. L. Free was Thomas Levett Pickren, born June 16, 1862, in Coffee County, Georgia, married October 9, 1884, in Coffee County, Georgia, and died on June 27, 1936, at Folkston, Georgia. School teacher and a merchant at first, later for forty years prominent naval stores operator of Southeast Georgia. Representative of Charlton
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County, Georgia, several terms in the General Assembly of Georgia. State Senator, 1925-6. Judge of the County Court of Charlton County for a number of years. Mayor of Folk- ston. Member City and County Board of Education. Metho- dist, Mason, Shriner, K. of P., Odd-fellow.
Maiden name of mother-in-law of R. L. Free was Kathleen Georgia Wilcox, born September 22, 1863, Coffee County, Georgia, died on May 24, 1896, at McRae, Georgia. Daugh- ter of Rev. J. M. Wilcox, Methodist minister, who was a mem- ber of the Georgia legislature, both as Representative and Senator from Coffee County. Democrat, scholar, Civil War veteran, planter of means. Died at a ripe old age in 1897.
Children of R. L. Free and Stella Pickren Free are: Louise Free, born July 22, 1911; Alice Free, born August 15, 1914; R. L. Free, born August 4, 1915; Mary Ellen Free, born January 22, 1925; Gene Lovett Free, born May 3, 1926; Virginia Free, born May 1, 1913, died August 3, 1913.
Jacob Hunter Hires
THIS CITIZEN of Colquitt was born in 1853, at Isom, Brooks County, Ga. He was educated in the common schools of Brooks County and was a student of current affairs all his life. He was admitted to the Bar about 1889, having read law in the office of Henry G. Turner, the celebrated statesman, in Quitman. He practiced law in Brooks and surrounding counties, finally moving to Moultrie, where he formed a partnership for the practice of law with John C. Chason, at Moultrie. He was a Baptist, a Democrat, and a Mason. He participated in the Spanish-American War, being a corporal in the U. S. Army in Cuba.
He represented Colquitt County in the House of Repre- sentatives of the General Assembly of Georgia in 1911-12.
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Jacob Hunter Hires was the son of Philip Hires, a native of North Carolina, born there in 1812, and was married in Brooks County, Ga., in 1835 to Pollie Alderman, a native of Brooks County, Ga. Both Philip Hires and his wife, Pollie Alderman Hires, have departed this life and are buried in Brooks County.
J. H. Hires married in 1874 in Brooks County, Ga. The maiden name of his wife was Sarah Strickland, who was born in 1852, and died in December, 1919, in Colquitt County, Ga. She was educated in the common schools of Brooks County, and was a member of the Baptist Church. She was the daugh- ter of John Strickland, who was born in 1846, in Brooks County, Ga., and who was married in Brooks County, Ga., and who died in 1887 in the same county. John Strickland was a farmer, and a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. The maiden name of the wife of John Strickland, who was the mother-in-law of J. H. Hires, was Jencie Alderman, also a native of Brooks County.
The names of the children of J. H. Hires and Sarah Strick- land Hires, his wife, are as follows:
James Hires, born 1874, married and a resident of Tampa, Fla.
Lula Hires, born in 1876, died in October, 1926.
Plenny Hires, born in 1877, now living in Colquitt County, Ga. Gussie Hires, born in 1879 (Mrs. E. H. Hall), Miami, Fla.
Irvin Hires, born 1881, died in 1908.
Sarah Hires, born in 1883, a school teacher.
Willie Hires, born in 1885 (Mrs C. F. Chitty), Colquitt County.
Eunice Hires, born in 1887 (single, with Moultrie Tel. Co. for 15 years) .
Harry Livingston Hires, born 1891, Tax collector, Colquitt County, Ga., 1937.
Thomas Watson Hires, born 1894, Supt. H. H. Myers Packing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ruby Elizabeth Hires, born 1896 (Mrs. E. N. Gail), Ft. Pierce, Fla.
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George B. Hunt
THIS CITIZEN OF COLQUITT COUNTY was born at Pineboro, Colquitt County, Ga., August 26, 1881. Educated in the common schools of Colquitt County. Profession is fireman. Entered service of Moultrie Fire Department on July 1, 1914. On November 14, 1915, became Chief, and has held this position continuously since. Methodist. Democrat. Mason.
G. B. Hunt was a son of Wm. Jefferson Hunt, who was born April 3, 1861, and died October 14, 1912. He was born in Columbia County, Ala., and spent most of his life in Colquitt County, where he died. He was ordained Methodist minis- ter, and was postmaster at Silar, Ga., from 1897 to 1902. Mother of G. B. Hunt was Dicy Ruth Baker, born January 8, 1859, in Colquitt County, Ga., and died in the same county on October 4, 1935.
Paternal grandfather, Cardy Hunt, was born in 1811, in Ireland, and died in 1904 in Colquitt County, Ga. Emi- grated to the United States about 1816, and became by pro- fession a farmer and a slave-owner. He married Amie Stokes, who was born in Ireland about 1816, and died in November, 1899. Cardy Hunt was killed in battle, in 1864, somewhere in Virginia, having volunteered as a private from Colquitt. He married in Charleston, S. C., about 1834.
Maternal grandfather of C. B. Hunt was Burrell Baker, born about 1830 in Colquitt County, Ga., and died on one of the battlefields of the Confederate War in 1864, having gone out with the first Colquitt Volunteers.
