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Fuller, Samuel D., was one of the most honored and influential citizens of Wilcox county, was called upon to serve in many offices of distinction and was one of the most extensive planters of this section of the state. He was a loyal soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, having been captain of his company. He was a member of the state senate at the time of his death, and was in attendance at the session of the legislature when the final summons came, his death having occurred in the city of Atlanta, Oct. 18, 1885. Captain Fuller was born in Baldwin county, Ga., March 18, 1828, and was a son of Samuel and Eleanor (Kendrick) Fuller, the former of whom was born in Robeson county, N. C., and the latter in Columbia county, Ga. Both passed the closing years of their lives in Wilcox county, this state. Samuel Fuller, the father, was a successful teacher for a number of years, having come to Columbia county, Ga., when a young man and having removed to Milledgeville after his marriage. The subject of this memoir was afforded the advantages of the schools of Bibb county, where he was reared to maturity and where he initiated his business career-a career of magnificent and worthy success along normal lines of enterprise. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Bibb county until 182 when he removed to that part of Irwin county which is now included in Wilcox county, where he continued to reside during the remainder of his long and useful life. At the time of his death he owned about 10,000 acres of land, the greater portion being in Wilcox county. He was a man of great financial acumen and ability and accumulated a fortune. Genial and generous, kindly and charitable, his was a noble and symmetrical character, and he held as his own the unqualified confidence and esteem of all who knew him. No resident of Wilcox county had a wider or more loyal circle of friends, and his tolerance and charity were proverbial in the community. He was a stanch supporter of the principles of the Democratic party and was influential in public affairs in his county and state. Prior to the Civil war he served four years on the bench of the county court, resigning this office to go forth in defense of the cause of the Confederacy. In March, 1862, he was mustered into the service as a member of Company E, Forty-ninth Georgia infantry, and he continued with this command until the close of the war, being promoted captain of his company and making a record of loyal and able service. After the war he returned to his home plantation, nine miles south of Abbeville, and after the odious “carpet-bag” regime had terminated in the state he was elected to represent his county in the state legislature, serving almost continuously from that time until his death, and having been a valued member of the state senate at the time of his demise, as already noted. He was a devout and zealous member of the Missionary Baptist church, as was also his wife, who survived him by a number of years. On Dec. 25, 1849, Captain Fuller was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Bowman, daughter of Royal and Susan (Windsor) Bowman, of North Carolina, and of the six children of this union all died in infancy except Frances Eleanor, who is the wife of James R. Monroe, of Abbeville, subject of an individual sketch in this work. (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson)
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