H. B. LEVERETT

H B. LEVERETT is a citizen of wealth and influence of this county, of which he is a native, born in 1845.
He is the grandson of a revolutionary soldier, Robert Leverett, whose wife was Sidney Bailey, and who moved from Maryland, his native state, to South Carolina, where his son, Manuel, was born. In 1825 he moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, and later to Alabama, which he made his final home. Manuel Leverett, who served in the late war, married Miss Cynthia Lanier, whose father, Jas. Lanier, a native of Maryland, was also a revolutionary soldier, and with his wife, Mary Lanier, settled in Jasper County, Georgia.

H. B. Leverett passed his boyhood on the farm with the limited educational advantages of those days, and while yet a youth, in March, 1862, enlisted for the war. He entered Company K of the Thirty-fourth Alabama Regiment under Capt. Crowder and fought in many battles: Munfordville, Kentucky; Danville, Kentucky; Murfreesboro; Tullahoma; Kennesaw Mountain; Columbia; Dalton; Atlanta; Jonesboro; Chickamauga; Chattanooga; Missionary Ridge; Resaca; Franklin; Nashville; Kingston and Bentonville. In the last named engagement he was badly wounded, being shot through the shoulder.

Mr. Leverett returned from the war not only without a cent of money, but to find himself without a home, his parents being both dead. For some time he sought employment, and at last was engaged by Mr. Hannah to aid in the construction of a mill. In 1866 he rented a farm and soon, by unflagging energy, by diligence and economy, was on the highway to success, and he is now the owner of a large and fine plantation, and in possession of the esteem of all who know him.

In December, 1866, Mr. Leverett married Miss Joyce Hutchinson, the daughter of Raymond R. and Lucinda (Lankford) Hutchinson, formerly of Marion County, later of Upson County, but now of Meriwether County. Mr. Hutchinson served in the late war. Mrs. Leverett was born in Marion County in 1846, and in 1861 moved to this county with her father. Mr. and Mrs. Leverett have three children: Lavonia, Annie May and Joyce H. The parents are both devoted members of the Missionary Baptist Church. Mr. Leverett is also a member of the order of Masons.

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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