Clinch County, Georgia - The Lastinger Family, 1916

THE progenitor of this family in America was John Lastinger. He was a native of Germany and was born probably about 1740. He came to America and landed at Charleston, S. C, about 1760. It is not known what was his wife's name other than he met her on the ship they were coming across in. In a few years this couple came to Georgia, and the records in Atlanta show that he was granted a land headright of one hundred acres in 1767. In 1769 he was given a similar grant. Both of these grants were in St. Phillips parish, later divided into counties of Effingham and Chatham.

The children of John Lastinger and his wife, were : George, born 1775; Milly, who married William Driggers; Andrew, born 1777, who married Mary Parker; Elizabeth (died in Infancy) ; Tobitha, who married a Bullard; David, whose wife was Dinah; Sarah, who married William Parker; and Hannah, who married John Groover, and a daughter who married a Weaver.

Children of George Lastinger: Andrew, who married Sarah McDonald ;Shadarach; Polly, who married John Rymes; Elizabeth, who married a Willis; Fannie, who married Noah TIce, and Mehala, who married a McNeil. Children of Andrew Lastinger: Elisha; Barbara, who married William Youmans; Susan, who married Elijah Adams (died) and LaFayette Gault, second husband; Louisa, who married Timothy Alderman, tax collector of Clinch County; Alfred Lastinger; Mary, who married Harmon Adams; William;

*I am indebted for this information to Mr. W. W. Lastinger, whose highlyinteresting genealogical table of the Lastinger family was loaned to me to be guided by in the above sketch. The above is not given further than the third generation from John Lastinger. - Author.

Children of Milly and William Driggers: Jonas and Willaim Driggers, Jr. ; Sarah, who married Dixon Bennett, of Clinch County; Rebecca, who married Harris Tomlinson, of Clinch County; Ellen, who married Seaborn Lastinger, who was born in 1805, and two other daughters, names unknown.

Children of Andrew Lastinger, born 1777 : Guilford, who was the first Ordinary of Clinch County; Sallie (died in girlhood) ; Seaborn, born 1805; Annis, who married James Lastinger, and William Lastinger, born 1804, who married Louisa English. Children of Guilford Lastinger by his first wife, Sarah Mikel: Andrew, who married Eliza Bostick; James, who married Nancy Corbett; Charles, who married Susan Whitehurst; Guilford T., who married Nicy Mc- Donald; David (never married) ; Annis (died in girlhood), and Seaborn, who married Sarah Bostick. Children of Guilford Lastinger by his second wife, Isabella Brack: Mrs. Ruby Eason, Mrs. Isabella Crosby, Mrs. Grant Steedley, and Mrs. Lee Powell.

Children of William Lastinger, born 1804, died 1893, and who was an early pioneer of Clinch County : Henry A., who married Emma J. Senquefield; Peter C, married Sylvania Ison; Seaborn, (never married) ; Annis, who married Robert Elliott; Elizabeth, who married William Wilkerson; Lacy E., who married Sophronia Williams; William H., married Georgia A. Jones; Joshua L., married Louisa Bowden; Jane, who married William McDonald; Kansas, who married F. M. Smith; Nebraska, who married Dr. J. G. Edie, and Arizona, who married Robt. K. Turner.

The following Lastingers were lost in the Civil War: Andrew, James, Charles, David, Seaborn, Seaborn (2d), Elias, W. H., and Elias Lastinger (2d), while the following others participated: Guilford T., John, Henry A., Peter C, Lacy E., Wm. H., Joshua B., James, John (2d), and probably others.