Birth: 7th of ten reported children in La Grange, Troup county, Georgia.
Census: 1840 District 656, Troup county, Georgia with wife, eight kids & six slaves, home at what now is Broome & Main streets. (town also has a street named Guinn)
Census: 1850, age 16 La Grange, Troup county, Georgia with parents & five siblings.
Left his prominent, slave owning family of La Grange, Troup county, Georgia, removing west to Jasper county, Missouri, around his twenty-third year in life, 1856, year following father's, year before mother's demise, and three years ahead of our 1859 great depersion, to live but five years prior to being murdered in his doorway. He became second white man to own the land of which he had purchased from original white person owner, John A Shirley (Belle Starr's father), who then moved into town of Carthage, about thirteen miles southeast, and established the one & half story Carthage Hotel, a tavern, livery stable and blacksmith shop—their businesses taking up most eastern city block on north side of the square. John Shirley became a respected member of the burgeoning county seat of Carthage before removing to Texas because of the Civil w
War.
George is said to have operated a trading post overlooking Spring river, not far from confluence of Dry Fork, and the Kansas state line, in what later became Georgia City, of Jasper township in 1868, organized by his older sister, Mary Jane's husband, who came west in 1865 from La Grange, Georgia following his service as a Confederate officer in the Civil war, to manage George's properties, John C Guinn. George also, reportedly, owned some one thousand acres of good, rich, fertile, bottom land, much purchased for $0.75/acre, was a slave owner, and was a wealthy single man when shot down in his doorway by bushwwackers. Burial location currently unknown!
George's early amassed property was the base which his brother-in-law, John C Guinn, built into a fotune, ~ ~ at John's 1927 demise, he was noted, being the wealthiest person in Jasper, county, over one and a half million dollars.
"It would be unfair to blame the Confederate Partisan Rangers or Guerilla Units for all the chaos in Jasper County, as the Biographical Record of Jasper County notes:
"Among the first acts of violence committed in the county after war had commenced was the robbery and murder of George W. Broome, which occurred in the summer of 1861. Mr. Broome was a native of Georgia and had resided in Jasper county a number of years, a young man, unmarried and living on his farm in Georgia City. He was quite wealthy, owning several thousand acres of land, and was engaged in stock raising and farming. He also owned a number of slaves, besides a large amount of other personal property, and was understood to have a considerable sum of money. A body of men, supposed to have been mainly from across the state line of Kansas, came to Broome's house in the daytime and murdered him, burned his house, seized and carried away his money and much personal property. This was the first assassination and robbery occurring after the breaking out of war, and roused a strong feeling for revenge among Broome's friends, who charged some of Broome's neighbors with complicity in the outrage. Some of Broome's friends, citizens of Jasper County, soon after this one night took out John Ireland, who lived near Broome, and after giving him a form of trial on the charge of participation in the murder of Broome, hung him. Some prominent citizens of Jasper County were afterward charged with a part in the hanging of Ireland. These events were only a prelude to the conditions with prevailed afterward.[25]"
SOURCE: Big, Mean, and Ornery!The Life and Times of James Henry Bunch (1834-1929): In-laws, Outlaws, and Confederate Guerilla Fighters (3/20/12)
Father: Rufus Broome b: 1785 Nash county, North Carolina.
Mother: Nancy Williams Pitts b: 1798 Nash county, North Carolina. (married 04/04/1820 in Georgia)
Brothers serving during Civil war found on 1910 Federal census at La Grange, Troup county, Georgia:
10th of ten known children; Broome, James A. ~ D-14 Ala.; lost leg at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864. (in a captain, out a lieutenant colonel)
3rd of ten known children; Broome, John R. ~ K-13 Ga.; Jan. 20, 1864; disabled Feb. 28, 1865. (later active in railroads, cotton mills and banking)
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
Census: 1840 District 656, Troup county, Georgia with wife, eight kids & six slaves, home at what now is Broome & Main streets. (town also has a street named Guinn)
Census: 1850, age 16 La Grange, Troup county, Georgia with parents & five siblings.
Left his prominent, slave owning family of La Grange, Troup county, Georgia, removing west to Jasper county, Missouri, around his twenty-third year in life, 1856, year following father's, year before mother's demise, and three years ahead of our 1859 great depersion, to live but five years prior to being murdered in his doorway. He became second white man to own the land of which he had purchased from original white person owner, John A Shirley (Belle Starr's father), who then moved into town of Carthage, about thirteen miles southeast, and established the one & half story Carthage Hotel, a tavern, livery stable and blacksmith shop—their businesses taking up most eastern city block on north side of the square. John Shirley became a respected member of the burgeoning county seat of Carthage before removing to Texas because of the Civil w
War.
George is said to have operated a trading post overlooking Spring river, not far from confluence of Dry Fork, and the Kansas state line, in what later became Georgia City, of Jasper township in 1868, organized by his older sister, Mary Jane's husband, who came west in 1865 from La Grange, Georgia following his service as a Confederate officer in the Civil war, to manage George's properties, John C Guinn. George also, reportedly, owned some one thousand acres of good, rich, fertile, bottom land, much purchased for $0.75/acre, was a slave owner, and was a wealthy single man when shot down in his doorway by bushwwackers. Burial location currently unknown!
