tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47208773643753178982024-03-06T13:04:11.589-06:00My Georgia RootsChronicling the long-distance family history research of a Georgia boy in Yankee-land!*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-20249806153388660712013-06-26T05:49:00.003-05:002013-06-26T05:50:27.529-05:00Still On Hiatus<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In June 2012 my dad had a stroke, so I spent the next 4 months shuttling between Wisconsin and Georgia. He is still recovering. Then in October I had pneumonia. I'm mostly recovered, but I still feel it in a lack stamina; by the time I get home from work most days I have little energy left to do much of anything except eat dinner and go to bed. I'm taking vacation in Georgia again this summer and hope to get back to regular posting by the fall. Thanks to all who expressed concern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Later y’all,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div>
*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-4883325690816572552012-02-03T22:59:00.006-06:002012-02-04T14:27:46.010-06:00The Stanford Cheek Family (Part 2)<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now that you know a bit about the family of Stanford Cheek and his wife Mary Polly Williams Cheek I wish to relate the remarkable tale from the unlikely source that confirmed some few facts I had and opened up much of what I just related. As I said, I had hoped to verify the information with copies of the original documents, but hours of operation of the Georgia Archives are severely reduced because of budget constraints, such that we face the very real prospect that the Archives may close to the public altogether. Alas for our state, and its history, and its reputation.</span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In any case, I’m lucky that someone else uncovered these documents. As I said, a Google search turned up my first clues. I was researching my third great grandfather John Farthing. I had traced him back as far as 1860 in Jasper County, and was entering various combinations of his name and the counties in which he had lived, with and without enclosing phrases in quotes, hoping for that odd bit of luck that would turn up an historical reference. One search turned up the phrase “the harassment of his father, his brother-in-law (John Farthing) and himself” and clicking on the link opened a Word document entitled <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">Homicides of Adults in Jasper County, Georgia, to 1900</span></i></b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">. It was a long 500+ page document, so I searched for Farthing and got a hit. More than that, I found a new branch of the family, confirmed the maiden name of John Farthing wife independently of the </span>Farthing family history I have a copy of, and uncovered a fascinating and forgotten bit of family history.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">First, I must give credit to my source for this tale. The document mentioned above is from the website of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Historical Violence Database</b>, a project of the Criminal Justice Research Center (CJRC) of the Department of Sociology, Ohio State University (<a href="http://cjrc.osu.edu/researchprojects/hvd/usa/georgia/">http://cjrc.osu.edu/researchprojects/hvd/usa/georgia/</a>). The other pages of the project website make fascinating reading, but I was specifically concerned with the results reported in this paper, part of the study “Homicide among Adults in Georgia and South Carolina, 1785-1900.“ The particular sections of the document that concern the Cheek family draw on the papers of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Brown_Bullock">Governor Rufus Brown Bullock</a>, the Reconstruction-era Republican Governor of Georgia from 1868-1871. While the study has some extensive quotes of the original source material, it is nevertheless a transcription, with all the potential flaws inherent in the transcription process. Unfortunately, though, as noted above it is all I have to rely on for the time being. I am grateful that the CJRC has made this study available on the internet. Please see the section on Creative Commons license and Fair Use <a href="http://cjrc.osu.edu/researchprojects/hvd/index.html">here</a> on the CJRC website for information on distribution of this content. All of the quotes are from </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">pages 222-227, covering the sections "HOM: Walter N. Cheek m. Jarret McGinnis" and "HOM: unk. white men [prob. Elbert J. Campbell, Richard S. Campbell, William Parker, and ___ McGinnes] m. Malory L. Cheek.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There are in the papers of Governor Bullock three letters dated 15 May 1870, 22 May 1870 and 24 August 1870 (Papers of Governor Rufus Brown Bullock, 1868-1871. Record Group 1-1-5, Ga. Dept. of Hist. & Archives. Box 58: 2740-13; cited in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Homicides of Adults in Jasper County, Georgia, to 1900</i> [hereafter <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Homicides</i>], pp 223-224). The letters were written to the Governor by “John W. Cheek, formerly of Jasper Co., now in Yorkville, S.C.” On 15 May 1870 John Cheek “writes about the harassment of his father, his brother-in-law (John Farthing) and himself & of the murder of his brother, Malory L. Cheek, in 1868.” According to the letters, John & Mallory (or Malory) were "attending to our own business" as farmers during 1868. Various “Democratic clubs” and early KKK organizations were out agitating and trying to force white farmers to join them in harassing the newly-freed blacks in an attempt to influence the outcome of election. John says that “At last they were threatened with violence if they did not join, esp. [Mallory], ‘who had openly denounced the So called <u>KuKlux</u>.’” As might be expected, this did not go over well with the agitators.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mallory tried to hide from the group, but they continued to pursue him.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">until the Ku Klux raided his house at night & broke into the house & went into the bedroom with guns cocked & ordered his brother's wife out of the bed (in only her nightclothes), but found he had escaped. Then they went to “our brother in law” (John Farthing) & entered his house in the same manner, terrifying his wife & children. Then went to their aged parents' house [age 70] & searched the house with guns drawn. Then came to JWC's house & made the same threats & search.</span></div></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“JWC” is John W Cheek. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Finally, at 3am on 30 November 1868, they caught up with Mallory, “called [him] to the door of his house & shot him through the body & head.” John reports that his brother died instantly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In his letters of 22 May and 24 August 1870, John expands on his charges somewhat, and repeatedly names names, calling out brothers Elbert and Richard Campbell and William Parker, all of Jasper County, who he says “have never been law abiding citizens”, and that they “engaged in illicit Disstilling for two years previous to October 1868 at which time I was forced to seek safety by leaving my home.” They local trio was joined in this crime and the ongoing agitation and harassment by a man who claimed to be an ex-Confederate officer from Tennessee, a Captain McGinnes, “who was at the time loafing about the country and who acted as one of the Ringleaders of the band" but has since moved to Bastrop P.O. in Bastrop Co., Texas.” According to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Homicides</i>, the May 15<sup>th</sup> letter states that the murder occurred on the 30<sup>th</sup> of November and that John left the state shortly afterwards, yet here in the May 22<sup>nd</sup> letter he is saying he left the state the month before (in October 1868), and in the letter of August 24<sup>th</sup> he states that “It will be 2 yrs next Sept. when the crime was committed” (i.e., September 1868). So unless there is a transcription error in the letter of May 15<sup>th</sup>, the dates are slightly out of synch. But it seems clear that the basic truth of the murder and the approximate time appear factual.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">John Cheek is writing to appeal to the Governor to send in troops to effect an arrest because he believes the civil authority in Jasper County is sympathetic to the political goals of the murderers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is all interesting stuff, so I searched the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Homicides</i> document for more mentions of the Farthings and Cheeks. There was only one other section mentioning the Cheek family, and it’s immediately before the one on the murder of Mallory Cheek. Interestingly, it is the murder of a man named “Jarret McGinnis” by Mallory’s brother Walter Cheek. This murder took place on 31 May 1868, and apparently was the result of a duel between Walter and this Jarret McGinnis, arising from some slight wherein Walter thought that Jarret had insulted him or Jarret thought Walter had insulted him or both. I think that there is far too much coincidence in the name of the victim is this earlier murder “Jarret McGinnis” and “Captain McGinnes” who was a ringleader in the murder of Mallory Cheek. It certainly bears further investigation and research, and has been added to my “to do” list.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s about it for now.<br />
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Later y’all,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-58120509267711354322012-01-31T18:02:00.001-06:002012-01-31T18:03:29.361-06:00The Stanford Cheek Family<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In a previous post on my 3<sup>rd</sup> great grandfather <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/06/john-william-another-farthing.html">John William Farthing</a> I briefly mentioned his wife Louisa Cheek. While researching John William and Louisa using Google, an interesting bit of information turned up from an unlikely source. I had hoped to verify the information with copies of the original documents, but with the reduction in hours at the Georgia Archives, and a visit being unlikely this year, I’ll have to rely for a while longer on the transcription I discovered. This is not a primary source for me, but it gave me pointers to and confirmation of connections that I found in other sources, mainly censuses and Civil War records.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">First the bare outlines of the family pedigree. Louisa Cheek was born about 1825 in Orange County, North Carolina, where on 7 July 1849 she married John William Farthing (born about 1820). Louisa’s parents were Stanford Cheek (1796-after 1880) and Mary Polly Williams (1797-before 1880). Stanford and Mary were married in Orange County, North Carolina, in 1819 and had four sons and one daughter that we know of.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">John W Cheek (1821-?)<br />
married Emeline A Currie (1822-?) in 1846 in Orange County, North Carolina<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Louisa Cheek (1825-before1900) – my 3<sup>rd</sup> great grandmother<br />
married John William Farthing in 1849 in Orange County, North Carolina<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Archibald W "Archy" Cheek (1832-1862)<br />
never married<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Walter N Cheek (1835-1870)<br />
married Amanda J Hardman, née Blackwell (1828-?) in 1866 in Jasper County, Georgia<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mallory Cheek (1840-1868)<br />
married Artexas C Allen (?-?) in 1862 in Jasper County, Georgia</span></li>
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The first census I have found documenting Stanford Cheek’s family was the 1840 census in Orange County, North Carolina, but we’ll start here with 1850, the first census to show details of the names and ages of family members residing in the household. In District 1 of Orange County, North Carolina, the census record shows John and Louisa Farthing, and further down the same sheet, so undoubtedly living nearby, are Louisa’s parents and siblings, Stanford and Mary Cheek, with Archy, Walter and Mallory. Oldest son John Cheek had already moved to Jasper County, Georgia, with his wife Emeline and son Marion, plus on the following sheet we see “Nancy Curry”, most likely Emeline’s mother. Note also that John Farthing is a blacksmith, and Stanford Cheek and John Cheek are carpenters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial;">By 1860 the whole clan has followed John Cheek to Georgia. Stanford, Mary, Walter and Mallory are living in Newton County, and John Farthing, John Cheek and Archy Cheek live in and around Monticello, in Jasper County. Arch, who is now a carpenter like his father and older brother, lives in a boarding house run by Susan Fulton. And “The War” is just a year away. It doesn’t appear that either the Cheeks or the Farthings were slave owners, but their lives would be torn apart nonetheless.</span> <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stanford Cheek was 65 when the War started, and John Cheek and John Farthing were both over 40, but the younger Cheeks all enlisted at the outset. Their service records (which I found on the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Fold3.com">Fold3.com</a> website) show that Archy, Walter and Mallory all enlisted in Company G, Georgia 4th Infantry Regiment on 25 Apr 1861, and mustered into service the next day at Augusta, under the command of Captain R. G. Cole. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Walter served through nearly the end of the war. He was captured at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on 12 May 1864, and released from the prison camp at Elmira, New York, on 23 June 1865, “on taking the oath of allegiance” [to the United States]. Mallory enlisted as a drummer, was hospitalized with syphilis in October and November of 1861, and finally discharged on a certificate of disability on 12 August 1862. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Archy was also diagnosed with syphilis and received a medical discharge 26 January 1862. But on 10 May 1862 he re-enlisted, this time as a corporal in the 16th GA Partisan (Cavalry) Rangers Volunteers (also known later as 12th (Wright's) Cavalry (State Guards) and 13th Cavalry). His regiment was part of the command of Morgan's Raiders. While on extended campaign into Kentucky in July 1862 he was killed in or around Harrison County while the unit was encamped at Cynthiana, Kentucky. In January 1863 his father Stanford filed a claim for a settlement for his deceased son. The death claim bears out the fact that Arch never married, for his father explicitly states that he left behind no wife or children. The claim was settled for two months’ pay plus a $50 bounty due from enlistment, plus $25 for his clothing allowance, but $2.50 was deducted for a pair of shoes he received from the army. Interestingly (to me at least) the “acting justice of the peace” for Jasper County who witnessed several pages of Stanford’s claim was Robert C Barnes. I don’t yet know what, if any, relationship he is to “my” Barnes family.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Next time I’ll give the details of my unexpected discovery.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s about it for now.<br />
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Later y’all,</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">*GeorgiaTim</span>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-58967945800373387822012-01-22T23:06:00.000-06:002012-01-22T23:06:08.145-06:00The Children of Missouri Beasley and Green Berry Barnes<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if !mso]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Last week I posted the <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2012/01/will-of-green-berry-barnes.html">Will of my great-great grandfather Green Berry Barnes</a>, published in 1891 after his death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because his will essentially holds his estate in trust it is likely that <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2012/01/missouri-beasley-barnes.html">Missouri</a> left no will when she died in 1925.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nothing in the will books available on microfilm from the Family History Library so confirmation will have to wait until I can visit the Bulloch County Courthouse in person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the meantime, I have a few other documents that mention or prove facts about the children of Missouri and Green Berry Barnes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here are the basic facts I’ve uncovered about their offspring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The names marked with an asterisk (Ella Barnes Jones, James Henry Barnes & Willis Remer Barnes) are mentioned by name Green Berry Barnes’ will.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in; text-indent: -.2in;"><b><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Ella Carene Barnes* (1866-1927) </b><br />
married John Jones (1861-1950) in 1886<br />
Thanks to the marriage books available through the <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/countyfilm,97919">Georgia’s Virtual Vault website</a> (Bulloch County Marriage Book 4A, 1877-1890, p 300; courtesy of the Georgia Archives; Marriage Books, Bulloch County Ordinary Court, Georgia Archives) I have a copy of their marriage license record, and their burial in the Brooklet Cemetery, Brooklet, Bulloch County, is recorded among other places on the <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=65913348">Find A Grave website</a>, which has pictures of their grave stones courtesy of nu2ga.<br />
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married Rebecca Deal (1875-1973) in 1891<br />
I have found their <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/countyfilm,55614">marriage license record</a> (<span class="desctxt">Bulloch County Marriage Book, 1875-1892, page 441; </span>courtesy of the Georgia Archives; Marriage Books, Bulloch County Ordinary Court, Georgia Archives).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are buried in the Ramah Cemetery, Mershon, Pierce County, Georgia, and memorialized on <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55346563">Find A Grave</a> (pictures courtesy of Irisheyes).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><br />
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Thomas probably died before 1880 because he’s only listed in the 1870 census, and I’ve found no further mention of or documentation on him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in; text-indent: -.2in;"><b><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Willis Remer Barnes* (1870-1903) </b><br />
married Mittie M Olliff (1873-1960) in 1891<br />
I haven’t located their marriage record yet, but according to their 1900 census they were married about 1891.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Willis is buried in the plot set aside as a family burial ground in his father’s will (<span class="desctxt">Barnes and Akins Family Cemetery Records, Bulloch County, Ga; Compiled by the Genealogical Committee; LDS Church; Filmed by the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, UT, 1956; FHL Film # 2105, Item 10).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Remer Barnes mentioned in the will was Greens’ brother, who died in 1889.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That Remer was reburied in Eastside Cemetery, Statesboro, to rest beside his wife when she died in 1936.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in; text-indent: -.2in;"><b><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Nancy Rosanna “Rosa” Barnes (1872-1948)</b><br />
married Jacob Cuyler “Jake” Jones (1866-1950) in 1891<br />
These were my great grandparents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, yes, Jacob Jones and Ella’s husband John Jones were brothers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So their descendants are double-cousins of ours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/02/keeping-up-with-joneses-ii.html">previously discussed Jake and Rosa</a> in greater detail, and have a copy of their marriage record and have been to their grave site.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><br />
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married V H Morris (?-?) in 1900<br />
I have found a marriage record that seems to be for “our” Mollie Barnes, but beyond that I have discovered nothing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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married Welcome Amos Akins (1877-1945) in 1901<br />
The Akins family, both descendants of Maggie & Amos and other branches of the Akins tree still inhabit the regions of Bulloch County where our ancestors once farmed side by side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The farm which hosts the Barnes & Akins cemetery is still in the Akins family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the younger Missouri Barnes and Amos Akins, I have found their <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/countyfilm,48699">marriage license record</a> (<span class="desctxt">Bulloch County Marriage Book, 1898-1904, page 275; </span>courtesy of the Georgia Archives; Marriage Books, Bulloch County Ordinary Court, Georgia Archives).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are buried in the <span class="desctxt">Upper</span><span class="desctxt"> Mill Creek Cemetery, Statesboro, Bulloch County</span>, and memorialized on <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69715895">Find A Grave</a> (pictures courtesy of Craig & Tonya Banks).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maggie’s youngest brother Robert is buried in the same plot.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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married Missouri Deal (1887-1984) in 1914?<br />
I have nothing confirmed on John & Missouri, only two census records (1920 and 1930), and even they are conflicting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The death dates are also presumptive until further information is obtained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 1920 census shows JG Barnes & wife Missouri, aged 39 & 35, with 4-year-old daughter Francis, but doesn’t indicate when they may have married; however they live next door to presumptive brother WB Barnes & his wife Alice (below).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The presumed 1930 census has John G & Missouri Barnes, with two daughters, J Francis (13) and Jonnie M (9).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But here John is 51 and Missouri is only 34 (or maybe 38, difficult to read).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1930 Column 15 gives the “Age at First Marriage”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For John it is 35, and for Missouri it is 25.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means he would have been first married about 1914, but her first marriage would have been about 1921 (or 1917, depending on which age you use).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a riddle!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in; text-indent: -.2in;"><b><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>William Benjamin Barnes (1881-1961) </b><br />
married Alice Woodrum (1886-?) in 1908<br />
With William I am a little luckier than with John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did find a <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/countyfilm,49026">marriage license record</a> for Ben Barnes and Alice (<span class="desctxt">Bulloch County Marriage Book, 1905-1912, p 169; </span>courtesy of the Georgia Archives; Marriage Books, Bulloch County Ordinary Court, Georgia Archives).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t yet found cemetery or death records for them, though as with John there is some indication they may have settled in the Savannah area, and may be buried there.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2vWufDUnWz_uYagXdy43Sn8eGUrh918-AmAPuThvyQu62vlHyGyxiRmbxndiRnL0Q9KD1LdICi7DYuxk5ZcvS5Mflko2UIcS0WhnrYtaXPocxJUh0p_M3AXsxXvwC6gdcseEP1ifiXf3y/s1600/Ben+Barnes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2vWufDUnWz_uYagXdy43Sn8eGUrh918-AmAPuThvyQu62vlHyGyxiRmbxndiRnL0Q9KD1LdICi7DYuxk5ZcvS5Mflko2UIcS0WhnrYtaXPocxJUh0p_M3AXsxXvwC6gdcseEP1ifiXf3y/s200/Ben+Barnes.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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married Susie May Prosser (1889-?) in 1902; Susie married [?]Cannoles[?] abt 1924<br />
Another of Green & Missouri’s children whose life was tragically cut short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found his <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/countyfilm,48699">marriage license record</a> (<span class="desctxt">Bulloch County Marriage Book, 1898-1904, page 382; </span>courtesy of the Georgia Archives; Marriage Books, Bulloch County Ordinary Court, Georgia Archives).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have found a copy of <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/gadeaths,30109">his death certificate online</a> (<span class="objectdescription">Death Certificates, Vital Records, Public Health, RG 26-5-95, Georgia Archives</span>) which states that he was buried at Friendship Church but so far I haven’t located a picture of his gravesite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appears there are at least three Friendship Churches in Bulloch County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the 1930 census Susie remarried by 1924 or 1925, but was apparently twice-widowed by then.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><br />
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Robert never married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my previous post I speculated on the possibility that he was blind and for that reason lived with his mother, then his sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since then I was sent his obituary by the kind <span class="objectdescription">courtesy of Janice Strickland, Statesboro Regional Library. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the </span>Bulloch Times, Thursday, June 17, 1943, p 4, it states:</span><br />
</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>R. C. BARNES</b><br />
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Funeral services for R. C. Barnes,<br />
56, who died here yesterday, will be<br />
held this (Thursday) afternoon at 6<br />
o'clock at Upper Mill Creek church<br />
with Elder A. E. Temples in charge<br />
of the services. Burial will be in<br />
the church cemetery.<br />
Mr. Barnes, who has been in ill<br />
health for some time, was blinded by <br />
an accident 35 years ago. He was<br />
well known throughout the county.<br />
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs.<br />
Amos Akins, of Statesboro, and Mrs.<br />
Jacob Jones, of Statesboro; two broth-<br />
ers, John C. Barnes, of Savannah, and<br />
W. B. Barnes, of Hinesville. Pall-<br />
bearers will be nephews, Doy Akins,<br />
Ray Akins, Floyd Akins, Fred Akins,<br />
Ernest Akins, Datus Akins, and In-<br />
man Akins. Lanier's Mortuary is in<br />
charge of funeral arrangements.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in; text-indent: -.2in;"> <br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I also have a photo of his grave stone courtesy of the kind graces of Craig & Tonya Banks and the Find A Grave web site (<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69715737">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69715737</a>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I stated above, Robert is buried in the Akins plot at Upper Mill Creek Cemetery, Statesboro, with his sister and brother-in-law Missouri “Maggie” Akins and W. Amos Akins.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s about it for now.<br />
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Later y’all,</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">*GeorgiaTim</span>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-34614165010434048802012-01-18T21:45:00.008-06:002012-01-18T21:45:00.217-06:00The Will of Green Berry Barnes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvk4pGk0leKzJrfbGuklMmXzDqorpou1EeUlfL24qyWvRWZzIBzJnDX2OKmbZHSvYi11lLVq4dhHIqFmmB727yII9giqdmKvb_gK2sYu7eyp4IAiPMb1BRRQpQttjZd1-CBUMIlBiL-ETn/s1600/BARNES+Green+B+Barnes+Will+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvk4pGk0leKzJrfbGuklMmXzDqorpou1EeUlfL24qyWvRWZzIBzJnDX2OKmbZHSvYi11lLVq4dhHIqFmmB727yII9giqdmKvb_gK2sYu7eyp4IAiPMb1BRRQpQttjZd1-CBUMIlBiL-ETn/s640/BARNES+Green+B+Barnes+Will+1.jpg" width="412" /></a></div><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">Georgia<br />
Bulloch County<br />
