John Lumpkin Garrett, II

While living in Upson Co. John is listed as a winner in the 1827 land lottery of GA. It is known he farmed in the county until 1837. Sometime in the fall or early spring he moved to Chambers Co. AL. John Garrett became one of the most successful farmers in Chambers Co. AL. He acquired a large plantation, became a land speculator and served as Commissary of his Di strict. He bought and sold land to the extent that it is impossible to tell the number of acres he owned at one time. His estate was valued at $40,000.00 in 1853 when it was settled. In his will dated Feb 8, 1840, Book II, p. 72; he gave all his children gifts except for JANE, WIFE OF NATHAN GARRETT (son of John Barnes Garrett and Elizabeth Hammack) she was to get nothing. Either she married against his wishes or she had received her share earlier.

Burial : Homer Cemetery, Claiborne, LA Col. John Lumpkin Garrett, Jr. and his fami ly apparently migrated to Homer from Chambers Co., AL sometime between 1853 and 1855 (dau. Elizabeth Ann was born 1853 in AL and dau. Sarah M. born in Home r in 1855.) After John and his wife died in 1867 & 1868 (4 months apart), Margaret Jane and her husband and William Lay raised the remaining Garrett children with the exception of Pat who was 18 years old. It's interesting that John and Elizabeth died so young and so close together--it must have been some fatal disease. The Garrett Plantation was the largest single owned plantation in Claiborne Parish; about 100 slaves before the Civil War. Th e plantation started close to the Wade Correction Center, near the Antioch Fire To wer and stretched all the way to Moon's store. Word is that John's slaves helped build the Home r Courthouse. That location would put the Garretts as neighbors to James F. Nelson, whose farm was on the upper Colquit road adjoining the southeast the property now belonging to the Wade Center .