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251 | Owned Martin Dry Cleaners which caught fire and burned him to death. | Martin, Evitt T. (I3852)
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252 | Owned Newnan Hardware Store | Cook, Sam Leigh (I3280)
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253 | Physician | Moon, Arthur Earnest (I8026)
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254 | Possible from Prince Edward County, VA | Robertson, Zechariah (I4718)
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255 | Possible spelling Shreve. | Schreve, Mattie Belle (I1403)
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256 | Possible was Frances instead of Fannie. | Gladney, Sally Fannie (I1720)
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257 | Possibly born September 05, 1796. Have two dates, 1796 and 1801. Following was posted on the internet at... http://genforum.genealogy.com/robertson/messages/4225.html Re: Wiley or Wylie Robertson in GA & AL Posted by: Nancy Sales Date: May 19, 2001 at 19:53:15 In Reply to: Re: Wiley or Wylie Robertson in GA & AL by Sherry of 5231 Thank you for your message about Wiley Robertson. Wiley and Elizabeth Dawkins Robertson's son John Wilson Robertson is said to be my grandfather's father. We would appreciate the list of the other children of Wiley and Elizabeth. We understand Wiley died in Ashland, Clay Co., Alabama but have never been able to confirm this or the date of his or Elizabeth's death. We have been told of a different birth date for Wiley (Wylie?) Robertson's birth (9-15-1801) from a family Bible we have never seen but he definitely did marry Elizabeth Dawkins by all acounts. We have no certain information on her date and place of birth or parents. We're excited to find somebody with information and we will gladly share what we have as well. Followups: Re: Wiley or Wylie Robertson in GA & AL Sherry 5/20/01 Re: Wiley or Wylie Robertson in GA & AL Mildred Dunn Freeman 8/16/01 [Rob12.FTW] | Robertson, Wiley (I0417)
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258 | Possibly died 1863 according to tombstone in the Darian Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery east of Daviston in Tallapoosa County, AL. | Robertson, Martha Jane (I5947)
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259 | Possibly spelled James Heustin or Hewston in his time. Subject: HOUSTONS Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:45:53 -0400 From: pcsmith@hom.net (Percy Smith) To: dean@telemail.com.py (Joseph Dean Moore) Hi Dean, Long time since I've heard from you and the way the market has been acting the past few days made me think of you. Hope you didn't get hurt too bad or not at all. I'm forwarding some something my son has been working on. Good luck, Percy (Smith) Hewstons 1 I have found some interesting items on the Hewston Family in Georgia and South Carolina. I feel pretty strongly that the early Hewstons were an extended family. We know that the Smiths are descendants of the James/John Hewston clan which settled in Morgan County in the early 1800s. My great-great-great grandfather Young Gresham Houston is identified in the will of his father, James Hewston in 1838 in Morgan County, Georgia.* James Hewston, Senior left Newberry County, South Carolina in 1798 to move to Greene County, Georgia. There are three reasons why we know he left South Carolina around 1798. First, he sold his land in Newberry County to James Wright August 7, 1798.* Next , during the late 1700s and early 1800s county roads are maintained byS teams of land owners who live within 10 miles of a road.* The country court would choose prominent citizens in the area to supervise or oversee the maintenance of the road. The county court is similar to todays county commissioners. James Hewston is chosen with Hugh Boyd to oversee a road that passes from Newberry to Kings Creek to Enoree River to the Tyger river. They must of made a good team because they are repeatedly chosen from the October term of 1795 till July term of 1798.* Boyd is again chosen in 1798 but someone replaces James Hewston.* Finally, James Hewston does not appear on the 1800 census of Newberry County or of South Carolina. David, Samuel and John Jamess brothers however do appear on the 1800 Newberry census.* The Georgia Tax Digest for Greene County in the year 1801 lists a James Hughston on page 42.* From land records in Greene County, we know that he settled in an area of the county along Fishing Creek called Greshamville.* No record of its incorporation as a town or village can be found. It derived its name from the many Greshams who settled in the area. Many Gresham went held important posts in Greene Countys government. The Postmasters office was held by two generations of Greshams. Coincidental they were named Young Gresham.* Also Young Gresham, Sr. is mentioned as being a Physician. One can find Greshamville marked on some current maps. By 1805 Jamess brothers have joined him in Georgia. On the 1805 Tax Digest for Georgia, Samuel and David have joined James in Greene County.