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   ALEXANDER SHAW PENDLETON.    One of the prominent commercial men of southern
Georgia is Alexander Shaw Pendleton, a wholesale grocer at Valdosta, in whose
veins is mingled the blood of several of the South's leading families and whose
lineal connections reveal the names of many able men, some of high position in
government, others leaders in military affairs, and a number who have become
eminent in professional life, especially in the field of literature. The
Pendletons were originally an old and honored family of Norwich, Lancashire,
England.   The American branch originated with Philip Pendleton, who was born in
England in 1650 and came to America in 1674. After six years here, or in 1682,
he returned to England but later turned once more toward the New World and took
up his residence in King and Queen county, Virginia. He married a Miss Isabella
Hart, or Hurt, and died in 1721. Henry [2] Pendleton was a son of Philip [1]
Pendleton, the emigrant, and the father of James [3] Pendleton. Henry [2]
Pendleton was born in 1683 in Caroline county, Virginia, and died there in 1721,
the same year his father died. Henry [2] Pendleton married, 1701, Mary Taylor,
daughter of James [1] Taylor and Mary Gregory, his wife, ancestors of President
Zachary Taylor. Their son, James Pendleton, was the great-great-grandfather of
Alexander Shaw Pendleton, whose  name introduces this review. James Pendleton,
born in Virginia and a life-long resident of that commonwealth, served as high
sheriff of Culpeper county in 1738. He married Elizabeth Clayton and their son,
Capt. Philip Pendleton, born in Caroline county, Virginia, in 1732, was the next
lineal ancestor of our subject. He commanded a company in the Revolutionary war
and a valued heirloom in this family is the old Bible in which is preserved a
record of his services as a patriot. He and his wife, Martha Aubrey, both
life-long residents of Virginia, were the parents of Cole-man Pendleton, the
grandfather of our subject. Coleman Pendleton, born in Culpeper county,
Virginia, August 4, 1780, migrated to Georgia and became an early settler in
Putnam county, where he resided many years. Late in life he removed to Alabama
and spent his last years in Tallapoosa county of that state, passing away there
on May 31, 1862. He was married June 6, 1808, to Martha Gilbert, a daughter of
Captain Benjamin and Hannah (Butler) Gilbert. They were married in 1779 in
Bedford county, Virginia. Captain Gilbert entered the Revolution as a private in
the command of Col. Charles Harrison, who served under General Washington, and
in 1778 he was promoted to a captaincy. He was severely wounded at the battle of
Monmouth, New Jersey, where his ankle was shattered by a musket ball, and as
evidence of his valorous services during that great struggle for liberty he bore
to his grave scars of wounds inflicted by British sabres. Coleman and Martha
(Gilbert) Pendleton reared three sons and two daughters. The sons were William,
who died in young manhood; Edmund, a well-known writer in his younger days, who
successively became a successful physician, a professor of agriculture in the
State University of Georgia, and finally late in life a wealthy manufacturer at
Atlanta, Georgia; and Philip Coleman, the father of our subject.

