Oliver Waldron

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 7 Aug 1820, Bryan, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1830, Ware, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1840, District 451, Ware, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1850, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1860, Sub Division, Manatee, Florida, USA

Notes:

The earliest known residence of Oliver Waldron was Bryan County where he was married and living in the 1820 census. He and his brother, David Waldron, moved to Ware County (now Pierce) soon after Ware was formed out of Appling County. Oliver Waldron's home was located about two miles northeastward from where Blackshear now is. About 1845 he moved to Columbia County, Florida, and afterwards about 1853 to Marion County, Florida. He died November 6, 1867, at his home at Suwannee Shoals, Florida. His wife survived and made her home with her son, Jesse, spending her last years in Manatee County, Florida.

Oliver Waldron served as Justice of Peace, 584th district of Ware County, 1831-33, and as Justice of Ware Inferior Court, 1837-1841. He served in the War of 1812 and the Indian War. He enlisted January 18, 1815 in Bryan County, as private under Captain James Bird in Col. Mann's regiment, Georgia militia, and served until March 2, 1815 when he was honorably discharged. He served as private in Captain James A. Sweat's company of the Ware County militia, June 9th to August 19, 1838 in the Indian War. His widow was granted a pension for this service, in 1870.

Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Vol 4, page 320

Oliver married Ann Sylvester in 1806 in Bryan, Georgia, USA. Ann (daughter of Asbury or Augustine Sylvester) was born in 1787 in South Carolina, USA; died in 1872 in Manatee, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rebecca Jane Waldron was born on 28 Aug 1810 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 9 Dec 1878 in Bunker, DeSoto, Florida, USA; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, DeSoto, Florida, USA.
2. Elias David Waldron was born on 7 Jun 1811 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 20 Oct 1894 in Clinch, Georgia, USA; was buried in Ramah Primitive Baptist Church, Clinch, Georgia, USA.
3. George Washington Sylvester Waldron was born on 13 Jan 1813 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 24 May 1895 in Suwanee Shoals, Columbia, Florida, USA; was buried in Corinth Methodist Church Cemetery, Columbia, Florida, USA.
4. Lydia Waldron was born on 15 Jan 1815 in Pembroke, Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 9 Nov 1875 in Georgia, USA; was buried in Raulerson Cemetery, Pierce, Georgia, USA.
5. Oliver Asbury Waldron was born on 17 Aug 1816 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 7 Dec 1885 in Fairfax, Ware, Georgia; was buried in Hephzibah Church Cemetery, Waycross, Ware, Georgia, USA.
6. Georgia Ann Waldron was born on 9 Oct 1817 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 10 Sep 1899 in Pierce, Georgia, USA; was buried in Rehobeth Cemetery, Pierce, Georgia, USA.
7. Frances Waldron was born on 25 Mar 1821 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 15 Sep 1879 in Lily, DeSoto, Florida, USA.
8. Rhoda Waldron was born in 1822; died in 1885.
9. David Elias "Jess" Waldron, Sr was born on 24 Mar 1827 in Georgia, USA; died on 8 Nov 1908 in Bassinger, DeSoto, Florida, USA.