HARALSON COUNTY, GA - BIOS  Austin Ayres

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Source: "MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches,  1896.

AUSTIN AYRES, farmer, Felton, Haralson Co., Ga., son
of Martin and Sarah Ayres, was born in Greenville,
S. C., May 18, 1822. His father was a farmer, and
came by wagon from South Carolina to Georgia, and
settled in Gwinnett county, in 1825. In 1836 he
moved from Gwinnett to Paulding counts,, Ga., and
settled on a lot of land he drew from the
government, and on which the subject of this sketch
now lives. At that time the country was filled with
Indians and wild game, and for many months his
father's family, lived in a log cabin with a dirt
floor, Mr. Ayres' advantages for schooling- were
exceedingly meager. In 1838 he was a member of the
military force which removed the Indians from
Georgia. He began farm life for himself in 1846, by
clearing land; then he made his purchased forty-
acre tract. To this he has added till he now owns
I,437 acres of land. For twenty-five years he has
been a justice of the peace, and is still holding
the office.

He has been extremely successful, and being one of
the wealthiest, as well as one of the oldest
citizens of the county, is highly esteemed, and
commands the utmost respect of everybody. To have
held the office of justice of the peace so long,
common sense and a sense of justice must be
paramount characteristics. Mr. Ayres was married
Sept. 28, 1843, to Miss Susan, daughter of Nathan
and Priscilla Latin, who came from Tennessee to
Georgia in 183o. To them eleven children have been
born: Harriet, Mary Adaline, Jane, Nancy Letitia,
Lou Genia, Alfred, Berry Reubin, Hiram, Sarah
Frances, and William Solomon and Isaac, deceased.
Mr. Ayres is a member of the Missionary Baptist
church, having been baptized July 21, 1843,