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ELLISON—BROOKS

    In 1845, Nicholas Beauchel Brooks, Jerry Fowler, John Ferrell, Acey Jeffres,
Clayton Vaughn, Willis Vaughn, and Ras Vaughn came to Milledgeville, from
Cherokee County, when these young men were about twenty one years old.

    About this same time Frances Worsham, a widow with her three sons, Joe Urbin
and John, and two daughters, Caroline and Mary, came from Putnam County to
settle in Milledgeville. Two years later, Nicholas Brooks and Mary Worsham were
married.

    William Vinson Ellison came to Milledgeville from Cherokee county while a
young man. This was about the year 1830. He married a Miss Hass, who lived only
a few years, leaving three children. William Ellison, then married Theressa
Boutwell, a daughter of Chappel Boutwell and Hannah Micklejohn Boutwell.

    Adolphus Leroy Ellison was a son of this second marriage and was married to
Anna Brooks, a daughter of Nicholas Brooks and Mary Worsham Brooks, in the year
1870.

    Mr. Chappel Boutwell, the grandfather of Adolphus L. Ellison, was mayor of
Milledgeville when General Sherman was camped in the city. It was through Mayor
Chappel Boutwell’s efforts that the cotton factory was saved from destruction.
He begged this boon from Sherman, in order to give work to the poor and thus
save them from starvation. At that time the cotton mill was the chief source of
revenue in Milledgeville.



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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA

BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED

ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
-1925—


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