John W. Duckett was born 25 October 1840 in Buncombe County, North Carolina, the first of four children of Jesse Duckett and Lorana Caroline Hice Duckett. He and his parents came from Buncombe County (NC) to the Pickens/Gilmer County, Georgia, area around 1841. His father, Jesse, died in 1846 in Pickens County, Georgia, when John W. was not yet six years old. He and his three siblings (Marinda Jane, Martha Catherine and James Madison) were raised by their mother, who never remarried after the death of her husband.
John W. married Martha M. Hamilton, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Hamilton, about 1865 in Georgia. They were the parents of four children - Joseph Peter, Thomas Grant, John C.N. and Cynthia Lenora.
After Martha's death on 28 February 1885, John W. married his second wife, Lettie Jane Dunn, daughter of James Robert Dunn and Susan Wikle Dunn. To this union were born three children - an (unnamed) infant daughter who died shortly after birth, Emma Martha and James Lester.
In George Gordon Ward's book "The Annals of Upper Georgia Centered In Gilmer County," John W. Duckett is described as "a master builder, a genius with machinery ... also the friend of liberal education and character founded on a sensitive conscience." He was "a notable builder of churches, mills, dams and other structures. A power in the Methodist church, a momentous factor in the life of the Ellijay Seminary, he was a man of spirit, imagination, character and bold enterprise." He was one of the county's foremost advertisers and was president of the Ellijay Board of Trade around 1890, as well as a supplier of the county's largest lumber mills with "millions of feet of timber, in the form of logs, annually."
John W. Duckett died on 24 January 1899 in Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia, at the age of 58. His funeral was held on Wednesday, 25 January 1899, and his body interred at the city cemetery in Ellijay with full Masonic rites.
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Military stone incorrectly lists his first name as James, but it is John. Also lists year of death as 1898, but it is 1899.
Confederate Soldier
Pvt
Co D
16 BN Georgia Cavalry
CSA
John W. married Martha M. Hamilton, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Hamilton, about 1865 in Georgia. They were the parents of four children - Joseph Peter, Thomas Grant, John C.N. and Cynthia Lenora.
After Martha's death on 28 February 1885, John W. married his second wife, Lettie Jane Dunn, daughter of James Robert Dunn and Susan Wikle Dunn. To this union were born three children - an (unnamed) infant daughter who died shortly after birth, Emma Martha and James Lester.
In George Gordon Ward's book "The Annals of Upper Georgia Centered In Gilmer County," John W. Duckett is described as "a master builder, a genius with machinery ... also the friend of liberal education and character founded on a sensitive conscience." He was "a notable builder of churches, mills, dams and other structures. A power in the Methodist church, a momentous factor in the life of the Ellijay Seminary, he was a man of spirit, imagination, character and bold enterprise." He was one of the county's foremost advertisers and was president of the Ellijay Board of Trade around 1890, as well as a supplier of the county's largest lumber mills with "millions of feet of timber, in the form of logs, annually."
John W. Duckett died on 24 January 1899 in Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia, at the age of 58. His funeral was held on Wednesday, 25 January 1899, and his body interred at the city cemetery in Ellijay with full Masonic rites.
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Military stone incorrectly lists his first name as James, but it is John. Also lists year of death as 1898, but it is 1899.
Confederate Soldier
Pvt
Co D
16 BN Georgia Cavalry
CSA
John W. Duckett was born 25 October 1840 in Buncombe County, North Carolina, the first of four children of Jesse Duckett and Lorana Caroline Hice Duckett. He and his parents came from Buncombe County (NC) to the Pickens/Gilmer County, Georgia, area around 1841. His father, Jesse, died in 1846 in Pickens County, Georgia, when John W. was not yet six years old. He and his three siblings (Marinda Jane, Martha Catherine and James Madison) were raised by their mother, who never remarried after the death of her husband.
John W. married Martha M. Hamilton, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Hamilton, about 1865 in Georgia. They were the parents of four children - Joseph Peter, Thomas Grant, John C.N. and Cynthia Lenora.
After Martha's death on 28 February 1885, John W. married his second wife, Lettie Jane Dunn, daughter of James Robert Dunn and Susan Wikle Dunn. To this union were born three children - an (unnamed) infant daughter who died shortly after birth, Emma Martha and James Lester.
In George Gordon Ward's book "The Annals of Upper Georgia Centered In Gilmer County," John W. Duckett is described as "a master builder, a genius with machinery ... also the friend of liberal education and character founded on a sensitive conscience." He was "a notable builder of churches, mills, dams and other structures. A power in the Methodist church, a momentous factor in the life of the Ellijay Seminary, he was a man of spirit, imagination, character and bold enterprise." He was one of the county's foremost advertisers and was president of the Ellijay Board of Trade around 1890, as well as a supplier of the county's largest lumber mills with "millions of feet of timber, in the form of logs, annually."
John W. Duckett died on 24 January 1899 in Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia, at the age of 58. His funeral was held on Wednesday, 25 January 1899, and his body interred at the city cemetery in Ellijay with full Masonic rites.
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Military stone incorrectly lists his first name as James, but it is John. Also lists year of death as 1898, but it is 1899.
Confederate Soldier
Pvt
Co D
16 BN Georgia Cavalry
CSA
John W. married Martha M. Hamilton, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Hamilton, about 1865 in Georgia. They were the parents of four children - Joseph Peter, Thomas Grant, John C.N. and Cynthia Lenora.
After Martha's death on 28 February 1885, John W. married his second wife, Lettie Jane Dunn, daughter of James Robert Dunn and Susan Wikle Dunn. To this union were born three children - an (unnamed) infant daughter who died shortly after birth, Emma Martha and James Lester.
In George Gordon Ward's book "The Annals of Upper Georgia Centered In Gilmer County," John W. Duckett is described as "a master builder, a genius with machinery ... also the friend of liberal education and character founded on a sensitive conscience." He was "a notable builder of churches, mills, dams and other structures. A power in the Methodist church, a momentous factor in the life of the Ellijay Seminary, he was a man of spirit, imagination, character and bold enterprise." He was one of the county's foremost advertisers and was president of the Ellijay Board of Trade around 1890, as well as a supplier of the county's largest lumber mills with "millions of feet of timber, in the form of logs, annually."
John W. Duckett died on 24 January 1899 in Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia, at the age of 58. His funeral was held on Wednesday, 25 January 1899, and his body interred at the city cemetery in Ellijay with full Masonic rites.
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Military stone incorrectly lists his first name as James, but it is John. Also lists year of death as 1898, but it is 1899.
Confederate Soldier
Pvt
Co D
16 BN Georgia Cavalry
CSA
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Come unto me all ye that
labor and are heavy laden
and I will give thee rest.
Matt. 11. 28.
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