John Spragins Hanna

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75. 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.

marriage

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.

Children (all by first wife):

Cub Creek Church Cemetery, Charlotte County, Virginia from Rootsweb.com archives

37. George Cunningham Hannah
Sept 7, 1817 Sept 21, 1888

38. Ann Eliza Spraggins May 29, 1824 June 16, 1873 "wife of George Cunningham Hannah" "The memory of the just is blessed" G.C.H A.E.S. G.H.

i. Samuel Baldwin Hannah, b. 19 October 1843, d. 19 October 1921; first superintendent of the public schools of West Virginia; m. 4 November 1874 Lizzie Archer Hevener (b. 28 October 1855).

ii. John Spragins Hannah, b. 21 November 1845, died 5 July 1901, m. December 1883 Ann Belle Carrington

iii. Joel Morton Hannah, b. 13 January 1848, d. 17 April 1865 of typhoid fever contracted while serving as a V.M.I. cadet in Confederate service in the trenches around Richmond; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond

iv. Lucy Morton Hannah, b. 30 November 1849, d. 20 December 1890; m. 1 February 1872, Reverend William Robert Atkinson (25 April 1840 - 2 March 1901), a Presbyterian minister of Georgetown County, SC, president of the Presbyterian College for Women, Columbia, SC

v. Laura Adelaide Hannah, b. 12 September 1852, died 2 January 1899; m. at â?Gravel Hillâ?, Charlotte Co., Va., 22 August 1872 Marcus Cleveland Elcan (11 March 1838 - 11 February 1912);

vi. Virginia Marshall Hannah, b. 3 August 1854, d. 10 April 1912; m. 18 October 1876 Edward Flournoy Daniel (28 February 1853 - 1 September 1935) and had large family.

vii. Thomas Cunningham Hannah, b. 3 September 1857; m. Clara Ranson, of Hinsdale, Ill, dsp.

viii. William Morton Hannah, b. 3 September 1857, twin of Thomas C.; married

ix. Mary Almira Hannah, b. 3 October 1859, married 3 October 1878 Thomas Clarkson Worth (9 November 1854 - 3 August 1891)

x. Nannie Irene Hannah, born at â?Gravel Hillâ?; m. 27 December 1882 Dr. Paul Brandown Barringer, b. 13 February 1857 at Concord, NC, chairman of the facility of the University of Virginia; later president, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; concerning whom, see â?Whoâ??s Who in America, Vol. 12; he died 9 January 1941.

xi. George Gordon Hannah, b. 1865, m. 3 December 1896 at Kankakee, Ill, Isabel Bonfield, b. 1869