Dowling Family Book - Walter D Wood`s Family Pages

A Dowling Family
of
The South
R. A. Dowling
A Dowling Family
of
The South
By R. A. Dowling
To my mother, Cona York, and my wife, Agnes Westervelt . . . and to all the other
women whose willingness to adopt the name DOWLING has been but the
beginning of their help in pushing the clan to a higher rung of earth’s ladder.
R. A. Dowling
Copyright 1959 by
R. A. Dowling, Station W.O.O.F. Dothan, Alabama
COVER PHOTO: Claybank Log Church, Ozark Alabama
INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENT
This is to certify that Claybank Log Church which has been selected as a landmark
contributing to a deeper understanding of our American heritage, has been
entered on the National Register of Historical Places by the United States
Department of Interior, November 7, 1976.
This book was re-typed and all charts redone circa 2008 by Hart Dowling, son of R.
A. Dowling, who also added the cover photo and map for the cemetery for the
Claybank Church. The indexing of the charts and additional formatting was done
by Walter Dowling Wood, 2012. The layout of the book in PDF format (with
inserted blank pages) was designed to allow for double-sided printing with multipage charts printing on opposing pages for easier viewing. The page numbering
of the text has not been changed from the original book.
Walter Dowling Wood
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page i
To Understand the Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page iv
The Father of Our Family: ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 1
The WILLIAM Dowling Branch of Our Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3
JABEZ, Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3
ELIJAH, Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 12
CAGEBY, Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 20
The JAMES Dowling Branch of Our Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 21
WILLIAM H., Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 21
JAMES, JR., Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 25
JOHN JABEZ, Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 30
WILLIS H., Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 35
Daughters of JAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 37
The JOHN Dowling Branch of Our Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 39
DEMPSEY, Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 40
ELIAS, Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 68
LYDIA ANN Stokes; a Granddaughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 72
ZACHEUS, Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 74
ALLEN, Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 75
RHODA Stokes, a Granddaughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 78
LEVI, Grandson of ROBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 81
JEMIMA Hildreth, a Granddaughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 87
Nancy Boutwell Dowling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 90
Recent Endeavors of ROBERT'S Descendants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 91
The Charts
Addenda
Index (with names of Dowlings not found elsewhere in this book)
Claybank Cemetery
Page 3
INDEX OF CHARTS
Chart
Number
Location
in Book
Dowling Head of Family
Discussed
on Page
1
Parent Chart
Number
101
99
ROBERT
0
311
100
JABEZ
3
101
312
102
ELIJAH
12
101
321
104
WILLIAM H
21
101
322
105
JAMES, JR
25
101
323
106
JOHN JABEZ
30
101
324
108
WILLIS R
35
101
331
110
DEMPSEY, Rev
40
101
332
112
ELIAS
68
101
333
113
LYDIA ANN
72
101
335
114
ALLEN
75
101
336
115
RHODA
78
101
338
116
LEVI, Rev.
81
101
339
118
JEMIMA
87
339
501
120
JOHN RILEY
5
311
504
122
WILLIAM WESLEY
6
311
506
124
AARON
6
311
507
126
JABEZ JACK
7
311
509
128
DAVID C
8
311
511
130
JABEZ LAZURUS, JR
9
311
512
131
JOHN D
10
311
514
132
LAZARUS
10
311
515
134
JOHN
1
311
516
135
JAMES R
11
311
517
136
DARLING WESLEY
12
311
521
138
ELIJAH HENRY, Dr.
15
312
522
138
AARON DECAANIA, Sr
15
312
523
140
JOHN C
15
312
526
142
JAMES AARON E.
18
312
531
143
GEORGE DALLAS
23
321
532
144
THOMAS
24
321
533
145
PHILLIP HENRY
24
321
541
146
WILLIAM HENRY
26
322
542
148
ROBERT WILSON, Sr.
26
322
543
150
JOHN BRYANT
27
322
546
152
JAMES WALTER TOM
28
322
547
154
JOHN HENRY N. P.
29
322
551
156
WILLIAM HAMILTON
30
323
552
157
JOHN VIRGIL
31
323
553
157
DECANIE DEXTER
31
323
556
158
JOHN CALHOUN, Sr
34
323
557
159
BENJAMIN WYMAN, Sr
34
323
558
159
OLIVER PERRY, II
34
323
561
160
MARION JACKSON
44
331
563
161
ANGUS, Rev
49
331
564
162
SIMEON
49
331
565
164
DANIEL YOUNG
50
331
Chart
Number
Location
in Book
Dowling Head of Family
Discussed
on Page
Parent Chart
Number
566
165
GABRIEL PASTORY
51
331
568
166
SAMUEL LAWSON
57
331
569
167
NOEL BAXTER
58
331
570
168
LOUIS LAWRENCE
59
331
571
168
GEORGE WASHINGTON
59
331
573
169
WILLIAM REYNOLDS
63
331
574
170
GREEN BERRY
63
331
577
172
SIMPSON QUITMAN
65
331
578
173
STEVEN GALVESS
66
331
581
174
ZACHEUS ASBURY
69
332
582
174
JOSEPH BASKERVILLE
70
332
586
175
NOAH COLUMBUS
71
332
587
176
WM. RHEODORE, Sr.
72
332
591
177
WILLIAM ANDREW
76
335
592
178
JOHN CHAPEL
77
335
593
179
JAMES MULDROW, Sr.
77
335
594
180
SAMUEL PINKNEY
78
335
596
180
JOHN HARRISON
85
338
597
181
ROBERT ZEDOCK
85
338
598
181
SHELTON ISAAC
85
338
Dowling Family Reunions at Hopewell Baptist Church Hampton, SC
Photos courtesy of Edward T. Zeigler
1934 or 1935
1953
To Understand The Charts
Before listing ten guides which will aid your better
understanding of the Charts in this book, the author
calls your attention to the rule of thumb that he used in
listing Dowling-blooded cousins of the sixth and seventh generations . . . Approximately half of these
cousins are on Charts, bound into the branch of the
family in which they belong. The other half of such are
in the Addenda in the back of the book. WHERE ANY
SET OF FIRST-COUSINS DESCENDED FROM
ANY FIFTH GENERATION-DOWLING SEEMED
TO HAVE LITTLE CHANCE OF CARRYING ON
THE DOWLING NAME, THEY WERE PLACED IN
AN ADDENDUM FORM IN THE BACK OF THE
BOOK . . . But where any set of first-cousins (grandchildren) of a fifth-generation-Dowling have already
procreated males who bear the Dowling name, they
were placed on Charts. Of course, ROBERT and his
two wives (comprising this book's first generation) and
ROBERT'S children (comprising this book's second
generation), and the third, and fourth, and fifth generations are all on Charts.
NOTICE! As you read each of the following
guides, it is suggested that you glance at the Chart on
which your name appears (see Index) so that the application of each guide to your close kinsmen may be
more easily understood.
1. The given-name of a person born a Dowling is
ENTIRELY CAPITALIZED. For example, if you see
the name . . . SARAH . . . this automatically shows you
that this person bore the name of Dowling at birth.
Such persons, and all others that are ROBERT'S
descendants, have a (-) in front of their name.
2. There is always but one descendant of
ROBERT'S in a rectangle; and this descendant always
has a dash preceding the name. Any other name in that
rectangle is that of a mate.
3. Children born to the person at the top of each
Chart run crosswise (horizontally) in the duo-lined rectangles.
The grandchildren of the person at the top of each
Chart run downwards (vertically) in the single-lined
rectangles.
4. Should you wish to locate the parents of the person at the top of a Chart, you will notice a reference
within that top rectangle to an earlier Chart. There is
also a page-reference where text material concerning
this person in the top rectangle may be found.
5. Any person at the top of a "300-series" Chart is
a cousin (or your ancestor) of ROBERT'S third gener-
ation . . . Remember that ROBERT was the first. Any
person at the top of a "500-series" Chart is a cousin (or
your ancestor) of ROBERT'S fifth generation.
6. On the "500-series" of Charts, the author
squeezed in one last bit of eighth generation information; namely, a numeral inside the rectangle of each
grandchild showing the number of offspring that had
been born to that grandchild as of the time of this
book's publication. (Some of the names of these eighth
generation people are given in this book's index in
those instances where the name of Dowling was being
carried on.)
7. In the interest of brevity and clarity, no surname
is ever given for the child or children whose parents
are above them. So get in the habit of looking upward
for the surname of any Dowling blooded person
(namely the person with a dash in front of his name).
8. Any multiple marriage of this Dowling-blooded-person is indicated with the letter "a" or "A" tying
together the mate and children of the first marriage . .
. and "b" or "B" tying together the mate and children of
the second union . . . and "c", etc., for any third marriage, etc.
9. A cross-mark at the end of a family of children
indicates that there are no other known children of the
Dowling-blooded-person above them. Similarly, a
question-mark at the end of a family shows that there
were possibly more brothers and sisters than the ones
listed. If blank rectangles precede the cross-mark or
the question-mark, the author knows that there were
childrens' names who belonged in each rectangle, but
he was unable to gather them.
10. On each Chart of the "600-series" an attempt
was made to chart all brothers before listing the sisters.
No dates of birth were gathered on these generations
so no attempt was made to list each brother and sister
in order of birth.
11. Some people only have a first name and have
no middle initial; (nmi) after a name shows such a
ease. Others have a middle initial, but it does not stand
for anything; (io) is used in those eases.
12. The charts have been redesigned for easier
readership and are found in numerical order starting on
Page 103.
Preface
You have not always been here. Neither has your surname . . . But to your father . . . or grandmother . . . or
some close ancestor, the name Dowling has been one
which caused a surge of interest when it was mentioned. Their children who bore the name were part of
them; DOWLING distinguished them from Doakes . .
. If Dowlings did not all have the same hereditary
traits, they at least had the same name.
If God ran the film of life backwards for seven
hundred short years, to the time that your family-name
came into being, you would not recognize it. For the
Dowling that you are so interested in was then DUBHFHLANN. The first half of your name was the old
Irish word meaning "black"; and the last half meant
"calf" or "young one". Dublin, Ireland, has half of
your name. It was "Black Creek" . . . Dowlings were
"black calves."
During the particular centuries in which your and
my name has evolved, the Irish have resented British
domination of their country. The British in turn have
disliked Irishmen's independent ways to the extent of
passing laws as "Ye shall knuckle under to us even to
the extent of wearing English type dress and getting
an English type name". This happened before the
American history of our Dowlings and the United
States started, but it is a major reason that we bear
such an Anglicized version of such a "dyed-in-thewool" Irish name . . . Walk into a schoolhouse there
today and ask them to translate Dowling into their
Irish language and they would hand you your name,
ODUBHLAIN, little changed from the time of its creation.
A recent edition of a metropolitan newspaper
showing the places in Ireland that its major families
originated gave no less than six areas with the predominant name of Dowling (or its slight variation). In
Wicklow County alone there are now four townlands
called BALLYDOWLING! Author Edward
MacLysaght tells in the new book, "Irish Families",
how the Dowling chiefs were captured in 1609 and
sent from "Fearann ua nDunlaing" (meaning
Dowling's Country) to the Kerry-Limerick area . . .
Who knows but that one of these men was one of close
kin to our ROBERT Dowling's ancestor. This was
never written down, however, by him nor anyone in
detail; after all, these clan wars were an everyday
occurrence!
But the Irish part of our history (concerning such
men as the grammarian and annal-writer THADY
Dowling, who lived from 1544 to 1628) will not be
undertaken in this book. I deal instead with only the
Dowlings that I know that I am kin to, all of whom are
Americans . . . since the Revolution came along!
Another delineation of the people named in this book
has resulted from the emigration made by our familyfounder deep into the South from Mason and Dixon's
line within a decade after its establishment. Today,
judging by the mail-list of over one thousand cousins
that I have gathered at random, there are less than five
per cent of ROBERT'S descendants living outside the
South. It also happens that less than one per cent are
members of the Roman Catholic church.
Author Michael O'Brien states that there were
fifty-three Dowlings who were soldiers in the
American Revolution (all, of course, against the
British!) Our Social Security Administration, whose
index-system unfortunately only goes through the
sixth letter of a surname, tells me that there are now in
their files 9,256 people whose names start with the letters D-O-W-L-I-N. Judging by the Manhattan and
Brooklyn directories not one of these is a
Dowlingberg or Dowlingster or any other variation of
plain old Dowling! Based on a recent article by name
specialists it is my estimate that there are 15,000
Dowlings in the United States. Based on the same article's estimate of one million ( !) surnames in America
we would need room for fifteen billion people in this
country if there were as many Howells, Drinkwaters,
O'Sheas, etc., as there are Dowlings!
Many have been interested in the Dowling coatof-arms. There are two or three. One of these
escutcheons was granted on August 5, 1662, at
Kilkenny, Ireland. The motto on it, "FAVENTO DEO,
SUPERO", means "With the help of God, I conquer".
Three of the symbols painted on it might be clues to
the areas in which Dowlings were already living by
the end of the Middle Ages, namely: the Irish lion, the
Scottish oak, and the English lion. A heraldic interpretation of these would tell you that the oak means "holiness" and the lions stand for "deathless courage".
Shamrocks on this Dowling emblem indicate "industry and perpetuity".
Several have asked me WHEN I became interested in investing the thousands of dollars required for
this book; not knowing the exact date I would say that
it was in the 1930's when my mother borrowed a copy
of the old old newspaper article mentioned below.
Even more of the hundreds that I have interviewed
have asked WHY I was doing this work. Well, in
World War II there were certain things that we did "by
the numbers" . . . so let me answer the "Why" of this
book with several reasons, in order of importance:
1 - Man lives not by bread alone; he needs a hobby.
2 - My memory is no better than average. If I didn't
have a written record of, say, the persons that married
my first cousins, I would be in the same fix with the
majority of those people interviewed. 3 - Esprit de
corps isn't born into your children. Pride of heritage, a
sense of responsibility, the realization that he success
(or flop!) achieved by Uncle Joe's grandson is close by
. . . all these things can best be emphasized with a reference-text at hand. 4 - It's never been done before.
Except for the excellent brochure "To The Dowlings
Who Served in America's Wars", by Cousin MAUD
Dowling Turner of Texas, there is no American publication existing with as much as five pages of material
about Dowlings!
As to HOW I have been able to gather so much
material, my path was made easier by such things as
the following: In 1857 near the little one-store community of Ozark, Alabama, two men sat talking. The
younger man, twenty-three year old ANGUS
Dowling, had just been licensed by the Methodist
Church as a preacher. He was questioning seventythree year old DEMPSEY Dowling about his ancestors . . . where they came from . . . what their names
were and what had happened to them. This conversation came none too soon; for by the time the Civil War
ended the elder man died.
Information obtained that day along with other
material was eventually published in Ozark's
"Southern Star" on August 12, 1903. This three-column article under the by-line of NOEL PEELER
Dowling, brother of ANGUS, gave me a start on this
book. Other major contributions were made by the
thirty years of work done by Mrs. Beulah Barnet
Dowling of Florida prior to her recent death and the
subsequent permission by her son, ROBERT LEE
Dowling, Jr., for me to abstract her material. I am also
grateful for the loan of an unpublished manuscript by
JOEL FRAMPTON Dowling, Sr., of South Carolina
and the aid given me by Judge Folks Huxford, author
of "Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia" and by Mrs. Sarah
Grady Passmore, former DAR official of Alabama. I
also wish to thank Benjamin A. Meginniss, author of
"The Third Hour", for his professional assistance.
This book was published for the benefit of the layman. Thus you will find a minimum of references
which would "prove" anything. My father's statement
to me that he was the son of NOEL B. Dowling has
not been prejudiced by my inability to find documentary proof of such; no Southern state kept birth records
at the time he was born. In fact, I was amused ten
years ago to learn that I had not been born (if Alabama
birth records were to be depended on) !
I have spent no time acquiring dates of birth, place
of burial, etc., that pertain to my generation nor to the
one immediately preceding; neither did I attempt to
list brothers and sisters of these two generations in
exact order of birth. But no effort was spared to obtain
and print such data concerning every kinsman and his
mate who happened to be contemporary with my
grandfather and his predecessors; namely: ROBERT'S
fifth generation, and earlier.
One odd thing that the reader will notice in this
book is the CAPITALIZATION of every letter in certain people's names. Its purpose is twofold: first, it
automatically points out that such a person was born
with the Dowling surname. Second, it saves needless
repetition and space. So please understand that
ROBERT LEE in this book is a Dowling boy with the
middle name of "Lee".... Mr. Dowling's daughter
MARY is probably known to most as a "Mrs. Smith",
but this book will always refer to her as MARY Smith
thus allowing you instantly to know that she is a
Dowling's daughter who married a Smith!
You will find an added system in this book's
Addenda which will help you spot your cousins. Take
the women like our MARY Smith above as an example; never again will they bear the Dowling surname.
But they have just as many of the characteristics of
ROBERT as does the author. So to aid you in recognizing these cousins of yours who were born to a
female descendant of ROBERT'S I have placed a dash
(-) in front of such cousins' names. Though each
Addendum only contains the names of approximately
two generations of your cousins, you will find these
dashes extremely helpful when interested in extracting, for example, MARY Smith's twelve children and
eighty grandchildren from the particular Addendum
where they and all their mates are listed;
Every effort has been made to follow the CAPITALIZATION rule whether in the text, on the Charts,or with the few Dowling-named people who fall into
the Addenda. The DASH rule mentioned above is not
used much in the text of the book—only in the
Addenda and on the charts.
Now just as the CAPITALIZATION rule cuts out
the need for repeating Dowling over and over, you
will likewise find that no other family name is repeated when it has just been mentioned (by reference to
parents, etc.) a short space above.
A fourth short-cut or guide is this: the several
thousand marriages shown in the Addenda are indicated by the letter (m) in parentheses. A minute's test of
your ability to remember these guides will double
your comprehension of this book's information. All
four short-cuts are utilized in this example: "MARY
and John Smith had the following two children,
-Horace (m) Alice Kelly; -Helen (m) K. D. Belser." . .
My four guides tell you that MARY was born a
Dowling, that Horace and Helen are kin to you, that
their name at birth was Smith, and that marriages took
place with mates named Alice Kelly and K. D. Belser.
Thanksgiving 1959
The Father of Our Family: ROBERT
O
can be seen on present-day Darlington County
maps.
It is not known where ROBERT and Sarah's
home stood. DEMPSEY stated that his grandfather's home was on Jeffries Creek, a larger stream
two miles east of Boggy Gully. By 1900 the site of
ROBERT'S old log-house or that of one of his son's
was faintly visible. Descendant John Marsh and his
grandfather SIMEON went there from Alabama
searching for the place; they probably had the aid of
FRANCIS ASBURY, SR. (born twenty-nine years
after ROBERT'S death). All they could find was a
"hollow-tree" well casing that had once enclosed
the primitive well shaft. The home had probably
been abandoned after the death of Sarah Guinn
Dowling in 1808.
ROBERT moved to South Carolina five years
after the first Methodist church was founded in
America. His daughter-in-law is known to have
joined a Methodist Church twenty-six years after
this. With all Dowling emigrants from Ireland, that
the author has knowledge of, being Catholic, he
wonders when and how ROBERT or his forebear
was converted. Did Bishop Francis Asbury accomplish the task ? If so, the job was well done, for
three of the grandsons shown on Chart 101 became
Methodist preachers. Apparently, ROBERT had no
use for strong drink; the year after he arrived in
South Carolina, court records of the district in
which he lived mention his complaint to the Grand
Jury of a Joseph Gourly's drunkenness.
Little is known of ROBERT'S three daughters.
MARY AN Stewart's husband was probably named
John; John Stewart was given fifty cents by SIMEON Dowling's administrator for the purchase of
planks with which to make the latter's coffin. A
Noel Stewart bought the Bible of the deceased. All
other information on these Dowling girls is given in
ROBERT'S will below. The author believes, however, that SARAH married a man by the name of
Frederick Lee and resided in the Salkehatchee River
area of South Carolina by 1786,
Shortly after the call to arms by America's revolutionists, ROBERT became a soldier. He chose to
fight with the men of his home state; by May of
1777 he was enrolled as a private with Captain
William Vause's Company of the 12th Virginia
Regiment. Records of the same unit several months
later showed his name (ROBERT Doling!) on the
invalid List with eight and 24/72nds dollars of pay
n August 1, 1643, a FRAMPTON Dowling
arrived in Virginia on board Captain Samuel
Matthews' ship. It is not known whether he was the
father of a Corporal WILLIAM Dowling mentioned
in Maryland records of 1694 nor whether he was
kin to the ROBERT Dowling referred to in the
Augusta County records of Virginia in 1700.
It is known, however, that in Virginia about
1730 a small Dowling was born and given the name
of ROBERT. Had he died without issue, no
Dowling-blooded person mentioned in this book
would have ever lived. For he was the father of this
Dowling family—a family that has more descendants in the South than any other by the name
Dowling.
When this lad married, no one bothered to write
down the wife's name. Everyone knew it. . . then!
Yet a century later an elderly grandson, DEMPSEY
Dowling, did remember that she was of Virginia
birth and that she had borne one child: his halfuncle WILLIAM.
Passing on the breath of life in the 1750's was
costly. ROBERT'S young wife died in childbirth.
Son WILLIAM, true to his Irish ancestry, would
prove to be a thorn in the side of the British, then
dominant in America.
After Mrs. Dowling's death, family-founder
ROBERT married a second time (see Chart 101).
This marriage was in 1754; bride Sarah Guinn was
also a Virginian, a member of the Guinn family who
so distinguished themselves in the Revolution.
Little did Sarah know that forty-six years later she
would be in far-off Darlington District, South
Carolina (where as the widow "Dooling" she would
have only memories of the "Old Dominion").
By 1773 something caused ROBERT and his
family to leave Virginia. For that is the date in
South Carolina that King George lI's deputy-surveyor, John Bremar, Esquire, "admeasured and laid
out unto ROBERT Dowling a plantation or tract of
land containing 300 acres. It is on Boggy Gully,
bounding on all sides on vacant land and hath such
shape and marks as the above plat represents."
The preceding document and thousands of others (whose duplicates were preserved by the King's
men, nearly two centuries ago) may be seen in the
War Memorial Building collection at Columbia,
South Carolina. ROBERT'S tract was cut through
the middle by Boggy Gully branch, a stream that
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and chattels land and tenements to act and to
take and dispose as she sees good for her own
use and support during her life or widowhood if
she be in want. I give and bequeath to my eldest
daughter five Shillings—I give to my daughter
MARY-AN Stewart five Shillings. Also I give to
my oldest son JAMES Dowling five Shillings.
Also to my son JOHN Dowling one bed and furniture. Also to my daughter ELIZABETH
Ogelsbee and my daughter SARAH I leave the
land I now live upon to be divided between
them. Also to MILLY Dowling the daughter of
ELIZABETH one pided cow—Earling and hur
name marked with a split in each ear if cow
should breed the beef cattle shall be sold and the
money put on interest after the death of the
Testator till she cums of age and then to be delivered to hur or hur lawful hairs; (author's comment: it is unknown why the inheritor of this
"earling" should not have been referred to as
Milly Ogelsbee); and also to my youngest
daughter I give and bequeath after our deaths all
the rest of our goods and chattels lands and tenements to hur and hur hairs forever. I leave my
wife Sarah Dowling and JAMES Dowling (both
of the state of South Carolina) for and absolute
Executors to them my last will and testament and
I do hereby utter my disalow revoke and
dessavou all and every other former testament
wills segours bequeaths and exceutors by me in
any wise before named willed and bequeathed
ratifying and confirming these this and no other
to be my last will and testament in witnys where
of I have hearunto set my hand and seal this 20
day of March in year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-four."
due him. Later he was with the sixth Regiment of
the North Carolina Continental Infantry with
Captain White's outfit. He fought at Musgrove's
Mill, Guilford Courthouse, and in two battles
that historians mention as Ameria's mightiest
blows for freedom: the Battle of the Cowpens
and the Battle of King's Mountain. Pay voucher
number 1563 in North Carolina records (Volume
16, page 1042) shows that ROBERT'S pay for
eight years of military service was a total of
$186!
The contributions made to the independence
of our nation by all three of ROBERT'S sons are
listed in following chapters. Prior to the death of
this first ancestor whose Christian name we
know, the author catches a last glimpse of him
(on America's first census). He was still a backwoods farmer; he owned no slaves; the four
youngsters living with him and Sarah were most
likely those of his martyred son WILLIAM.
Nearby were the pioneer families of & Saoni
Boutwell and John Stokes – families whose
descendants would later marry ROBERT'S offspring. Sons JAMES and JOHN still lived; also,
there was over a score of grandchildren . . .
Then, there was something else that the
Dowlings had never owned . . . never in all the
centuries through which their ancestors had
flowed. That was the freedom to govern themselves. This father and his three boys showed
great wisdom in fighting for it.
ROBERT'S last testament, here reproduced,
is on record in the courthouse at Darlington,
South Carolina: “I, ROBERT Dowling of State
of South Carolina, County of Darlington, being
very weak of body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God calling into the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain
this my last will and testament that is to say princepely and first of all I give and recommend my
Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it,
and my body I recommend to the earth to be
buried in decent Christian burial at the discrietions of my executors nothing doutting at the
General Resurrection I shall receive the same
again by the Mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherein it hath pleased
God to bless me in this life. I give demise and
dispose of the same in the following manner and
form, First I give and bequeath to Sarah
Dowling, my dearly beloved wife all my goods
By: ROBERT Dowling
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The WILLIAM Dowling Branch of Our Family
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Salkehatchee before war broke out with England.
Young WILLIAM responded to the call, though not
by joining the "regulars" as had father ROBERT.
Instead, he joined the most dreaded band of guerillas that warfare had ever known: the backwoods followers of the “Swampfox", General Fransis Marion!
American history-books tell of the many times
that these men existed by eating sweet potatoes
meal after meal. It wes with them that WILLIAM
fought in the hopeless defense of Charleston. And it
wes England's revocation of the paroles originally
granted these defeated Colonists after that battle and
British insistence that frontiersmen be gathered up
to fight for the King that is thought by historians to
be the act that later caused such brilliant fighting by
the Carolinians.
WILLIAM was undoubtedly a "shirt-sleeve"
patriot . . . one who did not always take time to don
his uniform. For his name is not on the official list
of Marion's men. But the enemy had his name on a
list! . . . Before the heat generated in this fight which
oftentimes involved neighbor against neighbor had
died away in the 1780's, he was caught at home by
a bunch of Tories and shot dead on the spot!
Dowling's twelve-year old son, JABEZ, looked on
helplessly as the muskets boomed! The war was
over, but only the leaders had signed the peace
treaty.
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OBERT'S only child by his first wife is
thought by some to have been born as late as 1756.
But King George's grant of South Carolina land to
this Dowling son, WILLIAM, in 1771, indicates a
possible error in such a birth date. Adding proof to
this is an 1899 article reporting that WILLIAM married in Virginia before coming southward. By the
summer of 1770 he was in South Carolina.
It is interesting to notice the old maxim that
youth ventures first in the case of WILLIAM and
father ROBERT. For the former arrived in the
Carolinas two years earlier than did ROBERT, or so
their respective land grants indicate.
The tract of land granted WILLIAM in 1771
was sixty acres in size and lay on Flat Creek "in
Craven County". That old county covered over twothirds of South Carolina; it was strictly a wilderness
with few whites in it, so only men of pioneering
instinct dared invade it. Adjoining the farm that
WILLIAM cleared were the lands of a William
Breton and a widow Gibson. Dowling's "quit-rent"
to the King's collectors in January of 1774 is proof
of his residence in today's Darlington County area
prior to his subsequent move.
By 1775 WILLIAM had moved one hundred
miles to the southwest; he had decided to leave
unsettled Craven County for the more stable
Orangeburg District. The latter was near enough to
the Savannah waterway on the southern border of
WILLIAM'S state that for almost a century a portion of its area had been known as Colleton County.
