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Memoirs of the Fort and Fannin Families PD Commons ^6 t> ^5^ / / / 7 z PD Books PD Commons PD Books PD Commons PD Books PD Commons PD Books PD Commons TOMLINSON FORT, Sr. Taken about 1855. MEMOIRS .OF THE... Fort and Fannin Families EDITED AND COMPILED BY KATE HAYNES FORT > > > * » o J 3 > > . } » > > 1903 Press of MACCOWAN & CoOKE Co. CHATTANOOGA H.S. PD Books PD Commons IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY FATHER AND MOTHER THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY t • I • Astor, Lenox and Tildon foui'iMtions. 1 1 Vv 1CC.4 c • • « . 1 < , • • • 1808fi Table of Contents. PAGE Preface 5 Memoirs of Martha Low Fort 7 Memoirs of Kate Haynes Fort 40 Death of Dr. Tomlinson Fort, 1859 114 Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal. Tomlinson Fort, M.D. 119 Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, 1885. Sketch of Dr. Fort 123 By Judge Junius Hillyer. Battle of Twelve Mile Swamp, or Davis Creek 126 By John Porter Fort. Public Life of Dr. Tomlinson Fort 132 By George Fort Milton. Last Campaign First Georgia Regulars 146 By John Porter Fort. "Uncle Joe"—A Family Portrait 191 By Fannie Fort Brown. A War Wedding in 1865 195 By Sarah Fort Milton. A Story of Arthur Fort 199 By Sarah Fort Milton. A Story of Neddy Pace 203 By Sarah Fort Milton. His 206 Fannin and Men .V-'^-^f-""'-^"'-- Appendix 209 Commission Tomlinson Fort, Jr 210 Memoranda Furnished by Julius L. Brown 211 Copy of Family Record (Fort) 212 Copy of Family Record (Fannin) 213 James Fannin's Will 216 The Fanning Family 217 Invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Clay 220 Sketch of Nancy Allston 221 Sketch of Wilkes Flagg 221 Genealogy of Families Tomlinson and Martha Low Fort 224 "K-^C i^ Ct PD Books PD Commons PREFACE. The memoirs of my mother, Martha Low Fort, were dictated to my sister Fannie, (Mrs. Julius L. Brown) and myself, in the summer of 1881, at Macon, Ga., two years before my mother's death. She was a modest woman, and it was only at our earnest solici- tation that she consented to relate these reminicences. We felt that the lives of our father and mother and the facts concerning the Fort and Fannin families, united by their marriage, were of such interest and importance to their descendants that they should be preserved. With much reluctance, and frequently interrupted by illness, my mother, then seventy-seven years of age, dictated her memoirs. She omitted much concerning herself, being dis- inclined to speak freely of my father's and of her own virtues, nor did she tell all that was known to the family of my father's long, varied and illustrious career. These omissions were due in part to her modesty, and also to a memory less clear than in early life. Therefore, in order to finish these reminiscences, and present the surviving members of the family more complete biographical sketches of our beloved parents, I have supplemented my mother's memoirs with much additional information that I possess. I have also added sketches, stories, and other matter prepared by different members of the family which throw more light on the Fort and Fannin families and especially on the lives of Tomlinson and Martha Low Fort. I believe that I am in better position to do this than any other member of the family, as I was longer and more closely associated with our mother and have made this collection of family history a work of years. Our family and those who knew them best have always considered the lives of our parents full of ben- PD Books PD Commons PREFACE. ediction and an example to their posterity, and I thought that this volume might perpetuate the deep veneration in which they are held. My earnest desire is that it may inculcate in the minds of the younger members of our family an emulation of the virtues of their ancestors. It has been with this intention that 1 have prepared these memoirs and the contents of this volume, and now present them to the descendants of Tomlinson and Martha Low Fort. I am indebted to several relatives for correct data regarding their families, and to my brothers, sisters, and my nephew, George Fort Milton, for their contri- butions, aid and encouragement. I regret that I have been unable to obtain an article from Brother Tom- linson, but am under especial obligations to him for valuable assistance and information received. I have been sustained in this effort at book making by the desire to gratify the wishes of my family, and a conviction, as far as I have been able to learn, of the truth of the statements herein