Chattahoochee-Baldwin-Talbot County GaArchives Biographies.....Allums, James S. 1821 - 1872
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Author: N. K. Rogers
JAMES S. ALLUMS

    Jas. S. Allums born in Baldwin Co., Ga. Feb. 6, 1821, married Miss Mary
George, daughter of Mark George and his wife, Jane Dennis.

    It is believed that John Allums, who, according to census of 1830, was a
citizen of Talbot Co. was father of Jas. S. Allums. John Allums married Pamelia
Scoggins in Baldwin Co. and drew in land lotteries while in that county.

    For many years prior to 1872, when Mr. Allums died comparatively a young
man, he was one of the leading business men of this part of the state. In
addition to his farming interests, he was merchant in parnership with Mr. Barbee
and Mr. Shipp and he and his father-in-law operated a saw-mill near Cusseta.

    Mr. Allums built the substantial house now owned by Mr. and Mrs. A. F.
Owings, and removed from his farm to this place where his family resided until
several years after his death.

    During Civil War days he was active in supplying troops leaving this county
with uniforms and other equipment, lending money to the county for this purpose
as the public records show. He was sent by the Confederate government to
superintend salt mining in Louisiana. He was of an inventive turn of mind as the
plan for a cotton-press, patented as his invention, indicated. He was a
contractor and he and Mr. Hezekia Miller had the contract for building the
bridge across Upatoi Creek on the Cusseta-Columbus road, which was used from
1872 until the present highway was constructed changing the location of this
bridge. Mr. Allums served the people of this county in many helpful ways—as
bondsman and administrator of estates.

    He and his family were held in the highest esteem by all who knew them.

    One of his sons-in-law, Anderson Clark Prather, came to Cusseta first to
attend Prof. James Huff's school and his son says the only note Mr. Prather ever
signed was for this tuition. He boarded at "Aunt Patsy" Cobb's and later began
his business career, in the store of John Stephens, going from there to
Columbus. Mr. Prattler's son has two of the valuable old books from the. Allums
library, viz. White's Historical Collections of Georgia, and A Pictorial History
of America1 by Goodrich, published 1850.

    Mrs. Allums and her daughter Miss Julia, so greatly beloved in Cusseta were
the last of the family to reside here and when they removed to Helena, Ga. only
records of past activities remained to recall their names to succeeding
generations.

    Mrs. John F. Greene of Troy, Ala. is the sole survivor and a worthy
representative of an ancestry noted for integrity and honorable record wherever
found.


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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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