Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of PATRICK CARMICHAEL 

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PATRICK CARMICHAEL, an old citizen of Coweta county, was born in 
Abbeville district, N. C., in March, 1819. His father, Arthur Carmichael, 
born in South Carolina in 1774, was the son of Patrick and Elizabeth 
(Thompson) Carmichael. Patrick Carmichael, the elder, was by birth an 
Irishman, who took an active part in the revolutionary struggle, in which 
he was wounded in the arm. He was a well-known Presbyterian, of which 
church all his family were worthy members. 

The wife of Arthur Carmichael was Frances Bell, whose parents, John and 
Sophia Bell, were of German ancestry. In 1831 Mr. Carmichael brought his 
family from South Carolina to Coweta county, Ga., moving by means of ox-
teams. Here they settled in the midst of the woods, at that time full of 
game, and reared a family of nine children: Elizabeth, Abraham, Sophia, 
Arthur, Mary Ann, Patrick, Robert, Nancy and W. W. 

Educational opportunities were of course but limited, but the young 
Patrick made the best of such as fell to his lot. He married in 1839, 
March 28, his wife, Mary A. W. Speer, being the daughter of Joseph and 
Elizabeth (Riggan) Speer, who settled in Jasper county, Ga., in 1818. Mr. 
Speer had been a soldier in the war of 1812. 

Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael have been the parents of fourteen children, nine 
of whom are now living: Smith, Thomas, Jane, John, Ella, Abraham, 
Alberta, James E., and Louisa V. 

Three of the sons served in the late war, two of whom, Joseph W. and 
Robert, were killed. Mr. Carmichael himself was in the service of the 
state during the war, and during the last year of the war served as first 
lieutenant of Company H, Georgia regiment. 

Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael are worthy and esteemed members of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, and are among the leading citizens of Coweta county. 

Transcribed from MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA published by the Southern Historical 
Association, 1895.