Screven-Whitfield-Greene County GaArchives Biographies.....Jesse T. Wade 1851 - 
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Author: Author Unknown - Taken from Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II
Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., page 827
Published by the Southern Historical Association in 1895


Jesse T. Wade, farmer, was born in Whitfield County in 1851 and is the son of 
Peyton L. and Elizabeth E. (Robert) Wade.  The father was born in Greene County 
and reared on the farm, studied for the ministry and began preaching about 
1822.  He was a member of the conference for two years and was located at 
Waynesboro, and later lived in Screven County, where he began farming and his 
later life was devoted to this vocation.  He was a Whig in politics and died 
leaving a large estate.  His father was a native of Wales, and moving to 
America when a young man, died here.  The mother of Mr. Wade was Elizabeth, 
daughter of William H. Robert.  He was born in South Carolina and was an 
eminent citizen of that state, dying well possessed of this world’s goods and 
highly respected by all who knew him.  Mr. Wade’s great maternal grandfather, 
Samuel Maner, served in the revolutionary army as captain and was a very 
wealthy planter.  He owned property both in South Carolina and Georgia.  Mr. 
Wade was reared on the farm both in Whitfield and Screven Counties.  He 
graduated at the Virginia Military Institute in 1871.  In 1887 he married 
Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Seaborn and Jane (Bostwick) Jones.  Mr. Jones was 
born in Screven County and was a distinguished lawyer of the state and a large 
landowner and an officer of the Confederate army.  He was the son of A.S. 
Jones, who was a native of Georgia and a son of Seaborn Jones, who was a 
leading lawyer in Georgia for a number of years and a member of congress.  Mrs. 
Wade was born in Screven County in 1865.  She and her husband are both members 
of religious denominations, she being an Episcopalian and he a Methodist.  Mr. 
Wade was county surveyor at one time, and has been a life-long farmer.  Mr. 
Wade comes from a family, which sent four sons to the war.  He himself was too 
young to enlist, but four of his brothers went in the Confederate army.  They 
were Dr. R.M. Wade, now a physician in Athens; Peyton L. Wade, who died in 
Richmond during the war, belonged to the First Georgia Regiment, and was 
promoted for bravery to be first lieutenant; Edward C., of the Savannah Guards, 
who was wounded and captured at Sailor’s Creek and carried to Camp Douglas, 
where he died; and Ulysses P. Wade, who is now a prominent lawyer of Screven 
County.





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