Bomar family.

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Benjamin F. Bomar was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 9 August 1816. After moving to Cumming, Georgia (1840), to practice medicine, he married Sara Elizabeth Lumpkin Hayne. They moved to Atlanta (1847) where Benjamin Bomar was employed as a merchant and became the second mayor (1849) and the first clerk of the Fulton County Superior Court (1854). He died 1 February 1868. The Bomars had three children, Thomas H. (who served in the 38th Georgia Infantry in Virginia and was captured in 1864), William A. (who also served with the Confederate Amry) and Amaryllis (who married Charles H. Killian, who served with the 15th Mississippi Infantry).

From the description of Bomar family papers, 1862-1870. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863040

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Place Name Admin Code Country
Atlanta (Ga.)
United States
Vicksburg (Miss.)
Georgia
Subject
Atlanta Campaign, 1864
Corinth, Battle of, Corinth, Miss., 1862
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862
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Mayors
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Active 1870

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