Hillard Z Burt

Memoirs of Georgia, Volume II

Published by the Southern Historical Assn, 1895.   

Marion County Sketches

Pages 483-492 

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Hillard Z Burt, farmer, Brantley, Marion County, Georgia,  son of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Burt) Burt, was

born in Putnam County, Georgia in 1815.  His grandfather, in North Carolina, was a soldier in that State, and

came to Georgia when 15 years of age and settled in Warren County.  Afterward he moved to Putnam and

thence to Talbot county.  From Talbot he moved to Marion county, leaving, when he died, a large estate

in land and negroes.   He was a member of the Methodist church.  His maternal grandparents, Burt, were

natives of North Carolina, and migrated to Georgia and settled in Warren county about the beginning of this

century.  He was a soldier in the late war with Great Britain.  Mr. Burt was reared a farmer and was educated

at the "old field" log school house common at the time of his boyhood.  being too old for active field service

during the war he was detailed to look after the women and children.  In 1847 he was married to Miss Sarah

K Smith - born in Talbot county, GA, in 1826 - daughter of John L and Hattie (Humphries) Smith.  Mr. Smith

was a native of Baldwin county, and a farmer.  To Mr. and Mrs. Burt seven children have been born: Eugene,

William, Stephen, Homer, Walker, Emma and Rena.  Mrs. Burt, who was a consistent and exemplary member

of the Methodist church, died in 1868.  Mr. Burt has always been an uncompromising, "true blue" democrat,

and is enjoying, in his old age, the fruits of a laborious, well-spent life.  He has been regarded as one of the best

and most prosperous farmers in the county and is held in high esteem by his fellow citizens.

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