HENRY S.ATWOOD CAME TO SAVANNAH :
THE AGE OF 14 AND TO WORK IN AN ESTABLISHMENT OF AN UNCLE:
LATER HE PURCHASED CARTWRIGHT FACTORY,A COTTON MILL ON THE OCONEE RIVER, 14 MILES FROM EATONTON.,GA...HE BECAME ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST PLANTERS IN EASTERN GA....HE MARRIED ANN MARGARET MCINTOSH, DAUGHTER OF:JOHN LACHLAN MCINTOSH,AND GRAND-DAUGHTER OF: JOHN MCINTOSH MOHR, LEADER OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDERS BROUGHT TO MCINTOSH COUNTY TO SETTLE THE AREA AROUND FORT KING GEORGE.@ THE MOUTH OF THE ALTMAHA RIVER, HENRY S. ATWOOD II DIED AND WAS BURIED IN CARTWRIGHT,GA
HOWEVER,HE AND HIS WIFE ANN HAD EIGHT CHILDREN BETWEEN 1826-1849,AND RAISED THEM ALL @ CEDAR POINT PLANTATION IN MCINTOSH CO.,GA
THE LAST TWO BOYS WERE TWINS, JOHN MCINTOSH AND GEORGE ELLIOTT ATWOOD BORN 01 JAN 1949.
JOHN MARRIED MARIA LAROCHE AND HAD ONE CHILD-CLARA ELLIOTT ATWOOD AND WHEN MARIA DIED-HE MARRIED HER SISTER CLARA FRANCES LAROCHE-AND HAD TWO MORE CHILDREN,{ANN MARGRET ATWOOD-BURROWS-WATSON} KNOWN AS META,AND THE SECOND CHILD NOT MENTIONED HERE IN THIS ARTICLE..
JOHN'S TWIN, GEORGE ELLIOT ATWOOD BORN 01 JAN 1849 IN CARTWRIGHT ,GA--MARRIED SOPHIA LETITIA LAROCHE IN A DOUBLE RING CEREMONY WITRH JOHN AND MARIA,ON 04 JAN 1870,.
GEORGE AND SOPHIA RAISED THEIR EIGHT CHILDREN IN VALONA. THEY WERE BORN BETWEEN 1873 AND 1897.GEORGE DIED 20 MAY 1914 ,BURIED ATWOOD CEMETERY @ VALONA........