Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....Franklin S. Margart May 4 1843 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    FRANKLIN S. MARGART, a farmer of Barbour county, and a son of John P. and
Anne C. (Treadwell) Margart, was born in Orangeburg district, S. C., May 4,
1843. His great-grandfather, John H. Margart, was a German by birth, and came to
the United States before the revolutionary war. After that he went to London,
England, expecting to return to his native land but was taken sick and died on
the way, his widow and family returning to this country. Grandfather Margart was
born in Charleston, S. C., and was a military officer, holding the position of
keeper of ordnance for many years and had charge of the forts and government
property along the coast as far as Washington, D. C. He was captain in the war
of 1812. John P. Margart was born November 19, 1816, in Charleston, S. C., and
was educated at the theological seminary of the Lutheran church at Lexington, S.
C., and he was in the active ministry in that state from 1840 to 1861. He then
came to Alabama, and has spent most of his time in Barbour county since that
time, engaged in farming. He owns a large plantation in this county. He was
married in Lexington, S. C., in 1840, and reared a family of four children, viz:
Franklin S., Caroline E., wife of Col. W. J., Otis, of Batesville, Ala.: Samuel,
of Batesville, Ala.; Alice, deceased wife of Walter Bates, of Batesville, Ala.
The mother of these children is still living. The Treadwells came to Alabama
from South Carolina in the forties. They were in early days very prominent in
public life. Col. Benjamin F. Treadwell represented Barbour county in the
legislature a number of times, and when the Kansas-Nebraska question was
uppermost in the public mind he took great interest in it, and raised a company
of emigrants to help colonize Kansas with pro-slavery people. He however lost
his health in Kansas and died just before the breaking out of the Civil war.
Franklin S. Margart, at this time, was at Newberry college, and enlisted in the
Newberry Rifles afterward company B. Thirteenth S. C. infantry, and served in
the army of Virginia. He was in the Seven days fighting, distinguishing himself
for gallantry in action, and being complimented by his superior officers. Being
exposed to a three-days' rain, during the campaign, he suffered from a severe
attack of measles, which unfitted him for further service, Since the war he has
followed farming in Barbour county. He was married in Columbus, Ga., June 19,
1878, to Miss Cornelia B., daughter of James B. Norman. Mrs. Margart died
December 30, 1887, leaving no children. She has ever since been remembered by
her husband as one of the purest christian spirits he has ever met. Mr. Margart
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and in politics a member
of the democratic party.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" p. 447-448


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