James Solomon was born in 1770, evidently in Virginia, and may have been the son of Peter Solomon, son of Lewis. James apparently moved to Georgia before 1799 with his older brother Lazarus, a Revolutionary War veteran born in 1765 in Tyrrell County, North Carolina, and who later moved to Twiggs County. James was a resident of Washington County, Ga. in 1799 when he purchased 10 acres of land in Montgomery County, where he lived until about 1810, when he moved to neighboring Laurens County. While there he evidently married a first time, fathering his first son Godwin Solomon (1813-1903) before the death of his first wife, name unknown. By 1830 James had moved south to Ware County, where about 1833 he married Rebecca ________ (1816-?), with whom he eventually had four sons. James died about 1855, just after the portion of Ware County in which he had lived was cut off to form Coffee County. The subsequent fate of his widow Rebecca is not currently known.
Children of James and Rebecca Solomon
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: As is the case with the vast majority of the family bio pages on this site, some of the information and details regarding this family are derived from the voluminous research of my uncle Daniel Worth, now available online at my father Gene Worth's web site Worth and Solomon Genealogy. My aunt Iva Yeager also shared her own related research with me more than two decades ago, which first sparked my interest in genealogy. In addition, the broad genealogical outlines of many of these families were presented years ago by Huxford in his multi-volume set "The Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia."
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