I Green B Barnes of said county and state being of sound a disposing mind and memory do make this my last will and Testament.<br />
Item first<br />
I give derive and bequeath to my Wife Missouria Barnes during her widowhood on her natural life all of my estate both real and personal, the same to be kept together for the mantananceand support for my said wife and children.<br />
Item Second.<br />
In case of the death or marraige of my said wife, it is my will that my said estate be kept together until my youngest child becomes of age.<br />
Item Third<br />
It is my will that my two sons James H and Willis R Barnes have the priviledge of running all my mill machinery, that as compensation for this Services they are to receive Eighteen dollars each per month from the proceeds of the Gins, saw mill, planer and other machinery connected therewith, the ballance of the earnings of said machinery is to be turned over to my said wife, and out of this fund she is to keep the property in repair, first, and to equally divide whatever may be left between all my children annually. It is also my will that the said JH & WR Barnes are to manage the Grist mill, and that the gross proceeds from the grist mill are to be turned over to my said wife to be used for the support and mantanance of my family<br />
Item Fouth<br />
It is my will that my sister Sarah Barnes shall have the priviledge of living with my family and enjoying the same support as she has in the past.<br />
In case she shall survivie until there is a distribution of my estate it is my will that she shall receive three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) in money or property to be selected by her, which shall be hers only for life, and on her death to be equally divided among my heirs at law.<br />
Item Fifth<br />
I give bequeath and devise to A.R. Lanier Ordinary of said County and to his successors in office one and one half acres of Land to be staked off by my Two Eldest sons for a Grave Yard for my self and family, said Land lying about Two hundred yards south east from my Present residence, being the Land whereon the Body of Reamer Barnes is now interred.<br />
Item Sixth<br />
It is my will that in the event my widow should marry, that she have a home for her life consistently of my present residence and provided with sufficient stock and farming utensils to run same, That in the event of the marriage of my widow, She Shall cause to controll the [blank space] from my will property, and that said shall go into the hand of my executor for distribution as aforesaid.<br />
Item Seventh<br />
It is my will that the amounts I have advanced Ella C Jones wife of John Jones the $66.62 be accounted for in the final distribution of my estate.<br />
Item Eighth<br />
I hereby constitute and appoint G.S. Johntson Executor of this my last will and Testament this the 11th day of Jany 1891<br />
Green B Barnes<br />
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Signed, declared and published by Green B Barnes as his last WWill and Testament, in presence of us the subscribers our names hereto, in the presence of said testator at his instance and request and of each other, he signing in our presence and we signing in his presence.<br />
B. T. Outland<br />
M. B. Marsh<br />
W. M. Warren<br />
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Recorded in common form this June 2nd 1891.<br />
A. R. Lanier<br />
Ordiny</blockquote><br />
Bulloch County Will Book Vol. 1, 1874-1927, pp 132-134. Transcribed from FHL Film #181902, 10 Dec 2011, by Timothy Jones. <br />
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">That’s about it for now.<br />
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Later y’all,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><br />
*GeorgiaTim</span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-43753616283832041892012-01-14T15:51:00.006-06:002012-01-14T15:57:13.315-06:00Missouri Beasley Barnes<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/11/green-berry-barnes.html" target="_blank">In a previous post</a> I discussed my great-great grandfather, Green Berry Barnes (1838-1891), and his wife Missouri Beasley Barnes (1843-1925). Widowed at the age of 47, she led a long life full of challenges. She died just a couple of months shy of her eighty-second birthday, in the process outliving at least four of her eleven children and caring for her blind youngest son* for decades. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Missouri Beasley was born on 25 July 1843 in Bulloch County, Georgia, the eldest child of John R Beasley (1813-1899) and Nancy Parrish Beasley (1821-1860). The 1850 and 1860 censuses show her living in Bulloch County with her parents and siblings. In 1850, in an area identified only as “Subdivision 6” they are John R (37), Nancy (29), Missouri (6), America (4), Henry (3) and James (1). In 1860, near the Bengal post office, they are John R (48), Nancy (39), Missouri (16), America (14), Henry (13), James (12), Mary (7) and Eli (4). I can’t find definitive proof yet, but my belief is that John and Family didn’t move, and they were living in the area west of Statesboro, near the present-day border of or possibly in Candler County. This is partially based on the 1890 Bulloch County Tax Digest, which places John Beasley in the Club House district (Militia District 45), which surrounds the modern town of Register.</span> </div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">As a side note, the 1850 census form lists the value of John’s real estate as $150. By 1860 his real estate is worth $400, and his personal estate is valued at $716<span class="desctxt">. </span><i><span style="color: #ff6600;">To Do Item: check property records to see if John purchased additional land, or possibly the increased value was strictly due to inflation.</span></i><span class="desctxt"> </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Missouri Beasley married Green Berry Barnes in March 1865. This is according to her Widows Pension Applications of 1908 and 1910 (she appears to have been denied a pension both times). Even though the pension application asks that the marriage license be attached to it, there is no indication that it ever was, or that it survives if it was. So far, a search of the Marriage Books of Bulloch County for the marriage registration has proved fruitless (using the microfilms available through the <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/" target="_blank">Family History Library</a> as well as the incomplete digital copies available through <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php" target="_blank">Georgia’s Virtual Vault</a>). The accepted date on Ancestry.com seems to be 21 March 1865, but without further proof I can’t state that definitively. Hopefully someone, somewhere, has the marriage license or family bible and will share it with the rest of us! </span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I covered the period of her marriage to Green in the previous post. To summarize, in 1870 the family consisted of Green (27), Missouri (23), Ella (4), James (3) and Thomas (6/12). In 1880 the household included Green B. (41), “Masoria” [sic] (37), Ellen C. (13), James H. (11), Willis R. (10), Rosa (7), Molly A. E. (5), Magga M. (4) and John G (1), plus Green's sister Sarah (44) and a white servant, John Jones (18). Green B. Barnes also appears on the 1890 Bulloch County Tax Digest, owning 408 acres in the Court House District (1209<sup>th</sup> Military District), which is the area around Statesboro. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Green Berry Barnes died in 1891. Since I wrote the above- mentioned post I’ve found a record of the so-called Barnes-Akins Family Cemetery in a film from the Family History Library (FHL US/CAN Film #2105, Item 103), which is a compilation of survey sheets from the 1950’s. Filmed in 1956, the survey shows four burials at this plot: Sarah Barnes (d. 18 August 1900), Missouri Barnes (25 Jul 1843 - 31 May 1925), Green B. Barnes (18 Mar 1838 - 26 Mar 1891) and Willis R. Barnes (21 April 1870 - 4 January 1903). Sarah Barnes is almost certainly Green’s sister, who lived with them. Missouri and Green B. are designated as Wife and Husband, but there is no indication on the form as to how or if this is indicated on the gravestones. Willis R. Barnes is probably their son Remer. I’ve been told by a cousin that the grave site still exists, and is still in family hands – sort of. The Akins are second cousins. Missouri Maggie Barnes married Welcome Akins and her sister Rosa Barnes married my great-grandfather Jacob Jones. Yet this means there is hope of obtaining photographs of the graves, or even visiting one day.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">In any case, the 1900 census shows Missouri as the widowed head of household with 5 of her 10 children, living in Blitch, Bulloch County, where she owned her own farm. Blitch is the name for Georgia Military District 1575, situated north of Statesboro. The residents of the farm are Missouri (56), Millie A (25), John G (21), William B (18), Eli W (16), Robert C (12) and her sister-in-law Sarah (65). I can’t find her listed anywhere on the 1910 census, but in 1920 she appears to be living on the farm of her son-in-law Welcome Akins. The census shows the family as Welcome A Akins (42), Maggie [Barnes, her daughter] (42), Floyd (17), Day (15), Fred (14), Clyde (12), Datus (10), Wilmur (8), Irene (7), Roy (5), Inmon (3) an Ernest (1) Akins, with Robert C Barnes (33) and Missouri Barnes (75). I do not yet know if this Welcome Akins farm was the Barnes farm before. The two Military Districts are adjacent, so the borders </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">could have shifted slightly, or 1575 (Blitch) could have been created after 1900. And it could be a completely different farm. More research is needed in the Bulloch County property records. Unfortunately, the microfilmed records of deeds and mortgages available through the <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/" target="_blank">Family History Library</a> only go through 1912, so I’ll have to plan an extended research trip, or else depend on the kindness of strangers! :-) <i><span style="color: #ff6600;">To Do Item: also check records to find out when Military District # 1575 was formed.</span></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Missouri</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> died on 31 May 1925, at the age of 81. This date is shown on her grave stone (at least according to the cemetery survey cited above) and on her death certificate, a digital copy of which I was able to obtain from the <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php" target="_blank">Georgia’sVirtual Vault web site</a>. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">*Missouri’s youngest son, Robert Calhoun Barnes, remained single throughout his life, and lived with his mother until her death, then with his sister Missouri “Maggie” and her husband Welcome A. Akins until his death on 6 June 1943. I haven’t completed researching him, but based on his WWI draft registration, it appears that he was blind. In fact, the draft registration card says he “lost both eyes.” Since he was listed as a “farm helper” on the 1900 census, which means there was probably some sort of accident between 1900 and 1917. In my imagination the romantic in me comes out, and I can imagine the reason they were missed on the 1910 census is that Missouri was firmly ensconced at Robert's bedside in a convalescent center or sanitarium as he slowly recovered physically and emotionally from the horrible farm accident which took both eyes and left him a near-invalid! The facts, when discovered, will probably prove me wrong, but in the meantime it makes a good movie in my head! </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">That’s about it for now.<br />
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Later y’all,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-4477868055416919782011-11-11T08:08:00.009-06:002011-11-14T20:13:46.419-06:00Muster Roll of the Toombs Guards, 19 August 1861<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s Veterans Day, and this is one of my “side tracks”, the Muster Roll of the Toombs Guards from Bulloch County Deed Book FK, page115, dated 19 August 1861. Number 8 in the list is my great-great grandfather Green Berry Barnes. Number 7 is Green’s younger brother Ebenezer Barnes, who married Georgia Ann Collins in 1861 and lived until at least 1880.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGnMf1sLxFEvYfajfMqZZ0FcHvEpdJcWRFj1hvCy3uxgRZeF-lp-6nndIFgbfE7fIZa4c1C7K2AQt6QOmuBrn6R-ikjIo5Ljb2HTAaCI0Nz9_WdNfSv5xe-diM5uNlRvqCvp6MKI9sBtbV/s1600/Bulloch+County+Deed+Book+FK+115+sepia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGnMf1sLxFEvYfajfMqZZ0FcHvEpdJcWRFj1hvCy3uxgRZeF-lp-6nndIFgbfE7fIZa4c1C7K2AQt6QOmuBrn6R-ikjIo5Ljb2HTAaCI0Nz9_WdNfSv5xe-diM5uNlRvqCvp6MKI9sBtbV/s640/Bulloch+County+Deed+Book+FK+115+sepia.jpg" width="411" /></a></div><div class="Section1"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Muster Roll of the Toombs Guards</span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">9th Regiment Georgia Volunteers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Officers</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">} </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Privates</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table><tbody>
<tr> <td width="50%"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">L. Carleton Belt, Capt</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Matthew Talbot 1st Lieut.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thomas Knight 2d ” “</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">John B Connelly 3d “ “</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Allen J Gibson 1st Sergt</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Patrick H Hendrix 2d “</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Zachriah H Bennett 3rd “</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wm a Hagan 4th “</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">W A Davis 1st Corpl</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">James Hendrix 2nd ”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Martin V Fletcher 3rd “</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Henry A Phillips 4th “</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Privates</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1 Akins James</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 2 Akins Solomon</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 3 Akins Lewis S</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 4 Alderman Chesley</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 5 Allen Andrew G</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 6 Allen Elijah A</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 7 Barnes Ebenezer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 8 Barnes Green B</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 9 Bath Geo W</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">10 Bell David</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">11 Bell John</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">12 Bland Hiram</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">13 Bowen Elisha W</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">14 Brown William D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">15 Burch Joel</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">16 Burnsed John</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">17 Burnsed William</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">18 Callahan Thomas</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">19 Crosby Allen L</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">20 Castille Patrick</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">21 Deal John (Honorable Discharge)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">22 Denmark Thomas J</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">23 Dickerson Ira</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">24 Dutton John W</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">25 Eason Micheal [sic]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">26 Farrow Jeremiah</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">27 Fulcher Robert V</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">28 Gould William</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">29 Gill John T</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">30 Hagin James</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">31 Hendrix David</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">32 Hendrix James W</span></div></td> <td width="50%"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">33 Hughes James H</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">34 Hughes Robert B</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">35 Jivens John [sic]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">36 Johnson Rowain [sp?]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">37 Jones Wm L</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">38 Lanier Perry</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">39 Martin Curtis S</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">40 McElvien Wm P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">41 Mincy Augustus M</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">42 Murphy Micheal [sic]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">43 Neville Cuyler</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">44 Parrish Isiah [sic]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[45 was skipped in the enumeration of the list]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">46 Proctor James C</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">47 Proctor John A</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">48 Proctor Wm A</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">49 Rigdon Daniel R</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">50 Rigdon Wm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">51 Rigdon Wiley</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">52 Riggs Stephen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">53 Scarboro Rhemer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">54 Scarboro Shadrach</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">55 Slater Robet B [sic: Robert B]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">56 Stone Geo W</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">57 Stone Holcombe</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">58 Strickland Peter D0</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">59 Thompson Eli</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">60 Waters Jackson</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">61 Waters Micheal [sic]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">62 Waters Mitchell</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">63 Woods General</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">64 Woods Mitchell</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Recruties [sic] for the Toombs Guards</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1 Richard Richardson</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 2 Mitchell Pridgen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 3 David C Proctor</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 4 J M Lewis</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 5 M H Denmark</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 6 G W Martin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 7 John I Martin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 8 Erastus Waters</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 9 James Mercer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">10 Benjamin Hodges</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">11 James Brown</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">12 John Rushing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">13 Randolph Rowe</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">14 Rowan Woodcock</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">15 James Holloway</span></div></td> </tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Recorded this August 19th 1861 Samuel Harville C.S.C.B.C</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[Transcription above by Tim Jones, 11 Nov 2011] </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">============================================</span></div> <br />
From user piggly75 on Ancestry.com, here’s a Muster Roll giving the fates of the soldiers listed:<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY I, 9th REGIMENT<br />
GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY<br />
ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA<br />
C. S. A. <br />
BULLOCH COUNTY, GEORGIA<br />
TOOMBS GUARDS<br />
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Belt, L. Carlton-Captain June 10, 1861. Wounded at Yorktown, Va. April 25, 1862. Died at Richmond, Va. May 16, 1862.<br />
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Talbot, Mathew Henry-1st Lieutenant June 10, 1861. Elected Captain June 16, 1862. Resigned July 17, 1863. Appointed Aide-de-Camp to Governor Brown August 14, 1864, and assigned as Captain to Talbot's Company, Ga. State Troops Cavalry, August 31, 1864. Roll for February 28, 1865, last on file, shows him present. No later record.<br />
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Knight, Thomas J: 2d Lieutenant June 10, 1861. Elected 1st Lieutenant June 16, 1862; Captain December 20, 1863. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Connally, John B.-Jr. 2d Lieutenant June 10, 1861. Elected 2d Lieutenant June 16, 1862. Resigned, under-age, June 17, 1863. Courier for General John H. Morgan September 1863 - September 1864.<br />
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Gipson, Allen Jones (or Gibson)-1st Sergeant June 10, 1861. Discharged from General Hospital at Richmond, Va. August 23, 1861.<br />
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Hendricks, Patrick H.-2d Sergeant June 10, 1861. Died in General Hospital January 17, 1862.<br />
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Bennett, W. H.-3d Sergeant June 10, 1861.<br />
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Hagin, William A: 4th Sergeant June 10, 1861. Elected 2d Lieutenant December 20, 1863; 1st Lieutenant October 1864. Roll for February 28, 1865, last on file, shows him Absent without leave, leave of absence expired February 3, 1865." No later record.<br />
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Davis, W. Allen-1st Corporal June 10, 1861. Wounded at Ellison s Mill, Va. June 26, 1862. Absent, wounded, February 28, 1863. No later record.<br />
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Hendricks, James-2d Corporal June 10, 1861. Appointed 1st Sergeant June 16, 1862. Elected 1st Lieutenant December 20, 1863. Elected Sheriff of Bulloch County, Ga. and resigned October 1864.<br />
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Fletcher, Martin Van Buren-3d Corporal June 10, 1861. Died at Manassas, Va. August 7, 1861.<br />
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Phillips, Henry A.-4th Corporal June 10, 1861. Died in Richmond, Va. hospital October 15, 1861.<br />
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Akins, James- private June 10, 1861. Died prior to December 5, 1862.<br />
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Akins, Lewis S.- private June 10, 1861. Wounded in thigh at 2d Manassas, Va. August 30, 1862. Died from wounds in Warrenton, Va. hospital October 24, 1862.<br />
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Akins, Solomon- private June 10, 1861. Appointed 3d Sergeant in 1862. Elected Jr. 2d Lieutenant June 25, 1863; 2d Lieutenant October 1864. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Alderman, Chestley- private June 10, 1861. Wounded in leg and captured at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1863. Died from wounds and amputation of leg, in hospital near Gettysburg, Pa., July 19, 1863.<br />
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Allen, Andrew J.- private June 10, 1861. Sent to hospital September 7, 1861. Died in 1862.<br />
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Allen, Elijah A: - private June 10, 1861. Discharged at Richmond, Va. October 18, 1861.<br />
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Barnes, Ebenezer- private June 10, 1861. Wounded and captured at Gettysburg, Pa. June 2, 1863. Paroled at Hammond U. S. General Hospital at Point Lookout, Md. and transferred for exchange March 17, 1864. Received at City Point, Va. March 20, 1864. Absent, wounded, February 28, 1865. No later record.<br />
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Barnes, Green Berry- private June 10, 1861. Wounded at 2d Manassas, Va. August 30, 1862. Appears last on roll for August 31, 1864. Pension records show he was at home, wounded, close of war.<br />
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Bath, George W.- private June 10, 1861. Wounded at 2d Manassas, Va. August 30, 1862. Captured at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1863. Paroled at Point Lookout, Md. February 18, 1865. Roll for February 28, 1865, last on file, shows him "Absent, a paroled prisoner." No later record. (Born in New York State May 2, 1840.)<br />
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Bell, David- private June 10, 1861. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Bell, John- private June 10, 1861. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Bennett, Zachariah H: - private June 10, 1861. Discharged, disability, November 6, 1861.<br />
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Berrien, Lawrence Cecil-Enlisted as a private in Co. B, 8th Regiment Ga. Inf. May 21, 1861. No later record in this company. Enlisted as a private in Co. 1, 9th Regiment Ga. Inf. June 10, 1861. Appointed 2d Sergeant January 17, 1862. Elected Jr.2d Lieutenant of Co. E, 1st Regiment Ga. Regulars March 1, 1863; 2d Lieutenant March 28, 1865. No later record.<br />
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Bland, Hiram- private June 10, 1861. Discharged, on account of old age and debility, July 15, 1862.<br />
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Bowen, E. W.- private June 10, 1861. Elected 2d Lieutenant in 1863. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1863.<br />
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Bowen, John A.- private December 13, 1862. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.(Born in Ga.)<br />
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Bowen, William- private December 13, 1862. Roll for February 28, 1865, last on file, shows him "Absent without leave, furlough expired November 29, 1864." No later record.<br />
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Brown, James H.- private August 15, 186l. Captured at Bull's Gap, Tenn. March 17, 1864. Released at Camp Chase, 0. May 15, 1865.(Born in Bulloch County, Ga. January 4, 1845.)<br />
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Brown, William D.- private June 10, 1861. Appears last on roll for October 31, 1861.<br />
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Burch, Joel S. - private June 10, 1861. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1863.<br />
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Burnside, John- private June 10, 1861. Died in 1861.<br />
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Burnside, William- private June 10, 1861. Died in Winchester, Va. hospital July 23, 1861.<br />
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Callaghan, Thomas- private June 10, 1861. Wounded in left leg, necessitating amputation above knee, at 2d Manassas, Va. August 30, 1862. Captured and paroled at Warrenton, Va. September 29, 1862.(Born in Ireland.)<br />
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Castillo, Patrick- private June 10, 1861. Appointed Ensign. Killed at Malvern Hill, Va. July 1, 1862. Buried in Hollywood Cemetery at Richmond, Va.<br />
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Crosby, Allen L. - private June 10, 1861. On detached duty October 31, 1861. No later record.<br />
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Denmark, Malachi H.- private August 15, 1861. Wounded in right shoulder and in the head, at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1863. Detailed permanently as nurse in General Hospital #2, at Savannah, Ga. on account of wounds February 29, 1864. On said detail February 28, 1865. No later record.<br />
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Denmark, Thomas J.- private June 10, 1861. Died in Richmond, Va. hospital September 22, 1861.<br />
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Dickerson, Ira- private June 10, 1861. Appointed 2d Sergeant March 1, 1863. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865. (Born in Georgia in 1840.)<br />
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Dutton, John W.- private June 10, 1861. Deserted to enemy at Savannah, Ga. March 26, 1865, and took oath of allegiance to U. S. Govt. there March 27, 1865.<br />