WILLIAM'S OLDEST SON JABEZ
(See Chart 311 and 101)
JABEZ, the oldest son of an oldest son, was
born in 1770 between March and August. Rebecca
gave birth to him in South Carolina He was carried
to the Little Salkehatchee area as a child.
JABEZ married young as had father
WILLIAM. For Author Folks Huxford states that
spinster ELIZABETH Dowling (residing in 1850
with the Blackburns in Ware County) was a daughter of JABEZ. She was born in 1786. Another
daughter was probably the SARAH who married
Hansford Cleland in the Barnwell-Beaufort area. As
Chart 311 shows, she had a child named James
Henry. His daughter, Lillie Cleland, is the widow of
JOHN CALHOUN Dowling, Sr. (see Chart 556).
She resides in Brunson, South Carolina.
The 1810 Barnwell census shows that beside
the above two daughters JABEZ also had three others, all of whom were born within ten years prior to
It was at this third known home of WILLIAM'S
that history was to let young Dowling live his last
few years. He had purchased this farm from one
Thomas Ford; it was on the Little Salkehatchee at
Cypress Pond. This one hundred acre tract lay near
present-day Bamberg, South Carolina.
WILLIAM had probably married before leaving Virginia; for wife Rebecca Walker was a native
of that state (and a daughter of Nathanial and
Marian Walker). Author D. G. Copeland, who wrote
an excellent manuscript covering Orangeburg pioneers, stated that Rebecca only lived until 1789;
also that she was about thirty-nine when she died.
Rebecca and WILLIAM'S children may be seen on
Chart 101. The place of this couple's burial is
unknown.
Hardly had these Dowlings settled on the Little
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that date. One of these would have been NANCY, born
1807, who married Jeremiah Walker, Sr., about twentytwo years later. This couple resided in the southern part
of Georgia and reared the eleven children named on
Chart 311.
In 1800 JABEZ sold, for fifty pounds sterling, a
one-hundred acre tract of land adjacent to Cypress
Pond. It is most likely the land that father WILLIAM
had purchased a quarter-century earlier. Other places
owned by JABEZ included a 609 acre tract granted him
by the state in 1810 and described as lying next to ELIJAH'S farm on a road leading from the Johnston Bridge
(on the South Edisto) to the "Old Savannah Crossing"
(on the Little Salkehatchee).
By the age of thirty-eight Dowling was a Justice of
the Peace in the Salkehatchee area of South Carolina.
Georgia records show his "passport" affidavits so necessary for Carolinians desiring to cross the Creek
Nation that lay between them and New Orleans.
JABEZ saw a chance to even an old score in 1814.
The Americans and British were at it again, so he
enlisted in the defense forces of Colonel Youngblood's
Regiment, taking son DENNIS with him.
Shortly afterwards JABEZ and most of his family
left Barnwell District. One of his last acts in his native
state was the witnessing of brother ELIJAH'S will.
After a brief residence in coastal McIntosh County,
Georgia, these Dowlings moved to the section of old
Wayne County that now lies in Brantley County. There,
too, he was a Justice of the Peace, 1822-1824.
JABEZ spent nearly half of his life in the place he
moved next: the 590th Militia District of Ware County.
He and wife Rebecca were there at the time of the 1840
census. (Rebecca was about the same age as her husband; her maiden name is unknown. She died within
ten years after this. About 1825 she had helped organize that area's Smyrna Church.)
At this place, as in South Carolina, JABEZ helped
civilization's progress by teaching school; for this
grandson of ROBERT'S was a leader. In 1825 he
became church clerk of High Bluff Baptist Church
(called "Big Creek Meeting House" at one time); he
held this job continuously until his death over three
decades later. The 1828 minutes of the Piedmont
Baptist Association list him as a delegate. And on
December 11, 1843, he was licensed to preach.
Picturesque High Bluff Baptist Church still stands—its
old shingled roof probably overlooking the last resting
place of this Dowling couple.
. . . Preacher, teacher, farmer, public-servant. . .
and even an Indian fighter! For prior to his death
JABEZ was granted bounty-lands by the government in
recognition of his services in the Indian Wars that
flared around the Okefenokee in the 1830's. Copies of
the affidavits made by this ancestor of most of
Georgia's Dowlings describing his two military careers
may be obtained from Federal Archives. He had signed
the last one in 1855 at which time he was eighty-four.
The remainder of this memorable man's life is lost to
us. And one wonders whether this elderly Dowling
knew at the time what had happened to his younger
brother, MICAJAH.
All five of JABEZ's sons (shown on Chart 311)
migrated to Georgia with him. His oldest, named for
JABEZ's honored father, was WILLIAM II. This boy
had been born in 1791; and the girl he married January
7, 1813, in Barnwell County had been born in 1792.
Her name was Elizabeth Rhoden. It was three years
after this marriage that WILLIAM II and a younger
brother were given a 563 acre grant of land by South
Carolina. It was in the Salkehatchee area "on HalfMoon Branch and the waters of Lemon Swamp".
But within five years after marrying WILLIAM II
had disposed of land holdings (on the Salkehatchee and
Edisto rivers) to Zachariah Graham, Lot Copeland, and
Jesse Rice. These sales were no doubt in preparation
for the family's migration.
About 1830 these Dowlings moved to Lowndes
County, Georgia, near present-day Valdosta. Nearby
was the family of brother DENNIS. Both families were
to live in Lowndes during more than twenty subsequent
years. Living there with WILLIAM II and Elizabeth in
1850 was his ninety-year old mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary
Rhoden. She and Mrs. Dowling were of South Carolina
birth.
In the 1850's WILLIAM II and his family left
Lowndes and moved to Volusia County, Florida, near
present-day Daytona Beach. He died there October 28,
1858; wife Elizabeth was still alive two years later, living near Margaret Alden Dowling.
WILLIAM II'S OLDEST SON, JOHN RILEY,
had been born February 12, 1816, in the Salkehatchee
area. After the fourteen year old boy went to Georgia
with his parents he met Georgia-born Margaret Alden.
To finance their marriage JOHN RILEY sold, on July
31, 1850, the hundreds of Lowndes acres comprising
Lots 287 and 312 for one hundred dollars.
JOHN RILEY and Margaret were blessed with
their first child during a visit to Washington, D. C.,
October 18, 1852. (By the time of this babe's death
eighty-two years later he would be known as one of the
largest citrus-owners in Pasco County, Florida); the
parents named him WILLIAM NEWTON.
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Upon the arrival of these Dowlings in primitive
Volusia County JOHN RILEY was elected to the
position of Court Clerk. In 1858 he was re-elected
and it was most likely during an official trip up the
coast (aboard the bark "E. A. Rollins") that he wrote
the following poem to wife Margaret:
This solitude gives ample scope
To thoughts of doubts and in me of hope
Of thoughts that pass in quick review
There's one that is that I love you
I think of all your gentle acts
Of kindest deeds and simple facts
And of the course you will pursue
And then I think that I love you
You say that I don't love you now
Or else grown colder since our vow
But I assure you and it's true
I know I love and only you
Now should this separation last
and all our future prospects blast
or should it be that death ensue
Remember I love only you.
At first I thought 'twas pity made
Attentions sweet to you I paid
But afterwards I did pursue
And found I lov'd and only you
Written by John R. Dowling
On Board Bark E. A. Rollins,
June 25th 1859
And when we married as you know
I chose you from a lengthy vow
No other my affections drew
Because I lov'd and only you
By 1863 this Dowling was dead, a victim of the
squalid conditions which existed in a Yankee prison
at nearby St. Augustine! The literary vein so prominent in Ireland's Dowlings had been nipped at least
on this bud of the tree. A few months later Margaret
Alden bore her dead husband's last son, JOHN
WESLEY; and tragedy lay on the horizon for him,
too. Twenty-three years later the boy was killed by a
horse. (This Dowling family may be seen on Chart
501. Mother Margaret had been born May 16, 1822,
to Georgia-born parents. She moved to Hernando
County, Florida, in 1878, where she died June 17,
1897. She was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery near
Dade City, Florida Her gravesite and that of JOHN
RILEY'S are unknown; he was a fifth Dowling in
his line to be buried without a marker, for he and his
forebears had all lived on frontiers.)
WILLIAM II'S SECOND CHILD, MATTHEW
B., was born in South Carolina in 1827. Later, as a
grown man in Lowndes County, Georgia, it was he
who purchased brother JOHN RILEY'S land in
1850. Four years later, probably in preparation for
the Florida move, he sold half of this tract.
Florida's Archives show that MATTHEW B.
qualified as a Volusia court official in 1860; this was
two years after his only known son, JOHN
GASPER, had been born in that county. (Wife
Jane—? was of South Carolina birth and thirty years
old at the time of the 1860 Volusia census; daughters
ELIZABETH, eight, and MARY, six, were listed as
born in Georgia.
I know how you have been advis'd
And all my acts were criticis'd
From which your prejudices grew
To doubt that I lov'd only you
In truth I must acknowledge more
For I have met temptations sore
And trials many it is true
Though still I lov'd and only you
When any fault with me you found
Then I remember'd I was bound
To cherish love and then I knew
Full well I lov'd and only you
When I the last great stroke receiv'd
Myself disgrac'd and sadly griev'd
Destruction seem'd so plain to view
But still I lov'd and only you
And while in prison I'm confin'd
With many sorrows on my mind
My pleasant thoughts are very fiew
One is I love and only you
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seen on Chart 504.
WILLIAM WESLEY was a militiaman in
Lowndes County, Georgia, about the year he reached
adulthood. On February 8, 1838, he married Ardelia
Elizabeth Frier. (She was the daughter of Sarah
Peacock and Reverend Ryan Frier, pioneer minister of
the Missionary Baptist faith. Ardelia lived from 1825
until January 12, 1895, at which time she was buried
beside Mr. Dowling in the New Bethel Cemetery, near
Valdosta. He had died January 12, 1883.)
Just before War engulfed the South WILLIAM
WESLEY'S large family lived in Clay County, Florida,
at Middleburg. But his purchase of a 427 acre farm on
September 20, 1862, back in Lowndes County is
recorded at the Valdosta courthouse. Father DENNIS
was an advisor to the transaction as his name is on the
deed as a witness. This move occurred a few months
after son JOHN MOSES had gone to White Springs,
Florida, and joined the 1st Cavalry Regiment. At least
one or two more of this family saw service before the
war ended; the “W. W. Dowling” of Olmstead's
Georgia Infantry might have been our WILLIAM
WESLEY. Son WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR Dowling
also served. The guardian angel assigned to the latter
served a long time; in 1947 he became Commander-inChief of America's Confederate Veterans (later dying
two months before his hundreth birthday)!
DENNIS'S NEXT CHILD, ELIZA, married
Charles King, and moved to Jacksonville or south of
Perry, Florida. A son of theirs went to sea and was
never heard from again; they also had children named
Rebecca and Eliza (Betty?) as well as a son named
James Dennis King. The latter married the daughter of
Nathan King and their eighty-four year old son, Robert
Dennis, corresponded with the author just before this
book's publication from his home at Greenville,
Florida.
DENNIS'S LAST CHILD, REBECCA, was born
in 1825. At the age of seventeen she married one of the
many Samuel Registers in South Georgia. (This was on
June 30, 1842; groom Samuel had been born in Bullock
County, Georgia, July 17, 1812, to Ricy Johnson and
William Register—both parents being North
Carolinians.) REBECCA and Samuel are forbears of
the descendants listed in Addendum 602. Mr. Register
died November 12, 1886; REBECCA, July 9, 1908.
Both are buried at Wayfair Cemetery in Echols County,
Georgia.
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JABEZ had named his oldest son in honor of
father WILLIAM; in 1795 when a third son was born
to him and Rebecca they named him for Uncle
Grandmother Elizabeth Rhoden Dowling lived next
door to these Dowling children.)
MATTHEW B. Dowling joined the newly-formed
cavalry company of the East Florida District on
October 15, 1863. (This Company H was later assigned
to the 5th Florida Cavalry Battalion.) Four months later
the unit's roll listed him as A. W. O. L. But it is most
likely that the "M. T. Dowling" who later enlisted in
Company A of the same Battalion at Camp Preston is
our MATTHEW. Nothing further is known of this couple nor their three children.
WILLIAM II'S THIRD CHILD, REBECCA E., is
shown as a twentyyear old, South Carolina born girl on
her father's 1830 Lowndes County census in Georgia. It
is not known what happened to her after this; she might
have lost her life or her surname in South Georgia or
South Florida.
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JABEZ'S next son after WILLIAM II was a boy
named DENNIS. He too was born in the Salkehatchee
area in 1795. Twenty years later, on a beautiful March
15th, DENNIS Dowling married Mary Elizabeth
Moore. Both were the same age and she, also, was a
South Carolinian. Chart 311 shows the three children
born to them.
This young couple probably went to Georgia with
father JABEZ. For as a resident of Ware County in
1827 DENNIS won land that was being given to such
military veterans as himself. But by 1830 this family
was living in Lowndes County, Georgia. To defend his
farm against threatened Indian attacks DENNIS
crossed the nearby Florida border in 1837 and joined
that state's 2nd Militia Regiment. His training in the
War of 1812 had given him a good background for such
service.
DENNIS became a charter-member of the Unity
Primitive Baptist Church in 1841; at the age of fortyeight he was made a Deacon. Then for a twelve-year
period beginning in 1849 he served as a Justice of the
Peace in the 663rd District of Lowndes. He died May
6, 1871, or 1872, and was buried at Unity Church. Son
WILLIAM WESLEY'S sale of land (Lying in the
southern part of Lot 171 of the 11th Land District) "for
my mother Mary" was evidently a disposal of the old
homeplace for the aged widow. (Mary Moore Dowling
died on October 11, 1879, and was buried beside DENNIS; she had been a member of Antioch Methodist
Church.)
DENNIS'S OLDEST SON, WILLIAM WESLEY,
was born August 14, 1816, in the Salkehatchee area of
Barnwell District, South Carolina. His ancestors may
be seen on Chart 311 while his descendants may be
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grandchildren (see Chart 507) about her fear of the
wild animals during the journey. Also, how she had to
rest so often — nursing the babies and then taking
another tuck in her apron as she plodded onward.
Luckily, she arrived safely at the Hickox household.
Husband JACK, however, was almost lost in the
fierce fighting that raged to the north. One day he was
wounded; as he lay there unable to withdraw, a bluecoat came by and seeing him alive bayonetted him
over the ear. After regaining consciousness he was
able to crawl back to where others, all wounded, were
being loaded on flatcars of an evacuation train. The
withdrawing train wasn't able to go far though before
it became necessary to abandon it. By this time it was
each man for himself; and no sooner had JACK started the third leg of his flight than he realized that he
could go no farther. The tattered, grey - clad legs passing him dropped from a throng to a trickle. Then a pair
stood before him; what color were they? Dimly JACK
could distinguish that they were grey and not blue and
that the man was an officer. JACK said later that the
thought immediately raced through his mind that this
person would offer no help to a mere corporal. But he
did . . . and years later in the twilight of Mr. Dowling's
life there was only the deep scar of a bayonet over the
old man's ear to show for the incident.
JAMES II'S ONLY DAUGHTER, REBECCA,
was named for her mother, grandmother, and greatgrandmother. Born in 1831, in Georgia, she was the
oldest of the four children shown on Chart 311.
Nothhing more is known of her by the author.
JAMES II'S OLDEST SON, AARON, was a
large man. The nephew mentioned above was always
known as "Little Aaron." Before father JAMES II left
the Salkehatchee area he must have become quite
fond of the Rices. Thus Mr. Dowling named his firstborn AARON when he made his appearance July 26,
1827, at their Ware County, Georgia, home.
AARON married some twenty-three years later,
February 10, 1850. Chart 506 shows the dozen children born to him and Sarah A. Winn. (She was born in
Georgia on February 18, 1831, both her parents, Sarah
O'Berry and Joseph Jones Winn, being of Georgia
birth. Sarah lived until December 27, 1896; AARON,
until February 13, 1905. Both are buried at Sardis
Cemetery three miles west of Folkston, Georgia.)
When Charlton County, Georgia, was created in
1864, AARON was a member of its first County
Board. Three years later he became the first Ordinary
that adjoining Pierce County ever had. Of over thirteen Dowling cousins serving the Confederacy from
South Georgia he was the only officer, surrendering
JAMES. For under Marion those two sons of
ROBERT'S had been together in some close corners.
JAMES II and brother WILLIAM II received
the aforementioned grant of land (near present-day
Bamberg, South Carolina) in 1816. Though JAMES II
was a grown man at the time he must have needed
land more than he needed a wife. It is pretty certain
that he did not marry until the Dowlings reached
Georgia. JAMES II'S mother had been named
Rebecca; so had his grandmother Dowling. One
would think by looking at Chart 311 that this young
man decided to make it three in a row! For about 1826
he too married a Rebecca (her maiden name is
unknown; she had been born in the Peachtree State
thirty years previously).
In 1833 JAMES II began a twelve year tenure of
office as a Justice of the Peace in the 590th Militia
District. Four to six years later he took on the additional job of Captain in command of surrounding militiamen whose arms protected the settlers from
marauding savages.
After the 1850 enumeration of this Dowling family in Ware County DARLING II, a seventeen year old
son, and father JAMES II died. They were probably
victims of the dreaded epidemics that periodically
invaded the primitive homes of nineteenth century
America. Widow Rebecca, age sixty-four, was still
living ten years later. (Pierce County had enveloped
the old homeplace; and next door, her youngest son,
JABEZ JACK was living.)
JAMES II'S YOUNGEST SON, JABEZ JACK,
was born in Ware County, Georgia, on August 5, 1838.
As have so many other Dowlings, this one would be
long-lived, not dying until January 6, 1920. During all
his life he was known as JACK Dowling.
JACK married the daughter of Sarah Altman and
David Hickox (wife Sarah had been born to those
Wayne County pioneers on October 8, 1842; she lived
past eighty, dying December 21, 1922. She and JACK
are buried in the large cemetery a mile west of
Hickox, Georgia.). This wedding took place
December 23, 1858, and was witnessed by JACK'S
brother AARON and a Harley J. Hickox.
Shortly after Sarah gave birth to twins, JACK
was placed on the roll of Captain John T. Wilson's
Satilla Rangers (50th Georgia Infantry Regiment).
With no man in the house it was imperative that Sarah
return to her parents, miles away . . . Early one morning she packed her apron full of clothes for little
AARON and EMMA and with a baby in each arm
began the long trip through the woods.
A half-century later Sarah delighted in telling her
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year, on October 10th he married Letitia Thomas (she
was the twenty-two year old daughter of Captain
Banner Thomas who had led the 590th Militia as had
DAVID'S father. Letitia was probably born in
McIntosh County, Georgia; she and DAVID died in the
Reconstruction Period, thus their graves were never
marked. They were both alive in 1870.
DAVID C. was a tall, dark-eyed, frail man. Some
say that he was an even six feet in height. He had probably met Letitia at services in High Bluff Church for
her parents had been received by letter into that
Church when Letitia was fifteen. This Dowling was a
God-fearing man and a good provider. Pierce County
records show the sale by him of 980 acres of land
about 1872. This family owned a large number of cattle; father DAVID processed some of their hides into
leather, later making this into shoes and saddles. Life
in that time was primitive; even after daughter POLLY
had grown up, the brightest glimmer of livelihood for
her and the husband she had just married was to live in
the middle of Okefenokee Swamp (on Cowhouse
Island) where their traplines and fishing supported
their thirteen children.
As POLLY and the other children of DAVID'S
(shown on Chart 509) were growing up, Mr. Dowling
was concerned about their education to the extent of
hiring a teacher and building a log-cabin in which
school could be held. The oldest child was just twenty
when the war came!
Before the uncivil Civil War was over it must
have shaken this family to the roots; DAVID C's
grandson told the author that he didn't know that his
father had brothers by the name of WILLIAM W. and
DAVID L.... What happened to them? WILLIAM W.
had been enrolled in the 24th Georgia Cavalry
Battalion on June 19th, 1862; the photostat of DAVID
L's infantry record showed that he was captured at
Frederick, Maryland, in September of 1862, his condition necessitating admittance to a hospital. The following month he was exchanged, at which time he was
placed in a Richmond hospital for eighteen days. Then
he was given a furlough for a month's period; yet after
a subsequent extension of this for three weeks his company seems to have never heard from him again (or so
the 50th Georgia Infantry records through February of
1863 would indicate.)
The demand for Southern manpower was so terrific that father DAVID C. had to help man the ramparts. Captain E. D. Hendry's Mounted Infantry
Company, known as the "Pierce Mounted Volunteers"
had been formed to defend the Confederate coast
between Georgia's Altamaha River and the St. Mary's.
at Appomattox as a Lieutenant in the 50th Georgia
Infantry Regiment.
AARON lived in Baker County, Florida, in the
1880's; later these Dowlings moved near Sardis
Cemetery, west of Folkston, Georgia. The father's willingness to offer himself for governmental work was
the beginning of a tradition on this limb of the tree; son
JAMES RILEY became a Georgia Senator, representing Pierce County at the end of the century; grandson
FRANK JOSEPH, as a Baker County Judge in Florida,
estabblished a near record for the number of marriages
ever performed by one man; great-grandson WALTER
CECIL, a U. S. diplomat, is sketched elsewhere in this
book; grandson JAMES LEMUEL was a 1927 legislator from Colquitt County.
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In the last year of the 18th Century, on March 13th,
JABEZ Dowling's fourth son was born . . . Now that
father WILLIAM had been honored . . . and Uncle
JAMES had been honored . . . it was about time for
JABEZ to perpetuate his own name. This he did,
adding the Bible's "Lazarus" for good measure (see
Chart 311).
Young JABEZ LAZARUS was still single when
he left his Salkehatchee birthplace. But during the
short residence of his parents in Wayne County,
Georgia, this twenty-two year old Dowling was captivated by the fourteen-year old daughter of Wayne pioneer Benjamin Davis. Beautiful Honor Eliza Davis had
good reason to be attracted by this slender South
Carolinian; for he had already earned the bars of a
Lieutenant in the 335th Militia. (They married April
14, 1822, in her home county. She had been born in
Wayne, December 18, 1807, and would live past her
seventy-third birthday. The burial place of this couple
is unknown though they are probably in "Dowling
Cemetery" on the banks of the Satilla, east of Hickox,
Georgia. This branch of the family donated the land.)
Five years after JABEZ L. married Eliza the
"History of Ware County" tells us that he was one of
the first four men in that huge old county to win lottery
land. For it was about this time that the three younger
sons of JABEZ and the elder Dowling settled in Ware
County, in an area that was made part of Pierce in
1858. Until 1839 JABEZ L. captained a Militia
Company, the 590th; later this service earned Eliza a
pension. JABEZ LAZARUS died on March 4, 1865.
THE FIRST CHILD OF JABEZ L., SR. was born
on July 1, 1823, and named DAVID C. Like his mother and his grandfather Dowling, this boy matured
early. The history of Ware County, Georgia, states that
he was in the militia as early as 1838. The following
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1836; named AVERY, he lived less than two years. The
fifth daughter of Mr. Dowling’s and Honor Eliza's was
SOPHINA BELL, born April 9, 1838. On December
16th after her twentieth birthday she married William
Edwards. Any possible descendants of this union have
not been sought.
JABEZ LAZARUS SENIOR'S EIGHTH CHILD
was daughter MARY MARTHA, born December 7,
1840. A striking portrait of her and her husband David
Raulerson is owned by grandson Lonnie W. Manning,
who lives near the Raulerson Cemetery at the junction
of the two Satilla Rivers. (MARY MARTHA and David
are buried there. She was his second wife, marrying
him at the age of sixteen, February 26, 1857. David was
thirty-three at the time, having been born to Nancy
Baggs and Jacob Raulerson in Georgia on May 5, 1823.
David's mother was also of Georgia birth but his father
was a South Carolinian.) David Raulerson died at the
age of eighty-five, June 10, 1908; MARY MARTHA
was eighty-three at the time of her death, February 12,
1924. Addendum 607 records their descendants. The
author was fascinated by the name of one of MARY'S
brother-in-laws; it was Nicebud Raulerson!
THE NINTH CHILD OF JABEZ L'S was named
HESTER ANN. After the little tot's birth on May 11,
1843, she did not live long.
Except for infant AVERY it had been twenty-three
long years by 1846 since JABEZ LAZARUS Dowling
had sired a male . . . On March 16th of that year wife
Eliza gave birth to a child; the husband was overjoyed
that it was a boy! "JABEZ LAZARUS . . . JUNIOR . .
shall be his name," said the proud father . . . Now that
a century has elapsed it can well be seen that this young
Dowling did a good job of carrying on the name!
Notice the fifty - seven grandchildren shown on Chart
511. ("JABE" as the boy was called married Jim Crew's
daughter, Susan, about 1865, at which time she was
eighteen. It was Susan's sister Nancy that married the
previously mentioned Jacob Altman. Susan died in
October, 1917, about four years after the death of husband JABEZ LARARUS, JR.; both are buried in
Moore Cemetery a few miles north of Hoboken,
Georgia.)
JABEZ LAZARUS, SENIOR'S ELEVENTH
CHILD was born in 1849 on April 22nd. This girl,
REBECCA ELIZA, was still single as late as the 1880
Pierce County, Georgia, census. She probably married
twice. Author Folks Huxford's excellent genealogical
books concerning South Georgians show her marriage
to Mr. A. Petty. Others have stated that the Moore
Cemetery grave of "Mrs. Rebecca Roberson, Died
January 25, 1923" is the last resting place of this
Mr. Dowling served in it and seemingly was never
exposed to the ordeals suffered by his sons.
THE NEXT TWO CHILDREN OF JABEZ L's
were the daughters LUVICEY and TEMPERANCE.
The older of these married an Altman; as the Ware
woods are full of Altmans, around Waycross, it would
be an easy matter for the fortunes of LUVICEY (born
1825) to be traced; but the author did not have time to
do this. Her father's Bible shows her marriage to Jacob
Altman on February 15, 1844. It is believed that this
Jacob Altman, before dying about 1889, left children
by the name of Lottie, Jane, Dave, Bud, Noah, and
Jacob. Son Jacob married Nancy Crews and their
daughter "remembers Uncle JABE Dowling" (referring
evidently to LUVICEY’S younger brother); this daughter, Mattie Altman Sweat, was a sister of Owen K.
Altman, who married Ella Doggett. Then we also know
that Jacob Altman, Sr.'s grandson, Charles Hyson
Altman (son of Noah) married DARLING WESLEY's
daughter EMMA.
TEMPERANCE (DOWLING) became the first
wife of Lieutenant James A. Rowell on April 16, 1845.
(He had been born in Camden County, Georgia, on
June 4, 1820, son of James Rowell whose father, John
had fought in the Revolution. Lt. Rowell was quite a
man; by his second wife he had twins at the age of seventy; also he lived past his ninetyfourth birthday, dying
April 22, 1915. The 1810 birthdate on his tombstone is
erroneous.) TEMPERANCE and James A. were members of the Primitive Baptist Church at Hickox,
Georgia. She lived from January 14, 1828, until May
20, 1889; she and Mr. Rowell are buried in the remote
Dowling Cemetery east of Hickox, Georgia. Their children and grandchildren are named in Addendum 604.
OFFSPRING NUMBER FOUR AND FIVE
BORN TO JABEZ L. were also daughters. And both of
them married brothers! Sister ADELINE, born 1832,
married Isham Crews as his first wife; she died before
1888 and was probably buried at Moore Cemetery
north of Hoboken, Georgia. The children born to her
and Isham are listed in Addendum 605; Isham is buried
in the Hortense, Georgia, Cemetery. He married ADELINE August 18, 1851.
