OBEDIAH "SR." ECHOLS Family

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Richard Echols had six sons and five daughters

Children of Old Richard Echols are:

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  5. Obediah Echols was Richard Echols fifth son. He married a very rich old Irishman’s daughter. His name was Wm. McDaniel, her name was Caty McDaniel. They had five sons and two daughters. Obediah was a Baptist preacher of the highest orderof his day.
    Children of Obediah Echols and Caty McDaniel
    1. William Echols who died at about 19 years old.
    2. Benjamin Echols md Betsy Milner in KY, his own cousin.2. second son Benjamin Echols. He was a nearsighted man, not very bright, but had the most extensive recollection of any man. He inherited a large estate from his grandfather McDaniel’s estate but had not forecast enough to take care of it. They had several children, one son named Obediah, one daughter named Mariea. I know nothing more of his family as they moved to Tennessee but left Blind Ben.
    3. James Echols md married Sally Rutledge. Obediah Echols third son was James, married Sally Rutledge, raised several children. One of his sons was named Silas Echols said to be a very smart man. James was a great farmer, a great hand to make tobacco, and from that was called Horn Worm James.
    4. Obediah Echols. Obediah’s fourth son was named Obediah. He married a Miss Franklin in Virginia but moved to Georgia and died young, left two children, a son named Josephus and a daughter.
    5. Elijah Echols. Obediah’s fifth son was named Elijah. He married a girl by name of Willingham. He was said to be the greatest millright that ever was seen in the State.
    6. Betsy Echols
    7. Nancy Echols (Obediah’s two daughters were named Betsy and Nancy, one married Thos. Rutledge, the other married Wm. Arnold. They both moved to Tennessee. I know nothing further of their families.

    Obediah’s wife died. He then married a widow Jones near Richmond in Virginia. Her maiden name was Jackson, she was a half sister to the great General Lawson. By her he had two sons and one daughter.

    Children of Obediah Echols and widow Jackson Jones
    1. Philip Jackson Echols, his first son, lives in Crawford County, Georgia, and one son lives in a little town in Monroe or Forsyth County. He has been Clerk of the Court in Crawford County.
    2. Samuel Echols married Sally Booker and moved to Alabama and died.
    3. Polly Echols married a man by name of Raney, moved to Giles County, Tennessee and died a few years ago

  6. Joseph Echols was sixth son of Richard. He was a Methodist preacher, married Polly Stamps and by her had five sons and four daughters.
    1. First son Ruben married Betsy Owen. He moved to Mississippi and died shortly. He had several sons, He had one daughter Sarah, married Samuel Marshall, lives in Coweata County. Another daughter Caty married a man by name of Bell.
    2. Joseph’s second son was Levi, married a Miss Hubbard, became vastly rich and died soon. He lived in Washington, Wilks County, had but one child, that was a boy named Joseph Hubbard Echols. He is a man of great learning. He is a Methodist preacher and a lawyer and he was the president of the Female Academy in Madison, Morgan County, Georgia.
    3. Joseph Echols third son named Simeon married Caroline Van Allen, daughter of Peter L.Van Allen. He was a very great lawyer, and was killed by Wm. H. Crawford in duel on the bank of Savannah River in South Carolina at Braksdale Ferry. Caroline Van Allen was said to be worth $20,000 when Simeon Echols married her. They moved to Mississippi near Columbus to a little town called Athens where he shortly died. His wife lives at the same town and keeps a public house.
    4. Joseph Echols fourth son was Josephus, a very tall man, became a doctor. He went to Alabama to a town called Selma and by his Partner, said to have got very rich.
    5. Joseph Echols fifth son, William, was also a doctor, never married, had a wen on his neck which was cut out and he died immediately at about 24 or 25 years of age.
    6. Joseph Echols first daughter Tabitha married Thomas Cooper, had no child, died in Cowetta County.
    7. His second daughter Caty married a very worthy man in Jasper County named Archibald Standifer. She was upward of forty years old when she married, had no child.
    8. His third daughter Rebecca never married, lives in Newnan, Cowetta.
    9. His fourth daughter Olive married an Englishman named John Daughterty, lives in Coweata County, keeps a public house.

  7. Mary Echols, married Thos. Wynne, had 2 sons and 4 daughters.
    1. His first son was Obediah, married Onry Bolton in Virginia, had by her several children,first son John Wynne lives Oglethorpe, married a girl Owen, one son named Glen Wynne married a daughter of Samuel Lumpkin and lives in Coweata County.
    2. Thos. Wynne’s second son Thos. Wynne Jr. was left very rich by his father but alas - he was a drunkard and gambler and married onto a very low family, spent his property in a few years and went over seas to some foreign land, his family lives in the upper part of Georgia. He had one daughter married a man by name of J. Brand, and two of his daughters married two brothers named Fincher.
    3. Thos. Wynne’s first daughter married Wm. Arnold, had three children, one son and two daughters - she was by name Rhoda, weighed nearly 400 pounds. Her son was William, married a Miss Milner, had two sons by her and died. One of his sons is a wholesale merchant in Charleston, South Carolina. One of her daughters married Samuel Lumpkin of Oglethorpe, the other married David Owen of Newnan, Coweata County, all very wealthy people.
    4. Thos. Wynne’s second daughter married Levi Marshall - a brother to the great preacher Abraham Marshall - they had several sons and daughters. First daughter married Robert N. Crawford of Columbia County.
    5. Thos. Wynne’s third daughter Kitty married John Bolton, they had three sons and two daughters. Their sons were Thos., Charles and John. Thos. Lives in Newnan, Charles lives Wilks, vastly rich. John died. He lived in Cobb County on the Chattahoochee River near Montgomery’s Ferry. Their daughter Betsy married Philip Cooper and died shortly, their daughter Polly married Thos. Sims, lived in Washington, Wilks County. He died and then she married a man by name of Sherburn, he died.
    6. Thos. Wynne’s fourth daughter Lucy married William Booker, had by him three daughters and one son, their names were Polly who died, Sally who married Samuel B. Echols and now lives in Alabama. Third daughter Lucinda married William Galbreath, they have one daughter married Absalom Echols Roberts and another married a Mr. Hester and they also have a young son I know not his name. The son of Wm. Booker was the notorious John W. Booker who died in Monroe, Walton County, Georgia.

  8. Drucilla Echols married Wm. Owen and raised a large family. They all went to western countries but one daughter, her name was Rhoda. She married the Rev. Malachi Reeves.
  9. Sally married John Milner moved to Kentucky in a very early date raised a very large family. Their sons were Armstead Milner, a very rich man, John Milner and Mark Milner.
  10. Anna married James Daniel. They had five children, four sons and one daughter. Their sons were Moses, Hopkins, Echols Daniel and Jeremiah. Their daughter Caty never married. Echols Daniel married but never had children by his wife. He is a vastly rich man, lives in Floyd County. Hopkins married the widow Crane, the grandmother of John Glover Crane of Charleston. Jeremiah Daniel married and moved to the west.
  11. Elizabeth married William Raney, had one daughter named Betsy Hunter Raney. She married a very great lawyer by name of Edward Jones who lives in Giles County, Tennessee.