* John and his son Alexander are in nearby Clarke County.* Nephews John Jr. and Benjamin Hughson have joined the family in Greene county by 1810.* In 1806, James Hewston buys over 200 acres across the Oconee River in the new Morgan County. In the deed to his new land, James lists his children as the future beneficiaries of the purchase.* This land is on the Cherokee Indian frontier having just been ceded to the settlers. The new Indian border was within a couple of miles of Hewstons land. As late as 1813 a massacre of settlers by Indians occurred within a few miles of the Hewston farm. There were several deaths along with the kidnapping of two females.* Living this close to danger it was important to have family nearby in times of need. In 1817 John Y. Hughston, James Hewstons oldest son has bought his own farm and has settled within a couple of miles of his father. By the 1820s, James brother John has moved his family to nearby Jasper (then called Irwin) County. In the 1826 Georgia Land Lottery, John won large tracks of land in Fayette, Troup and Coweta County.* He moves his family of grown sons John Jr., Hugh, Samuel, and Oliver to the area to manage his farms.* This is a fine example of the Hewstons clannish nature. A similar situation happened with Jamess family. In the 1826 Georgia Land Lottery, James Jr., David Ross, Young Gresham and James Sr. enter the lottery together.* James Jr. is the only winner. He remains in Morgan County and sells his land in Troup County.* James Seniors son-in-laws John Hargrove, Julius Skinner and Posey Johnston also won land in previous lotteries but they remain in Morgan County till after the death of their father-in-law, James in 1837.* From the will of James Hewston we know his children were: Polly, David, Prudy, Peggy, Nicy, Luicinda, James, John and Young Gresham. Mary Polly Houston marries Isaac Culberson. David Ross Huston marries Ann F. A. Ellington and Mary O Kelly. Prudence Prudy Hewston marries Posey Johnson. Margaret Peggy Hewston marries Benjamin Auberry. Eunice Nicy Houston marries John R. Hargroves. Lucinda Houston marries Julius Skinner. Young Gresham Houston marries Harriet Amend Haynes. It is unclear who James Hewston, Jr. and John Y. Houston marry. Listed in the will of John Hewston, father of our James Hewston we find the names of his brothers and sisters. John, David, Ross, William and Samuel are his brothers. His sisters are listed as Mary Hopper (Harper) wife of John Hopper and Elizabeth (Peggy) McCrackin wife of James McCrackin Jr. John Hewston died in 1808. Most of the clan has moved to Georgia except for Mary Hewston the widow, Mary Hoppers, Peggy McCrackins, Rosss and Williams families. A rift develops in the administration of the will. By 23 February 1811 a full blown civil case has arisen. John and James are fighting with Ross and William over the dispersion of the proceeds of the estate. The interesting point is that the Georgia part of the family has aligned itself against the South Carolina family.* When William leaves South Carolina to move west in the late 1820s he skips Georgia and goes straight to Alabama.* Evidently the animosity ran deep. Before William Hewston leaves South Carolina, he serves a stint as Postmaster of a station called Houstons Store in 1827. The store is left to be administered by a nephew Andrew Turner when William leaves the state.* Andrews mother is Mary Hewston which is not the aunt married to John Hopper but another aunt. The name of the station changes to McMorries Store and later to Popular Grove before being discontinued after the Civil War.* James and Samuel Hewston must have been pig farmers before they left South Carolina. They are in court in the 1790s charging someone with rustling pigs. After a year at trial the court rules it was only a case of mistakenly branding the wrong pigs. A cash settlement was made.* James stayed busy because he was involved in owning a tavern with the Goodman family. Something ran a foul because James winds up suing the Goodmans for a cash settlement.* There was a criminal case pending against James right before he left for Georgia that was eventually dismissed.* Religion must have been very important to the Hewston Family. The closest Presbyterian church was in Newberry eight to ten miles away. The Reverend Robert McClintock, a local circuit rider, had been preaching in the area before the war, but he must flee South Carolina when the Revolutionary War starts. He was stuck in Ireland till after the war. After The Revolution War, James Hewstons father wants a church nearby. He donates one acre of land to the Reverend McClintock to build a church and cemetery.* The church was named Guilders Creek Presbyterian Church. It was also known as Kings Creek and Indian Creek Presbyterian. The church had a strong following with some of the family being buried there.* Ross A. Houston preaches there on occasion before becoming a circuit rider. He serves as a circuit rider in Georgia, South Carolina and retires to preach in Alabama.* His name appears on on many marriage certificates, especially in Greene County, Georgia.