Sister SABRA SALINA, born 1833, married
William John ("Jack") Crews. Their offspring are
shown in Addendum 606; grandson Walter Crews is
present sheriff of Brantly County. This daughter of
Honor Eliza Dowling's is buried in Moore Cemetery;
Mr. Crews was also buried there though neither grave
is marked. Their marriage date was November 29,
1849.
THE SECOND SON OF JABEZ L. was born in
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THE FIRST CHILD OF DARLING'S waa born on
June 27, 1825, and named MARY E. At the age of nineteen MARY married the son-in-law of Revolutionary
Soldier John Burnside of Bryan County, Georgia; his
name was Dempsey Griffin (Dempsey's father, James,
was disemboweled by one of his sixteen slaves on the
Griffin plantation shortly before the outbreak of the
Civil War. The elder Griffin had been born in South
Carolina.) Dempsey had been born nineteen days earlier than wife MARY; he lived until November 2, 1897,
and she lived until October 4, 1902; they are interred at
High Bluff. The large number of children and grandchildren left by this couple are named in Addendum
608.
SECOND DAUGHTER, MARTHA, was born to
Sophie and DARLING in 1827 on March 17th. After
maturity she married Edmond Thomas, a brother-in-law
of first-cousin DAVID C. (See Chart 311; Edmond had
been born September 4, 1820, to Mary and Banner
Thomas, a one-time court magistrate of Ware County.)
MARTHA'S husband lost his life in Civil War; yet he is
buried at High Bluff as is she. Her death occurred
March 10, 1875. Their numerous descendants are listed
in Addendum 609; "Buffalo Ban" M. Thomas, Georgia
legislator, was one of their children. Prior to father
Edmond's early death he had held the position of
Thomas County tax collector and at an even earlier date
had been a militiaman in the company of Captain James
A. Sweat's Indian fighters.
DARLING'S THIRD CHILD was named for the
infant’s uncle; little LAZARUS really should have been
born ten days earlier. Thus it could have been engraved
on his tombstone February 17, 1919, that he lived ninety years from the time of his birth! LAZARUS was
often called "Lashum" and "Lay" Dowling.
This grandson of JABEZ did not marry until he
was thirty. Mary Ann and he were not to have long
together; fifteen years later, she died leaving the fourteen children shown on Chart 514 . . . The many, many
trips made to the fish-pond by this lovable father to
wash the stacks of children's clothes is still remembered
by daughter "KATE". (Wife Mary Ann was the daughter of Bathsheba Thomas and William Guy; Mr. Guy
was the Georgia legislator who introduced the bill creating Pierce County out of the part of Ware that so many
of JABEZ'S descendants lived in. Mrs. Dowling's exact
death-date was October 8, 1874; she was born October
1, 1837; she and LAZARUS are buried at High Bluff.)
LAZARUS was one of the half-dozen Dowling
soldiers in the 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment's
Company A. He was a squad leader. On the second day
of the horrible Battle of Antietam (a clash near Sharps-
Dowling. The same sources told the author that Zibe
King of Nahunta, Georgia, or Schlatterville was a
descendant of hers.
THE LAST CHILD OF JABEZ L. was born in
1854, just before the action of Ware County that these
Dowlings lived in became a part of Pierce County. Mr.
Dowling and Eliza named the baby JOHN D.... Twentyone years later JOHN D. married Nancy Taylor, a girl
two years his junior. Two generations of their issue are
shown on Chart 512. JOHN D. was probably the
youngest of any of Grandfather JABEZ Dowling's
forty-five grandchildren (named on Chart 311). JOHN
died when only thirty-three, September 17, 1887; his
unmarked tomb is at the head of son WILLIAM LAYTON'S grave in Moore Cemetery, a few miles north of
Hobeken, Georgia. Wife Nancy is buried beside her
daughter, LIZA Hickox.
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DARLING Dowling, the fifth and last son of JABEZ,
just was old enough to remember his father's absence
from the Salkehatchee area during the War of 1812. For
this lad had been born in 1801. His Christian name
might be a clue to mother Rebecca's maiden name; for
Darling is a well-known surname in the Atlantic coastal
area.
After the previously mentioned emigration from
South Carolina DARLING met Benjamin Davis's
daughter, Sophie; they married August 17, 1824, in
Wayne County, Georgia. Father JABEZ performed the
ceremony. The reader will remember that Sophie's sister
married DARLING'S brother (see Chart 311). In the
1830's DARLING joined several other of the Dowling
boys of that area in the militia units organized to handle
the emergency created by nearby Indian uprisings. He
and brother JAMES II and nephew DAVID were paid at
Waresboro on April 11, 1839, for such service. Also,
wife Sophie later was awarded land for this.
In 1841 DARLING and Sophie joined High Bluff
Primitive Baptist Church. Ten years later the last of their
twelve children had been born. Few of the children had
married by then; much meat was needed . . . Father
DARLING was pursuing a deer one day, when glancing
back he failed to see a low-hanging limb! He struck it
with such force that it killed him instantly. His tombstone may be seen among the giant old cedar-trees at
High Bluff in the western edge of present-day Brantley
County, Georgia. Sophie lived almost forty years after
this event; she died about the age of eighty in 1890, and
is buried beside Mr. Dowling. She had been born in
Georgia though father Benjamin and Mrs. Davis were
South Carolinians.)
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years later these two Johns sisters and their Dowling
husbands were living side by side in Florida's New
River District. The offspring of the younger couple is
shown on Chart 516. (Annie also married Jasper
Altman and Richard Davis before her death about
1888. She is buried at old Mt. Pleasant Cemetery near
Chattahoochee, Florida. JAMES R. was born in I834.)
JAMES R. lost his life during the Battle of Ocean
Pond, near Olustee, Florida. He was shot off of the
white horse he had taken into one of the bloodiest battles of the entire Civil War; one-third of the attacking
Northern forces were killed or wounded. But the victory was an empty one for Dowling’s small family; in
fact, it is doubtful that they knew of JAMES'S death
for weeks afterward. For mother Annie had fled her
threatened home with her three small children . . . Of
JABEZ'S nine grandsons (by the name Dowling!)
who fought in this regretable conflict JAMES R. and
first-cousin JOHN RILEY are the only two who failed
to return home. To find how closely mankind was still
following the "survival of the fittest" rule in the nineteenth century one should try finding evidence in
Florida or Washington that either man ever lifted his
hand for "those glorious states' rights"!
THE SIXTH CHILD OF DARLING'S was
daughter HARRIETT, born in 1835. During the Civil
War she married a schoolteacher-farmer, William
Henry Stone. Mr. Stone was the son of Allen Stone
and __________ Thomas and it was HARRIETT'S
marriage that would later bring widower Stone, HARRIETT'S father-in-law, to the altar with a younger
daughter of DARLING'S! Henry, as the younger
Stone was called, died in 1917 at the age of seventyfive. Wife HARRIETT lived to be ninety-two! Their
tombstones are in North Prong Cemetery, Baker
County, Florida, near the place of their residence. Two
generations of their issue are named in Addendum
610.
HARRIETT'S younger sister, SELETA, was born
in 1837. As explained above, this Dowling girl married widower Allen Stone after the death of his first
wife. This second marriage of Allen's probably took
place after 1880 for SELETA is thought to be the
Dowling sister residing with younger brother DARLING WESLEY that year in Pierce County, Georgia.
Addendum 611 gives a list of sixth generation
"Dowlings" that issued from this marriage.
DARLING'S EIGHTH CHILD was daughter
MELINDAAVEY, born June 22, 1840. On her father's
1850 Ware County census she was mistakenly
referred to as "Mary Dowling, age nine", but sister
MARY already had a five year old daughter by this
burg, Pennsylvania, in which nearly 24,000 men were
lost) Dowling was wounded. Six months later these
wounds had caused his discharge; he mentions them
in an affidavit included in the Florida pension file of
fifth-cousin JOHN H. Also, in that file is his beautiful
signature.
At one period in his long life LAZARUS taught
others the intricacies of Sacred Harp singing that he
loved so much. He was a Deacon of High Bluff
Church. "Dowling Bridge" was built on the Satilla
near the place that LAZARUS once operated a ferry.
As evidence of his business abilities, he was appointed to handle the estate of his father-in-law’s, which
included several hundred acres of land.
DARLING HAD ANOTHER SON after
LAZARUS and named him JOHN. His birth came on
March 12, 1831. After the untimely death of JOHN'S
father the boy and his older brother were the mainstays in the farm-work so necessary to mother
Sophie's support of her dozen children. But by the
time he was twenty-four JOHN had begun visiting
Baker County, Florida, across the nearby state-line. It
was there that he was captivated by the charms of
Sarah Johns; . . . "and then they were married"
February 22, 1855, two years to the day after she had
taken up residence in the Sunshine State! (Wife Sarah
was the daughter of Sarah Leigh and Riley Johns and
had been born in Georgia December 17, 1839, as had
her parents. Mrs. Johns had been born in Camden
County; Mr. Johns, in Liberty; as a resident of Baker,
he was elected to that county's governing board.)
In 1860 JOHN and Sarah resided in the New
River District of Florida. From his farm there JOHN
went to Sanderson or Baldwin in May of 1862 and
joined Florida's 8th Infantry Regiment; he was placed
in Company F. Later, in the terrible slaughter that took
place at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, he became separated from his unit; two days after General Lee had withdrawn the surviving Southerners, the Yankee forces
found Dowling in the nearby woods. They kept him
imprisoned at Fort Delaware and Fort Lookout until
the end of the war . . . JOHN did not die until
September 17, 1912, and wife Sarah died twenty days
before her seventy-sixth birthday. They had first met
in Baker County . . . and there they are buried. The
graves of both are in North Prong Cemetery. Their
children are named on Chart 515.
JAMES R. WAS THE NEXT SON OF DARLING'S He not only followed JOHN in birth but in
marriage as well, marrying the younger sister of Sarah
Johns. Annie Johns is thought to have been about sixteen when she and JAMES married about 1856. Four
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named the 1491st Militia District the "Dowling Militia
District"! Present maps of Pierce County still call it
that.)
DARLING'S TENTH CHILD was born in 1846;
mother Sophie Davis Dowling named her EMMA
SORENTHO. About the time of the Civil War this
daughter married John Harris, brother of the abovementioned Mary Frances. Later Emma married Joe
Thornton and, finally, she married Nathan Dryden.
EMMA and Mr. Dryden are buried at High Bluff, her
death occurring when she was about eighty-one. The
seven children she had by these three marriages are
shown in Addendum 613.
The Dowlings loved the Harrises! . . . For the next
child of DARL ING'S also married one; this was daughter SOPHIA, born in 1848, who married a half-brother
of Mary Frances's and John's (before 1870). His name
was Lewis Randall Harris, son of Stogner by his second
marriage to a first-cousin named Rebecca Harris.
SOPHIA'S children and grandchildren are listed in
Addendum 614.
THE TWELFTH CHILD OF DARLING'S, the last
one, was born the year of his Dad's unfortunate death,
1851. They named him DENNIS II for the uncle who
lived over in Lowndes County, Georgia (see Chart 311).
But destiny had decreed this Dowling’s early death;
some time after 1860, while still a lad, he was killed...
in a diving accident!
time (this daughter being Nancy, who later married
John Strickland). An inspection of mother Sophie's
Pierce County census ten years later confirms the earlier census’s mistake. "Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia" is
also incorrect in stating that MELINDA died young; her
tombstone in High Bluff Cemetery shows a death-date
of September 12, 1921. The children of her only son,
EDGAR DEMPSEY, may be seen by turning to
Addendum 612.
DARLING'S NEXT CHILD, a boy, was the fifth
successive Dowling to suffer the hardships of war! . . .
First, there had been ROBERT and son WILLIAM in
the Revolution; then JABEZ had been caught in the War
of 1812; after the Georgia migration DARLING had
had to pitch in against the savages of old Spanish
Florida . . . It was inevitable that men should stew up a
fight for little DARLING WESLEY!
. . . It was about the time that this Dowling married Mary Frances Harris that a "fifth generation" war
came along. DARLING WESLEY promptly joined
Company A of the Satilla Rangers. In one of the winter
campaigns that followed "DARL" later told how the
snow was so thick on the soldiers' blankets the men
could hardly turn over in their bedrolls! He told his sister, "I would've gladly crawled under Mama's kitchen
stove back home, if I could've only been out of that
mess". Then, during one of the Virginia campaigns, he
was captured.
DARLING WESLEY returned to his home in the
584th Militia District where he and Mary farmed. The
family they reared is shown on Chart 517. These people
were Primitive Baptists; when that denomination's
church at old Fort Mudge was rebuilt "with planks"
DARL donated timber from his farm for the work. He
and his wife are buried at High Bluff Cemetery, near
Laura Walker State Park, Georgia (Mr. Dowling died
shortly before his seventy-ninth birthday, January 1,
1922, his birthday was January 30, 1843. Mary was
born the same year, on June 19th. She died November
14, 1925; her mother was Civility Robinson and her
father was Stogner Harris, born in Bryan County,
Georgia.)
The negligible manpower demands of the SpanishAmerican War allowed son DARLING S., of the above
couple, to escape military duty; otherwise, his age of
thirty-six qualified him excellently. DARLING S'S son
PERRY LEE had to fight in World War I.... There is a
saying that nature finally rebels; PERRY LEE'S only
two children . . . are girls! (During one period in the
1800's there were so many Dowlings concentrated near
the Satilla River near Waycross, Georgia, and responding to the various military calls that the authorities
WILLIAM'S SON ELIJAH
(See Charts 312 and 101)
While fighting in the American Revolution raged to the
north, colonists of South Carolina followed along in the
time-worn shores of the frontier. After the repulse of the
British fleet at Charleston, the year the Declaration was
signed, this colony was not bothered by the Redcoats
again until the siege of Charleston four years later. And
it was in this lull in 1778 that Rebecca Walker Dowling
bore W1LLIAM another son. ELIJAH was his name.
ELIJAH Dowling was married by the time he was
eighteen. Bride Elizabeth Rice was the daughter of
Elender Rhoden and Aaron Rice, Sr. She and ELIJAH
had grown up in the Salkehatchee area. Her father was
the great-grandson of the renowned Edmund Rice of
historic Sudbury, Massachusetts. (Her father had also
fought in the Revolution as a member of South
Carolina's militia; Mr. Rice had come to South Carolina in 1778 from Hanover County, Virginia, the place
of his birth twenty-two years earlier.)
Elizabeth and ELIJAH'S oldest child was a daughter, born during the last four years of the 18th Century.
ELIJAH had heard father WIL LIAM speak so fondly of
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Carolina Regiment during the War Between Thc
States. This was about the time that he had hired an
Oxford tutor to train his sons. Financially, the war
ruined him; as a man of proven business acumen, he
had been the advisor of many in vouching for the reliability of Confederate bonds. After Appomattox he
sold all possessions . . . even his pocket watch . . . to
aid those who had trusted him. Captain Winchester
Graham died November 9, 1877. After wife Eliza
Carey Smith died, December 27, 1869, he married "a
daughter of Colonel Brooks, near Augusta"; there
were no children by this marriage. It is not known
where these Grahams are buried. Winchester and
Eliza's marriage date was December 12, 1884.
SARAH'S youngest son was William Wesley
Graham, born the year after Winchester. William
Wesley married a girl named Sarah Morse, three years
his junior; they had at least two children: –Stephen G.,
who married a Willis; and—Anne G., wife of John D.
Brown. Mrs. Brown had a child named Ainsley G. and
three daughters, one of whom married Frank Kendall.
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It is said that father ELIJAH objected to the marriage of the next daughter, ELEANOR. When about
seventeen she married John Hanberry, March 4, 1817.
Evidence of the good choice she made for a husband
is the 1946 Associated Press article recalling how
James Leonard Hanberry (a grandson) had been one
of Walter Reed's heroic volunteers in proving that yellow fever was not contagious but caused instead by
mosquitoes. "Young Hanberry had voluntarily slept
three weeks in the soiled bedding of fever victims" yet
at the time of this book's compilation is in his eightythird year!
This hero of the Panama Canal's conquest was
the oldest son of ELEANOR'S son, Washington
Aaron. Aaron Hanberry is buried beside his wife,
Lena Hurst, in the Denmark, South Carolina, city
cemetery. No dates are on his marker, though his C. S.
A. affiliation (Company I of the 5th S. C. Cavalry
Regiment) is shown. Lena's marker indicates a life
span from July 20, 1850, to March 23, 1923. All the
children born to her and Aaron are shown in
Addendum 617.
ELEANOR Hanberry had five other sons. The
one born August 1l, 1818, Henry R., died single as did
Bartholomew, who lived from December 28, 1829, to
December 9, 1852. Son Decania Hanberry's wife bore
the Christian name of Clara Maggie; this couple bearing Henry Hanberry and Clara, the latter now the
ninety-three year-old widow of Dr. Sheridan Williams
of Savannah, Georgia. ELEANOR'S son Hansford
the stepmother that raised him that he and Elizabeth
agreed to name the baby in honor of Sarah Guinn
Dowling.
SARAH, or "Sallie" as some called her, married
a twenty-five year-old South Carolinian who had just
returned from helping General Andrew Jackson in the
famous Battle of New Orleans. Zachariah Goodwin
Graham, the husband, was a born adventurer. He had
been with Jackson at Horseshoe Bend in Alabama
when that warrior broke the back of the mighty Creek
Nation; at New Orleans he was a dragoon in Gerald's
Company.
In 1816 the year following SARAH'S marriage,
husband Zachariah was made co-executor of her
father's will . . . Before Mr. Graham's death over half
a century later he gave further proof of his business
abilities. As early as 1837 he deeded seventeen acres
of land for the establishment of a "turn out" on the
railroad that had just been laid in the Barnwell area.
(The many scattered references of burials of this
branch being made at Graham's Turnout refer to a
cemetery on this acreage that was probably started by
the Guess family. It is now in the edge of Denmark,
South Carolina, near Voorhees School.)
Following SARAH’S death Zachariah was married four more times. For his third wife in 1850 he
built a beautiful mansion patterned after the
Hermitage. In addition to a large number of slaves he
is known to have owned $250,000 worth of
Confederate bonds when the North-South struggle
ended. He died October 1, 1880. His burial place is in
Denmark's City Cemetery and SARAH was buried in
a family cemetery on the eastern edge of Denmark,
South Carolina.
SARAH Graham had a daughter named Ida
Elizabeth; this daughter married James Jones. Two
generations of the Jones descendants are given in
Addendum 615. This girl and the two boys below
were her only children (See Chart 312).
SARAH'S OLDEST SON was Winchester
Graham. Born at "Graham's Turnout" in 1821, the boy
was later educated at the University of South
Carolina, and became a lawyer. ln such a rural area
Winchester also depended upon plantation income to
support his children (See Addendum 616). He was as
keen as his father; his granddaughter, Providenee G.
Culler, has a contract wherein he agreed to pay a
Colonel Owens $2,000 for a year's use of the
Colonel's forty-six slaves! (Graham, of course, agreed
to the maintenance of these forty-six people's entire
needs for the year.)
Winchester became a Captain in Hagood's South
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(see Chart 312) DECANIA built a palatial plantation
home just above the Little Salkehatchee crossing west
of Duncanville. (The site of this home is shown on a
photostat in the author's possession.) . . . Years later,
this Southern mansion came to a flaming end. It seems
that one Tecumseh Sherman, forging northward, heard
of the nearby Dowling grist-mill, then being operated
by the occupants of the fine old home. The small force
of Confederates defending the Barnwell area were
unable to halt the superior Federal forees. Quickly,
they pushed through to the supposed supply-point.
But, alas! . . . the Dowling women-folk had heard that
the Yanks were coming; they had directed their slaves
to dump the wheat and other grain into the stream.
Even the millstone had been thrown in! It is said that
General Sherman's anger caused him to apply the
torch personally to the mill and the nearby Dowling
residence; also destroyed was the home's fine library.
MARGARET Faires, a great-granddaughter of
Colonel Dowling's, has some of the mansion's old silverware that escaped the marauders. It was buried in
an adjoining garden. On the handles can faintly be
seen DECANIA'S initials, D. D. This silver-service
had been given him by one of the distinguished
Pinckney family of South Carolina prior to Colonel
DECANIA'S death, October 5, 1857. He owned, at
ther time of his death, twenty-nine slaves and $30,000
of other personal property. Present-day records show
his sale within a ten year period preceding his death of
2,400 acres of land. A tall memorial shaft marks the
site of his and Mrs. Dowling's graves in the Guess
Cemetery on the edge of Denmark, South Carolina.
She died in 1861.
DECANIA'S OLDEST DAUGHTER probably
was ELLEN ELIABETH. When she died July 19,
1890, she was sixty-six. Husband Andrew Jackson
Cox had only lived from November 12, 1821, to April
6, 1859. Father DECANIA had deplored the sickness
of these two in an 1852 letter mailed from the post
office of Duncansville to his brother CHARLEIGH,
who lived on the Alabama - Mississippi line. Postal
markings indicate that the letter took twenty-eight
days to make the trip! The six children born to this
couple may be seen in Addendum 622.
ELLEN'S sister SARAH, born April 30, I825,
married Henry William Rice, Sr., before 1852. We
know this because another of Mr. Dowling’s letters
that year had mentioned the death of two of the Rice
children; seven are named in Addendum 623. Mr.
Rice was born December 18, 1818. SARAH died June
3, 1899; Henry William died December 13, 1884.
Both are buried in Springtown Cemetery, five miles
married a Slater girl from Orangeburg, South
Carolina; a few of their descendants are given in
Addendum 618.
ELEANOR'S other son, among the five that she
and John had, shown on Chart 312, was the one
named John Chester Hanberry. He was born in
Barnwel1 County, South Carolina, May 10, 1842 . . .
His first marriage was to Honora Corniff in
Charleston on September 19, 1865. Shortly after the
birth of her two sons, she died in Charleston. Mr.
Hanberry then married Elvira Jane Padgett, by whom
fifteen children were born. Many of these offspring
are shown in Addendum 618.1. (Elvira was born in
Colleton County, South Carolina, December 31, 1853,
and lived until May 29,1938. She is buried in
Mississippi at Lamar County’s Oral Cemetery, as is
John Chester, his death having been on February 10,
1908.)
ELEANOR, daughter of ELIJAH, and John
Hanberry had five daughters. Two of them married
Sandifers. One, E. Jane, married John Sandifer; both
of their graves may be seen at old Springtown
Cemetery, five miles southwest of Bamberg, South
Carolina, on the Little Salkehatchee; it was near there
that WILLIAM Dowling, her great-grandfather, had
settled before the American Revolution. (Jane lived
from April 11, 1894, to January 12, 1912; Mr.
Sandifer, from April 15, 1820, to the age of thirtyseven! Their descendants are narmed in Addendum
619.) ELEANOR'S daughtcr who married the other
Sandifer (Henry) was named Georgianna. Addendum
620 gives the names of their six children.
Margaret Hanberry, one of ELEANOR'S daughters, died single. Another Louisa Hanberry, married
but her only son died single. The eleventh child of
ELEANOR'S that we know of was named for Mrs.
Hanberry's grandmother Rebecca Walker Dowling.
Rebecca Hanberry married John Witt, Sr.; some of
their offspring are listed in Addendum 621.
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Seven-years after their marriage ELIJAH and
Elizabeth were blessed with their first son. The name
they gave him, DECANIA, was a derivation of a name
for a tribe in old Wales from whence mother Elizabeth
Rices’s ancestors had emigrated. Born March 30,
1803, DECANIA at an early age earned the title of
"Colonel" because of his service in a militia organization there in the Barnwell District area of South
Garolina.
At the age of twenty-one this Dowling married a
girl the same age, Elizabeth Zorn, daughter of Ann
and Henry Zorn, Jr. For her and their nine children
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Colonel Dowling's Grandfather Rice. Four days before
the boy's twenty-third birthday AARON married Caroline Rebecca Tyler, daughter of Eliza Milhouse and
Eliaha Tyler. As these Dowlings were beginning their
family, shown on Chart 522, Fort Sumter was fired on
by troops of AARON'S state. Dowling joined the subsequent struggle as a member of Company I of the 5th
South Carolina Cavalry Regiment. Later, he operated a
plantation near Willow Swamp Church in Orangeburg
County. In fact; he was donor of the first lumber used in
building Willow Swamp's first building. After death,
May 13, 1877, he was buried there as was Caroline after
she died December 14, 1898. Caroline had been born
October 14, 1840.
Elizabeth Zorn Dowling and DECANIA named
another of their sons for one of the older generation
Dowlings; CHARLEIGH THADEUS was given his
name at birth, May 18, 1838, to honor Colonel
Dowling's youngest brother. Before the death of this
man January 22, 1904, he practiced dentistry in
Orangeburg County. The author is uncertain whether
Dr. CHARLEIGH THADEUS followed this profession
while performing military service in the Civil War
(Company I, 5th S. C. Regiment). Shortly before the
war, on February 22, 1860, he married Margaret
Quattlebaum. She lived from November of 1842, to
October of 1897. This couple is buried in the Norway,
South Carolina, cemetery. Their four Dowling sons may
be seen in Addendum 625; they had no grandsons.
Chart 312 shows JOHN C, another of Colonel DECANIA'S sons. Springtown was his birthplace. March 6,
1843, was his birthdate . . . As an eighteen-year-old,
young Dowling had gone to Cole's lsland and enlisted in
Company A of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer
Regiment. Though Washington records show that he
became separated from his unit many times in the
harum-scarum fighting that followed, he rose to the rating of Sergeant. Two years after the treaty of peace he
married Mary Elizabeth Babers. Their descendants for
two generations are shown on Chart 523. (Wife
"Mollie" lived from February 21, 1847, to October 19,
1890. She and JOHN C. are buried in Barnwell's Baptist
Cemetery. Mr. Dowling died at the age of eighty-eight,
May 2, 1931. Grand-niece MARGARET Faires remembers him as a pious man; his letters to her at college
stressed the importance of religion in one's life.)
The son of DECANIA'S whom the author knows
the least about was WILLIAM PRESTON, SR. He was
both a Dentist and a Doctor; yet he is buried at
Springtown Cemetery five miles south of Bamberg,
South Carolina, in an unmarked grave as are his two
wives (shown on Chart 312). The "W. P. Dowling"
southwest of Bamberg, South Carolina, in the vicinity
of their residence.
DEGANIA'S THIRD CHILD, MARY S., was born
the year after SARAH. She married Caleb Sauls but
bore no children. The only other daughter that DECANIA had was REBECCA ANN; the girl married James
Michael Barr on June 21, 1859. Four years later, about
the time their fourth child was being born, Barr, as a
Confederate Major was killed near Charlottesville,
Virginia (see Addendum 624; Major Barr had been born
on December 10, 1829.) Charles Decania Barr, a son
who lived for eighty-eight years after this, achieved success in Leesville, South Carolina, where he was mayor,
school trustee, and owner of three businesses. (REBECCA ANN later married Franklin Asberry Warren in
November, 1883, but they had no children; Warren had
served in Company A of the 1st South Carolina
Regiment and did not die until 1930, at the age of
eighty-four. Many of this family are buried in the Barr
Cemetery of Leesville.)
DECANIA'S SON, ELIJAH HENRY, is thought to
be the oldest of the boys. He was born October 11,
1830, and was the first descendant of family-founder
ROBERT to become a Doctor. At the age of thirty he
was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 1st South
Carolina Volunteer Regiment. Little else is known of his
medical career except the memory of his generous service to the poor during the lean days following the great
war.
In 1872 Doctor ELIJAH HENRY married the
daughter of Caroline Barr and Reverend Henry
Hammond Spann, Virginia Spann. Virginia had been
born on October 2, 1850; her ancestors had originally
lived in the Edgefield District of South Carolina.