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Eason, Michael- private June 10, 1861. Appears last on roll for October 31, 1861.<br />
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Farrow, Jeremiah- private June 10, 1861. On detail duty as teamster November 1861. No later record.<br />
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Fulcher, Robert V.- private June 10, 1861. Appointed 1st Sergeant August 23, 1861. Elected Jr.2d Lieutenant June 16, 1862; 2d Lieutenant June 25, 1863; Captain July 27, 1863. Killed at Knoxville, Tenn. November 29, 1863.<br />
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Gay, M.- private December 13, 1862. Appears last on roll for February 28, 1863. €<br />
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Gill, John T- private June 10, 1861. Appointed 5th Sergeant in 1862. Killed at Fort Harrison, Va. September 30, 1864.<br />
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Gould, William- private June 10, 1861. Wounded at 2d Manassas, Va. August 30, 1862. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Hagin, James A. - private June 10, 1861. Surrendered, Appomatox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Hagin, Joseph- private Nav.27, 1863. Killed at Fort Harrison, Va. September 30, 1864.<br />
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Hendricks, David- private June 10, 1861. Died at Richmond, Va. September 14, 1861. Buried there in Hollywood Cemetery.<br />
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Hendricks, James W.- private June 10, 1861. Captured at Gettysburg, Pa. July 3, 1863. Died at Point Lookout, Md. in 1863.<br />
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Holloway, James- private August 15, 1861. Roll for January - February 1865, last on file, shows him absent on leave. (Served in Indian War in Florida in 1858.)<br />
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Hughes, James H.-June 10, 1861. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1863.<br />
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Hughes, Robert B.- private June 10, 1861. Died of disease in Jackson Hospital at Richmond, Va. January 1, 1865.<br />
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Jarvis, John (or Jarvins)- private June 10, 1861. Discharged at General Hospital August 24, 1861.<br />
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Johnson, Rowan- private June 10, 1861. Absent with leave August 31, 1864. No later record.<br />
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Jones, William L. - private June 23, 1861. Transferred to Co. D, 15th Regiment Ga. Inf. October 20, 1861. Roll for February 28, 1865, last on file, shows him present. No later record.<br />
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Keene, W. S.- private June 17, 1862. Deserted January 29, 1864. Took oath of allegiance to U. S. Govt. at Knoxville, Tenn. January 29, 1864.<br />
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Lanier, O. H. Perry- private June 10, 1861. Killed at 2d Manassas, Va. August 30, 1862.<br />
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Lewis, James M.- private August 15, 1861. Wounded at 2d Manassas, Va. August 30, 1862. Appointed 1st Sergeant December 20, 1863. Captured at Bull's Gap, Tenn. March 16, 1864. Paroled at Camp Chase, O. and transferred to City Point, Va. for exchange February 25, 1865. No later record.<br />
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Martin, Curtis S.- private June 10, 1861. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Martin, George W.- private August 15, 1861. Appears last on roll for October 31, 1861.<br />
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Martin, John I. (or John J.)- private August 10, 1861. Appointed 1st Sergeant. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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McElveen, Elias M.- private February 16, 1864. Captured at Bull's Gap, Tenn. March 16, 1864. Paroled at Camp Chase, O. and transferred to City Point, Va. for exchange February 25, 1865. No later record.<br />
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McElveen, William J. - private June 10, 1861. Wounded at Farmville, Va. April 7, 1865. Died in U. S. Hospital at Farmville, Va. April 19, 1865. Buried there.<br />
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Mercer, James- private August 15, 1861. Roll for February 1863, reports him "Absent without leave." No later record.<br />
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Mincey, Augustus M.- private June 10, 1861. Appointed Sergeant. Captured at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1863. Paroled at Point Lookout, Md. May 3, 1864. Received at Aiken's Landing, Va. for exchange May 8, 1864. No later record.<br />
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Murphy, Michael- private June 10, 1861. Wounded, date and place unknown. Roll for February 28, 1865, last on file, reports him "Absent without leave, furlough expired October 1, 1864." No later record.<br />
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Murphy, Wright- private June 10, 1861. Discharged from General Hospital prior to November 1861. (Born in 1827. Died in 1879. Buried at Bark Camp Cemetery, four miles north of Midville, Ga.)<br />
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Nevill, Cuyler- private June 10, 1861. Appointed 3d Sergeant December 1862. Discharged at Savannah, Ga. October 24, 1863. Enlisted as a private in Co. F, 22d Battn. Ga. Heavy Artillery May 20, 1864. Roll for October 1864, last on file, shows him absent, sick. No later record.<br />
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Parrish, Ezekiel- private December 13, 1862. Appointed Corporal. Roll for February 28, 1865, last on file, reports him on furlough. No later record.<br />
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Parrish Isaiah- private June 10, 1861. Wounded April 28, 1863. Roll for February 28, 1865, last on file, reports him "Absent wounded." No later record.<br />
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Pridgen, Mitchell- private August 15, 1861. Died of carditis September 1, 1861.<br />
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Proctor, David C.- private August 15, 1861. Sent to Richmond, Va hospital October 5, 1861. Discharged in Virginia in 1861. Elected Jr.2d Lieutenant of Co. C, 11th Battn. Ga. Inf. March 4, 1862. Transferred to Co. C, 47th Regiment Ga. Inf. as Jr.2d Lieutenant May 12, 1862. Resigned November 6, 1862.<br />
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Proctor, James C.- private June 10, 1861. Sick at Richmond, Va. October 19, 1861. No later record.<br />
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Proctor, John A. - private June 10, 1861. Discharged, disability, at Richmond, Va. October 18, 1861.<br />
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Proctor, William A.- private June 10, 1861. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Richardson, Richard- private August 5, 1861. Discharged on account of imbecility November 19, 1861.<br />
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Rigdon, Daniel R. - private June 10, 1861. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1863.<br />
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Rigdon, William- private June 10, 1861. Died of typhoid fever November 6, 1861.<br />
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Rigdon, Wyly- private June 10, 1861. Died in Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond, Va. May 8, 1862.<br />
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Riggs, Stephen J. - private June 10, 1861. Died in camp near Manassas, Va. September 8, 1861.<br />
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Rowe, Randolph- private August 15, 1861. Killed at Wilderness, Va. May 6, 1864.<br />
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Rushing, John- private August 15, 1861. Died in General Hospital December 28, 1861.<br />
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Scarborough, Rhemer- private June 10, 1861. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Scarborough, Shadrack- private June 10, 1861. Died in General Hospital January 22, 1862.<br />
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Slater, Robert B. - private June 10, 1861. Discharged, on account of general debility, at Culpeper, Va. January 2, 1862. Enlisted as a private in Co. D, 2d Battn. Ga. Cavalry December 11, 1862. Transferred to Co. A, 5th Regiment Ga. Cavalry January 20, 1863. Pension records show he was at home on sick furlough close of war.<br />
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Stone, George W- private June 10, 1861. Discharged, disability, at Richmond, Va. September 15, 1861.<br />
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Stone, Holcombe H. - private June 10, 1861. Died in Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond, Va. May 24, 1862.<br />
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Strickland, Peter D.- private June 10, 1861. Killed at 2d Manassas, Va. August 30, 1862.<br />
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Swaney, A. M. - private August 18, 1862. Wounded, date and place unknown. Absent, wounded, February 28, 1865. No later record.<br />
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Thompson, Eli S. - private June 10, 1861. Wounded in Va. July 8, 1862. Absent, wounded, February 28, 1863. No later record.<br />
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Waters, Erastus- private August 15, 1861. Killed at 2d Manassas, Va. August 30, 1862.<br />
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Waters, Jackson V - private June 10, 1861. Appointed Regimental Musician. Roll for February 28, 1865, last on file, reports him absent without leave. No later record.<br />
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Waters, Michael - private June 10, 1861. Left camp, sick, June 16, 1862. Supposed to have died.<br />
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Waters, Mitchell- private June 10, 1861. Discharged, disability, at General Hospital September 19, 1861.<br />
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Wise, Henry W. - private 1863. Transferred to Co. F, 22d Battn. Ga. Heavy Artillery April 15, 1864. Absent, sick, October 31, 1864. No later record.<br />
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Wise, John B. - private June 10, 1861. Appointed 1st Sergeant. Wounded at Knoxville, Tenn. November 20, 1863. Died from wounds November 25, 1863.<br />
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Woodcock, Rowan - private August 15, 1861. Left camp, sick, October 5, 1861. No later record.<br />
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Woodrum, John-Private December 13, 1862. Captured at Bull's Gap, Tenn. March 16, 1864. Died of pneumonia at Camp Chase, O. November 18, 1864. Grave #483, Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery.<br />
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Woods, General W. - private June 10, 1861. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Woods, Luke P.- private December 13, 1862. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.<br />
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Woods, Mitchell - private June 10, 1861. Died at Richmond, Va. October 12, or 16, 1861.<br />
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That’s about it for now.<br />
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Later y’all,<br />
*GeorgiaTim</div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-56613674092426597842011-11-07T22:07:00.017-06:002011-11-09T15:55:27.674-06:00Green Berry Barnes<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">While the Stringers were my father’s maternal grandparents, his paternal grandparents were Jacob Jones (1866-1951) and Nancy Rosanna “Rosa” Barnes (1872-1948). The subject of this post is Rosa’s father, Green Berry Barnes (1838-1891), farmer and Civil War veteran. “Green Berry”, or alternatively “Greenberry” as one word, seems to have been a common name in the early part of the 1800’s right up until about 1900, based on what I’ve seen in my own searches of the census records, though some seemed to have settled on just “Green” as a first or middle name. Supposedly the name originated before the revolution, as families named sons after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Greenberry" target="_blank">Colonel Nicholas Greenberry</a> (1627-1697), a popular and effective Indian fighter who became governor of Maryland. I can’t vouch for that, but it does appear to have been prevalent in some families throughout the South through the end of the 19<sup>th</sup> century.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wish I had pictures of Green Berry and Missouri Barnes, but apparently this is yet another branch of the family tree that didn't go in for new-fangled ideas like photography. If there were any photos, they were passed down through another line. Maybe one will show up some day.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Green, as he seems to have been known, first shows up in the record in the census of 1850, living with some of his siblings in “Subdivision 6”, Bulloch County, Georgia. Their parents are not in the household, instead they are living with the Newsom family, Jesse (49), Mary (60), Joseph (29) & James (14). The Barnes children are given the surname “Bonds”, which if you think of “Barnes” being pronounced as “Bahnz”, a perfectly reasonable assumption for the South, certainly not as nasal as a Bostonian, but otherwise similar, and you could get that spelling. The “Bonds” children listed are Dempsey (16), Sarah (14), Green (13), “Ebinezer” (12), Zilphy Ann (5), “Alferd” (3), Remer (2). Based on later censuses, the Barnes children would have been Dempsey (16), Sarah (14), Green (12), Ebenezer (8), Zilpha Ann (4), Alfred (2), Remer (1). It’s certainly within the margin of error for a census, so it’s currently my working hypothesis. I don’t know who the Newsom’s were, possibly relations of Green’s mother Thaney or Saney (possibly Bethany?).</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">In any case, according to the 1860 census, the family is living together in the Statesboro district of Bullloch County, Georgia. The family members are Thaney (45), Sarah (24), Greenberry (21), Ebenezer (18), Zylpha (14), Alfred (12), Reamer (10), Viney (6) and Ann (4). There is no mention of Green’s father on this census, and on the 1870 census, when “Saney” is living with Remer, she is listed as a widow. (Marital status and family relationship were not indicated on the 1850 or 1860 census records.) When war came, Green enlisted as a private in Company I, 9th Georgia Infantry Regiment on 10 Jun 1861. According to Missouri Beasley Barnes' Confederate Widows Pension Application of 1910, which was the first record I found (on the Georgia’s Virtual Vault website), his wife says he was wounded “at Gettysburg, I think, or maybe at the Second Manassas.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
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Record: Fold3.com</i></span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">Recently though I found Green Berry's Confederate Service Records on the <a href="http://fold3.com/" target="_blank">Fold3.com</a> website (subscription required). Fold3 is the rebranded Footnote.com, which was purchased by Ancestry.com last year and refocused on military records. The name of the site refers to the third fold of an American flag, and is a tribute to the one who gave a portion of his life in service to his country (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_funeral#Flag_folding" target="_blank">see the Wikipedia article for more information</a>). According to those records he suffered a severe leg wound at Second Manassas (also known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Second_Manassas" target="_blank">Second Battle of Bull Run</a>) on 30 August 1862. He spent months recovering, first at the CSA General Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia, then at the “Receiving and Wayside Hospital, or General Hospital No. 9” in Richmond, Virginia. In January 1863 he was given an extended furlough by the surgeons at the Oglethorpe Barracks in Savannah on account of his leg wound, but by January 1864 he was serving the Cause as best he could, “detailed by Secretary of War in government shoe shop in Augusta, Ga.” There are 20 “cards” in the file for Green Berry Barnes. These cards are summaries of original records prepared by the War Department in the period from the 1890s through the 1920s. They are often invaluable resources for information about Civil War soldiers. There are separate sets for Union and Confederate forces. Ancestry.com recently posted a "how-to" video as part of it's YouTube channel, where they have training videos and other info. The video is called <a href="http://youtu.be/-11LfqhkLeU" target="_blank"><i>How to Find your Civil War Roots with Anne Mitchell @ Ancestry Day San Francisco</i></a> (click on the name to access the YouTube video). </span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was in Augusta that he finished out the war, with occasional leaves. Probably on one of these leaves, on 21 Mar 1865, he married Missouri Beasley in Bulloch County (again according to her 1910 Widows Pension Application). There are many missing records from around that time period, and the Barnes-Beasley marriage license appears, so far, to be one of them, for I have been unable to locate one. Green and Missouri wasted no time starting their family, for by the 1870 census the family consisted of Green (27), Missouri (23), Ella (4), James (3) and Thomas (6/12). In 1880 the family had grown, and the record shows the household to consist of Green B. (41), Masoria (37), Ellen C. (13), James H. (11), Willis R. (10), Rosa (7), Molly A. E. (5), Magga M. (4) and John G (1), plus Green's sister Sarah (44) and a white servant, John Jones (18).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately, this is the last census in which Green appears. The 1890 census, as I've said before, was lost in a fire, and Green Berry Barnes died on 26 March 1891, according to Missouri's Pension Application. I found <a href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=100447020230&lds=1&region=11&regionfriendly=North+America&juris1=US&juris2=Geor&juris3=&juris4=&regionfriendly=&juris1friendly=United+States&juris2frie" target="_blank">a record at the Family Search web site</a> that <span class="descTxt">has his date of death as 26 May 1891, but in this instance I choose to go with the widow's statement. Once again I have been unable to find a tombstone. Missouri's death certificate of 31 May 1925 indicates that she was buried at the </span><span class="descTxt">Barnes Family Cemetery in Bulloch County. I'm not entirely sure yet where this is located, and it's possible that both their graves are unmarked, but the search goes on. Like Robert F Stringer, Green B Barnes shows up on the 1890 Bulloch County Property Tax Digest. In addition, as shown by the 1900 census, before Green died he and Missouri had another 3 boys. The household consisted of Missouri (56), Millie A (25), John G (21), William B (18), Eli W (16), Robert C (12) and Green's sister Sarah (65), and Missouri still owned and farmed the property.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That’s about it for now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><h1 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-42595340419940193532011-11-03T10:53:00.006-05:002011-11-03T11:46:56.126-05:00Robert Frances Stringer<span style="font-family: Arial;">Taking a step farther back from Thomas Henry Stringer (<a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/10/thomas-henry-stringer.html">in the last blog here</a>) I reach his father, my great-great grandfather, Robert Frances Stringer (b. 9 Aug 1828, Burke County, Georgia; d. 2 Jan 1910, Bullloch County, Georgia). Robert, or "RF" as he is usually referred to in the historical record, is the last member of this branch of my family tree about whom I know anything. I don't know anything about his ancestors because I don't know who his parents were. Indeed, I don't know much about his early life at all. I got his birth date and place of birth from his own statement on his confederate Pension Application dated 7 July 1905.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The next two sources I've located are the 1840 and 1850 censuses, which seem to be consistent with the Pension Application. There is an "M. W. Stringer" listed in the 1840 census in Burke County, Georgia. The 1840 census only lists the name of the head of household, which includes the following "free whites": 1 male aged 5 to 9, 1 male 10 to 14, 1 male 40 to 49, 1 female 15 to 19, and 1 female 40 to 49, with no slaves. Then there is the 1850 census, in Militia District 66 of Burke County, with a Robert F Stringer (age 21 and a carpenter) & William Stringer (18, also a carpenter) living in the household of Benjamin D Hill. The 1850 census doesn't list relationships of the household members, so there is no indication of whether the Stringer boys were employees or boarders. I don't know for sure that this is "my" Robert F Stringer, but I haven't found any others with that name who are in that age-group, so it seems a reasonable assumption. Whether or not MW Stringer was indeed Robert's father, this is </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> my current "wall" on this branch of the family.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">About 1852, Robert married Martha (or Margaret) Elizabeth Sheppard, probably in Burke County, Georgia. The 1870 Census names her "Margaret E Stringer"; her son Thomas' death certificate and the family Bible I've shown before gives her maiden name as "Martha Elizabeth Sheppard". I calculated the year by the 1900 census where the "Number of Years Married" for Robert is 48. The location is presumed because they were living in Burke County in 1850. Unfortunately there are no court records in Burke County prior to 1856 because of two devastating court house fires. I have also checked the available marriage records in the surrounding counties, though with no luck so far.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">According to the 1860 census the family had moved to Militia District 35 in Screven County, near Ogeechee, Georgia, and consisted of R F Stringer (31, still a carpenter) & M E Stringer (24) with their children Horace L (5), Tulia C (3) & Mary E (1). He had no real or personal property, so was probably hired labor living in rented quarters. I haven't got all of the details yet, but by 1870 the family had moved at least once for the 1870 census showed them living in the Brier Patch district (Militia District 47) of Bulloch County, Georgia, where R F Stringer is a "House Carpenter" (aged 41), and his household consists of himself and his wife Margaret E Stringer (35) and children Tulia C (13), Alexander H (8), William E (4) & Thomas H (1). The 1870 census indicates a value of personal property of $150, but no real estate, so it is likely that he rented his residence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Map of Bulloch County Militia <br />
Districts copyright by<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Paul K. Graham</span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve spoken of Georgia Militia Districts many times before. The Militia Districts are political, legal and military organizational structures, apparently unique to Georgia, which date from the Colonial era and survive to this day. There is a very good overview of the history and organization of the Militia Districts at the Georgia Archives website by lawyer Alex M. Hitz (<a href="http://www.sos.ga.gov/archives/what_do_we_have/GeorgiaMilitiaDistricts.htm">http://www.sos.ga.gov/archives/what_do_we_have/GeorgiaMilitiaDistricts.htm</a>). Because the Inferior or Ordinary Courts laid out the boundaries of the Districts and were responsible for them throughout much of their history, there is no master list or map showing where the districts were historically. There is a map from 1950 which shows the counties and the Militia Districts, copies of which are available for a few dollars at the Georgia Archives in Morrow. I don’t know if they do mail order. For the eastern counties of the state, there is a wonderful book I’ve mentioned before, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0975531239/ref=oss_product">Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Militia Districts</a></i> by Paul K. Graham, a Certified Genealogist<sup>SM</sup> whose website is <a href="http://www.pkgraham.com/">http://www.pkgraham.com</a>. Clicking the link from the book’s title will take you to the Amazon.com page, or you can go through Paul’s site to order the book. I don’t make anything either way. I really do think it’s a valuable resource. One of the nice things about the Atlas is that he provides many of the historical names of the numbered Militia Districts; not all by any means, as the Hitz article noted above makes clear that the districts in earlier days were named after whoever was the Captain of the Militia, a post which was elective and could change frequently. The page here is for Bulloch County, and shows how detailed his book is. There are indexes in back for Militia Districts (by name and by number) and for the waterways.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pension Record<br />
from <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php">Georgia's<br />
Virtual Vault</a></span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial;">Between 1860 and 1870, of course, there was a rather large war, that "recent unpleasantness" as it was often referred to by the newspapers of the time. According to the Confederate Service Records and several databases of American Civil War Soldiers, along with Robert's Confederate Pension Application, RF Stringer enlisted at Savannah, Georgia, as a 2nd Sergeant in Company D of the Georgia 22nd Siege Heavy Artillery Battalion; he was promoted to 1st Sergeant on 11 Aug 1862. He served until the end of the war, but was not with his unit when it surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, on 26 April 1865. Quoting from his Pension Application, he was</span> "at home in Bulloch Co., Ga. Left command in March 1865, cause - sickness. Was left by the roadside so sick that I could not keep up."<span style="font-family: Arial;"> This story is supported by the statement of witness James A Fulcher, an acquaintance since about 1857, that they "left him exhausted & sick by the roadside." Robert's statement also implies that the family had moved to Bulloch County by 1865. Since he says he was at home in Bulloch County, it's likely they moved there before he enlisted, which gives a narrow margin of mid-1860 to mid-1862 for when they moved from Screven County.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It's interesting to note that the documents commonly referred to as "Confederate Pension Applications" were officially known as "Indigent Pension" or "Indigent Soldier's Pension" applications, but the wording of the laws and the questions make very clear the purpose was to provide support to soldiers who fought for the Confederacy and were thus ineligible for the pensions offered to members of the United States military.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Robert & Margaret/Martha had six children that I have found record of. </span></div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Horace L (b. 1855) and …</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mary E (b. 1859) may have died before 1870 because they are both in the 1860 census but not in the 1870 census and I can find no further record of them. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tullia (or Tullie) C Stringer (1857-1901) married Thomas H Hendrix and had 11 children, 9 of whom were still living in 1900. She is buried in the Hendrix Cemetery in Bulloch County. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alexander H Stringer was born in 1862 and married Georgiann Smith in 1886 and had at least 7 children, according to the probable census record of 1900, which showed them living in Dooly County, where he was a railroad engineer. I haven’t traced them after that. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">William E Stringer (1866-1912) was a farmer. He married Nettie Hall in 1903 and had at least two children before his death at age 45. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thomas Henry Stringer (1869-1933) was my great grandfather and <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/10/thomas-henry-stringer.html">has been discussed earlier in this blog (click here)</a>. </span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">Property tax record images courtesy of Ancestry.com (subscription required)</span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sometime around 1872 to 1875 Robert’s first wife died and he married Sarah Hendrix. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">According to the 1900 census Sarah had been married for 28 years. According to a statement by Robert’s sons WE [William E.] & TH [Thomas H.] Stringer dated 6 January 1910 they were married “about 1875”.</i>) As with Robert’s first marriage, there doesn’t appear to be a surviving marriage license. I haven’t located Robert or Sarah in the 1880 census. I am reasonably certain they were still in Bulloch County. There is a Property Tax Roll for Bulloch County from 1890 which lists “R.F. Stringer” living in Blitch, in the Lockhart district (Militia District 46) in northeastern Bulloch County. He owns no real estate, just some “mechanical tools” and other personal property worth about $42. He is also, however, the agent for his wife, who owns 180 acres worth about $270 plus some household goods and livestock worth $74. He paid no poll tax.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In addition, I came across a mention of an "R.F. Stringer" who was President of the Echo sub-alliance of the Southern Farmer's Alliance (<a href="http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=display&webtag=ab-americanhist&tid=1114">http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=display&webtag=ab-americanhist&tid=1114</a>). I haven’t yet personally verified this, but it’s </span><i><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial;">already on my To Do <span style="font-family: Arial;">List. </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Roger Warren Allen, the author of the forum post, is a Bulloch County historian, professional genealogist and author, so I'm hopeful that I will be able to make this connection to my great-great grandfather. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mr. Allen is writing a book on the Georgia Farmer's Alliance in Bulloch County and I look forward to reading it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pension Record from <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php">Georgia's Virtual Vault</a></span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial;">Robert and Sarah finally show up together on the 1900 census living in Militia District 46, Bulloch County, Georgia. Robert (71, and a farmer) & Sarah J Stringer (50) and their son James G (10) also live with 5 boarders (Randal, Hariet S, Fannie M &George D Rigdon, and Ada Mixon). RF Stringer has been busy. He still manages to bring in a little money doing carpentry work, and he has been for many years a Justice of the Peace (there are several recorded deeds and other legal documents where he is the witness or swearing officer, and he performed the marriage of his son William E “Willie” Stringer to Nettie Hall in 1903. Yet in 1905 he applied for the Indigent Soldier’s Pension, claiming “Age & infirmity & poverty.” The Pension file may be incomplete, but there are additional filings for 1906 and 1907. </span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Robert & Sarah had three children that I have found record of. </span></div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rebecca "Beckie" Stringer (1877-1955) who married John Calvin Finch Jr. and had five children.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Harriet Lucretia "Hattie" Stringer (1880-1963); the assumption I have at this time is that she is the "Hariet S Rigdon" boarding with Robert and Sarah in 1900 and that she married Randal Rigdon and they had at least six children together, and that she was widowed by 1930.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">James Gordon Stringer (1889-1971) who maybe married Anna about 1910. I don't have any other definite information on him.</span></li>
