DEATH OF BOLLING A. STOVALL.
A Life of Great Activity and Usefulness at the End.
Athens, Ga., August 24.-(Special)-Today at 12:30 o'clock, at his home in Athens, after two weeks' illness, Mr. Bollling Anthony Stovall, peacefully breathed hi last.
He was born in Sparta, Ga., Augusta 19, 1826, so that on Friday last he was sixty years of age.
His father, Pleasant Stovall, of Athens, came from Virginia to Hancock county, settled in that county, and was a well-to-do planter. Subsequently he moved to Augusta, and went into the cotton business. Bolling A. Stovall was the fourth son of Pleasant Stovall. He was reared in Augusta, and was fitted for college at the Richmond academy in 1843, he entered the freshman class of Franklin college, where he graduated in 1847. Utilizing his education as a civil engineer, he went to the then growing southwest. He was employed for several years as a civil engineer in Alabama and Mississippi . Afterwards he was engaged in a resurvey of the Georgia State road, and along with Major John G. Green, was employed in the survey of the Atlanta and West Point railroad. As civil engineering was then a precarious employment, with meagre remuneration, he accepted an offer from his father, and went into the house of Stovall & McLaughlin, in the wholesale grocery business in Augusta.
When the war come he sold out his business, and entered the army going to Virginia as sergeant of Company A, Richmond Huzzars, Cobb's legion. Here again he was transferred to the engineering service, with the rank of lieutenant under General Magruder, in the peninsula. From this position he was transferred to the subsistance department, under General St. John, and was captain in this service at the time of the surrender.
Mr. Stovall has been actively at work as a traveling agent, having been for ten years a trusted and efficient representative of the Georgia Chemical works of Augusta. In 1856 he married Mattie Wilson, of Richmond, Va., the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary, and about that time united with the Presbyterian church, and up to his death, for over thirty years, he was a member in good standing. He will be buried tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock in the cemetery in Athens.
The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) · 25 Aug 1887, Thu · Page 3
Member of A Company, Cavalry Battalion, Cobb's Legion, CSA
A Life of Great Activity and Usefulness at the End.
Athens, Ga., August 24.-(Special)-Today at 12:30 o'clock, at his home in Athens, after two weeks' illness, Mr. Bollling Anthony Stovall, peacefully breathed hi last.
He was born in Sparta, Ga., Augusta 19, 1826, so that on Friday last he was sixty years of age.
His father, Pleasant Stovall, of Athens, came from Virginia to Hancock county, settled in that county, and was a well-to-do planter. Subsequently he moved to Augusta, and went into the cotton business. Bolling A. Stovall was the fourth son of Pleasant Stovall. He was reared in Augusta, and was fitted for college at the Richmond academy in 1843, he entered the freshman class of Franklin college, where he graduated in 1847. Utilizing his education as a civil engineer, he went to the then growing southwest. He was employed for several years as a civil engineer in Alabama and Mississippi . Afterwards he was engaged in a resurvey of the Georgia State road, and along with Major John G. Green, was employed in the survey of the Atlanta and West Point railroad. As civil engineering was then a precarious employment, with meagre remuneration, he accepted an offer from his father, and went into the house of Stovall & McLaughlin, in the wholesale grocery business in Augusta.
When the war come he sold out his business, and entered the army going to Virginia as sergeant of Company A, Richmond Huzzars, Cobb's legion. Here again he was transferred to the engineering service, with the rank of lieutenant under General Magruder, in the peninsula. From this position he was transferred to the subsistance department, under General St. John, and was captain in this service at the time of the surrender.
Mr. Stovall has been actively at work as a traveling agent, having been for ten years a trusted and efficient representative of the Georgia Chemical works of Augusta. In 1856 he married Mattie Wilson, of Richmond, Va., the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary, and about that time united with the Presbyterian church, and up to his death, for over thirty years, he was a member in good standing. He will be buried tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock in the cemetery in Athens.
The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) · 25 Aug 1887, Thu · Page 3
Member of A Company, Cavalry Battalion, Cobb's Legion, CSA
DEATH OF BOLLING A. STOVALL.
