• Parrott, Georgia

Updates & Corrections:

11 Jun 2013: File established

1. James Parrott, son of Parrott, was born on 1 Sep 1795 in Washington Co., Georgia and died on 5 Feb 1865 in Parrott, Terrell Co., Georgia at age 69.

General Notes: source: http://www.parrottga.com/

"Parrott's founder John Lawson Parrott was the son of James and Harriet (Dennard) Parrott. His paternal grandfather came from France and settled in Washington County, Georgia in the late 1700s. James and Harriet were both born in Washington County - James Parrott in 1795 and Harriet Dennard in 1800. The Parrotts and the Dennards moved to Twiggs County while their children were still young and James and Harriet married there in 1828

"James and Harriet had eight children: Lucinda (married Samuel Stokes of Terrell County); Mary Ann of Parrott; John Lawson of Parrott; Louisa Virginia (married L. M. Jumper of Parrott); Benjamin (died at the age of eighteen); Augustus (served in the Thirty-first Georgia regiment and was last seen in Point Lookout prison in Maryland); Martha Alice (married John Dudley Whaley of Parrott); and Harriet of Parrott.

"In 1834 James purchased 815 acres of land in what was then Randolph County and was called by the Indian village name Chenube. John Lawson was born in 1838 and raised in what is now Parrott and attended school in the county. He began farming at the age of nineteen and when the War Between the States began in 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Seventeenth Georgia regiment. He participated in many battles, including second Manassas, seven days' fight around Richmond, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg, and received two flesh wounds. At the end of the war he returned to his farm in Parrott and became financially vested in other enterprises."

James married Harriet Dennard in 1828 in Twiggs Co., Georgia. Harriet was born on 12 Oct 1800 in Washington Co., Georgia and died on 15 Oct 1888 in Parrott, Terrell Co., Georgia at age 88.

Children from this marriage were:

   2 F    i. Lucinda Susanna Parrott was born on 1 Mar 1829 in Twiggs Co., Georgia and died on 17 Sep 1900 in Parrott, Terrell Co., Georgia at age 71.

Lucinda married Samuel Stokes. Samuel was born on 7 Jan 1819 in Georgia.

   3 M    ii. Augustus Parrott was born on 25 Sep 1830 in Twiggs Co., Georgia and died on 4 Apr 1865 in Point Lookout, Maryland at age 34.

General Notes: Served in the Thirty-first Georgia regiment
Last seen in Point Lookout prison in Maryland

Augustus married Mary Jane Dismukes. Mary was born in 1832 in Georgia. They had no children.

   4 F    iii. Mary Ann Parrott was born on 3 Nov 1832 in Twiggs Co., Georgia and died on 31 Jan 1910 in Parrott, Terrell Co., Georgia at age 77.

   5 M    iv. Isaac Benjamin Parrott was born in 1835 in Twiggs Co., Georgia and died in 1853 in Georgia at age 18. He never married and had no children.

   6 F    v. Martha Alice Parrott was born on 26 Apr 1836 in Terrell Co., Georgia and died on 1 May 1871 in Parrott, Terrell Co., Georgia at age 35.

Martha married John Dudley Whaley. John was born on 2 Jun 1819 in Randolph Co., Georgia and died on 27 Jul 1883 in Terrell Co., Georgia at age 64.

   7 M    vi. John Lawson Parrott was born on 15 Apr 1838 in Stewart Co., Georgia and died on 28 Oct 1920 in Parrott, Terrell Co., Georgia at age 82.

General Notes: source: http://www.parrottga.com/

"When James died in 1865 and Harriet passed away in 1888, John Lawson Parrott inherited the land.

"In 1889, about a year before the Columbus Southern railroad was build from Columbus to Albany, John Lawson laid out the town of Parrott. The post office, which had been called "Chenuba" was changed to Parrott. The city limits of the town encompassed an area of one mile in diameter and contained a high school, Methodist and Missionary Baptist church, seven stores, two ginneries, a planing mill, grist mill, hotel and livery stable. Mr. Parrott became the town's first mayor and was in office until 1904."

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Article from the 'Confederate Veteran' magazine,
dated July, 1924, and posted on http://genforum.genealogy.com/parrott/messages/1271.html

JOHN LAWSON PARROTT was born in Stewart County, Ga., April 15, 1838. The family removed to Randolph County, Ga., April 15, 1853 and three years later Terrell County was formed. Comrade PARROTT died Oct. 28, 1920, in the town of PARROTT, Terrell County, Ga., and was laid to rest in the PARROTT CEMETERY with Masonic honors, of which order he had been a member over fifty years.

In 1861, when the war clouds gathered over the South, he joined Capt. Pickett's company, made up at Weston, Webster County, Ga., and in Sept., 1861 went to Virginia. This company was made part of the 17th Georgia Regiment, Benning's Brigade, Field's Division and Longstreet's Corps. Comrade PARROTT took part in the battles of Second Manassas, the seven days fighting around Richmond, Fredericksburg, Fort Maryland, Gettysburg, Chickamauga and the Wildness. It was a continuous fight from then on down to Petersburg. He served as first lieutenant during the battle of Gettysburg

   8 F    vii. Harriet Parrott was born on 13 Aug 1840 in Georgia and died on 15 Aug 1884 in Parrott, Terrell Co., Georgia at age 44.

   9 F    viii. Louisa Virginia Parrott was born on 10 Nov 1844 in Georgia and died on 11 Nov 1907 in Parrott, Terrell Co., Georgia at age 63.

Louisa married Lowndes M. Jumper on 2 Jan 1870 in Terrell Co., Georgia. Lowndes was born in 1845 in Georgia and died on 30 Mar 1927 in Parrott, Terrell Co., Georgia at age 82.