Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of W. W. CARMICAL 

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W. W. CARMICAL, one of Coweta county's worthiest citizens, a native of 
South Carolina, born in 1833, is the grandson of Arthur and Frances 
(Bell) Carmical, of South Carolina, and the son of Arthur and Elizabeth 
(Cox) Carmical, who came from their native state, South Carolina, and 
settled in Coweta county, Ga., in 1834. The toilsome journey was made in 
oxcarts, and on reaching their destination the family lived in tents 
while their cabins were being built, very small and without floors, for 
the first year or two. 

Mrs. Carmical was the daughter of Christopher and Sarah (Mosley) Cox, 
South Carolinians. The child, W. W. Carmical, who was but a year old when 
brought to Georgia, grew up on the farm, making the most of his 
educational privileges, even though obtained at the price of much 
hardship to himself. 

Much of the time, even through the winter, he was obliged to go 
barefooted, but the courageous endurance of his boyhood fitted him for a 
sturdier manhood. In 1862 he entered the army, enlisting under Capt. 
Henry North, in the First Georgia cavalry, being appointed corporal. But 
he was severely wounded at Cassville, Ga., and compelled to return home, 
nor did he recover his health until some time after the close of the war. 

In this part of the country, upon which war had laid its devastating 
hand, the outlook at the time of the cessation of hostilities was very 
discouraging. But Mr. Carmical entered bravely into the unequal contest 
and has been very successful, and although his beginning was made on 
rented land, he now owns 460 acres of fine land in excellent condition, 
and is regarded as one of the most enterprising and successful men of his 
section, and is generally respected. 

He belongs to the masonic fraternity, and he and his wife are members of 
the Baptist church. He was married in 1854 to Miss Elizabeth Robinson, 
born in Alabama in 1835, and reared in that state, to which her parents, 
Feudal and Margaret (Stracener) Robinson, had come in the early days when 
Indians were numerous, wild game also plenty, and white inhabitants but 
few. Mrs. Carmical, who was a member of the Baptist church, died in 1890, 
leaving her husband with ten children: John, Arthur, Maggie, Sallie, 
Harper, William, Ida, Robert, Walter Lee and James. 

In 1892 Mr. Carmical married Miss Henrietta Stephenson, a native of Pike 
county, Ga., and the daughter of James and Sylvia Stephenson.

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