MONROE COUNTY, GA - BIOGRAPHIES   William H. Castlin

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'MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches, by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., PUBLISHED IN 1896.

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WILLIAM H. CASTLIN, planter, Culloden, Monroe Co., Ga., son
of John and Eliza (Goodin) Castlin, was born near
Taylorsville, Hanover Co., VA., Jan. 27, 1827. His
grandfather, John Castlin, was a native of Wales, and came
to America and settled in Virginia before the revolutionary
war, he being a soldier in the patriot army. He had two
sons, Andrew and John. Andrew died, and John, after his
marriage, came with his family to Georgia and settled on the
Flint River in Upson county. In 1845 he moved to Monroe
County and settled where William, the subject of this
sketch, now resides. In 1856 he removed to Macon, Ga., where
he died in January 1861, aged seventy-three years. He
started a very poor boy, but was a model farmer and manager,
and left a quite large estate. He reared a family of ten
children: John, Gold Hill, Ala.; Sarah, widow of a Mr.
Coffin, Thomaston, Ga.,; W. H. the subject of this sketch;
Flemming, physician, deceased; Ann, wife of Peyton L. Cocke,
Bolingbroke, Ga.,; Edwin, White Bluff, Chatham Co., Ga.;
Bradford, Thomaston, Ga.; Marcellus, merchant, Thomaston,
Ga., ; Catherine, wife of Addison P. Cherry, South Mills,
Camden Co., N. C.; Caroline, wife of John S. Timberlake. His
wife died June 10, 1887 aged eighty-seven. Mr. Castlin was
reared, and has continued to be a planter. In 1862 he
enlisted as a private in Company D, Thirteenth Georgia
regiment, and went to Savannah with the regiment. His health
failing he returned home, and went into a regiment of state
troops. He was again discharged on the ground of disability.
About 1852 he removed from Monroe to Upson county, where he
lived some years, then returned to near Culloden. After a
brief stay he went to his Upson plantation again, where he
remained until 1870, when he moved back to his present
location. Mr. Castlin was married on the line of Monroe and
Crawford counties, December 13, 1852, to Miss Mary A.
daughter of Irvin H. Woodward. She was of an old and
prominent family, and had two brothers of great influence,
and who wwere high-toned, honorable gentlemen. To Mr. And
Mrs. Castlin ten children have been born: Irvin H., drummer
for Tidwell & Pope, Atlanta; Willie, wife of Charles Gray,
Fort Valley, Ga., ; John H. deceased; Eugene, deceased;
Woodward, at home; Sallie M., deceased; Clifford and
William, both at home. In the suburbs of the far-famed old
school town, Culloden, in an old-time southern mansion, Mr.
Castlin is spending his declining years on a plantation of
1,600 acres. He has another in Upson county of 300 acres. He
is a democrat and a master Mason. He is a member of the
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