A Life of Great Activity and Usefulness at the End.
Athens, Ga., August 24.-(Special)-Today at 12:30 o'clock, at his home in Athens, after two weeks' illness, Mr. Bollling Anthony Stovall, peacefully breathed hi last.
He was born in Sparta, Ga., Augusta 19, 1826, so that on Friday last he was sixty years of age.
His father, Pleasant Stovall, of Athens, came from Virginia to Hancock county, settled in that county, and was a well-to-do planter. Subsequently he moved to Augusta, and went into the cotton business. Bolling A. Stovall was the fourth son of Pleasant Stovall. He was reared in Augusta, and was fitted for college at the Richmond academy in 1843, he entered the freshman class of Franklin college, where he graduated in 1847. Utilizing his education as a civil engineer, he went to the then growing southwest. He was employed for several years as a civil engineer in Alabama and Mississippi . Afterwards he was engaged in a resurvey of the Georgia State road, and along with Major John G. Green, was employed in the survey of the Atlanta and West Point railroad. As civil engineering was then a precarious employment, with meagre remuneration, he accepted an offer from his father, and went into the house of Stovall & McLaughlin, in the wholesale grocery business in Augusta.
When the war come he sold out his business, and entered the army going to Virginia as sergeant of Company A, Richmond Huzzars, Cobb's legion. Here again he was transferred to the engineering service, with the rank of lieutenant under General Magruder, in the peninsula. From this position he was transferred to the subsistance department, under General St. John, and was captain in this service at the time of the surrender.
Mr. Stovall has been actively at work as a traveling agent, having been for ten years a trusted and efficient representative of the Georgia Chemical works of Augusta. In 1856 he married Mattie Wilson, of Richmond, Va., the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary, and about that time united with the Presbyterian church, and up to his death, for over thirty years, he was a member in good standing. He will be buried tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock in the cemetery in Athens.
The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) · 25 Aug 1887, Thu · Page 3
Member of A Company, Cavalry Battalion, Cobb's Legion, CSA
A Life of Great Activity and Usefulness at the End.
Athens, Ga., August 24.-(Special)-Today at 12:30 o'clock, at his home in Athens, after two weeks' illness, Mr. Bollling Anthony Stovall, peacefully breathed hi last.
He was born in Sparta, Ga., Augusta 19, 1826, so that on Friday last he was sixty years of age.
His father, Pleasant Stovall, of Athens, came from Virginia to Hancock county, settled in that county, and was a well-to-do planter. Subsequently he moved to Augusta, and went into the cotton business. Bolling A. Stovall was the fourth son of Pleasant Stovall. He was reared in Augusta, and was fitted for college at the Richmond academy in 1843, he entered the freshman class of Franklin college, where he graduated in 1847. Utilizing his education as a civil engineer, he went to the then growing southwest. He was employed for several years as a civil engineer in Alabama and Mississippi . Afterwards he was engaged in a resurvey of the Georgia State road, and along with Major John G. Green, was employed in the survey of the Atlanta and West Point railroad. As civil engineering was then a precarious employment, with meagre remuneration, he accepted an offer from his father, and went into the house of Stovall & McLaughlin, in the wholesale grocery business in Augusta.
When the war come he sold out his business, and entered the army going to Virginia as sergeant of Company A, Richmond Huzzars, Cobb's legion. Here again he was transferred to the engineering service, with the rank of lieutenant under General Magruder, in the peninsula. From this position he was transferred to the subsistance department, under General St. John, and was captain in this service at the time of the surrender.
Mr. Stovall has been actively at work as a traveling agent, having been for ten years a trusted and efficient representative of the Georgia Chemical works of Augusta. In 1856 he married Mattie Wilson, of Richmond, Va., the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary, and about that time united with the Presbyterian church, and up to his death, for over thirty years, he was a member in good standing. He will be buried tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock in the cemetery in Athens.
The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) · 25 Aug 1887, Thu · Page 3
Member of A Company, Cavalry Battalion, Cobb's Legion, CSA
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