George Cunningham Hanna

GEORGE CUNNINGHAM HANNAH (SON OF 38 George Hannah) of â?Gravel Hillâ?, Charlotte Co., born 6 September 1817, died 21 September 1888; elder in the Presbyterian Church; planter; maintained in his home before and during the war of 1861=65 a school for his own and his neighborsâ?? daughters, which was broken up by the war. Dr. Eggleston has copies of letters showing Mr. Hannahâ??s efforts to prove that a certain Negro boy was free when he was taken to Arkansas, including the securing of depositions from Charlotte County officials. Mr. Hannah married 18 November 1842 Ann Eliza Spragins (born 24 May 1824, Buckingham County, Va., died 16 June 1873), daughter of John Diggs Spragins and his wife Almira Baldwin, and granddaughter of Thomas Spragins and Nancy Bumpass. George Cunningham Hanna married secondly Margaret Venable, whom he predeceased.