Wednesday, April 13, 2011

General Henry Mitchell

Mitchell  Line:  (General Henry Mitchell, Robert Hobbs Mitchell, James Henry Mitchell, Willie Ira Mitchell Alewine, Lillian Estelle Alewine Price King, Randolph Ira Price)

Great grandmother, Willie Ira Mitchell Alewine  (photo source - Bill Alewine/familytreemaker)
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/e/Bill-Alewine/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0002.html

" Rev. Joe Alewine and his wife, Willie Ira Mitchell Alewine and family."  Grandmother Lillian is back row, far right.  My dad referred to his grandfather, Lillian's father, as "Papa Joe."

L.-r. back row: John Wilburn, Mattie Mae, Mamie Lucille, Lillian Estelle. L.-r. front row: Mary Sallie, Willie Mitchell Alewine, Willie Dent, Joseph Addison Alewine, Joseph Lamar.  (photo source- Bill Alewine/familytreemaker) http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/e/Bill-Alewine/PHOTO/0003photo.html

Genealogy:

Henry Mitchell was born February 8, 1761 in Sussex County, VA.
He died May 17, 1839, in Hancock County, GA
State Senator Henry Mitchell, President of State Senate, 1808-09,
11th Virginia Regiment during the Revolutionary War (Sargeant), wounded in 1780 at Buford's defeat near Lancaster SC.
Commander of Georgia Militia
presidential elector

Mitchell County was created from Baker County in 1857. The Act creating the county noted that it was named after General Henry Mitchell. He had been a state senator from Warren County, president of the Senate, a presidential elector, and commander of the Georgia troops after the Revolutionary War. (Source:  http://www.qpublic.net/ga/mitchell/)

Obituary, Macon (Georgia) Telegraph, 4 June 1839:
"Died at his residence near Sparta on the 24th ult at 2 o'clock. General Henry Mitchell in the 79th year of his age; native of Sussex Co Va, but more than 50 years resident of Hancock & Warren Co."
Mitchell County Georgia is named after General Henry Mitchell.
(General Henry Mtichell Tombstone):  "To the memory of General Henry Mitchell a native of Sussex County, Virginia, who departed this life 
on the 17th of May, 1839, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. This stone is placed by his bereaved 
consort. Animated by the same love of liberty which inspired the tongue of Henry and the sword of 
Washington, he cheerfully exposed himself to the hazards of war, and pouring out his blood like water 
at Buford's defeat where he was cloven down by a British saber while gallantly bearing the standard of 
his country. Within a few years of the establishment of American Independence, he became a citizen of 
Georgia; and in the course of a long life filled various offices of trust and dignity, with honor to himself 
and usefulness to the state. In his character and deportment, he united the simplicity of Republican 
manners with the sternness of Republican principles. Embalmed in the memory of noble deeds, his
name will live when this frail monument shall crumble into dust."

General Henry Mitchell  and Frances Hobbs
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19455637

Robert Hobbs Mitchell and Elizabeth Davis

James (Jim) Henry Mitchell and  Lizzie Fulghum (1); Martha Jane McCook (2)

Willie Ira Mitchell and Joseph Addison Alewine

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/e/Bill-Alewine/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0002.html

Lillian Estelle Alewine and (1) William Ernest Price; (2)  Jasper Raymond King

Randolph Ira Price and Iris Fern McEntire

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