(Editor’s note: Ever ride down East Liddell Road heading for Amazon’s warehouse or Costco? Ever know what that road was named for? In that case, read on. Michael Perry Green is a descendant of William Liddell and the seventh generation born in Gwinnett County. He grew up listening to oral history as told by his grandmother, Nellie Mae Mills Liddell.)
MILTON, Ga. | Sarah Catherine Duncan Liddell, known as Sallie, was a formidable, strong-willed woman who not only kept the family farm intact in economic hard times, but added considerable acreage to it after her marriage into the Liddell family.
William Liddell, the great grandfather of her new husband, had settled on former native American land in the newly-formed Gwinnett County. As a Revolutionary War veteran, he had received acreage after the Land Lottery of 1818.
The Liddells lived in a farmhouse of hand-hewn logs built in 1840. This house was situated near Bromolow Creek, a tributary of Beaver Ruin Creek, and present-day West Liddell Road…