Memoirs of Georgia; containing historical accounts of the state's civil, military, industrial and professional interests, and personal sketches of many of its people. Vol. II, Part 84

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Publication date: 1859
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., The Southern historicl association
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DUNCAN M'ARTHUR was born in Georgia, was a prosperous farmer in Montgomery county, and died when about forty years of age. His father was a native of Scotland. Mr. McArthur married Miss Eliza McLeod, who after his death married again, and now is Mrs. Mozo, of Eastman, Dodge Co., Ga. Two sons were the fruit of this marriage: John J. and W. McArthur, both living.


JOHN J. M'ARTHUR, farmer, Montgomery county, Ga., son of Duncan and Eliza (McLeod) McArthur, was born in Montgomery county, near the line of Tattnall, Aug. 17, 1838. His educational advantages were good, having at- tended the best schools in the county. His occupation has been that of a farmer chiefly. In 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Sixty-first Georgia regiment, Col. J. H. Lamar, and was made second lieutenant of the company. While stationed on Jekyl island he left the company and returned home. Soon afterward he was elected captain of Company C, Seventh Georgia regiment, Georgia state troops and, serving in Gen. Johnston's and Hood's armies, participated in the battles around Atlanta. Returning home after the war he was elected in 1868 and again in 1878, to represent the county in the general assembly. In 1871-72 he was engaged in the commission business in Savannah, then abandoned it and has since devoted himself to his farm interests, excepting the time needed to perform the duties of justice of the peace, an office he has held for twenty years. He mar- ried Miss Marie E., daughter of William Patterson, of Bryan county, born April, 1851, and died Oct. 8, 1888, by whom he had one child, Marion Udell, born Aug. I, 1877, and who died Aug. 17, 1889, and was regarded by all who knew her as a child of remarkable promise. Mr. McArthur is a master Mason and commands the respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens.


JAMES M'ARTHUR, farmer, Montgomery county, Ga., second son of Duncan and Eliza (McLeod) McArthur, was born in Montgomery county in 1840. Re- ceiving the best education the county schools afforded he attended Trinity college, N. C., in 1859-60, but his studies were interrupted by the war. Since leaving college he has devoted himself to cultivating and improving his farm and ship- ping timber to Darien. Mr. McArthur was married March 14, 1867, to Eliza, born Jan. 21, 1842, daughter of Thomas B. and Sarah A. Connor. Mr. and Mrs. McArthur have had born to them the following named children, besides three which died: Walter Benton, born Feb. 15, 1868; Willie Theodore, born Dec. 8, 1869; James Jefferson, born Nov. 13, 1871; John J., born Sept. 8, 1873; L. Anna, born Dec. 23, 1879; Torem C., born Nov. 8, 1882, and Mary Clyde, born Jan.


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10, 1885. He is enjoying life on his farm surrounded by his interesting family. Mr. McArthur is a master Mason.


JOHN HENRY M'ARTHUR, M. D., Long Pond, Montgomery Co., Ga., son of John W. and Louisa (Calhoun) McArthur, was born in Montgomery county Sept. 6, 1861. His father was also born in Montgomery county in 1838, and is still living, a very successful farmer, and one of its most highly-esteemed and influential citizens. His mother was a daughter of Thomas B. Calhoun-was born Aug. 25, 1844, and died Feb. 27, 1883. Dr. McArthur received the best education the high schools of the county could bestow. He attended courses of lectures during the winters of 1882-3 and 1883-4 at the medical college of Georgia, Augusta, and in the spring of 1884 graduated with distinction, being third-honor member of his class. He located at once at Long Pond, Montgomery Co., where he has established an excellent reputation, and been very successful, professionally and financially. Since 1887 he has been engaged, also, with his brother, W. T. McArthur, in the manu- facture of naval stores, and has also operated a farm. Dr. McArthur married Miss Anna L .- born Oct. 2, 1868-a daughter of Dr. J. E. Mobley, Jan. 1, 1890, by whom he has had two children: John Herman, born Nov. 16, 1891, and Char- lotte Louisa, born April 14, 1893. Dr. McArthur enjoys to the fullest extent the esteem and confidence of the people.