</ul></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The final page of the Pension file is the affidavit mentioned above, dated 6 </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">January 1910, sworn to by WE & TH Stringer, stating:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Personally appeared before me W. E. Stringer and T. H. Stringer who on oath say that their father R. F. Stringer, who was on the Indigent Pension roll in said county, died on Jany 2nd 1910, leaving surviving him a dependent widow Mrs Sarah J. Stringer, That she was married to him about thirty five years ago and has lived with him continuously ever since as his wife up to his death, That W. E. Stringer remembers seeing them married in Bulloch County, Ga.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There are no marked graves for Robert Stringer or either of his wives that we have been able to discover. There is a bit of family information that RF Stringer, being a carpenter, did work on a church in the area. The Union United Methodist Church north of Statesboro celebrated their 200th anniversary in 1990. Fred W. Brogdon wrote a brief history of the church for th<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">e </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bulloch County Historical Society (</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bulloch County Historical Society</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>, PO Box 42, Statesboro, Georgia</i><i> 30458</i>) </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">that is still used as a typewritten handou</span></span>t for visitors to the historic building. In it he states: </span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The present Church building was constructed in 1884 during the ministry of T. J. Nease. Much of the material for the structure was furnished by two brothers, Jim and Tim Davis, who operated a lumber mill in the area. One of the carpenters was Robert W. stringer who crafted the beautiful hand-carved circular altar rail still used in the Church.</div></blockquote><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKdSKqBZvWfMac6PqigkJ0rtThi_hTNfQn6W0HRbHVg7L0xoCNW0ksfZ5aJwBGCamUWAipK3mMLq_p-mazNwUp4lFQA1SrvPjjolPSuM54HhGKO3sitp3djOxvTorHWeCPYbLtJsOV_ka/s1600/StringerRF+b1828.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKdSKqBZvWfMac6PqigkJ0rtThi_hTNfQn6W0HRbHVg7L0xoCNW0ksfZ5aJwBGCamUWAipK3mMLq_p-mazNwUp4lFQA1SrvPjjolPSuM54HhGKO3sitp3djOxvTorHWeCPYbLtJsOV_ka/s200/StringerRF+b1828.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is this the face of Robert F. Stringer,<br />
my 2nd great grandfather?<br />
<i>(image courtesy of <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the Bulloch County <br />
Historical Society)</span></span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial;">The middle initial is wrong, but I haven't been able to locate a "Robert W. Stringer" anywhere around at a time and date that were relevant. Since I can't locate my own ancestor at many points around that time, that makes the lack of evidence less suspicious, though. </span><i><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial;">To Do Item: check <span style="font-family: Arial;">with the church for historical membership records or rolls to see if there was more than one Robert Stringer at the time. </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Still, it is possible that through multiple transcriptions the initial was changed. Several years ago my dad and some of his siblings visited the Union Church with my cousin Michelle Winter Buhler, who filmed it. I have the DVD. They were told that a grave site that has a low crumbling brick wall around it (about 3 bricks high) contains multiple unmarked graves, including Robert Stringer, one or possibly both of his wives, and an unknown hobo who died on the church grounds in the 1930s. I haven't confirmed any of this, but it makes a nice story and a fitting conclusion to a life well-lived.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interior of the Union United Methodist Church (Union Meeting House) - <i>photo courtesy of Michelle Winter Buhler</i></td></tr>
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<div style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">OK, I know I said a few weeks ago that I was going to try to write shorter posts more frequently, but it's so hard to stop sometimes! I start looking up sources again to verify what I'm posting and sometimes one thing leads to another and before you know it I'm looking up the grandchildren of some great granduncle who is a sibling to a direct ancestor. It's loads of fun, but it doesn't get the blog posts done. I will try harder to get back to twice a week posts, but I hope you'll understand the delays and that the results are worth the wait.</span></i></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s about it for now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Later y'all,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-37716696873530972882011-10-30T22:39:00.001-05:002011-10-30T22:42:17.616-05:00Thomas Henry Stringer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm2U4ZqQblxu6TL2n1zOy1DnfuuhtFtcnfDeqPwXsrSuIkrnd90I5FDRcYGYhogtjQqi08LxkpHhMaGFRjHTE7uUQErgs2r-X0v9jQEcgyhuvjrhLU-kOZN7Roelt4c2Ca0nbXRfP6IIWp/s1600/Thomas+Henry+Stringer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm2U4ZqQblxu6TL2n1zOy1DnfuuhtFtcnfDeqPwXsrSuIkrnd90I5FDRcYGYhogtjQqi08LxkpHhMaGFRjHTE7uUQErgs2r-X0v9jQEcgyhuvjrhLU-kOZN7Roelt4c2Ca0nbXRfP6IIWp/s200/Thomas+Henry+Stringer.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thomas Henry Stringer, 1869-1933, was my great grandfather (my father’s mother’s father, as I discussed a few months ago in <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/03/grand-mothers-ii-parents-of-maggie.html">this post [click]</a>). Thomas was born 26 March 1869 in Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia, to Robert Frances Stringer (1828-1910) and Martha (Margaret) Elizabeth Sheppard (1836-1875). He is on the 1870 census with his parents living in Brier Patch, Bulloch County, Georgia. This isn’t a town, but another name for Georgia Militia District 47, which is in the southeast corner of the county, essentially south of Brooklet and east of Lower Black Creek. This picture of him is from about 1904. Unfortunately, he seems to have disappeared from the census for the next thirty years. I can’t find an 1880 census for his parents. There isn’t a surviving 1890 census record, and I can’t find Thomas in the 1900 census.</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFuqU6yBL53iqHbat9WgeWGATXpM5gr71kHaCSrtM1Cer5D37ThlgWNK5nGSYzGPHMKMFQUiTx9ts_7pj5TLKB4ZEcTmy3Oijp8Vl8X9AHe9mpBp188FO7B0AOpx6KzbdJECIf7AbEpjv1/s1600/THStringer+bible+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFuqU6yBL53iqHbat9WgeWGATXpM5gr71kHaCSrtM1Cer5D37ThlgWNK5nGSYzGPHMKMFQUiTx9ts_7pj5TLKB4ZEcTmy3Oijp8Vl8X9AHe9mpBp188FO7B0AOpx6KzbdJECIf7AbEpjv1/s200/THStringer+bible+1.jpg" width="130" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fortunately I have a couple of other sources of information. The first is the family</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Bible of Thomas and Hattie Stringer (my aunt Mildred Jones Helmey has the original; the digital copies are courtesy of my cousin Michelle Winter Buhler). The second is a Spanish War Invalid Pension Application that Thomas filled out in 1924 (again the digital copy is courtesy of my cousin Michelle). The family Bible gives a basic framework, indicating that he married Hattie Mosell Williams on 21 March 1901 at Augusta, Georgia. They had five children: Essie Lee (19 March 1903), Lilian Mae (14 August 1905, also spelled “Lillie Mae”), Francis Magadelin (5 February 1907; my grandmother), Thomas Shepard (2 September 1908), and Walter Hartridge (8 August 1910). Essie Lee married Leroy “Roy” Lynn in 1919, had one daughter who died at 3 weeks of age in 1920, and died in 1935. Lillie Mae married Frank Sapp in 1921, Maggie married James Dewey Jones in 1928, Thomas married Minnie Rose Knight in 1929, and Walter married Effie Barber in 1931. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">According to Thomas’s Pension Application (dated 12 May 1924), he enlisted on 29 July 1898 in Company M of the 2<sup>nd</sup> Georgia [Infantry] Volunteer Regiment, and was honorably discharged at Savannah, Georgia, on 22 November 1898. On succeeding pages of the application, dated 6 June 1924, he stated that he was born on 26 March 1869 in Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia, and that in July 1898 when he enlisted he lived in Bulloch County but his mailing address was Rocky Ford. Rocky Ford is across the Ogeechee River, in Screven County, so he must have been living in northeast Bulloch County, in Militia District 46 (also know as Lockhart). Further, in his pension application he states the after discharge he lived at Rocky Ford from 1899 to 1901, though at some point he travelled to Augusta, for he states that he was married to Hattie M. Williams Stringer on 21 March 1901 at North Augusta, Aiken County, South Carolina, by Louis Shillers (spelled “Schiller” in the family Bible).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6qLrUjxM875C6W-1Ie0egkUf0O00jaZW-PdnMbFX1WpL-j-DmIlytvKZQKT7izVvUmgLZjf4JtUtV1jTIhl6i3bnajnIIPx_sBjEP7j6ePhIDTJ3N7tlexKh1tLx8ZEgo1A3G45m8fic/s1600/THStringer+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6qLrUjxM875C6W-1Ie0egkUf0O00jaZW-PdnMbFX1WpL-j-DmIlytvKZQKT7izVvUmgLZjf4JtUtV1jTIhl6i3bnajnIIPx_sBjEP7j6ePhIDTJ3N7tlexKh1tLx8ZEgo1A3G45m8fic/s320/THStringer+1.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">After that, again referring to the pension application papers, he lived in Statesboro from 1902 to 1904, Adabelle (southwestern Bulloch County) from 1905 to 1915, 1916 to 1921 in Egypt (40 miles to the northeast, across the Ogeechee River in Effingham County), and finally outside of Manassas (in the Haw Pond district), northwest of Claxton in the newly-created Evans County from 1922 through 1924, and as later supplements indicated, until his death.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">All of this disagrees somewhat with the census when it picks up again in 1910, which showed him living in Militia District 1366 of Tattnall County (which was Haw Pond district of Evans County after that was formed in 1915). According to the census he was a farm laborer, renting his house of Cobbtown Road. The 1920 census places him in Haw Pond, Evans County, again farming on rented land. According to James Sapp, the oldest surviving grandchild and the only one I know of who still remembers Thomas Stringer, the family were tenant farmers, as were many other members of the Jones and Stringer families from the end of the 19<sup>th</sup> century and through the first decades of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. So it may be that he simplified the amount of moving he did for the sake of the pension application, or that he was only living at certain farms for a season, which corresponded with the census. That would also explain why he is difficult to locate, and may not even exist, in some of the earlier censuses. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Finally, on 1 Jul 1933, at the age of 64, Thomas Henry Stringer died in Claxton.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> According to daddy's cousin James Sapp, Thomas went into Claxton to pick up his pension check, accompanied by his son-in-law Frank Sapp. James says that when he went into town he would usually pick up some candy for the grandchildren. He collapsed on the sidewalk after leaving the general store with the candy and was carried to a doctor's office, where he died. My father was born the <span style="font-size: small;">following year, and thus never got the opportunity to know his maternal grandparents.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">That’s about it for now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><h1 style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-43158675447367297912011-10-24T23:00:00.002-05:002011-10-24T23:04:11.000-05:00Nancy Patterson McNair<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8WTm-RM0M8OpMW6HcWE9O4TfTdLOyeOeBMjQS5hsO6-CHgf4VeFXOqXyCsbAP5-aUO1Xh5FaUcSJ5tjZTM_nx7XR1aY7zfVPfEUl1KBQn2Mv1DxkFQTrdzzfSnCmWrcTL29czQPFnLyHi/s1600/Dr+McNair+father+of+Permelia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="55" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8WTm-RM0M8OpMW6HcWE9O4TfTdLOyeOeBMjQS5hsO6-CHgf4VeFXOqXyCsbAP5-aUO1Xh5FaUcSJ5tjZTM_nx7XR1aY7zfVPfEUl1KBQn2Mv1DxkFQTrdzzfSnCmWrcTL29czQPFnLyHi/s200/Dr+McNair+father+of+Permelia.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial;">Permelia Ruth McNair Maxwell’s death certificate (<a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/10/dr-robert-martin-mcnair.html">see my last post</a>) also notes that her mother was Nancy Patterson.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> It’s difficult to discover much about Nancy’s early life. I haven’t seen any contemporaneous records covering those years and must rely on what others have said, in published or unpublished family histories. <i>Remember, you can click on any image in this blog to see a larger version.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">According to Nancy’s tombstone she was born 18 October 1816 to William and Ruth Patterson, was married to Robert M. McNair, and died 29 January 1905. Tombstones can be wildly inaccurate, depending on when and by whom they were placed, but it’s as good a place as any to start when there’s not much else to start with. It certainly agrees with the information I already have on Robert McNair. There is <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNDL4t2nmUYkKEMgXQBljsDTqmN05QiaHBTNJKeX37gg0-Pv3X2c8jbBOKXg5Gr0vEaduXtp6a2nbLB-oyusYXZ9gSe0gh4b_6nSwOm-TpfKmXubGjLDc7xwY2lgP07xOlUfs4u0VGJQDw/s400/MCNAIR+Robert+M+McNair+%2526+Nancy+Patterson+Marriage+License+1835.jpg">the marriage license</a> issued in Decatur County to Robert M. McNair and Nancy Patterson showing they were wed on 23 December 1835. The ages given for the 1840, 1850 and 1860 censuses which cover the years of her marriage to Robert McNair (20-29, 34 and 43 respectively) seem consistent with the tombstone, within a reasonable margin of variation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5uOHTBsaPAMI2XUcQ8WV5loi3ZY2FIQxaMzklJSnTTbmsPeSOCGH5g21cqTFrjs69RTy15ryyAJGnizoQwbYKB8V0F2tQB34h-iEK1idp7XvqsQtSlHj6fsMMWfeBw4miRZAiMRdBjrI/s1600/PATTERSON+William+Patterson+%2526+Ruth+Clements+Mariage+License+1809+%2528transcription%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5uOHTBsaPAMI2XUcQ8WV5loi3ZY2FIQxaMzklJSnTTbmsPeSOCGH5g21cqTFrjs69RTy15ryyAJGnizoQwbYKB8V0F2tQB34h-iEK1idp7XvqsQtSlHj6fsMMWfeBw4miRZAiMRdBjrI/s200/PATTERSON+William+Patterson+%2526+Ruth+Clements+Mariage+License+1809+%2528transcription%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s difficult to add much to Nancy Patterson’s early life. Remember, censuses prior to 1850 only showed the name of the head of the household. I have discovered at the <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php">Georgia’s Virtual Vault web site</a> a reference to the marriage of a William Patterson and a Ruth Clements on 1 February 1809 (</span><span class="desctxt"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/countyfilm,51266">Jefferson County Marriage Book A, 1803-1880, p.22</a>; Marriage Books, Jefferson County Ordinary Court, Georgia Archives). This book is a typed transcription by the Clerk's Office, so not quite as good as the ones I usually copy, but it’s apparently official. My guess, not having seen the originals, is that they are too far deteriorated to allow for casual inspection. Still, it’s better than nothing. So, if William and Ruth wed in early 1809 it’s possible that Nancy was also born there in Jefferson County. So far I’ve had no luck finding them on the 1810, 1820 or 1830 censuses. The first two are hardly surprising since so few portions of the Georgia census for those years survive, but I still have hopes they will be in found eventually in the 1830 census. They were certainly in Decatur County, Georgia, by 1835 for Nancy married Robert McNair there that year.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="desctxt"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After Robert died in 1869, Nancy continued to live in Decatur County, running the family farm and raising her younger children during the hard years of the Reconstruction. The 1870 census shows the family consisted of Nancy (54), Robert P (25), Joseph W (23), Thomas M (21), Mary C (17), Sarah E (15) and Permelia R (13). Robert Patterson McNair would remain unwed and living with his mother until she died. In 1880, the household contained Nancy (63), Robert (35), Catie (27) and 17 year old granddaughter J [or I][something: difficult to read the handwriting], plus two black farm laborers, Henry Williams & John Mills (both 20). I haven’t figured out yet whose daughter the granddaughter might be, or even if she was really a McNair and not the some other last name. </span></span><i><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial;">Add that to my To Do list!</span></i><span class="desctxt"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> There is no surviving 1890 census, and by 1900 there are only Robt P (55) and his mother Nancy (83) remaining on the farm; there is no mention of farm laborers living with them on this census.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="desctxt"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nancy</span></span><span class="desctxt"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> passed away 29 January 1905 and was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, near Climax, Decatur County, Georgia. Thanks to my cousin Christy Spooner I now have pictures of her headstone and grave site. We’ve not yet found any mention of where her husband, the good doctor Robert Martin McNair might be buried. In 1910, the census showed the 64-year old Robert P McNair living by himself on the farm, but by 1920 he had help. He was living with his sister’s son Alonzo Jones and his family. As near as I can tell, it was the same farm. </span></span><i><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial;">To Do Item: check property records for ownership of the McNair/Jones farm.</span></i><span class="desctxt"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span class="desctxt"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1kKQ5lbj4FqEClRhDPr2tDMh9OyY4A09F_NZtY2VlRzl6vH4GuW3Aw3hQpDbKPmvszEVSamNDY7_rQlPhlJOFYRnZyrpAF7IdSUwr7Kqi6IWVC2s1OsDh-koYmSr2sLtmHUitlZiqJFxx/s1600/MCNAIR+Robert+Patterson+McNair+headstone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1kKQ5lbj4FqEClRhDPr2tDMh9OyY4A09F_NZtY2VlRzl6vH4GuW3Aw3hQpDbKPmvszEVSamNDY7_rQlPhlJOFYRnZyrpAF7IdSUwr7Kqi6IWVC2s1OsDh-koYmSr2sLtmHUitlZiqJFxx/s200/MCNAIR+Robert+Patterson+McNair+headstone.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="desctxt"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Robert Patterson McNair died 3 July 1925 and was buried at Piedmont Cemetery in Calvary, Grady County, Georgia. (Grady County was created from Decatur and Thomas counties in August 1905. The McNairs lived for over 40 years in Georgia Militia District 553, which is in the southwest corner of the present-day Grady County, and thus was part of Decatur County through 1905.) Robert P’s grave is right next to the graves of his sister and brother-in-law, my great-great grandparents Permelia Ruth McNair Maxwell and J.A.O. Maxwell. His grave site is overgrown with small trees and brush, and it would probably be a major undertaking to clear it away and require permission from the cemetery management, but someone apparently still remembers him each year around Confederate Memorial Day, because there was a clean flag stuck into the ground next to the grave when I was there in April. If you can understand this, you can begin to understand something of the character of the South, Old and New.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s about it for now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Later y’all,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-9720559045569680672011-10-19T21:49:00.006-05:002011-10-23T23:11:05.697-05:00Dr. Robert Martin McNair<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Om_PuHQho73iueyy9-AUdQTGXYZobtt8oZJq-yKi2EfZgufe8tzYnhb10KmlVD1dIMMpGcb75wHVykVVGhfub-s1oX2qNRYnS1k_KeZS7TFmonQVpt3YlqCYDwRB9DEzwgGvr1I5zhlb/s1600/Dr+McNair+father+of+Permelia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Om_PuHQho73iueyy9-AUdQTGXYZobtt8oZJq-yKi2EfZgufe8tzYnhb10KmlVD1dIMMpGcb75wHVykVVGhfub-s1oX2qNRYnS1k_KeZS7TFmonQVpt3YlqCYDwRB9DEzwgGvr1I5zhlb/s320/Dr+McNair+father+of+Permelia.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In discussing my 2</span><sup style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> great grandmother Permelia Ruth McNair Maxwell’s death certificate <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/10/melia.html">in my last post</a>, I made the comment that finding out that her father was a doctor (Dr. Robert McNair) was a new piece of information. I should have checked my research notes and email history more closely. As my cousin Christy Spooner reminded me, we had a conversation about Dr. McNair back in June. It was Christy who first brought the information up, having discovered a reference to him being a doctor in someone’s family tree. My comment at the time was: </span></span></span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Since the 1850 and 1860 census lists Robert's occupation as Farmer i doubt he was a doctor, unless he was a "country doctor", who tended to people and animals on the side so to speak. But as you know, records tend to be sparse in southwest Georgia, so it's possible.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As usual, the more certain I am of a “fact”, the faster I’m shot down! The statement on the death certificate by Robert McNair’s granddaughter Julia Maxwell Bower that he was a doctor is a powerful supporting argument for the conclusion that he was indeed a doctor. Yes, it’s second-hand information; she was after all born 28 years after his death. But the close association of Julia and her mother throughout her life means that she would likely have heard the stories of her parents and grandparents many times. We still have no indication of any formal medical training, but it’s certainly worth pursuing that avenue of research, and we can certainly move this particular piece of information into the “likely” category at the very least. So Christy, as I sit down to enjoy my big plate of humble pie a la mode, I hope you’ll forgive me for forgetting our conversation and for being so quick to discount it earlier. And I say a hearty, “<b><i>Good job, Christy!</i></b>”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Since I’ve started I will continue with Dr. McNair and what else we think we know about him. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">According to an unpublished McNair family history, Robert Martin McNair was born 16 March 1807 to Daniel Gilbert McNair (1783-1834) and Ann Martin (1790-??), probably in Richmond County, Georgia. The family moved to Decatur by 1830 because Daniel McNair shows up on the 1830 census in Decatur County, and there is a male aged 20-29 living in the household. (Prior to 1850 the US federal census listed only the names of the heads of household. There are counts of other members of the family, broken down by age group and sex.) The first record of Robert is a marriage license issued in Decatur County to Robert M. McNair and Nancy Patterson on 22 December 1835. They were married the next day.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">License image is from Decatur County Marriage Book AA, 1824-1841, page 112; Marriage Books, Decatur County Ordinary Court, Georgia Archives; <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/countyfilm,120048">http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/countyfilm,120048</a>.</span></i></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The 1840 census doesn’t show names of the members of the household, either, but there is a Robert M. McNair listed for Decatur County, and the members of his household consist of 3 free white males under 5, 1 white male 30-39, 1 white female 20-29, 1 male slave 24-35, and 1 female slave 24-35. Then, in 1850, he is listed with his wife and children, Robert (42), Nancy (34), Daniel (14), William (12), James (10), Sophronia (8), John (6), Robert (5), Joseph (4) and Martin (1).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Census image courtesy of HeritageQuest.com (access provided with library card)</span></i></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1860, the family is shown living in the Attapulgus area of Decatur County: Robert (53), Nancy (43), John T (20), Saphronia (18), Robert (16), Joseph (13), Thomas (11), Ellen (9), Catherin (7), Sarah (5) and Permelia (2). </span></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is a book called <i>1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia</i> (Nancy J. Cornell; Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, USA; 2000) which was a census of all white men aged 16 to 60 who weren’t then already serving in the armed forces of the CSA. On page 188, in the 8th Senatorial District, 553rd Militia District, the census lists two McNairs:</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">MCNAIR, R. M., 56 yrs. 10 mos., Farmer, b. GA<br />
