Bullock County AlArchives Biographies.....Bledsoe, Nathaniel M. 1835 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    NATHANIEL M. BLEDSOE, was born in April, 1835, in Butts County, Ga. His
parents were Morton and Mary (Bailey) Bledsoe. His father was a native of Orange
County, Va., and his mother of Oglethorpe County, Ga. The senior Mr. Bledsoe was
a planter. In political affiliations, he was an old-line Whig, and took an
active part in politics. He died in Butts County, Ga., in 1845.

    The subject of this sketch was educated at Jackson, Butts County, Ga.,
attended the Medical Department of the University of the South, at Nashville,
Tenn., in 1855-'56-'57, and was graduated in the latter year. He began the
practice in Macon, now Bullock County, in 1857, and has here been actively
engaged in professional work ever since. During the war, he was detailed to
remain at home to extend his professional services to his community. Dr. Bledsoe
has had a large practice for many years, and may be ranked among the successful
physicians of the State.

    He has always been remarkably kind to the poor and needy, going night and
day to visit them in their sickness and distress, generally extending to them
the blessings of his medical skill and the benefactions of his benevolent hand.
No doubt he has done more, gratuitously, to bless his fellow men around him than
any other man of his means in his county.

    Dr. Bledsoe has farmed extensively for a number of years. He takes an
especial interest in educational matters, and has undoubtedly paid out more
money for the education of poor and orphan children than any man in the county.
Having no children of his own, he has taken this noble method of extending aid
where it was most needed. Among the particularly praiseworthy deeds in this
connection, may be mentioned his adoption of an infant child when she was but
seven days old, to whom he gave the name of Nellie Lorena. She is now grown to
woman's estate, and is an accomplished lady, unusually gifted in music and art.
Dr. Bledsoe has paid the tuition of some child for the last thirty years, and
has selected such as least expected assistance.

    In connection with his professional labors. Dr. Bledsoe has carried on the
drug business. He belongs to the Bullock County Medical Society, and has been
its vice-president. Our subject was married in December, 1857, to Miss Amanda,
daughter of James R. Pickett, of Bullock County, Ala. He is a Mason and a member
of the Baptist Church.

    As a Christian gentleman, he has always been true to the impulses of a warm
heart.—tenderly affectionate to his brethren, very kind and liberal to his
pastor, and ever prompt and active in the discharge of his religions duties.
Though, from the very ardor of his nature, may be, he is sometimes a little
impetuous, yet, in the honesty of his motives and the purity of his aspirations,
Dr. Bledsoe is truly a grand man, abounding in every good word and work.


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Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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