* Moses Waddell is a Presbyterian minister from Willington South Carolina. He preaches on a circuit which takes him to Newberry South Carolina.* He later preaches in Greene County, Georgia. The Goshen Presbyterian Church is very close to Greshamville where he occasionally preaches. He soon begins preaching in Greensboro, Georgia. He becomes instrumental in starting a college in Greensboro. Later, he is chosen to be The University of Georgias first president at Athens in Clarke County. This is the same time that Young Houston should be appearing on the tax digest in Morgan County. It is unclear exactly when Young was born but he appears on the deed in 1806, which means he should be 18 years old by 1824. Georgia Law said that all males 18 or older should appear on the counties tax digest. There is a Houston studying at the University at the time but it is unclear if he is related . Could Young Houston have gone to college. He does hold the position of plantation overseer in later life. His first three sons, William H., James D., and John Scott could read and write according to the census reports.* James Decatur lists his occupation as a teacher in 1860 census.* Living with a wealthy landlord in town, William H. Houston and his cousin William Haynes lists their occupations as clerks in 1860 census.* Could he had been a law clerk studying law? John Scott Houston is listed as a plantation overseer for his grandmother Elizabeth Haynes and uncle Malcolm Haynes.* The pioneers on the frontier of South Carolina took politics very seriously in 1776. Living on the Indian frontier protection from the Indians was very important as well as protection from the Spanish in Florida. Many of the cash crops grown in South Carolina were sold in Great Britain. The issue of taxation without representation was at the heart of a major uprising that had occurred when The Stamp Act was implemented in nearby Savannah.* The Hewstons were of Scot-Irish descent arriving from County Tyronne Ireland after 1760. Immigrants were required by British law to take an oath of allegiance to Britain before land grants were given. John Hewston had received a land grant in 1771.* Perhaps this is why his son John served in the Continental Army in his fathers place. John served several tours enlisting in 1776 and serving till 1782 as a private. He applies for a pension in Coweta County, Georgia in 1835. James Hewston and his other brothers served in the South Carolina Militia. The militia members would work their vocations till a need to fight arose. The 96 District of South Carolina which included Newberry County was the scene of many skirmishes between Whigs and Tories. The politics of Newberry County were dividing families down the middle between Whigs and Tories. The Turner family, which Mary Hewston becomes part of by marriage, has brothers-in-law fighting as Tories and Whigs. One of the brothers is killed while fighting as a Tory, forcing another Tory brother and his family to move to Florida after the war. On a visit back to South Carolina an assassin wounds him. He is smuggled back to Florida in a coffin playing dead. (It should be noted that the Houston name had two distinct pronunciations during this time. An early Governor of Georgia James Houstoun pronounced his name HOUSE ton. One finds several spellings of our ancestors named HUGH ston such as: Hewston, Huston, Hueston Huson Hughston or Heuston. It seems that the HOUSE-ton pronunciation was more frequently connected to English nobility or very affluent British families. The rise in Sam Houstons popularity after the war of Texas Independence, probably did the most to standardize the pronunciation.) | Houston, James (I0595)
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260 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Moore, W. Louis (I6120)
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261 | Posted by Edwin T. Drew: I am seeking information on Jane WOOTEN of Burke Co., GA, born abt. 1810; died January 1836. Jane was married to Andrew Young John ALLEN of Burke Co., GA after 1830. Jane's husband died during 1835, shortly before her only son, Young John ALLEN was born on Jan. 03, 1836. Jane died later of child birth fever, and her infant son was adopted and reared by her sister Nancy and her husband Wiley HUTCHINS. Any information on the WOOTEN, ALLEN, or HUTCHINS families of Burke Co., GA would be greatly appreciated. | Wooten, Jane (I1226)
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262 | Posted by Edwin T. Drew: I am seeking information on Jane WOOTEN of Burke Co., GA, born abt. 1810; died January 1836. Jane was married to Andrew Young John ALLEN of Burke Co., GA after 1830. Jane's husband died during 1835, shortly before her only son, Young John ALLEN was born on Jan. 03, 1836. Jane died later of child birth fever, and her infant son was adopted and reared by her sister Nancy and her husband Wiley HUTCHINS. Any information on the WOOTEN, ALLEN, or HUTCHINS families of Burke Co., GA would be greatly appreciated. | Allen, Andrew Young John (I1227)
