HARALSON COUNTY, GA - BIOS  C.C. Eaves

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

C C. EAVES, farmer, Buchanan, Haralson Co., Ga., son
of L. B. and Lavinia (Camp) Eaves, was born in
Paulding county, Ga., in 1834. His father came from
Rutherford county, N. C., where he married his wife,
a daughter of Cleburne Camp, who came to Georgia in
1832. When his parents settled in Haralson county
they were in moderately good circumstances. His
father died at the age of SIXTY- five and the mother
at the age of seventy-two years. Mr. Eaves was
reared on the farm, but like thousands of others,
children of frontiersmen and pioneers, received very
meager schooling, owing to inconveniences and
disadvantages, both of Accommodations and teachers.
He, however. by studying at home at night by fire-
light, improved himself very much in that respect.
In 1862 he enlisted in Montgomery's artillery, with
which he remained about six months, when, being
taken sick, he returned home and sent a substitute
to the army. His attention has been given
principally to his farm, although at one time he
engaged in merchandising, and now, in addition to
his farm, runs a grist mill. A plain, commonsense,
unostentatious farmer, he is entirely content with
his vocation, with its sufficient income, and with
being regarded by his neighbors as an honorable man
and citizen.

Mr. Eaves married in 1865, for his first wife, Miss
Amanda, daughter of John and Betsy Kirk , of Pike
county, Ga., by whom he had nine children: Johnnie
Cleburne, William Taylor, Benjamin F'ranklin, Davy
Alonzo, Davis, Lovie, Bailey Sedford and Jackson. He
married for his second wife Miss Jennie, daughter of
Absolom Wilson. Himself and wife are consistent and
zealous members of the Primitive Baptist church.
About the close of the war he was, elected a justice
of the peace. [Note - 2-5-2003. Full Name: Calburn
Camp; Buried at Piney Woods Cemetery. Bn. Sept. 26,
1832, Died Dec. 9, 1912 First Wife: Mary Amanda
Kirk, bn. Nov. 7, 1848, Died May 4, 1882 Second
Wife: Nancy Ann Wilson, Bn. Nov. 7, 1847, Died Apr.
30, 1937]