MONROE DAVIDSON

MONROE DAVIDSON, one of the well-to-do farmers of Meriwether County, is a native of Putnam County, born in 1832.

His grandfather, William Davidson, a Virginia soldier of the Revolutionary War, came to this state not long after that war, and his son Oliver, the father of Monroe, was born in Warren County. He served in the Indian War of 1836, and his wife was Miss Harriet A. Davenport, a daughter of John and Nancy (Davis) Davenport, Virginians, who settled first in Greene County, Georgia, and afterward in Harris County.

Young Monroe passed his early years on a farm in Harris County, with the common privileges of the country school.

In 1862 he enlisted, joining Company H of the Thirty-first Georgia Regiment, under Capt. Murphey, and was in many battles, among them those of Griswoldville and of Cold Harbor, in the latter of which he was badly wounded and unable to serve any further. He returned home, and after recovering from his wound devoted himself to the cultivation of his farm, in which he has been well prospered. At the time of the war Mr. Davidson sold his negroes, receiving in payment Confederate money. He has that money yet.

In 1859 Mr. Davidson married Miss Regina Park, the daughter of Dr. Andrew and Alethia (Burren) Park, the former a native of South Carolina, who came to this state in 1828. The daughter, Mrs. Davidson, was born in Meriwether County in 1838. To Mr. Davidson and his wife three children have-been born: Alethia A., Anna M., and Regina P. The parents are both worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Source: Memoirs of Georgia, Containing historical accounts of the states civil, military, industrial and professional interests and personal sketches of many of it’s people, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895

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