Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....WILLIAMSON, JASPER J.  1838 - 
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Author: S. EMMETT LUCAS, JR.
JASPER J. WILLIAMSON, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Carrollton,
Carroll Co., Ga., son of. Robert and Matilda (Goggens) Williamson, was born in 
South Carolina in 1838. His grandfather, John Williamspn, was born in South 
Carolina  in 179l:_and was a soldier in the war of 1812-14. His maternal 
grandfather, James Goggens, was also a South Carolinian. His father came from 
South Carolina to Georgia in 1850, bringing all he had in a four-horse wagon 
and a one-horse cart, laid his claim and settled in Coweta county. In 1854 he 
removed to Carroll county and settled four miles west of Carrollton.

. Mr. Williamson was twelve years old when his father came to Georgia, and 
received such an education as could be imparted by a plain teacher in a dirt 
floor log cabin, with openings cut in the logs to let the light in and 
furnished with puncheon seats. He walked three miles to school and. attended 
only in the intervals between working the crops. After his graduation he 
taught school himself a while. In 1861 he enlisted in Company K (Capt. J. D. 
Calhoun), Eighteenth Alabama regiment (Col. Bullock), and was assigned to Gen. 
Gladden's command. He was in several hard-fought battles, among them Shiloh 
and Chickamauga, where he was wounded. He was captured at Marietta, Ga., and 
sent to Camp Douglas, Ill., and held a prisoner until after the surrender. 
After the war he returned to Alabama, where he lived and farmed for three 
years, when he -moved to Carroll county and conducted his plantation until 
1886; then he removed to Carrollton to enjoy his ample income and the social 
advantages of town life. He has a fine plantation and two large brick business 
houses in Carrollton. In 1866 Mr. Williamson was married to Miss Julia A., 
daughter of Louis and Nancy (Brown) Walker, by whom he has had one child-Nancy 
E. Mrs. Williamson is a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Williamson is a 
master Mason.


Additional Comments:
From the book, "Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches, 
published in 1896

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