MCNAIR, W. G., 48 yrs. 2 mos., Farmer, b. GA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Using the presumed birth date in March 1807 and adding 56 years and 10 months gives January 1864, which is the “date of record” for that 1864 census. Robert also had a brother, William Green McNair, born 7 November 1815; so adding the stated age of 48 years and 2 months again we get January 1864. I love it when the figures all add up! If you have an Ancestry.com subscription the <i>1864 Census</i> book can be found there, available for searching or browsing, at <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/BookList.aspx?dbid=49289"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/BookList.aspx?dbid=49289</span></a>. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The 1870 census does not show marital status. However, in 1870 Nancy McNair is shown as the head of the household, which includes Nancy (54), Robert P (25), Joseph W (23), Thomas M (21), Mary C (17), Sarah E (15) and Permelia R (13). The implication is that Robert Martin McNair had died by 1870. (If you’ll notice, the McNairs are family number 4 on this census sheet. Family number 1, at the top of the page, is the Maxwells, and line 4 is James A.O. Maxwell, who would later marry Permelia R McNair. So they were childhood neighbors!) </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Unfortunately, I haven’t yet found a tombstone or obituary for Robert. I did however find another mention of him, in the book <i>Gleanings from Grady County, Georgia</i> (Wessie Connell, Frank W. Roebuck and Barbara C. Williams, editors; Roddenbery Memorial Library, Cairo, GA, USA; 1987). On page 187, in an entry entitled “Overstreet/McNair/Maxwell Family” by H. W. Overstreet, Mr. Overstreet records a bit of family history. </span></span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Daniel Gilbert McNair came to the Calvary settlement from Warren County, Georgia, in 1825. His wife was Annie Martin. They raised seven children; one was Robert Martin McNair (1805-1869) who was a country doctor in Calvary. He married Nancy Patterson (1818-1905) and they had twelve children.</span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(Henry Wilbur Overstreet, 1908-1986, passed on just before the book was released. He was my first cousin, twice removed. His mother, Nancy May Maxwell, was Robert's granddaughter, Permelia McNair Maxwell's daughter, elder sister of my great-grandmother Lyda Ellen Maxwell.) So even though all the census records list Robert McNair as a farmer, here’s another bit of a clue that he was more than that. So I’ll repeat myself, “</span><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Good job, Christy!</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">” And as a bonus I get a probable year of death for Robert as well, which lends credence to the supposition that Nancy was a widow in 1870.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So for someone I don’t know much about it’s amazing how much can be gleaned in bits and pieces. If you take a fact here and a document there and a scrap of information from somewhere else, you can begin to build a plausible, even probable, image of an ancestor long-gone and poorly documented. Are there pictures out there, somewhere, in the hands of other descendants, unknown cousins perhaps? Are there tattered diaries or other documents in some library or museum, lying unrecognized and unacknowledged, just waiting for the right person to come along? I may, perhaps, one day make the journey and the search in pursuit of such evidence, but until then … I can dream, can’t I?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s about it for now.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">Later y’all,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-54650349786372936172011-10-16T00:58:00.002-05:002011-10-16T01:02:53.936-05:00'Melia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwR-9rOIS0B0kiuQAD3ABCmY1y3ghSGm1F_4stBNuebL2cvaEpYvG7wNsMDKpTMUZCWAYEM1o_p4OTqnQGXWf9V4KmtQsvG5QmZ2RzTNm1OFU1bZBuu9gFGkLVe_CqG6ircqNpvJP_itpC/s1600/Permelia+Ruth+McNair+Maxwell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwR-9rOIS0B0kiuQAD3ABCmY1y3ghSGm1F_4stBNuebL2cvaEpYvG7wNsMDKpTMUZCWAYEM1o_p4OTqnQGXWf9V4KmtQsvG5QmZ2RzTNm1OFU1bZBuu9gFGkLVe_CqG6ircqNpvJP_itpC/s200/Permelia+Ruth+McNair+Maxwell.jpg" width="107" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">My great-grandmother Lyda Ellen Maxwell Perry’s parents were J. A. O. Maxwell and Permelia Ruth McNair Maxwell. Like many of my ancestors Permelia (or Amelia, or simply Melia, as she seemingly was often known) lived a good long time. She was born before the Civil War (or “The War Between the States” as we called it, because “there was nothing civil about it”), 22 March 1857, and lived until 7 September 1946. Repeating myself, the picture here, one of the few I have of her, was taken in 1934 and the baby she is holding is her great-granddaughter, my mother. So in two swift strides, from me to my mother and from her to Permelia, I can be carried back over 150 years of American history. If that doesn’t give you goose bumps there’s no hope for you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I had been working under the assumption that Permelia lived and died in Decatur County all her life. But in trying to fill in some of the details on Lyda's siblings I found that in 1918 the next to the youngest daughter Julia Permelia Maxwell married an electrician with Western Union Telephone and Telegraph Company named Jacob Livingston Bower and they moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Jacob was from Fowlstown, about halfway between Attapulgus and Bainbridge. So I looked in Nashville for Jacob and Julia Bower on the 1920 census and found Jacob L, Julia and Ernestine Bower (ages 22, 21 and 6/12). On the 1930 census in Nashville I came up with Julia Bower, age 30, widowed, her daughter "Earnestine", age 10, and mother "Amelia” Maxwell, age 73. The also had two boarders, a young “filling station salesman” named Clarence Farris and Louise Patterson, a 23 year old insurance clerk. <i><span style="color: #ff6600;">To-Do Item: Hmmm. Permelia’s mother was a Patterson. Could Louise be a cousin? </span></i>The 1930 census gives street addresses for urban districts, so it’s possible to see that they were living at 105 12<sup>th</sup> Street.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Looking further, I discovered that Ancestry.com has some of the <i>Polk's City Directories for Nashville</i>, including for the years 1938 and 1940. Searching for the family in those directories I found Julia living at 1109 Holly Street in Nashville with her daughter and her mother. According to Google Maps 1109 Holly Street is just around the corner from 105 12<sup>th</sup> Street. In the 1938 directory, it has "Bower, Ernestine student" and "Bower Julia Mrs slswn Lebeck Bros Inc" and "Maxwell Amelia (wid Jos A O)". In the 1940 directory, it lists "Bower, Ernestine student" and "Bower Julia Mrs slswn" and "Maxwell Amelia (wid J A O)". </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Interestingly, under the "Bower" heading in both directories there is a "Bower, Jacob L asst automatic chf WUTelCo" rooming at 621 Woodland. I looked on Google Maps. 621 Woodland Street is about a quarter of a mile away from 1109 Holly Street. So I took another look at the 1930 census looking for Jacob Bower and found him living right there in Nashville, working at Western Union, and with a big old "D" for Divorced in the Marital Status column. So either someone in Julia's household was embarrassed to say she was divorced in 1930 or the enumerator messed up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Next I went searching to see if there were Tennessee divorce indexes online. I didn't find one, but I did find a <i>1924 Polk's</i> directory for Nashville which shows both Jacob and Julia living in the house at 1109 Holly Street. So somewhere between 1924 and 1930 Jacob and Julia Bower got divorced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Anyway, the point of all this was that by being pointed towards Tennessee I found Permelia's death certificate. So adding the final bit of confirmation that I was looking at the right Julia and Permelia, it says right there that </span><br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">she was born in Calvary, Georgia</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">she is a widow</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">her parents were Dr. Robert McNair (that’s a new piece of information) and Nancy Patterson</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">she will be buried in Piedmont Cemetery in Calvary, Georgia</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">As usual, the accuracy of the information is dependent on the knowledge of the informant (in this case, her daughter Julia). An interesting additional fact gleaned from the death certificate is the cause of death: chronic myocarditis (definition here, <a href="http://www.healthcentral.com/encyclopedia/408/734.html?ic=506048">http://www.healthcentral.com/encyclopedia/408/734.html?ic=506048</a>), essentially a chronic inflammation of the heart muscle. Judging by the definition at the Health Central web site, she may have been bed-ridden for an extended period of time before her death. But if there is any truth to genetic proclivities towards certain behaviors, she stayed in bed only when she <i>couldn’t</i> get up, no matter what her doctor or daughter said to the contrary. It’s hard to keep a good woman down!</span><br />
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<span class="messagebody" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As Scarlett said, “I’ll think about that tomorrow … tomorrow is another day!”</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9tE0AEIsyivJXCyaB81k8F7DuXbIPQg7YawOYWkitfLsbDbND-rZNkDdqVNA3dF-borS2g7joHthzWI8vgextCrQ92W6vd7YJ2ptdFCS0XLWsIrKWAmGSSvgvD-FT4eGir8UgwLSOZ2S/s1600/MAXWELL+Infant+Son+Maxwell+gravestone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9tE0AEIsyivJXCyaB81k8F7DuXbIPQg7YawOYWkitfLsbDbND-rZNkDdqVNA3dF-borS2g7joHthzWI8vgextCrQ92W6vd7YJ2ptdFCS0XLWsIrKWAmGSSvgvD-FT4eGir8UgwLSOZ2S/s200/MAXWELL+Infant+Son+Maxwell+gravestone.jpg" width="127" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">J.A.O. and Permelia (who was often known as <i>Amelia</i>, or just <i>Melia</i>) made their home near Attapulgus in Decatur County for the next 36 years, until J.A.O.’s death at 57 in 1914. They owned their own farm, and raised a passel of young’uns, as they say. The 1880 census shows no children. The 1890 census was lost, of course, but the 1900 census shows that Permelia had borne 10 children, 8 of whom were still living. An unnamed infant boy lived but one day in October 1879 and is buried near the parents and many other Maxwell family members in the Piedmont Cemetery in Calvary, Georgia (now in Grady County, it was until 1904 in Decatur County). Another son, John Robert Maxwell, died in February 1898 just a few weeks shy of his 12<sup>th</sup> birthday. And the 1910 census shows that there were only 7 surviving children, young Corry Thomas Maxwell having departed this life at the age of 14 in February 1910. There is a <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/10/lyda-ellen-maxwell-perry.html">picture of six of the children from about 1904 in the last post</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">J.A.O. died 3 May 1914; Permelia lived another 32 years, until 1946. But they were buried side by side in Piedmont cemetery. In fact they share an obelisk-style headstone, beautifully engraved on one face with his epitaph and on the other with hers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">His side says:<br />
J. A. O. MAXWELL<br />
SEPT. 14, 1856<br />
MAY 3, 1914<br />
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Beyond the doubts<br />
and hopes and fears,<br />
Beyond the cares and<br />
joys and tears,<br />
Beyond the smiling<br />
and the weeping,<br />
Beyond the waking<br />
and the sleeping,<br />
Our loved one rests<br />
in slumber deep,<br />
In silent and eternal<br />
sleep.<br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> On her side are the words:<br />
PERMELIA RUTH<br />
MCNAIR<br />
MAXWELL<br />
MAR. 22, 1857<br />
SEPT. 7, 1946<br />
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Dear mother, tho' we<br />
miss you much,<br />
We know you rest<br />
with God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The few photos I have of Permelia are from 1934. In this one the baby she is holding is my mother. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I was able to find Permelia in the 1920 census still living in Decatur County, with her son Malcolm Oliver Maxwell and his family. But Malcolm died in 1924 and I could not find her anywhere in the 1930 census. The story of that search is best left for another post another day, so …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s about it for now.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><h1 style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-3244077211830699052011-10-08T18:27:00.009-05:002011-10-08T18:41:38.278-05:00Lyda Ellen Maxwell Perry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0NtXmXRe3SnOwYVS_Yg-IE_Q9Bl2voaqrmmuO3o-T1aJJjDfvEXMvoRfCs0CKFe-DBfGaG4dFn8J3gK3bn2waZGNTXxQy4d4B8OOWGbdhO9ul49DthQMr8PaC0csUTLvGQoiO9hKfoX4Y/s1600/Lyda+Ellen+Maxwell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0NtXmXRe3SnOwYVS_Yg-IE_Q9Bl2voaqrmmuO3o-T1aJJjDfvEXMvoRfCs0CKFe-DBfGaG4dFn8J3gK3bn2waZGNTXxQy4d4B8OOWGbdhO9ul49DthQMr8PaC0csUTLvGQoiO9hKfoX4Y/s320/Lyda+Ellen+Maxwell.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;">Where did the summer go?!? I didn’t intend to take four months off from writing, it just sort of happened one week at a time. I haven’t been idle; indeed, carrying on my genealogical research has become virtually a second job. Not many people “relax” by spending hours scanning microfilm or searching dusty tomes at a library or historical archive. But my writing has suffered – not for lack of material or inspiration but rather the opposite, a wavering indecision and paralysis of will brought on by profusion, indeed a surfeit, of ancestral distractions. Now, I’ll try once again to return to a regular schedule of publishing. I may change up the style of this blog and experiment a bit in the coming weeks, interspersing shorter posts among the longer expository as I share my discoveries with you. I will put less emphasis on the “instructional” aspects of genealogical blogging, and more on sharing personal research.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This beautiful young lady was my mother’s father’s mother, Lyda Ellen Maxwell. Lyda was born 24 Oct 1890 in Amsterdam, Decatur County, Georgia, the fifth of ten children of J. A. O. Maxwell and Permelia Ruth McNair Maxwell, though the first-born, an unnamed son, died at one day old in 1879, and only seven of the ten would live into adulthood. And Lyda and another brother both died at age 31. I’m not sure when this picture was taken, but my guess is 1904, certainly between 1902 and 1906. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1900, Lyda lived with her parents J.A.O. Maxwell (spelled out as “Jay A”) and Permelia Ruth McNair Maxwell (inexplicably named “Lizzie R”; a nickname, perhaps? This is the only place where I’ve seen her so named.), and her siblings, near Attapulgus, Decatur County, Georgia. (Ancestry.com inexplicably has the name indexed as Maswell. Go figure!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The “two oldest” mentioned were Joseph, born in 1880, and Nancy, who was born in 1883. Lyda was born in 1890, Sarah in 1892<sup>footnote 1</sup>, Malcolm in 1893, Corry in 1895, and the two youngest girls, Julia and Elsie, were born in 1897 and 1899. (I actually think the youngest girls’ names are reversed in the picture’s caption.) In 1902, their ages would have been Lyda 12, Sarah 10, Malcolm 9, Corry 7, Julia 5, and Elsie 3. Four years later, in 1906, Lyda would have been 16, and the younger girls would have been 7 and 9, which seems a little old for the pictured children, so that’s why I settled on an approximate date of 1904, when Lyda would have been 14, Sarah 12, Malcolm 11, Corry 9, Julia 7 and Elsie 5. As a further circumstantial clue, elder sister Nancy Mae Maxwell married Matthew Henry Overstreet on 16 May 1904, so this could be a group shot of the rest of the bride’s siblings taken during the wedding festivities. It’s an interesting possibility. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">To-Do Item: Try to find some Overstreet cousins who may still have wedding pictures of Nancy and Matthew Overstreet, possibly including the parents of the bride.</span></i><span style="color: #ff6600;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My great grandfather John Isaiah Perry, Sr., married Lyda in Decatur County, Georgia, on 17 May 1908, when she was seventeen-and-a-half. (<a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-joshua-tree-part-ii.html">See my previous post on my Perry line discussing John Sr</a>.) He was twelve years her senior. I still don’t have the marriage record or marriage license, but this summer I located a transcription of the index to Decatur County Marriage Records, 1825-1945, at the Decatur County GAGenWeb pages of the GAGenWeb Project (<a href="http://www.thegagenweb.com/gadecatur/Marriage/surindex.html">http://www.thegagenweb.com/gadecatur/Marriage/surindex.html</a>). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">To-Do Item: Contact the Decatur County Clerk's office in Bainbridge to order a copy of the marriage license.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Nj9hsMGoo_V3lUzKEYQtk6Olm6ON9a0-7llWKauB0jCjxQBuJibJpeqqqOV_hJ7oZ1-OxbC4k0kFvd0aPCLGpjYxM4fFBL_POE3NQfJgaEXaDvv_TXnN7hL-gvub1vkBDSE_lEV0IRV2/s1600/PERRY+Jessie+Perry+gravestone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Nj9hsMGoo_V3lUzKEYQtk6Olm6ON9a0-7llWKauB0jCjxQBuJibJpeqqqOV_hJ7oZ1-OxbC4k0kFvd0aPCLGpjYxM4fFBL_POE3NQfJgaEXaDvv_TXnN7hL-gvub1vkBDSE_lEV0IRV2/s200/PERRY+Jessie+Perry+gravestone.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">By the time of the 1910 census, enumerated in June just after their second anniversary, tragedy had struck again, for the census shows that she had born one child, but none were living. The 1910 census was taken on the 18<sup>th</sup> of April, so Lyda was seven months pregnant with my grandfather. Unfortunately, the 1920 census did not question women on the number of births and surviving children. I know that one son, Jessie, was born in September 1913 and died in March 1914 while she was visiting her parents down in Attapulgus, Decatur County, Georgia, just 60 miles southwest of John & Lyda’s home in Sale City, Mitchell County. I found his grave near to those of his grandparents J.A.O. Maxwell and Permelia Ruth McNair Maxwell in Piedmont Cemetery, in Calvary, Georgia. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwjYURD-byX3SeIjK1Mom9zDSAbAQ3hXvSVZZDE24MUW7VCbXnAx9Rh4r2pKjYsynTRY5k8pr6HCavqC5KNsXCuxKzrfAutP_nuDInLPa80vZnUj1ddiJXIne6_LImc6LFmxNmY2qhSzua/s1600/PERRY+Lyda+Maxwell+Perry%252C+John+Jr%252C+Ruth+%2526+Maxwell%252C+abt+1915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwjYURD-byX3SeIjK1Mom9zDSAbAQ3hXvSVZZDE24MUW7VCbXnAx9Rh4r2pKjYsynTRY5k8pr6HCavqC5KNsXCuxKzrfAutP_nuDInLPa80vZnUj1ddiJXIne6_LImc6LFmxNmY2qhSzua/s200/PERRY+Lyda+Maxwell+Perry%252C+John+Jr%252C+Ruth+%2526+Maxwell%252C+abt+1915.jpg" width="140" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There are also two unmarked child-sized grave covers at the feet of John and Lyda’s graves in the cemetery at Sale City (see below). That implies there might be a third, unknown child who died in infancy or early childhood. <i><span style="color: #ff6600;">Another To-Do Item: try to find out if the Sale City cemetery has active management and records from the first decades of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century in hopes of discovering the identities and burial dates of the two persons buried in the unmarked graves.</span></i><span style="color: #ff6600;"> </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The picture here at left </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(courtesy of Barbara Perry Walker) of Lyda with sons John I, Jr, and Maxwell (my grandfather), and she is holding a baby Ruth, so this would be about 1915. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHKazS23FbFsYbk4o3klXxVlV0jfFk9H3kW665CRFiB61GXZCM_S8xGGf-y0m0J6nS8nPqHrQ6BoQQTuw8ktYfjL_1ULHFqBAaSXwOTQ-YVjzqp0wNi6xLYuiLBvbgy3KgtbxPBc4u8BRo/s1600/PERRY+Maxwell+Perry%252C+Wilbur%252C+Juanita%252C+Doris%252C+Nell+%2526+Ralph+Overstreet+held+by+Lyda+Maxwell+Perry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHKazS23FbFsYbk4o3klXxVlV0jfFk9H3kW665CRFiB61GXZCM_S8xGGf-y0m0J6nS8nPqHrQ6BoQQTuw8ktYfjL_1ULHFqBAaSXwOTQ-YVjzqp0wNi6xLYuiLBvbgy3KgtbxPBc4u8BRo/s200/PERRY+Maxwell+Perry%252C+Wilbur%252C+Juanita%252C+Doris%252C+Nell+%2526+Ralph+Overstreet+held+by+Lyda+Maxwell+Perry.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">This second picture (courtesy of Ann Perry Jones) show Lyda with son Maxwell (standing to the left) and Maxwell’s cousins, the children of Lyda’s sister Nancy Maxwell Overstreet, taken about 1918. Starting with Maxwell in the upper left and proceeding clockwise the picture shows Wilbur, Juanita, Doris, Nell and little baby Ralph Overstreet, who is being held by Lyda Maxwell Perry. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1920 the census shows John and Lyda living on Barnes Street, on the north side of Sale City, with sons Maxwell, age 9, John I Jr, 7 and William P, 6 months, and daughter Ruth, age 5<sup>footnote 2</sup>. John Sr was a prosperous merchant, owning a dry goods store in Sale City and selling to farmers throughout the neighboring counties. But this happy world soon came to a crashing end. On January 8, 1922, Lyda Ellen Maxwell Perry, age 31, died suddenly. Her death certificate<sup>footnote 3</sup> lists the cause of death as “apoplexy” – essentially the diagnosis at the time for any sudden loss of consciousness followed quickly by death (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoplexy">see the article on Apoplexy in Wikipedia</a>). I know that my mother told me her father was terribly devoted to his mother, so I think it must have been a terrible blow to him and his siblings to lose her at such an early age. This was a terrible time again for the family. The next month, in February, John Sr’s brother Jesse Green Perry took ill and died unexpectedly at the age of 39, leaving behind a wife (Harriet "Hattie" P Mason, 1892-?) and young daughter (Frances Perry, 1916-?). Then in August 1923 John Sr's mother Elizabeth Margrette Cutts Perry died after a short illness; she was only 69. Elizabeth Perry's tombstone was shown in a <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-joshua-tree-part-iii.html">previous post</a>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;">John Isaiah Perry, Sr, Family Plot, Sale City Cemetery, Sale City, Mtichell County, Georgia </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;">Top (left) row, near to far: Lyda Ellen Maxwell Perry (1890-1922), John Isaiah Perry, Sr (1878-1956); Bottom (right) row, near to far: two unidentified infant graves, Elizabeth Margarette Cutts Perry (John Sr’s mother, 1854-1923), unidentified grave (possibly a child?), and Jesse Green Perry (John Sr’s brother, 1883-1922).</span></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i>Footnote 1: The </i><span class="desctxt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1900 Census gives a Jun 1888 birth for “Sallie Maxwell”; I can't find a 1910 census listing her. By the 1920 census she is married to Paul A. Branch and living near John & Lyda Perry in Sale City. The census reports that she is 28, which would mean she was born about 1892). The 1930 census gives her age as 37 (born about 1893). And finally, her tombstone gives her birth date as 29 June 1892. Which is it?? Is she two years older or two years younger than my great grandmother Lyda Maxwell Perry?</i></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><i>Footnote 2: Frank Maxwell, born in 1910, John Isaiah Jr in 1912, Ruth in 1914, and William Preston Perry II, born in 1919 and named after his grandfather who fought in the Civil War and died in 1908, the year John Sr and Lyda were married.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Footnote 3: Death certificate saved 10 Sep 2010 from the Georgia’s Virtual Vault web site of the Georgia Archives; </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Death Certificates, Vital Records, Public Health, RG 26-5-95, Georgia Archives; (<span class="objectdescription"><a href="http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/gadeaths.php">http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/gadeaths.php</a>)</span>. </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s about it for now.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><h1 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-192003574555155592011-06-19T21:48:00.001-05:002011-06-19T21:49:45.603-05:00For Father's DayI put this up on my Facebook page but decided to post it here, too, as one last homage for Father's Day.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qyhowCcQqEe7Pc-Irj9j1QCufByYCnOiosZsv3gKdVKF5J42_R8uvAA2VEhLA6eTWpoFd_47EvIK3Cxtg9sT2uscG3SbVwPReVOYEsuvOnZ3URbmoqSCmoytseWESpzxrlsSsC4Y8h4L/s1600/4+Jones+Generations.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qyhowCcQqEe7Pc-Irj9j1QCufByYCnOiosZsv3gKdVKF5J42_R8uvAA2VEhLA6eTWpoFd_47EvIK3Cxtg9sT2uscG3SbVwPReVOYEsuvOnZ3URbmoqSCmoytseWESpzxrlsSsC4Y8h4L/s640/4+Jones+Generations.jpg" width="100%" /></a></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-53948943444222784512011-06-19T12:45:00.002-05:002011-06-19T12:51:56.203-05:00John William, Another Farthing<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As discussed in <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/06/few-farthings-more.html">my last post</a>, my great-great-grandfather Ruben T “Fred” Farthing (1857-1932) was a blacksmith</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. This is an important link in tracing his ancestry, because starting with his parents and working backwards it gets increasingly difficult to pin down any facts with certainty. Records are scarcer, and prior to 1850 the US Federal Census listed only the name of the head of household. Fortunately he appears on both the 1860 and 1870 censuses with his parents John William and Louisa [Cheek] Farthing. “Fred” was their second child, and the oldest son.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Part of Orange County Marriage Records<br />
