Schley Co. Georgia Biography
Cleghorn, Wm. C. P.

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From a page of a publication identified only by
"From Biographical Souvenier of the States of
Georgia and Florida" handwritten in the top margin.
Each of three articles tells of individuals
associated with the Methodist or Methodist Episcopal
Church. The middle biography on the page is that of
William C. P. Cleghorn.


Wm. C. P. Cleghorn was born in Edinburgh, Scotland,
Jan. 5, 1813. His father, Richard Cleghorn, was a
prominent lawyer and his mother Jean (Pierie)
Cleghorn, the eldest daughter of Commodore John
Pierie of Edinburgh. W. C. P. Cleghorn was the sixth
of a family of eight children. He was brought up in
Edinburgh and graduated from the Edinburgh College
when fifteen years of age. Very soon afterward he
became a sailor, which vocation he followed until
1834, when he settled in Jamaica, W. I., and married
his first wife their. He kept books until 1840, when
he went to New York, but remained there a short time
only, when he came south and located at Montgomery,
Ala., and in that portion of the country taught
school until 1857, when he removed to Americus, Ga.,
and followed school-teaching and bookkeeping until
1870, when he removed to Ellaville, Ga., and took
charge of a school, over which he presided for
several years. Since that time he has been retired
from active business. His first wife was Catherine
Delpratt, whom he married in 1834. She bore him
three children, all of whom died in infancy, and she
herself died about 1839. In 1841 Mr. Cleghorn
married Drady J. Barton, daughter of Benjamin Barton
of Montgomery, Ala. To this union were born six
children, viz.: William, Richard, Jane, Catherine,
Isabella and Andrew J. The second Mrs. Cleghorn died
in 1883. Mr. Cleghorn has been a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church for more than forty
years, and has been for many years a local minister.
He is a man of rare conversational powers and can
relate many incidents in his life that are
interesting to both old and young. He has been in
some seaport of every country on the globe, is one
of the best informed men of the South, and is a
Royal Arch Mason.

[Sisters Janie and Isabella Cleghorn married
brothers J. Lee and Seaborn Montgomery McCrory. J.
Lee and Janie McCrory are buried in Ellaville
Cemetery. Although a 1901 obituary states that
Seaborn M. McCrory is buried in Ellaville, his grave
is not identified.]



[First (partial) biography on the page]

...employs eighty hands and manufactures the
celebrated Mitcheline bedspread, cotton checks,
ginghams, stripe and cottonades. In 1843 Mr. Clegg
married Miss Caroline, daughter of Frederick
Chadderton, and of the eight children born to this
union there are two living, viz.: John F. and Sarah
V.  Mrs. Caroline Clegg died in 1857, a member of
the Episcopal Church. In 1860 Mr. Clegg married Miss
Mary, daughter of Philip and Nancy Long. This
marriage has been blessed with three children --
Anthony, Berthy and Willie. Mr. Clegg is a member of
the Episcopal, and his wife of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. In politics he is an Independent.



[Third (partial) biography on the page]

J. Clayton Clements __ __ Apr. 5, 185_ in M______ Ga. 
His parents are Jacob C. and Eliza (Wooten)
Clements, both natives of Georgia. Jacob C. was a
farmer, was sheriff four years, judge of the
inferior court for many years and was State senator
at the time of his death. His death occurred August
23, 1879, at the age of sixty-three years. He was a
member of the Methodist Church and was master of
Lumber City lodge for fifteen years. He died in
Atlanta at his post of duty, as the legislature was
in session.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: Carla Miles transcribed.

The Marion County Patriot, No. 22
June 3, 1887
Page One


Schley County
Enterprise

Rev. W.C.P. Cleghorn, who as a member of the "Montgomery
Rifles" from Alabama, and fought with that company in Mexico
claims to have been the first protestant preacher who ever
preached in Matemoras, the sermon having been delivered in
1846.



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