Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....Culpepper, John F. 1835 - uk
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Author: MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA
JOHN F. CULPEPPER, SR., Whitesburg, Carroll Co., Ga., son of Joel and Elizabeth 
(Whitaker) Culpepper, was born in Coweta county, Ga., May 17, 1835. His 
paternal grandfather, Malachi Culpepper, was one of the early settlers of 
Morgan county, and was a soldier in the revolutionary war. His maternal 
grandparents;, John_and Polly Whitaker(nee-Holliway)were among the early  
settlers of Coweta county. His father was born in Morgan county, April 1, 1802, 
where he was reared, and lived until 1827, when he removed to Coweta county and 
settled in the woods. Mr. Culpepper was reared in Coweta county, and received a 
good common school education, earning the money himself that paid his school 
expenses one year. In 1855, he engaged as a clerk in a store in Carrollton, and 
after one year's experience "opened up" for himself, and continued in business 
until 1862, when he enlisted in Company B, Seventh regiment, Confederate 
cavalry (Capt. L.J. Smith). At the end of a year he hired a substitute, and 
entered into a contract with the secretary of war to gather material for the 
manufacture of ammunition for the armies, which contract continued until the 
surrender. After the war he entered mercantile life again in Newnan, Ga., and 
in 1877 lost everything, and went on the farm where he now lives. He made two 
starts in life, and failed to attain his end; but in his last undertaking, that 
of farming, he has succeeded beyond his most sanguine expectations, and rightly 
feels proud and exultant over his success. Mr. Culpepper was married in 1857 to 
Miss Epsie Boon -born in Carroll county -daughter of Jesse and Nancy (Lester) 
Boon, old settlers of the county. To them five children have been born -three 
living: Lucinda, wife of W.C. Branan; Anna, wife of T. E. Walten; and Vela. 
Mrs. Culpepper is a member of the Methodist church, and he is a royal arch 
Mason. Mr. Culpepper is a wide-awake, progressive farmer, and very much 
respected by all who know him.



Additional Comments:
“MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA”, Historical and Biographical Sketches
by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., Published in 1896.  Transcribed by Elizabeth Robertson 
July 2004.


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