George's early amassed property was the base which his brother-in-law, John C Guinn, built into a fotune, ~ ~ at John's 1927 demise, he was noted, being the wealthiest person in Jasper, county, over one and a half million dollars.
"It would be unfair to blame the Confederate Partisan Rangers or Guerilla Units for all the chaos in Jasper County, as the Biographical Record of Jasper County notes:
"Among the first acts of violence committed in the county after war had commenced was the robbery and murder of George W. Broome, which occurred in the summer of 1861. Mr. Broome was a native of Georgia and had resided in Jasper county a number of years, a young man, unmarried and living on his farm in Georgia City. He was quite wealthy, owning several thousand acres of land, and was engaged in stock raising and farming. He also owned a number of slaves, besides a large amount of other personal property, and was understood to have a considerable sum of money. A body of men, supposed to have been mainly from across the state line of Kansas, came to Broome's house in the daytime and murdered him, burned his house, seized and carried away his money and much personal property. This was the first assassination and robbery occurring after the breaking out of war, and roused a strong feeling for revenge among Broome's friends, who charged some of Broome's neighbors with complicity in the outrage. Some of Broome's friends, citizens of Jasper County, soon after this one night took out John Ireland, who lived near Broome, and after giving him a form of trial on the charge of participation in the murder of Broome, hung him. Some prominent citizens of Jasper County were afterward charged with a part in the hanging of Ireland. These events were only a prelude to the conditions with prevailed afterward.[25]"
SOURCE: Big, Mean, and Ornery!The Life and Times of James Henry Bunch (1834-1929): In-laws, Outlaws, and Confederate Guerilla Fighters (3/20/12)
Father: Rufus Broome b: 1785 Nash county, North Carolina.
Mother: Nancy Williams Pitts b: 1798 Nash county, North Carolina. (married 04/04/1820 in Georgia)
Brothers serving during Civil war found on 1910 Federal census at La Grange, Troup county, Georgia:
10th of ten known children; Broome, James A. ~ D-14 Ala.; lost leg at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864. (in a captain, out a lieutenant colonel)
3rd of ten known children; Broome, John R. ~ K-13 Ga.; Jan. 20, 1864; disabled Feb. 28, 1865. (later active in railroads, cotton mills and banking)
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
Birth: 7th of ten reported children in La Grange, Troup county, Georgia.
Census: 1840 District 656, Troup county, Georgia with wife, eight kids & six slaves, home at what now is Broome & Main streets. (town also has a street named Guinn)
Census: 1850, age 16 La Grange, Troup county, Georgia with parents & five siblings.
Left his prominent, slave owning family of La Grange, Troup county, Georgia, removing west to Jasper county, Missouri, around his twenty-third year in life, 1856, year following father's, year before mother's demise, and three years ahead of our 1859 great depersion, to live but five years prior to being murdered in his doorway. He became second white man to own the land of which he had purchased from original white person owner, John A Shirley (Belle Starr's father), who then moved into town of Carthage, about thirteen miles southeast, and established the one & half story Carthage Hotel, a tavern, livery stable and blacksmith shop—their businesses taking up most eastern city block on north side of the square. John Shirley became a respected member of the burgeoning county seat of Carthage before removing to Texas because of the Civil w
War.
George is said to have operated a trading post overlooking Spring river, not far from confluence of Dry Fork, and the Kansas state line, in what later became Georgia City, of Jasper township in 1868, organized by his older sister, Mary Jane's husband, who came west in 1865 from La Grange, Georgia following his service as a Confederate officer in the Civil war, to manage George's properties, John C Guinn. George also, reportedly, owned some one thousand acres of good, rich, fertile, bottom land, much purchased for $0.75/acre, was a slave owner, and was a wealthy single man when shot down in his doorway by bushwwackers. Burial location currently unknown!
George's early amassed property was the base which his brother-in-law, John C Guinn, built into a fotune, ~ ~ at John's 1927 demise, he was noted, being the wealthiest person in Jasper, county, over one and a half million dollars.
"It would be unfair to blame the Confederate Partisan Rangers or Guerilla Units for all the chaos in Jasper County, as the Biographical Record of Jasper County notes:
"Among the first acts of violence committed in the county after war had commenced was the robbery and murder of George W. Broome, which occurred in the summer of 1861. Mr. Broome was a native of Georgia and had resided in Jasper county a number of years, a young man, unmarried and living on his farm in Georgia City. He was quite wealthy, owning several thousand acres of land, and was engaged in stock raising and farming. He also owned a number of slaves, besides a large amount of other personal property, and was understood to have a considerable sum of money. A body of men, supposed to have been mainly from across the state line of Kansas, came to Broome's house in the daytime and murdered him, burned his house, seized and carried away his money and much personal property. This was the first assassination and robbery occurring after the breaking out of war, and roused a strong feeling for revenge among Broome's friends, who charged some of Broome's neighbors with complicity in the outrage. Some of Broome's friends, citizens of Jasper County, soon after this one night took out John Ireland, who lived near Broome, and after giving him a form of trial on the charge of participation in the murder of Broome, hung him. Some prominent citizens of Jasper County were afterward charged with a part in the hanging of Ireland. These events were only a prelude to the conditions with prevailed afterward.[25]"
SOURCE: Big, Mean, and Ornery!The Life and Times of James Henry Bunch (1834-1929): In-laws, Outlaws, and Confederate Guerilla Fighters (3/20/12)
Father: Rufus Broome b: 1785 Nash county, North Carolina.