Virginia only lived fifteen years after she and ELIJAH
married; she died February 18, 1887; the four children
shown on Chart 521 were hers.
All of Doctor Dowling's children were young, of
course, when his first wife died. Soon thereafter, he
married schoolteacher Laura Cannon (daughter of
Beatrice Ulmer and Henry Cannon; her birth occurred
October 15, 1844, and she lived until January 4, 1917.)
Dr. ELIJAH HENRY was a good businessman as well
as a successful doctor; he owned a large block of stock
in a Charleston brokerage company. After his death
October 19, 1906, he was interred in Restland Cemetery
near his two wives. This cemetery is in Bamberg, South
Carolina, near the place that great-grandfather
WILLIAM Dowling had moved to after his short stay in
the Jeffries Creek area northward.
AARON DECANIA, son of DECANIA, born near
the Salkehatchee on February 19, 1836, was named for
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seven. Their son Joseph Allen carried on the Turner
name by marrying; son John R., Jr. probably died single. Then there were three daughters, Emily (Babers),
Sallie (McQuarters), and Rebecca (Reeves).
After death took Maria Holman, mother of the
three Dowling girls above, WILLIAM BENJAMIN
married Rebecca Staley (whose life reached from
February 1, 1801, to April 9, 1873). This wife probably raised his children for the oldest was only sixteen.
Mr. Dowling's death on February 2,1869, necessitated
Rebecca's “release" of land to heirs EMMA and ELIZABETH, or so Barnwell County records indicate. His
will may be found there, in the Probate Office, Bundle
20, Page 2. He and wife Rebecca are buried in a small
burial plot on the "old Wesley Stuart place" near
Bamberg . . . It is the author's belief that the three old
brick-vault graves nearby contain WILLIAM BENJAMIN'S wife, his father ELIJAH, and his mother
Elizabeth Rice!
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At the time his fifth child, ELIZABETH, was born,
March 22, 1807, ELIJAH received the first grant of
land ever made to a Dowling by the state of South
Carolina. The tract lay "on Lemon Swamp of the Little
Salkehatchee" and was bounded on the northwest by
land which this twenty-nine-year-old native already
owned. Then again, in 1810, when a grant of 609 acres
was made to ELIJAH and brother JABEZ, one of the
boundary-owners mentioned in the description was
ELIJAH himself . . . There is little doubt that of
ROBERT'S fourteen grandsons (see Chart 101) ELIJAH was the largest property-owner and most influential in political affairs. Yet he had to accomplish this in
a short time, for he only lived thirty-eight years!
ELIZABETH was only nine years old when her
father died. When barely sixteen, she married Daniel
Guess. (This marriage took place July 10, 1823; Daniel
was the grandson of revolutionary soldier John Guess,
Sr., of whose family author Folks Huxford gives such
an excellent sketch. Daniel was born to Rachel Davis
and John Guess, Jr., September 24, 1803.) It is not
known whether Daniel and ELIZABETH lived on the
330-acre plantation that they bought from her brother
AARON MADISON in 1834. That place lay on
Burgess Creek and had been bought two years after the
birth of their first daughter, Sarah Ann Elizabeth. Deep
was mother ELIZABETH'S grief on October 12, 1840,
when this first daughter died! One of her major comforts was the only other daughter she would ever have:
two-year old Eleanor Priscilla Rachel. (This little
Guess was born on May 27, 1838, and lived exactly
ninety and one-half years!)
marker there covers the grave of this Doctor's only
son, a professional photographer of Charleston who
prided himself on his ability to quote Shakespeare.
This son, “WILLIE”, and daughter GEORGE EMMA
were Doctor Dowling's only children, both having
been born to the second wife. GEORGE EMMA died
as a child. Only-son WILLIE has descendants but one
of them told the author that the last thing in the world
he was interested in was kinfolks! WILLIE was married at least twice; one wife was named Julia Lelery.
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ElIJAH Dowling was only twenty-seven in 1805...Of
course he was too young to remember the gunfire that
had ended father WILLIAM'S life some twenty years
earlier. But when he and Elizabeth Rice had their second son, it was ELIJAH'S time to pick the name; the
month of birth was April . . . the name picked was
WILLIAM BENJAMIN. . .
Realty records show the sale in 1830 by
WILLIAM BENJAMIN of 193 acres where the two
forks of the Edisto River join. This was about the period of time that he was earning the title of "Captain"
and the year after he and Maria Holman Dowling had
their first child: ELIZABETH MAGALENE.
(WILLIAM BENJAMIN'S grandchildren and greatgrandchildren descended from this daughter are shown
in Addendum 626; she lived from July 31, 1829, to
September 18, 1888; her husband, Jacob L. Free, said
to be the executor of her father's will, lived from
October 11, 1820, to July 3, 1884. Both are buried at
Springtown Cemetery, five miles southwest of
Bamberg, South Garolina.)
WlLLIAM BENJAMIN'S only other two children
were also daughters! The middle one, ELLEN
MARIA, was born April 9, 1833; she lived until
October 18, 1900. In April of 1860 she had become the
second wife of Joseph Kennerly, later to be one of the
sharpshooters in Hart's Battery of South Carolina
Rebels. (Mr. Kennerly was forty-seven at the time of
this marriage; his tombstone in old Bethel Methodist
Cemetery, three miles west of Denmark, South
Carolina, shows that he died September 29, 1872.
ELLEN, dying so much later, was buried in the city
cemetery. The eight children of their only daughter are
shown in Addendum 627.)
Youngest daughter EMMA was born in 1836,
only nine years before the death of mother Maria. The
man whom EMMA married, John Rufus Turner, was
later known as "Major" Turner; he probably earned the
title serving the Confederacy. This couple is buried in
the Denmark, South Carolina, cemetery; EMMA died
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ELIZABETH Guess's four sons named above left
her nearly sixty great-grandchildren named in the
indicated Addenda. But four other sons of hers died
without issue. Three of these died as children: John
Eli Nolly (8-26-1824 to 9-29-1828); Charles
Zachariah Russell (6-12-1828 to 3-8-1829); and
Henry Edward Elisha (7-8-1840 to 2-1-1842.) The
fourth, James Aaron, died in the bloom of young-manhood; the obituary on his tombstone at old Springtown
Church near the little Salkehatchee tells a brief tale of
love:
Though neither of these two daughters was to
give ELIZABETH a grandchild, she and Daniel have
many Guesses by their nine sons shown on Chart 312.
Decania William David, for example, married Calista
Parler in 1855, the union producing the twelve greatgrandchildren of ELIZABETH'S named in Addendum
628. D. W. D. Guess died September 13, 1904; he had
been born February 1, 1830.
D. W. D.'s brother J. G. H. was the next Guess
son and bore the full name of Joseph Gardner
Hamilton Guess! He was destined to become banker.
Born March 13, 1834, Joseph did his war-duty in the
South Carolina Palmetto Guards. This was just after
he had married Susan Catherine Barr, November 16,
1861. Hardly had their three children been born when
mother Susan died. (She was buried in Denmark's
Guess Cemetery after death February 8, 1868; she had
been born on June 9, 1836, in Leesville to Michael
and Mary A. Barr.) Joseph then married Mattie
Prothro March 7, 1872. It was about this time that his
farming operations became so extensive that he was
able to enter banking in the town of his forebears,
Denmark, South Carolina. As a banker, he was especially sympathetic toward widows and orphans; many
families who had just lost the wage-earner were given
back their outstanding mortgages by this generous
man. Such concern for others has carried on down to
the following generation; daughter Estelle and her
husband, Dr. P. A. Bethea, recently announced the gift
of $100,000 and 170 acres of land near Darlington, to
a Baptist home for the aged. Estelle and the other children of Mr. Guess are shown in Addendum 629.
Estelle's mother lived from November 13, 1853, to
December 22, 1933.
Naming children was a thing into which more
thought was put in ELIZABETH Guess's time than
nowadays. For the son with whom she and Daniel
were next blessed they carefully chose . . . Samuel . .
Daniel ...Medicus! The said Samuel Daniel Medicus
Guess married Miss Barr! (Sallie Barr had been born
May 29, 1834; married Mr. Guess about 1859; died
November 25, 1914. She and he are buried at
Denmark, his death occurring November 7, 1925.
Their only son and six grandchildren are set out in
Addendum 630.) ELIZABETH'S only other son to
leave descendants was the one born Aug. 20, 1842:
William Elijah Bartholomew Guess. He married
Louise Smith on February 29, 1872, and left the progeny named in Addendum 630.1. Louise died
September 22, 1922, and her husband a few years later
on April 15, 1928. Both are buried in the Guess
Cemetery, Denmark, South Carolina.
“In Memory of James A. Guess, A Native of this
District, who died on the 18th day of March, A. D.,
1851—aged 24 yrs. and 8 months. In token of his
mortal worth and praiseworthy devotion to her interests, this monument has been erected by his friend,
Lucia Pickney.”
ELIZABETH'S husband died eight days before
his sixty-ninth birthday; she lived some ten years
longer, dying March 24, 1882. She and Daniel are
buried in the Guess Cemetery, Denmark, S. C.
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As previously stated, the parents of ELIJAH'S wife
had come to the Salkehatchee area of South Carolina
during the Revolution. Her father, Aaron Rice, Sr., her
father-in-law, WILLIAM Dowling, and her uncle
William Rhoden had all been revolutionists. Mr. Rice
in particular must have been proud of the name that
Elizabeth and ELIJAH gave their sixth child; they
called him AARON MADISON.
Born April 30, 1809, "A. M. Dowling", as he was
often called, entered the bonds of holy matrimony on
December 10, 1829, in his home district of Barnwell.
This was the year before he joined with brother
DECANIA in selling a right-of-way to the South
Carolina Canal and Railroad Company. AARON'S
wife Martha Ann Caroline was the daughter of James
Collins and had resided in Barnwell for some time
though not necessarily since her birth; it had occurred
August of 1815.
AARON MADISON left the birthplace of his
father about the year that he sold his Burgess Creek
place to sister ELIZABETH Guess and her husband.
He carried his fledgling family to Greene County,
Alabama. Mr. Dowling, unlike his three Baptist brothers, was a Methodist. He and Martha Ann Caroline
carried at least "one little Methodist" with them when
they left South Carolina. This was daughter MARY
ANN ELIZABETH who later, May 27, 1851, married
Doctor D. D. Briggs and lived for a time in
Greensboro, Alabama, the Briggs offspring are shown
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chicken cholera had killed many in his area that summer "though not half as many as last season"!
Such epidemics as this evidently made AARON'S
only son, JAMES AARON ELIJAH glad that he had
learned medical work in the Civil War. "JIMMY", as
“The History of Newton County Mississippi” calls
him, had been born on December 1, 1836. His birth had
caused mother Martha's death. As a member of the 24th
and 27th Mississippi Regiments, he had become a hospital-orderly. Once he was captured, but an exchange of
prisoners at Vicksburg on November 15, 1862, had
freed him. By the time this grandson of ELIJAH died
May 7, 1896, he had become a member of The Knights
Hospitallers, a medical order that has served mankind
since the times of the Crusades! (JIMMY is buried in
the town he served so long as a druggist, Hickory,
Mississippi. His descendants are shown on Chart 526.
Mary E. McDonald had married him on Christmas Eve
of 1864; yet shortly after that, February 1, 1869, she
was buried in a "family graveyard" at Heidelburg,
Mississippi. The burial place of his second wife, a Miss
McDaniel, is unknown.)
Father AARON MADISON, of course, had his
part in the Civil War. After all, he had once been a
Captain! . . . So a year after the war began, the old warhorse wrote the following letter to Mississippi's
Governor Clark:
in Addendum 631.
On August 4, 1834, AARON MADISON'S next
daughter, ELEANOR KITTURAH, was born. She
would prove to be another long-lived Dowling! For her
death did not come until eighty-eight years later in
Heidelburg, Mississippi. (She is buried there with her
husband, Alexander Taylor, who lived from July 8,
1832, through January 29, 1869. Their marriage June 3,
1852, resulted in the children named in Addendum
632.) Little KITT was only two years old when her
mother died, December 14, 1836; KITT, MARY, and
JAMES below, were the only three children whom
AARON MADISON'S first wife ever had (see Chart
312). Mr. Dowling buried Martha there in Greene at
ironically-named New Prospect, Alabama; the young
mother was only twenty-one! (Estate papers connected
with the death of Martha's father in Greene County a
few months earlier make it likely that Mr. Collins and
this couple had cooperated in emigrating from South
Carolina.)
Following his wife's death AARON MADISON
busied himself with such duties as befall a pioneer justice of the peace. Also, he was a militia captain.
Alabama's Governor Bagby wrote him, after his 1837
appointment, concerning arms that would be needed by
his company. Shortly after the 1840 census Dowling
went down the Warrior River to Mobile. An old city
directory shows that he was a "commission merchant"
there, in 1842.
In March of that same year Mr. Dowling married
again; this time, a widow named Mrs. Lota Cato. Lota
and a "Sister Hopkins" seemed quite close to each other
judging by AARON'S correspondence. The author's
only other knowledge concerning Lota is that she died
September 18, 1878, while living with her only child at
Cooper, Texas. She is buried in that town's cemetery.
This only child of Lota's and AARON MADISON'S was called "Ginny"; and her name was VIRGINIA CAROLINE. Born May 31, 1845, at the last
residence of Mr. Dowling's, Noxubee County,
Mississippi, this cousin of ours had married shortly
after the Civil War. (Husband Francis M., "Frank",
Adams had also been born in Noxubee. He lived from
November 7, 1840, to February 9, 1886, at which time
he was interred in East Mount Cemetery, Greenville,
Texas. She died April 11, 1878, and was buried at
Cooper. The Adams descendants are shown in
Addendum 633.)
AARON MADISON was a great letter-writer. In
one to son-in law Alexander Taylor he deplored the
chills and weakness with which "Ginny" was afflicted
after the loss of a child. In another, in 1872, he told how
Present, Dear Sir:
If I can use the State or Confederate
notes, I propose to give the state of
Mississippi 15,000 pairs of Cards (combing
tools) in such proportion of cotton and wool
cards as you may designate; this for the
price of $100,000 and the privilege of selling
within the Federal lines 500 bales of cotton,
provided my teams, teamsters, wagons, and
loads (both of cotton and the back-loads) are
protected to and from the Federal pickets.
Or I will give 25,000 pairs of cards for the
privilege of hauling and selling as above
1,000 bales of cotton and your payment to
me of $100,000. Not exceeding one-half of
the money to be paid until a proportional
portion of the cards are delivered. The
money thus advanced, to be secured by bond
for the delivery of the cards (if the cotton be
bought and sold as above mentioned, or the
money to be refunded if it cannot be used.)
Very Respectfully,
A. M. Dowling
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County home in Alabama, where three years later
he became a captain in Alabama's Third Militia
Division. County records there show his first marriage, December 17, 1844, to an eighteen year old
girl by the name of Nancy Holbrook.
Nancy and CHARLEIGH'S first child bore the
honored name of ELIZABETH. A count of the
grandchildren named Elizabeth on Chart 312 will
show the reverence in which Elizabeth Rice
Dowling was held by her eight children; if
ELEANOR’S daughter "E. Jane" had the name of
Elizabeth then ELEANOR was the eighth child of
Elizabeth's who named a daughter for the venerated
grandmother.
CHARLEIGH'S daughter, ELIZABETH, was
born November 2, 1845. A letter of her father's fifteen years later stated that she was "at present
attending Baptist Female College in Winchester,
Tennessee". On May 25th, the year the Civil War
ended, she married Bemberry Bond Jones. They
had four children, including a daughter Annie and a
son who became a doctor. (ELIZABETH died
young, September 1, 1888; she is buried at Delhi,
Louisiana, east of Monroe. Mr. Jones, whose birthdate was October 14, 1841, had died on March 10,
1886.)
CHARLEIGH and wife Nancy Holbrook had
only four years together; she died November 13,
1848. Death must have struck her near Akron,
Alabama, for she is buried near there in the old
Holbrook private cemetery. But she and Mr.
Dowling might have previously moved to Noxubee
County, again to be near AARON MADISON;
Mississippi archival records list CHARLEIGH as a
captain in the 28th Militia Regiment in 1846.
It was nine years before Dowling remarried
(Colonel Jacob Holbrook, father of Nancy, took
care of the Dowling children in the meantime). This
second wife of CHARLEIGH'S, Eliza Ann Scuddy,
was forty at the time of their marriage, February 10,
1857, a native of Abbeville District, South Carolina.
She had been previously married to a Griggs.
Again, CHARLEIGH'S marriage would last
only four years. This time the mate who died was
CHARLEIGH himself.... Two months after enlisting as a lieutenant in the 1st Mississippi Cavalry
Regiment he was accidentally wounded by his own
pistol. His men were able to get him home before he
died. May 28, 1862, he was buried in the Mahoner
Bridge Cemetery, near his home area of Macon,
Mississippi. Wife Eliza did not die until August 20,
1900; she is buried at Macon.
AARON MADISON was highly respected in the
thirty years he lived near Macon, Mississippi. Just
before Christmas of 1875 he had a premonition; he
ended a letter with this: "Every date admonishes me
that my time is rapidly drawing to a
close....Farewell!"...He died fifteen days later,
December 12, 1875. The author does not know the
location of his grave.
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The 1810 census-taker recorded that the "Dooling"
family headed by our ELIJAH contained him, his
wife, three sons, three daughters, and six slaves.
The following year on June 18th Elizabeth Rice
Dowling, at the age of thirty gave birth to their
fourth and last daughter.
ELIJAH named her NANCY ANN. After
maturity she married a Rosier by whom there was at
least a son, Sing Rosier. NANCY ANN also had at
least two Rosier daughters: Eliza, who married a
Kearse, and Sarah Helen, who married a Snider.
Mrs. Snider only lived from 1833 to 1855. NANCY
ANN also married James Hill; daughter Harriett
Hill married W. H. Colson and might have moved to
the Charleston area. NANCY ANN Hill was buried
in Denmark's Guess Cemetery on May 9, 1852.
Daughter NANCY ANN was only five when
father ELIJAH became deathly sick. She could not
understand her mother's concern about her
"Daddy"; but thirty-eight year old ELIJAH was old
enough to understand what was happening.... He
made out his last will and testament. In it he left
proof for all posterity of his father's revolutionary
service in bequeathing that: "Lastly, to DECANIA,
my oldest son, I give the tinderbox, rifle, and powderhorn, which my father WILLIAM Dowling used
in the war with General Marion in the War of
American Independence." ELIJAH'S brother
JABEZ helped draw up the document; ELIZABETH'S father-in-law, John Guess, Jr., was also in
the room. ELIJAH asked them to witness it.
This treasured document was filed in the
Barnwell courthouse on September 6, 1816, for his
end had come August 16th. It is through this will's
wording that the researcher first learns of ELIJAH'S
eighth child.... The young father had known there
would be one; so he provided a share of his estate
for the unborn one "by number". When the baby
arrived, Mrs. Dowling named him CHARLEIGH.
At the age of twenty-one CHARLEIGH Dowling
left the Salkehatehee area; this was August of 1837.
He went to brother AARON MADISON'S Greene
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County.) His wife was named Sarah. On July 7,
1801, she and CAGEBY sold their 142 acre farm on
Lemon Swamp, probably in preparation for a move
to some other part of the state or the South.
By 1816 CAGEBY and his family lived in
Green County, Mississippi. A special census made
that year shows him, a wife, four sons, and a daughter. The parents were in the 30-40 age bracket; one of
the Dowling boys had reached adulthood; the family's other members were under twenty-one. The
author feels that one of the younger children was
named LEWIS M., for such a person and his wife are
shown on the 1830 Green County census, the only
Dowlings there. (LEWIS had married Tebetha C.
Poole in Natchez, on the opposite side of the state,
May 17, 1827. Evidently, this couple did not reside
much longer in Green than had CAGEBY, for by
1840 they were back in the county of their marriage,
Adams, where the census-taker recorded a five year
old daughter as a member of their family. LEWIS
and his wife were in the 30-40 age bracket at this
time.)
On April 24, 1827, CAGEBY went to the courthouse at Raymond, Mississippi, between Vicksburg
and Jackson; he signed the marriage bond of Jane
Lacy, who was to marry Milton Dement. Within four
years of this, CAGEBY and at least two of the four
sons mentioned above must have left Mississippi.
For a search of every county's 1830 census only
uncovered LEWIS M., above, and a thirty to forty
year old batchelor, named JOHN H., in Washington
County.
If any additional information concerning
CAGEBY is found before the closeout date of this
book's Addenda, it will be printed as the last one with
the title of "Special Addendum".
CHARLEIGH'S only son was also in the Civil
War; JACOB ELIJAH, bearer of his two grandfathers' names, went to Scottsville, Mississippi, after
his father's death and joined an Alabama outfit, the
8th Cavalry. But Vicksburg had already fallen . . .
Rebels in the Mississippi Valley were being captured
in large numbers. One of these was this young cavalryman; luckily, he was not wounded. While peace
and serenity were returning to his Mississippi homeland, JACOB ELIJAH married Emma Brozolia
Dotson. The children they raised are listed in
Addendum 631. At one time he served as a Marshall
of Noxubee, County. His grave is in Noxubee in
Brooksville's City Cemetery as is wife Emma's.
(Emma was the daughter of Elisha Walpole Dotson;
she lived from November 23, 1846, to October 17,
1942.)
Back in the Salkehatchee area of South Carolina
CHARLEIGH'S mother, Elizabeth Rice Dowling
lived until October 5, 1852. After ELIJAH'S death
she had married a Mr. Priester, by whom there were
no children, and then Hamilton Martin, Sr., by whom
Hamilton, Jr., was born. The first of these marriages
most likely occurred after 1819 for South Carolina
granted a 128-acre tract of land bordering Lemon
Swamp on the Salkehatchee to a Mrs. Elizabeth
Dowling in that year. During the last year or two of
her life the various Dowling letters to Mississippi
mentioned that daughters ELIZABETH Guess and
NANCY Hill were caring for her.
WILLIAM'S SON CAGEBY
(See Chart 101)
This is the grandson of ROBERT'S whose descendants are so completely unknown by the author.
Evidence now being unfolded points toward the settlement of some of them in the midwest. The author
estimates that there could be one hundred contemporary families with the Dowling surname descended
from this one man. Most all of them would be of the
Protestant faith.
First-cousin DEMPSEY, during the 1857 conversation mentioned in this book's preface, called
this brother of JABEZ and ELIJAH by the name of
MICAJAH. But the subject used "CAGEBY" on the
deed and bond mentioned below so the author uses
the same.
CAGEBY was born, like his two brothers, to
WILLIAM and Rebecca in the Salkehatchee area of
South Carolina's old Orangeburg District (Later this
area was part of Barnwell District and County, and
stili later it became part of present-day Bamberg
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The JAMES Dowling Branch of Our Family
I
On April 28, 1795, for five-hundred pounds
sterling, JAMES sold to brother JOHN a tract of
land that had originally been a colonial-grant to one
William Freeman. JAMES seems to have owned no
other land. This property must have been the birthplace of all of his children; its sale was probably
one necessitated by illness... Within two years of
this transaction wife Mary Boutwell Dowling posted a bond qualifying as the executor of husband
JAMES'S estate. Signing with her was a William
Boutwell, probably a brother.
After Mr. Dowling's death widow Mary and
some of her children moved southward, as
WILLIAM had done before the Revolution. In
1810 she was living in Barnwell District near
JABEZ and ELIJAH, though she probably died in
South Carolina's Beaufort District. And just as the
father-to-son method of handing down information
failed to bring us information on the burial place of
WILLIAM and Rebecca, so has it failed in the case
of JAMES and Mary.
n Virginia after the death of little WILLIAM'S
mother our ancestor ROBERT had remarried in
1754. He and this second wife, Sarah Guinn, had
their first son four years later and agreed that his
name should be JAMES.
When he was fifteen, JAMES and the four
other children of Sarah's had the thrill of their
young lives; they went with their parents to a new
home in South Carolina (see Chart 101).
Nothing is known of JAMES'S boyhood days
in the Jeffries Creek area before the Revolution
began. It is natural to assume, though, that the
younger days of JAMES and ROBERT'S two other
boys were occupied with many hours of hunting so
that the family's meat-bin could be supplied. This
made them expert marksmen.
Alexander Gregg tells us in his "History of the
Old Cheraws" that JAMES and JOHN "Duling"
served in Benton's Regiment that is known to have
fought so ferociously against the British under
General Francis Marion. After Marion had been
defeated at Charleston his state had been almost
completely over-run by the Redcoats. It was the
mounting resentment of the colonists to government's rule of the people at this time that helped
such men as JAMES Dowling leave their farms and
begin fighting the King's soldiers.
Marion showed his genius in organizing a
band of guerilla volunteers; he gained recruits and
trained them to be fearless riders and good marksmen. His Brigade became known far and wide for
its successful exploits against the British. His sudden attacks often resulted in the capture of superior numbers and intimidated the Tories. Colonel
Banastre Tarleton was sent to capture them but
soon despaired of finding "the old Swamp-fox".
By 1779, with the great war for liberty in full
swing, JAMES married one of the beautiful Welsh
daughters of Burtonhead Boutwell. Mary was her
name, though some called her Polly (She was of
Virginia birth and her mother may have been
named Saoni Boutwell.) The nephew of JAMES
and Mary, Reverend DEMPSEY Dowling, stated in
1857 that this couple had only three daughters,
SALLIE, POLLIE, and LETTIE. But with this
country's first census listing five daughters in the
1790 household of JAMES there is a strong possibility that two of them had died young before fortytwo year old DEMPSEY left the Salkehatchee area.
JAMES'S OLDEST SON, WILLIAM H.
(see Charts 321 and 101)
It was in the Jeffries Creek area, 1780, that Mary
Boutwell and JAMES had their first child. Mr.
Dowling began a name-pattern with that son which
would exactly duplicate those used by father
ROBERT; he named the boy WILLIAM (H).
WILLIAM H. is known to have stayed there at
his birthplace until at least the spring of 1814. In
1808, under some sort of primogeniture, he cosigned a deed with mother Mary Boutwell Dowling
selling his interest in JAMES'S share of the estate
inherited from Sarah Guinn Dowling. The 1810
Darlington census shows that WILLIAM H. had a
son between the age of ten and sixteen and five
daughters (two of whose names are still unknown
to the author).
Three of the children were MARGARET,
FRANCES, and JANE.
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In addition to these five daughters of whom we
know so little, WILLIAM H. had one named
MARY, born in the Jeffries Creek area on March
10, 1814. After Mr. Dowling took her and the other
children to Barnwell, South Carolina, and Ware,
Georgia, and Leon, Florida (see later text) ... she
met Gillum Walston and they were married. (In
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Darlington District, South Carolina, on August 22,
1841, to Nancy Welch and Galvin Sylvester Parnell.
Jacob lived until November 19, 1922; the place of his
burial is unknown though wife Sarah is buried in the
Wisenbaker Cemetery near Valdosta, Georgia, in the
Dasher community.)
THE FIFTH CHILD OF MARY'S was named
for her mother! Little Mary B., as a young lady, married Jim Tillis, a kinsman of the last whites to be
killed in Florida by the Indians. Jim Tillis died shortly after marrying Mary B. Walston; other than the
year of her birth, 1844, nothing more is known of
this couple.
MARY'S SECOND SON, William Franklin
Walston, was born in 1847. He married Mahala
Johns. The author failed to learn anything of any
descendants MARY might have had by this child.
The seventh and last child of MARY'S was also
a boy; date of birth, 1848. This son, Joseph E.
Walston, "married a daughter of Captain Gilliard's
and lived in South Florida to an old age." Joseph had
a desendant named Mary Walston Alford who was at
one time the City Clerk of Bowling Green, Florida.
Gillum Walston died in Columbia County, near
Lake City, on February 14, 1871. He is buried at
Salem Baptist Church near the place he farmed. Also
buried there is MARY, who died December 27, 1886.
