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Stephen Heard (1741-1815) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., November
13, 1741.
Son of John Heard, Jr. and Bridget (Carroll) Heard.
Engineer; planter;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of
Georgia, 1780-81; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1794-95.
Died in Elbert
County, Ga., November
15, 1815 (age 74 years, 2
days).
Interment at Heard
Cemetery, Elberton, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of John Heard, Jr. and Bridget (Carroll) Heard; married to Jane
Germany; married, August
25, 1785, to Elizabeth Darden (1765-1848); father of Jane Lanier
Heard (who married Singleton
Walthall Allen), George
Washington Heard, Barnard
Carroll Heard and Thomas
Jefferson Heard; grandfather of Sarah Heard (who married Luther
H. O. Martin, Sr.), Rebecca Allen (who married William
H. Mattox), James
Lawrence Heard, Robert
Middleton Heard and William
Henry Heard; great-grandfather of Anna Cassandra McIntosh (who
married Budd
Clay Wall), Nancy Middleton Heard (who married Phillip
Watkins Davis), William
Henry Harrison Heard and Luther
H. O. Martin, Jr.. See Heard
family of Georgia. |
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Ga. is named for him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807-1891) —
also known as Joseph E. Johnston —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.; Richmond,
Va.
Born in Longwood, Prince
Edward County, Va., February
3, 1807.
Democrat. Civil engineer; served in the U.S. Army during the
Mexican War; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1879-81.
Died March 21,
1891 (age 84 years, 46
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Frank Park (1864-1925) —
of Sylvester, Worth
County, Ga.
Born in Tuskegee, Macon
County, Ala., March 3,
1864.
Son of James F. Park and Emma A. (Bailey) Park.
Democrat. School
teacher; civil engineer; lawyer;
circuit judge in Georgia, 1909-13; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 2nd District, 1913-25.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Woodmen.
Died in Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla., November
20, 1925 (age 61 years, 262
days).
Interment at White
Springs Cemetery, White Springs, Fla.
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Julian Larcombe Schley (1880-1965) —
of Balboa Heights, Canal Zone (now Panama).
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., February
23, 1880.
Son of Jordan Schley and Eliza Ann (Larcombe) Schley.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Lieutenant colonel, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers; Governor of
Panama Canal Zone, 1932-36.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers.
Died March 29,
1965 (age 85 years, 34
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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