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Published: 1991

Total Pages: 488

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History of the Urquhart family originally of Scotland and later in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Texas and elsewhere. John Urquhart (1802-1849) was believed to have been born in Cumber- land Co., N.C., and died in Talbot or Marion Co., Georgia. He was married (1) ca. 1830 in Butts Co., Ga. to a widow, Ruth Mitchel Rhodes (1786-1835). She had seven children with her first husband William Rhodes. She and John Urquhart had no children. He married (2) 1837 in Talbot Co., Ga. Euphemia Parker (1813-1877), the daughter of Stephen W. Parker and Elizabeth Ridley. They were parents of three children: William Henry (1838-1864); Maryan Eliza- beth (1840-1844); and Amanda M. (1850-1926).