WALTER T. M'ARTHUR, deceased, of Montgomery county, Ga., the fifth of nine children of Duncan and Elizabeth (McLauchlin) McArthur, was born in Montgomery county, Ga., Aug. 3, 1837, and was of distinguished Scotch ancestry. His father was a native of Tattnall county, Ga., and his mother a native of Argyle- shire, Scotland. His ancestors were among the first Scotch families who came from Scotland and settled, in 1747, in Cumberland and Robeson counties. His great-grandfather was a young man when he came over; and was a soldier in the revolutionary army, from North Carolina. His grandfather was born during that memorable struggle, May 25, 1780. This branch of the McArthur family trace their origin to the original chieftain of the highland clan Campbell, of Scotland, a distinction recorded down to the time of the reign of James I of England. Mr. McArthur's father was a farmer, a man of superior intelligence and great influence. He represented Montgomery county-sometimes in the house, sometimes in the senate-in the general assembly. His father died Oct. 17, 1877, aged seventy- four years, and his mother in August, 1885, aged eighty years. Walter T.


McArthur enjoyed excellent educational advantages, and was a student of Trinity college, North Carolina, when the war between the states began. Coming home, he enlisted in the Confederate service, in which he remained until the war closed. He was with the forces defending Atlanta during the siege, and in front of the Federal army when marching through Georgia. In an engagement at Griswold- ville, Ga., he received a slight wound in the foot. Being tendered a position as civil engineer on the Macon & Brunswick railway, he was detailed by the secretary of war for that purpose. After the war he was employed by Hon. William E. Dodge (for whom Dodge county was named), to look after his large real estate interests in Georgia. Mr. McArthur was also engaged in the real estate business on his own account for years, and was exceptionally successful. From 1868 to 1871 Mr. McArthur represented the fifteenth district in the senate of the general assembly. He was a member of three national democratic conventions, viz .: At St. Louis, in 1876; at Chicago, in 1884, and at Chicago, in 1892, and voted in two conventions for the nomination of Grover Cleveland. Mr. McArthur was married, in 1880, to Miss Victoria, daughter of William and Sarah Ryder, of Bibb county, Ga. To them three children have been born: Addison Arthur, named


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for two brothers, who died during the war; Douglas Stuart, named for two powerful Scottish clans, and William Ryder, named for his grandfather, who died when young. Mrs. McArthur's father, who was considered one of the best educators in that part of the state, was a native of Liverpool, England, and when W. T. McArthur went to Europe, Mr. Ryder accompanied him, visiting England for the first time in fifty years. Mr. McArthur left one of the most beautiful homes in Georgia, about five miles northeast of Lumber City. Having traveled and seen much of the world, being well educated and possessing an unusual fund of infor- mation, of genial disposition, and being large-hearted, his friends were, during his lifetime here, entertained with lavish hospitality. Masonically, Mr. McArthur was outranked by few in Georgia, having passed through all the thirty-two degrees, and being a member of Yaarab Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles Mystic Shrine. He was also a Knight of Pythias. His death occurred Dec. 16, 1894. While in Atlanta he was taken sick with congestion of the brain, and only lived a few days after being removed to his home.


