Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....L.J. Milam  1825 -  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
Page 516-517

L. J. Milam

L. J. Milam, a prosperous Meriwether county farmer, is a native of Lawrence 
county, S.C., born in 1825, a son of John and Sallie (Fuller) Milam.  The 
father was a Virginian, who came to South Carolina at the age of twenty-one; 
he served in the war of 1812, during which period he took yellow fever at 
Charleston, but he recovered and lived to a ripe old age.  His parents were 
also Virginians, who made the home of their later years in South Carolina.  
Mrs. Sallie (Fuller) Milam was a daughter of Isam Fuller, a native of North 
Carolina, who settled in South Carolina.  Young L.J. Milam was reared on the 
South Carolina farm and enjoyed but meager school privileges.  The school 
house of logs, as was then common, not only was floorless, but also without 
chimney.  Consequently, as the fire was built in the middle of the house, 
after the fashion of an Indian wigwam, the pupils were often almost suffocated 
by the smoke.   Mr. Milam made agriculture his chosen calling and by assiduity 
in its pursuit has made it a success.  Some years ago he came to Meriwether 
county, Ga., and established himself upon a farm near Jones’ Mill, in which 
place for twelve years he also carried on a profitable mercantile 
establishment, but though successful in this, his chief interest has always 
centered in his farm.  During the war he served for a short time in the state 
militia.  Mr. Milam is one who by his steadfast uprightness in all the 
relations of life wins the true respect of all who come to know him.  His 
married occurred in January, 1846, his wife being Miss Mary. J. Workman, a 
daughter of Hugh and Mary (Taylor) Workman, both of South Carolina, but of 
Irish parentage.   Mrs. Milam was born Aug. 29, 1827, and was reared upon the 
farm in South Carolina, where her parents lived and died.  Both she and her 
husband were honored members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  She died on 
Oct. 9,1890.  Mr. and Mrs. Milam were blessed with ten children: Oscar L., 
Mary A., Sarah J., Robert H., Irena, Emilia A., Irvin and Margaret A.  Oscar 
L., the first born, and Feril A., the third, died in South Carolina, and the 
fourth, Lafayette I., was murdered in Arkansas, Sept. 9, 1893.  Mr. Milam was 
married the second time, July 24, 1894 to Lucretia G. McCrary, a daughter of 
Willis and Maria L. (Gary) Wallis, of Lawrence, S.C.



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