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Charles N. Hartsfield was married to our aunt Eva Gray (postings show her name as Frances E., whereby I assume she was Frances Eva or Evelyn (the Grays knew her as Aunt Eva Hartsfield), daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Williams) Gray of Monroe County, GA. I have posted Alfred L. Holman's 1917 history of the Gray family on Gray GenForum, Postings #9067, #9068, #9069, #9070, with threads attached thereto. Others are continuing research on this Gray family, which is traced to John Gray of Augusta County, VA, who died there in 1751.
I would be most grateful if someone could send me, or post, a full list of the children of Charles N. and Frances Eva (Gray) Hartsfield, with all pertinent dates and names of spouses. Her sister Ann Williams Gray was married to Alston Green Harris of Henry County, GA, and one of their children was Seaborn Drury Harris who was living in Jackson County, FL, at the outbreak of the war in 1861, and he was an officer in the company called the Dixie Boys, in which service he died. A letter written by him to his brother Joseph Nelson Harris of Griffin, GA, dated at Camp Hunt near Jacksonville, FL, 3 May 1862, contains this statement: "I got letters from home [Jackson County, FL] yesterday. Uncle C. had to trot from St. Andrews --- the Yankees got too close after him. He is almost pegged out. I would like to see him again before he dies." The reference to "Uncle C." is no doubt to his uncle Charles N. Hartsfield; the reference to St. Andrews is evidently to St. Andrews Bay at Panama City. Further in the letter is a reference to "Coz. Francina" and her unnamed baby. Who was Francina? Seaborn Harris's uncle Davis Gray, who also lived at Greenwood, does not seem to have had a daughter Francina.
As an aside I shall mention that "The History of Clayton County, GA," 1983, pp. 358-60, contains an account of the Henry McLeroy family. Henry McLeroy, 1807-1853, son of Edward Snicher McLeroy and wife, who was his cousin nee Mary McElroy, married in 1829, Martha Hartsfield, 1814-1883, of Jasper County, GA, daughter of Warren Hartsfield. This account refers to Henry McLeroy's plan to move to Florida "where he had a rich uncle and aunt (note: William Hartsfield who m. Pellatiah McElroy, sister of Mary McElroy who m. Edward McElroy." In preparation for the move to Florida (he died before moving), Henry McLeroy sold his plantation in what was then Fayette County, GA, later Clayton County, to Philip Fitzgerald, who became the great-grandfather of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone with the Wind," who in some measure used the Fitzgerald plantation (part of it formerly Hartsfield's) as the basis for the fictional Tara in her story. (While a substantial part of the Fitzgerald plantation had belonged to Henry McLeroy, that portion does not seem to have included the house tract.)
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