Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....Monroe Davidson  1832 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Pages 504-505

Monroe Davidson

Monroe Davidson, one of the well-to-do farmers of Meriwether county, is a 
native of Putnam county, born in 1832. His grandfather, William Davidson, a 
Virginia soldier of the revolutionary war, and his son Oliver, the father of 
Monroe, was born in Warren county. He served in the Indian war of 1836, and 
his wife was Miss Harriet A. Davenport, a daughter of John and Nancy (Davis) 
Davenport, Virginians, who settled first in Greene county, Ga., and afterward 
in Harris county. Young Monroe passed his early years on a farm in Harris 
county, with the common privileges of the country school. In 1862 he enlisted, 
joining Company H of the Thirty-first Georgia regiment, under Capt. Murphey, 
and was in many battles, among them those of Griswoldville and of Cold Harbor, 
in the latter of which he was badly wounded and unable to serve any further. 
He returned home, and after recovering from his wound devoted himself to the 
cultivation of his farm, in which he has been well prospered. At the time of 
the war Mr. Davidson sold his Negroes, receiving in payment Confederate money. 
He has that money yet. In 1859 Mr. Davidson married Miss Regina Park, the 
daughter of Dr. Andrew and Alethia (Burren) Park, the former a native of South 
Carolina, who came to this state in 1828. The daughter, Mrs. Davidson, was 
born in Meriwether county in 1838. To Mr. Davidson and his wife three children 
have been born: Alethia A., Anna M., and Regina P. The parents are both worthy 
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.



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