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263 | Posted by: Shannon Hudgins (ID *****4470) Date: November 04, 2002 at 22:13:40 In Reply to: Alexander P. Houston 1806 Coweta Co. GA by Kathy Buss of 879 Alexander P Houston married Mrs. Martha Deadwyler (Webb) on Dec 8 1829 in Elbert Co GA. The only children listed in the Coweta will book B for Alex and Martha are son Leonidias Alexander Houston and Margaret A.E. Copeland. Leonidias Houston was born in GA on 5-13-1834 and Margaret was I believe from the previous marriage of Martha Webb and Joseph Deadwyler. | Houston, Alexander P. (I4681)
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264 | Present name is Laticia G. Anderson | ?, Laticia (I1946)
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265 | Raised by a Dr. Leguer, veterinarian. Lived at Beeville, Tx. | Ballard, Luke Linnis (I5632)
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266 | Real Estate magnate. Millionaire. | Weiss, Jay (I8085)
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267 | Real name (spelling) possibly Cellana. Buried in Cameron Cemetery, Saline Co. AR Directions: From Benton, go out Congo Road to Salem, turn right to first road and turn left. From that point go About 1/2 mile, Cameron Cemetery is on both sides of road. | Moore, Cellann Salemma (I0407)
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268 | Remained a bachelor. Never married. | Deering, Stephen Frank (I8151)
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269 | Reportedly had a daughter out of wedlock before her marriage to Bailey, and the daughter was adopted by someone else. | Houston, Anna Eliza (I0028)
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270 | Resided at Savannah, GA and Wilmington, NC | Houston, Benjamin Heriot (I1245)
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271 | Retired corporate jet pilot for Exxon Corporation. | Day, Thomas Fred (I0060)
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272 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Eads, Arthur Colman (I5774)
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273 | Retired from Strategic Air Command [Rob12.FTW] Retired from Strategic Air Command | Robertson, Leslie (I2702)
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274 | Retired from the U. S. Air Force as a Chief Master Sergeant. He then owned or managed a radio and TV repair shop in Biloxi, Ms. | Montgomery, Weston Wendell (I4638)
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275 | Reverend Joseph B. Walker, a Methodist minister in New Orleans. The autobiography of Rev. Joseph Burch Walker includes this recollection: "I also visited my grandfather Capt. William Powell in Hampshire Co. near Romney. These journeys took me across several rivers and over mountains. I thought in my childish mind, because I had been told grandfather lived in the country, that all "the country" was grandfathers. When leaving the City for the first time I was wonderfully struck with the largeness of the "lots," which I called the broad fields, and the great length and crookedness of the "streets" at grandfathers?, as I called the roads. Meeting some females in the rough mountain country who were shoeless in the summer weather, never having seen the like before, I exclaimed, "Oh mother, do the ladies go bare footed at grandfather?s?" My grandfather Powell was fond of singing and I learned from him several tunes, and after a lapse of sixty-five years remember and sing them still. My Grandfather came to his death from severe injuries from the fall of a tree. Two or three days terminated his sufferings. He died singing the hymn, "Oh for a closer walk with God." | Walker, Joseph Burch (I0691)
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276 | Richard, was a foreign service diplomat who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII. Died of cancer. | Turner, Allen Richard (I1189)
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277 | Robert married and became the father of twin boys on 26 Nov 1992 | Stuckey, Robert (I8624)
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278 | Roy Edward Moore, 85, passed away February 25th, 2017 in Fairhope, Alabama. His funeral service will be held this Friday, March 3rd, at 3:30 pm, in the chapel of Curtis & Son Funeral Home, 1315 Talladega Highway, Sylacauga AL, with Bro. Jerry Hewett from Bay Community Church-Daphne, officiating the service. The family will be receiving visitation at 2:30 pm prior to the service. There will be a celebration of life immediately following the graveside service at the Oak Grove Senior Citizen center on Forest Glen Road. The family invites all friends and family to join them for refreshments at 5 pm. Mr. Moore was born on February 22, 1932 in Weogufka AL to Thomas Eugene Moore and Virginia Pearl (Houston) Moore. He is preceded in death by his brothers, J.W. and William Moore in addition to his sons, Tim Moore and Rick Wade. After his time in the Marines during the Korean War, he had a long career as a truck driver, where he was able to travel the US. He lived most his life in Sylacauga, then moved to Loxley, AL where he has lived for the last 15 years. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Gail Moore, and children, Mike Moore, Angela Fallon, Terri Fallon, Raymond Wade, Janet Van Handel, and Joey Moore. He has 22 grandchildren. More than anything he loved God first, family second, and music was a lifelong passion. Online condolences can be made at www.curtisandsonfh.com Curtis and Son North Chapel will direct the services. | Moore, Roy Edward (I6101)
