Fayette-Spalding-Henry County GaArchives Biographies.....Welden, MD, Elijah Burrell May 18, 1844 - October 14, 1922
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"Memoirs of Georgia : containing historical accounts of the state's civil, 
military, industrial and professional interests, and personal sketches of many 
of its people : Vol. I," Atlanta, Georgia: The Southern Historical 
Association, pub. 1895, pg. 657.

ELIJAH BURRELL WELDEN, physician and surgeon, Inman, Fayette Co., Ga., son of 
Burrell and Martha Anne (McCutcheon) Weldon, was born in Henry (now Spalding) 
county, May 18, 1844.  His paternal grandparents came from North Carolina to 
Georgia, and were among the early settlers of what is now Henry county.  His 
father was born in what is now Jasper county, Nov. 9, 1806, was a farmer, and 
died in November, 1869.  His mother, a descendant of Scottish emigrants who 
settled in Virginia in colonial times, was born in Hall county, Ga., July 4, 
1812, and died in September, 1874.  Dr. Welden was raised on the farm and 
attended the country schools until he was eighteen years of age.  Then, in 
1862, he enlisted in Company C (Capt. John L. Moore), Thirteenth Georgia 
regiment, with which he participated in the following battles: Second 
Manassas, Fairfax Court House, Second Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Frederick 
City, Winchester, Strausburg, Harper's Ferry, Spottsylvania Court House, 
Fisher's hill and Petersburg, where the command was under fire and in the 
ditches two months.  In the engagement at Burkeville station he was wounded in 
the hip about April 4, and sent to the hospital, but recovered in time to be 
with his command when surrendered at Appomattox.  Returning home to Spalding 
county, he attended the academy until 1867, when he began the study of 
medicine under Dr. Edward Knott, and pursued it until 1869, and then attended 
a course of lectures at the university of New Orleans, remaining a year.  
Subsequently he attended a course of lectures at the medical college of 
Georgia, at Augusta, from which he was graduated in March, 1871.  He soon 
afterward located where he now lives, and has established an excellent 
professional reputation, accumulated property, and acquired a wide influence 
which he has exerted in the interest of the material and moral advancement of 
the people.   He was a member of the board of county commissioners from 1884 
to 1890, and one of the committee which superintended the building of the new 
courthouse at Fayetteville.  His influence has been strongly and beneficially 
exercised in behalf of every enterprise calculated to develop the resources 
and build up the county.  In connection with his practice he has conducted a 
profitable drug business in Inman, of which and the county he is a leading 
citizen.  Dr. Welden was married Nov. 20, 1873, to Miss Mary Frances -- born 
Dec. 9, 1856 -- daughter of Rev. Mozee and Sarah (Hill) Harp.  (For sketch of 
these see that of W. N. T. Harp in this work.)  Nine children blessed this 
union: Minnie Russell, born Dec. 27, 1874; Annie Ellen, born Dec. 20, 1876; 
William Paul, born March 24, 1879; Mary Emma, born Sept. 15, 1881; John 
Burrell, born Feb. 1, 1884; Andrew Carl, born July 21, 1886; Sallie Slaughter, 
born Aug. 1, 1889; Martha Nettie, born March 14, 1892; and Walter Willard, 
born July 9, 1894.  Dr. Welden is a prominent member of the masonic 
fraternity; has been worshipful master of the lodge, and exalted to the royal 
arch degree; and himself and wife are member of the Methodist church, of which 
he has been a steward for fifteen years.

Additional Comments:
State of Georgia Certificate of Death #25786
POD: Inman, Woolsey Militia District, Fayette Co., Georgia
Full Name: Dr. E. B. Welden
Res: Inman, Ga
male white married
Spouse: Mrs. M. F. Welden
DOB: May 18, 1844
Age: 78 y 4 m 27 d
Occ: Doctor
POB: Henry Co., Ga
Father: B. Welden, b. Henry Co., Ga
Mother: Minnie Welden, b. Henry Co., Ga
Informant: A. C. Weldon, Fayetteville, Ga
Recorded: 10/20, 1922
DOD: Oct 14, 1922
Cause: Senile Disability
Burial: Inman, Ga on Oct 18, 1922 (Inman Methodist Church Cemetery)


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