GEORGE M. TROUP M'LEOD, farmer, Montgomery county, Ga., son of Angus and Nancy C. (McMillan) McLeod, was born in Montgomery county Jan. I, 1827. There were seven children, all of whom lived to be grown and married, but of whom, the subject of this sketch, the youngest, is the only one living. Angus McLeod, his father, was born in Scotland, and was brought by his father, Alexander McLeod, to the United States the latter part of the last century, when he was quite young-at the time when so many Scotch emigrants came to this country and settled in Richmond county, N. C. About the year 1800 Mr. McLeod's grandfather, Alexander McLeod, removed from North Carolina to, and settled in, Montgomery county, Ga. Mr. McLeod's father, Angus McLeod, was born Nov. 10, 1774. He became a large slave-owner, and was a slave dealer down to the time of the suppression of the slave trade; after that he dealt in real estate on a large scale, and acquired immense tracts of land. He died Sept. 4, 1827, of yellow fever, contracted in Savannah. Mr. McLeod's mother was the daughter of Archi- bald McMillan, also a Scotch emigrant to North Carolina, and who, later, removed to Georgia. She was born Nov. 15, 1780, and died Mav 4, 1852. Mr. McMillan became a very prominent citizen in Montgomery county. He had a family of eight children-two sons and six daughters. Malcolm McMillan, one of these sons, came from North Carolina to Montgomery county in 1800, and pitched his camp near an oak tree on the tract of land where Vidalia now stands. One of his children died, and was buried there under an oak tree; the spot became the family burying ground. Mr McMillan built a house and made his home near-by. He erected a Presbyterian house of worship-which was the second meeting house built in the county. The first Presbyterian preacher was Rev. Murphy McMillan, a distant relative of Malcolm, who subsequently became his son-in-law. Margaret McMillan, sister of Malcolm, married Charles Mckinnon, and reared thirteen children-eleven sons and two daughters-all of whom became prominent people. The eleven sons were all men of tall stature and massive frames, and settled mostly in Telfair county. Alexander Talmage McLeod, brother of George, was born May 28, 1817, and died in 1869. He was a man of much force of character, and a very prominent citizen. He was clerk of the superior court a number of years, and twice represented the county in the general assembly. He married Miss Nancy Mc- Crimmon, a member of one of the first of the Scotch families which settled in this part of the state. William Archibald McLeod, another brother of George, was born May 27, 1821, and died Aug. 27, 1867. He was, for a period of twenty years prior to his death, county surveyor of Montgomery county, and work of his, on the original grants, is among the records in the secretary of state's office in Atlanta.


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He married Miss Adams, a daughter of Wylie Adams. Margaret McLeod, his oldest sister, was born Feb. 20, 1812, was married to Daniel McLeod, and died Aug. 31, 1830. Delilah McLeod, the next oldest sister, was born Jan. 6, 1814, married Charles McCrimmon, who twice represented Montgomery county in the general assembly. She died in 1893. Catharine A. McLeod, the next sister, was born May, 28, 1819, married George McCrimmon, of Montgomery county, and died in May, 1894. Nancy C. McLeod, his youngest sister, was born June 27, 1824, married Matthew Sharp, Montgomery county, and died Dec. 9, 1862. George M. T. McLeod received the best education the county schools could give him, and then attended one of the best private academies in North Carolina one year. From 1851 to 1855 he was a merchant in Savannah. Returning to Montgomery county he was surveyor and agent for the Georgia Land and Lumber company, continu- ing his relations with them until 1858. He enlisted early in the war, and June 29, 1861, he was commissioned by Gov. Brown captain of the first company ever raised in Montgomery county for Confederate service. Before taking up his com- mission he was three times elected captain, and, on account of some dissention among disappointed office-seekers, he refused to take the company out. Later, he enlisted in the Twentieth battalion, Georgia cavalry, which command was mainly employed in coast service. In May, 1864, he went to Virginia, and was in Capt. Williams' company, and was in Hampton's brigade, Young's division. In the engagement at How's shop, his battalion, not half of which was present, was almost annihilated. After this he was in Cobb's and in Phillips', and fought in various commands. In the engagement at Trevilian's Station, he was severely wounded in the hip, the effect of which he feels at the present time. Since the war Mr. McLeod has given his attention to farming. On the inauguration of the present school system, he was appointed county school commissioner. He was commissioned as a delegate to the cotton states convention, at Vicksburg, Miss., by Gov. McDaniel; and after that, appointed to represent his section of the state in the Piedmont exposition, and was also a member of the interstate agricultural convention, at Atlanta. For a number of years he has been reporter, for his part of the state, for the State Agricultural association, and for the weather bureau, at Atlanta. Mr. McLeod has been postmaster of Stirling, Ga., for fifty years, beginning with the time when it was one of the only two in the county. Mr. McLeod has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Josephine L. Ryals, who was a daughter of Joseph and Lucy (Connor) Ryals, to whom he was married Jan. 23, 1856. She was born Feb. 22, 1833, and died Nov. 12, 1859. She was a sister of Rev. James G. Ryals, D. D., who was professor of the theological department of Mercer uni- versity, Macon, Ga. By this marriage Mr. McLeod had three children. George W., born Oct. 10, 1856, is a farmer, and contractor and builder. He married Miss Ida Phillips, of Tattnall county, has seven children, and lives at Alta- maha, Ga. Georgiana J., the second child, was born March 5, 1858, married William Wilkes, Montgomery county, and has ten children. Mary R., the youngest, was born Nov. 1, 1859, married Philip A. McQueen, Montgomery county, and died in December, 1893, leaving five children. His second wife was Miss Imogene Stripling, daughter of Alexander Stripling, of Tattnall county, who was born Jan. 5, 1848, and whom he married Jan. 26, 1865. Two children have blessed this union: Roderick Dhu, born Nov. 30, 1865, and a physician, a graduate of Atlanta Medical college, and is located at Lyons, Ga., where he is prominent in his profession, and has a lucrative practice, and has a drug store; and Robert Bruce, born May 29, 1868. Mr. McLeod is a leading and enthusiastic Mason; was a member of the first lodge instituted in the county, and has been a charter member of three lodges.