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279 | Rufus Pitt Williams was born April 3, 1848, in the Deep South- - Tallapoosa County, Alabama. I?m sure as he was a little boy, the issues of secession from the Union were already being discussed among his father, William Wesley Williams, and his much older brothers, William LaFayette Williams (a doctor, born in 1833) Baron (born in 1836) and others of the community. I don?t know that they were slaveholders at that point, and I need to look that up, but, obviously, they lived in a place and era that supported slavery. One week after Pitt turned 13, the attack on Fort Sumter began the Civil War. Again, I wonder how quickly the news spread and how they were informed of what was going on in Washington and in South Carolina and along the Mason-Dixon Line in those first battles. Pitt was one of the younger members in the family and his older brother Baron went off to fight in the Civil War. Imagine what the home life was like as they waited for word of his fate and also prepared their home and property for possible invasion from the North. Baron did survive the Civil War, though he lost an arm. He came home and became a successful merchant after the war. When Pitt was 20, he married Martha Robertson. She was also from the community and had lived nearby for many years. Pitt?s brother Thomas Cooper married Martha?s sister, so their children were double cousins. She died after only 5 years of marriage. They had two daughters and then she gave birth to a son and he died before he was a year old, so I wonder if there was a flu epidemic or something that killed them both near the same time? I think she is buried in the Darien Cemetery in Tallapoosa County, but I'm not sure from web research and I need to make a trip to research. Soon after, Pitt married Martha?s cousin Nancy Clark Adkins. I?m sure that was common in those days to marry family members and certainly both were neighbors for a long period of time and would have been known to Pitt. And I?m sure Nancy loved her cousin Martha?s children as her own. Pitt and Nancy began to have their own children and had one daughter and then their one and only son, Charles Wesley Williams. He was born in 1878. They had two more daughters and then in 1884, when Charley was 6, they moved to Texas. This was not an impulsive move. Pitt?s first father-in-law, Martha?s father, Allen Jordan Robertson had already moved to Texas. I have no doubt that he made a return trip to encourage other members of his family to move to Texas with him. Pitt and Nancy and a bunch of children and some livestock loaded up a wagon and moved to East Texas. I believe Nancy was preganant during trip and gave birth to another girl after they were in Texas. Several of Pitt's family members continued to live in East Texas, but the Robertsons and Pitt and Nancy ended up in Cornhill, Texas, in Williamson County, near Jarrell. . All together, Pitt and Nancy had 9 children, 8 daughters and 1 son, and the 2 daughters from his first marriage, so 10 daughters and 1 son from this family grew to adulthood. The father-in-law Allen Jordan Robertson died in 1905and is buried in the Cornhill Cemetery as are twin babies of Pitt?s brother Cooper and sister-in-law Ellie. As the family grew up in the community, they married neighbors. Charley met Mattie Lett, another immigrant from Alabama (though I don?t know if there were any connections in Alabama or not) after they met at a church social. They married in Corn Hill in 1902. In ___, Pitt and Nancy (and children?) moved to Chico, Texas, near Decatur, in Wise County. There they lived out their days and are both buried in the Chico cemetery near at least three of their daughters, their daughter Esther who never married, one who married a Morrow, and one other. Pitt died May 21, 1926, at the age of 78, of heart trouble. Source: http://janicewilliamsaustin.com/familyproject.html#RUFUS_PITT_WILLIAMS | Williams, Rufus Pitt (I5957)
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280 | S. S. No. 417-16-5409 | Moore, Virgil (I0125)
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281 | S. S. No. 418-01-1705 | Moore, George Clifton (I0127)
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282 | S. S. No. 424-07-6432 Living in Birmigham at the time of the 1930 U. S. Census. | Moore, Clara Belle (I0122)
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283 | Samuel F. Houston was living in Meriwether County in 1880. Samuel F. Houston was living with daughter Georgia and husband John in 1900 in Coweta county.\ | Houston, Samuel F. (I8512)
