Taylor County GaArchives Biographies.....Mitchell, Family 1912 - unk ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 September 2, 2005, 9:30 pm Author: Grady Mitchell The Reynolds New Era Wednesday, May 14, 1930 SOME BRANCHES OF MY FAMILY TREE (Grady Mitchell) When a typical American tries to trace his ancestry, he usually sets his final goal, rather than let the indisputable facts lead to their own source. The inevitable goal is usually some member of the crew of the Mayflower or the right honorable Cavaliers who settled the shores of Virginia during the early days of America. This is usually the end of the research, for the person, when having gone this far in his investigation he is very well satisfied with the results and very comtentably ends his inquiry. Of course such investigations are absurd and generally false. Not all worthwhile Americans are descendants of the Mayflower's crew or the Cavaliers of Virginia and other Southern states. In many cases the great migration to America have canceled the ancestry of many typical and worthy Ametry(?) and the America of today. In making a research into the lives of my early forefathers in America, I shall not try to determine on which ship they came or whether they were Cavaliers or Roundheads. I shall also limit my discourse mostly to the branch of my family tree whose name I bear. The name Mitchell is a very old English name and may be found recorded in Vaunces public records in England and in America, of years long ago and also today. About the year 1740, four Mitchell brothers, Thomas, John, Luke and Willie from London came to America to seek their fortunes in the New World. These men settled in various sections of the United States to see how each should fair in the different parts of the nation. One of these brothers settled in New York, another settled in Boston, another in Minnesota, and still another whose name was Luke settled in Knoxville, Tennessee. Each of these brothers served honorably in the Revolutionary War and later enriched themselves in the rise of the nation. At Knoxville, Tennessee in the year 1812 my father's father was born, his mother being a Scotch lady, whom his father had married some twenty years before. This young son was named Calvin Morgan Mitchell. When he was about 35 years of age, he migrated to Georgia, bringing with him a large herd of swine, which people then drove to market as they also drove huge masses of horses and mules. Settling in Upson County, Georgia, he here married an English lady whose mother's maiden name was Pope and who claimed relationship with the family of Alexander Pope, of England. She with her parents, had come to America when she was only a small child, and had settled in Georgia. James Morgan Mitchell, my grandfather, with three of his sons, served in the Confederate Army during the Sixties. All these men, except one, came out of the war without any serious wounds. The one whom I mentioned, was very severly wounded in the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. Here he remained until the close of the war. Many times have I heard him tell of the severity of this battle and his stay at Franklin. My grandfather after the close of the war came to Talbot county, Georgia, and there in the year 1870, my father was born. This brings the genealogy of my Mitchell ancestry down to my father's generation. When he was about twenty years old, my father went to Texas to live. Here he stayed for several years, but finally returned to marry and live in Taylor County. After living here for quite a while he went to Blakely, Georgia, and here in 1912, I was born. This completes this part of my family tree; the history of the part in which I live, will have to await the future. This is a summary of what I know of my Mitchell ancestry. The unraveling of which I shall leave to a future day and a longer discourse. Additional Comments: The Reynolds New Era Wednesday, May 14, 1930 NEW ERA OFFERS PRIZE TO REYNOLDS SCHOOL The Editor of The Reynolds New Era has offered a prize of five dollars to the High School student submitting the best composition upon a subject to be decided upon by the Superintendent Mr. E.H. Joiner. We publish in this issue four of these papers with the others to be published next week. The winner of the prize will be published after all papers have been published File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/taylor/bios/mitchell68nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb