Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....C.F. McWilliams  January 31 1861 -  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 515-516

C. F. McWilliams

C. F. McWilliams, one of the foremost business men of Luthersville, was born 
in Coweta county, Jan. 31, 1861.  He is the son of Andrew J. and Incy 
(Walthal) McWilliams, and a grandson of Andrew E. and Sarah E. (McGowen) 
McWilliams, who emigrated to America from Dubin, Ireland, and the former of 
whom served in the war of 1812, in which he was slain.  He left a large 
family, one of whom, a daughter, still resides in the old home which he built, 
where her mother carried on the practice of medicine after the old fashion, in 
which pursuit she was engaged until her death at the age of ninety-eight 
years, and has done much to alleviate the ills of suffering humanity, 
especially of the feminine portion thereof.  She is one of two sisters and 
eight brothers.  One brother, John McWilliams, assisted in landing the cotton 
in New Orleans from which Gen. Andrew Jackson’s famous breastworks were 
built.  The maternal grandparent of C.F. McWilliams was John H. Walthal, who 
married a Miss Morgan.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812.  Young McWilliams 
was reared on the farm in Coweta county, and received a fair common school 
education, completing his course in the schools of Luthersville in 1879.  The 
next year he engaged as a clerk for Nat Teagle of Luthersville, and after 
eight years of faithful service was able to buy out Mr. Teagle’s business, and 
has ever since carried the business on for himself at the same place, and by 
steady application he has gone on to prosperity.  Mr. McWilliams married Nov. 
21, 1887, Miss Ada Teagle, born in 1871, in Meriwether county.   She is the 
daughter of Nat and Fannie (Darde) Teagle, who were warmly devoted adherents 
of the Methodist Episcopal church.  Mr. Teagle was chairman of the building 
committee of that church in Luthersville, and for more than a score of years, 
the largest contributor to its financial support, long before he was a member 
of it.  Mr. Teagle was a soldier in the late war, and died in 1889.  Mr. and 
Mrs. McWilliams are also faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  
They have two daughters: Irene and Ruby.



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