from Ancestry.com</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">John William Farthing (1820-aft1880) and his wife Louisa Cheek (1825-aft1880) were my 3g grandparents (that’s 3 “greats” before the word “grandparents”!) John William’s early years are somewhat uncertain, but based on census and marriage records he appears to have been born in 1820 in Orange County, North Carolina. I have a family tree, undocumented and with no citations, which says his parents were Reuben Farthing and Joanna “Anne” Holloway. There is a listing in <i>Marriages of Orange County, North Carolina, 1779-1868 </i>(Holcom, Brent H.; Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001; and available with subscription to Ancestry.com at <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/browse/view.aspx?dbid=49250&pid=68363&iid=FLHG_MarrOrangeCntyNC-0108&ssrc=pt_t17911299_p576478667_kpidz0q3d576478667z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgPLz0q3dpid">this link</a>) that shows a Reuben Farthing and an Anne Holloway showing they married in Orange County on 12 Dec 1816 with Thomas Holloway as best man. The same source and page is the first reference to John & Louisa, stating that John Farthing and “Louiser Cheek” [sic] married on 7 July 1849 in Orange County, North Carolina, with James F. Gattis as best man. As a side note, the Farthing family tree I have says that there is a will for Reuben Farthing filed in Orange County on 30 May 1839 but I haven’t seen or ordered that will yet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The first federal census I have for John shows John Farthing, aged 30 and a blacksmith, with Louisa Farthing, aged 24. living in Orange County, North Carolina, on 16 July 1850. If the birth years of 1820 and 1825 are correct this means that John’s birth date falls in the first half of the year and Louisa was born in the second half. Interestingly, they live next to James H. Gattis (39), a carpenter, and his wife Nancy Gattis (also aged 39). Was there a transcription error in either the marriage listing or the census record? Could this be the same James Gattis that was John Farthing’s best man? There is probably no way to know for certain, but it’s an avenue for future research. One thing is clear from the census records of 1850, Orange County, North Carolina, was just brimming with Farthings. So John packed up and moved southwest to the state of Georgia.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Census images courtesy of Ancestry.com</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The 1860 census, on the eve of the Civil War, show John & “Luisa” [sic] living in or near Monticello, in Jasper County, Georgia, with their children Anna, Reuben and John W. In 1870, the growing family now lives in Rockville (near Eatonton), Putnam County, Georgia, and consists of John, Louisa, Annie W, “Frederick” [i.e., Ruben], John W, Mary H, Lucy B, Ada C and Wm [William]. By 1880 they’ve moved again. Now living in Morgan County, Georgia, in Militia District 397 (southwest of Madison), the family is listed as containing John, Louisa, Annie, Molly, Lucy and Ada, along with Louisa’s father Stanford Cheek, and two boarders, William Clay, a 24-year-old blacksmith, and “Thos. F. Davis” [Thomas F. Davis], a 21-year-old farm laborer from South Carolina. It’s possible that William Clay was apprenticed to John Farthing. If so, there may be court records of the indenture in either Putnam or Morgan Counties, so that’s another avenue for future research. I also need to keep these surnames in mind as I research future collateral lines; they may be relatives of John or Louisa, or one or both might marry into the family at a later date.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxV5JvXzW-RO4ESII2yHSomdwSsvmzKoD6pznH482mqFQvId0FH_9_nrDBh-p_97QW4nYRc8qj5eWz_5EU7ehhv2gGOCzVosbx0JOs5j4atIK3T1EBeYnzcU0qFBFwWvzdxTejU7kdvSiF/s1600/John+Farthing+1870-1880+Census.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxV5JvXzW-RO4ESII2yHSomdwSsvmzKoD6pznH482mqFQvId0FH_9_nrDBh-p_97QW4nYRc8qj5eWz_5EU7ehhv2gGOCzVosbx0JOs5j4atIK3T1EBeYnzcU0qFBFwWvzdxTejU7kdvSiF/s400/John+Farthing+1870-1880+Census.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Census images courtesy of Ancestry.com</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSJscnwPJy6Vk8dD20xcBxaEL4QqIEgsAA04UghkWoiLCbW9uO52ACh3ArMw4sNdd-R7e_I6AW3WCiIoHqh90XD16TWfS4MA-2Hoc-_dYL1tC26Zb6K-8w4dcspI-uz08ioIZ9fXmmPv08/s1600/CLAY+WF+Clay+%2526+Lucy+Farthing+Marriage+License+1886.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSJscnwPJy6Vk8dD20xcBxaEL4QqIEgsAA04UghkWoiLCbW9uO52ACh3ArMw4sNdd-R7e_I6AW3WCiIoHqh90XD16TWfS4MA-2Hoc-_dYL1tC26Zb6K-8w4dcspI-uz08ioIZ9fXmmPv08/s200/CLAY+WF+Clay+%2526+Lucy+Farthing+Marriage+License+1886.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial;">SideTrack: OK, here’s why it sometimes takes me so long to write these posts! I couldn’t leave it alone. A quick search for “Clay” in the <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/countyfilm,271246">Morgan County marriage book for 1879-1907 on Georgia’s Virtual Vault website</a> turned up W.F. Clay marrying Lucy Farthing on 14 Jan 1886 (page 99). By 1900 (there is no surviving 1890 census here) William & Lucy Clay have moved to Fenter Township, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, where they live out the remainder of their days and raise a fine family. Their oldest daughter Mamie Clay was born in November 1889 or 1890, depending on the source, and the next child, son John Clay, was born in Arkansas in October 1894, so they moved during that 4 or 5 year window. In my quick detour here I found 3 census records through Ancestry.com, two tombstones (one for William & Lucy on <a href="http://findagrave.com/">FindAGrave.com</a> and one for daughter Mamie by following one of <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com’s</a> “shaking leaf” links; Mamie apparently married a Hunter Andrew Tyler in 1906 and they share a headstone). I haven’t confirmed any of this with additional research, but the leads look promising, and you can see how easy it is to get distracted from your primary goal. That detour took a couple of hours by the time I had entered the new information into Ancestry, saved a few images, and made a few notes for further research.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_QkKAxwyiyKV1iVttQnSOxMIyPaqw2yLZaM1ytI-6Us7pOUcHQIWJKpeOcUGK8F1M2E8gvuDCiT5R1A8FkxSIaiRHvUSgKM_B-qAM0SReFRhCAMWcwK14w2HwRz5PWXX5gIx56nFCpsH7/s1600/CLAY+WF+%2526+LT+Clay+gravestone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_QkKAxwyiyKV1iVttQnSOxMIyPaqw2yLZaM1ytI-6Us7pOUcHQIWJKpeOcUGK8F1M2E8gvuDCiT5R1A8FkxSIaiRHvUSgKM_B-qAM0SReFRhCAMWcwK14w2HwRz5PWXX5gIx56nFCpsH7/s200/CLAY+WF+%2526+LT+Clay+gravestone.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">As rewarding as such meandering may be, though, I need to finish up with Mamie’s parents, John William and Louisa. One reason for following up with Mamie, a process I will need to repeat with each of their other children, is that the 1880 census is the last record I can find of them. It’s entirely possible that they passed away by 1900 (John would have been about 80, and Louisa about 75 by then), but I don’t have anything to prove that. I can’t find any cemetery record or gravestone posting that belongs to them. It may be that they are buried in Morgan County. It may be that there is an extensive cemetery survey for Morgan County such as I’ve found previously for other counties. But I haven’t located any yet. I’m still searching.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There are discrepancies, of course, from decade to decade on the census, and from source to source. Lucy Farthing, for example, is given the middle initial “B” on the 1870 census, but every other census that gives her middle initial and her gravestone give her middle initial as “T”. Sometimes people gave their first names to most census enumerators, but most other records have the middle name they generally were known by. It can get confusing, but you have to make a judgment call as to where most of the evidence is, or sometimes even against the prevailing tide of most evidence (such as ancestors who seemed to get younger and younger with every census year!) you don’t want to make a decision too soon, but don’t be afraid to make your best call if the situation seems to warrant it, as long as you note the discrepancies and why you made your decision. And don’t be afraid to go back later and change that call if you find additional evidence later. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s about it for now.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here’s your summary:</span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Always cite your sources, even in your research notes. It’s amazing how much you can forget about where you read or heard something, even after just a short time. (I’m repeating this one and the next one because they’re so darned important!)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The U.S. Census is still probably your most valuable source of information (after family resources) for the period from 1850 to 1930. Just exercise some caution and common sense, weigh the possibilities, and remember the census isn’t perfect. Even with a relatively uncommon name you can find people with the same name or initials. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Marriage and death records can often be found online at <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php">Georgia’s Virtual Vault</a>, a digital document resource from the Georgia Archives and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. It’s worth a quick search many times before pursuing other avenues, especially when you’re trying to chase down female lines. Unfortunately most books don’t have “bride” indexes, but it’s still worth a search if you have a likely groom candidate in mind.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Don’t ignore all the “shaking leaves”, or hints, on <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com</a>. Just treat them with care as you would any unverified lead until you find proof to support the claims. Even if you have ten or twenty bum leads in a row, the next one just might provide the hint you need to go to the next step in your research.</span></li>
</ul><h1 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-82640546606244684192011-06-12T19:33:00.004-05:002011-06-19T09:57:42.534-05:00A Few Farthings More<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9fJfPQ-FEI_ems5-FVl2eMkUUMzUeJNx98kD6CKRYPutFmrYEnd6UBg3rdfUZvTUepaj6uyVPnVhkum82_beI13Y-LPXx1VqC00NASEmYY75edBa2KcYuH4orhnWCM5KJqDTaeQWmfFt2/s1600/FARTHING+Ruben+T+Farthing+gravestone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9fJfPQ-FEI_ems5-FVl2eMkUUMzUeJNx98kD6CKRYPutFmrYEnd6UBg3rdfUZvTUepaj6uyVPnVhkum82_beI13Y-LPXx1VqC00NASEmYY75edBa2KcYuH4orhnWCM5KJqDTaeQWmfFt2/s200/FARTHING+Ruben+T+Farthing+gravestone.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My great-grandfather Irving Colquitt Farthing (1885-1974) was the fourth of twelve children – six boys and six girls</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. He was probably born in Putnam County. (Because there were no birth certificates yet, and no 1890 census survives, we assume the family was still living in the same place as in 1880.) I did have a note that he might have been born in Morgan County, just north of Putnam, but it’s unsourced, so I’m not sure where that came from. NOTE: Always source your notes, even if you think the information is tentative, or even if you’re sure it’s wrong. Most of his friends and associates just called him I.C.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I.C.’s father was Ruben Theodore “Fred” Farthing, born 24 Feb 1854 in Orange County, North Carolina, and died 22 Jul 1932 near Brooklet in Bulloch County, Georgia. Ruben was a blacksmith, the last in a line of blacksmiths stretching back as far as I can trace them, 3 or 4 generations altogether. Nobody seems to know why he was called “Fred”. One story is that there were so many Rubens and Reubens in the family that they called him that just so they’d know which one they were talking about! There are worse nicknames to be stuck with, I’m sure. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">By the time Ruben was three, in 1860, his father John, also a blacksmith, had moved the family to Georgia. In 1860 they show up on the census for Monticello, in Jasper County, Georgia. In 1870, they are living in Rockville, Putnam County. In 1878, Ruben got married to Martha Jane "Mattie" Alford. The Alfords are a fine old family with roots throughout the south and beyond. In fact there is a family history association, The <a href="http://www.alfordassociation.org/">Alford American Family Association</a>. I got some information and some confirmation from their website at <a href="http://www.alfordassociation.org/">http://www.alfordassociation.org</a>. I still have every intention of joining this organization, I just have it on my list of things to do after the car and home repairs that always crop up when I think I’ve got a little extra money! According to their website, Ruben and Martha (or Fred & Mattie if you’re family) were married 19 Dec 1878 in Dublin, Laurens County, but I have yet to locate a marriage record of any kind. In any case, Fred and Mattie were living in Glades, Putnam County, with their eldest son John William when the 1880 census was taken.</span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipo84PIOZmFXBVkU9SjVb4xE2fxwOQkscsim_3ZHyaQNDQX9j9iwmHqYkvJrbj_gEUIPJIJ7ID6CSLvoSZqw1ziiRyEHi75JO4RQJQvs1Ju2khUXSRHg_564Spqz9Qu6pw4P4RZ8f8wFhJ/s1600/Ruben+Farthing+Census+1860-1870-1880.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipo84PIOZmFXBVkU9SjVb4xE2fxwOQkscsim_3ZHyaQNDQX9j9iwmHqYkvJrbj_gEUIPJIJ7ID6CSLvoSZqw1ziiRyEHi75JO4RQJQvs1Ju2khUXSRHg_564Spqz9Qu6pw4P4RZ8f8wFhJ/s400/Ruben+Farthing+Census+1860-1870-1880.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Census images courtesy of Amazon.com (click view a larger image)</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Apparently Ruben continued a family tradition of moving regularly because in 1900 the census shows them to be living in Stansells District, Newton County (remember, the 1890 census did not survive in most places) with their NINE children, and then in Dudley, Laurens County by 1910. By this time Mattie has had 12 children, but only 11 survive. The family likely moved to Laurens County well before 1910 because at some point my great grandparents met and wooed and wed in Dublin, Laurens County, in 1907, and by 1910 IC & Mamie Farthing were living in Savannah. I can’t locate Ruben and Martha Farthing anywhere in the 1920 census year. I can find several of their children and grandchildren, but apparently they were missed, on the move again, or their names are so seriously misspelled that it will take a page by page search of the census records to find them. One of these days I’ll tackle that. Also in the middle there was a little thing called The Great War (now we call it World War I). The War lasted from June 1914 to November 1918, but the United States didn't get officially involved until April 1917. All the Farthing boys registered for service, and I believe two of them actually served in the Army, but I have to confirm that.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I did find them in 1930, though, living in the Brier Patch area of Bulloch County, Georgia, on a farm with son John W and daughter Emmie. According to the census, John apparently got married about 1915, but is now (1930) widowed, and Emmie has never married, but I haven’t yet thoroughly investigated all those collateral lines. That’s quite a lot of work, as you can imagine, with 10 surviving brothers and sisters. Ruben seems to have finally retired (he is about 73 afterall, give the man a break!). Based on Martha’s obituary, where it says on 1 January 1958 that she "had been living in Bulloch County for the past 33 years" it appears that Ruben and Martha moved there about 1925. Ruben died in 1932, two years before my mother was born. Martha Jane “Mattie” Alford Farthing lived on another twenty-five-and-a-half years, until 1 January 1958. Martha is the only one of my sixteen great-great grandparents to live past my date of birth (not that either of us would have remembered meeting, even if we had). Strangely, her son, I.C., my great grandfather, is the only one of my eight great grandparents I ever met; all the others died before I was born.</span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusxmJ8bPlYREJJU2_T84iTgabocw2I8WNBdW_4QtXDanoOu1gpMF0oxPvsGjI-ZR2kqz95B1Kvx4mrc0iy3WrdswuICrl-vFIp21YTR2XyaArtekAvpklo7bhjiUFJLstSuhRuiOf0V8S/s1600/Ruben+Farthing+Census+1900-1910-1930.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusxmJ8bPlYREJJU2_T84iTgabocw2I8WNBdW_4QtXDanoOu1gpMF0oxPvsGjI-ZR2kqz95B1Kvx4mrc0iy3WrdswuICrl-vFIp21YTR2XyaArtekAvpklo7bhjiUFJLstSuhRuiOf0V8S/s400/Ruben+Farthing+Census+1900-1910-1930.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Census images courtesy of Amazon.com (click view a larger image)</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If you look for these areas on a map of Georgia, say through Google, you’ll find some of them, but others will never turn up. That’s because Georgia’s federal census, as well as taxation and other government functions, is organized by “militia district” which is unique to Georgia. There are a lot of sources which help you find out where those militia district lines were drawn, but none online that I’m aware of. There is a good background article at the Georgia Archives website: . Other than that, the Georgia Archives sells a state map with county lines and modern militia districts by number. Usually the census forms will provide you with the number as well as the name of the district. I don’t know if they offer it by mail, but you can contact them to find out. For the eastern third or so of Georgia, there’s the excellent book </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0975531239/ref=oss_product">Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Militia Districts</a></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Paul K. Graham, which I’ve mentioned previously. Paul Graham is a Certified Genealogist<sup>SM</sup> and his website is <a href="http://www.pkgraham.com/">http://www.pkgraham.com</a>. The link from the book title takes you to Amazon.com, or you can order from Amazon by clicking on the link on the author’s website. (I don’t get a kickback either way, so whichever you choose is OK by me.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Another source for historic towns and settlements is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://kenkrakow.com/gpn/georgia_place-names.htm">Georgia Place Names</a> </i>by Kenneth K. Krakow. I was attending Mercer University in Macon when Mr. Krakow released this book, and I bought a copy of the first edition and had him autograph it for my mother. From what I understand, the book is currently not in print, but Ken’s sons have graciously created a website and made the entire contents of the third edition of the book available online as PDF documents (<a href="http://kenkrakow.com/gpn/georgia_place-names.htm">http://kenkrakow.com/gpn/georgia_place-names.htm</a>). While you’ll still find missing names, and not every militia district name is covered, this is still my go-to site for finding out just where the heck something was, and it’s a great place to waste an hour (or an afternoon) just perusing the pages.<span class="messagebody"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">One last bit of strangeness. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ruben Theodore Farthing was buried in the Emit Grove Baptist Church graveyard in 1932. In 1958, however, Martha Alford Farthing was buried in the Brooklet Cemetery in Brooklet, also in Bulloch County. We couldn’t figure out why they wouldn’t be together until I found her obituary. The obituary states the she “was a member of the Brooklet Methodist Church.” That explains it. Many churches, even today, have policies that restrict burials to current members, and that practice was even more common 80 years ago. So now we know why Martha was buried in the city cemetery with three of her children, the widower John W (known as “Uncle Willy”), Emmie (who married at least twice) and Elmer L (“Uncle Lamar”, who never married). I'd like to offer a special thank you to Find A Grave user nu2ga (aka Allie Woodard) for posting Martha's obituary to her <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=66089863">Find A Grave memorial</a>. Allie cites her source as "</span>From Obituary File - Statesboro Regional Library - name of publication not given." Thank you Allie!</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBPTGC7PyEHswbVXw9tmcIQaE8fquk75lmcPHyTvhjN5ZV4mVDzGwA4o5Mud0cFzfdIlf0dNlKwIfj5gywY-TIWqVekyX8JHysMhEFqiCAohhmSSGbhzlwsgXbgu77P9iVUHSwQoXe6OiF/s1600/Farthing+gravesite+Brooklet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBPTGC7PyEHswbVXw9tmcIQaE8fquk75lmcPHyTvhjN5ZV4mVDzGwA4o5Mud0cFzfdIlf0dNlKwIfj5gywY-TIWqVekyX8JHysMhEFqiCAohhmSSGbhzlwsgXbgu77P9iVUHSwQoXe6OiF/s400/Farthing+gravesite+Brooklet.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John W[illiam] Farthing, Emmie Farthing Weston Burnam, Martha Alford Farthing, Elmer L[amar] Farthing</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ll tackle more Farthings next time, unless I get sidetracked again. <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic5DRdafvWKT96xDkbutl50Cbk-HenIdyBwSeLFqFvNLg3E72wGPDRDK-O1Zp8LWb8WllgETn448TWVjpMpSRzMfb6JR2bl5VUmn2eunGrMuFCPga6DK0ozfu6876kjPnD5GX_poEjAfJW/s1600/smiley.jpg" /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here’s your summary:</span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Always cite your sources, even in your research notes. It’s amazing how much you can forget about where you read or heard something, even after just a short time.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The U.S. Census is still probably your most valuable source of information (after family resources) for the period from 1850 to 1930. Just exercise some caution and common sense, weigh the possibilities, and remember the census isn’t perfect. Even with a relatively uncommon name you can find people with the same name or initials.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Google your surname and the phrase “family association.” You might get lucky! And don’t forget those collateral lines when looking for other family research groups. Just because they aren’t in your direct line, or are in a maternal line, doesn’t mean they won’t have information that can point you in the right direction, inspiration to search in a new area, or even documentation that you might otherwise never find on your own (such as family bibles and letters between family members). Just don’t balk if there’s a small fee to join; cataloguing, preserving and presenting all this data is not cheap, and not every group has an “angel” to pick up the tab. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://kenkrakow.com/gpn/georgia_place-names.htm">Georgia Place Names</a> </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">by Kenneth K. Krakow is hands down my favorite resource for exploring bygone towns in Georgia. You might find a copy in a used book store, but the entire contents are available online at <a href="http://kenkrakow.com/gpn/georgia_place-names.htm">http://kenkrakow.com/gpn/georgia_place-names.htm</a>. There are other similar resources out there, such as<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Towns-Georgia-Travel-America/dp/1429004398/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1307922889&sr=8-7">The Dead Towns of Georgia (Travel in America)</a></i> <span class="ptbrand">by Charles Colcock Jones and Charles Jones (which is also available for free download from <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ygt5AAAAMAAJ&dq=The%20Dead%20Towns%20of%20Georgia&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false">Amazon Books</a>) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cities-Communities-Georgia-Between-1847-1962/dp/0893081531/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307923261&sr=1-1">Cities, towns, and communities of Georgia between 1847-1962</a></i> by Marion R. Hemperley</span> (check Amazon or your local library or used bookstores for availability, in or out of print).</span></li>
</ul><h1 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-9595700896650878272011-06-08T23:59:00.009-05:002011-06-09T00:07:17.420-05:00SideLine: Robert D. White<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkqcT1UHXuuu9mZ0pDg3J141I6c9dJ6gNrR9yp-e1JwTqnTw7JC2FnvZjSEOv7TQSLsOC2rsZnGpO-W4R9Pk3ZtrKsL3AJ5HDaAIyYtQwaBwTkNqHKdp8oevrsSav-MzyOfAHeIgm6gxfI/s1600/Robert+D+White+abt+1935.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkqcT1UHXuuu9mZ0pDg3J141I6c9dJ6gNrR9yp-e1JwTqnTw7JC2FnvZjSEOv7TQSLsOC2rsZnGpO-W4R9Pk3ZtrKsL3AJ5HDaAIyYtQwaBwTkNqHKdp8oevrsSav-MzyOfAHeIgm6gxfI/s200/Robert+D+White+abt+1935.jpg" width="150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert D White, ca. 1935</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In genealogy, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">collateral ancestor</i> is the brother or sister of your direct ancestor and a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">collateral line</i> is his or her descendents. Researching your collateral ancestors can often lead you to details about your own ancestors that you might not otherwise discover. In addition, adding their stories to your research makes for a fuller telling of your family history. Plus sometimes they are just so darned interesting! I can sometimes get distracted for days reading about a collateral ancestor such as the <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/03/running-late.html">Rev. Dr. Henry Holcombe</a>, a great Baptist preacher of the first decades of the 19<sup>th</sup> century in Savannah and Philadelphia who was my 4th great grand uncle. Another great reason for taking a detour into your collateral lines is to find distant cousins who can hopefully help you when you hit one of those pesky brick walls. I have such a brick wall, so I’ll take a break from the Farthings here to talk about the family of I.C. Farthing’s wife, Mamie.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMlHEYa7qNhrTjE70AlAwC2qJ-bEtTudvdFQqfPG-ZtUyqN16_lcedYON2mzl6QOhYD3czk_lx4jYoBXJJ4ZFhK-hy4iVgYhI3sA2hVcegCCp29Ye3GgwaZcUgBQ2xpbTTGA7fEtf8NL4q/s1600/Uncle+Robert+White%252C+Helen%252C+Maxwell+%2526+Ann+Perry+%2528abt+1935%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMlHEYa7qNhrTjE70AlAwC2qJ-bEtTudvdFQqfPG-ZtUyqN16_lcedYON2mzl6QOhYD3czk_lx4jYoBXJJ4ZFhK-hy4iVgYhI3sA2hVcegCCp29Ye3GgwaZcUgBQ2xpbTTGA7fEtf8NL4q/s320/Uncle+Robert+White%252C+Helen%252C+Maxwell+%2526+Ann+Perry+%2528abt+1935%2529.jpg" width="230" /></a><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mamie Clyde White (1884-1957) – “Mamaw” – was my maternal great grandmother, my mother’s mother’s mother</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. She died about four months before I was born. Based on what my mother told me, I was searching for Mamie’s parents Robert Alfred White and Elizabeth Rozier. Except I was also told that Mamie’s mother had died when she was a little girl, and that her father had remarried, to a woman name Valeria. Oh, and Mamie had one brother, also named Robert. My mother doesn’t recall ever meeting Mamie’s father or stepmother, but “Uncle Robert” visited a couple of times. We actually found a picture of him with my grandmother and grandfather and my mother, which was probably taken in 1935. (We don’t know who cut the picture or when, but we do have both pieces!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I started my search in the Ancestry.com Census indexes for 1900. This is a rather targeted way to search, but since I knew that Mamie was born in the 1880’s and there aren’t any surviving records for the 1890 census in Georgia I was hopeful that I would find her family in 1900. I also had already located the record of her marriage to I. C. Farthing in 1907 in the digitized microfilm of the <span class="objectdescription"><a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/countyfilm&CISOPTR=78302&REC=15">Laurens County Marriage Book N</a> on the Georgia’s Virtual Vault website. So I focused the search even further to Laurens and surrounding counties in Georgia. And I was successful. I found a family of four listed in <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=7602&path=Georgia.Dodge.Chauncey.32.1">Dodge County, Chauncey District</a> consisting of Robert A White (age 39), Valeria White (22), Robert A White (17) and Mamie White (15). The 1900 census is valuable for the additional information it contains. For example, it gives the month and year of birth as well as the age for each individual, the number of years married for couples and the number of children born/still living for the wives. Robert A and Valeria have only been married 7 years, so it’s obvious she couldn’t be Robert D and Mamie’s mother. And she’s only 22, so she’s more a big sister than a mother. No wonder I heard a couple of stories that Mamie didn’t particularly care for her step-mother. Of course, you can’t always depend on the dates or ages reported on the census, or the other information without corroboration. For example, Valeria supposedly has had 2 children and 2 are living, but none are in the house of an appropriate age. Did the census taker just put her down as the mother without asking any other questions? We’ll never know. The census form also indicates that Robert A was a teamster, and his son Robert D was already a laborer in a saw mill at 17 years old.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="objectdescription"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And that’s about it for Robert A White, my great-great grandfather. The 1900 census indicates he was born in October 1860, so there’s no chance of finding him in the 1860 census, but I’ve also been unable to locate him with certainty in the 1870 or 1880 censuses. My mother had written down Mamie’s mother’s name as Elizabeth Rozier, so I went to the Georgia’s Virtual Vault website again, searching for two marriage records for Robert A, again focusing on Laurens County first. I rather quickly located a marriage license issued to Mr. Robert White and Miss Valeria Warren, married in Laurens County on 19 February 1894, so the 1900 census was wrong; they had just celebrated their sixth anniversary, not their seventh. Finding the record of his first marriage was a bit more difficult. I wasn’t even sure of the year. Looking at the 1900 census again, it says that Robert D was born in May 1883 and Mamie was born in October 1884. I started with January 1883 and started working my way backwards. I found a record for a Mr. Robert A. White who was married in Laurens County on 18 July 1880, but his wife is listed as Leona Rozar. So far I’ve had no luck tracing any of these three people back before their marriage licenses, or forward past 1900, with one exception.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=7884&path=Georgia.Laurens.Dublin+Ward+3.0103.6">In the 1910 census for Dublin, Laurens County</a>, I found a family of four again. This time they were listed as Robert D White (Head; 28), Lula E White (Wife; 27), Vida Pearl White (Daughter; 2) and Robert A White (Father; 51). Now the ages of the two Roberts are one year older than I would expect to see based on their ages an years of birth in 1900, that isn’t unheard of. This census uses M1, M2, etc. to indicate how many marriages a person has had. Robert A has M2, indicating two marriages. It doesn’t indicate he’s widowed, but it does say 12 years for the length of marriage. Again, an understandable error, particularly if this is a transcribed copy of the enumerator’s actual form … heck sometimes I mix up my own 2’s and 7’s! I can’t find a “suitable” Robert A White in any succeeding census, but Robert D shows up <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6061&path=Georgia.Laurens.Dublin+Ward+3.72.4">in 1920, still living in Dublin, Laurens County</a> with his family: Robert D White (38), Lula C White (37) and Veda P White (11). And<a href="http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6224&path=Georgia.Laurens.Dublin.7.1"> in 1930, once again in Dublin</a>, it’s Robert D White (48), Lula White (48) and Pearle White (20). The 1910 census said that Robert D & Lula had been married 5 years, but the 1930 census says that they have been married 22 years. More transcription errors? A search of the Virtual Vault turned up a marriage license issued by Laurens County to Robert White and Lula Gay indicating they were married on 2 October 1904, so 5 years as of the date of the 1910 census would be correct, and the 1930 census should have recorded it as 25 years. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfxoJMSBGeo3zujJUDq7qa8MxZ8Ab13DzqWJwH71gR6RyKLemPywZNxPp9gG_GSiB0h8ctUjBXt5INC8B11OY-eUuPUUsWQ967grQR3QGNDEmx9QTf1esfMO1PKMA5RCYxqPn8qzVz_ii/s1600/WHITE+Robert+D+White+%2526+Lula+Gay+Marriage+License+1904.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfxoJMSBGeo3zujJUDq7qa8MxZ8Ab13DzqWJwH71gR6RyKLemPywZNxPp9gG_GSiB0h8ctUjBXt5INC8B11OY-eUuPUUsWQ967grQR3QGNDEmx9QTf1esfMO1PKMA5RCYxqPn8qzVz_ii/s320/WHITE+Robert+D+White+%2526+Lula+Gay+Marriage+License+1904.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s assuming these are the correct people, of course. My mother didn’t think “Uncle Robert” had ever been married. I haven’t located death records or gravestones for any of these people. I can’t find a marriage record for a Vida Pearl White in the vicinity of Dublin or the neighboring counties. In this case collateral research has not paid off entirely, though it has given me some interesting leads and raised other questions. For example, whatever happened to Valeria (the second wife)? Did Robert A die between 1910 and 1920? Georgia hadn’t yet mandated death certificates, so there doesn’t appear to be any hope of one of those. Who were Robert A’s parents? Who was Elizabeth/Leona Rozar/Rozier? There are quite a few Rozars in and around Laurens county, but I haven’t found a likely candidate for her in the 1870 or 1880 census. What happened to the daughter, Vida Pearl? Did she ever marry and have children? Did any of the possible children inherit family memorabilia that might shed more light on the Whites of Laurens and surrounding counties? Inquiring minds want to know!<span class="messagebody"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sorry to say, I’m leaving this detour with more questions than answers, but it was interesting nonetheless, and I did learn a few things which point to other possibilities. Hopefully more information will come to light some day soon that will allow me to break through this wall.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">* Marriage license images are from the <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php">Georgia's Virtual Vault</a> website, courtesy of the Georgia Archives.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here’s your summary:</span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Exploring your collateral ancestors and their descendents can often be a rewarding effort. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sometimes</i> you will even acquire information that will help you break through brick walls on your other lines.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Census forms, particularly from the decades surrounding the turn of the last century, are often rich in details which can add to the texture of your family history. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Don’t forget to try to confirm facts with multiple sources. Tombstones, marriage records, death records, family Bibles, census forms and family histories should all be weighed and considered carefully. No single document can provide all the evidence you need, but each is a piece of the puzzle.</span></li>