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C HRISTOPHER M'RAE, farmer, Montgomery Co., Ga., son of John and Margaret (McRae) McRae, was born in Marlboro district, S. C., Dec. 15, 1815. His father was born and reared in the same district, and was a farmer by occupa- tion; his mother was a native of Richmond county, N. C. The family moved to Telfair county, Ga., in 1815, where the father died at the age of seventy-seven years. Mr. McRae received such education as could be obtained in his youth in the dis- trict schools, and at the age of sixteen embarked in merchandsing. He continued in business for twelve years, and was postmaster in Mount Vernon during the Indian war in Florida. After relinquishing the mercantile trade he engaged in farming and rafting timber down the Ocmulgee and Altamaha to Darien, and still continues his farming operations. He was too old for military service when the late hostilities began, but was a member of the board of examiners. Before the close of the war he went as far as Savannah to enter actual service, but was turned back on account of age and feebleness. Mr. McRae married Miss Charity McCrimmon, who was born in Montgomery county, Ga., April 28, 1829, and was the daughter of Duncan McCrimmon, a native of Marlboro district, S. C. By this wife who died July 21, 1853, he became the father of three children: Duncan J., Brooks county, manufacturer of naval stores; Florence, Mrs. William McArthur, Montgomery county; Charity, deceased wife of J. Eugene Hicks, Dublin, Laurens Co., Ga. On Jan. 19, 1859, Mr. McRae married Miss Margaret McCrimmon, born Feb. 28, 1834, who has borne him four children: Colen, born Dec. 9, 1861; Charles D., born Feb. 17, 1864, practicing physician, Rochelle, Wilcox Co., Ga .; Franklin M., born 1867, and Lochlan, born April 12, 1869. Mr. McRae is one of Montgomery county's most substantial citizens, ranks deservedly high, and is a man of great influence.


JOHN M'RAE, farmer, Montgomery county, Ga., son of Farquhar and Isabella (McCrimmon) McRae, was born in Montgomery county, Ga., July 16, 1824. His father was born in Scotland, and he was three years old when his parents came to the United States and settled in Robeson county, N. C. He died in Mont- gomery county, Ga., in March, 1838. His mother, born in Robeson county, N. C., in 1778, died in Montgomery county, in November, 1868. John McRae was reared on the family farm, and received such education as was obtainable at the common country schools in his locality at that time. In 1848, when twenty-four years of age, he was elected justice of the peace, and in 1852 he was elected a justice of the inferior court, in which capacity he served the county, having been continuously re-elected, until 1868, when the court was abolished. In 1850 he was elected to represent Montgomery county in the convention called to consider Federal relations-questions pertaining to the acquisition and annexation of new territory, whether slave or free. In 1851-52 he was elected senator from the district composed of Appling and Montgomery counties, and again in 1857-59. In redistricting the state, Montgomery county was transferred from the sixth to the fifteenth district, and in 1861 Mr. McRae was elected senator. In 1872, and again in 1882, he was elected to represent Montgomery county in the general assembly. Mr. McRae is now one of the county commissioners, an office without emolument, to which he has been continuously elected for ten years. From 1869 to 1882 he conducted general merchandise stores at Little York and Scotland, and in 1890 began his present business, the manufacture of naval stores. About 1849 Mr. McRae married Miss Mary L. Brantley, born July 17, 1829, in Laurens county, by whom he had four children, two of whom are living: Isabella, Mrs. John W. Clement, and Christina, Mrs. John G. Bright. John W. Clement was born Oct. 17, 1850, and is now the father of eight children. The deceased children of Mr. McRae, Margaret and Harriet, died at the respective ages of fourteen and


