Berrien-Lowndes-Telfair County GaArchives Biographies.....Leggett, George Perry 1879 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   GEORGE PERRY LEGGETT. The ex-mayor of Adel in Berrien county is one of the
progressive and enterprising young citizens of south Georgia, and by his ability
and industry has acquired influence and leadership in his community. Mr. Leggett
is a fine type of the young men who now and in subsequent years must share the
increasing responsibilities for the development and welfare of their state.

   George Perry Leggett was born at Naylor in Lowndes county on the 31st of
July, 1879. His father, George W. Leggett, a native Georgian, was reared on a
farm and was a young man at the time of the Civil war. Enlisting in one of the
Georgia regiments, he went to Virginia and saw a long and arduous service in
General Longstreet's corps, doing a soldier's duty until the close of
hostilities. Afterwards locating at Naylor, he was engaged in farming there
until 1890, then bought a farm in Taylor county, Florida, but three years later
became one of the first citizens of the newly established town of Adel, where he
engaged in the mercantile business a number of years. At the present writing he
is farming near Milltown in Berrien county. The maiden name of his wife was
Mattie Perry, who was born at Troupville, the one-time county seat of Lowndes
county. Her father, William R. Perry, who was a pioneer settler in Lowndes
county, afterward moved to Belleville, Florida, where he spent the rest of his
days. Mattie (Perry) Leggett died in 1896. She was the mother of two sons, the
younger, John Lewis, dying at the age of eighteen.

   George P. Leggett received his education in the public schools of Naylor, in
Florida and at Adel, during the residence of the family at these different
places. As a boy he also assisted his father in the management of the store, and
at the age of nineteen began his independent career in the railroad service,
with which he has been identified ever since. His first, experience was in the
station at Adel, and a year later he was appointed station agent for the Georgia
& Alabama at Rhine, where he remained a year. He then secured a transfer to the
Adel station on the Georgia Southern & Florida line, and faithfully performed
his duties there for seven years. At the end of that period Mr. Leggett took an
excursion into other lines of business, and for three and a half years conducted
a lumber yard at Adel. He then returned to railroad service as joint agent at
Adel for the Georgia & Florida and the South Georgia & West Coast railways. This
office has been under his management to the present time.

   Mr. Leggett served two terms as mayor of Adel, and previously served as
member of the town council. In politics he is a Democrat. He affiliates with the
lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the order of Odd Fellows at Adel, and is
one of the popular men of this community. He was married in 1900 to Miss Eva
Rebecca Dopson, who was born at McRae in Telfair county, a daughter of Robert
and Rebecca Dopson. Mr. and Mrs. Leggett are the parents of one son, named Julian.


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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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