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The only son of WILLIAM H. whose name we know
was WILLIAM HAMPTON. He was born May 26,
1811, just after the above-mentioned census covering
his father's Darlington family. By 1820 these
Dowlings were nearer the Georgia border in
Barnwell District, South Carolina. But that land was
too old and settled for father WILLIAM H. and
Elizabeth; why, the whites had been crowding into it
for over fifty years!
So little WILLIAM HAMPTON and the others
were taken still deeper into "Indian Country". Ware
County, Georgia, records show that father
WILLIAM H. served as a Justice of the Peace there
from 1825 to 1829. And it was from this home that
young Dowling, the namesake of his father, ran
away! ... First, he went to Thomas County, Georgia.
But by 1831 he was across the line in Leon County,
Florida On December 20th of that year he,
WILLIAM HAMPTON, married Mahaley Ogden.
(This girl's mother, the wife of Samuel or Solomon
Ogden, had died in Milledgeville, Georgia, at the
time of Mahaley's birth, May 11, 1815. Both Ogden
parents were Georgia born people, Mrs. Ogden having been born a Vickers.) Mahaley Ogden Dowling
1829 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walston had taken son
Gillum, age sixteen, to Troup County, Georgia, from
that state's Jackson County. Gillum had been born in
North Carolina on January 27, 1813, probably in a
place called Eustem; the Walstons lived in Jackson
County, Georgia, for only seven years or so.)
Gillum must have been in Florida "seeking his
fortune" when he met MARY; they married in the
early 1830's and by March 30, 1837, the date of their
first daughter's birth, they were back near the older
Walstons in Troup County. (In 1850 Gillum was a
shoemaker there.) MARY named this first daughter
Susan Ann Amanda; by the time this child was sixteen MARY and Mr. Walston moved the family to
Alabama where they lived two years. Then in 1855
they moved to Lake City, Florida; at nearby White
Springs, November 26, 1856, Susan married Lewis
William Rivers. (Mr. Rivers was the son of Celia
Manker and Abraham Rivers and had been born near
Hampton, South Carolina, on August 27, 1836.) Mr.
Rivers farmed near Lake City and was a Deacon of
the Primitive Baptist Church. Two generations of
descendants left by him and this daughter of
MARY'S are shown in Addendum 635. Mrs. Rivers
lived to the age of ninety-two and he lived to the age
of eightytwo. Their respective death-dates were
October 28, 1929, and May 20, 1919. Both are
buried in Salem Baptist Cemetery nine miles northwest of Lake City, Florida.
MARY'S OLDEST CHILD was probably the
son named Thomas Walston (see Chart 321). Thomas
later married Elmira Cheshire and probably had only
one child before dying of typhoid in Tennessee. He
lost his life as a Confederate member of the same
company that the above brother-in-law was in. This
only child of Thomas and Elmira's is thought to be a
daughter named Mary "who grew up in Hamilton
County, Florida . . . married an Altman . . . and
moved to Hillsborough County, Florida".
MARY'S THIRD CHILD, Elizabeth Jane, lived
to the age of seventyfive. At the time of her burial in
1914 at "Saline" Baptist Church she is said to have
"left one child"; this might have been the only one
still living and the church might have been Salem,
for it is there that the parents of Elizabeth Jane are
buried. Elizabeth Jane was married to Andrew Johns.
She died in 1914.
Sarah R., the next child of MARY Walston's,
was born in Marietta, Georgia, on November 16,
1841. She died about thirty-four years later. The children named in Addendum 636 are hers; her husband
was Jacob R. Parnell. (Jacob had been born in
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Dowlings are buried. A search of the former place by
the author's family did not locate a single Dowling
tombstone.
WILLIAM HAMPTON'S FOURTH CHILD was
still another boy! And he was born in time for another
of civilization's wars. The cover-jacket of
Washington's "Record of Death and Interment" form,
filled out December 14, 1863, in the Nashville,
Tennessee, Yankee prison had a large word emblazoned across its front: REBEL! This son, BERIAN
Dowling, was born on June 6, 1841; his father probably named him "Berry Man'' originally . . . but by common law "your name is that which ye are known by"
so the author uses the name which his cousins called
him. (Company D of the 1st Florida Cavalry listed him
as "Berrie M." at times. For more about this Dowling
turn forward to the sketch of his third cousin and fellow soldier, WILLIAM HENRY.)
MARTHA JANE was the first daughter that
Mahaley and WILLIAM HAMPTON had. She lived
from February 6, 1843, to November 14, 1897, and is
buried in the same Jacksonville cemetery as her father.
Also there, is Jackson D. Mann, her husband; he lived
from November 3, 1846, to June 27, 1885. It is said
that he met MARTHA JANE when he walked home
from the war with GEORGE DALLAS, her brother.
Atlanta Osceola Mann and the other four children of
this couple are shown in Addendum 637.
WILLIAM HAMPTON'S SIXTH CHILD was
also a girl and was given the Christian Name of her
grandmother Dowling, ELIZABETH SARAH.
Luckily, Mr. Dowling used the name at this time; for
his next six children...would all be boys! The author is
uncertain which of her given names she went by; in
any event, she too married a soldier, June 12, 1861.
And to prove he had "been there" husband William
Alex Townsend even brought home a piece of appletree from those standing at Appomattox the day he witnessed the dramatic peace ceremony between Grant
and Lee. (Previously, Townsend had fought in the
Mexican War. . . . and even earlier against the Indians,
having been born in Mississippi April 8, 1822. He
lived past his ninety-fifth birthday, dying July 6, 1917.
Wife ELIZABETH had been born October 28, 1844;
her death-date and the place of their burial is unknown
by the author. Their descendants are named in
Addendum 637.1.)
The next son of WILLIAM HAMPTON'S was
also grabbed by the war. Son GEORGE DALLAS,
born April 16, 1846 had gone to Lake Butler, Florida,
shortly after his sixteenth birthday and enlisted. They
placed him in Company I of the 1st Florida Reserves...
lived over seventy-eight years following this marriage;
her tombstone in the Live Oak, Florida, cemetery
records a death-date of May 22, 1910!
WILLIAM HAMPTON was a man of many residences. In 1840 and 1850 he lived in Hamilton County,
Florida, where he farmed (at one time having to leave
this occupation to fight Indians!) The year before the
Civil War began, he moved to the "New River District"
where he worked as a carpenter. This work was also
interrupted; first, he was called on to go to the Atlantic
coast and help in manufacturing salt which had
become so precious during the Northerners' blockade.
Secondly, at the age of fifty-two he was drafted into
military service! On August 4, 1863, at Jefferston,
Georgia, he was enrolled in Captain Floyd's company
of Georgia Cavalry, probably as a farrier.
The year 1880 found WILLIAM HAMPTON in
the final working years of his life; he was the village
smith at Baldwin, Florida. Shortly afterwards, he
became totally disabled; he died after years of incapacity in Jacksonville, Florida, at a son's home. Hisgrave is marked by a CSA cross in the Gravely Hills
(Priceville) Cemetery in that city; he died April 18,
1885.
WILLIAM HAMPTON and Mahaley had first
child ISAAC August 2, 1835, before they left Leon
County. "Soldiers and Sailors of Florida" tells us that
he served the Confederacy as a cavalryman.
Washington records show that his unit was the 3rd
Georgia Battalion, later absorbed by Clinch's 4th
Georgia Regiment. At one time he was in a Florida
outfit, Company II of the 2nd Cavalry. Before enlisting
ISAAC had married Henrietta Williams at Callahan,
Florida. (This couple never had any children; Dowling
had been trained in the mercantile business by a twenty-one year old merchant, Thomas Dillon, who had
come to Florida from Nova Scotia! ISAAC died
February 4, 1913, and was buried beside his wife "in
South Jacksonville". She had predeceased him some
one or two years; she was born in Georgia October 30,
1844, to natives of that state.)
THE SECOND SON OF WILLIAM HAMPTON'S was a child who only lived from June 28, 1837,
to January 10, 1848. The boy was named JOHN
WEST; he was buried just nine months after Mahaley
and Mr. Dowling lost another fine boy. That son was
named WILLIAM HENRY; he died April 14, 1847, at
the age of seven, and had been born September 20,
1839. The Swift Creek Cemetery where they were
buried, near White Springs, is two counties distant
from the Swift Creek Cemetery where their aged
cousin WILLIAM HENRY and so many more
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going strong and was shifted to brother ISAAC'S Florida
Regiment. After the war he married his first cousin,
November 20, 1879; she was Emma Ogden. (Emma was
born to JOHN'S Uncle Isaac E. Ogden and Sara Murphy
at Lake City, Florida, on January 11, 1849. Both parents
were Georgians. Emma lived ninety-six years . . . was
buried in the town of her birth April 10, 1945, in
Woodlawn Cemetery. JOHN was buried at Jacksonville
in Evergreen Cemetery; he died December 20, 1910.
Their few descendants are shown in Addendum 638.)
WILLIAM HAMPTON'S TENTH CHILD was
born to Mahaley Ogden Dowling on September 25,
1851, near the Swift Creek Cemetery in which two older
brothers had been buried. His name was THOMAS. At
the age of twenty-four, in Clay County, Florida, he
became a bridegroom; Laura Ann Weeks was the bride.
This marriage was May 14, 1876; its children are shown
on Chart 532.
As late as 1880 THOMAS was just a wheelwright,
living in Baldwin, Florida. But "he moved to Live Oak
in 1890 bringing capital and workmen with his new
sawmill and started a period of expansion and development" according to the recent booklet "Suwannee
County Centennial". (There is also an excellent picture
of him in it.) The sawmills he subsequently operated are
known to have cut millions of feet of virgin longleaf
pine. Seven years after his arrival THOMAS offered fellow residents the novelty of water through a pipe! . . .
With only six bathtubs in town three years later it is a
certainty that Mr. Dowling did not make his half-million
dollar fortune out of his later sale of this utility!
Such enterprises as THOMAS'S fifteen-mile-long
"Dowling Lumber Road" (now the L. O. P. & G.
Railroad) helped triple Suwannee's population in a
decade! He was also organizer of the Dowling Export
and Lumber Company, the Tampa-Havana Lumber
Company, and the Gulf Pine Company of Pasco County.
THOMAS contributed largely to the erection of Live
Oak's first Advent Christian Church in 1900, shortly
after a term on the town council. Death took him June
11, 1911; he and Laura are buried in the City Cemetery
in Live Oak. (She died October 3, 1918. She and her parents, Elender Wilson and James Albert Weeks, were born
in Florida. Laura's birthdate was March 6, 1853.)
THE NEXT CHILD OF WILLIAM HAMPTON
was also born near White Springs on January 4, 1854,
and was named PHILIP HENRY. In his boyhood young
Dowling carried mail in large saddlebags slung over his
horse; the route passed through Middleburg, Florida.
This son of Mahaley's also decided not to farm. After he
married Emma Ruth Wolfe, October 10, 1876, he
became a merchant in the village of Baldwin. This
This lad put in three hard years of war duty. And it would
be indeed interesting to know where its fortunes took
him, for some say that it was a full six months after the
war's grinding end before his mother saw him coming
back home; he was barefooted...his pants worn off to his
knees!
Near Middleburg, Florida, on November 22, 1865,
GEORGE DALLAS Dowling married Mary Ann
Barnett. (She was a daughter of Clarissa Townsend and
Reverend Thomas Robinson Barnett, a pioneer
Methodist minister of Florida. Though both her parents
were South Carolinians Mary was born in Madison
County, Florida, August 4, 1846. Mrs. Dowling died July
10, 1930, and was buried beside GEORGE DALLAS at
Live Oak's City Cemetery; he had died February 6,
1905.) The children and grandchildren of this couple are
shown on Chart 531. Also named on that Chart is Mary
Ann's daughter-in-law, Benlah Barnet, who worked so
tirelessly for thirty years to gather much of this material.
Mrs. Benlah Dowling's husband, ROBERT LEE,
SR., (who learned “logging" from GEORGE DALLAS)
and his uncle THOMAS will always be remembered
because of the community named Dowling Park,
Florida. They had ceased competing with each other in
the Live Oak, Florida, sawmill business in 1908 and
formed a combine with Richard W. Sears of Sears,
Roebuck & Company and a Mr. Roach so that a tremendous sawmill could be installed in a huge, virgin stand of
pine lying west of that timber center. This mill-site on
the banks of the beautiful Suwannee River is now shown
on Florida maps as Dowling Park.
WILLIAM HAMPTON'S EIGHTH CHILD,
LEWIS, was born on April 6, 1848. At Greenville,
Florida, May 18, 1876, he married Anna Scott, a twentyeight year old Floridian. This was the period that
ROBERT'S descendants began getting into occupations
other than farming; a Duval County census four years
after his marriage showed Dowling as a merchant in the
town of Baldwin, Florida. Anna died July 18, 1914;
LEWIS died October 12, 1909, and was interred at Live
Oak, Florida. Their only daughter, BERTIE, married C.
C. Cawthon.
To appreciate the age at which WILLIAM HAMPTON'S next son fought in the Civil War, one has to recognize two things, namely: the spirited nature of the
Rebels . . . and the early maturity of frontier youths. This
child, JOHN WESLEY Dowling, rode a farm horse at
the age of twelve (!) from Starke, Florida, to
Waynesville, Georgia, where they accepted him as a cavalryman in Troop E of the 4th Georgia Cavalry. This
happened a month before his thirteenth birthday which
fell on December 10, 1862. Two years later he was still
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in the Beulah Church graveyard; she lived from
October 9, 1855, to September 12, 1922.)
WILLIAM H. and Elizabeth Sarah Watson, parents of WILLIAM HAMPTON, probably died in the
North Florida strip of counties reaching from Leon
eastward to Columbia before the 1840 census was
made. A hasty search by the author of that census's families for the entire state did not locate his name nor that
of his wife. The 1830 Leon County census seems to be
the final enumeration of either person. It should he
added that two or three land transactions just after that
time in that county involving a WILLIAM H. Dowling
could easily refer to him or his son WILLIAM HAMPTON. More information on Elizabeth Sarah might be
gained through a search of the Salkehatchee area
(Cheraw District) census of 1790, for she was of South
Carolina birth.
"General Merchandise Store" and successive ones he
operated at Lake City, Jacksonville, and Live Oak were
to provide the major source of livelihood for his family.
In 1888 the yellow fever epidemic at Jacksonville
wiped out his young business there. Some ten years
later Mr. Dowling decided to enter the ministry. PHILIP
became a preacher for the Advent Christians, he and
brother THOMAS having been two of its first converts
in Live Oak. The Reverend Mr. Dowling organized several country churches in the Suwannee County area as
well as one about 1911 in Green Cove Springs on the
majestic St. Johns. His earthly ministry lasted over a
quarter century . . . and his marriage to Emma, over
sixty-one years! (PHILIP HENRY died October 13,
1937; Emma died June 18, 1939. She had been born in
Andersonville, Georgia, on April 4, 1859, to Nancy
Jane Bryan and Daniel Wolfe. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe were
also born in that state. Besides the children shown on
Chart 533 PHILIP and Emma reared an adopted son,
James Paul Dowling. Mr. and Mrs. Dowling are buried
near La Crosse, Florida, in Antioch Cemetery.)
THE TENTH SON OF WILLIAM HAMPTON'S
was the last of twelve children born to him and
Mahaley. Mr. Dowling honored the American General
with whom grandfather JAMES had fought by naming
the boy FRANCIS MARION. The baby was born
January 18, 1856, "in Columbia County". This could
have been during his parents move from the White
Springs area to the New River District; they were in the
latter place during the 1860 census. At Green Cove
Springs, January 30, 1876, FRANCIS married Polly
Anna Weeks. Four years later he was a retail merchant
in Lake City. After his divorce from Polly he married
Harriett Rebecca Jaudon, daughter of Elizabeth Winters
and Henry William Jaudon; this was February 1, 1883,
about the time that he moved his business to
Jacksonville. The terrible fire of 1901 almost wiped
him out.
By 1906 this business of FRANCIS'S had grown
into the large firm of Dowling Wholesale Company. At
one time he was a partner in Dowling Naval Stores
Company of Live Oak. Before his death on Christmas
Day, 1937, FRANCIS MARION married a third time;
his descendants are shown in Addendum 639. (Mr.
Dowling's third wife was Mrs. Minnie Gillen Dubose,
they married November 6, 1909; she lived from August
3, 1878, to February 18, 1936. Minnie was born in
Florida, as were her parents, Mary Barns and Henry
Gillen. Minnie and second wife Harriett are buried with
FRANCIS at Jacksonville's Evergreen Cemetery.
Harriett lived from August 16, 1860, to July 28, 1909.
Polly, the first wife, is buried in Clay County, Florida,
JAMES'S SECOND SON, JAMES JR.
(See Chart 322 and 101)
Virginian ROBERT Dowling had named his second son JAMES. . . In 1781 when they sent JAMES the
news that wife Mary Boutwell Dowling had given birth
to a second son, this young revolutionary soldier immediately announced that the baby's name would be
JAMES, JR.
By 1810 mother Mary had taken him and several
of the children down to the Barnwell District and thence
eastward to Beaufort District at a later date. JAMES
JUNIOR married Jane White. One of their children,
JOHN, was killed at about the age of fifteen when
returning from a visit nearby. The riderless horse returning home had warned his parents of trouble; when they
went to look for him, his lifeless body was located.
All three daughters of JAMES JUNIOR left
descendants who lived as late as 1940 near Blackshear,
Georgia. Daughter ELLEN and son WILLIAM
HENRY TUCKER are known to have been in that area
during the 1850 Ware census. So these things make the
author feel that Jane White Dowling and her hushand
might have left South Carolina as WILLIAM H. did.
Information concerning JAMES JUNIOR'S daughters
AUDREY and REBECCA is limited at this time; the
former is said to have been called "Lovey Ann" and to
have married Charles Smith. Descendants Jim Smith
and Ned (or Med) Smith lived about eight miles from
Blackshear, Georgia, in 1940.
REBECCA married a Mr. James. Some say that his
name was James James! But the author believes that
Ransom T. James (whose family is outlined in
“Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia” by Folks Huxford,
Volume I, page 143) might be her husband. To apprePage 25
Florida for his Civil War pension (in 1909, file 5487)
he and Didamier were living in Columbia County'
Florida, a few miles from the home he had known
when his parents first came to Florida. HENRY was a
farmer; he died May 15, 1926. (He and Mrs. Dowling
are buried in Union County's Swift Creek Cemetery.
She had been born there in Florida on July 29, 1846,
to Jim and Shirley Johnson. She died March 19,
1919.)
WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER'S THIRD CHILD
was born in Beaufort District, South Carolina, on
February 12, 1845, and named HARRIETT ADELINE. Seventy-two years later she was buried near
Lulu, Florida or Lake City, her death occurring
October 31, 1917. She and husband William
Tomlinson were the parents of the nine children listed
in Addendum 641. Mr. Tomlinson is buried in the
Hawthorne Cemetery eleven miles east of Gainesville.
Jane Cleland Dowling gave birth to only one
more child before these Dowlings left South Carolina;
this was on September 10, 1847, and that offspring
became known as ROBERT NELSON, SR. Shortly
after the death of this boy's father, described later,
ROBERT joined the 1st Florida Reserves of the
Confederate States Army. He was assigned to
Company I, and his unit is believed never to have left
the Sunshine State.
ROBERT married Caroline Wester February 7,
1867; she was fourteen. His children by this wife and
by his second one may be seen on Chart 542.
(Caroline had been born March 3, 1853, at Sanderson,
Florida, to Penelope Drippers and Elias Wester; her
parents were of Georgia birth—Tattnall County.
Caroline is buried near the town of her birth in South
Prong Cemetery; she died April 29, 1884.)
After poor health caused the death of his first
wife, ROBERT married Lou Venia Ogden, October 6,
1886, at Hampton, Florida. She loved this jolly
Dowling; he was always singing and doing things to
brighten people's spirits. He especially loved animals;
in caring for them he became so proficient a doctor
that he was often called upon by ill neighbors. A visit
by ROBERT'S cousins or immediate family was sufficient for him to quit work... Late into the night they'd
talk, arising the following morning to continue the
reminiscing that sleep had interrupted. Pre-dawn
breakfasts were routine with him anyway. It was this
energy and joy of living that made him owner of 1,700
acres of Bradford County land there in his adopted
state. He and Lou Venia were active workers for the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Both are
buried in the Hampton, Florida, City Cemetery.
ciate the several matrimonial possibilities that
REBECCA might have had, the reader should turn
forward and observe the couple's name with whom
her nephew JAMES WALTER TOM was living in
1850.
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Jane White and JAMES JUNIOR had possibly their
first child in Beaufort District, South Carolina, July
25, 1813. They named him WILLIAM HENRY
TUCKER . . . It was twenty-six years later in June of
1839 that the marriage of this Dowling occurred; the
marriage was in Beaufort District to an eighteen-yearold girl by the name of Jane Ann Cleland.
W. H. T. Dowling and wife Jane were blessed
with their first child ten months later, April 20, 1840.
MARY REBECCA lived for eighty-four years after
this, marrying John H. Jones in Columbia County,
Florida, on March 4, 1858, and bearing the children
shown in Addendum 640. Great-granddaughter
Beatrice Jones Roberts has the old Bible of Jane
Cleland Dowling's. (MARY died June 21, 1924, and
was buried near Sanderson, Florida, in South Prong
Cemetery. Mr. Jones had died June 10, 1892, and was
buried there; his birth was in Bullock County,
Georgia, October 20, 1835.)
WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER'S NEXT CHILD
might have been called "Junior" except that Tucker
was never part of his name. Son WILLIAM HENRY,
born also in Beaufort District, gasped his first breath
June 18, 1842. Exactly twenty years later this boy was
a cavalryman with Company D of the 1st Florida
Regiment. He and third-cousin BERIAN Dowling had
gone to Sanderson, Florida, from the New River
District home of mother Jane's; they had ridden
swamp ponies to that recruiting center; men and
mounts were promptly enlisted; BERIAN was never
to see home again. But HENRY was luckier; the same
battle of Missionary Ridge that saw the former
wounded left the latter unscathed. BERIAN'S wounds
caused his capture; the Nashville prison hospital could
not halt the lung-inflammation which killed him.
Cousin HENRY was also captured by the enemy on
several occasions; but he was a wiry little man and
always found a way to escape. The last time he was
imprisoned, he was "exchanged" from Rock Island
prison; this was in the spring shortly before the war
ended. It was he who brought news to WILLIAM
HAMPTON of BERIAN'S death.
Two years after returning home HENRY married
Didamier Johnson. They reared the children shown on
Chart 541. By the time Mr. Dowling applied to
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shown on Chart 322 he was next to the youngest. He
was born June 14, 1857, the year before his father
ceased having to go to Lake City to transact county
business and had the privilege of transacting business
closer home in the new countyseat of Lake Butler, for
“New River District” had been created and until the
1861 division of it into Baker and Bradford Counties,
pioneers such as WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER had to
look to this town for government on the county level.
JOHN BRYANT at one time was town-marshall
of Lake Butler. And it was there that he operated a livery stable and feed business. The late Judge Chapman
liked to recount how BRYANT once credited the
Judge's father with a wagon, team, and rent-free farm
after business adversity had temporarily floored the
older man . . . Such acts naturally led Dowling into
public service as an office holder. He served Bradford
as County Treasurer, School Trustee, and County
Commissioner. Even his daughters (see Chart 543)
married men with a political bent; MAUD'S husband
was State Attorney for Bradford County. And FANNIE'S husband, a grandson of ELLEN Dowling, was
Madison County's judge for a number of years. (JOHN
BRYANT'S wife, whom he married about 1876, was
Emily Roberts who had been born in Bradford County
February 9, 1852, to Sallie Sweat and John Roberts;
these parents were Georgians. Emily died January 19,
1925; Mr. Dowling, on July 31, 1933. Both are buried
at Swift Creek Cemetery which today lies in Union
County.)
Three tragic deaths happened on this limb of the
South's Dowling family . . . JOHN B., a son of
BRYANT above, was performing his duty as a constable of Baker County when a stranger whom he had
cautioned to "stop making a ruckus" pulled a gun and
killed him! Some twenty years earlier JOHN B'S uncle
RANSOM TUCKER had been shot down by drunken
Matt Driggers when "RANCE" befriended a tenant of
his neighbor’s whom the latter was persecuting.
(RANSOM TUCKER was the ninth child of
WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER. RANCE was born
November 1, 1860, three months after the death of his
father. Mother Jane worked hard to be able to send him
to East Florida Seminary, the equivalent of a college in
those days! October 11, 1886, RANCE married Ida
Massey. A handsome, well-educated man, this
Dowling had already won such posts as
Superintendent of County Education and Tax Collector
before his untimely death. He was killed in July of
1895; his tombstone stands in Swift Creek (also called
Mt. Zion) Cemetery, five miles north of Lake Butler,
Florida. Only - child BESSIE is said to have married a
ROBERT died April 30, 1931, at the age of eightyfour; Lou Venia died February 11, 1933. (She had
been born in Appling County, Georgia, May 13, 1861,
to Sarah Ann Jackson and Isaac Ogden.)
There is an interesting episode concerning
ROBERT that should be related at this point for the
benefit of future generations... As an old man in the
1920's he moved to Florida's East Coast; this was during the boom, when many thought that a balloon could
be blown up to any size without bursting. ROBERT
bought a house near Fort Lauderdale for $3,500...With
everyone making a profit so long as he had real estate
with which he could make a profit, it was not long
before a speculator had given ROBERT $25,000 for
the place. That speculator in turn "sold it" for
$88,000... such a price no doubt including all kinds of
watered mortgages. ROBERT, though, held a good
solid mortgage . . . one for a thousand dollars on the
place; and it was not but a few years after he had sold
it, before he had it back...for 1/88th of its highest
price!
WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER'S FIFTH CHILD
was also a boy. The family resided for a short time in
today's Blackshear, Georgia, area; it was there that
HANSFORD JACKSON was born, August 5, 1850 . .
. Twenty-one years later HANSFORD married
Elizabeth Shirley. The children named in Addendum
642 were all born at Lake Butler, Florida. Wife
Elizabeth had been born in Florida April 25, 1852; she
died about thirty-three years after she and HANSFORD married. His second wife was a Mrs. Willie, or
Beulah, Tillis. The date of her death is not known; he
died between 1922 and 1925. Cemeteries at Waldo
and Gainesville, Florida, should be searched for these
three people. In the prime of his life HANSFORD was
a statewide worker for the Masons; he conducted
classes all over Florida.
After Jane Cleland Dowling and her husband
moved to their final home near present-day Raiford,
Florida, they had a son on March 13, 1853, that they
named MILES. The boy only lived to the following
year. The year this boy died, the Dowlings' third
daughter was born. From December 6, 1854, she lived
until September 11, 1918; her name was SARAH
ELEANOR. She married George Washington Thomas
January 12, 1874. (He lived from August 29, 1844, to
November 7, 1906, after which he was buried in
Union County's Midway Cemetery. SARAH'S grave
is there also. Their children and grandchildren are listed in Addendum 643.)
WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER'S eighth child was
given the name of JOHN BRYANT. Of the children
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three children. He had just returned from the Mexican
War, where he had served under General Winfield
Scott in that wild and woolly war! His name was
Stephen Alan Denmark; death had taken his first wife
a short time before . . . and after he employed ELLEN
to care for that wife's children the two of them fell in
love and were married. (Stephen's father, John
Denmark, was a South Carolinian; the children that
Stephen had with his Waters wife were John, Nancy,
and Doc . . . the latter dying in the Civil War.)
