Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....Houseworth, John 1848 - uk
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Author: MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA
JOHN HOUSEWORTH, farmer, Whitesburg, Carroll Co., Ga., son of John J.
and Catherine (Lyons) Houseworth, was born in Carroll county, in 1848. His
grandparents on his father's side were Philip and Katie (Hollensworth) 
Houseworth. His grandfather's parents came from Germany to America before the 
revolutionary war, and his father dying when he was quite a child he was reared 
by a charitable institution in South Carolina. After reaching manhood and 
marrying he came to Georgia and settled first in Newton county, and afterward 
moved to De Kalb county. Here Mr. Houseworth's father was reared and married 
his wife, daughter of George and Kate Lyons, of English descent. Of ten 
children reared three sons enlisted in the Confederate army: Robert and 
Abraham, in Company K (Capt. Bark), Seventh Georgia regiment, which was in 
Early's command. Robert was a lieutenant, and he with his brother were in all 
the engagements in which his company bore a part, and was wounded at Knoxville, 
Tenn. Philip was in the western army under Capt. Kendrick. Mr. Houseworth was 
reared on the farm cleared by his father, and is living in the house in which 
he was born. He received a common school education, and started in life with a 
good constitution, good health, and a determined and willing spirit as his 
patrimony and capitol. Mr. Houseworth was married in Carroll county in 1869 to 
Miss Harriet A. Holland -born in the county -daughter of Linsey and Elizabeth 
(Lassetter) Holland. Ten children are the offspring of this union: Delvous, 
Wyley, Walter, Della, Frank and Lee (twins); Katie, Tiney, Anna, Gordon. Mr. 
Houseworth is a well-to-do prosperous farmer with more than 600 acres of 
productive land, doing well, and is highly respected.


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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