given. Kate Haynes Fort. Chattanooga, Tenn., June 1908. MEMOIRS OF MARTHA LOW FORT. Macon, Georgia, January, 1881. I, Martha Low Fort, am seventy-seven years old, and to gratify a whim of my children have consented to turn story teller and write, for their amusement, all I can remember of my own and my husband's fam- ilies as well as some of the incidents of my long life. True, I do not hold the pen myself but dictate to my daughters. I To begin this little history of the Fort-Fannin families I will commence with Arthur Fort, the father of my husband. Of course I do not know so much of his family as I do of my own. Arthur Fort came of English parentage. I only know that three brothers, Moses, Arthur and Elias, first settled in North Carolina and afterward scattered to different parts of the country. Dr. Fort's family being descended from one of them. Arthur Fort, father of my husband, was born January 15th, 1750. He was living in Burke County, Georgia, when the Revolutionary war broke out. Before the war he had married a widow, Mrs. Whitehead, formerly Miss Susannah Tomlinson. She came of a Pennsylvania Quaker family, was a very small woman, with dark hair and eyes, she was a gentle, loving mother, her children ever retained a tender memory of her. She died December 13th, 1820. She had one son by her first marriage and eight sons and daughters by her second. Her oldest child Sarah, was born the 14th of 1782 August, 1779 ; Moses, March 17th, ; Arthur, April 3rd, 1785; Tomlinson, July 14th, 1787; Elizabeth, December 26th, 1789; Susannah, March 11th, 1792; PD Books PD Commons 8 MEMOIKS OF THE FORT AND FANNIN FAMILIES Zachariah Cox, February 12th, 1795; Owen Oharlton, December 1st, 1798. Arthur Fort, the father of this family, was a man of strong original mind. His early opportunities were poor, but he was possessed of uncommon intellect and passion for reading and was a leading spirit in the stirring times in which he lived. He was a great patriot, served in Georgia with distinction during the Revolution. When Sir James Wright evacuated Savannah, Georgia, he was put in charge of the Gov- ernment house. This I heard in a lecture delivered by Mr. Stevens, author of Stevens' History of Georgia, in Milledgeville. Before Georgia was organized as a State, Arthur Fort was one of the men appointed as one of the first Executive Council. The members of this Council were the authors of the Code of Laws for the State, this fact can be verified in the archives of the State. He fought against the Indians with great bravery during the Revolution. On one occasion he was in a fort on the Ogeechee river, when it was sur- rounded by savages. The garrison was out of pro- visions and some one had to go for help. Arthur Fort volunteered to go, he stripped off his clothes except pants and shirt, tied a handkerchief around his head, mounted the fleetest horse in the fort. The gate was cautiously opened and he dashed out, through the watching Indians. They were so astounded at his daring that they set up a shout, a few hurried shots were fired at him, but he made good his escape and soon brought relief to the beseiged fort. During the war he made a few stolen visits home and was once betrayed by a Tory neighbor, which was the cause of quite a dramatic scene. This neighbor collected a band of Tories and came in to take Arthur Fort a prisoner and kill him. His wife threw herself in front of her husband and one of the soldiers said, "I'll not kill him, little women, for your sake." The Tories MEMOIRS OF THE FORT AND FANNIN FAMILIES 9 contented themselves with depridations of all kinds, even cutting the cloth from the loom, a great calamity in those times, Arthur Fort ever after that vowed to kill that neighbor on sight, the war being over, he took his gun and went out to hunt him. The man seeing Arthur Fort coming fell down at his feet, threw up his hands and begged for mercy. Arthur could not kill such a wretch, but went up and kicked him, as if he had been a dog, and left him, his vengeance having been appeased. After the country became more quiet, he settled on the shores of the Ogeechee river in Warren County, Georgia, where he lived for many years, representing his county in the Legislature and assisting in forming many of the most important laws of Georgia. Most of his children were born at this home. They after- wards moved to Twiggs County, Georgia, where he died on November 16th, 1833. He had two brothers who were soldiers in the Revolution. One of them died of smallpox in Charleston, S.
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