The place of Stephen Alan Denmark's birth was
not learned by the author . . . "As early as 1837 he had
been wounded while fighting Indians at Punkin
Hammock in Florida." After he and ELLEN married
in South Georgia they lived the major portion of their
lives near presentday Raiford, Florida. Mr. Denmark
died February 5, 1899, a month before his seventyninth birthday. ELLEN had died May 29, 1896, four
months before her eightieth birthday. Their graves are
marked by handsome markers at Sapp Cemetery near
their Florida home.
ELLEN'S OLDEST CHILD, born before she
married Mr. Denmark, was named EMILY. This
daughter was born in Beaufort District, South
Carolina, on February 16, 1839. EMILY was born
about twenty-three years after her mother, and she
died about twenty-three years after ELLEN did! As a
young lady she had married John Slicer Andrews.
Most of their life was spent near Lake Butler, Florida.
One son of theirs, Aaron Dennis Andrews, won elections to both the Senate and House in Florida's legislature. U. S. Congressman J. E. Hendricks, Jr., a
grandson, is sketched elsewhere in this book. Other
Andrews descendants are shown in Addendum 644.
(EMILY died August 31, 1920; John S. died March 7,
1896. Both are buried near Worthington Springs,
Florida, in Elzy Chapel Cemetery. Mr. Andrew's
birthdate was March 2, 1837.)
ELLEN'S SECOND CHILD was born three
years after EMILY and was named JAMES WALTER
TOM. In 1850, the year his mother married Mr.
Denmark, TOM as an eight-year-old boy was living
with Rebecca and Ransom F. Garner on a nearby
Ware County farm.
During the Civil War TOM soldiered as a cavalryman in Georgia's 4th Regiment, Company G.
Before being discharged in Thomas County, Georgia,
he was hospitalized in a Confederate hospital at
Brunswick. It should be noted that Washington
archives and Florida pension files refer to him as
JAMES W. though as a civilian he was known by his
third name, TOM. The Florida children of Mr.
Paschal after mother Ida remarried near Tampa.)
The third unfortunate death to be mentioned was
that of WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER himself! He
and Jane Cleland had only been in Florida a few years
. . . the family's youngest son BRYANT had just
passed his fourth birthday . . . The day of July 29,
1861, had dawned bright and clear but the atmosphere east of Lake Butler was heavy with social tension. The war was only a few months old and it is said
that young G________ H _______was not willing to
be drafted into military service. Mr. Dowling was in
the "committee" that went to call on him with the
expressed purpose of helping Mr. H______ change
his mind. As the group dismounted to enter the man's
home, his young son, secreted under the steps, fired
at them. WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER fell, mortally
wounded.
Jane Cleland Dowling did not die until twentythree years later; hers was the man-size job of raising
Mr. Dowling's five boys and three girls in that rough,
tough country west of the New River. Jane lived the
last days of her sixty-three years on this earth in
Baker County with daughter MARY Jones. When
Mother Jane died November 4, 1884, they were not
able to take her to Sapp Cemetery, near Raiford,
where WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER was buried.
The big, black river . . . the one still called the New
River . . . was causing trouble again. Its flooded condition caused her burial at the Swift Creek Cemetery.
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Some three years after the Dowling at the head of
Chart 322, JAMES, JR., had the son named
WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER, he and mother Jane
White Dowling were blessed with the birth of daughter ELLEN. This occurred in Beaufort District, South
Carolina, October 11, 1816.
The time and place of ELLEN'S marriage to the
South Carolinian who was the father of her first three
children is not known. But these offspring, EMILY,
JOHN HENRY, and JAMES WALTER TOM were
known by the Dowling surname and were such, if for
no other reason than ELLEN having been born one. It
is said that there was friction between her and her
mother wherein the latter championed the cause of a
wealthy, nearby planter named Tom Colcox, who
later drowned in a millpond.... In any event ELLEN
escaped the dilemma by moving to Ware County,
Georgia, after 1844. She was living there, near brother WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER, in 1850.
And it was in Ware County, that same year, that
ELLEN married the man who would father her last
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into the young worker's memory: "Plow deep while
slumber sleeps . . . make corn to sell and keep!"
JOHN used such training to become later the owner
of four gins, a store, and a sawmill, all these businesses being in the area of today's Raiford, Florida.
After the death of his first wife JOHN H. married Mrs. Lula Dixon Ferguson January 6, 1907. One
son of theirs, STEPHEN TUCKER, became the first
clerk of Union County when it was cut out of
Bradford in 1921; previously, he had been a Bradford
County Commissioner. Another son, JOSEPH
PAYNE, is a Baptist Minister. (Confederate Veteran
JOHN H. died October 19, 1927, and was buried in
Sapp Cemetery next to his first wife, Catherine.
Catherine, daughter of Ben Tyson of Georgia, died
on February 4, 1900, at the age of fifty-one; her
Georgia-born mother had died there in Florida when
Catherine was a young girl. Mr. Dowling's second
wife, Lula, still lives in Raiford. She was born
December 30, 1872, to Henrietta Ritch and Amaziah
M. Dixon, both of whom were born in Appling
County, Georgia.)
ELLEN'S FOURTH CHILD was the first one
she had by Mr. Denmark; father Stephen Alan named
him Stephen Banner. His date of birth was March 1,
1851. When young Stephen reached adulthood he
married Plenn and Polly Crew's daughter, Mamie.
This union left the descendants named in Addendum
645. (Stephen B. Denmark and Mamie are buried in
Deakle Cemetery in Lake Butler, Florida. He died
May 16, 1921 and she died September 14, 1923.
Mamie's birth occurred April 21, 1859.)
After three sons, shown on Chart 322, ELLEN
then had another daughter. Little Lovey Jane was
born on July 30, 1853. The man she married, William
Jack Johns, was the son of a New River, Florida, area
pioneer; for Jack's father, Billy Johns, had been in
that area before the town of Lake Butler was laid out!
(Jack's mother was Mary Futch. Jack had been born
to the Johnses on April 22, 1855 . . . and lived the
lengthy life of eighty-seven years, dying January 10,
1943. Wife Lovey Jane died October 22, 1926. Both
are buried in Sapp Cemetery near Raiford, Florida.
At the time Jack Johns married ELLEN'S daughter
he was as handsome a man as ever donned a cutaway! His picture . . . and one of ELLEN . . . are in
the possession of his daughter Hester. Her name and
others are given in Addendum 646.)
ELLEN'S SIXTH AND LAST CHILD was born
to her and Stephen Alan Denmark on October 12,
1855. This child, Hester, was born in that part of old
Ware County, Georgia, now known as Pierce, so evi-
Dowling's, shown on Chart 546, vividly remember
his demonstrations of how he would shout the roll of
old Company G. . . a job assigned to him while in the
service. TOM was also one of the Company's squad
whose duty it was to apprehend deserters.
About 1865 TOM married Malisia or Marian
James. Fifteen years later the five children born to
this marriage were living with their grandmother
Elizabeth James in the old section of Ware County
that had been put into Pierce County, Georgia. TOM
and Malisia only lived together about ten years; he
left her and went to Baker County, Florida, where he
taught school and farmed . . . The building in which
TOM taught was a dirt-floored log cabin with a halflog bench running around each wall. It was here that
TOM met his second wife, Martha Thornton, a student attending classes from a nearby farm. They married about 1877, at which time she was twenty-two.
(She and TOM are buried in Sapp Cemetery near
Raiford, though their graves are not marked. He died
about 1902 of cancer. Most of his descendants by
Martha lived around Waldo, Florida, while those by
Malisia lived near Blackshear, Georgia. Malisia is
buried in the James Cemetery near the latter town.)
ELLEN'S THIRD CHILD was also a boy. Born
October 3, 1844, in Beaufort District, South
Carolina, the youngster was given the ample name of
JOHN HENRY NELSON PAYNE Dowling. Many
called him JOE! . . . At the time ELLEN carried him
to Ware County, Georgia, there were no such things
as meat markets nor canned baby food. Any tough
old buck-deer that happened to run by was considered lucky tablefare. Years and years later, JOHN H.
liked to tell his offspring of the way that it had been
his job as a young boy to partially chew meat for his
smaller sisters and brother before handing them the
"tenderized" portions!
Pierce County Georgia's first census, in 1860,
shows young JOHN H. as a member of family-unit
No. 284. A year later this seventeen-year-old
Dowling joined Company A of the 50th Georgia
Infantry Regiment in nearby Blackshear. It wasn't
long, though, before sickness had so incapacitated
him that he had gone to sister EMILY Andrews,
where he remained until the war's end.
By 1869 JOHN H. was living in Bradford
County, Florida, not too far from his Aunt Jane
Cleland Dowling. Early that year he married
Catherine Tyson. The children born of this marriage
and his later one may be seen on Chart 547 . . .
JOHN'S employer, who gave this Dowling his start
as a farmer, always drummed the following slogan
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barn where they belonged! Religious services were
attended by this patriarch in a silk, broadcloth suit
and tophat. Still... there was a spirit of rebelliousness
in him; when past sixty, he went off to the Mexican
War! (Earlier, he had fought in the War of 1812 as a
soldier in Lowe’s Company of Colonel youngblood’s
Regiment.) JOHN JABEZ and Susan are buried in
the Dowling Cemetery near Brunson, South
Carolina.
JOHN JABEZ and Susan Barnes first had a son
named JAMES THEOPHILUS. The boy was born
April 26, 1814. He did not marry, until he was twenty-seven; wife Mary Ann Long was called a Cain on
JOHN VIRGLE'S death certificate (many yeas later)
so there is a possibility that she had been married
previously. She had been born to Alonzo and
Catherine Long on April 18, 1819, and it is said that
Alonzo or his father was massacred by the Indians.
Before JAMES THEOPHILUS died July 21, 1882,
he and Mary reared their nine children, shown on
Chart 323. All of them were born near present day
Hampton, South Carolina. Naturally, JAMES was
farmer; but in conjunction with his large plantation
he operated a cotton gin and gristmill. Widows and
the indigent were never charged for the grinding of
their corn into meal by Mr. Dowling . . . In his old
age he took much time with his grandchildren, teaching them the art of fishing and the many tricks of
proper horseback riding.
JAMES THEOPHILUS'S OLDEST CHILD
was boy who would later be the beloved pastor of at
least thirty-five Baptist congregations throughout
South Carolina. Named WILLIAM HAMILTON
Dowling, he lived the life of a leader from August 8,
1842, to September 9, 1924.
“HAM”, as he was known, joined the church at
the age of sixteen. He attended Pineville Academy
near his birthplace; his remarkable intelligence
caused neighboring planters in the Bethel Church
area to use him as a teacher before his eighteenth
birthday . . . Just as he was preparing to enter a
Seminary to prepare for the ministry the War
Between the States began. HAM was the only
Chaplain that the 5th South Carolina Cavalry
Regiment ever had.
At one time this Dowling was an aide of General
Wade Hampton. As a staff-sergeant there was one
time during the battle of Lee’s Mill that his officers
were so decimated that HAM had to take charge of
the entire Confederate right wing; a short time later,
Sheridan's forces overwhelmed the battered Rebels.
Young Dowling lost many horses to shellfire. Often-
dently ELLEN'S other two Denmark children were
born there before the move to Florida. Hester
Denmark married May 12, 1872. Husband George
Ellison Kelly and she celebrated their Golden
Wedding Anniversary a half-century later with time
to spare. For she did not die until July 30, 1928, and
he did not die until May 23, 1935. Addendum 647
gives a list of their twelve children and most of their
grandchildren. At the time of Mr. Kelly's death, he
was eighty-five; he had been born March 17, 1850. A
son of this couple, James Robert Kelly, was judge of
Madison County from 1912 to 1920 after having
gone to Florida's legislature from Baker County.
From 1920 to 1936 he was Madison County's "state
attorney", following which time he was again elected judge of the county court.
JAMES'S THIRD SON, JOHN JABEZ
(See Chart 323 and 101)
After such fine fighting as that done by
WILLIAM, JAMES, JOHN, and father ROBERT
had caused the capitulation of Cornwallis at
Yorktown in 1781 . . . these Dowlings returned to
their farms and the rural life that each followed. It
was the following January 15th that JAMES'S third
child was born there in the Jeffries Creek area of the
sovereign state of South Carolina. JAMES and mother Mary Boutwell Dowling named him JOHN
JABEZ.
During the second war with the British JOHN
JABEZ married, February 13, 1812. Bride Susan
Barnes was the daughter of Theophilus Barnes and a
Sauls mother. She was twenty-one when she married
JOHN JABEZ, having been born March 4, 1786, in
Prince William Parish, South Carolina.
As previously mentioned, mother Mary
Boutwell Dowling had left Darlington District after
the death of husband JAMES. Neither of the son’s
ages shown on her 1810 Barnwell District census fit
the age of son JOHN JABEZ. So the family tradition
which tells of JOHN JABEZ'S arrival in Beaufort
District as early as 1807 is probably correct. It was
there that his marriage to Susan occurred. And it was
there, near today's town of Brunson, South Carolina,
that this couple raised the five boys and five girls
shown on Chart 323 . . . Great-great-grandchildren
still inhabit the area.
JOHN JABEZ was a meticulous person. He
believed as much in orderliness that during one period of his life he kept servants on the look out for any
leaves that might fall in the Dowling yard; they were
to pick them up instantly and take them back of the
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scribe and use a special yellow-fever serum in epidemics raging on the Gulf Coast . . . Working under the
direction of Doctor OSCAR Dowling (head of the
Louisiana Health Service), young Tuten probably
wondered about their kinship. Both were great-greatgreat-grandsons of our family's founder, ROBERT!
The third child of JAMES THEOPHILUS was
also a girl. They named her ARGENIE ROSETTA but
called her "AURIE". Her birth date was November 22,
1846. About 1861 this girl married John Frederick
Rivers, son of a Lightsey mother. Four of their children
named in Addendum 649 left no issue; but a fifth child
had fourteen offspring! Mrs. Rivers died October 12,
1903; she is buried at Hickory Grove Church near
Hampton, South Carolina.
JAMES THEOPHILUS finally had another boy!
He and Mrs. Dowling named him JOHN VIRGLE, the
birth occurring August 23, 1849. The boy grew up in
time to serve in brother HAM'S cavalry regiment,
serving in Captain Mulligan's company . . . Later he
attended Furman University, though a critical illness
prevented his completion of the senior year. In such
places as Fairfax, Beaufort, Varnville, Ridgeland, and
Bluffton he taught school. Wife Annie Williams,
daughter of Susan Bassett and Josiah Williams, was
also a schoolteacher. JOHN'S final residence was
Savannah, Georgia, where he became City Inspector.
A friendly man, he was elected by the people of surrounding Chatham County as their Probate Judge. (His
three sons and four daughters are shown on Chart 552.
His life ended December 30, 1930; Annie's, on
February 15, 1928. Both are buried in the Hopewell
Church Cemetery a few miles south of Hampton,
South Carolina. Their marriage date was May 1, 1880.)
THE FIFTH CHILD OF JAMES THEOPHILUS
was also a boy. Father JAMES had heard good reports
of Colonel DECANIA Dowling, a grandson of his
great-uncle WILLIAM; so DECANIE DEXTER was
the name chosen for this infant who arrived August 20,
1850.
DECANIE did not marry until May 8, 1878. To
secure capital he worked in the store of brother
LUCIOUS RHETT at Varnville, South Carolina. The
extra-slow transportation of that day necessitated his
week-long absences from the family (see Chart 553).
Once while returning to his farm one dark night on a
deep, sandy road . . . a hand reached from the darkness
and grabbed his horse's bridle! But after the waylayer
had held a match to DECANIE'S face he said, "Excuse
me, Mr. Dowling; you're not the one I'm looking for!"
. . . It was on that same road on another night that
DECANIE DEXTER, while passing a "hainted" negro
times missiles tore through his clothing; but he was
never wounded! One of the battles he was in lasted
from Thursday evening to Monday morning, his only
rest being a pause for meals of parched corn. General
V. R. Brooks described WILLIAM HAMILTON as
one of the "bravest of the brave"; Colonel Z. Davis
sent him the Cross of Honor.
HAM'S dangers did not end with the war.
Daughter MAUD Turner, in her excellent brochure
called "To the Dowlings Who Served in America's
Wars", tells of events in the carpetbagging days when
WILLIAM HAMILTON had only God between him
and mob-death! Once, on his river plantation, he went
boldly into a camp of more than a hundred aroused
negroes who were there fomenting trouble. They
pulled him off of his horse and threatened to kill him,
but he talked to them and then preached a sermon
hours long . . . and they were never known to cause
trouble as a group again.
As proof that God was always with HAM, there
was the time, for example, when he had just given his
one-year preaching salary of five dollars to a destitute
family. Before this young preacher reached home an
eloping couple had stopped him to perform a roadside
marriage ceremony. When it ended they handed him
twice the amount he had just given away!
When Hampton County was created, it was HAM
who headed the school system. For twelve years its
people elected him Probate Judge. Immediately afterwards, in 1832, he began a thirty-two year span of service on Hampton's Board of Education. Baptists honored him by making him president of their Savannah
River Association. He and Clara Louise Ruth, his
beloved wife, reared the children shown on Chart 551.
(This couple celebrated their Golden Wedding
Anniversary May 19, 1917. Clara had been born to
Mary E. Peeples and Colonel Abram M. Ruth on May
13, 1844, in Beaufort District. Her parents had also
been born there, at the beginning of the War of 1812.
Clara and WILLIAM HAMILTON are buried in the
cemetery of the church they married in: Hopewell
Baptist. HAM'S wife died December 12, 1923.)
JAMES THEOPHILUS'S SECOND CHILD was
born January 31, 1845, and lived until June 7, 1899.
Her name was SUSAN CATHERINE; she married
John Asa Tuten September 12, 1866. Tuten died May
9, 1891; both are buried in the Stafford Cemetery, near
Furman, South Carolina. Mr. Tuten had been born in
South Carolina on February 22, 1846. Of the children
shown in Addendum 648, one was especially prominent. That was son J. Greene Tuten, a doctor. At the
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Addendum rather than on a Chart. Born on August 2,
1858, RHETT was a pioneer businessman in the
town of Varnville, South Carolina; he even helped
plan the village's street arrangement. At the age of
twenty he married Mary Susan Goethe. See
Addendum 651.1 for their descendants. (This union
occurred September 5, 1878, in Hopewell Church.
Mrs. Dowling was the daughter of Eliza Peeples and
Washington Goethe and had been born near Varnville
November 15, 1858. She lived until New Year's Day
of 1923. She and RHETT are buried in the Varnville
Cemetery. He died September 16, 1929.)
The last child of JAMES THEOPHILUS was
the only one who would die single: ANNIE REGINA. Born in 1860, this daughter died a scant twentythree years later. She is interred in the graveyard
adjoining Hopewell Baptist Church. JAMES
THEOPHILUS and wife Mary Long Dowling are
buried there also, just a few miles south of the county-seat of Hampton County, South Carolina; this area
is part of old Beaufort District, South Carolina,
where JOHN JABEZ had migrated in the beginning
of the nineteenth century. JAMES THEOPHILUS
died July 21, 1882; his wife died December 14, 1896.
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This short section will cover JOHN JABEZ'S
second and third child. For little is known of daughter RENNIE, born January 19, 1816. However, it is
said that she had at least three children, Rosa, Anna
(who married a Rivers), and William, Jr. RENNIE
married a man by the name of William Croft.
The third child of JOHN JABEZ'S, a boy named
WILLIAM MATTISON, came into this world on
August 24th . . . 1818. Later, this son added to JOHN
JABEZ'S illustrious war record by serving against
the Mexicans as a corporal in Johnson's Company of
Colonel William Fisher's Regiment.
WILLIAM MATTISON'S FIRST CHILD was
possibly the one called VICTORIA. Ignorance of her
birthdate can only leave the author guessing that she,
like the other three children, might have been born
quite some time after WILLIAM MATTISON married Elizabeth Harrison. For such marriage had
occurred December 14, 1838; yet observe the birthdates of the other three children! VICTORIA was
still single at the age of sixty; but then she became
the second wife of James Harriett. He was a son of
VICTORIA'S aunt HESTER ANN!
The first son of WILLIAM MATTISON was
born on May 4, 1852, and only lived to be two and a
half years old. Named WILLIAM FERDINAND, he
is buried two miles north of Brunson, South
(New Hope Baptist) church, was struck a sharp blow
on the back! Though he only weighed 150 pounds
Dowling tended to take on the characteristics of
dynamite when taken advantage of; so he proceeded
to search the surrounding underbrush for the
"haint".... Finding nothing he went on home. But the
next day he returned to the spot, determined to find
at least the tracks of the ambusher . . . There in the
middle of the road . . . was a long barrel-stave, its
bend just perfect for a quick spring upward if stepped
on just right!
DECANIE was a gentle father. He had a keen
sense of humor but was careful to stress that his children be courteous, even to the lowliest. Wife Mary
Margaret Thames contributed greatly to the moral
fibre of this limb in our Dowling family tree. A standard breakfast-time fare for this couple's children
was her reading each Sunday of the sermon carried
in the "Hampton County Guardian". (She was the
child of Mary J. Clifton and James F. Thames; she
lived from February 24, 1861, to May 10, 1924, and
is buried beside Mr. Dowling at Hopewell Baptist
Church. He had died September 16, 1916.)
JAMES THEOPHILUS'S SIXTH CHILD was
daughter DEBORAH MELLISON. The crime reporter of the "New Orleans Item", Ben Franklin
Hay is a grandson of hers; other children and grandchildren are listed in Addendum 650. "MELLY", as
this daughter was called married Joseph D.
Deloache, son of William, in December of 1872. The
ceremony might have been performed on Joseph's
twenty-fourth birthday; for that event happened
December 5, 1872 . . . On Christmas day that year
MELLY was nineteen. (She lived some fifty-four
years after that, dying February 23, 1927. Mr.
Deloache died October 28, 1898. The author does
not know their burial place.)
EMMA ELIZABETH, seventh child of JAMES
THEOPHILUS, was a little tot that Mary Dowling
gave birth to on the 29th day of December, 1855.
This wee one was to have many days; she lacked
only two of living to her eighty-seventh birthday!
She is buried at Hopewell Baptist Church, where so
many of JOHN JABEZ'S descendants have met for
the past three decades in annual Dowling reunions.
Buried beside Emma is husband Thomas T. Speaks;
his span of life covered the days from May 25, 1848,
to October 2, 1917. Their descendants are shown in
Addendum 651.
JAMES THEOPHILUS'S EIGHTH CHILD,
son LUCIOUS RHETT, leaves no Dowling grandsons. Thus his descendants are shown in an
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built such a fine reputation in nearby Barnwell
District before dying nine years earlier.
South Carolina Archives show that "E. L.
Dowling" was in Company B of the 5th South
Carolina Cavalry Regiment; tradition tells us that he
was a scout and sharpshooter of that organization.
ELBERT LIJAH married Ann Harriett, daughter
of John. The marriage resulted in only two children.
Daughter CORA HAZELTINE married George
Googe but they separated shortly, a little daughter
supposedly dying as a child. CORA is buried at
Hopewell Church near Hampton, South Carolina.
ELBERT LIJAH died December 4, 1880.
ELBERT LIJAH'S son JOHN HAMPTON
became a sawyer, working at various sawmills in
South Carolina and Georgia. He married Leila
Ambrose and they had daughters named CLYDE and
BERTHA. The former married a Peeler and lived in
Augusta, Georgia; BERTHA had children and lived
near Tampa, Florida. The author believes that a 1925
death certificate filed in Richland County, South
Carolina, on a seventy-six-year-old JOHN Dowling
refers to this cousin.
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Susan Barnes and JOHN JABEZ had a seventh
child on November 12, 1828, and named her JULIA.
This daughter never had any offspring; she married
Humphrey Moore and J. H. Cope.
JOHN JABEZ'S eighth child was daughter
MARY, born August 7, 1831. She married Mike
Freeman. Their five children were Charley, Sula,
Mary Jane, Lou, and Julia, the last child later marrying a Loadholt. Mother MARY Freeman is buried at
the Rivers Cemetery near Brunson, South Carolina.
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The ninth child of JOHN JABEZ'S was named
after a man whom father Dowling had heard much of
during the time he served in the War of 1812; that
man was Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. OLIVER
PERRY Dowling was born December 27, 1833; in
adulthood he married Josephine Prescott. Their only
child, JOSEPHINE, died at nine. Not long afterwards, the child's mother also died.
OLIVER PERRY next married Reverend
William Googe's daughter, Henrietta, about the year
1869. A memorial article some fifty years later
described her charming manners and quiet modesty.
She and PERRY were Methodists; people described
him as one of the most moral men they had ever
known. He lived in the Hampton County area his
entire life. The first child they had, SARAH VIOLA,
was born July13, 1870. She lived only seven years.
Carolina, with his parents in the Dowling Cemetery.
The only other daughter born to WILLIAM MATTISON and Elizabeth was born on February 15, 1854,
and lived until April 4, 1928. They named her
CLEMENTINE PAMELIA. Her first husband,
Joseph Rosier, lived only to the age of thirty-two
(May of 1853 to June of 1885). Next this Dowling
daughter married Reverend Blakely Mason. Her
descendants by both husbands are named in
Addendum 652.
The only other son of WILLIAM MATTISON'S
was a boy named RILEY R. He lived from June 29,
1856, to October 16, 1895, dying single. RILEY'S
mother, Elizabeth Harrison, had died in October of
1890, and his father in October of 1883. She was born
September 1, 1820.
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JOHN JABEZ'S fourth child was christened
HESTER ANN on March 22, 1821. At maturity she
married John Harriett. As shown by Chart 323, HESTER had at least six children. (1 - Frank, who married
Annie Priester, had offspring by the names of Nick,
Gassie, Curlin, Mamie, Annie, and Minnie. 2 William, who first married Missie Mole, had offspring named John, George, and Susie (Mahaley).
William next married Sarah Benton and had offspring
named Frank and Hayward as well as two daughters.
3 - James, who first married Martha Myers, and next
married his first cousin VICTORIA. A daughter of
the first marriage, Susannah (Mrs. Willie Klinger),
was still living in 1941. 4 - Susan, who married
William Priester, had a daughter named Cattie; this
daughter married William Hires and moved to
Leesburg, Florida. 5 - Nancy Harriett married a
Simmons. 6 - Mary, who married Henry Kinard,
raised several children in the Bethel section of
Allendale County, South Carolina.) Mrs. HESTER
ANN Harriett, the mother of these six children, is
buried at Hickory Grove Church in Allendale County,
South Carolina.
JOHN JABEZ'S next child after HESTER was a
boy whom he named JOHN JEFFERSON. The birthdate, June 9, 1823, of this son placed him in line for
later becoming a member of the Confederate Cavalry
of the South Carolina Squadron commanded by Kirk.
This Dowling never married; he is buried in the
Dowling Cemetery two miles north of Brunson,
South Carolina. He died at the age of seventy-six.
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JOHN JABEZ'S sixth child was born on July 3,
1825. His name, ELBERT LIJAH, probably came in
part from his father's first cousin, ELIJAH, who had
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majority of Dowling's life was spent in the retail grocery and meat business in the towns of Brunson and
Fairfax. On March 14 (1906?) he married Laura
Bassett. Their only son, GUY JEFFERSON is Assistant
Superintendent of Stations for F. E. C Railroad in St.
Augustine. (For other descendants see Addendum 664.
Laura's birthdate was June 26, 1883; her parents were
Anna Googe and Michael Bassett. She lives in
Thomasville, North Carolina. WADE died June 4,
1938, and was buried near Brunson in the Dowling
Cemetery.)