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284 | Samuel F. Houston was living with Georgia and John in 1900 in Coweta county. | Houston, Georgia A. (I8513)
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285 | Schoolteacher. | Arnold, Ethel (I2091)
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286 | Schoolteacher. | Arnold, Maude (I2120)
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287 | Schoolteacher. | Arnold, Bessie (I2189)
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288 | Served in the 7th Georgia Infantry Co. G. Was a 2nd. Lt. | Houston, Hugh Watkins (I0660)
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289 | She was born February 16, 1839 in Coweta County, Georgia, and she graduated on July 14, 1858 from Wesleyan College in Macon. | Houston, Mary (I1177)
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290 | Shot in 1909 by a black man named Andrew Jackson Taylor in Atlanta, Ga., and died. | Dial, Cabot Hubert (I3835)
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291 | Social Security Death Index; SSN: 467-28-0004 Name: James Good; Born: 16 Nov 1922; Died: Oct 1974 State (Year) SSN issued: Texas (Before 1951) Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 | Good, James Fowler (I1829)
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292 | Social Security Number: 416-10-8861 Worked as a cost estimator for many years at Anderson Brass Works, Birmingham, Alabama, and later known as Anderson Electric Corporation, Leeds, Alabama. Also previously worked at Lawler Machine and Foundry Company, Birmingham, and Miller Foundry Company, Birmingham during the 1950's. These were all foundries and Dad was very knowledgeable of all aspects of foundry and metalcasting operations, including pattern and core-making operations. We were never a wealthy family, and as we were growing up, Dad would quite often find himself re-roofing our house, painting the house, or building a storage building, and making any necessary plumbing, electrical, and house repairs himself, with the writer as his helper. He was usually active in Southern Baptist churches wherever he lived and was a lay preacher at certain churches. During my teenage years, our family were active members of the First Baptist Church of Irondale, Alabama and later Woodlawn Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and Dad was a Sunday School teacher there. He is buried in the Rocky Hill Cemetery by Hwy. 14 West of Autaugaville, Alabama. These notes written by son Joseph Dean Moore. Birth: Jul. 28, 1912 Death: Jul. 15, 1992 Burial: Rocky Hill Cemetery Autaugaville Autauga County Alabama, USA Plot: 456 Created by: Cemetery Walker Record added: Jan 17, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 17554526 | Moore, Clarence Julius (I0009)
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293 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Montgomery, John Sharp (I5854)
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294 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Crowe, Kristy Michelle (I9236)
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295 | SS Number 416-05-5733 | Houston, Bessie Virginia (I0010)
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296 | SS Number: 422-34-9401 | H., Jacqueline (I8178)
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297 | SS. No. 423-28-2946 | Grogan, Marion Joe (I8166)
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298 | Studied medicine but disappeared, or lost contact. | Houston, Green Y. (I8079)
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299 | Subject: HOUSTONS Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:45:53 -0400 From: pcsmith@hom.net (Percy Smith) To: dean@telemail.com.py (Joseph Dean Moore) Hi Dean, Long time since I've heard from you and the way the market has been acting the past few days made me think of you. Hope you didn't get hurt too bad or not at all. I'm forwarding some something my son has been working on. Good luck, Percy (Smith) Hewstons 1 I have found some interesting items on the Hewston Family in Georgia and South Carolina. I feel pretty strongly that the early Hewstons were an extended family. We know that the Smiths are descendants of the James/John Hewston clan which settled in Morgan County in the early 1800s. My great-great-great grandfather Young Gresham Houston is identified in the will of his father, James Hewston in 1838 in Morgan County, Georgia.* James Hewston, Senior left Newberry County, South Carolina in 1798 to move to Greene County, Georgia. There are three reasons why we know he left South Carolina around 1798. First, he sold his land in Newberry County to James Wright August 7, 1798.* Next , during the late 1700s and early 1800s county roads are maintained byS teams of land owners who live within 10 miles of a road.* The country court would choose prominent citizens in the area to supervise or oversee the maintenance of the road. The county court is similar to todays county commissioners. James Hewston is chosen with Hugh Boyd to oversee a road that passes from Newberry to Kings Creek to Enoree River to the Tyger river. They must of made a good team because they are repeatedly chosen from the October term of 1795 till July term of 1798.