C Horace McCall, Memoirs of Georgia, Marion County, 1895

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C Horace McCall, merchant-banker, Buena Vista, Marion County GA, son of Charles H and Lucinda

(Thorp) McCall, was born in Marion county GA in 1857. His paternal grandfather McCall was born in

Scotland, emigrated to this county when quite young, settled in one of the Carolinas, served as a soldier

in the patriot army during the revolutionary war, and afterward migrated to Georgia and settled in Screven

County. He owned many slaves and had a large plantation. Mr McCall's father was born and reared in

Screven county, and was a large slave and land owner, farmer and merchant, was a justice of the inferior

court many years, and also represented the county in the house and in the senate of the general assembly.

He moved from Screven to Marion county in 1844, and lived there the remainder of his days. In early life

he was an ardent, active member of the missionary Baptist church, in which he was ordained a preacher after

he was eighty years of age. Mr McCall's maternal grandfather was Jeremiah Allen Thorp. He was a farmer,

and one of the early settlers in Twiggs county, in which he closed his life. Mr McCall was reared on the farm,

and after receiving a good common school education, took a thorough course at the Poughkeepsie (NY)

business college. For the last seven years he has been engaged in a general merchandise business; and in

1888 he organized the Buena Vista Loan and Savings bank of which he has recently been elected president.

In addition to the above he organized the Buena Vista Improvement company for the encouragement of

manufacturing and general improvement purposes. Besides being an active worker in all of these laudable

progressive enterprises, he is interested in and manages large farming interests. These large and extensive

plans promotive of progress and prosperity evince great mental and physical activity, and their success

evidences unusual public spirit with financial sagacity and ability. Mr McCall was married in 1882 to Miss

Willie Miller, born in Buena Vista in 1864, daughter of Mau E W and Sallie (Jones) Miller. He was for many

years a practicing attorney, was a major in the army during the late war and has several times represented the

county in the general assembly. One child, Helen, has blessed this union. Mrs McCall is a member of the