</ul><h1 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-74285550039211344432011-05-26T23:20:00.000-05:002011-05-26T23:20:47.508-05:00A Farthing for Your Thoughts<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve mentioned before that my maternal grandmother was Helen Lois Farthing (1910-1984). Her parents were Mamie Clyde White (1884-1957) and Irving Colquitt Farthing (1885-1974), “Mamaw” and “Papaw” as we called them (though I’ve discovered that my mom spelled their names “Mamma” and “Pappa”). Mamaw and Papaw were married in Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia, on 1 December 1907</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. I.C., as he was known, worked for an insurance company, and later became a lawyer. I’ve always had a special fondness for this great-grandfather, not just because he’s the only great-grandparent I knew (!), but I was named after him. His first name, Irving, is my middle name.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Besides my mother’s personal memories, one set of sources I used for some information about my great-grandparents was the city directories of Savannah. So far I’ve looked them up in the directories for the years 1917-1923, 1925-1929 and 1934. Those are the years I examined at the Bull Street Library in Savannah when I was able to spend a half day there last month. There are more city directories available on microfilm through the Family History Center (Family Search Center). I plan to order those microfilms later this summer. City directories are interesting books, far more than just a phone book, though you can find elements of both the white and yellow pages there. City directories date back to the 1700’s in the USA, though the heyday seems to have been the period from about 1870’s through the 1920’s. Most major cities had yearly directories, and even many smaller urban areas had directories compiled every few years. At a minimum, the “classic” city directory will list each address in the city along with the business or head of household and possibly a spouse in one section, followed by an alphabetical listing of the city’s residents and businesses. Many times the employer of individuals will also be listed. In addition, each employed adult (or older adolescent) would be listed separately. Advertising appeared on every page, and later books added a section of just businesses. Once phones were introduced, the phone number was listed if the person or business had one, plus the directory would often list what we would consider a “reverse lookup” – all the phone numbers in numerical order with the telephone subscribers’ names attached. This is truly an embarrassment of riches for the family historian if you are lucky enough to have family living in an area that had city directories.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIYHAFHPsQJtzsOGabkco5_xWnL4UMCLz6WVWBedGjCadPV2ESz8dgtBBx20I_ZCM3LnH8QUpByoragj2j300bh8-9YjZ6zB3tkcFcduWdhCl6lZRMwK3R7DdkpL5nFu8MeGGGui_JqiqF/s1600/SavannahCityDir-1918-p262.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIYHAFHPsQJtzsOGabkco5_xWnL4UMCLz6WVWBedGjCadPV2ESz8dgtBBx20I_ZCM3LnH8QUpByoragj2j300bh8-9YjZ6zB3tkcFcduWdhCl6lZRMwK3R7DdkpL5nFu8MeGGGui_JqiqF/s200/SavannahCityDir-1918-p262.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For example, this is a page (right) from the <i>Savannah 1918 City Directory</i>, published by The Savannah Directory Publishing Company. (Remember, you can click on any image in the blog for a larger view, or right-click and open in a new tab or window to keep this page up, too.) The listing reads “Farthing, Irvin [sic] C. (Mamie), agt. Metro L. I. Co., h 302 Hall w.” <i>Irvin</i> was a common misspelling of his first name; I sometimes get that, too. Interestingly, the Street Guide section (below) spells his name correctly. They were living at 302 West Hall Street, and he was an agent with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. By the next year, 1919, I.C. was listed as a lawyer with an office at 24 East President Street, and he had moved his family out to the suburbs, living in Pooler. He moved back into the city by 1922, taking up residence on East 32<sup>nd</sup> Street. Like I said, not only is there an alphabetical listing of residents, but there is also a Street Guide, which lists households by address. A nice dividend to the Street Guide is that you can see who your ancestors lived near. Sometimes this may help in finding in-laws, children, cousins, parents, or other relations who may have been missed on the traditional census. Each block is indicated by the cross-streets, so it becomes easy to look for where they may have lived. One thing to keep in mind, though, if you look up old addresses on a modern map, is that oftentimes the streets have been renumbered and even renamed. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqCYncDKb3Bm9AxZ3JpihXGvF804hK3ZrgRmj-zwFbmtmfo_0IqBtv1lOQAYceGrjVUY8sfP3CmyjavlHdwqrvqzEBy0Z7NN8NjQwDjCcjESt4T_tXGA-F0mXfQmGHrabaNpcX-vuhBk61/s1600/SavannahCityDir-1918-p138-139.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqCYncDKb3Bm9AxZ3JpihXGvF804hK3ZrgRmj-zwFbmtmfo_0IqBtv1lOQAYceGrjVUY8sfP3CmyjavlHdwqrvqzEBy0Z7NN8NjQwDjCcjESt4T_tXGA-F0mXfQmGHrabaNpcX-vuhBk61/s320/SavannahCityDir-1918-p138-139.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fortunately, for some cities and for some years, there is a resource that you can use to check this out – the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. (For a nice introduction to the Sanborn Maps <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanborn_Maps">check out this Wikipedia article</a>.) I found a selection of digitized historical Sanborn Maps for a variety of Georgia cities at the Digital Library of Georgia website (<a href="http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sanborn/?Welcome">click here</a>). Many libraries have copies of local Maps, and a Google search may reveal additional digital sources that can be accessed online (such as ProQuest – available through many local libraries – and the <a href="http://www.sanborn.com/products/fire_insurance_maps.asp">Sanborn Company itself</a>, if you want paper copies.) <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=302+W+Hall+St,+Savannah,+GA+31401&aq=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=49.223579,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=302+W+Hall+St,+Savannah,+Georgia+31401&ll=32.068738,-81.099132&spn=0.006482,0.009645&z=17&l">Google Maps’ Street View</a> can come in handy for seeing what the location looks like today. Just for kicks I looked up the address 302 West Hall on a <a href="http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sanborn/CityCounty/Savannah1916-V1/">1916 Sanborn Map</a> available through the Digital Library of Georgia. In this case it appears the address hasn’t changed in the past 95 years. Comparing the map section to the legend, it appears they were living in a flat located in a 2-story wood frame building. When I looked at the Google Street View, it appears that could be the same building, but without further research there’s no way to be sure. Still, it’s pretty cool, yes?</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkwulJmxqju2ml_4xOSsatK6O1rFoduBSvYR0B9dNAyXrj3gnzbgyjWGXtwZYnHoVDwn2Bzkgy2zK4Ck0cNQOhBj3qU7hx5_16VJj0vSvaGbp4oCNxE-xEOio-QkAgQkRzO_f_o3WwFGL/s1600/Sanborn+Maps%252C+Savannah%252C+302+W+Hall+%25281919%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkwulJmxqju2ml_4xOSsatK6O1rFoduBSvYR0B9dNAyXrj3gnzbgyjWGXtwZYnHoVDwn2Bzkgy2zK4Ck0cNQOhBj3qU7hx5_16VJj0vSvaGbp4oCNxE-xEOio-QkAgQkRzO_f_o3WwFGL/s200/Sanborn+Maps%252C+Savannah%252C+302+W+Hall+%25281919%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOm591G8Z5-2wwSlDEs6rC2T8yYR6j_L4pDWhHSrny6AdKbBok0JCn5AD_kVZYFFzk-6eSqes0ooXaeCtgzIB4ls6MVnNEaz6YZCU-lYCYbwaxJi3UdVi2E2FCjiCvhMR5QEqWMaAWo5H/s1600/Google+Street+View%252C+Savannah%252C+302+W+Hall+%25282011%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOm591G8Z5-2wwSlDEs6rC2T8yYR6j_L4pDWhHSrny6AdKbBok0JCn5AD_kVZYFFzk-6eSqes0ooXaeCtgzIB4ls6MVnNEaz6YZCU-lYCYbwaxJi3UdVi2E2FCjiCvhMR5QEqWMaAWo5H/s200/Google+Street+View%252C+Savannah%252C+302+W+Hall+%25282011%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Guess that’s about it for now. More next time.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here’s your summary:</span></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=city+directories&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=">City directories</a> can provide valuable genealogical and family history information, as well as interesting details about life in the town or city where your ancestors lived. Try Google Books, Ancestry.com and Googling the name of your town plus the words “city directory” for additional online resources. There are researchers who will (for a fee) do lookups. Additionally, many libraries have copies of their local or in-state city directories.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">City directories are no more, or less, accurate than census forms, but the two should corroborate each other. One big advantage to the directories is that they were often printed yearly for larger urban areas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.sanborn.com/products/fire_insurance_maps.asp">Sanborn Maps</a> can be useful in urban areas for showing what buildings existed at the time and the information can be used to supplement and verify both printed tabular resources such as censuses and directories as well as pictorial evidence that may be derived from old family photographs, drawings and historic postcards.</span></span></li>
</ul><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-47392986510051657362011-05-18T21:57:00.001-05:002011-05-18T21:58:23.316-05:00“Once more unto the breach, dear friends”<span style="font-family: Arial;">A short break turned rather longer than planned. My apologies. Much like Lemony Snicket I was confronted with a series of rather unfortunate events, some personal, some family, some professional, and in the middle of it all I went on a planned two-week vacation and recovered from a computer crash. Among other things I’ve learned is not to wait to back up digital files on at least one other medium (thankfully I recovered from that near-loss), and I can no longer type for long periods on my laptop. Next time I travel I’m going to have to take along an extra full-size keyboard and plug it in. The trip to Georgia also reinforced my belief that we have a long way to go yet in digitizing the historical and ancestral records and making them more widely accessible. I also found myself impressed again and again with how nice and helpful most of the people I encountered were, from the professionals employed by libraries, repositories and court houses to the chance encounters with strangers in cemeteries across the state. Without exception I found them to be generous with their time and knowledge, and downright apologetic that they couldn’t provide more information!</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">One other observation: Most of my research has been confined to the internet, libraries and microfilm at the local Family Search Center (aka Family History Center). This is simply due to the fact that I live in Wisconsin and I grew up in Georgia. But there is a definite emotional impact derived from a visit to actual sites associated with my family, whether a cemetery, a home or a now-empty plot of land. Just knowing that I’m walking where my ancestors walked is very special indeed and not to be discounted. I have a deeper understanding of the reactions of people who visit England or Germany or Italy or wherever, and of how big an impact it has on them. But for me, for now, it’s back to the long-distance research. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I’m still sorting and cataloguing my “finds” during the trip to Georgia, but one key research goal went unrealized, and I made another key discovery. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/03/keeping-up-with-joneses-iv.html">previously mentioned</a> the problem I’ve been having in trying to conclusively identify the parents of my great-great grandfather Mathew “Mack” Jones. I thought I had uncovered a major clue last fall when I found a 2001 posting on the <a href="http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/jones/2001-03/0983934562">Jones mailing list archive</a> (JONES-L Archives) on Rootweb. In the opening sentences it states:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">I found this in the Atlanta Archives [sic]. Hope it helps someone, I copied it verbatim:<br />
Nancy Hendricks b. 2-17-1820 d 8-8-1907 married William M. Jones b 11-24-1813 d 8-25-1877<br />
Their children: <br />
Mathew E. "Mack" Jones b 1835 married in 6-7-1860 to Emily "Emma" Neville b 1839</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Mary E Jones b 7-12-1838 d 1927 married Thomas Neville b3-12-1808 d 10-21-1870 she also married Norman Rushing</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I had planned a day at the Georgia Archives in Morrow, Georgia, specifically to try to locate the document transcribed by the original Rootsweb poster, Nancy Hicks. When I contacted her to ask for more information about her find she did confirm that she did mean the file had been at the Georgia Archives, but was unable to provide any more details. I spent six of my eight hours at the archives searching for this document but was unsuccessful. I still hope that some day someone else will find and publish the document, or possible even a photo of it, that it is merely misfiled or located in a file that I didn’t think to search. My biggest fear is that some unscrupulous “researcher” decided that his or her need of a trophy far outweighed the interests of future generations in the document and made off with it and that it is thus lost to us forever. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxx2Jdl1zpdNyehhOqXKKXAu8AaQwlWiGng6FnfALBPDbQuOzoAS9Z8DVra4jpzUV2rNBT7-fY_CWaIi9JAI7y3ajWHfq4f9DjBWt1reS5U_j9AdyrGzvsF7lGIXPLDvnPEi2e3SadRs5x/s1600/William+Jones+census.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxx2Jdl1zpdNyehhOqXKKXAu8AaQwlWiGng6FnfALBPDbQuOzoAS9Z8DVra4jpzUV2rNBT7-fY_CWaIi9JAI7y3ajWHfq4f9DjBWt1reS5U_j9AdyrGzvsF7lGIXPLDvnPEi2e3SadRs5x/s320/William+Jones+census.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William & Nancy Jones, 1850 & 1860<br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Even if I had been successful in locating the document, however, I would still be faced with corroborating the family tree it presents. I have a probable 1850 Lumpkin County census for William and Nancy “Janes” and an 1860 Bulloch County census for “Wm M” and Nancy Jones. Neither lists Mathew or Mack with the family. The earliest census form I have listing Mack & Emma Jones is 1870. They were married 7 June 1860 in Bulloch County. Emma is listed in her parents’ household in the 1860 census because, though the enumeration was made on 2 July 1860, the instructions for column 3 state “The name of every person whose usual place of abode on the first day of June, 1860, was in this family.” “Emely” is also listed as the eldest child of Jacob & “Elvina” “Nevill” on the 1850 Bulloch County census. I still haven’t located similar census records for Mack Jones in 1850 or 1860 in Liberty or Bulloch counties, though I’m still searching page by page. I’m also pursuing a search of the Bulloch County Deeds & Mortgages books for the relevant decades. If I can find a “deed of gift” or other document which mentions Mack and one of his parents I will have made a giant step forward in proving or disproving this theory of his parentage. A similar search of wills and probate records has thus far been fruitless.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the earlier post I also stated that “So far I haven’t found a marriage record or gravesites for [William or Nancy Jones]. “ But whether or not William and Nancy turn out to be related to me I can say that I did manage to find their gravesite. The Statesboro Regional Library (124 S. Main St, Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia), has a wonderful multi-volume set of bound typescripts containing surveys of the cemeteries of Bulloch County. The surveys were done over a period of twenty-something years from the late 1960s to the late 1980s or early 1990s by numerous people. In the rather limited time availale I paged through all the volumes, hurriedly scanning the entries for the various surnames I thought I might find there. In one of the books I found a single page listing for the burial site on Peter Nevil’s farm. Here’s the transcription of that listing:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Demsey Riggs</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born 8 Jan. 1808</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Died 25 June 1874</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">William A. Sumerlin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Died 26 April 1892</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">William Jones</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born 24 <i>Nov. 1813</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Died 25 Aug. 1877</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nancy Jones</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born 17 February 1820</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Died 8 August 1907</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Calley D., dau. of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">S.E. </span><span style="font-size: small;">& </span><span style="font-size: small;">M.E. Jones</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born 18 August 1883</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Died 25 October 1886</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charles J. P. Nevil</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born 13 1863</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Died 22 June 1872</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joseph L. B., son of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas </span><span style="font-size: small;">& </span><span style="font-size: small;">Rachel Nevell</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born 9 October 1840</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Killed 28 August 1862 in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">second battle of Manasses, Va.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">His remains are still there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jacob Nevil Jr., son of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">J. & </span><span style="font-size: small;">Rachel Nevil</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born 27 July 1838</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Died 23 May 1861</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mrs. Rachel Nevil,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">wife of T. Nevil</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born 30 October 1818</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Died 12 July 1859</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas Nevil</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born 12 March 1808</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Died 21 October 1870</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDCxY3wzNyX24gLWQijqdMmfio2noL9yHKY1WSFn0cZl19bGv7pjUnkvV8EK13DDALhDzYElSJUQ8UeGL-D4nm2SVD1oajWFSc2CTrE9Yo2fxTxCdmiloSGgB34akUqpfqkr1KKgY5kdoL/s1600/William+M+Jones+%2526+Nancy+Hendricks+Jones+gravestone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDCxY3wzNyX24gLWQijqdMmfio2noL9yHKY1WSFn0cZl19bGv7pjUnkvV8EK13DDALhDzYElSJUQ8UeGL-D4nm2SVD1oajWFSc2CTrE9Yo2fxTxCdmiloSGgB34akUqpfqkr1KKgY5kdoL/s200/William+M+Jones+%2526+Nancy+Hendricks+Jones+gravestone.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gravestone of William & Nancy Jones</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There it was in black and white. The graves of William and Nancy Jones, and they were listed in close proximity with the Nevils into which family one or more of their children had married. The property wasn’t far from Statesboro so I decided to try to find the site on my way out of town. Luck was with me that day, and I was fortunate to meet members of the Nevil family who still own the property and was given permission to view and photograph the graves. So, even if I’m not related to them I still managed to locate their tombstone, and that was immensely satisfying!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here’s your summary:</span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Even though they are usually very suspect and you must validate the information with your own research, the family trees posted in <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com</a>, <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/">Rootsweb.com</a>, and other online websites and forums can provide valuable pointers when you might otherwise be at a dead end. Don’t ignore them completely just because they often don’t cite sources. Evaluate them as you would any other reference you find.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There’s nothing like a visit to the locale in which your ancestors lived to breath life into their stories.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To quote a favorite movie out of context: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Never give up, never surrender!</i></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The websites for the <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php">Virtual Vault</a>, the <a href="http://sos.georgia.gov/archives/">Georgia Archives</a> and the <a href="http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/">Digital Library of Georgia</a> are useful and valuable resources for research. If you get the chance and you plan ahead, an in-person visit to the Georgia Archives building in Morrow, Georgia, can be equally rewarding and personally satisfying. Sorry, I’m a bibliophile at heart; as much as I love digital research there’s nothing like the smell of old paper and leather to set my heart racing!</span></li>
</ul><h1 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></h1><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">*GeorgiaTim</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2V6biWsA9k4cP9T3Wv2sW3G5UbjinlaHFLsET0F-zzrggTqqe0ICEdSBy4O9C43bB_rU3VMPxIIF3Z9Tjq7Z-t00dd426svckPgrZtMKCIN3apk5JpbA__5SV7e7UdKYCkpHzKlXGVczN/s1600/GaRootsLogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2V6biWsA9k4cP9T3Wv2sW3G5UbjinlaHFLsET0F-zzrggTqqe0ICEdSBy4O9C43bB_rU3VMPxIIF3Z9Tjq7Z-t00dd426svckPgrZtMKCIN3apk5JpbA__5SV7e7UdKYCkpHzKlXGVczN/s200/GaRootsLogo.jpg" width="1" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-18014854053065398922011-03-31T23:30:00.004-05:002011-06-04T09:00:44.865-05:00Maga: Another Grand-Mother (Grand-Mothers IV)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFt3qoNj50uHhHdBnKLDQ3Idw1EtJPER8QD5ja8mZP4vDGBWOE61laoNqortpZkp_Xo8ZKMa_8kcwOaH7SgMIpxQXYWKls6mSb4qhUKwLf3Oq-6TmJzKvVovrryT2XkULXhaQ_9Xfdyysg/s1600/HelenFarthing1928.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFt3qoNj50uHhHdBnKLDQ3Idw1EtJPER8QD5ja8mZP4vDGBWOE61laoNqortpZkp_Xo8ZKMa_8kcwOaH7SgMIpxQXYWKls6mSb4qhUKwLf3Oq-6TmJzKvVovrryT2XkULXhaQ_9Xfdyysg/s200/HelenFarthing1928.jpg" width="113" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Helen Farthing at 18 <br />