* Boyd is again chosen in 1798 but someone replaces James Hewston.* Finally, James Hewston does not appear on the 1800 census of Newberry County or of South Carolina. David, Samuel and John Jamess brothers however do appear on the 1800 Newberry census.* The Georgia Tax Digest for Greene County in the year 1801 lists a James Hughston on page 42.* From land records in Greene County, we know that he settled in an area of the county along Fishing Creek called Greshamville.* No record of its incorporation as a town or village can be found. It derived its name from the many Greshams who settled in the area. Many Gresham went held important posts in Greene Countys government. The Postmasters office was held by two generations of Greshams. Coincidental they were named Young Gresham.* Also Young Gresham, Sr. is mentioned as being a Physician. One can find Greshamville marked on some current maps. By 1805 Jamess brothers have joined him in Georgia. On the 1805 Tax Digest for Georgia, Samuel and David have joined James in Greene County.* John and his son Alexander are in nearby Clarke County.* Nephews John Jr. and Benjamin Hughson have joined the family in Greene county by 1810.* In 1806, James Hewston buys over 200 acres across the Oconee River in the new Morgan County. In the deed to his new land, James lists his children as the future beneficiaries of the purchase.* This land is on the Cherokee Indian frontier having just been ceded to the settlers. The new Indian border was within a couple of miles of Hewstons land. As late as 1813 a massacre of settlers by Indians occurred within a few miles of the Hewston farm. There were several deaths along with the kidnapping of two females.* Living this close to danger it was important to have family nearby in times of need. In 1817 John Y. Hughston, James Hewstons oldest son has bought his own farm and has settled within a couple of miles of his father. By the 1820s, James brother John has moved his family to nearby Jasper (then called Irwin) County. In the 1826 Georgia Land Lottery, John won large tracks of land in Fayette, Troup and Coweta County.* He moves his family of grown sons John Jr., Hugh, Samuel, and Oliver to the area to manage his farms.* This is a fine example of the Hewstons clannish nature. A similar situation happened with Jamess family. In the 1826 Georgia Land Lottery, James Jr., David Ross, Young Gresham and James Sr. enter the lottery together.* James Jr. is the only winner. He remains in Morgan County and sells his land in Troup County.* James Seniors son-in-laws John Hargrove, Julius Skinner and Posey Johnston also won land in previous lotteries but they remain in Morgan County till after the death of their father-in-law, James in 1837.* From the will of James Hewston we know his children were: Polly, David, Prudy, Peggy, Nicy, Luicinda, James, John and Young Gresham. Mary Polly Houston marries Isaac Culberson. David Ross Huston marries Ann F. A. Ellington and Mary O Kelly. Prudence Prudy Hewston marries Posey Johnson. Margaret Peggy Hewston marries Benjamin Auberry. Eunice Nicy Houston marries John R. Hargroves. Lucinda Houston marries Julius Skinner. Young Gresham Houston marries Harriet Amend Haynes. It is unclear who James Hewston, Jr. and John Y. Houston marry. Listed in the will of John Hewston, father of our James Hewston we find the names of his brothers and sisters. John, David, Ross, William and Samuel are his brothers. His sisters are listed as Mary Hopper (Harper) wife of John Hopper and Elizabeth (Peggy) McCrackin wife of James McCrackin Jr. John Hewston died in 1808. Most of the clan has moved to Georgia except for Mary Hewston the widow, Mary Hoppers, Peggy McCrackins, Rosss and Williams families. A rift develops in the administration of the will. By 23 February 1811 a full blown civil case has arisen. John and James are fighting with Ross and William over the dispersion of the proceeds of the estate. The interesting point is that the Georgia part of the family has aligned itself against the South Carolina family.* When William leaves South Carolina to move west in the late 1820s he skips Georgia and goes straight to Alabama.* Evidently the animosity ran deep. Before William Hewston leaves South Carolina, he serves a stint as Postmaster of a station called Houstons Store in 1827. The store is left to be administered by a nephew Andrew Turner when William leaves the state.* Andrews mother is Mary Hewston which is not the aunt married to John Hopper but another aunt. The name of the station changes to McMorries Store and later to Popular Grove before being discontinued after the Civil War.* James and Samuel Hewston must have been pig farmers before they left South Carolina. They are in court in the 1790s charging someone with rustling pigs. After a year at trial the court rules it was only a case of mistakenly branding the wrong pigs. A cash settlement was made.