Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....G.W. Pinkston  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
Page 519

G. W. Pinkston

G. W. Pinkston, M.D., is one of the chief citizens of Meriwether county, and 
an honored physician, born in Columbus in 1832; his parents, G.B. and Adeline 
(Chatfield) Pinkston, were early settlers of Wilkes county; the father born in 
1808 and a soldier in the Indian war, was of New England parentage, his 
parents having come from Connecticut to settle in Georgia early in the 
century; the mother’s parents, George and Mary (Coats) Chatfield, were also 
among Wilkes county’s early settlers.  Young Pinkston passed his early years 
upon the farm, and his school privileges were therefore very limited.   He 
improved them, however, to the best of his ability and in 1853 began the study 
of medicine with Dr. John B. Chatfield.  In 1854 he attended his first course 
in medicine at Augusta, Ga., and completed his course at Atlanta in 1856.  
Since then he has practiced his profession with diligence and great success, 
until within a few years he has retired from active practice and devoted 
himself to the cultivation of the farm.  In 1859 Dr.Pinkston married Miss C.J. 
Dreury, a daughter of Edwin and Eliza (Williams) Dreury, natives of Virginia, 
who early selected Georgia as their home.  Mrs. Pinkston was born in 1841, and 
was reared in Spalding county.  Both the doctor and his wife are active 
members of the Methodist Episcopal church south.  They have five children: 
John W., W.L., Frances H., wife of Dr. W.R. McCrary, of Senoia, Ga., N.D. and 
Arthur R.   The eldest son, John W., has succeeded to his father’s practice, 
which he worthily carries on, and the family have the respect and good will of 
the entire community.



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