George Tillman Pigg

George Tillman Pigg was born October 1820 in Chesterfield District, SC, just south of current day Pageland, son of Johnny and Catherine Pigg. He relocated to Harris County, Georgia, sometime around 1850. The 1860 census records him there in Hamilton District. On January 18, 1863 he enlised, as a substitute for a man named Beal, as a private in Co. H, Georgia Infantry, called Russell's Guards. He was hospitalized in Union Spring, Alabama, which tradition states was for measles. It has also been verbal tradition that the family of George Tillman returned him home in a covered wagon.

George Tillamn and wife, Jane C. Horne, were the parents of two children: Jane Alzeria Pigg and John Tillman Pigg Around 1885, he relocated to Cullman County, Alabama, where he died in 1911. He is buried at Blair Methodist Church, Cullman, Alabama.