Name: George H Dwelle Reverend
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Age: 95
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 26 Jan 1833
Birth Place: Georgia
Death Date: 28 Mar 1928
Death Place: Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA
Burial: Augusta, Georgia
Father: J E Dwelle [see Bio excerpt below for alternative]
Mother: Mary Thomas
Informant: Dr. G. R. Dwelle [daughter]
Collection Georgia, Death Index
Name: George H Dwelle
Marriage Date: 31 Aug 1870
Marriage Place: Richmond, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Eliza Dickerson
Collection Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
Name: Reverend G H Dwelle
Marriage Date: 1 Sep 1892
Marriage Place: Fulton, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Rena D Watts
Collection Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
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BIOGRAPHY EXCERTS FROM HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO, GEORGIA EDITION, EDITED BY A. B. CALDWELL, 1917
GEORGE HENRY DWELLE
...He was born in Columbia county on January 26, 1833. His father was a white man, C. J. Cook. His mother was Mary Thomas, but was living at the time of Dr. Dwelle’s birth with a family by the name of Dwelle, whose name was given to the Negro boy. It sounds strange and far away, especially to the young people of this generation, but our subject remembers having been sold twice, first when a small boy he was carried by his master to Columbus, and later to Alabama. Changes in his master's circumstances rendered it necessary for him to sell his slaves, and out of consideration for those who had formerly lived in Augusta, he sent a number of them back to Augusta to be sold. George and his mother were bought by George's father C. J. Cook. After Mr. Cook's death they were again sold by the estate and bought for fifteen hundred dollars by a man who was really his uncle. He was a capable, industrious hand, and was given an opportunity to work out his freedom, and had paid thirteen hundred dollars on the fifteen hundred which his master was charging him for himself at the time of Emancipation. It is needless to say that the remaining two hundred was never paid.
Prior to the war, two Englishmen conducted a clandestine school for Negroes in Augusta, and at this he learned at night as opportunity offered. He could read and write at thirteen, and after he was a grown man, and even after his marriage, he went to the public school. He seems never to have ceased to learn. He was a carriage maker by trade, and during the war worked for a while at the arsenal in Augusta, making caisons and gun carriages. Later he was transferred to an establishment making accoutrements for the infantry, such as cartridge belts, scabbards, etc...
In 1874 he was licensed to preach, and ordained by his own home church...in his [fifty years] work as a missionary and as a preacher, he has been heard in every part of the State. As secretary of the Missionary Baptist Convention, and later as president of the General Baptist Convention for nine years, and as clerk for sixteen years of the Ebenezer Association, which was the first association of colored churches organized in Georgia, he is thoroughly familiar with every phase and every department of the denominational work...
Dr. Dwelle has been married three times: first to Emma Barefield, second to Eliza Dickerson, and third to Mrs. Rena (Davis) Watts. The second wife bore him four boys and one girl, all of whom were given the advantages of a college education. They are George B., who is now with a Columbia, S. C, hotel; John H., a Baptist minister at Braddock, Pa.; Thomas H., pastor of the Union Baptist Church, Augusta ; Edwin L. with the Pullman Car Company ; the only daughter, a sketch of whom will be found in this volume, Dr. Georgia Dwelle-Howell, is a practicing physician in Atlanta, with whom her father resides, at 94 N. Boulevard, since his retirement. At the time of his marrage to his last wife, who was a widow, she had one young son, George F. Watts, whom he reared and educated, and who is now a practicing physician at Plainfield N. J...
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Age: 95
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 26 Jan 1833
Birth Place: Georgia
Death Date: 28 Mar 1928
Death Place: Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA
Burial: Augusta, Georgia
Father: J E Dwelle [see Bio excerpt below for alternative]
Mother: Mary Thomas
Informant: Dr. G. R. Dwelle [daughter]
Collection Georgia, Death Index
Name: George H Dwelle
Marriage Date: 31 Aug 1870
Marriage Place: Richmond, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Eliza Dickerson
Collection Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
Name: Reverend G H Dwelle
Marriage Date: 1 Sep 1892
Marriage Place: Fulton, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Rena D Watts
Collection Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
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BIOGRAPHY EXCERTS FROM HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO, GEORGIA EDITION, EDITED BY A. B. CALDWELL, 1917
GEORGE HENRY DWELLE
...He was born in Columbia county on January 26, 1833. His father was a white man, C. J. Cook. His mother was Mary Thomas, but was living at the time of Dr. Dwelle’s birth with a family by the name of Dwelle, whose name was given to the Negro boy. It sounds strange and far away, especially to the young people of this generation, but our subject remembers having been sold twice, first when a small boy he was carried by his master to Columbus, and later to Alabama. Changes in his master's circumstances rendered it necessary for him to sell his slaves, and out of consideration for those who had formerly lived in Augusta, he sent a number of them back to Augusta to be sold. George and his mother were bought by George's father C. J. Cook. After Mr. Cook's death they were again sold by the estate and bought for fifteen hundred dollars by a man who was really his uncle. He was a capable, industrious hand, and was given an opportunity to work out his freedom, and had paid thirteen hundred dollars on the fifteen hundred which his master was charging him for himself at the time of Emancipation. It is needless to say that the remaining two hundred was never paid.
