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Keziah Boyd
~ W. W. Sasser
Coweta County, Georgia
W. W. Sasser, one of the leading men of Coweta county, is of the hardy
pioneer stock, to which many of the state's most valuable citizens belong. His grandfather, John Sasser, a native of England, came to America prior to the revolution and took part in that heroic struggle for liberty. His son William was a soldier in the war of 1812. During this war, on one occasion he and a comrade quarreled and to punish them their officers compelled them to undress, smear themselves all over with grease and fight it out. They then made friends and the episode was a lesson to them both. William Sasser married Elizabeth Beverly, like himself a native of Laurens district, S. C., and in 1818, with her and their two children, set out for Georgia. Their vehicle was a dump-cart, and in this comfortless conveyance they made their toilsome way over rough roads and by-paths, and often through an almost trackless
wilderness to their destination. For a short time they rented a small cabin while Mr Sasser was building one for himself. He completed this and began to clear up his land that fall. With his brother-in-law, who had come with him, he engaged in sawing lumber, using the old-fashioned whipsaw for a year. After that he was employed as an overseer. In 1825 he removed to Monroe county and with his savings bought a piece of land. On reaching his newly-purchased property he immediately began to saw the boards with which to make a shelter for his wife and five children, the land being covered with the heavy forest which at that time constituted the wealth of central Georgia. After six
years on this site, during which time (Feb. 7, 1829) his son, W. W. Sasser, was born, Mr Sasser moved to Meriwether county, Ga., where he again settled in the woods and in this place he dwelt until his death. He and his wife were consistent members of the Baptist church. In
this home, amid such surroundings, W. W. Sasser was reared, attending school in the old log schoolhouse which alone could be found in country districts at that time. The seats were of split slabs, the chimney of sticks and dirt, the fireplace six or seven feet wide, the roof tied on. William Sasser at his death turned all his property over into the hands of his son, W. W. Sasser, with the request that he rear and keep the family, and properly school them and otherwise care for them, and this he has faithfully done. During three years of the war he was running a mail route and did not do much fighting; during the last of the war he was one of Joe Brown's favorites. Mr Sasser is a royal arch Mason. For
seven years he was county commissioner for Coweta county, and then on account of ill health was compelled to resign.
He is greatly liked and thoroughly respected by all who know him. On May
14, 1857, he married Keziah Boyd, daughter of Milton Boyd and Jane (Douglass)
Boyd, both natives of South Carolina, who settled in Meriwether county, near Greeneville, about the year 1836. Mr Boyd was a soldier in the war of 1812. The daughter, now Mrs Sasser, was born in South Carolina and
was but two years old at the time of the removal of her parents to Georgia. Mr and Mrs Sasser have been blessed with a family of eight children, of whom
seven are now living: Charles F., Milton, J. A., Hugh, B. Edward, Lula and Eunice. John was the name of the son who died. Mr and Mrs Sasser are faithful and devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal church and so, likewise, are all their children.
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; Atlanta : Southern Historical
Association, 1895- FHL US/CAN Film 1697814
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