   Philip Coleman Pendleton was born in 1812 in Eatonton, Putnam county,
Georgia, and for many years was prominently connected with the press of Georgia.
Associated for a time with C. R. Hanleiter in the publication of the Southern
Post at Macon, he severed his connection with that paper in 1836 to serve in the
war against the Seminole Indians in Florida. About 1840, with Rev. George F.
Pierre, afterward a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal church, he began the
publication of the Southern Ladies' Book in Macon, but later changed the name of
the periodical to that of The Magnolia and published it first in Savannah,
Georgia, and then later in Charleston, South Carolina. Upon ceasing the
publication of The Magnolia, which was the first magazine ever published south
of Richmond, Virginia, he took up the practice of law in Sandersville, Georgia,
and also published the Central Georgian until 1857, when he removed to Ware
county and there bought a large tract of wire grass land which included the
present site of Waycross, Georgia. He named his estate "Tebeau," after his
wife's family name, and here he gave himself up wholly to agricultural pursuits
for a few years. In the great issue between the South and the North he did not
favor secession, but when war had actually begun he responded to the call of the
Southland, enlisted for its service and was made captain of his company. When
the Fiftieth Georgia Regiment was organized he was elected a major and served in
that capacity through several of the Virginia campaigns. In 1863 he was obliged
to resign on account of ill health. Disposing of his estate in Ware county, he
then removed to Lowndes county, where he purchased a farm ten miles south of
Valdosta. In 1867 he began the publication of the Southern Georgia Times, which
he continued until his death in 1869 as a result of injuries received when
thrown from a carriage. While living in Savannah he married Miss Catherine
Tebeau, daughter of Frederick E. Tebeau, and a descendant of James Tebeau, one
of the first settlers in Savannah. John, the son of James Tebeau, just
mentioned, married Catharine Treutlen, daughter of Frederick Treutlen. The
Tebeaus were French and the Treutlens were English. Frederick Treutlen was a
native of Holland, but for political reasons fled that country with his wife and
two sons, John Adam and Frederick, locating in London, England, where they
resided a few years and where the wife and mother died. From there the father
and his two sons embarked for America, but France and England being at war at
that time, their vessel was captured by the French and all on board were taken
to France and put in prison. There the father died. The sons were released after
several months and returned to England, whence they once more turned toward the
New World. Landing on St. Simons island, off the central coast of Georgia, they
made their way from there to Savannah, where they arrived about two years after
Governor Oglethorpe first settled there. The son John Adam finally settled in
Effingham county and was governor of Georgia from May, 1777, to January, 1778.
Frederick Treutlen, the other son, married Margaret Schadd, daughter of Col.
Solomon Schadd, who settled on Wilmington island at the mouth of the Savannah
river, in a very early day. His estate is still in the possession of descendants
of his and the house which he built there in 1748 is said to be the oldest
building yet remaining in Georgia. Frederick and Margaret (Schadd) Treutlen were
the parents of Catherine, the wife of John Tebeau, who was a son of James, the
early settler in Savannah, and father of Frederick E. Tebeau, the maternal
grandfather of our subject. To Philip Coleman and Catherine (Tebeau) Pendleton
were born the following children: William F.; James A.; Philip C.; Chas. R.
Pendleton; Emline T.; Mary Z.; Louis B., and Nathaniel D., of whom James and
Philip are deceased. William F. Pendleton, the eldest son, a captain of the
Fiftieth Georgia Regiment during the Civil war, served three years and
participated in nine of the hard fought battles of that conflict as well as in a
number of minor engagements. He is now a bishop in the Swedenborgian church.
Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton, who is well known throughout Georgia as the
editor of the Macon Telegraph, ranks among the best journalists of our country
and is well known for his independent views on political issues and for his
fearless advocacy of them. Louis Beauregard Pendleton is a well known author and
some of his novels and juveniles have been translated into four different
languages. Nathaniel D. Pendleton is a minister in the Swedenborgian church.

   Alexander Shaw Pendleton was born at Sandersville, Washington county,
Georgia, March 17, 1855. He was educated at Valdosta Institute, Valdosta,
Georgia, and after his father's death assisted his elder brother in the office
of the Valdosta Times for a while. In 1873, then a youth of eighteen, he began
his independent business career by opening a small grocery store at Valdosta,
small because his means were very limited. His business steadily prospered and
increased until 1897, when it had reached those proportions justifying a more
effective business arrangement and one that would permit the business to branch
out along more extensive lines. For this purpose there was organized The H. S.
Pendleton Company, a wholesale grocery company, of which Mr. Pendleton has been
president from the time of its organization to the present. He is a man of
business ability and has not only achieved a gratifying personal success but has
built up one of the most prosperous business enterprises of his city. Aside from
his commercial interests he is interested in real estate and both agriculture
and horticulture. At his city home he has a tract of five acres that is devoted
to the raising of vegetables and fruits and he also owns a farm of one hundred
acres located but a short distance from Valdosta.

   In November, 1881, Mr. Pendleton was united in marriage to Susan Parramore,
who was born in Thomasville, Georgia, a daughter of Noah Parramore and a
granddaughter of John and Nancy (Brinson) Parramore. Noah Parramore was for some
time an extensive farmer in Thomas county, Georgia, but after the war removed to
a farm he purchased in Lowndes county, where he continued to reside until his
death. His wife was Susan Dasher, a daughter of Christian and Elizabeth
(Waldtheur) Dasher. Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton have six children living, namely:
Philip Coleman; Elizabeth P.; Gertrude A.; Albert 0.; Frederick W. and Alexis R.
Francis, the sixth child in order of birth, died at the age of twenty. Their
oldest son, Philip C., married Susan Hickey Corner and has two children,
Catherine and Elizabeth: and Gertrude, their second daughter, is now the wife of
Charles I. Harrell. Mr. Pendleton is a member of the Swedenborgian church and
Mrs. Pendleton is affiliated with the Church of Christ.


Additional Comments:
From:

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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