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Alonzo Iler was the son of James Franklin Iler of Georgia. James Franklin Iler was in the Civil War and served from Georgia. He later moved his family to Grove, Greenville, S.C. where he was the overseer of the Piedmont Mill. You can google Piedmont Mill and find out all about it, quite interesting. Alonzo actually worked in the mill when he was 11, along with two of his brothers. Abiggail Davenport, his wife, was born in Greenville County, S.C. and her father was Francis Marion Davenport, her mother Winnie Chapman. Her line goes back through her mother all the way to 1619 @ Jamestown, VA, where her ancestor, Dr. John Woodson immigrated to the VA colony. You can google him and it is quite fascinating as he was murdered in the last Indian uprising in the VA colony in 1644. Famous Americans related to him are Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison and Jesse Woodson James. Alonzo is buried in Greenville, S.C., downtown in the Springwood Cemetary on North Main Street. He was my great grandfather. My grandparents and my father are also buried there in the Iler plot. Abbigail died in 1959 in Atlanta and is buried there. Because Alonzo died, like many Iler men in this family, very young - he was 55 - Abbigail went to Atlanta to live where her daughter Katie Mack lived. My father told stories about going to her house in Atlanta on Christmas morning, she lived on Linwood Avenue. He had very fond memories of her.
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