Mother: Nancy Williams Pitts b: 1798 Nash county, North Carolina. (married 04/04/1820 in Georgia)
Brothers serving during Civil war found on 1910 Federal census at La Grange, Troup county, Georgia:
10th of ten known children; Broome, James A. ~ D-14 Ala.; lost leg at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864. (in a captain, out a lieutenant colonel)
3rd of ten known children; Broome, John R. ~ K-13 Ga.; Jan. 20, 1864; disabled Feb. 28, 1865. (later active in railroads, cotton mills and banking)
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
Census: 1840 District 656, Troup county, Georgia with wife, eight kids & six slaves, home at what now is Broome & Main streets. (town also has a street named Guinn)
Census: 1850, age 16 La Grange, Troup county, Georgia with parents & five siblings.
Left his prominent, slave owning family of La Grange, Troup county, Georgia, removing west to Jasper county, Missouri, around his twenty-third year in life, 1856, year following father's, year before mother's demise, and three years ahead of our 1859 great depersion, to live but five years prior to being murdered in his doorway. He became second white man to own the land of which he had purchased from original white person owner, John A Shirley (Belle Starr's father), who then moved into town of Carthage, about thirteen miles southeast, and established the one & half story Carthage Hotel, a tavern, livery stable and blacksmith shop—their businesses taking up most eastern city block on north side of the square. John Shirley became a respected member of the burgeoning county seat of Carthage before removing to Texas because of the Civil w
War.
George is said to have operated a trading post overlooking Spring river, not far from confluence of Dry Fork, and the Kansas state line, in what later became Georgia City, of Jasper township in 1868, organized by his older sister, Mary Jane's husband, who came west in 1865 from La Grange, Georgia following his service as a Confederate officer in the Civil war, to manage George's properties, John C Guinn. George also, reportedly, owned some one thousand acres of good, rich, fertile, bottom land, much purchased for $0.75/acre, was a slave owner, and was a wealthy single man when shot down in his doorway by bushwwackers. Burial location currently unknown!
George's early amassed property was the base which his brother-in-law, John C Guinn, built into a fotune, ~ ~ at John's 1927 demise, he was noted, being the wealthiest person in Jasper, county, over one and a half million dollars.
"It would be unfair to blame the Confederate Partisan Rangers or Guerilla Units for all the chaos in Jasper County, as the Biographical Record of Jasper County notes:
"Among the first acts of violence committed in the county after war had commenced was the robbery and murder of George W. Broome, which occurred in the summer of 1861. Mr. Broome was a native of Georgia and had resided in Jasper county a number of years, a young man, unmarried and living on his farm in Georgia City. He was quite wealthy, owning several thousand acres of land, and was engaged in stock raising and farming. He also owned a number of slaves, besides a large amount of other personal property, and was understood to have a considerable sum of money. A body of men, supposed to have been mainly from across the state line of Kansas, came to Broome's house in the daytime and murdered him, burned his house, seized and carried away his money and much personal property. This was the first assassination and robbery occurring after the breaking out of war, and roused a strong feeling for revenge among Broome's friends, who charged some of Broome's neighbors with complicity in the outrage. Some of Broome's friends, citizens of Jasper County, soon after this one night took out John Ireland, who lived near Broome, and after giving him a form of trial on the charge of participation in the murder of Broome, hung him. Some prominent citizens of Jasper County were afterward charged with a part in the hanging of Ireland. These events were only a prelude to the conditions with prevailed afterward.[25]"
SOURCE: Big, Mean, and Ornery!The Life and Times of James Henry Bunch (1834-1929): In-laws, Outlaws, and Confederate Guerilla Fighters (3/20/12)
Father: Rufus Broome b: 1785 Nash county, North Carolina.
Mother: Nancy Williams Pitts b: 1798 Nash county, North Carolina. (married 04/04/1820 in Georgia)
Brothers serving during Civil war found on 1910 Federal census at La Grange, Troup county, Georgia:
10th of ten known children; Broome, James A. ~ D-14 Ala.; lost leg at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864. (in a captain, out a lieutenant colonel)
3rd of ten known children; Broome, John R. ~ K-13 Ga.; Jan. 20, 1864; disabled Feb. 28, 1865. (later active in railroads, cotton mills and banking)
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
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