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nine years. Mrs. McRae died in April, 1883. Mr. McRae has been a prominent and useful citizen, and is now one of the most influential citizens in Montgomery county. The esteem in which he is held and the confidence reposed in him are evidenced by the many offices with which he has been honored, and by the fact that now, at his advanced age, his fellow-citizens insist on keeping him in official position.


M ATTHEW SHARP, farmer, Montgomery county, Ga., son of Grove and Annie (Higgs) Sharp, was born in Tattnall county, Ga., June 29, 1824. His grandfather, Grove Sharp, Sr., was of English parentage. His father was born June 18, 1802, and died Jan. 5, 1865. Mr. Sharp's parents had twelve children- Matthew being the first born-eleven of whom are living: Matthew; Martha, born Sept. 28, 1825 (Mrs. W. D. W. Connor); Littleton, born Feb. 20, 1827, farmer, Montgomery county, married Caroline McAllister; Hiram, born Nov. 28, 1828, farmer, married, first, Miss Mary Hughes, second, Miss E. Cribb; Caroline, born Oct. II, 1830, widow of James C. Connor, who died during the war; Hamilton, born Aug. 30, 1832, died July 22, 1862, also during the war; Willie, born Dec. II, 1834, farmer, Tattnall county, married, first, Miss Editlı Moses, second, Miss Susan Brewer; Rebecca Ann, born Dec. 22, 1836 (Mrs. John Sharp); Elizabeth, born Nov. 24, 1838 (Mrs. John Peterson, Montgomery county); Mary, born Nov. 22, 1840 (Mrs. Alexander Hughes); Nancy Higgs, born March 28, 1843 (Mrs. M. D. Peterson); William Henry, born Jan. 24, 1847, farmer, married Miss Emily Gibbs. Matthew Sharp worked on the farm and attended school during his boyhood until of age, and then commencing farming, which has since been his occupation. About 1849 he was elected tax receiver and collector; this was when the two offices were united. During his incumbency they were separated, and he filled one or the other for several years. In 1859 he was elected to represent the county in the general assembly. At the end of his term he enlisted in Company A, Twentieth Georgia battalion cavalry. A few months afterward a new company was organized-Company F -- and he was made first lieutenant of it, a position he retained, although often offered promotion, until he returned to take his seat in the general assembly, having been elected to represent the county. Since then he has been elected to several offices in the county. Mr. Sharp has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Nancy C., daughter of Angus and Nancy C. (McMillan) McLeod, born June 27, 1824, to whom he was married Jan. I, 1852. Her parents were of Scotch descent, and she died Dec. 9, 1862, leaving five children: Annie C., born Dec. 23, 1853 (Mrs. John D. McLeod, Telfair county); William H., born Jan. 26, 1855, farmer, married Miss Jennie Carlisle; Elizabethi L., born April 20, 1857 (Mrs. John A. Galbraith, farmer, Montgomery county); Catharine A., born Feb. 12, 1859 (Mrs. James D. McGregor, Montgomery county); Franklin M., born Nov. 23, 1860. Mr. Sharp's second wife was Miss Ann, daughter of Thompson G. and Elizabeth (Wester) Gibbs, born May 29, 1845, to whom he was married April 6, 1865, and who has borne him two children: Robert Lee, born Nov. 24, 1872, and Nancy Udell, born Oct. 20, 1878. He lives on a fine farm in the eastern part of the county, and is a master Mason.


