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Source: Memoirs of Georgia Containing Historical Accounts of the State's Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People. Vol. 2. Atlanta, Ga.: Southern Historical Association, 1895. pp. 688-689. Contributed by Lori Thornton.

CARTLIDGE. Unostentatious, useful members of society and communities seldom receive the meed of praise or the consideration their merits and quietly-rendered services justly entitle them to. Disdaining to seek, they often shrink from notoriety, avoiding the appearance of seeking it. Of this class is the Rev. G. H. Cartlidge, a Presbyterian clergyman of Franklin county, Ga. He was the son of Samuel and Agnes W. (Groves) Cartlidge, and was born in Columbia county, Ga., in 1820. His paternal grandfather was a native of Wales, whence he emigrated to America and settled in Virginia before the revolutionary war, but subsequently moved to North Carolina. His grandparents, Joseph and Dillie Linders (nee Page) Cartlidge, were natives of North Carolina, and migrated to Georgia and settled in what is now Columbia county in 1788. He was a farmer and was a soldier in the patriot army during the revolutionary war. Mr. Cartlidge's father was born in Columbia county, was raised a farmer, and adopted farming as his life pursuit. He was a soldier in the last war with Great Britain, and was an earnest member of and worker in the Baptist church. His mother was a daughter of Stephen and Isabella (Weekly) Groves. He was a native of England, emigrated to this country before the revolutionary war, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he married an Irish lady. He was a farmer and tanner, and before the revolutionary war owned large tracts of land around Vicksburgh, Union Co., Pa. He served in the revolutionary army during the war, after which he migrated to Georgia and located in what is now Madison county, where he died in 1839, in the one hundredth year of his age. Mr. Cartlidge received his primary and preparatory education at the near-by schools and then entered Oglethorpe university, Midway, Baldwin Co., Ga., in 1841, from which he graduated in 1845. Having taken a course of study at a theological school, he was called to the pastorate of the church at Woodstock, Oglethorpe Co., Ga. A short time afterward he moved to Lexington, Oglethorpe Co., where he was apstor of the church, and taught school in the academy two years. From there he went to Madison county, where he remained four years, whence in 1852, he was called to the pastorate of Hebron church, Franklin county, where his home has been ever since. For six months during the war he was captain of Company A, Toombs' brigade. In addition to his pastoral work he looks after his farm, and while working earnestly and zealously in the vineyard of the Master, is calmly and expectantly awaiting the summons to lay aside the "armor," lay down the "cross," and ascend to recieve his "crown"—his only regret being to leave a flock which so loves and reveres him. Mr. Cartlidge was married in 1847 to Miss Annie M.—born in Portland, Me., in 1824—daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Whitemarsh) Lane. Mr. Lane was a native of New Hampshire, and was a contractor and builder. He invented the original nail cutting machine, on which those now in use are improvements. He came to Georgia and settled near Milledgeville, where he died in 1842. Of the chilren which were the fruit of this union nine are living: George R. G., farmer; Charles W., farmer; Joseph M., mechanic; John H., farmer; Annie Dora, wife of James M. King; Sarah A., wife of Isaac M. Johnson; Luther H., physician, graduate of Southern Medical college, Atlanta; Thomas D., Presbyterian clergyman; Samuel J., Presbyterian clergyman.

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