SCHLEY COUNTY, GA - BIOS John N. Cheney, M.D.

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This bio abstracted from "Biographical Souvenir of the
States of Georgia and Florida," reproduced from an 1889
edition in the publisher's private collection, Easley,
South Carolina.  (Note:  This is a non-copyrighted
publication.)

JOHN N. CHENEY, M.D., of Ellaville, Schley County, Ga.,
was born in Lawrence (Laurens?)County, Ga., August 14,
1845.  His father, Rev. William W. Cheney, was born in
South Carolina, but was taken to Georgia when a boy,
and settled in Montgomery County, where he lived many
years, and afterwards removed to Schley County, where
he still resides.  He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, has devoted a great deal of his time
to the ministry, and is a manwell known in soputhwest
Georgia.  His wife, Sarah (Hudson) Cheney, of South
Carolina, bore him three children, viz.:  John N.,
Thomas G., and Corinne. J.N. Cheney, who is the eldest
child of the above three, was brought up and educated
in Schley County.  In 1861 he joined the Confederate
army as a private in Company B, Seventeenth Georgia
volunteers, and served with that command until the
battle of Chickamauga, where he was severely wounded,
and was discharged.  After regaining his health he
commenced the study of medicine, and in 1867 graduated
from Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia.  He then commenced practice in Ellaville,
and has been constantly and lucratively engaged in the
same ever since.  In 1860 he was elected clerk of the
Schley County superior court, and still holds the
position.

December 3, 1867, he was married to Miss Ann E.
Stewart, daughter of Rev. William D. and Martha
(Stovall) Stewart, of Schley County, and to this union
have been born three children, viz.:  William E.,
Sallie, and Eva.