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Nathan Crawford Barnett (c.1801-1890) —
also known as Nathan C. Barnett —
of Georgia.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., about 1801.
Son of William Barnett and Anna (Crawford) Barnett.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives; elected 1836; secretary of
state of Georgia, 1843-49, 1851-53, 1861-68, 1873-90.
English and Scottish
ancestry.
In 1864, as Union troops approached Georgia's then capital of
Milledgeville, he hid and protected the Great Seal of Georgia
underneath his house.
Died February
4, 1890 (age about 89
years).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of William Barnett and Anna (Crawford) Barnett; nephew of William
Harris Crawford; married to Margaret J. Morton (died 1840);
married 1841
to Mary Ann Cooper. |
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Dupont Guerry (b. 1848) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Americus, Sumter
County, Ga., March 26,
1848.
Son of William Barnett Guerry and Sarah Amanda (Dixon) Guerry.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate 13th District; elected 1880; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, 1886-1901;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1892;
candidate in primary for Governor of
Georgia, 1902; president,
Wesleyan Female College, 1903-09.
Methodist.
French
Huguenot and English ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949) —
also known as Chase S. Osborn —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.; Possum Poke, Poulan, Worth
County, Ga.
Born in a log
house in Huntington
County, Ind., January
22, 1860.
Son of George A. Osborn and Margaret (Fannon) Osborn.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; postmaster;
member of Michigan
Republican State Executive Committee, 1899; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1899; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1908-11; appointed 1908; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1908;
Governor
of Michigan, 1911-12; defeated, 1914; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918, 1930; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1928;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1936.
Presbyterian.
English, French,
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
Lions;
Knights
of Pythias; Audubon
Society; National Rifle
Association; Sigma
Chi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Pi Gamma
Mu; Sons of
the American Revolution; Elks; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Grange.
Died April 11,
1949 (age 89 years, 79
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Chippewa County, Mich.
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John Pattillo Ridley (b. 1955) —
also known as John Ridley —
of Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Crawford Long Emory University Hospital,
Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., February
25, 1955.
Son of Harry William Ridley, Jr. and Francis Jo Pattillo Ridley.
Democrat. Special assistant, U.S. Congress, 1974-78; legislative
attaché, Georgia General Assembly, 1978-80; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1980,
1988
(alternate); candidate in primary for Georgia
state house of representatives 56th District, 1980; vice-chair,
DeKalb County Democratic Party, 1980-84; city commissioner, Decatur,
Ga., 1998-2002.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
and English ancestry.
Still living as of 2003.
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Relatives:
Married 2000
to Susan Elaine Hart Ridley. |
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