Union County GaArchives Biographies.....Logan, Drury 1800 - November 1881 ************************************************ 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: David Boehmer d.boeh@charter.net November 17, 2015, 2:25 am Source: not published - I authored the biography Author: David Boehmer Drury Logan was the third known child of Reuben Logan and Rachel Moore. He was bo born in Allen County, Kentucky about 1800. Drury died November, 1881 in Union Co County, Georgia. Drury lived his childhood and teen years with his parents and siblings. His father died about 1818 in Allen County, Kentucky and left a substantial inheritance to his three children. Drury might have remained in Allen County for several years after his father’s death, then left Kentucky and moved to Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina by 1828. There is speculation that he moved from Kentucky to Franklin to live near his uncle and grandmother, John and Rachel Moore. This speculation is supported by the fact that in the 1830 Macon County census Drury Logan and John Moore are living only two households apart. Also living in Macon County at that time was Mary “Polly” Addington and he her family. Drury and Polly Addington married in Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina on September 13, 1829. Polly, born December 23, 1808 in Buncombe County, North Carolina, was the eleventh of twelve children born to Revolutionary War veteran, William M. Addington, and his wife Delilah Duncan Addington. The record of William Addington is established for membership in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. (Appendix C – Revolutionary War Patriots) Drury and his young family moved to Union County, Georgia by 1834; William and Delilah followed them to Union County a few years later. When William died, Delilah moved in with Drury and Mary Revolutionary War Patriots) Drury and his young family moved to Union County, Georgia by 1834; William and Delilah followed them to Union County a few years later. When William died, Delilah moved in with Drury and Mary’s family and li lived with them until she died. The first child of Drury and Polly, Rachel, was born in Franklin, North Carolina. Then the family moved to Tennessee and lived for a while, having son William before moving back to Macon County and adding two daughters, Anna and Martha. By 1834 the family had moved to Union County, Georgia where the rest of their children were born. (This area of North Georgia had recently been purged of Cherokee Indians who lived there. They were rounded up and forced to leave their native homeland and walk to the “Indian Territories” west of the Mississippi River. The route of this mass “forced” exodus is now known as the “Trail of Tears.”) When the Drury Logan family first moved to Union County they lived in a tent on the No the Nottely River, about six miles south of the county seat of Blairsville, Georgi Georgia. Drury donated the land for a church; then he and several other men workin working together, cut trees, hewed the logs, and built the first church buildi building that became Shady Grove Methodist Church. Drury was one of the charte charter trustees of the church. He built his own log dwelling, just up the hill f hill from the church, only after completion of the church building. Drury Logan was moderately wealthy for his time. He owned many acres in the moun mountains and a substantial plantation. In the 1850 census he gave the value of h of his property as $4000, which at the time was considered a lot of money. In his his neighborhood, Drury lived close to other prominent families. Family legend tells us that Drury Logan would allow no work done at his home on Su Sunday. Even the meals for Sunday were prepared on Saturday. One Sunday his da daughter, Rachel, slipped off to the spring and churned butter because they had mu much company visiting and no butter for them. From the census records we can see that Drury and Polly showed great kindness to others in the family when they were in need. The 1850 census has Polly’s mother, Delilah, living with them, probably since William Addington’s death fi five years earlier. In the 1870 census we see three grandchildren, Nancy and Jo John D. Logan, and Tennessee Beech, living in the household of Drury and Po Polly. Family lore tells us that Nancy and John were raised, for the most pa part, by their grandparents. In the census of 1880 Rachel T. Beech, another gr granddaughter, is living in the Drury Logan household. In later years, after their eleven children were grown, married and on their own, Drury signed notes for a son and son-in-law, William Logan and William Ho Howard, to borrow money to buy thoroughbred horses and/or cattle from Holland. Th The business venture failed when the animals contracted hoof and mouth disease an and most of them died, causing Drury to have to sell much of his property to pa pay the debt. Of Drury and Polly’s eleven children, at least three of their sons and all five sons-in-law served in the Confederate Army. (Appendix E – Civil War Soldiers) Both Drury and Polly lived with their daughter and son-in-law, Eliza and Frank Reece, in their last years. They died in the Reece home. Polly died first on December 23, 1871, ten years earlier than Drury’s death in November of 1881. CHILDREN OF DRURY LOGAN AND MARY “POLLY” ADDINGTON LOGAN Rachel D. 19 Oct 1830 – 30 Oct 1920 Never married William R. Logan 1832 – 21 Apr 1876 married Mary F. Reid; Martha Addington Anna E. Logan Oct 1833 – after 1900 Married William L. Howard Martha Mary Logan 9 Jun 1835 – 6 Jun 1912 Married William Moore Penland Sarah Isabel Logan Aug 1836 – 14 Aug 1918 Married Benjamine James Beach Joab Drury Logan Sep 1838 –17 Jan 1908 Marr: Mary E. Barnett; Mary L. Barnett John Van Buren Logan 5 Jun 1841 – 4 May 1925 Married Sissiline Melvina Rogers Robert Henry Logan 1843 – Jul 1880 Married Sophronia Josephine Hedden James M. Logan 21 Jan 1845 – 15 Oct 1897 Married Catherine L. Meeks Thomas M. Logan 13 May 1846 – 13 Nov 1912 Married Mary W. Lance Elizabeth C. Logan 4 Jun 1849 – 8 Mar 1936 Married Quiller Franklin Reece File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/union/bios/logan430bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.6 Kb