Daniel Webster and Sarah Jane Garrett Petty

Daniel Webster Petty (1843-1913), son of Elijah and Letty Lewis Petty, was born in North Carolina.  His mother died six year later and his father remarried and they  moved to Fannin County, Georgia.

Daniel grew up in Fannin County, Georgia along with four siblings and seven half siblings.

During the Civil War he enlisted  in the Confederate Army  Co B, , 65th Regiment, Ga. Infantry.

On 6 September 1873,  at age 29, in Fannin County, Georgia, he married 23 year old Sarah Jane Garrett (1850-1929), daughter of Joseph and Nancy Elizabeth Emily Mashburn Garrett.

My mother, as a child, knew not to get too close to their grandmother Nancy Mashburn Petty.  She would grab them and shake them.  They thought she was either mentally unstable or was prone to seizures because of diabetes.

They had six children, two girls and four boys.

Notations I have found on Daniel:

In 1881 he was named executor of his father's estate.  He declined.  He probably realized all the headaches involved.

3 Feb 1890, Daniel moved his family to Murray County, Georgia.  He was 46.  Apparently Petty  several families about the same time made their exodus from Fannin County to Murray County.

Interesting, although Fannin County and Murray County appear to be two different worlds with many miles apart there are not that many miles apart.   Fort Mountain, a huge mountain, separates the two counties.  Fannin County is hilly and mountainous;  Murray County  appears to be flat bottom lands, better for farming.

Fort Mountain is called Fort Mountain because of the huge boulders, some automobile size which serves as a fort that goes around the mountain in a unified manner.  The last I heard researchers were still trying to figure out how primitive Indians placed the huge boulders so skillfully on such a mountain angle or even hoist them up that high.

Daniel died at age 69 and Sarah Jane died at age 78.   They are buried  at Calvary Baptist Church, in Crandall, Murray County, Georgia.

1880 Census of the Daniel Webster Household, family number 3, 3rd family down:

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