Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of JOHN P. MORGAN 

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JOHN P. MORGAN, a thriving farmer and son of John and Mary (McCullough) 
Morgan, was born in Coweta county, where he now lives, in May, 1851. His 
father was born in South Carolina in 1812, and came when a young boy with his 
father to Coweta county, Ga., which at that time was a wilderness. Mr. 
Morgan's grandparents, Daniel and Mary (Lankford) Morgan, were both natives 
of South Carolina, but removed to Coweta county, Ga., in the early part of 
the nineteenth century, and cleared up a farm about ninety miles from Macon, 
to which place their cotton had to be carried for sale. The mother of Mr. 
Morgan was a daughter of Lewis and Ruth (Elmore) McCullough, both natives of 
South Carolina who had removed to Georgia, and cleared for themselves a farm. 
John P. Morgan was reared on the farm where he now lives and received a 
common school education. In 1871 he married Elizabeth Elmore, daughter of 
Thomas A. and Matilda (Brooks) Elmore. Mr. and Mrs. Elmore were both native 
of South Carolina, who in an early day came to Georgia. Mr. Elmore was a 
soldier in the late war and served in Company D, Nineteenth regiment, under 
Capt. James Hunter, and was killed in the battle of Manassas July 10, 1863. 
Five children, four of whom are living, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Morgan: John T., Wilber E., Walter S., and Nellie R. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are 
members of the M. E. church. Mr. Morgan is also a member of the masonic 
order, and was an alliance man during the lifetime of that order. He is a 
man that is well respected by all who know him.

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