MARION COUNTY, GA - BIOS B. Thompson Peacock

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., page 490-491
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895


MARION COUNTY


B. Thompson Peacock, farmer and merchant, Buena Vista, Marion
county, Ga., son of Benajah and Eleanor (Thompson) Peacock, was
born in Marion county in 1846.  His paternal great-grandparents
were Simon and Zelpha Peacock.  Simon was born in England, came
to this country and settled in North Carolina and lived there
all his life.  He was a Quaker, and being opposed to slavery
emancipated his slaves.  His grandparents, Robert and Wealthy
(Howell) Peacock, were native North Carolinians.  He was born
in Wayne county, N.C. in 1792, and his wife in 1794.  He
migrated with his family to Georgia in 1820, and settled in
Twiggs county, afterward moved to Houston, and thence to
Lowndes county, Ga., where he died.  He was a planter, a large
slave owner and a prominent member of the Methodist church.
Mr. Peacock’s father was born in Wayne county, N.C. in 1814,
and when six years old came to Twiggs county with his father.
From there he went when grown to Houston county, thence to
Macon county, and subsequently to Marion county, where he still
lives.  Farming has been his lifetime occupation.  For twenty
years he has been a confirmed dyspeptic, has had to diet
himself, and during all that time has not eaten a meal with his
family.  He is an exceedingly moral man, and is held in the
very highest esteem by his fellow citizens.  Mr. Peacock’s
maternal grandparents, Samuel and Mary (Lumsden) Thompson, were
native Virginians of Scotch-Irish descent, his father having
been born in Ireland.  Coming to Georgia he settled near
Covington, Newton, Co.  He was a planter and large slave owner,
and reared his family in Newton county, where he remained until
he died.  He was long a consistent member of the Methodist
Episcopal church.  Mr. B. Thompson Peacock was reared on the
farm and had the advantage of a good common school education.
In 1864 he enlisted in Company K, Twelfth Georgia Regiment,
under Capt. J.R. McMichael, and participated in the battles of
the Wilderness, Spottsylvania courthouse and Petersburg.  At
Spottsylvania courthouse he was wounded and captured, sent to
Point Lookout, where he remained until July, 1865, when he was
released.  Returning home from the war poor he taught school
two years, and then went to work on the farm in dead earnest,
with decidedly gratifying success.  He has now 600 acres of
good farming land, and runs a gin of large capacity.  He is
also engaged, under the firm name of Nelson, Peacock & Co., in
a general merchandise business in Buena Vista.  Mr. Peacock was
married in 1867 to Mrs. Elizabeth (nee Hudson) Mott, born in
Lawrence county, Ga., in 1840, daughter of James and Harriett
Hudson.  Mr. Peacock is a master Mason and himself and wife are
influential members of the Methodist church.