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SAMUEL M. SINGLETON

    Samuel Singleton was born in Putnam County, Georgia, February 14, 1809, and
when quite a young man became a citizen of Lexington, South Carolina. It was in
that State that he married Sarah Anne Christian, of Edgefield, S. C., a lineal
descendant of Israel Christian, the founder of Christianburg, Virginia. Her
grandfather, Lilliston Pardue, was a Huguenot; and Sarah West (his wife)
descended from John West, son of Virginia's first Governor.

    Both sides of the family of Samuel Singleton are of pure English Stock. His
father, James, was the son of Robert, a Revolutionary soldier, and Robert was
the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Singleton, of Colonial and Revolutionary
War fame. Matthew Singleton was born on Isle of Wight, England, in the year of
1730, and later he and his two brothers landed in Virginia, 1752, and settled in
that part of Craven County which is now embraced within the limits of Sumter
County, South Carolina.

    In 1840, Samuel Singleton and wife located in Milledgeville and lived on the
lower corner of Wilkinson Street. They afterwards purchased a home on McIntosh
Street, but as business houses took the places of homes along that way, they
sold the property to Mrs. James Shea. Later they lived in Midway, moving from
there to Eatonton, in 1872, where he died, March 25, 1896. He was buried in the
cemetery at Millledgeville.

    When Samuel Singleton located in Milledgeville in 1840, he established a
general merchandise business, carrying a full stock of everything, from a
hoop-skirt to a trace chain. His business was remunerative and gave promise of
pronounced success, when a disastrous fire swept the. block in which the store
was located. He, however, with undaunted spirit, opened another business,
dealing exclusively in boots and shoes. Just prior to the War between the
States, he sold the entire outfit to Mr. Fred Haug, and later his son, George
Haug, carried the business on in a successful way, and it is now being conducted
by the great grandson, never having passed out of the Haug family.

    During the War between the States, Mr. Singleton, hearing of the dire needs
of the soldiers in camp along the coast, made several journeys to the southern
part of Georgia, at his own expense, with wagon loads of food and supplies. He
gave liberally, as long as it was in his power to give; but the war, with its
annihilating effects, left him with problems which at times seemed almost
insurmountable. He was over age for enlistment as a soldier. During the war he
was appointed to look after State works that, at that time, were located in
Milledgeville.

    Samuel and Sarah Anne Singleton's children names were: John Chappell; and
Earnest, who died in childhood; Samuel, died while a prisoner-of-war at Elmira,
N. Y.; Elizabeth; Ellen; Martha; Stewart; Charles; Laura; and Robert. All of
this large family with the exception of three, have passed into another world.
Ellen, (Mrs. Sam Pearson); Martha, (Mrs. A. B. Zachery); and Laura, (Mrs. J. L.
Walker) who now live in Waycross, Georgia.



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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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