OLIVER PERRY'S SEVENTH CHILD, another
boy, was born July 21, 1878. This was BENJAMIN
WYMAN, SR, shown with all his brothers and sisters
on Chart 323. This lad was only sixteen when father
PERRY died; so he went to live with Aunt JULIA
Cope. For years after that BENJAMIN left South
Carolina to seek his fortune. The subsequent ten years
were eventful ones. As a "drummer" of everything from
rheumatism medicine to needles and thread, he traveled
the Atlantic Seaboard from the tip of Maine to the village of Key West. Modus getabout? - - - horse and
buggy!
On visits to Brunson, BENJAMIN became
increasingly interested in the sister-in-law of brother O.
P., SR. The girl's name was Mary Esther Sullivan. He
married her November 14, 1909; his traveling days
were over! BENJAMIN'S popularity as a merchant of
Fairfax, South Carolina, caused his election to the post
of Allendale County Magistrate as early as 1919 . . .
The day of his death, August 29, 1934, Judge Dowling
was being re-elected to this office, one he had held
without interruption. He is buried in the Fairfax City
Cemetery. Chart 557 shows the seven sons born to him
and Mary Esther; four of them served in World War II.
(Esther was born to Mary Alice Pardue and Jefferson
Darling Sullivan on December 22, 1892, in BENJAMIN'S home county of Hampton. Her father had
also been born there; Mrs. Sullivan had been born in
Edgefield County, South Carolina.)
OLIVER PERRY'S EIGHTH CHILD was given
the masculine equivalent of his mother's name when
she and Mr. Dowling named the boy HENRY GOOGE.
This birth came on April 23, 1880. HENRY never married, dying February 21, 1937.
OLIVER PERRY named the next child for himself; the author calls this boy OLIVER PERRY, II (for
Chart 558 shows that the name was used a third time
later on); his neighbors called this son of PERRY by the
name of "DOLLY". He was born August 11, 1882, just
outside Brunson. Years later, he became a well-known
merchant in that town. He also farmed . . . and operat-
Henrietta and OLIVER PERRY then had a second
daughter; she was born in 1872 on April 11th, and only
lived twenty-seven years. Her name was AIMEE
GERTRUDE and she was married to John Hamilton
Nix (1860-19I7). All of their children and grandchildren are shown Addendum 653.
OLIVER PERRY'S THIRD CHILD by Henrietta
was his fourth daughter in a row! Named JULIA E. and
born on December 7, 1873, in Hampton County, this
daughter lived there the remainder of her life. She died
single on February 27, 1936.
The first son that OLIVER PERRY had was
named in honor of a famous South Carolinian. This little Dowling, JOHN CALHOUN, SR., is shown at the
head of Chart 556; subsequent descendants of his are
shown thereon. The date of his birth was March 3,
1875.
A livelihood in Reconstruction Days for rural
Southerners was hard to earn; ambitious bread-winners
grabbed at any honorable opportunity to break out of
the vicious cycle that the horrible war had caused. Thus
JOHN CALHOUN, during his twenties, took a job at a
nearby lumberyard. It was during this time that he married fifteen-year-old Lillie Idelia Cleland, January 27,
1897. (Lillie lives in Brunson, South Carolina. She was
born May 4, 1883, to Henrietta Rebecca Davis and
James Henry Cleland. It was thought that her grandmother, SARAH Cleland, was a granddaughter of
WILLIAM Dowling, whom the Tories killed.)
JOHN CALHOUN, SR., later became the owner
of two lumberyards. Always, he demonstrated a keen
ability in picking good men. When James F. Byrnes
first ran for United States Senate, JOHN agreed to
serve as his campaign manager in surrounding
Hampton County. During the twenty-six years that he
served as Township Magistrate the became known as
"Judge Dowling". From the inception of the depressionborn Agricultural Adjustment Act he was its boardchairman in Hampton; his portrait, a gift of co-workers,
is still in the present ASC office. JOHN was a steward
of the Brunson Methodist Church for thirty years and a
Grand Master Mason. One of the organizers of
Hopewell Church's "Dowling Family Reunion
Association", he became association president in 1946.
Death took him December 12, 1949; he is buried in the
Brunson City Cemetery.
OLIVER PERRY'S SIXTH CHILD by his two
wives was born October 14, 1876, and named for
Robert E. Lee's famed cavalry commander, Wade
Hampton. This boy was WADE HAMPTON Dowling .
. . appropriately born in the new South Carolina County
that had been named for Carolinian Hampton . . . The
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came after America's first census of 1790 . . . and
before the young father's 1797 death in the Jeffries
Creek area. Thus this boy was not old enough to hear
his father and grandfather tell of their exploits at
King's Mountain, and the Cowpens, and in the
Carolina swamps with General Marion.
After brother WILLIAM H. and mother Mary
joined in selling their share of the land of grandmother Sarah Guinn Dowling, in 1808, WILLIS went with
his mother to the country of her nephews JABEZ and
ELIJAH. But the mother and son might have separated at that point; for she went eastward to Beaufort
District, South Carolina, and WILLIS probably went
back to his old home in the Darlington District. It is
known tha't his bride, Nancy Cook (whom he wed
before 1815), was of that area, for father Ephraim
Cook resided there.
The author's next glimpse of WILLIS is some fifteen years Jater when he and Nancy were residing in
Madison County, Florida, east of six-year-old
Tallahassee. Neither had passed their fortieth birthday
. . . and based on census-brackets could have been as
young as thirty.
WILLIS and Nancy had brought at least a halfdozen children from South Carolina. Before the parents left there little Letitia had been born on January
10, 1828 . . . At the age of sixteen this daughter married Thomas D. Owens; it was leap-year and the marriage was performed February 29, 1844.
LETITIA'S only child by this first marriage was
daughter Mary Ellen. This little tot was born February
3, 1847, in Tallahassee, Florida. At the age of twentytwo she married Johnathon William Britton of
Baltimore, Maryland, and of Florida's 1st Infantry
Regiment, Company A. Their offspring are named in
Addendum 656. (His parents were Elizabeth Rolph
and Thomas J. Britton; J. W. Britton married Ellen
Owens May 11, 1869. He had been born in Baltimore
on November 27, 1840. Ellen died in 1916 and was
interred in Thomasville, Georgia's Laurel Hill
Cemetery. Mr. Britton had been buried there seven
years previously.)
LETITIA next married Thomas J. Rawls, a
Georgian who had been born there on October 24,
1825. This marriage in 1849, on February 3rd, was
probably performed in the Methodist Church of
Tallahassee; both were members there. Young Rawls
was a carpenter. The first little Rawls born to them was
Eugenia; some twenty-seven years later this daughter
married Albert Edwin Philips . . . November 2, 1876.
Only one of Eugenia's four children, shown in
Addendum 657, lived to adulthood. (Eugenia was born
ed turpentine stills in Hampton, Allendale, and
Bamberg Counties. Once he branched out to the ownership of a gravel-pit at Wrens, Georgia. Son O. P.. III
called PETE, is superintendent of the A. C. L.
Railway's Florence District. Another son, NED, is Vice
President of Turnbull Cone and Machine Company,
largest manufacturer of ice-cream cones in the South.
(DOLLY married Agnes Sullivan January 15, 1905.
She was another daughter of Jefferson Darling
Sullivan, mentioned above. She still lives in Brunson.
Mr. Dowling died August 2, 1952, and was buried in
that town’s cemetery. Agnes Sullivan was born August
12, 1888.)
OLIVER PERRY'S TENTH AND LAST CHILD
was a boy named ABRAM DAVID, born January 17,
1885. He married Hani Barker's daughter, Edith; their
children are shown in Addendum 655. Mr. Dowling
was killed in an automobile wreck July 18, 1937; son
WILLIAM BARKER died the same way eleven years
later. ABRAM'S grave is at Fairfax, South Carolina.
OLIVER PERRY Dowling died February 15,
1885; widow Henrietta's oldest son was only nine . . .
and there were eight little Dowlings to feed! The best
the grieving mother could afford to bury PERRY in
was a hand-made pine coffin. She had great perseverance though and worked years in raising a fine family
of children. Some forty years later, November 20,
1918, the sons she had so lovingly reared buried her in
the most luxurious casket that could be bought! She
and OLIVER PERRY are in the Dowling Cemetery,
near Brunson, South Carolina. Henrietta had been born
September 3, 1848.
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A daughter shown on Chart 323 was the last child, the
tenth one, born to Susan Barnes Dowling and JOHN
JABEZ. Her name was ELIZA JANE and she was
born May 23, 1836. She lived forty-four years and died
without having married. She is buried with her parents
in the Dowling Cemetery, two miles north of Brunson,
South Carolina. JOHN JABEZ donated the land for it.
JOHN JABEZ died February 16, 1866. Susan died
three years later.
JAMES'S FOURTH SON, WILLIS H.
(See Chart 324 and 101)
A glance at Chart 324 will show that WILLIS H.
is the grandson of ROBERT'S whom the author knows
the least about (except MICAJAH, of course, whose
descendants are completely unknown).
The birth of WILLIS H. to Revolutionary War
Veteran JAMES and mother Mary Boutwell Dowling
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family on Chart 324, it is highly possible that there
was a fifth. For the marriage of daughter JULIA to
Absolam Presnal is known to have taken place on
May 31, 1830. Should this have occurred before that
year's Madison County census the author feels that
she would not have been one of the four daughters
still at home.
JULIA'S sister HANNAH JANE later married in
Thomas County, Georgia, on January 20, 1850, and is
believed to be one of the Madison County daughters.
HANNAH JANE'S picture is now owned by grandniece Letitia Johnston Bond. At the time of her first
marriage this daughter of WILLIS'S used the name
JANE; this was when she married Samuel A. Austin.
Eleven years later when she married David Crowell,
February 24, 1861, she used the name HANNAH J.
HANNAH JANE'S first husband must have died
a short time before this second marriage of hers, for
the Thomas County court had appointed a guardian
for the estate of little James, Frank, and Letty Austin
the month before she remarried. Four years later this
guardian's last money had been spent by a payment to
"H. J. Crowell" (HANNAH JANE) of $525 for board
and clothing furnished the Austin children. The
author's only clue to these children's later fortune is
an 1872 marriage entry in the Thomas County,
Georgia, records of female "Latter" Austin to A. J.
Barrett.
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WILLIS Dowling "was at Dennis Hawkins's in
Madison County on May 2, 1831" according to material found in the Florida Secretary of State's vault
(under the grouping of "Executive Correspondence
Beginning in 1830"). He and son JOSEPH seem to
have operated a store and had certain dealings with
the governor's agents. The "half-quire of letter paper
sold by the Dowlings for twenty-five cents" can of
course be understood by the author as legitimate government needs. But the "bottle of gin, sixty-two
cents" . . . was probably bought by his excellency's
men for barter with the Indians! Tallahassee records
also show WILLIS'S purchase of eighty acres of land
equidistant from Madison, Florida and Greenville.
By 1840 son JOSEPH was "in commerce" in
Tallahassee. The census shows that he and an unnamed brother were doing quite well, as they owned
two slaves. JOSEPH was married twice. The second
time was to Elizabeth Johns, June 12, 1843, in an
Alachua County, Florida, ceremony. Mr. Dowling
was probably still in business in Tallahassee because
a September advertisement by a new dentist of the
town listed him as a character reference! Two years
in Tallahassee on March 8, 1850. At the time that her
third infant died Eugenia also expired, October 9,
1884. Mother and child were buried in the same casket in the Tallahassee City Cemetery. A. E. Philips
was the son of Penelope Blake and Andrew Jackson
Philips, the latter of South Carolina birth, and lived
until October 18, 1920. Death claimed him in
Sanford, Florida. He was born March 8, 1850.)
LETITIA'S THIRD CHILD was son William
Andrew Rawls, Sr., born August 26, 1851. On New
Year's Day of 1880 this Floridian married the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Maxwell and Francis Hopkins
Flagg; her name was Mary Maxwell Flagg. She and
Mr. Rawls are buried there in the city of their birth in
the old burial grounds. Grandson Francis Lowry, a
hero of Iwo Jima, is sketched elsewhere in this book.
(Other descendants are shown in Addendum 658.
Mrs. Rawls lived from April 26, 1857, to September
30, 1928; the cousin of ours whom she married died
December 7, 1926.)
Thomas Jefferson Rawls and LETITIA'S next
two children were girls. Little Annie Edmonson
Rawls, born August 26, 1853, lived only three years.
But sister Frances, born October 24, 1859, lived a
lengthy life. Her descendants are listed in Addendum
659. She was always known as "Fannie". Fannie married eight days after brother William Andrew did;
husband Edward John Kent Johnston was the son of
Virginia Ann Papy and Edward John Johnston. (This
father-in-law was born in Ireland; after meeting the
St. Augustine-born Papy girl, they had son E. J. K. in
Palatka, Florida, on July 9, 1852. Fannie died fortyseven years and ten days after her marriage. Her husband had died on October 21, 1907. Both are buried
in the Old City Cemetery in the town of her birth,
Tallahassee.)
LETITIA'S SIXTH AND SEVENTH OFFSPRING were boys. Son Thomas Glover Rawls was
never to have any children; he was born to Thomas
Jefferson and LETITIA on July 14, 1861. Forty years
later he married Sadie Williams. Edwin Blake Rawls,
the other son of LETITIA, was born on August 10,
1864; he died as an infant.
The obituary of LETITIA published in the
"Southern Christian Advocate" after her death, April
10, 1874, is the longest ever seen by the author; she
was evidently much beloved by her fellow
Methodists. After Mr. Rawls death on August 12,
1887, he was buried beside her in the old cemetery of
her native town.
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Though four daughters are shown in WILLIS'S
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to Dale County, Alabama, where double-first-cousin
DEMPSEY already resided. But a genealogical article in Dale County's "Southern Star" a few years ago
by Woodham's great-grandson stating that the Sallie
Woodham who died in Dale on January 23, 1865, was
a Fields at the time she married Edward H., Sr.,
leaves the kinship of our SALLIE undecided.
after this he was on the militia rolls of Alachua
County and was co-owner of "The House of Cole and
Dowling".
JOSEPH'S first wife, Catherine, had been a
member of the Tallahassee Methodist Church. She
and sister-in-law LETITIA had joined the church at
the same time, May 31, 1840. Catherine was thrown
from a buggy and killed, probably between the time
she professed Christianity and the time the 1840 census was run. JOSEPH may not have remained in
Florida; he could well be the "JOE" Dowling shown
on a roll of the 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment. He
had been born between 1810 and 1815.
The same roll of men, now in the possession of
author Folks Huxford, shows "M" Dowling.
Washington archivists were not able to find his Civil
War record. This would have been WILLIS'S son,
born in 1829, named MADISON. At the age of twenty-one he had worked in Hillsborough County,
Florida. Five years later near Wakullah Springs he
filed an affidavit of military service against the
Indians stating that he had volunteered at St. Marks in
August of 1849, receiving a Tallahassee discharge
two months later.
WILLIS'S three other children shown on Chart
324 have not been traced. The author has clues indicating that one of the two sons was named JAMES.
All the information gained on four generations of
WILLIS'S descendants is here.
JAMES'S DAUGHTERS
(See Chart 101)
As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter,
JAMES and Mary Boutwell Dowling probably had
two little daughters who died young. Reverend
DEMPSEY Dowling did not seem to know of them;
as he was only six years of age at the time that the
census taker had visited his Uncle JAMES'S home
and listed five daughters, it is only natural that
DEMPSEY might have failed to mention such first
cousins if they died as children while he himself was
a child.
Mrs. Beulah Barnet Dowling uncovered no
information on POLLIE and LETTIE, except the possibility that LETTIE'S other name was also CHARLOTTE. The author feels that LETTIE was actually
the nickname used in place of LETITIA, for this girl's
brother WILLIS named a daughter of his LETITIA.
Mrs. Beulah Dowling (just before her death) had
also been told that SALLIE, the fifth daughter on
Chart 101, married Edward H. Woodham, Sr., in the
Jeffries Creek area of South Carolina before moving
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The JOHN Dowling Branch of Our Family
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In 1824 JOHN as an old, old man of sixty-five
knew that his days were numbered; he prepared the
will that would dispose of such worldly goods as
listed above. Yet it was not until 1826 that this old
revolutionary soldier died. On June 10 of that year
his son SIMEON (thought to be a twin of LEVI)
was qualified as executor of JOHN'S will. It still
lies in the courthouse at Darlington, South
Carolina.
Though JOHN willed that "my body be buried
in a decent and Christianlike manner" this must not
have included such a luxurious thing as a stone
headmarker. He was buried on his own land, probably a stone's throw from his residence, the author
feels that JOHN'S own grandchildren were not able
to locate his grave a few decades later.
Dying was as inexpensive in that remote time
as was living. When son SIMEON died, within a
few months of his father's death, brother ELIAS
paid John Stewart fifty cents for planks and one
dollar for the labor of building SIMEON'S coffin.
SIMEON was only twenty-six at the time and had
never married.
If JOHN had no memorial in the way of a
tombstone, he nearly had one of another sort. As
one of the first leaders of the Methodists in the
Jeffries Creek area, he was instrumental in founding a church by the name of "Dowling Meeting
House". Father ROBERT, our family founder, is
said to have given land for it . . . But the individualized name of this church was lost in 1840 when
the Dowlings and the Garners combined to form
"Philadelphia Church", a Methodist body still in
existence. (Pioneer minister James Jenkins referred
in his book to "Dowling's House" as an early place
of worship; this could have been JOHN'S home
instead of a specially built place. "The Memoirs of
James Jenkins" has just been reprinted by ROSA
JENKINS Baskin, a descendant of Reverend
Jenkins and JOHN.)
Within months after the Battle of Bunker Hill,
JOHN enlisted in Pinckney's 1st South Carolina
Regiment, November 4, 1775. This lad of sixteen
was waiting for no declaration by a federal group!
. . . Nor was South Carolina for that matter, for the
council of safety formed by a specially-called
"congress" of that colony had caused the King’s
governor to flee in September. A tempest was being
brewed in His Majesty's teapot!
Four and a half years after JOHN'S enlistment
f ROBERT'S three sons the youngest one,
JOHN, was the longest lived. Unlike brother
JAMES who lived only a score of years after the
Declaration of Independence . . . or brother
WILLIAM who died in the embers of the
Revolution . . . JOHN lived for a full half-century
after that world-shaking war began.
His worldly goods, exclusive of larid, totaled
exactly $350.75 at the end of this lengthy life.
Truly, these were the infant days of American capital, for he had accumulated enough to lend a tenth
of his personal fortune to others. There was a
twelve-dollar note against Jessey Grantham and
James Priest and a twenty-dollar note on William
Bremblet. Of course, his major investment was in
farm necessities, to wit:
- cart and gears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15.00
- one mare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $60.00
- a saddle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2.00
- fodder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6.00
- cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $50.00
- hogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20.00
- plantation tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 8.00
- corn and "pees” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16.00
- a side of leather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2.00
- potatoes and slips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 7.00
- bee gum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1.00
- old gums and barrels . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6.00
JOHN and his wife had reared all nine of their
children, without losing any to malnutrition, vermin, or other pioneer hazards. So it is interesting to
notice the following household goods owned by
such a father in the fiftieth year of our independence:
- box and two chests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3.00
- three beds, furniture
and steads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $50.00
- cotton and "waring" clothes . . . . . . . $10.00
- loom and gears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20.00
- kitchen furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16.00
- "puterware" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.00
- set of knives & forks - . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2.00
- crockerware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3.00
- copperware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 3.00
- grindstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 1.50
- musket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3.00
- cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15.25
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country". Yet a century later there would be a quarter of a million in the area!)
Year after year, following the war, the stories
around the hearths "back home" grew richer in the
tribute paid the land toward the setting sun. In
1824, a South Carolinian, Elisha Matthews of
Darlington District, had accompanied a group to
the territory surrounding the confluence of the east
and west branches of the Choctawhatchee River in
what is now Dale County, Alabama. Young
Matthews was hired there by a Mr. Mills to teach
his children, and a few of some neighbors' children.
This was the first school ever held in southeast
Alabama! That same summer the first white man's
craft ever to ply the Choctawhatchee came northward to the blockhouse that had just been erected.
(The blockhouse was less than a mile east from the
point at which the four-lane bridge is now under
construction across this river south of Ozark.)
"At the close of his school Mr. Matthews got
ready for the homeward journey. The time spent in
this wilderness had seemed long to him because of
a special interest he had in the charming Miss
LACY Dowling, beautiful daughter of Reverend
DEMPSEY Dowling, who lived near Elisha's
father.
"On arriving home he confirmed all the stories
of fertile soil, abundance of game, the long waving
grasses that bowed and nodded before every watercourse where cattle might browse to their hearts'
content. But the fate of young Elisha was not certain. He paid a visit to his fiancee and told LACY
of all the wonders of this new world. She listened
intently. But . . . could she leave a home of comfort
. . . the love of fond parents, brothers, sisters,
friends . . . for the hardships and hazards of
unknown lands? Young Matthews plead for a decision, promising that so soon as his financial circumstances would permit he would build her an
elegant home in which she could reign in royal
splendor! . . . He was successful . . . and his heart
was filled with joy." (The Southern Star," April 25,
1902.)
This story concerning DEMPSEY'S daughter
and oldest son-in-law will be continued later. It was
begun at this point to acquaint the reader with the
spirit of exploration that filled the residents of old
colonial America after they had whipped the
British a second time, and the part LACY'S husband would play in influencing DEMPSEY to emigrate.
Martha Stokes had joined the Methodist
in Pinckney's Regiment his name disappeared from
its rolls. JOHN'S company, commanded by
Levacher de Saint Marie, was possibly one of the
American organizations defeated at Charleston. In
any event, it was not until 1782 that his military
service for this idea of self-government was again
recorded. It was then that he is known to have been
a guerilla with the dreaded "Swamp-fox", Francis
Marion.
JOHN married the following year, 1783.
Sister-in-law Mary Boutwell Dowling had probably introduced him to the bride some years earlier,
for this was Mary's sister, Nancy; both were daughters of Burtonhead Boutwell. Bride Nancy was
twenty years of age; JOHN was twenty four. The
children subsequently born to them are shown on
Chart 101. After his marriage the remaining fortythree years of his life were to be spent near Jeffries
Creek. This was the place that father ROBERT had
brought him to from Virginia. And it was the place
where all of JOHN'S little Dowlings would be
born.
JOHN'S OLDEST SON DEMPSEY
(See Charts 331 and 101)
The first son of Nancy and JOHN'S came on
December 14, 1783; the name they gave him,
DEMPSEY, must have been the surname of some
family friend. Absolutely nothing is known of his
childhood. It was almost twenty years later that he
married. DEMPSEY picked a sixteen-year-old girl
who had been born in North Carolina. Her name
was Martha Stokes. (Her parents, Nancy Patience
Alford and John Henry Stokes, had been married in
JOHN'S old state of Virginia. Martha had been
born March 4, 1787; her brother Henry later married DEMPSEY'S sister RHODA as can be seen on
Chart 101.)
The War of 1812 set in motion a chain of circumstance which, in the years following it, would
cause thousands of DEMPSEY'S descendants to be
Alabamians instead of Carolinians. Scores of men
such as his brother ZACHEUS from the old
colonies were sent to the edges of young America
for defense against the British. Those who went "to
the West" (meaning such places as New Orleans)
were enthralled by the sight of such beautiful
woodlands as lay in the un-civilized void between
the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi rivertowns. (Referring to southeast Alabama, pioneer
Green Beauchamp later stated that "there were not
as many as one hundred white people in the whole
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decided that its seat of government should be in the
central part of the county . . . After living at this first
place two years DEMPSEY also moved northward.
This entire two years might well have been spent in
the construction of the doublepen log house in which
he and Martha would spend the remaining half of their
lives. The home they built was on historic Hurricane
Creek, two miles southwest of present-day Ozark (in
the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 1, Township 5,
Range 24). Some years later squatter DEMPSEY paid
the government $50.18 for the forty acre tract; the
price indicates that it was the choicest!
About the time he moved to his last home
DEMPSEY helped found Claybank Church. He, two
brothers, three sons, and numerous other descendants
preached there. The second building at Claybank,
built in 1852, still stands; it is Dale County's oldest
public building. The century-old trees that were hewn
square for its construction came from son
EDWARD'S land; the supporting blocks came from
son JOHN, SENIOR'S land. Rafe, the negro slave of
EDWARD'S, did most of the log hewing. . . . It is a
certainty that no work was done on the Sabbath for an
early edition of the "Alabama Historical Quarterly"
states that DEMPSEY did not even allow meals to be
cooked on Sunday . . . that he always had his family
walk to Claybank services (three miles distant) so that
his beasts of burden might rest.
An indication of the pay received by DEMPSEY
for his pioneer preaching may be gained by our
knowledge that a contemporary, just north of Dale in
the Pea River Mission, received fifty dollars for his
year of work. Therefore, Reverend Dowling's major
occupation had to be farming. By 1850 he owned thirteen slaves; their worth probably constituted the major
part of his personal worth, $15,070, as recorded on the
1860 census.
Chart 331 shows one hundred and six of
DEMPSEY'S one hundred and eleven grandchildren,
five infants of son JAMES being omitted. "The Dale
County Tombstone Book", by E. H. Hayes, shows that
Dale County, home county of the author, contains
more Dowling graves than those of any other surname. The Claybank Church Cemetery was spotlighted in "Strange As It Seems", a syndicated column,
some years ago for that reason. Though all the white
Dowlings whose markers lie in Dale are kin, there are
only four who did not descend from DEMPSEY.
Many followed his calling; great-grandson Will C.
Hughes, a Texas minister, stated that he knew of fortytwo preachers who descended from this patriarch. One
of these forty-two, ANGUS, was reported by the
Church in 1799. From the time four years later when
she married DEMPSEY they worked to establish a
Christian home. Doctor Anson West's "History of
Methodism in Alabama" tell us that DEMPSEY "was
of a strict type of Methodist. He was of that class who
reproved sin in word as well as life. He was as severe
as the Judgment. In rebuking persons for sin Reverend
Dowling had the perseverance of endless patience. In
the lines of Christian doctrine, experience, and life to
which he gave special attention he was well advanced
and thoroughly established. He was the patriarch and
leader of the numerous tribe of Dowlings in the
Methodist ranks" in Dale County, Alabama.
In 1822, the year before daughter ELIZABETH
died, DEMPSEY was elected an elder in his church
upon the recommendation of the Pee Dee District
Conference that encompassed the Salkehatchee area.
It was his reliance in God that prepared this father for
such grief as that presented by this twin's death.
(ELIZABETH and her sister MILLY had been born on
May 5, 1808. She was the only one of his fourteen
children who has no descendants today. DEMPSEY'S
other six daughters averaged living to the age of fiftytwo; his seven sons, including one who died in the
Civil War, lived to an average age of seventy.)
Toward the end of 1825 DEMPSEY was becoming much impressed with the news sent back by
daughter LACY from the one-year-old county of
Alabama to which she and her bridegroom had gone.
Too, his need to go forth and spread the Methodist
gospel as brother ZACHEUS was doing . . . and as
Bishop Asbury had brought it unto them . . was weighing heavily on his mind. On September 27th of that
year he sold the 330-acre farm (lying on both sides of
Lake Swamp) where his twelve children had been
born and made preparations to leave the Jeffries Creek
area.
The subsequent trip to Alabama took six months;
on March 1, 1826, Reverend Dowling and his large
family crossed the Chattahoochee River near Fort
Gaines, Georgia. That same week they began a new
life near the first "town" that Dale County ever had,
Richmond, Alabama. (Richmond lay five miles east of
the previously mentioned blockhouse on a trail to a
ford down-river from Ft. Gaines, where the town of
Columbia was to be founded.)
But Richmond's death-knell had been sounded
when Dale County was formed. Henry County officials were evacuating its courthouse as DEMPSEY
arrived; they would have to build another "town" to
replace this old one which now lay in the wrong county. Nor was Richmond suitable for Dale. It had been
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"Alabama Christian Advocate" to have made over
2,000 conversions during his ministry. Perhaps,
after all, our family motto (see Preface) has been of
significance!
