Thomas-Brooks-Colquitt County GaArchives Biographies.....Alderman, Ansel 1867 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 841

   ANSEL ALDERMAN. The Alderman family has become very well known in the
southwestern part of Georgia, both on account of the industry and excellent
character of the present generation, but also on account of the prominent part
played by the early representatives of the name in the settling and opening up
of the region where their descendants make their homes. The first American
representatives of the family was David Alderman, who came to this side of the
ocean from England in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His son,
Timothy, and his grandson, James, the father of the subject of this sketch, were
pioneers in Southwestern Georgia, and suffered the hardships of primitive
existence in the very section which is now blessed with the advantages of
civilization.

   Ansel Alderman was born on a farm in the Tallokas district of Brooks county,
on the fifth of April, 1867, one of the ten children of James and Jane Roberts
Alderman. He passed his early years on the farm of his father, receiving his
early education in the rural schools of his community. He was married when only
seventeen years of age to Willie Murphy, and the parents of the young bride and
groom fitted them out for their start in life, one family supplying them with
land and the other with stock. By industry and thrift, indoors and out, the
youthful couple soon managed to make a success of their small farm, and in time
were able to add to the original tract until they possessed 650 acres, all in
the Pavo district of Thomas county. Mr. Alderman continued to farm this land
until the year 1902, when he moved to Pavo, where he has lived ever since,
letting out his farm to tenants.

   Willie Murphy Alderman, the wife who shared so many of the happy and
prosperous years of his life, was the daughter of William Murphy, a native of
one of the Carolinas, who was an early settler of Colquitt county, Georgia, in
which locality Mrs. Anselman was born. After a useful, though brief, career as a
wife and mother, Mrs. Willie Alderman died in the year 1901, leaving seven
children. These were: Jessie, who is now the wife of Mont Eller, and whose
children are Clyde and Louis; James, Mattie, Romulus, Corbett, Tommy and Sabie.
Ansel Alderman was married the second time to Lilla Pittman, who was born in
Thomas county, Georgia, the daughter of Ja-ck and Josephine (Hart) Pittman.
Three children have resulted from this marriage, Aline, Willie Lee, and Lilla May.

   Mr. Alderman lives quietly, seeking no public honor, but he is nevertheless a
valued citizen of Pavo and lends his influence toward the good. Mr. and Mrs.
Alderman are members of the Missionary Baptist church, and lend their support to
the works of that congregation.


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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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