SIMEON SIKES, farmer, Montgomery county, Ga., son of Matthew G. and Sarah (Wood) Sikes, was born in Wilkinson county, Ga., Oct. 3, 1822. His father was born March 21, 1787, in North Carolina, and was partly reared in that state, and died in Georgia in May, 1863. His mother was born in 1788, and died July 30, 1849. Of their eight children four are now living. When a young man Simeon Sikes farmed a few years in Houston county, and then went to Tampa


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Bay, Hillsboro Co., Fla., but in a short time returned to Houston county. After living in Houston three years he went back to Alachua county, Fla., remaining a year, and then concluded to try Houston county again. Leaving Houston at the end of four years he removed to Clinch county, Ga., whence, after two years' sojourn, he removed, in 1859, to Montgomery county, which he decided to make, and which became, his permanent home. He was reared a farmer, and has been one all his life-a part of the time, however, conducting a sawmill in con- nection with his farm. He was a member of the second of two regiments of state troops raised for duty in Georgia. He entered the service under Capt. (afterward Col.) Storey. He was elected tax receiver in 1881 and served two years. He is now school commissioner of the county. Mr. Sikes was married Dec. 16, 1845, to Miss Elizabeth Bone, born in North Carolina March 4, 1824, daughter of Richard and Isabella (McArthur) Bone. Mr. and Mrs. Bone were natives of North Carolina, but died in Georgia. To Mr. and Mrs. Sikes children have been born as follows: Columbus H., born Nov. 14, 1846, married Miss Mary Graham, and is now farming in Telfair county; Laura Isabella, born April 6, 1848, is Mrs. Leonard F. Hinson, Montgomery county; Sarah Emeline, born Jan. 9, 1851, is wife of Mr. Jaines J. Mobley, farmer, Montgomery county; Mary Jeannette, born Jan. 4, 1853; Florence Elizabeth, born April 19, 1855, is now Mrs. Henry Cook, farmer, Coffee county, Ga .; Eliza Jane, born Sept. 15, 1856, is now Mrs. J. Lowry Clements, farmer, Montgomery county; Martha Ellen, born July 17, 1858, is Mrs. Avery B. Clements, farmer, Montgomery county; Henrietta R., born Feb. 20, 1860, is Mrs. F. R. Mann, Telfair county, Ga .; Aleph Thomas, born Oct. 21, 1861, married Gabriel M. Clements, and is a farmer of Montgomery county. Mr. Sikes has never belonged to any secret society, nor has he ever signed any pledge or taken upon himself any obligation not strictly required by the laws of the state. He has always dealt fairly with his fellow-men and enjoys their confidence and respect.


JESSE M. WALL, farmer, Montgomery county, Ga., .son of William D. and Sarah (Gowin) Wall, was born in Montgomery county March 21, 1816. He was the sixth of his parents' children, and is the only one now living. His father was born and reared in Camden district, S. C., and came to Georgia in 1816. He was a farmer, but when a young man he taught school. Mrs. Sarah Wall died in 1856, and her husband in 1859. Jesse M. Wall was given a good common school education in the county schools, and has followed farming all his life. His fellow- citizens, however, appreciating his ability and fitness, have not allowed him to entirely escape the responsibilities of public life. In 1844, when he was twenty- eight years of age, he was elected sheriff, and was continued in the office six years. He was then elected a justice of the inferior court, and held the office sixteen years. In 1878-79 he represented the fifteenth senatorial district in the general assembly. Mr. Wall was married March 21, 1839, to Miss Martha L., born March 30, 1818, daughter of Rev. Wilson Connor, associate founder of Mercer university. Mr. and Mrs. Wall reared three children: John W., born June 8, 1852, married to Miss Mollie Mozo, Eastman, Ga., where he now lives; Fannie, born Feb. 22, 1849, Mrs. John Smith, Telfair county; William D., born Sept. 3, 1855, who lives at the old homestead near Lumber City, Ga., taking care of his father in his old age. Mrs. Martha L. Wall died June 24, 1887.




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