Jeff Davis-Emanuel-Franklin County GaArchives Biographies.....Cleveland, Morgan H. 1856 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 731-732

   MORGAN H. CLEVELAND. A public-spirited and esteemed resident of Hazlehurst,
Morgan H. Cleveland has for many years been actively associated with the
development of the industrial and agricultural interests of Jeff Davis county,
and he rendered excellent service as city clerk at Hazlehurst for five months
filling an unexpired term. A son of James Monroe Cleveland, he was born, May 22,
1856, on a farm in Stewart county, Georgia, near Lumpkin, coming from patriotic
ancestry, his paternal grandfather, Benjamin Cleveland, having served in the
Revolutionary war under Gen. Moses Cleveland, being major of his company.

   James Monroe Cleveland was born in Franklin county, Georgia, where he grew to
manhood. In his earlier life he participated in several engagements with the
Indians, and in 1838 assisted in removing them from Georgia to a place beyond
the Mississippi known as Indian Territory. He subsequently served in the Civil
war, being commissioned as sergeant in a Georgia regiment of troops. He married
Catherine Wright, a native of South Carolina, and they became the parents of
several stalwart sons, as follows: Benjamin, Cromwell, Thomas, William, John,
Ulisas, Joseph, Frank and the subject. Besides there were two daughters, Sultina
and Eldora.

   Brought up on the home farm, Morgan H. Cleveland was an ambitious student in
his boyhood days, and after leaving the common schools of his native district he
attended the State Normal school, in Athens, Georgia. Entering then upon a
professional career, he taught school for eight years, being employed not only
in Stewart county, but in Brown and Pulaski counties, as an educator being
successful and popular. He has since been an active factor in advancing the
agricultural prosperity of Jeff Davis county, owning and supervising an estate,
which in its appointments and improvements compares favorably with any in the
neighborhood.

   Fraternally Mr. Cleveland is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order
of Masons; and religiously he and the family belong to the Missionary Baptist
church. In 1899, Mr. Cleveland married Mrs. Rahabtuten, of Emanuel county.



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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913




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