Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....H.B. Leverett  1845 -  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 513-514

H. B. Leverett

H. B. Leverett, is a citizen of wealth and influence of this county, of which 
he is a native, born in 1845. He is the grandson of a revolutionary soldier, 
Robert Leverett, whose wife was Sidney Bailey, and who moved from Maryland, 
his native state, to South Carolina, where his son, Manuel, was born. In 1825 
he moved to Wilkes county, Ga., and later to Alabama, which he made his final 
home. Manuel Leverett, who served in the late war, married Miss Cynthia 
Lanier, whose father, Jas. Lanier, a native of Maryland, was also a 
revolutionary soldier, and with his wife, Mary Lanier, settled in Jasper 
county, Ga. H.B. Leverett passed his boyhood on the farm with the limited 
educational advantages of those days, and while yet a youth, in March, 1862, 
enlisted for the war. He entered Company K of the Thirty-fourth Alabama 
regiment under Capt. Crowder and fought in many battles: Munfordville, Ky.; 
Danville, Ky.; Murfreesboro; Tullahoma; Kennesaw Mountain; Columbia; Dalton; 
Atlanta; Jonesboro; Chickamauga, Chattanooga; Missionary Ridge; Resaca; 
Franklin; Nashville; Kingston and Bentonville. In the last named engagement he 
was badly wounded, being shot through the shoulder. Mr. Leverett returned from 
the war not only without a cent of money, but to find himself without a home, 
his parents both being dead. For sometime he sought employment, and at last 
was engaged by Mr. Hannah to aid in the construction of a mill. In 1866 he 
rented a farm and soon, by unflagging energy, by diligence and economy, was on 
the highway to success, and he is now the owner of a large and fine 
plantation, and in the possession of the esteem of all who know him. In 
December, 1866, Mr. Leverett married Miss Joyce Hutchinson, the daughter of 
Raymond R. and Lucinda (Lankford) Hutchinson, formerly of Marion county, later 
of Upson county, but now of Meriwether county. Mr. Hutchinson served in the 
late war. Mrs. Leverett was born in Marion county in 1846, and in 1861 moved 
to this county with her father. Mr. and Mrs. Leverett have three children: 
Lavonia, Annie May and Joyce H. The parents are both devoted members of the 
Missionary Baptist church. Mr. Leverett is also a member of the order of 
Masons.




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