G W C Munro

Memoirs of Georgia, Volume II

Published by the Southern Historical Assn, 1895.   

Marion County Sketches

Pages 483-492 

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G W C Munro, planter, Putnam, Marion County GA, son of Edward and Harriett (De Lespire) Munro, was

born in 1826 on Danfuski Island SC.  His paternal grandparents, Edward and Ann Munro, natives of Scotland,

on coming to America, settled in Nova Scotia, and afterward in New Jersey.  On attaining manhood, Edward

Munro, the father, left his birthplace, Newark NJ for the Bahama islands where he married Harried De

Lespire of Charleston SC. The family lived some years on the Bahama islands; then on Danfuski island

SC, a short time in Savannah GA, then in Twiggs county and finally settled in Dooly county GA.  The

maternal grandfather, Dr Joseph De Lespire was a native of France, and the maternal grandmother was a

native of England.  Dr Joseph De Lespire, a surgeon in the French army, who came to America with the

French admiral, County d'Estaing.  At the close of the revolutionary war he settled in Charleston, where

he practiced his profession during the remainder of his life.  G W C Munro was reared on a plantation

and received a good common school education.  Conducting and supervising his planting interests has

been the occupation of his life.  Since 1857 he has lived at his present home in Marion county.  In 1863

he enlisted in Company G of the Twenty-ninth Georgia battalion, in which he served until the close of the war. 

In 1855 he married Martha A Stevens, daughter of Hampton and Attalissa (Sparks) Stevens, of Marion County, GA. 

The children of G W C Munro are: Ida Munro, Mrs Ola M Evans, Mrs Mattie M Simpson, George P Munro,

Dr Henry S Munro and Horace N Munro.

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