Prior to the war, two Englishmen conducted a clandestine school for Negroes in Augusta, and at this he learned at night as opportunity offered. He could read and write at thirteen, and after he was a grown man, and even after his marriage, he went to the public school. He seems never to have ceased to learn. He was a carriage maker by trade, and during the war worked for a while at the arsenal in Augusta, making caisons and gun carriages. Later he was transferred to an establishment making accoutrements for the infantry, such as cartridge belts, scabbards, etc...
In 1874 he was licensed to preach, and ordained by his own home church...in his [fifty years] work as a missionary and as a preacher, he has been heard in every part of the State. As secretary of the Missionary Baptist Convention, and later as president of the General Baptist Convention for nine years, and as clerk for sixteen years of the Ebenezer Association, which was the first association of colored churches organized in Georgia, he is thoroughly familiar with every phase and every department of the denominational work...
Dr. Dwelle has been married three times: first to Emma Barefield, second to Eliza Dickerson, and third to Mrs. Rena (Davis) Watts. The second wife bore him four boys and one girl, all of whom were given the advantages of a college education. They are George B., who is now with a Columbia, S. C, hotel; John H., a Baptist minister at Braddock, Pa.; Thomas H., pastor of the Union Baptist Church, Augusta ; Edwin L. with the Pullman Car Company ; the only daughter, a sketch of whom will be found in this volume, Dr. Georgia Dwelle-Howell, is a practicing physician in Atlanta, with whom her father resides, at 94 N. Boulevard, since his retirement. At the time of his marrage to his last wife, who was a widow, she had one young son, George F. Watts, whom he reared and educated, and who is now a practicing physician at Plainfield N. J...
Name: George H Dwelle Reverend
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Age: 95
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 26 Jan 1833
Birth Place: Georgia
Death Date: 28 Mar 1928
Death Place: Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA
Burial: Augusta, Georgia
Father: J E Dwelle [see Bio excerpt below for alternative]
Mother: Mary Thomas
Informant: Dr. G. R. Dwelle [daughter]
Collection Georgia, Death Index
Name: George H Dwelle
Marriage Date: 31 Aug 1870
Marriage Place: Richmond, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Eliza Dickerson
Collection Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
Name: Reverend G H Dwelle
Marriage Date: 1 Sep 1892
Marriage Place: Fulton, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Rena D Watts
Collection Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
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BIOGRAPHY EXCERTS FROM HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO, GEORGIA EDITION, EDITED BY A. B. CALDWELL, 1917
GEORGE HENRY DWELLE
...He was born in Columbia county on January 26, 1833. His father was a white man, C. J. Cook. His mother was Mary Thomas, but was living at the time of Dr. Dwelle’s birth with a family by the name of Dwelle, whose name was given to the Negro boy. It sounds strange and far away, especially to the young people of this generation, but our subject remembers having been sold twice, first when a small boy he was carried by his master to Columbus, and later to Alabama. Changes in his master's circumstances rendered it necessary for him to sell his slaves, and out of consideration for those who had formerly lived in Augusta, he sent a number of them back to Augusta to be sold. George and his mother were bought by George's father C. J. Cook. After Mr. Cook's death they were again sold by the estate and bought for fifteen hundred dollars by a man who was really his uncle. He was a capable, industrious hand, and was given an opportunity to work out his freedom, and had paid thirteen hundred dollars on the fifteen hundred which his master was charging him for himself at the time of Emancipation. It is needless to say that the remaining two hundred was never paid.
Prior to the war, two Englishmen conducted a clandestine school for Negroes in Augusta, and at this he learned at night as opportunity offered. He could read and write at thirteen, and after he was a grown man, and even after his marriage, he went to the public school. He seems never to have ceased to learn. He was a carriage maker by trade, and during the war worked for a while at the arsenal in Augusta, making caisons and gun carriages. Later he was transferred to an establishment making accoutrements for the infantry, such as cartridge belts, scabbards, etc...
