Chattahoochee-Jones-Talbot County GaArchives Biographies.....George, Mark Alexander 1802 - 1891
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Author: N. K. Rogers
MARK A. GEORGE

    Mr. George, grandfather of Mr. Charlie George, who with his family, lives in
Columbus, was a prominent citizen of this county in its early years, while he
died in Talbot Co. where he removed when leaving Chattahoochee and where his
wife's father Peter Dennis lived for many years.

    Mark Alexander George born in Jones Co. Ga. Nov. 11, 1802, died July 31,
1891 was of Scotch-Irish parentage; his mother was a Miss Hardin. He married
Jane B. Dennis in Putnam Co. Ga. in 1824—the same year he joined the Baptist
Church,—and was remarkable for his devotion to both throughout the remainder of
his long life.

    Mr. George, while an ardent politician, never sought or accepted political
preferment for himself. He was an old line Whig, after the war becoming a
Democrat, but as he often said "not from choice." The Whig party being dead, he,
like other southern gentlemen, could not affiliate with the radical party and
therefore became a Democrat from necessity.

    It has been said that Mr. Mark George united as many excellencies with as
few failings as are often met with in one character and that "he bore without
reproach the grand old name of gentleman."


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HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
By N. K. Rogers

Dedicated to

KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C.

and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers.

Copyright 1933

by N. K. ROGERS

PRINTED   BY
COLUMBUS  OFFICE  SUPPLY CO. COLUMBUS, GA.




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