Misc. Notes
He was the second oldest surviving son.
®99 He went to school in Philadelphia and Athens, Georgia. He had many children but raised only six. He died at Waleska on the Etowah River near Rome, Georgia. On the1830 Census he and his wife lived in Augusta Ward 3, Richmond County, Georgia with 1 male under 5, and 2 female children, one under 5 and one 5-10. He had many slaves.
®3636On the 1840 Census he lived in the 76th District of Jefferson County, Georgia with 2 male and 3 female children.
®3637 On the 1850 Census he lived in the 30th Division of Floyd County, Georgia; a farmer with real estate value of $20,000. Living with him are Sarah D. Eve, his wife age 48 born in Georgia, Mary H. Eve age 20, Ann P. Eve age 18 and Sarah A. Eve age 13. On 23 December 1859 he bought 94 acres in District 17, Section 2, Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia from the estate of James Simpson. In June of 1862 he resold the land to Josiah Sibley for $4500.
®1884On the 1860 Census he lived in Cobb County, Georgia, page 340, Marietta: a farmer age 60 born in South Carolina. His real estate value was $6,000 and personal estate value was $35,847. Living with him is M. O. Eve, age 53, born in Georgia.
by a lady 80 years of age
Mrs. Emma Eve Smith (1798 - 1882)
copied by Mrs. Mary E. Miller Eve 1907
transcribed by Patricia E. Kruger 1994
When I was two years old, my brother John Pritchard was born in South Carolina. He was a noble
hearted, generous and fine looking boy and was devotedly attached to Mother. Kind and helpful to Father also he worked with him in the farm and his mechanical genius enabled him to be particularly useful in the mills of which Father always had several in operation. He was never much from home excepting when at school at Philadelphia and Athens.
He married Mr. John Carmichael's daughter, Sarah, a beautiful young lady who had been raised by Sister Mary. They had many children, but raised only six. He moved to many parts of Georgia and always built a mill, a church and a school house if he found none on his place. His wife died in 1851, only forty-one years old. He married again in a few years Miss Mary Olive of Augusta, whom he had addressed before his first marriage and who made him a true devoted wife through the many moves of the troublous (sic) years of the Civil War and until his death at the old home place, Waleska, on the Etowah River near Rome, Georgia.
The Federals burned twenty-eight buildings there for him with other depredations and caused them to refugee several times. At one time, near Marietta, they had placed the rope around his neck and would have hung him but for the prayers of his carriage driver, Ephraim (and the other servants) but who later on left him to follow the Federals. In 1861 after the first battle of Manassas, he buried his son, Oswell Bones, by the side of his mother. His oldest son, John C. married the third year after the war, Mary Miller of Augusta and he came in his feebleness and suffering to the marriage saying he had had his last wish gratified when he saw John marry Mary. Two weeks afterward on June 13th 1868 sitting on the foot of his couch he quietly passed away.
He was a devoted church member and Elder in the Presbyterian Church. His was the third burial in the up country Eve graveyard at Waleska which he had made sacred ground when he buried his wife Sarah and son Oswell there. Waleska is now known as Eve's Station and has been in the possession of his grandchildren by John and Mary till a year ago (1906)."
"I next removed to Bartow County, near Kingston to be near Brother John, bought a plantation adjoining his on the Etowah River and lived there ten years."
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