MARION COUNTY, GA - BIOS G.W.C. Munro

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., page 490
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895


MARION COUNTY


G.W.C. Munro, planter, Putnam, Marion Co., Ga., son of Edward
and Harriett (De Lespire) Munro, was born in 1825, on Danfuski
Island, S.C.  His paternal grandparents, Edward and Ann Munro,
natives of Scotland, on coming to America, settled in Nova
Scotia, and afterward in New Jersey.  On attaining manhood,
Edward Munro, the father, left his birthplace, Newark, N.J.,
for the Bahama Islands, where he married Harriett De Lespire,
of Charleston, S.C.  The family lived some years on the Bahama
Islands; then on Danfuski Island, S.C.; a short time in
Savannah, Ga.; then in Twiggs county, and finally settled in
Dooly county, Ga.  The maternal grandfather, Dr. Joseph De
Lespire, was a native of France, and the maternal grandmother
was a native of England.  Dr. Joseph De Lespire, a surgeon in
the French army, came to America with the French admiral, Count
d’Estaing.  At the close of the revolutionary war he settled in
Charleston, where he practiced his profession during the
remainder of his life.  G.W.C. Munro was reared on a
plantation, and received a good common school education.
Conducting and supervising his planting interests has been the
occupation of his life.  Since 1857 he has lived at his present
home in Marion county.  In 1863 he enlisted in Company G of the
Twenty-ninth Georgia battalion, in which he served until the
close of the war.  In 1855 he married Martha A. Stevens,
daughter of Hampton and Attalissa (Sparks) Stevens, of Marion
county, Ga.  The children of G.W.C. Munro are: Ida Munro, Mrs.
Ola M. Evans, Mrs. Mattie Simpson, George P. Munro, Dr. Henry
S. Munro and Horace N. Munro.