Married Asenath Caroline Thrasher, May 1837, South Carolina.
After her death (1853), he married Elizabeth.
Father of Ann, Mary, Nicholas, Barton, Basil, Asenath, Hugh, Elizabeth. Living in Jackson, GA in 1850.
Listed on 1860 mortality census for 1860. Died of pneumonia.
Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events: Vol. 1: 1820s-1870s, by Franklin Miller Garrett, pg, 394
B.H. Overby was a junior partner in the firm of Overby, Bleckley and Gordon. He withdrew and became, for a short time, a newspaper reporter in Milledgeville, but the senior members continued their practice together, with an ever increasing number of clients, until Overby's death.
Meanwhile, Overby had re-affiliated with the Know Nothing Party, and in 1857 was a candidate for the State Legislature on that ticket against Dr. John G. Westmoreland, also of Atlanta. He was defeated.
In 1858 Overby began to decline in health, and while in attendance at the Superior Court in Forsyth County in 1859, was stricken with apoplexy. His mind was impaired and his physical powers almost wrecked. Hoping to regain his health, he went to visit his aged parents in South Carolina. However, he was beyond recovery and died November 27, 1859. His remains were brought back to Atlanta and interred in Oakland Cemetery.
He was survived by his second wife, nee Elizabeth Haralson by sixty-six years; by their children Hugh Haralson and Elizabeth Overby, and by the children of his first wife, Barton, Nick and Earle Overby, and Mrs. James Middlebrooks, Mrs. W.W. Price and Mrs. Robert Winship. A great-grandson, born thirty years after the death of Atlanta's Prohibition candidate for governor, was to become the world's leading salesman of soft drinks - Robert Winship Woodruff, of Coca-Cola.
After her death (1853), he married Elizabeth.
Father of Ann, Mary, Nicholas, Barton, Basil, Asenath, Hugh, Elizabeth. Living in Jackson, GA in 1850.
Listed on 1860 mortality census for 1860. Died of pneumonia.
Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events: Vol. 1: 1820s-1870s, by Franklin Miller Garrett, pg, 394
B.H. Overby was a junior partner in the firm of Overby, Bleckley and Gordon. He withdrew and became, for a short time, a newspaper reporter in Milledgeville, but the senior members continued their practice together, with an ever increasing number of clients, until Overby's death.
Meanwhile, Overby had re-affiliated with the Know Nothing Party, and in 1857 was a candidate for the State Legislature on that ticket against Dr. John G. Westmoreland, also of Atlanta. He was defeated.
In 1858 Overby began to decline in health, and while in attendance at the Superior Court in Forsyth County in 1859, was stricken with apoplexy. His mind was impaired and his physical powers almost wrecked. Hoping to regain his health, he went to visit his aged parents in South Carolina. However, he was beyond recovery and died November 27, 1859. His remains were brought back to Atlanta and interred in Oakland Cemetery.
He was survived by his second wife, nee Elizabeth Haralson by sixty-six years; by their children Hugh Haralson and Elizabeth Overby, and by the children of his first wife, Barton, Nick and Earle Overby, and Mrs. James Middlebrooks, Mrs. W.W. Price and Mrs. Robert Winship. A great-grandson, born thirty years after the death of Atlanta's Prohibition candidate for governor, was to become the world's leading salesman of soft drinks - Robert Winship Woodruff, of Coca-Cola.
Married Asenath Caroline Thrasher, May 1837, South Carolina.
After her death (1853), he married Elizabeth.
Father of Ann, Mary, Nicholas, Barton, Basil, Asenath, Hugh, Elizabeth. Living in Jackson, GA in 1850.
Listed on 1860 mortality census for 1860. Died of pneumonia.
Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events: Vol. 1: 1820s-1870s, by Franklin Miller Garrett, pg, 394
B.H. Overby was a junior partner in the firm of Overby, Bleckley and Gordon. He withdrew and became, for a short time, a newspaper reporter in Milledgeville, but the senior members continued their practice together, with an ever increasing number of clients, until Overby's death.
Meanwhile, Overby had re-affiliated with the Know Nothing Party, and in 1857 was a candidate for the State Legislature on that ticket against Dr. John G. Westmoreland, also of Atlanta. He was defeated.
In 1858 Overby began to decline in health, and while in attendance at the Superior Court in Forsyth County in 1859, was stricken with apoplexy. His mind was impaired and his physical powers almost wrecked. Hoping to regain his health, he went to visit his aged parents in South Carolina. However, he was beyond recovery and died November 27, 1859. His remains were brought back to Atlanta and interred in Oakland Cemetery.
He was survived by his second wife, nee Elizabeth Haralson by sixty-six years; by their children Hugh Haralson and Elizabeth Overby, and by the children of his first wife, Barton, Nick and Earle Overby, and Mrs. James Middlebrooks, Mrs. W.W. Price and Mrs. Robert Winship. A great-grandson, born thirty years after the death of Atlanta's Prohibition candidate for governor, was to become the world's leading salesman of soft drinks - Robert Winship Woodruff, of Coca-Cola.
After her death (1853), he married Elizabeth.
Father of Ann, Mary, Nicholas, Barton, Basil, Asenath, Hugh, Elizabeth. Living in Jackson, GA in 1850.
Listed on 1860 mortality census for 1860. Died of pneumonia.
Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events: Vol. 1: 1820s-1870s, by Franklin Miller Garrett, pg, 394
B.H. Overby was a junior partner in the firm of Overby, Bleckley and Gordon. He withdrew and became, for a short time, a newspaper reporter in Milledgeville, but the senior members continued their practice together, with an ever increasing number of clients, until Overby's death.
Meanwhile, Overby had re-affiliated with the Know Nothing Party, and in 1857 was a candidate for the State Legislature on that ticket against Dr. John G. Westmoreland, also of Atlanta. He was defeated.
In 1858 Overby began to decline in health, and while in attendance at the Superior Court in Forsyth County in 1859, was stricken with apoplexy. His mind was impaired and his physical powers almost wrecked. Hoping to regain his health, he went to visit his aged parents in South Carolina. However, he was beyond recovery and died November 27, 1859. His remains were brought back to Atlanta and interred in Oakland Cemetery.
He was survived by his second wife, nee Elizabeth Haralson by sixty-six years; by their children Hugh Haralson and Elizabeth Overby, and by the children of his first wife, Barton, Nick and Earle Overby, and Mrs. James Middlebrooks, Mrs. W.W. Price and Mrs. Robert Winship. A great-grandson, born thirty years after the death of Atlanta's Prohibition candidate for governor, was to become the world's leading salesman of soft drinks - Robert Winship Woodruff, of Coca-Cola.
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