September 20, 1890 William P. Redwine September 20, 1890 William P. Redwine was laid to rest in the City of Fayetteville cemetery. Redwine came to Fayetteville in 1840 from the part of Fayette County that became Campbell County (and later Fulton County). He married Mary Grace Trimble in 1847 and they had nine children. He had served in the War Between the...
September 7, 1905 John Tucker Day John Tucker (Jack) Day was born in Milledgeville, Georgia September 7, 1907. He graduated Georgia Military College. Mildred Seawright, from Fayetteville, was attending Wesleyan College of Georgia in Macon and visited Milledgeville where she met Jack. Jack became a pharmacist. Mildred convinced him to take over the family pharmacy in Fayetteville. The Day’s Pharmacy was on...
September 28, 1888 Howell B. Parker Howell B Parker lived in Jonesboro, with G C Looney, in the 1880 census, he is listed as a boarder, with 8 other men living in the Looney home. He was a teacher, but he is not found in later census records. He had great confidence in his teaching since he ran this ad in the...
September 22, 1828 Elizabeth Echols The first will recorded in Fayette County, Georgia was that of Elizabeth Echols. Her will was executed September 22, 1828 and probated November 3, 1828. In the will she mentions her mother, Elizabeth Smith to whom she leaves her entire estate. Her estate includes land in Fayette and Troup Counties, and eleven slaves (Sally and her eight...
September 11, 1902 Death of Dr. Isaac Gray Woolsey Dr. Isaac Gray Woolsey for whom the town of Woolsey Georgia is named for died of heart failure on September 11, 1902. His funeral was held on September 16th at the Baptist Church there and was said to have been the largest ever attended in the history of Fayette County, with an attendance...
September 28, 1913 D.X. Gordy Dorris Xerxes Gordy was born in Aberdeen (Fayette County) Georgia on September 28, 1913. His father was William Thomas Bellah Gordy, a well-known potter of Aberdeen who had previously worked a kiln in Alvaton (Meriwether County, Ga.) The elder Gordy’s pottery style had been influenced from pioneer potters that worked in Upson County, Georgia (“Jugtown”) and Edgefield,...
September 4, 1832 Benjamin Brown files for Revolutionary War Pension Benjamin Brown is buried in the Brown Cemetery in Peachtree City. The stone recently set shows born in 1758 and died in 1853. The other stone shows that he was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Brown served as a private in the war during three separate tours. The first was for five...
September 15, 1881 Arthur Arnold Arthur Arnold was born on September 15, 1881, in a house just across Whitewater Bridge. His parents were former slaves, Henry Arnold and Nellie Dorsey. He had 10 brothers and sisters. As a child, he went to school at Flat Rock and Arnold Grove. The family farmed on land several years owned by the Blalock’s and the...