(or 16, or maybe 14)</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My maternal grandmother was Helen Lois Farthing (1910-1984). In 1932 she married Frank Maxwell Perry (1910-1970). Helen & Frank were divorced in 1950, and Helen married Joseph Matthew Solana (abt 1895-1961) in 1958. Helen’s parents were Mamie Clyde White (1884-1957) and Irving Colquitt Farthing (1885-1974). We called my grandmother Helen “Maga”, pronounced mah’-gah (emphasis on the first syllable). The family story is that she didn’t want to be called “grandma”, so of course everybody tried to get her first grandchild to call her that. But no matter how many times they said it, “gramma, gramma”, over and over, when he pronounced it he reversed the syllables, and a baby-talk “gamma” came out “maga”. And that’s how she got her name. But she wasn’t alone in having a unique name within the family. Frank was called “Daddy Mack”, Joe Solana was “Pop”, Irving was “I.C.” to his friends and colleagues, and “Papaw” to his us, as his wife Mamie was “Mamaw” to her grandchildren. There is some variance in spelling, Papaw-Pappaw and the same with Mamaw-Mammaw. We pronounced them with a short “a” in the first syllables, like “pat” and “mat”, and the long drawl of “–paw” and “–maw” trailing after, so I’ve adopted the single middle consonant spelling.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwcqHSU0_t-Cgdb6CCwc26FrndtjMVhVlDc6ZMgFMDuIejhaNDnIxOB8ThkDOY7OUVpcW_F3kZINO2rJRstqKuCRpm9_M21A5KALNfzBWIHeXemLADmk-OSBXs0j8VQXh6DPXYp-AhgWkQ/s1600/FARTHING+IC+Farthing+%2526+Mamie+White+Marriage+License+1907.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwcqHSU0_t-Cgdb6CCwc26FrndtjMVhVlDc6ZMgFMDuIejhaNDnIxOB8ThkDOY7OUVpcW_F3kZINO2rJRstqKuCRpm9_M21A5KALNfzBWIHeXemLADmk-OSBXs0j8VQXh6DPXYp-AhgWkQ/s200/FARTHING+IC+Farthing+%2526+Mamie+White+Marriage+License+1907.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I haven’t yet obtained copies of Maga’s marriage licenses or her death certificate but hope to do so this summer. Mamaw and Papaw were married in 1907, and I do have a copy of their marriage record from </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">the <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/gadeaths.php">Georgia’s Virtual Vault website</a>. They obtained their marriage license from Laurens County (Dublin) on 30 November 1907 and were married the next day, 1 December 1907, by A.L. Hobbs, N.P. & J.P (Notary Public & Justice of the Peace)<span class="messagebody">. And there’s plenty of information on the next three censuses. In 1910, they were renting at 217 Gaston Street in Savannah. Irving C and Mamie (they stretched the truth a little bit, claiming 3 years of marriage), their twins Elmer C & Ethel F (1 7/12 years old), and Papaw’s brother Troy. Under employment it looks like I.C. was in the Const [?] Dept, Insurance, and Troy was an Insurance Agent (my mother remembers her mother’s Uncle Troy; I think he might have been Papaw’s favorite brother maybe). In 1920 the family had moved a bit north of the city to the small town of Pooler and were renting on Morgan Street (no house number was recorded). My mother said that her grandfather rented all his life. He never bought a house. He didn’t believe in going into debt for anything. Irving C and Mamie are now living with five children: Ethel F, Elmer C, Helen L, Bernard C & Alvin R, and I.C. is a lawyer. 1930 found them back in Savannah, living in rented digs at 205 W Gwinnett, and paying $40 per month in rent. Irving C., Mamie C, Ethel F, Helen L, Bernard C & Alvin R live together, Elmer having moved out and gotten married. Papaw is still a lawyer, and interestingly three of the children are working: 21-year-old Ethel is a stenographer in a loan office, Helen, 19, is a saleslady in a department store, and even 13-year-old Bernard works “curb service” at a drugstore. Only the youngest, Alvin, 12, doesn’t work outside the home. No doubt he had more than his share of chores to keep him out of mischief!</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Since Mamie and Irving were both born in the 1880’s and the 1890 census was destroyed in a fire, there’s only one earlier census for each of them. In 1900 Mamie was living with her father Robert A White, brother Robert and step-mother Valeria in Dodge County. Mamie’s father was a teamster, which in 1900 may have meant he actually handled teams of work horses in addition to hauling freight. Meanwhile, Irving was living with his father Reuben Farthing, a blacksmith, mother Martha, and eight brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, this is nearly a dead end for Mamaw’s family until I can discover more clues or uncover more documents. My mother was always told that Mamie’s mother’s name was Elizabeth Rozier or Rosier, and that she died when Mamie was a little girl. I found a marriage license recorded in Laurens County for a marriage between Robert White and Valeria Warren on 19 February 1894, but so far the only close match in a marriage record I’ve found for his first wife is for Robert White and “Leona Rozar”, married 18 July 1880, also in Laurens County. I can’t find any Rozars, Rosiers or Roziers in Laurens or the surrounding area in 1870 or 1880 with a daughter names Elizabeth or Leona of the appropriate age. Nor can I find a family with a young Robert A White. I did find a Robert D White, aged 28, in the 1910 census living in Dublin with his wife Lula E, 27, daughter Vida Pearl, 2, and father Robert A White, 51, but the 1900 census has father and son named Robert A White, and their ages are 39 and 17. So it’s acceptably close if I could find more corroboration.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfj1zH29qttedEYOHUv7URqP2opIKEZoKTMsDt-dC4_maRaW7MWcRD-xvJO3g5YAQi63anE5G4Hv-LoRORowqyNx86oYJTgbdq84uHQOMm-t-qLZwZFnJPElZOQ1XFuZ-1SXNjsxYV0kCt/s1600/Farthing+gravestones+1991.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="41" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfj1zH29qttedEYOHUv7URqP2opIKEZoKTMsDt-dC4_maRaW7MWcRD-xvJO3g5YAQi63anE5G4Hv-LoRORowqyNx86oYJTgbdq84uHQOMm-t-qLZwZFnJPElZOQ1XFuZ-1SXNjsxYV0kCt/s200/Farthing+gravestones+1991.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhou5LelFDjg1pfhz9HPXPiMYdyegsqO4f-Lwmadyg3LGA0yt4t-E-swYQfiAGwXmXxGAfAJUG_AeUb0fFlCaKDRweR3yThMyjKgBr6HsAPEstJfZCWqaQ13mH4ZJ3exSsWLU8nBCkP7Sdx/s1600/FARTHING+Gravesite+1991.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhou5LelFDjg1pfhz9HPXPiMYdyegsqO4f-Lwmadyg3LGA0yt4t-E-swYQfiAGwXmXxGAfAJUG_AeUb0fFlCaKDRweR3yThMyjKgBr6HsAPEstJfZCWqaQ13mH4ZJ3exSsWLU8nBCkP7Sdx/s200/FARTHING+Gravesite+1991.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Farthings are another story. There is a long line of blacksmithing Farthings stretching back at least a hundred years, but that’s a tale for another day.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helen Farthing with Tim, 1958</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here’s your summary:</span></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Family stories and histories can provide valuable clues. Sometimes all you need is a name to help confirm some documentation. It’s not proof, but it can move up the probabilities, so that it becomes reasonable to pursue additional research which can provide corroboration.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Census forms, particularly from the decades surrounding the turn of the last century, are often rich in details which can add to the texture of your family history. </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The handwriting on the census forms can be difficult to decipher. Don’t waste time trying to decipher the printed column headings. Use a resource such as the <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/charts/census.aspx">census blanks available from Ancestry.com</a> or another source. Many websites provide the blanks in downloadable form, and they can also be obtained from most <a href="https://familysearch.org/locations">FamilySearch Centers</a> (formerly Family History Centers).</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Don’t forget to try to confirm facts with multiple sources. Tombstones, marriage records, death records, family Bibles, census forms and family histories should all be weighed and considered carefully. No single document can provide all the evidence you need, but each is a piece of the puzzle.</span></span></li>
</ul><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-89857577029547718902011-03-27T23:54:00.004-05:002011-03-28T00:01:22.990-05:00Grand-Mothers III – Maggie Stringer’s Grandparents<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></b><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I do apologize for the 10-day hiatus. I’ve had <i>issues</i>. </span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> There’s a lot going on over the next month but I promise I’ll try to get back on a regular schedule.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I wanted to discuss my paternal grandmother’s grandparents. My grandmother, Maggie Frances Stringer (1907-2000), was </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">the daughter of Hattie Mosell Williams (22 Mar 1880 – 21 Jul 1921) and Thomas Henry Stringer (26 Mar 1869 – 1 Jul 1933). The family lived in Tattnall County in 1910 and Haw Pond, Evans County, in 1920, and she married my grandfather James Dewey Jones (1907-1973) in 1928. They lived in Bulloch, Chatham and Effingham Counties.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas & Hattie Stringer's parents, from their Bible</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">According to Hattie’s death certificate (I posted it at the end of the <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/03/grand-mothers-ii-parents-of-maggie.html">previous post, click here</a>), Hattie’s parents were S. M. Williams and Mary J. Andrews. Hattie & Thomas’ Bible shows her father’s name as Shep M. Williams. This is enough information to at least start a census search on <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com</a>. Starting my search in Richmond County because Hattie and Thomas Stringer got married there in 1901, I found a 1900 census right away, showing Mary J. and Shepard M. Williams living there with their seven children. By 1910 Mary and Shep had moved to Tattnall County with at least the two youngest of their children, and by 1920 the youngest had left home but daughter now-widowed Mattie M. Mincy had moved in with her six children. The 1890 census doesn’t survive for Georgia.</span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have located a Screven County marriage license issued 26 Apr 1881 to Sheppard W. [not M] Williams & Mary Jane Andrews, who were married 13 Oct 1881 (record Marriage Book D, 1874-1881, p 149). This is of course after eldest daughter, and my great-grandmother, Hattie was born, but I’m finding that wasn’t as unusual as you would think, so while I haven’t committed to that yet, it’s in my files as a possibility.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I haven’t located any other information about Mary J. Andrews prior to the 1900 census. I have one likely mention of “SM Williams” in the 1860 census, living with his parents “JM” and “HA” Williams in Effingham County. (I really hate it when the census enumerators only recorded initials!) The reason I think it “likely” is a combination of family history that Shepard Williams was named after his grandfather, and in 1850 James B and Harriet Williams were living in Bulloch County with an elderly Shepard Williams and two young daughters whose names at least partially match the initials used in the 1860 census (Mary and Ella in 1850, “ME” and “EE” in 1860). The children’s ages are off by a year, and Harriet’s age differs from the age given for “HA” by 2 years so more research needs to be done.</span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1900, 1910 & 1920 Census Records for <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Shepard M. Williams and Mary J. [Andrews] Williams</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve loaded a large image of excerpt from those three census records because the 1900, 1910 and 1920 census forms are particularly rich in details. You can click on the image in here to open a larger size for reference. I think we should look at these in more detail so you’ve got an idea what can be gleaned from these records. I’ve added the column numbers to make it easier to refer to the illustration. You can find blanks which will list all the column headings by number for all census years at the Ancestry.com site (<a href="http://www.ancestry.com/charts/census.aspx">http://www.ancestry.com/charts/census.aspx</a>), and other websites also have census blanks (just Google “<a href="http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=census+blanks&btnG=Google+Search">census blanks</a>”). This is so much easier than trying to read blurry census forms from microfilm or even the digitize ones online.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnj74rNFNTmEsYwg46UzVzzTNyDZxtZD-r67aRZsmphR93FXdoqIcem4R1KN2sLqqTXcHYl0e6fG-FQ8ei7jitq3pIfD8odfgcpOccl3l3a8El6C1K3KtaolhcDNkOAAzwz1wHrci8iOrM/s1600/1929+Hicks+Street.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnj74rNFNTmEsYwg46UzVzzTNyDZxtZD-r67aRZsmphR93FXdoqIcem4R1KN2sLqqTXcHYl0e6fG-FQ8ei7jitq3pIfD8odfgcpOccl3l3a8El6C1K3KtaolhcDNkOAAzwz1wHrci8iOrM/s200/1929+Hicks+Street.jpg" width="58" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I was a bit surprised to find my relatives living all the way up in Augusta (Richmond County). I had assumed they were all farmers in the 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries. But of course people try to go where the jobs are, especially when they have seven children! If you look all the way over to the right, Column #19 of the 1900 census gives the occupation of the employed members of the family. Shepard was an elevator man at a cotton mill, and three of his daughters worked as spoolers; daughter Mattie was also a room [sp?] hand, whatever that is. Two of the daughters had been out of work for 1 month each (Column #20). From Columns #25 and #27 I can find that they rented a house. All the way back over to the left, in the first unnumbered column, the census enumerator entered the street name in the rows above my family’s entry. The second unnumbered column has the house number. So Mary Jane and Shep lived in a rented house at 1929 Hicks Street in Augusta. I’ll have to research city directories to find out if the houses and streets have been renumbered since 1900, but the current location in Augusta looks like a narrow, almost rural, lane, with a few wooden houses and storage garages (<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1929+Hicks+St,+Augusta,+GA&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.555061,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1929+Hicks+St,+Augusta,+Richmond,+Georgia+30904&ll=33.483321,-81.998606&spn=0.006326,0.009645&t=h&z">Google maps, street view</a>).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There’s more to be found in the 1900 census. According to the record, Shep was born in December 1851 and Mary Jane in August 1859 (the double-column #7). Someone went back and forth on their ages (Column #8). The census was taken on 7 June 1900, so their correct ages should be 48 and 40, but the darker number indicates 49 and 41. Which calculation was incorrect? They reported their ages as 59 and 51 in 1910, and 69 and 61 in 1920, so I’m left wondering if they gave the census taker their age and birthday and he (incorrectly) computed their birth year. Since we don’t have birth certificates, and I haven’t yet found any tombstones, we’re left with a conundrum. I confess that I still show 1851 and 1859 in my family tree, but I’m giving serious consideration to backing that up their birth years to 1850 and 1858.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sheppard W. Williams & Mary Jane Andrews<br />
1881 Screven County Marriage License</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As I mentioned above, I found a “possible” marriage record in Screven County, giving their marriage date as 13 Oct 1881. But here on the 1900 census, Column #10, they indicated they had been married 24 years, which would calculate to a marriage in about 1876. But if you look down to the 1910 census, Column #9 indicates that Mary and Shepard had been married for 30 years, placing their wedding in about 1880. This isn’t something I can resolve with the current data available to me, so I’ll just have to put it aside until I can discover more information. By the way, both the 1900 and 1910 census forms record that Mary gave birth to seven children and that all seven were still living (Columns #11 & #12 in 1900, #10 & #11 in 1910).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">While we’re looking at the 1910 census, take a look at the far right columns again. With the change of residence came a change of employment. Shepard was and Overseer (Column #18) on “Bukins” or “Perkins” farm (Col #19 – something else to add to my research list). He rented (Col # 26) a house (#28), and there is further information on entry #89 on the farm schedule (which I haven’t been able to locate – I think this may be one of the years that congress ordered destroyed, so that individual records no longer exist). There is no house number, since they lived in the country, but the first unnumbered column on the far left indicates they lived on the Reidsville and Statesboro Road. As an aside, this is census Sheet number 36-B. On Sheet number 36-A, apparently not far away, on Cobbtown Road, lived their son-in-law Tom H Stringer and his wife (their daughter) Hattie, along with their four children, one of whom was my then-three-year-old grandmother!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And finally, the 1920 census shows Shep and Mary living on their own farm (“Operator” in Column #26, “Farm” in Column #27, and “OA”, meaning working on his own account, in Column #28). There was further information on row 211 of the farm schedule (Column #29; again, I don’t know if this schedule still exists in complete form). As I’ve said, I have no record of their deaths or burials, only a notation, drawn from family recollection that Mary Jane Andrews Williams died in 1926 and Shepard M Williams died before 1930. Hopefully I’ll be able to dig up some more information from my family in the near future.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I hope I haven’t totally confused you, and I’ll be moving on to another branch of the family next time.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here’s your summary:</span></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Family stories and histories, whether oral or written, are often the only starting point you’ll have to find out information on the “mid-distant” ancestors – those who may have died within living memory or within the memory of the very recently departed. And there’s often no way to confirm this information with primary sources, so many times you’ll have to begin relying totally on the census to corroborate the stories. At some point you may be totally reliant on what you can glean from the census forms. </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The handwriting on the census forms can be difficult to decipher. Don’t waste time trying to decipher the printed column headings. Use a resource such as the <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/charts/census.aspx">census blanks available from Ancestry.com</a> or another source. Many websites provide the blanks in downloadable form, and they can also be obtained from most <a href="https://familysearch.org/locations">FamilySearch Centers</a> (formerly Family History Centers).</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Census forms can be a valuable source of information for more than just name and age. Don't neglect all those "other" columns, particularly for 1880 and for 1900, 1910 and 1920. </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You can't expect to resolve every issue the first time with only the records at hand, so make notes and move on. Revisit the questionable data or incomplete results when you have access to more information. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"></span></span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">Later y’all,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></span></div>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-91725187223320554702011-03-17T22:45:00.000-05:002011-03-17T22:45:59.348-05:00Grand-Mothers II – The Parents of Maggie Stringer<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the <a href="http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/03/grand-mothers.html">first Grand-Mothers post</a>, I stated that my paternal grandmother was Maggie Frances Stringer, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">the daughter of Hattie Mosell Williams (22 Mar 1880 – 21 Jul 1921) and Thomas Henry Stringer (26 Mar 1869 – 1 Jul 1933). I also noted that her name is written “Frances Magadelin” [sic] in Hattie & Tom Stringer’s Bible, and that the family lived in Tattnall County in 1910 and Haw Pond, Evans County, in 1920.<span> </span>Here are a few pages from that Bible I mentioned (again thanks to my cousin Michelle, who made the scans from the Bible which is currently in the possession of our Aunt Mildred). </span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pages from the Hattie Williams-Thomas Stringer family Bible</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">According to the first of these pages from the family Bible, “Thos. H. Stringer and Hattie M. Williams” were married 21 March, 1901, in Augusta [Richmond County], Georgia, by “Louis Schillen” and the witness was Mrs. M. J. Williams.<span> </span>Unfortunately, the last record in the last Richmond County marriage book available online through the <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php">Virtual Vault</a> is for a license issued 12 January 1901, so that’s another record to add to my “to be ordered” list.<span> </span>Most likely the handwriting is that of Hattie.<span> </span>I have no proof of this at this time; it’s just a feeling about it.<span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alternate B/W copy of part of page 3 of family Bible above</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgybiH3dtVzzCyIaBLcxKLlYPo_c-1lZn3VAReUBDB2VeS-wiaoO26QBpjC4tC0209GbNITKkE2AMe0PVMMzLW5ncFOW2rdSX0z7rlC5ZCrRXfSmNLtktsBuD9Sik2Lz3tnj1NhmLdngkzR/s1600/Stringer+gravestones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgybiH3dtVzzCyIaBLcxKLlYPo_c-1lZn3VAReUBDB2VeS-wiaoO26QBpjC4tC0209GbNITKkE2AMe0PVMMzLW5ncFOW2rdSX0z7rlC5ZCrRXfSmNLtktsBuD9Sik2Lz3tnj1NhmLdngkzR/s200/Stringer+gravestones.jpg" width="133" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is additional valuable information to be gleaned from these pages.<span> </span>On the second page, at the bottom, you can see the copyright date is 1907.<span> </span>Since I don’t have a copy of the title page of the Bible, which may or may not have a printing date, with the copyright date I know that the earliest this family data could have been recorded in this Bible is 1907.<span> </span>Just above that are Hattie and Thomas’s dates of birth and, of great importance, their parents’ names (though the writer did not record their mothers’ maiden names).<span> </span>Listed as “Grandparents”, Thomas’ parents were Robert F. Stringer and Martha E. Stringer and Hattie’s parents were Shep M. Williams and Mary J. Williams.<span> </span>Thus it seems that Hattie’s mother may have been the witness to her wedding.<span> </span>There is no explanation as to why only one witness is listed.</span></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The third page lists Hattie and Thomas’ children, their dates of birth, their spouses, and their dates of marriage.<span> </span>Maggie is the third child, married to Dewey Jones on 6 October 1928.<span> </span>The rest of the third and fourth pages (parts of which I have blurred because some of these people are still living) concern mostly their grandchildren.<span> </span>It appears to me that these pages bear the handwriting of at least three different individuals.<span> </span>In any case, the fourth page states that Hattie and Thomas were Missionary Baptists, and someone has recorded that both died of “apoplexy” (a term applied to any sudden, unexpected loss of consciousness followed by death), Hattie on 21 July 1921 and 1 July 1933, and that both are buried at “Canoochee”.<span> </span>(OK, I’m cheating again!<span> </span>I have a secondary copy, a black & white photocopy that is a bit clearer along the bound edge of the pages.)<span> </span>In support of the death dates, again thanks to Michelle, I have photos of Hattie and Thomas’ gravestones.<span> </span>Additionally, since Hattie died in 1921 I was able to locate <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/gadeaths,87323">her death certificate</a> online in Georgia’s Virtual Vault, my number-one source for original documents from this time period.<span> </span>In this case, my first search, by first and last name, turned up exactly one record and that was hers. And, Hattie's death certificate gives me her mother's maiden name -- </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">she was Mary Jane </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Andrews.</span></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Having the names of Hattie and Thomas’ parents will help as I go back another generation.<span> </span>But I think I’ll leave that for another time.</span></span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hattie M. [Williams] Stringer Death Certificate<br />
<i>(Death Certificates, Vital Records, Public Health, RG 26-5-95, Georgia Archives)</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here’s your summary:</span></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The women of the family often had control of the family history (the same as today). If you have a family Bible, it’s a good bet that you’re looking at the handwriting of the women in your family. Women didn’t always take the pictures, but they were usually took charge of them once they were printed, framing them to hang on the walls or pasting them in endless scrapbooks and photo albums.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Family Bibles can be a rich source of information, but you should treat it as you would any other source and try your best to verify the information.<span> </span>While an invaluable pointer to information you might not otherwise have, without corroborating evidence and documentation it is only hearsay.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Try to keep the date ranges of your primary records sources in mind as you do your research.<span> </span>In this case, I know that the <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/gadeaths.php">Georgia’s Virtual Vault website</a> has death certificates from many Georgia counties from as early as 1914 to as late as 1930, though they are mostly from 1919 through 1927.<span> </span>If you remember what you CAN find, you are more likely to quickly find records to support your research.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Don't forget to check all the fields on a death certificate. It, too, may give you valuable clues. </span></span></li>
</ul><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> Later y’all,</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*GeorgiaTim</span></span>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720877364375317898.post-73558721241840089032011-03-16T18:32:00.003-05:002011-03-16T19:45:50.221-05:00Georgia Archives threatened by House Budget<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I normally won't write a topical post (current events) because that's not what I intended this blog to be about. But I had to make an exception in this case. In case you haven't read elsewhere, funding for the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://sos.georgia.gov/archives/">Georgia Archives</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"> (which includes the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php">Virtual Vault</a></span><span style="font-size: small;">) is scheduled for serious reductions, below the level that the Archive needs to function as a viable public resource. The letter below has been sent out to many people across the state and the country, and I quote it as is:</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><table align="center" bgcolor="lightgray" style="width: 450px;"><tbody>
<tr><td><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Georgia Archives threatened by House Budget</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>URGENT ACTION REQUIRED!</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">An open letter from <a href="http://www.fogah.org/" target="blank">FOGAH</a> Chair, Virginia Shadron:</span></div></div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Fiscal Year 2012 budget that passed the Georgia House of Representatives on March 11 as HB 78 includes budget reductions that could result in the State Archives closing its doors to the public.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">The budget contains two items that together would reduce the Archives’ budget by at least $300,000.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">The Archives’ base budget, after preceding budget cuts, is $4,643,588. Over 65% of that goes to pay fixed costs (such as rent) that cannot be reduced. The current bill proposes an additional cut in “personal services and … savings from reduced hours …” in the amount of $260,458. The second way in which the Archives’ budget is eroded is that the House budget does not fund the annual increase in the Archives’ rent, an amount of more than $40,000 for FY12.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Altogether, the additional cuts to personal services and the failure to fund the rent increase means that the Archives’ sustains a critical $300,000 in cuts. You might wonder, “What is the fuss about?” That shortfall can come from one place only—and that is staff.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Without intervention the Archives will almost certainly be forced to close its doors to the public, reduce scanning operations and preservation activities, and eliminate most transfers of records from state agencies—the records that protect Georgia financially and legally.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">The House version of the budget now goes to the Senate for adjustment and passage. Call and write your state senator immediately and ask that a minimum of $300,000 be restored to the Archives budget! Go to <a href="http://www.legis.ga.gov/" target="blank">http://www.legis.ga.gov</a> and click on "Find Your Legislator" to find your senator.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">- Virginia Shadron</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">I don't know if letters from non-residents will do any good at this point. Heck, I don't know if letters from ANYONE will do any good at this point. But if you still live in Georgia, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE write to and call your Georgia State Senator an let them know that they need to restore the funding for this valuable historical and cultural resource. Not doing so is like forgoing regular maintenance on your car. You can't make up for it later. And we can't just buy a new history if we lose the one we have!</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">*GeorgiaTim</span> </span>*GeorgiaTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03322127805477281247noreply@blogger.com2