Maternal grandmother of G. B. Hunt was Ruth Norman, a daughter of Jas. Mitchell Norman and Ruth Tillman Nor- man, being born about 1830 in Colquitt County. She died
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in 1859 in Colquitt County. She married, in 1857, Burrell Baker.
G. B. Hunt was married on November 3, 1907, in Moul- trie, Ga., to Miss Tommie Jane Hall, who was born March 26, 1882, in Colquitt County. She was a daughter of Law- rence A. Hall, who was born in Thomas County, Ga., and died in Colquitt County. Private in the Confederate Army, being wounded once. He taught school in Colquitt and sur- rounding counties for many years. He was carrying the mail on a star route when he died. His wife was Narsises Turner, a daughter of Amos Turner, who was once a Clerk of the Superior Court of Colquitt County, and who was the first State Senator of Colquitt in the General Assembly of Georgia.
G. B. Hunt and his wife, Tommie Jane Hunt, have one child in life, namely: Arthur B. Hunt, born November 8, 1908.
Before his connection with Moultrie's fire department, G. B. Hunt worked with Huber-Norman Lumber Co., at Moul- trie, in 1907-8. Carried U. S. mail on star route in 1900-01. Worked as a carpenter in Colquitt County from November, 1909 to 1914.
Cliff Jenkins
THIS CITIZEN of Colquitt is a native of Bartow County, Ga., having been born there in the year 1896. His parents were Davis Jenkins, also a native of Bartow County, and Jenkins, who was also a native of Bartow County, and both of whom now reside in Colquitt County, Ga.
Cliff Jenkins is a Democrat and a Mason, and for some while has been a member of the Board of County Commis- sioners of Colquitt County. He was elected chairman of
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this board at their January, 1937, meeting for a term of twelve months. Mr. Jenkins is a farmer and a saw-mill owner and operator.
Chas. H. Johnson
MENTION HAS BEEN MADE hereinbefore of Chas. H. Johnson, shown by the 1860 census to have been the wealthiest citizen of Colquitt County at that date. Since this was written, we have come into some additional information as to Mr. John- son, through the courtesy of Mr. Lewis Perry, who married a granddaughter of Mr. Johnson, and who now resides on the old Johnson plantation:
(a) It is definitely known that Chas. H. Johnson died in 1886, and was buried in the Johnson family burial plot on the plantation. As we know from the 1860 census that Mr. Johnson was born in 1790, it results that he reached the great age of 96. So far as we know, this entitles him to a record age for a man, in Colquitt; a record that seems to have been equaled by only one woman, Sally Hawkins, found in 1860 by Census. Marshal Wing. As Mr. Johnson was a contemporary of the author of "Two Years Before the Mast," he must have been a most interesting character. We are able to present elsewhere a cut of this old sea rover and land pioneer, made from a photograph taken about the year Col- quitt was organized.
W. W. King
THIS CITIZEN of Colquitt was born March 29, 1893, on a farm four miles southwest of Doerun, Ga., near Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, being a son of H. C. King, who was born in Putnam County, Ga.
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His maternal grandmother was born in Colquitt County. His maternal grandfather was born in Coweta County, Ga.
George Tucker, great grandfather on mother's side, was a son of Elder H. Crawford Tucker, pioneer in Colquitt County. Another great-grandfather, pioneer in Colquitt County, was John Nelson Phillips, born in South Carolina.
W. W. King was married on December 31, 1916, to Lollie Dell Morton, of Colquitt County, Ga. Mary Tucker, daugh- ter of George Tucker, was his maternal grandmother. The maiden name of the mother of W. W. King was Martha Jane Phillips.
The children of W. W. King and Lollie Dell Morton King are: Elsie Mae King, 1924; Nannie Ruth King, 1926; and W. C. King, 1930.
W. W. King is by profession a farmer. He is a member of Mount Sinai Baptist Church. He is a member of the present Board of County Commissioners of Colquitt County, in which position he succeeded his father, who held this office himself for many years.
John Elzie Ladson
MR. J. E. LADSON was born January 12, 1885, in Mont- gomery County, Ga. His education was obtained in the common schools of Georgia and in the Georgia-Alabama Business College, from which he was graduated in 1904.
He is a member of the First Missionary Baptist Church, at Moultrie, as are the other members of his family. In politics, Mr. Ladson is a Democrat; and he is a Knight of Pythias. He has served on the Aldermanic Board of the City of Moultrie, and is a past-president of the Moultrie Chamber of Commerce.
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John Elzie Ladson is a son of Isaac Ladson, who was born on December 16, 1852, in Montgomery County, Ga., who married Pinkie Connell on July 2, 1874, and he now resides with his son, the subject of this sketch, at Moultrie, Ga. Pinkie Connell Ladson died on June 22, 1916, and is buried in Hamilton Cemetery, in Montgomery County, Ga.
Isaac Ladson is the son of John Conaway Ladson, who was born on December 25, 1813, in Barnwell County, S. C., and who died in 1894 in Montgomery County, Ga. He was a farmer by profession, and was a Confederate soldier. The founder of the Ladson family was John Ladson, a native of Northamptonshire, England, who settled St. John's Island, Charleston, S. C. "Ladson Street," in Charleston, derives its name from these people; and they erected the Ladson resi- dence, on Meeting Street, in that city.
The wife of John Conaway Ladson, being the grandmother of John Elzie Ladson, was Mary Ann Calhoun, who was born in 1816, in Barnwell County, S. C. She died on August 2, 1872, in Montgomery County, Ga. She was a daughter of James I. Calhoun, of Barnwell, S. C.
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