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Sources: (1) Memoirs of Georgia, Volume 1, chapter 3, page 1,087 - Henry County:
CHARLES THORNTON ZACHRY -
This is the name of a family whose members, though not numerous, have always been men and women of the highest character and noble impulses. Its introduction into America from SCOTLAND was attended with circumstances of extreme hardship.
The Zachry who landed in Maryland with a Rucker and a Smith, being the only three persons saved from their wrecked vessel. From this gentleman has sprung the American contingent of the family. Little is known of the early movements of the family, save that they were prominent agriculturists and intermarried with some of the best families of the colonies.
It is recorded that a JOHN ZACHRY, of South Carolina, married MARY HAY, a daughter of the famous Daniel Hay, who was killed while in Washington's service. From Maryland to the Carolins, the name appeared from thence in Georgia after the revolutionary war, where Daniel Zachry, after a residence of uncertain period in Warren county, settled in Putnam county, where he reared a large and prosperous family. James B. Zachry, one of the sons, after marrying Miss Olive Morton, removed to Newton county, where he spent the remainder of his life as planter, dying at the age of seventy-two years. His wife outlived him four years, dying in 1876.
They were the parents of twelve children:
Thomas H., died while in the Mexican war; William, deceased; Daniel H., Jefferson, Texas; (Colonel) C. T.; Mary L., deceased; John M., Atlanta; Alfred H., Bartow, Florida; H.D., El Paso, Texas; L. H., also in Texas; Lucy, Mrs. W. G. Turner, Henry county; Carrie, deceased, and James B., Jr., deceased. (Colonel) C. T. Zachry is the fourth son, and is the most prominent member of the family in his day.
He was born in Newton county, February 4th, 1828, and in 1853 settled in Henry county, where he has since been a prominent and leading planter. (Colonel) Zachry has been twice married. In 1852 he married Miss Frances A. Turner, who bore him two children, and died in the fall of 1861. James Greer, the son, is a prominent lawyer and capitalist of New York city, and the daughter, Nancy A., married C. W. McCally, of Atlanta, and dided in 1892. The second marriage occurred in 1865, to Miss Elizabeth J. Russell, who still survives, the mother of four.....
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