Re: Avants in Georgetown S.C. D.R.W. Avant in Georgia
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Avants in Georgetown S.C. D.R.W. Avant in Georgia
cjs 3/19/11
I have Dr. D.R.W. Avant in my husband's data base as the first husband of Mary Moselle Donaldson.Dr. Avant may have died in the civil war where he enlisted for the South as a field physician or at least by 1874 as the first Conley child was born in 1875.Moselle remarried Henry Lawerence Conley and raised the children in his home.Admiral Lecount became a very noted physician like his father.Legare was close to my husband's family, the Conleys.
Admiral list his father as being Don...not David.He also states that his grandfather Avant (as I interpreted the information) actually came from France.
Here is a bio of Admiral from the Memoirs of Georgia Volume 2:
PIERCE COUNTY.
ADMIRAL LA COUNT RAVENAL AVANT, physician, Patterson, Pierce Co., Ga., son of Dr. Don R. W. and Moselle (Donaldson) Avant, was born in Bullock county, Ga., Jan. 7, 1857. He is of French ancestry, his grandfather having come from France to this country about the beginning of this century.
His father was a physician of considerable prominence and influence. Dr. Avant was educated at the common schools of the county and grew to manhood on the "home place." His father having died when he was thirteen years old, he re
mained with his mother until he was nineteen years of age, when he engaged in saw-milling, which he continued until 1881, when he moved to Patterson and engaged in a general merchandise business, which he continued until 1889.That year he began the study of medicine, and in 1890-91 attended lectures in Baltimore, Md. He completed his medical studies at the Atlanta Medical college, from which he was graduated in March, 1893. He located soon afterward in Patterson, and has established a good practice, which is steadily increasing, as well as an enviable reputation for skill in his profession. He is the leading physician in the county, with exceptionally brilliant prospects for the future. He is a member of the Georgia Medical association and for many years was post master and express agent, and was the first mayor of Patterson, refusing reelection. Dr. Avant was married Jan. 6, 1881, to Miss America, daughter of Rev. John and Eliza (Aspenwall) Donaldson, the fifth born of thirteen children. Mr. Donaldson was the first sheriff of Pierce county, and was also the first senator elected from the county to the general assembly after its organization as a county in 1857. Two daughters, aged respectively nine and eleven years, have been born to them: Maud M. and Carrie Irene. He is a devoted member of the Primitive Baptist church, of which he is an ordained minister, and has served as pastor of several churches in the Allapaha River association.
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