Wilcox-Richmond County GaArchives Biographies.....McLeod, George Fletcher 1842 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   GEORGE FLETCHER McLEOD. The people who constitute the bone and sinew of this
country are not those who are unstable and unsettled, who fly from this
occupation to that, who do not know where they stand on political questions till
they are told how to vote, and who take no active and intelligent interest in
affairs affecting their schools, church and property. The backbone of this
country is made up of families which have made their own homes, who are alive to
the best interests of the community in which they reside, who are so honest that
it is no trouble for their neighbors to know it, who attend to their own
business and are too busy to attend to that of others, who work steadily on from
day to day, taking the sunshine with the storm, and who rear a fine family to an
honest name and comfortable home. Such, people are always welcome in any
community and any country. Among such people is the valiant ex-soldier and
successful business man, who is the subject of this brief review—George Fletcher
McLeod.

   Mr. McLeod was born November 23, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, and when a child of
four years removed with his parents John Fletcher and Harriet (Smith) McLeod. to
near Abbeville, Wilcox county, Georgia. He resided upon his father's farm until
about the age of seventeen years, giving over the roseate days of youth to
obtaining a schooling, assisting his father in the work of the farm and in the
usual pursuits and recreations dear to boyhood. He was the first young man to
enlist in the Confederate army from Wilcox county, becoming a member of Company
C, Eighth Georgia Infantry, of General Bartow's command. He participated in the
first battle of Bull Run, was severely wounded in the head with a minnie ball
and remained in the hospital at Charlottesville, Virginia, for about a year. As
soon as he was able to leave the hospital he went back to service and served
throughout the remainder of the great conflict as captain of the commissary
department.

   After the termination of the Civil war, Mr. MeLeod accepted the new
conditions with manly courage and fortitude and at once took his place in the
business world, engaging in the saw-mill, lumber and timber business at
Abbeville, Georgia, for a number of years and since then has been engaged in
other pursuits. He has fine executive ability and fine business principles and
has proved successful. He has also had important financial connections and was
at one time president and is now director of the Bank of Abbeville, no small
part of the high standing of this monetary institution being due to his
discrimination. Mr. McLeod had five brothers and two sisters, but he is now the
only surviving member of his family.

   On December 20. 1881. the subject was united in marriage to Martha Wimberly.
daughter of Lewis Dawson and Juliet (Powell) Wimberly, of Macon. Mrs. McLeod's
family is a representative one of the South, her maternal grandfather. Hugh
Powell, and his wife. Martha (Cottrell) Powell, having been well-known
Virginians. The subject and his admirable wife have reared three fine sons and
two charming and accomplished daughters to young manhood and womanhood. John
Lewis is now located in Savannah; George Fletcher is in Abbeville; Wimberly is a
student in the State University at Athens. Georgia; and Julia and Irene reside
at home. Miss Julia is a rarely gifted elocutionist and teacher of the art and
has given many dramatic readings for the benefit of churches, schools and
societies. Irene is a gifted vocalist and is a much sought soloist and member of
local choirs.

   Mr. McLeod is a popular Mason and exemplifies in his own living the ideals of
moral and social justice and brotherly love for which the order stands. He is
also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the S. D. Fullen
Camp, United Confederate Veterans with whom he renews the old comradeship of
other days. Mrs. McLeod, one of Abbeville's representative ladies, has been
president of the Abbeville Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy since its
organization some twelve years ago. The subject and his family are helpful
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.


Additional Comments:
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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