Conecuh County AlArchives Biographies.....Hamil, Augustus F. February 26 1840 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    AUGUSTUS F. HAMIL, the subject of this mention, is descended from
Scotch-Irish ancestry, and exhibits in his make up many of the sterling
qualities of that sturdy class of people. His grandfather, George Hamil, was an
early resident of Georgia and a soldier of the war of 1812. He reared a family
of ten children, moved to Alabama early in the forties, and died in Coffee
county, in 1865. One of his sons, E. R. Hamil, father of Augustus, was born in
Pike county, Ga., in the year 1818, and died there in 1872. He was a prosperous
planter, and thrifty business man and became quite prominent in the political
and religious circles of his county. He possessed in an eminent degree, the
qualities of true manliness, was strong in his religious connections, a member
of the Baptist church, and seems to have transmitted to his children a large
measure of those principles by which his life was characterized. In 1838 he was
united in marriage with Angeline Bush, daughter of James Bush, and became the
father of six children. The eldest was Augustus F.; William, is a farmer and
business man of Blakely, Ga. He served in the late war as musician in the
Seventh Georgia infantry. The next two, in order of birth, were Sallie and
Benjamin, both deceased. John Hamil is a livery-man at the town of Barnesville,
Ga., and Emma, the youngest member of the family, is also a resident of Georgia,
the widow of Dr. Johnson of the town of Blakely. Augustus Hamil is a native of
Pike county, Ga., and dates his birth from the 26th day of February, 1840. He
acquired a practical English education in the common schools, and in the spring
of 1861 enlisted in the Fourth battalion Georgia sharpshooters, with which he
served until the close of the war, the regiment in the meantime becoming the
Thirty-seventh Georgia infantry of the army of Tennessee. Mr. Hamil's first
battle was at Cumberland Gap, and later he was with his command in the
engagements at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge, in the last of which
he received a severe wound, a ball passing entirely through the neck, carrying
away a portion of his collar bone, and lodging in the sleeve of his shirt. Mr.
Hamil keeps the little leaden missile as a relic of his bloody military
experience. After spending thirty days in the hospital, Mr. Hamil rejoined his
company, which was afterward engaged in the Atlanta campaign and Hood's raid
through Tennessee, participating in all the battles around Atlanta and the
engagements at Franklin and Nashville. Mr. Hamil surrendered with his regiment
at Greensboro, N. C., and returning home engaged in the lumber and milling
business at Bolling, Ala., as superintendant of the logging department. He is
now connected with the Milner, Caldwell & Flowers Lumber company, and in
addition to his milling interest owns a fine plantation near Evergreen, and is
also identified with Evergreen Hedge Fence company, of which he is now
president. Mr. Hamil made his home at Bolling until 1889, at which time he
changed his residence to Evergreen, where he has since resided. He is a
substantial citizen and belongs to that sturdy moral class of people who let
action instead of words tell of their standing in the community. Mr. Hamil
married, March 1, 1861, in Butler county, Ala., Miss Elizabeth J., daughter of
W. H. Thomas, a union blessed with the birth of the following children: William,
Sallie E., deceased: Charles F., traveling salesman for Evergreen Fence company,
Hugh F., and James Edward. Mr. and Mrs. Hamil are members of the Methodist
church of Evergreen, of which society Mr. Hamil holds the office of steward.
 



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 711-712


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