* James stayed busy because he was involved in owning a tavern with the Goodman family. Something ran a foul because James winds up suing the Goodmans for a cash settlement.* There was a criminal case pending against James right before he left for Georgia that was eventually dismissed.* Religion must have been very important to the Hewston Family. The closest Presbyterian church was in Newberry eight to ten miles away. The Reverend Robert McClintock, a local circuit rider, had been preaching in the area before the war, but he must flee South Carolina when the Revolutionary War starts. He was stuck in Ireland till after the war. After The Revolution War, James Hewstons father wants a church nearby. He donates one acre of land to the Reverend McClintock to build a church and cemetery.* The church was named Guilders Creek Presbyterian Church. It was also known as Kings Creek and Indian Creek Presbyterian. The church had a strong following with some of the family being buried there.* Ross A. Houston preaches there on occasion before becoming a circuit rider. He serves as a circuit rider in Georgia, South Carolina and retires to preach in Alabama.* His name appears on on many marriage certificates, especially in Greene County, Georgia.* Moses Waddell is a Presbyterian minister from Willington South Carolina. He preaches on a circuit which takes him to Newberry South Carolina.* He later preaches in Greene County, Georgia. The Goshen Presbyterian Church is very close to Greshamville where he occasionally preaches. He soon begins preaching in Greensboro, Georgia. He becomes instrumental in starting a college in Greensboro. Later, he is chosen to be The University of Georgias first president at Athens in Clarke County. This is the same time that Young Houston should be appearing on the tax digest in Morgan County. It is unclear exactly when Young was born but he appears on the deed in 1806, which means he should be 18 years old by 1824. Georgia Law said that all males 18 or older should appear on the counties tax digest. There is a Houston studying at the University at the time but it is unclear if he is related . Could Young Houston have gone to college. He does hold the position of plantation overseer in later life. His first three sons, William H., James D., and John Scott could read and write according to the census reports.* James Decatur lists his occupation as a teacher in 1860 census.* Living with a wealthy landlord in town, William H. Houston and his cousin William Haynes lists their occupations as clerks in 1860 census.* Could he had been a law clerk studying law? John Scott Houston is listed as a plantation overseer for his grandmother Elizabeth Haynes and uncle Malcolm Haynes.* The pioneers on the frontier of South Carolina took politics very seriously in 1776. Living on the Indian frontier protection from the Indians was very important as well as protection from the Spanish in Florida. Many of the cash crops grown in South Carolina were sold in Great Britain. The issue of taxation without representation was at the heart of a major uprising that had occurred when The Stamp Act was implemented in nearby Savannah.* The Hewstons were of Scot-Irish descent arriving from County Tyronne Ireland after 1760. Immigrants were required by British law to take an oath of allegiance to Britain before land grants were given. John Hewston had received a land grant in 1771.* Perhaps this is why his son John served in the Continental Army in his fathers place. John served several tours enlisting in 1776 and serving till 1782 as a private. He applies for a pension in Coweta County, Georgia in 1835. James Hewston and his other brothers served in the South Carolina Militia. The militia members would work their vocations till a need to fight arose. The 96 District of South Carolina which included Newberry County was the scene of many skirmishes between Whigs and Tories. The politics of Newberry County were dividing families down the middle between Whigs and Tories. The Turner family, which Mary Hewston becomes part of by marriage, has brothers-in-law fighting as Tories and Whigs. One of the brothers is killed while fighting as a Tory, forcing another Tory brother and his family to move to Florida after the war. On a visit back to South Carolina an assassin wounds him. He is smuggled back to Florida in a coffin playing dead. (It should be noted that the Houston name had two distinct pronunciations during this time. An early Governor of Georgia James Houstoun pronounced his name HOUSE ton. One finds several spellings of our ancestors named HUGH ston such as: Hewston, Huston, Hueston Huson Hughston or Heuston. It seems that the HOUSE-ton pronunciation was more frequently connected to English nobility or very affluent British families. The rise in Sam Houstons popularity after the war of Texas Independence, probably did the most to standardize the pronunciation.) | Houston, Young Gresham (I0625)
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300 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Powell, Shelia Ann (I6342)
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