Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....Hope Tigner  1852 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Page 523

Hope Tigner

Hope Tigner, a valued citizen and prosperous farmer of Meriwether county, of 
which he is a native, is of Scotch ancestry, his great-grandfather, William 
Tigner, with two brothers, having come from Scotland during the last century.  
They were the ancestors of the Tigner families in this country.   William 
Tigner settled in Elbert county, where his son Hope was born, who married Miss 
Eliza Glenn, and many years ago settled in Meriwether county, and erected the 
first frame house built in the county.  Their son, W.S., born in Monroe 
county, married Miss Mary J. Baldwin, a daughter of James and Mary (Scott) 
Baldwin, natives of Virginia, who settled in Hancock county in 1824, and later 
moved to Upson county.  Mr. Baldwin, who commanded a regiment in the war of 
1812, was the son of George and Rachel Baldwin, of Virginia, the former a 
soldier during the revolutionary war.   Hope Tigner, the son of W.S. and Mary 
J. (Baldwin) Tigner, was born in 1852, and passed his early years upon the 
farm.  He attended the school at White Sulphur Springs, and also enjoyed and 
profited by a year at Bowdon college.  Mr. Tigner’s chosen vocation is the 
tillage of the soil, and this he has pursued with the ardor and determination 
which compels success.  His country home is a most delightful one, in the 
midst of his large and beautiful plantation.  He has given considerable 
attention to horticulture, and has four and a half acres devoted to the 
culture of grapes, which are in fine condition.  Mr. Tigner is a man of 
estimable character, and truly respected by all.  In 1876 Mr. Tigner married 
Miss Carrie Pitts, whose parents, Lewis and Martha (Marshall) Pitts, Georgians 
by birth, afterward removed to Alabama.   Mrs. Tigner was born in Russell 
county, Ala., in 1854.  Both Mr. Tigner and his wife are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal church south.  They have two children: W.S. and Mary A.



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