Ware-Richmond-Clinch County GaArchives Biographies.....Bourn, James R. 1880 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 1077-1078

   JAMES R. BOURN. Noteworthy among the industrious and enterprising young
agriculturists of Ware county, Georgia, is James R. Bourn, who has brought to
his chosen calling excellent judgment and good business methods, and is meeting
with signal success, his well-tilled farm lying near Waresboro, not far from the
place of his birth, which occurred October 24, 1880. He is a son of John Bourn,
of Ware county, and grandson of the late Col. Richard Bourn.

   His great-grandfather, Bennett Bourn, the immigrant ancestor, was born in
County Clare, Ireland, of Scotch ancestry. Coming when young to America, he
located permanently in Georgia, buying land in Richmond county, and there being
employed in tilling the soil until his death. He married a Miss Music, who spent
her entire life in Georgia, where her immediate ancestors were pioneer settlers.

   Born in Richmond county, Georgia, Col. Richard Bourn grew to manhood on the
home farm, as a boy and youth becoming well acquainted with the various branches
of agriculture. Settling in Ware county when ready to begin life on his own
account, he purchased a tract of unimproved land, and for a number of years was
engaged in agricultural pursuits, employing slave labor in his farming
operations, remaining there until 1859, when he migrated to Florida. At the
outbreak of the Civil war, he offered his services to the Confederacy, and was
commissioned colonel of a Florida regiment, which was assigned to the Army of
the Potomac, in Virginia. With his regiment, he subsequently participated in
numerous engagements, and was in Richmond when that city surrendered. Peace
being declared, he returned to Ware county, Georgia, and was here a resident
until his death, at the age of seventy-four years. Colonel Bourn married Mary
Ann Taylor, who was born in Ware county. During the war between the states, she
and two of her sons died of cholera, and another one of her four sons died in
the army, the only survivor of her children being John Bourn, father of James R.
Bourn.

   Born in Ware county, John Bourn here grew to man's estate. Choosing for his
life work the independent occupation to which he was reared, he purchased a
tract of wild land lying about three miles from Waresboro, and soon after
assuming its possession erected the substantial log house which he has since
occupied. Having improved quite a large portion of the land, he is carrying on
general farming to advantage. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Deen, was
also born in Ware county. Eight children were born of their union, as follows:
James R., the special subject of this brief sketch; Berry D.; John L.; Mary;
Amy; Eva; Ruth; and Sarah. Berry D. Bourn and John L. Bourn both attended the
Wareboro high school, John L. subsequently completing his studies at the
university of Georgia, in Athens. Both are now ministers, preaching in the
Methodist Episcopal denomination, and being members of the South Georgia
Conference.

   Acquiring his rudimentary education in the rural schools of his district,
James R. Bourn was graduated from the Waresboro high school, and for the next
ten years taught school a part of each year. In the meantime he bought a farm
lying one mile from the parental homestead, and in its management he is meeting
with good success.

   Mr. Bourn married, at the age of twenty-five years, Minnie North, of Clinch
county, Georgia, a daughter of William B. and Harriet North. Mr. and Mrs. Bourn
are the parents of three children, namely: Thelma, Elva, and Homer. Both are
members of the Methodist Episcopal church and are rearing their family in the
same faith. In his political relations Mr. Bourn is a Democrat and takes great
interest in local affairs. In 1909 he was elected school commissioner of Ware
county to fill out an unexpired term, and in 1910 had the honor of being
re-elected to the same position for a term of four years.


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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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