Richard Wood Pentecost
Birth 20 Nov 1788
Dinwiddie County, Virginia, USA
Death 5 Oct 1857 (aged 68)
Winder, Barrow County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Pentecost United Methodist Church Cemetery
Winder, Barrow County, Georgia, USA
Richard Wood was dark and extremely tall, being described by his widow in
her pension application as having been six feet, six or seven inches in
height, with black hair and black eyes and of dark complexion. Having
been born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, he came to Georgia as a child
and remained here all of his life. Some of his childhood years were
spent in Hancock County where his brother John Wesley was born.
He volunteered for service during the War of 1812 at Jefferson, the
county seat of Jackson County, Georgia. At Fort Hawkins on the Oemulgee,
he was sworn onto service on August 25, 1813 and commissioned Second
Lieutenant in the company of Captain Wilson McKinney, First Regiment of
the Georgia Militia under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel
Groves. Upon termination of his enlistment, Richard was honorably
discharged from further service at Milledgeville, Georgia on March 05,
1814.
Richard returned home to Jackson County and resumed farming, also
conducting an extensive lumber business. The court minutes of Jackson
County show numerous receipts for lumber and bridge timber purchased from
him.
Richard named Justice of the Peace in 1813 in the Georgia Military
District 246. He served as Representative to the Georgia State
Legislature from 1834-1837. Then he served as a court judge in Jackson
County in 1837.
When a Jackson County school system was inagurated by the Act of
1827, he was the new Commissioner to the Board. He was re-elected in
1846 to the State Legislature and served another term for 2 years.
Richard is buried in the Old Pentecost Church Cemetery in Barrow
County, Georgia. His headstone reads: A husband dear, A tender friend,
lies buried here.
7 May 1852, Jackson County, GA affidavits of Richard W. Pentecost, aged
63, Bailey Chandler aged 59, and Hill Steed aged 53, all residents of Jackson
Co, state they have resided in that county for upwards of 40 years, state
Daniel McDonald and his family moved to the neighbourhood in the month of
November 1816 and they were acquainted with them until the family moved to Talbot Co,
GA
January 1835 where Daniel died, and that Elizabeth his widow moved back
to Jackson County in their immediate neighbourhood where she previously
lived.
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