In 1874 he was licensed to preach, and ordained by his own home church...in his [fifty years] work as a missionary and as a preacher, he has been heard in every part of the State. As secretary of the Missionary Baptist Convention, and later as president of the General Baptist Convention for nine years, and as clerk for sixteen years of the Ebenezer Association, which was the first association of colored churches organized in Georgia, he is thoroughly familiar with every phase and every department of the denominational work...
Dr. Dwelle has been married three times: first to Emma Barefield, second to Eliza Dickerson, and third to Mrs. Rena (Davis) Watts. The second wife bore him four boys and one girl, all of whom were given the advantages of a college education. They are George B., who is now with a Columbia, S. C, hotel; John H., a Baptist minister at Braddock, Pa.; Thomas H., pastor of the Union Baptist Church, Augusta ; Edwin L. with the Pullman Car Company ; the only daughter, a sketch of whom will be found in this volume, Dr. Georgia Dwelle-Howell, is a practicing physician in Atlanta, with whom her father resides, at 94 N. Boulevard, since his retirement. At the time of his marrage to his last wife, who was a widow, she had one young son, George F. Watts, whom he reared and educated, and who is now a practicing physician at Plainfield N. J...
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Age: 95
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 26 Jan 1833
Birth Place: Georgia
Death Date: 28 Mar 1928
Death Place: Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA
Burial: Augusta, Georgia
Father: J E Dwelle [see Bio excerpt below for alternative]
Mother: Mary Thomas
Informant: Dr. G. R. Dwelle [daughter]
Collection Georgia, Death Index
Name: George H Dwelle
Marriage Date: 31 Aug 1870
Marriage Place: Richmond, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Eliza Dickerson
Collection Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
Name: Reverend G H Dwelle
Marriage Date: 1 Sep 1892
Marriage Place: Fulton, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Rena D Watts
Collection Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
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BIOGRAPHY EXCERTS FROM HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO, GEORGIA EDITION, EDITED BY A. B. CALDWELL, 1917
GEORGE HENRY DWELLE
...He was born in Columbia county on January 26, 1833. His father was a white man, C. J. Cook. His mother was Mary Thomas, but was living at the time of Dr. Dwelle’s birth with a family by the name of Dwelle, whose name was given to the Negro boy. It sounds strange and far away, especially to the young people of this generation, but our subject remembers having been sold twice, first when a small boy he was carried by his master to Columbus, and later to Alabama. Changes in his master's circumstances rendered it necessary for him to sell his slaves, and out of consideration for those who had formerly lived in Augusta, he sent a number of them back to Augusta to be sold. George and his mother were bought by George's father C. J. Cook. After Mr. Cook's death they were again sold by the estate and bought for fifteen hundred dollars by a man who was really his uncle. He was a capable, industrious hand, and was given an opportunity to work out his freedom, and had paid thirteen hundred dollars on the fifteen hundred which his master was charging him for himself at the time of Emancipation. It is needless to say that the remaining two hundred was never paid.
Prior to the war, two Englishmen conducted a clandestine school for Negroes in Augusta, and at this he learned at night as opportunity offered. He could read and write at thirteen, and after he was a grown man, and even after his marriage, he went to the public school. He seems never to have ceased to learn. He was a carriage maker by trade, and during the war worked for a while at the arsenal in Augusta, making caisons and gun carriages. Later he was transferred to an establishment making accoutrements for the infantry, such as cartridge belts, scabbards, etc...
In 1874 he was licensed to preach, and ordained by his own home church...in his [fifty years] work as a missionary and as a preacher, he has been heard in every part of the State. As secretary of the Missionary Baptist Convention, and later as president of the General Baptist Convention for nine years, and as clerk for sixteen years of the Ebenezer Association, which was the first association of colored churches organized in Georgia, he is thoroughly familiar with every phase and every department of the denominational work...
Dr. Dwelle has been married three times: first to Emma Barefield, second to Eliza Dickerson, and third to Mrs. Rena (Davis) Watts. The second wife bore him four boys and one girl, all of whom were given the advantages of a college education. They are George B., who is now with a Columbia, S. C, hotel; John H., a Baptist minister at Braddock, Pa.; Thomas H., pastor of the Union Baptist Church, Augusta ; Edwin L. with the Pullman Car Company ; the only daughter, a sketch of whom will be found in this volume, Dr. Georgia Dwelle-Howell, is a practicing physician in Atlanta, with whom her father resides, at 94 N. Boulevard, since his retirement. At the time of his marrage to his last wife, who was a widow, she had one young son, George F. Watts, whom he reared and educated, and who is now a practicing physician at Plainfield N. J...
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