Irwin County GaArchives Biographies.....Dorminey, Willis October 12 1828 - living in 1895
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Author: Southern Historical Association, pub.
From:

Memoirs of Georgia;
containing historical accounts of the state's civil, military, industrial and
professional interests, and personal sketches of many of its people.

p. 426-427

Willis Dorminey, planter, Irwin County, Ga., was born in Irwin county Oct. 12,
1828. His father, John B. Dorminey, was born and raised in Emanuel county, Ga.,
and was one of the earliest settlers in Irwin county, which he represented in
the general assembly several years. He died in 1878. Willis Dorminey grew up a
farmer boy, received a common country schooling, and began life on a farm, and
is a farmer still. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A, Sixty-first Georgia
regiment, and was made third lieutenant. After the war he resumed farming, and
also became interested in a general store and the manufacture of naval stores.
He was elected clerk of the superior court, serving two years acceptably; and in
1884 was elected to represent the county in the general assembly, serving two
years with credit to himself and satisfactorily to his constituents. In 1865 he
married Mrs. Rebecca (nee Duffie) Matthews, who has borne him six children, four
sons and two daughters: Edwin J., Irwin county; Norman, farmer, Irwin county;
John D., merchant; Minnie, Irwin county; Jackson J.; Mary E., Mrs. John T. Van,
North Carolina, and Nellie, student, South Georgia college.

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