White County GaArchives Biographies..... Starr, Elijah F.  1820 - nk
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia

Biographical Sketches for White County
Memoirs of Georgia
The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, 1895

Elijah F. Starr, physician and surgeon, Nacoochee, White Co., Ga., son of 
Elijah and Hannah (Townsend) Starr, was born in Greene Co., Ga., July 20, 1820. 
His paternal grandfather, Henry Starr was a native of Maryland who married a 
Virginia lady and migrated to Ga. about the beginning of the present century. 
Dr. Starr's father was born in Maryland in 1780 and about the time he reached 
manhood he moved to Ga. where he married his wife and member of an old Virginia 
family and in 1824 moved to Habersham Co. and bought and settled on land now in 
White Co. He was a farmer and stock-raiser and died at his home Jan. 5, 1837. 
His widow died in 1870 and age 90. They reared a family of six children. Dr. 
Starr completed his education in Clarkesville. Having determined to adopt the 
medical profession he began to study medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. 
William J. Rusk of Clarkesville, Ga. and entered the Medical College of 
Georgia, Augusta from which he graduated in 1844. He located at first at 
Nacoochee but soon afterward went to Fairmont, Gordon Co., Ga. and a few years 
later went to Rome, Ga., where he established a practice. In 1856 he returned 
to Nacoochee where he located permanently. Early in the Civil War he was 
commissioned surgeon of the Twenty-fourth Ga. regiment which was assigned to 
Gen. Longstreet's division, army of northern Virginia with which he rendered 
three years of service. Among the battles in which, with his command, he 
participated were Gettysburg, Antietam, second Manassas, seven days fight 
around Richmond, seige of Knoxville, Chickamauga, etc. His health failing he 
resigned and came home and resumed the duties of his profession. Dr. Starr was 
married to Miss Hannah M., daughter of Maj. Edward Williams of Nacoochee Valley 
by whom they had ten children, two of them only survive: Lula, wife of C.L. 
Hutchins, Gwinnett Co., and Ellene, at home. Of the others, Mary H. died Sept. 
15, 1893; Amelia E., wife of F.L. Asbury, died Aug. 26, 1893; Tattie, matron 
Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Ga. died Sept. 20, 1803; George Williams died 
Sept. 5, 1893 and four died young.

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Iris Thompson Fry


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