Muscogee County GaArchives Photo Person.....Overbey, James Nathanial 
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Name:               James Nathanial Overbey
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James Nathanial Overbey son of Obediah Overbey II and Edith Wilbourne of 
Virgilina, Virginia, served with the 14th Inf of VA during the Civil War.  He 
came to Georgia around 1870 first living in Woodberry and later at Flat Rock 
across from the Baptist Church.  He was the first Post Master of the Flat Rock 
Post Office having named the Post Office.  James B. Manry has a Post Card with 
the Flat Rock postal seal on it from James to his son Charlers P. Overby dated 
1894 a year before James death in 1895.  He was married to Lucy Payne Jelks 
from Petersburg, VA.  Their stones are in the Calhoun lot of Shilo Cemetery on 
the corner Double Churches and Whitesville Road Columbus, GA.  A marker 
dedication to James will be held Nov. 25, 2006 at 11 A.M.

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