TROUP COUNTY, GA - BIOS  J.H. Glanton

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., page 919
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895


TROUP COUNTY

J.H. Glanton, retired planter, LaGrange, Troup Co., Ga., son of
Abner and Tavia (Hardy) Glanton, was born in Monroe county,
Ga., in 1829.  His parents were natives of South Carolina,
whence they came in an ox-cart to Georgia in 1827, and settled
first in Monroe, in the woods, and dwelt in tents until cabins
could be provided.  After a stay of a year or two in Monroe
they removed to Troup county, where they made a permanent home.
About 1830 two of Mrs. Glanton’s brothers, Thomas and James
Hardy, came from South Carolina and settled in Troup.  These
were all pioneer families.  Thomas was a soldier in the war of
1812.  Mr. Glanton was reared on the plantation, and was
educated at the old-time “old-field” school, taught in the
historic dirt-floor log school house.  He has been a farmer all
his life, and has devoted his time and attention to his
agricultural interests.  In consequence of this, when the
“unpleasantness” began he sent a substitute to the army;
subsequently enlisted in two different companies, but was
detailed for local service in the commissary department.  He
started in life with but little, but by strict attention,
keeping abreast with improved methods and implements, and
judicious management and investment, has become one of Troup
county’s solidest and most substantial citizens.  Mr. Glanton
was married in 1852 to Miss Louisiana L. Anderson - born in
Meriwether county, Ga. - daughter of James R. and Caroline
(McQueen) Anderson.  Mr. Anderson was also a pioneer settler of
Troup county, and felled the timber to make his home.  This
wife bore him eight children: Anderson, Mattie, Abner, Tavia
C., Mollie H., and Julia, and two who died in infancy.  Mrs.
Anderson* died in 1872.  In 1874 Mr. Glanton contracted a
second marriage with Mrs. Martha E. Hall, born in Meriwether
county, daughter of John L. Dixon, who bore him one child,
Henry Dixon, and died in 1887.  Mr. Glanton enjoys the respect
and esteem of all who know him.

*This should probably be Mrs. Glanton died in 1872.