CARROLL COUNTY, GA - BIOS Francis Marion Fielder

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol 1, pages 418-419.  This was published by the Southern Historical Association in 1895.

F.M. (Francis Marion) Fielder, retired Farmer, Villa
Rica, Carroll Co., Ga. Son of Terrell and Rebecca
(Nolan) Fielder, was born in Morgan County, Ga. in
1823.  His Great Grandparents, Jasper and Mary
(Stewart) Fielder, came from England to America
before the Revolutionary war, and settled in
Virginia.  Among the passengers aboard the same
vessel was a Welsh Family named Stewart, husband
wife and little daughter.  The parents died during
the voyage, and the little girl was reared by a
family named Fielder.  She afterward became the wife
of James Fielder and lived to be nearly 100 years
old.  Mr. Fielder's grandparents, James and Sally
(Benge) Fiedler, migrated from Virginia to Georgia
and settled in the woods in Greene County, whence in
a few years they removed to what is now Morgan
County and cleared another farm, where they made a
permanent home and remained until they died - he in
1813 and she in 1830, aged seventy years.  Mr.
Fiedler's father was born in what is now Morgan
County in 1797, and was a soldier in the war of
1812.  On reaching manhood he was ordained a
minister of the Missionary Baptist Church, and
preached in Morgan County and adjoining counties.
Having drawn some land in Meriwether County for his
services in the war of 1812, himself and   his
brother -in-law, Sam Harris, removed to Meriwether
County, in 1833.  They settled in the dense unbroken
forest, in which Indians and wild animals roamed and
prowled at will.  His father organized a Baptist
Church - the first in that part of the state- in an
old dilapidated log house, which had been built and
been used for a sheep pen. He afterward, in 1851,
moved to Tallapoosa county, Ala., where he died in
1873, aged seventy-six years, peacefully closing a
life faithfully spent in doing good and preaching
the gospel.  His maternal grandparents, George and
Rebecca Nolan, were natives of South Carolina, who,
coming to Georgia, settle near Madison, Morgan
County. Mr. Fiedler was mostly reared in Meriwether
County, and had the benefit of but a few months
schooling, and that was obtained at the old sheep
pen where his father organized the church, after a
four-mile walk, barefooted.  He began life with
nothing, and the first land he bought was on credit,
and before the war owned a 600-acre farm and ten
slaves.  Farming has been the pursuit of his life;
and, although not wealthy, he has a fine farm, and a
beautiful comfortable home in Villa Rica.  He served
as notary public, ex-officio justice of the peace,
two years.  He was too old for regular service in
the army but served about six months in the home
guard.  Mr. Fiedler was married in 1848 to Miss
Martha Dobbs - born in South Carolina - daughter of
Silas and Nancy (Myers) Dobbs, natives of South
Carolina who settled in Carroll County in 1852.  To
them four children have been born two of whom are
living: Rebecca, wife of Dr. G.W. Strickland; and
Silas O., who married Florence, daughter of William
Candler.  Mr. Fielder joined the church when
seventeen years of age and has lived a consistent
Christian life; and himself and his devoted
companion are both members of the Missionary Baptist
Church.