Thomas-Bulloch County GaArchives Biographies.....Cone, Ansel B. 1846 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   ANSEL B. CONE, who for many years has been identified with the useful and
honorable activities of Thomas county, and who is now living retired in Boston
after a successful career as farmer and business man, was born in the Boston
district of Thomas county on the 25th of May, 1846. The Cone family and its
connections have been prominently identified with this portion of Georgia since
pioneer times.

   His grandfather, Joseph Cone, after many years' residence in Bulloch county,
became one of the early settlers of Thomas county, locating on Ancilla creek in
what is now the Boston district, where he bought timbered land and improved a
farm. There he resided until his death, and his great-granddaughter and her
children now occupy the homestead. Joseph Cone married a Miss Stewart, whose
parents came to America from their native Scotland, but after a residence of a
few years on this side the Atlantic returned to Scotland, leaving some of their
children here. The five children of Joseph Cone and wife were: James, John,
Joseph, Matilda and Susan.

   John Cone, father of Ansel B., was born in Bulloch county the 19th of April,
1806, and soon after his marriage there came to Thomas county. Here his father
gave him land on Ancilla creek, on which he first erected a log cabin and later
a substantial hewed-log house, in which his son Ansel and other children were
born. For many years after the settlement of the Cone family, this part of
Georgia had few improvements. Thomasville was a hamlet, with a log courthouse.
Before the railroad era John Cone hauled his produce to St. Marks in Florida,
this market journey requiring several days, and afterwards Tallahassee became
the nearer market. He owned a number of slaves and was one of the prosperous men
of this county. His death occurred on July 23, 1869. He married Civility Walker,
who was born April 7, 1809, a daughter of Isham and Civility Walker, who were
born respectively on April 7, 1769, and September 24, 1777, and who spent their
last years in Bulloch county. Civility (Walker) Cone died on November 12. 1889,
and her twelve children were named as follows: Isham W., William A., Elizabeth
S;, Joseph J., James F., Aaron P., Annie C., John D., Ansel B., Margaret S.,
Henry F. and King S. Six of these sons served in the Confederate army, James
giving his life to the southern cause, and few southern families were better
represented in the war by practical service than the Cones.

   At the age of eighteen, in 1864, Ansel B. Cone likewise offered his services
to the southern government. He enlisted in Company F of the Fifty-seventh
Georgia, known as the "Dixie Boys," and was with the regiment in all the battles
from Dalton to Atlanta, afterwards went with Hood's army in Tennessee, and at
the close of the war surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina. Following his
return home he attended school for a while. After his father's death he assumed
the management of the home farm until he was ready to embark upon his
independent career. He then bought one hundred and eighty-four acres at ten
dollars an acre, this tract adjoining the old homestead. His agricultural
enterprise prospered from the start, and to his original place he added until
his farm comprised five hundred acres. He gave his active supervision to this
estate until 1887, but in December of that year established a warehouse in
Boston, where he has since had his residence. After being in business fourteen
years he retired, his attention having since been directed in a general way to
his farm and to the management of his town real estate.

   Mr. Cone is affiliated with Horeb Lodge No. 281, F. & A. M.; with J. M.
Rushin Chapter, R. A. M., and for the past seventeen years has been commander of
the Boston camp of the Woodmen of the World. December 28, 1869, Mr. Cone married
Miss Laura P. Johns. She was born in Bradford county, Florida, a daughter of
Archibald Johns, who was an early settler of Bradford county, and had formerly
been a resident of Bulloch county, this state. Mrs. Cone died on the 21st of
November, 1870, leaving an infant daughter, Laura, Mr. Cone's second marriage
occurred in February, 1872, when Mary J. Barrow, daughter of Joshua N. and
Emeline (Ramsey) Barrow, became his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Cone are members of the
Missionary Baptist church. Mr. Cone's only child, Laura, is now deceased. She
married John J. Paramore and reared two children, named Dubel Ansel and Geneva
Amanda. The grandson, Dubel A. Paramore, married Maude Norton, and they are the
parents of two daughters, Laura Louise and an infant. Geneva Amanda married Mims
Groover, and they have one daughter, Pearl E. Thus Mr. Cone is the
great-grandfather of three.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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