He was already Clerk of the inferior Court of Fayette County, Georgia , by 1824. In 1829, he built a second house (log cabin) in the new town of Fayetteville. He held the positions of Clerk of the Ordinary Court of Fayetteville for 20 years. He served with his neighbors in the 118 Battalion of the Georgia militia, 1826 and 1835.
His first wife, Mary, who had been educated as a teacher, loved the beautiful in nature and was especially fond of flowers. In her sixteen year of marriage , she died, and the children were left in care of their grandmother, Barbara McDonald.
In the following year (1844), William married a Scottish lady, Sophia MacKenzie, who had come to visit Grandmother McDonald often and they talked in Gaelic. William and Sophia moved to a farm some 12 miles north of Fayetteville, the same year, where they lived two or three years. Eventually, they moved to a new home on the Tallapoosa River near Tallapoosa, Haralson Georgia.
Source: Old family letters, Ransom McBride, of Cary, North Carolina and my own
research.
"Pearly Gates"
June 27, 2011
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He was already Clerk of the inferior Court of Fayette County, Georgia , by 1824. In 1829, he built a second house (log cabin) in the new town of Fayetteville. He held the positions of Clerk of the Ordinary Court of Fayetteville for 20 years. He served with his neighbors in the 118 Battalion of the Georgia militia, 1826 and 1835.
His first wife, Mary, who had been educated as a teacher, loved the beautiful in nature and was especially fond of flowers. In her sixteen year of marriage , she died, and the children were left in care of their grandmother, Barbara McDonald.
In the following year (1844), William married a Scottish lady, Sophia MacKenzie, who had come to visit Grandmother McDonald often and they talked in Gaelic. William and Sophia moved to a farm some 12 miles north of Fayetteville, the same year, where they lived two or three years. Eventually, they moved to a new home on the Tallapoosa River near Tallapoosa, Haralson Georgia.
Source: Old family letters, Ransom McBride, of Cary, North Carolina and my own
research.
"Pearly Gates"
June 27, 2011
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