Reverend DEMPSEY Dowling died two
weeks after the surrender of General Lee at
Appomattox; his death came on the day that the
South's final force surrendered to Sherman at
Greensboro, South Carolina, April 26, 1865.
Luckily, he had already given grandson ANGUS an
outline of ROBERT'S second and third generations. He was buried beside Martha Stokes
Dowling at the church in the pines, Claybank.
The esteem in which this mother of fourteen
had been held is shown by the following memorial,
printed shortly after her death:
and kind wife, a generous mistress. She raised
fourteen children of whom two are Methodist
preachers. At her burial there were 108 of her
descendants present.
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DEMPSEY and Martha's oldest child was the one
born on November 23, 1804, and named LACY; her
consent to marry Elisha Matthews was mentioned at
the beginning of DEMPSEY'S sketch. Her marriage
came on Christmas Eve of 1824, two days after the
far-off Alabama legislature was proclaiming a new
county "to be called Dale". The following month
LACY left Jeffries Creek with husband Elisha and a
large caravan, composed primarily of his kinfolks.
("The Southern Star" of April 25, 1902, contains a
lengthy genealogical article about these kinspeople
of Elisha. He had been born March 15, 1803, probably near LACY, to Mary Ann Truitt and Moses
Matthews, Jr.; the latter was captain of the wagontrain in which LACY moved to Alabama.)
In the first year of Dale County's existence
Elisha was appointed as paymaster for the militia.
Then in 1827 he was elected to the joint office of
Tax Assessor-Collector. A short while later he went
by horseback halfway across the state to Alabama's
capital, Cahaba, to "enter" the land he was living on.
A part of it that lay where the road northward from
Dale Court House, Alabama, crossed an old Indian
trail was given by him and LACY for a churchsite;
it came to be known as Claybank!
In 1839 Elisha was appointed treasurer of Dale
County; he disbursed the money spent on building
Dale's third courthouse at the new town of Newton.
But Elisha aspired to bigger things. The year before
the California goldrush, he resigned as a county officer to enter the race for Alabama's Senate. His opponent, George W. Williams, was exceedingly popular
with the people and very few cared to enter the lists
against him. But, among many, Mr. Williams was
known by the sobriquet of "Butthead" Williams. It
seems that Mr. Williams wished to make an anonymous poll on how the race was progressing. In an
obscure corner of the county he rode up to a settler's
gate and called: "Attention!" . . . An old lady made
her appearance at the door. After a few pleasant
remarks about the weather the politician asked how
"Mr. George Williams" was doing in the Senator's
race . . . Bracing her arms akimbo, her countenance
lighting up, the old lady hollered back: "I don't know
who MISTER George Williams is, but if you mean
'Old Butthead', he's gonna run like a scairt wolf."
"Let Me Die the Death of the Righteous"
Martha Dowling, wife of the Reverend
DEMPSEY Dowling, died at her residence in
Dale County, Alabama, January 15, 1859, in
her seventy-second year. She had been a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
for fifty-four years. She was born in North
Carolina, and when but three years old, her
parents moved to Darlington District, S. C.,
where she lived until over sixteen at which
time she married DEMPSEY Dowling.
Very soon afterwards she attached herself
to the Church and became deeply concerned
about the salvation of her soul and sought God
in the pardon of her sins by the exercise of an
evangelical faith in Christ and found that
peace which passeth all understanding.
After moving to Dale County, Alabama, she
had the enjoyment of many friends, loving
children and obedient servants, until the time
above mentioned, when she was taken by the
hand of death from her husband's embrace.
But thanks be to God; she went in the triumphs
of a living and saving faith.
The day before she died she appeared to be
in better health than usual. After eating a
hearty supper she and DEMPSEY and a few of
the grandchildren joined in family prayer. A
short time after retiring, she aroused her
companion by giving signs of the arm, and a
few minutes after, she sank in the arms of
death. As she went she shouted, "Glory, glory",
and told those present that she would soon be
in heaven; that "My room is full of heavenly
light."
She was an affectionate mother, a dutiful
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October 23rd. Both were buried in Claybank
Cemetery. Andrews had been born in South Carolina
on June 15, 1827.)
LACY'S THIRD CHILD was little Mary
Mancey Matthews; she was born on January 29,
1829, in Dale County. She was still living nearly one
hundred years later, dying March 26, 1924! Mary
had married before the Civil War, September 25,
1851. The man she married lived to be only twentysix years old! His name was William Henry Martin;
a half-century after his death, which occurred
October 24, 1855, his son William Edward deeded
additional land to beloved Claybank Church.
Granite columns commemorate this and a later gift
made by this part of the family. Offspring of the
Martins are shown in Addendum 662. (Mr. Martin
was an older brother of the man who married
LACY'S sixth child; the Martin ancestry is discussed below. William Henry's grave and that of
Mary may be seen at Claybank.)
Elisha Matthews and LACY next had a daughter whom they named Sarah Jane; this daughter's
birth was September 25, 1830. At the age of eighteen . . . on a beautiful October 23rd . . . Jane married Mrs. Mary Clark's son, John C. Clark. Most
people called him "Jack" Clark. At the time of this
marriage Clark was a first-lieutenant in Alabama's
militia (46th Regiment, 11th Brigade, 51st
Division). . . Years later while the Civil War was in
progress a gang of bushwhackers under the notorious Yankee sympathizer, Sanders, came past the
Clark farm near Rocky Hill Cemetery, east of Ozark.
The Clarks were evidently caught off guard, for
Berry Andrews recounts in one of his old “ledgers”
that "Jack" had no recourse but to let the invaders
kill four of his best beeves with which to feed his
men. (Mr. and Mrs. Clark are buried in the abovementioned cemetery; he died July 26, 1890. Jane
died July 16, 1909. The sixth and seventh generation
descendants of ROBERT by this couple are shown
in Addendum 663. He had been born in Alabama,
June 12, 1822.)
LACY'S SECOND SON was born after the
above three daughters. Named Mellon Thoory
Matthews he lived from June 14, 1832, to January
28, 1896. He married Rebecca, daughter of Dr.
William A. Treadwell, on November 1, 1860.
Rebecca lived sixty-three years after the time of this
marriage! Mellon served in the Confederates' 53rd
Alabama Mounted Infantry. Later, he had quite a
comedy-act worked out which he presented with
other actors on southeast Alabama's rivers and
When the returns were in, Elisha won by an
eight-hundred-vote majority . . . But four years later,
in 1852, as the fires of secession began to be fanned,
Mr. Matthews returned to private life, vowing never
again to enter politics!
In 1882 Elisha remembered a promise that he
had once made to LACY . . . the one about the nice
house. He remembered too that just as he had been
getting ready to fulfill this pledge back in the sixties,
the war had come along and swept from under him
all the hard earnings they had saved. But now there
could be no delay. Why, LACY'S hair was completely gray! So getting out the gold and silver that
he had been so carefully hoarding, Matthews bought
a new house in the nearby town of Ozark. LACY
died there two years later, October 25, 1884. Elisha's
death followed on July 4, 1889. Their graves are on
the cemetery land they donated.
Their first child had been born in a log-house
nearby on October 2, 1825, ten months after Dale
County's birth. William Edward Matthews was his
name. In his adulthood the young man's farming had
been interrupted for three years of service in the
53rd Alabama Mounted Infantry Regiment. William
Edward's first marriage had been to Lucy Brackin on
November 19, 1846. Of five children born to them
only one reached maturity. Following Lucy's death
Matthews married Nancy Jane Brown, January 10,
1856. The offspring of both marriages are shown in
Addendum 660. (William Edward and both wives
are buried at Claybank; Lucy died March 24, 1864,
at the age of twenty-five. He died February 8, 1886,
and Nancy, on June 26, 1888. Nancy was of Georgia
birth though her parents were probably South
Carolinians, Henry and Lydia Brown, who were in
Dale County, Alabama, by 1850. She was born May
1, 1832;)
THE SECOND CHILD OF LACY'S was
daughter Martha Ann, born August 6, 1827. She
married Samuel James Andrews, the son of Sinai
and John J. Andrews. Husband Jim was so ably
trained as a blacksmith and carpenter that he was
chosen to build the benches for Claybank Church's
new building. (This hand-hewn furniture is still
there, one hundred and seven years after its construction.) It is most likely that the Ozark area's first
postoffice, founded in 1842, was in the Andrews
home. It was known as Woodshop, Alabama, and
young Jim was "Assistant Postmaster"! The six children of this couple are shown in Adden 661.
(They married on August 6, 1848. Martha died
August 8,1904; Jim died three years later on
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Dowling! (Margaret was born to LACY on February
2, 1844. Her only daughter, Valdonia, had an only
child named Loafie. The former married Alexander
Faulk and Loafie married R. G Walden and Fitzhugh
Lee. Neither of Loafie's marriages left any offspring.
Other information on "Billy" Byrd is given in the
EDWARD section of this chapter.)
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DEMPSEY Dowling's second child was a boy. He
was born in 1806 in the Jeffries Creek area of South
Carolina and given the good Methodist name of
WESLEY. After Reverend Dowling moved to his
Hurricane Creek home in Alabama this twenty-five
year old son purchased his first land (shown on page
87 of the Dale County Plat Book). Two years later
WESLEY was elected a justice of the peace. He also
served as a militiaman in the local 46th Regiment.
An idea was gained by the author of the way a
family's history, becomes scattered and then finally
lost (unless a volunteer records it) by the following.
The files of a North Carolina grand-niece of WESLEY included the story, uncovered by a Washington
genealogist, of our subject's trip to Irwington (now
Eufaula), Alabama, to supervise construction of that
towns' first plank-building! That happened about
1834. The structure happened to be the village’s first
church building; WESLEY'S uncle. ZACHEUS was
the circuit-riding Methodist who had talked the villagers into having it built!
About 1837 WESLEY married a seventeen-yearold girl by the name of Amanda E. O’Neal. She had
been born in Georgia, though her father was a
Virginian. "Mandy" lived some fifty-two years after
this marriage, dying about eleven years after WESLEY did. Both are buried at Claybank. WESLEY was
reputed to be the best blacksmith in southeast
Alabama; his shop stood south of Claybank on the
Daleville road. WESLEY died in 1878.
WESLEY'S two oldest sons were killed in the
Civil War fighting. Private COLONEL JASPER had
been born in 1838. MARTIN R. was three years
younger. Both had walked into nearby Ozark on a
beautiful March day in 1862 and told Captain R. F.
Crittenden that they would like to be members of his
company in the 33rd Alabama Infantry. Exactly one
year later father WESLEY was being given a
Confederate death payment of $53.63 for each son;
both are thought to have died in the same battle.
WESLEY'S THIRD SON was born in 1846; he
did not serve in the war. His name was MARION
JACKSON, his first name being in honor of
American General Marion of whom WESLEY had
creeks. (Addendum 664 lists his children and grandchildren; he and Rebecca Treadwell Gray are buried
in Claybank Cemetery. She had been born January
29, 1841.)
LACY'S SIXTH CHILD was daughter Aquilla
Malissey, born October 24, 1834. Like the other children she was born in Dale; the burning of the Newton
courthouse in 1869 and of the one in Ozark in 1884
destroyed decades of irreplaceable genealogical data,
including the date of her marriage. Husband John
Floyd Martin was the grandson of J. Mather Martin of
South Carolina and Alexander Smith of Jasper
County, Georgia. John Floyd had been born
September 18, 1830, in Georgia, and had later been
taken by his parents, James L. Martin, and Sarah
Smith Martin to Barbour County, Alabama. Near the
time he married Aquilla, John served with Hilliard's
Legion and the 59th Alabama Regiment of Grace's
Brigade. He saw action at Chickamauga. And at
Drewry's Bluff in Virginia he received a minnie-ball
in his shoulder. Following a practice of the time he
carried it the rest of his life. (After his ninety-first
birthday John died on September 26, 1921; Aquilla
was eighty-three when she died, November 12, 1917.
Their descendants are named in Addendum 665. Both
are buried in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery, near their
Geneva County, Alabama, home.)
The seventh child of LACY and Elisha
Matthews was the daughter named Talitha; her birthdate was August 9, 1837. About twenty-eight years
later she married a veteran of the 33rd Alabama
Infantry Regiment's Company I; he was twenty-five
at the time; his name was James C. Ross. Their offspring are shown in Addendum 666. They are buried
at Claybank, Talitha having died February 7, 1908.
No dates are given on Mr. Ross's marker. He was a
Georgian. Land that he homesteaded in 1893 in Dale
County is shown in the Probate Judge's Plat-Book.
LACY'S EIGHTH CHILD was Elizabeth Ann
Josephine, born October 14, 1841. Many called her
Betsy. After the age of nineteen she became the second wife of Hugh McDonald, a Georgian who had
previously been married. The five children, all boys,
of this marriage are named in Addendum 667. Betsy's
grave marker may be seen at Claybank; she died
April 2, 1901. Her husband was buried there, too.
LACY'S LAST CHILD used up all the names!
The parents named her Margaret Tacier Dela Pegary
Matthews. She was the first wife of William Acrel
Byrd, marrying him about 1868. After she died July
4, 1871, Byrd married her first cousin who was
named VANTILLER OPHELIA RIO JANEIRO
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prayed: "Forgive them; forgive them, dear Lord!"
Such a display of Christianity by this forlorn foreigner (he was of Spanish birth and prior to the war had
preached around Newton) angered the "judge-andjury" so much, they could stand it no more. They belted the red horse hitched to the buggy and Sketo's
body went crashing downward! . . . But the victim
was tall; his feet were dragging the ground under the
post oak tree. Immediately, guardsman G_______
E______ , a cripple, grabbed his crutch and scratched
dirt from under the gasping man's feet.
. . . And for years and years . . . even on into the
twentieth century . . . that hole remained hollowed out
EVEN THOUGH PERSISTENT ATTEMPTS
WERE MADE TO FILL IT. TO FORGET IT! . . . The
end of the story? . . . One by one the six hangmen
died terrible deaths. One was riding a horse one still
day when suddenly the limb of a post oak tree
crashed down on him, splitting his skull. One was
killed by a run-away mule. Still another was killed by
lightning. One was found dead in a swamp . . . Today,
even the old hanging-tree is gone! But the scar? ? . . .
It probably remains . . .
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The next two children of DEMPSEY'S fourteen,
shown on Chart 331, were the twins MILLY and
ELIZABETH. After her May 5th birth in 1808 in the
Jeffries Creek area of South Carolina ELIZABETH
only lived fifteen years, as previously mentioned.
Twin MILLY might have married in Georgia during
the emigration to Alabama. For it is known that she
married in 1826 . . . and that husband William Cox
was of Georgia birth. (His mother, Nancy Cox, had
moved there from South Carolina prior to William's
birth on February 7, 1807. Young William must have
borne the Christian Name of his father for in purchasing his first government land in Dale County, ten
years after marrying MILLY, he used the name
"William Cox, Jr.")
At the time that Dale County "was split down the
middle by Captain Arch Justice's broadax" to form
the offshoot county of Coffee, MILLY'S husband was
the Dale surveyor. It was he who laid off the lots for
the new town of Newton. In those days of 1841 there
was not a single bridge in the county for this young
official to traverse! However, Newton did quickly
construct an "academy"; MILLY'S nephew
COLONEL JASPER had just finished his course
there before getting killed in the war. It was at
Newton, laid out by Cox immediately after the war,
that the county's first newspaper, "The Southern Star"
began publication.
heard grandfather JOHN say so much. On September
3, 1873, MARION married Ursula Atkinson. Though
he lived only until June 19, 1892, this Dowling made
much of the few years' home-life he was to enjoy.
Mother Amanda lived in his Henry County, Alabama,
home the last years of her life. JASPER BOSWELL,
son of MARION, is widely known and loved in
Jackson County, Florida, where he has been the family doctor of thousands for nearly fifty years in the
town of Alliance. Other children and grandchildren
are shown on Chart 561. (MARION and his wife are
buried in the Kinsey, Alabama, Baptist Cemetery.
Ursula died in 1938. She had been born August 28,
1857, in Dale County to Ursula Eugenia Griffith and
William Maldre Atkinson of Green County, Georgia.)
WESLEY'S FOURTH CHILD was a daughter,
FRANCES, born four years after MARION'S birth.
When she was about eighteen, this only daughter
married Elisha R. Woodham, a war-veteran some five
to eight years her senior; he was also a resident of
Dale County. He had served in the 1st Alabama
Infantry Regiment. FRANCES'S offspring are shown
in Addendum 668. (Neither the death-dates nor burialplaces of Mr. and Mrs. Woodham are known. He
was the son of Frederick Woodham, II, of Darlington
District, South Carolina. It is told that the greatgrandfather of that Carolinian, an Englishman named
Atha Woodham, II, had served so successfully in the
House of Commons that Great Britain's king had sent
him to Ireland to supervise "Crown Land". Within
five years, however, young Woodham had led an
unsuccessful Irish rebellion against his majesty and
subsequently fled to the colony of South Carolina.)
The year after WESLEY'S two sons were killed,
he was involved in an incident of such import that its
story was recently repeated in "The Montgomery
Advertiser".
He
was
approaching
the
Choctawhatchee River bridge near Newton,
Alabama, on December 3, 1864, when he noticed a
half-dozen men of Captain Breare's Confederate
Home-Guard ganged around a helpless-looking Dale
Countian, named Bill Sketo . . . They were preparing
to hang the man, on the charge that he had deserted
the Rebels' front-lines. (Sketo had come home,
because of his wife's serious illness, but had followed
an often-used procedure by having a friend take his
place.)
Mr. Dowling warned the self-appointed prosecutors that such a lynching was not right, whereupon
they warned him that he "would get the same
medecine" if he interfered! Then . . . as Sketo stood
on the buggy, the rope tightening around his neck, he
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there. Mr. Robinson had been confronted with quite a
problem with the risk presented by the rickety bridge
to his elephants. He circumvented that by having them
ford the Choctawhatchee. Later, in Ozark, Mr.
Robinson began determining how many complimentary tickets his host's "little ones" would need for the
night's performance . . . There were enough of the fifty
grandchildren of Martha Ann's within calling distance
(see Addendum 669) that it has always been assumed
that this gentleman never forgot Dale County!
(Martha Ann died when eighty-two, February 3, 1910.
Gordon had been born June 17, 1822, in Darlington
District, South Carolina; see more data on his family
in this chapter's prior section about LACY. Gordon
was a deacon of Ozark's "Union" Baptist Church, now
known as First Baptist. He and Martha Ann are buried
in the adjoining burial ground.)
MILLY'S NEXT TWO CHILDREN were also
girls. Little Nancy, born September 2, 1829, died
before the 1840 Dale Census. Sister Mary Elizabeth,
born September 5, 1831, lived for ninety-one years!
Elizabeth, as she was called, married in Henry
County, Alabama, on July 8, 1848. Bridegroom
Simeon Paskal Gray was a nephew by marriage of
LACY Matthews; for his mother, Mary Matthews
Gray, was another of the fourteen children that had
been reared by Moses Matthews, Jr. Following
MILLY'S death Elizabeth and Simeon went to Texas
with Mr. Cox; Gray became clerk of Newton County
there following the war. His military service was in
Company E of the First Texas Legion. Death took Mr.
Gray July 21, 1870; the following April 4th, Elizabeth
married Edward Gerald Didham. It is said that this
second husband, Captain Didham, had come up to
Texas from Mexico where he had been a member of
Maximilian's ill-fated venture onto this continent. He
was "the youngest son of England's 'House of
Didham"'. Elizabeth's only child by this marriage (see
Addendum 670) is supposed to bear the Christian
names of all of the Captain's sisters that he had left in
London. He and Elizabeth lived between Kirbyville
and Newton, Texas. Though his teaching job was in
Orange County some thirty miles away, he never rode
to work. He simply used his compass and made the
round-trip each weekend on foot directly "cross country". (Elizabeth died in Newton, Texas, December 6,
1922; Didham had died on Christmas Day of 1893,
and was buried there in Wilson Chapel Cemetery. His
birthdate was January 18, 1836. Mr. Gray is buried in
the Burkeville Cemetery. S. P. Gray's birthdate was
April 29, 1830.)
MILLY and William's children all were born near
Claybank. Mr. Cox probably served against the
Indians; of the many government tracts of land he
acquired, one was through the use of a Military
Warrant . . . MILLY Dowling Cox died when only
thirty-nine, July 28, 1847. Though William's census
record three years later shows that he was the richest
of any of her kin (owning $12,000 worth of land
alone) . . . MILLY'S Claybank grave was never
marked! (Following her untimely death Cox married
Charlotte Brown and moved to Texas in 1856. He
insisted on participating in the Civil War, though over
fifty years old, and while returning on a furlough to
Newton County, Texas, where he had a large plantation, he died, November 18, 1863. Measles was the
cause. He was buried at the place of his death, "the old
Buck Jones place", between Alexandria and Leesville,
Louisiana.)
MILLY'S OLDEST CHILD was born on January
10, 1828, in Dale County, Alabama, and named
Martha Ann. As a girl of fifteen, she married the
brother-in-law of her Aunt LACY Matthews; his name
was Moses Gordon Matthews. Though called Gordon,
he bore the honored name of his grandfather who had
fought in the Revolution, Moses Matthews, Sr. This
marriage took place February 2, 1843, and left the
numerous descendants shown in Addendum 669.
In 1870 Gordon and Martha Ann employed Mr.
Lilly White to build Ozark's first hotel. There were
only seventeen-hundred people there at the time but
the loss of southern territory by Dale County to newly
formed Geneva was causing a third move of the county seat. For the first time in county history the courthouse was going to an existing town and things were
expected to boom. The Matthews had the two story
structure painted white and emblazoned the word
"Hotel" across its front.
Gordon's death seven short years later, February
17, 1877, threw the hotel's management into Martha
Ann's capable lap. For thirty-three years she ran it so
successfully that drummers all over the South knew of
the Matthews Hotel. Mrs. Matthews owned Ozark's
first organ; southeast Alabama's first band was organized by her son-in-law, Eugene R. Jordan. Her greatgranddaughter, Irene Jordan, became a popular
Metropolitan Opera singer; Irene's sister, Mrs. Martha
Gilliland, is a Medical Missionary in Africa.
It is told that before Martha Ann's son-in-law
Jason Fain, and other county commissioners, had
voted to erect the old iron bridge near Newton, the
touring Robinson Circus had accommodations for the
top brass reserved at Mrs. Matthews' hotel north of
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Alabama Infantry Regiment . . . Yet the state for which
they died does not know they existed! (Author's note:
It is a travesty of justice that of DEMPSEY'S eight
grandsons who lost their lives on behalf of Alabama,
neither its Military Archives nor the Alabama U. D.
C.'s have taken time to enroll half of them in
Montgomery's files! Only one of the eight gravesites is
known.)
MILLY'S EIGHTH CHILD was born in Dale
County on May 25, 1838, nine years before her mother's death. Father William named her Cornelia. She
married brother-in-law William A. Gray, probably in
Dale County. Some years after this marriage, in 1859,
these Grays moved to Newton County, Texas, where
father William Cox had already gone. Young Gray
farmed, but like brother Simeon joined Company E of
the 1st Texas Legion of the Confederate States Army.
Cornelia's son Gilman was later the county surveyor of
Newton County, Texas, as her father had been for Dale
County, Alabama. Gilman and wife Henrietta Oates,
also a Dale Countian, helped build the first church for
the Baptists in Lufkin, Texas, after arriving there in
1892. He and Cornelia's other children are shown in
Addendum 672. (Cornelia died January 24, 1908, and
was buried in the Burkeville, Texas, cemetery; Mr.
Gray died February 18, 1913, and was buried beside
her. More information on his family is given above in
the sketch of Mary Elizabeth Cox. Mr. Gray had been
born in Dale County, Alabama, May 25, 1836.)
MILLY'S NINTH OFFSPRING was daughter
Delilah Marena, born October 7, 1839. At the time of
the 1850 census she was living with the family of sister Martha Cox Matthews. As a young lady, Delilah
marrried Henry Thomas Casey. Their children and
grandchildren are shown in Addendum 673. Delilah
died at the age of ninety-five, December 13, 1934.
(She and Henry are buried in the Burkeville, Texas,
cemetery; he died October 24, 1917. Henry Casey was
the son of Nancy Cox and Lemuel Casey. He came to
Dale County in 1831 from Richmond, North Carolina,
his birthplace. Henry's niece, Mollie Carroll, married
GEORGE WASHINGTON Dowling.)
MILLY HAD TWO MORE CHILDREN. The
tenth one, Saphronia Ann, is recorded in the old family Bible as having been born on June 7, 1842. Though
only half of father William Cox's teen-age children are
shown as residents of his household during the 1850
Dale Census, it is thought that this child died without
reaching adulthood. Nor is she believed to have been
living in some relative's home, as was sister Delilah...
The same assumptions apply to MILLY'S eleventh and
last child, the one that entered MILLY'S world on July
MILLY'S FOURTH CHILD was still another
girl; she was born June 4, 1832, and named Sarah
Savannah. At sixteen years of age this daughter went
over to the adjoining county of Henry, Alabama, and
married Elcanah Chambliss. The following year Sarah
gave birth to son William E. An 1850 Dale census
showed this family's name as "Charmbless"; sometime
later they went to Oklahoma (Shawnee?) . . . The only
Chamblisses shown in city directories near Shawnee
are Ola L. of Oklahoma City (who did not answer the
author's letter) and Wilcox Chambliss of Tulsa, 3408
E. 16th Street, who stated that his grandfather W. E.
Chambliss was born in 1836 in South Carolina. Sarah's
husband is shown on the previously mentioned
Alabama census as having been born in 1826 in
Florida! Could this be a case involving an erroneous
digit and a careless record of birthplace? . . . A niece
and nephew of Sarah Cox Chambliss remember a
Texas visit by two other sons of hers from Oklahoma
named Isaiah and Tom; the latter was a cripple.
MILLY'S FIRST SON, William Fletcher Cox,
was born February 20, 1834. On Christmas Day of
1853, he married the daughter of Frances Johnson and
John Bush, Martha Ann Bush. Less than a decade
afterwards Fletcher was in the throes of the War
Between The States, fighting with the mounted
Partisan Rangers as a member of Alabama's 53rd
Regiment. The year the war ended, on August 19th, he
began helping on the job of rebuilding the South's
churches by becoming a deacon of Union Baptist
Church in Ozark. Though Fletcher was a farmer he
was twice elected a commissioner of Dale County; as
such, he and two others supervised the erection of the
present Ozark courthouse after the 1884 fire. Before
Mr. Cox's death on October 2, 1911, he married
Matilda King Parker; there were no children by this
marriage. The ones born to him and Martha Ann are
shown in Addendum 671. (The several Cox Hardwares
in southeast Alabama are operated by Fletcher's grandsons; a newspaper for the old Dale Farmers' Alliance
was started by sons-in-law Ansel Hudgins and Wiley
Goff. Martha Ann Bush Cox lived from November 17,
1837, to April 27, 1896; she is buried at Claybank. No
dates are known about the last wife; she and Fletcher
are buried near Wicksburg at Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery.)
MILLY'S ONLY OTHER TWO SONS lost their
lives in the great war. Jesse James Cox, born
December 20, 1835, and brother Henry Edmond, born
September 6, 1836, had gone to Clayton, Alabama, the
same week that first-cousins COLONEL JASPER and
MARTIN were enlisting. The Cox brothers made their
mark on enlistment papers of Company C, 45th
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Regular Army" if no better evidence was presented for
the detention of the hapless citizens. Breare freed them
at once!
This son of NOEL'S, JOHN WESLEY, was the
oldest of the children (see Chart 331). He was born
December 6, 1832. At the age of twenty-seven JOHN
was elected Tax Collector of Dale County, and following this held a clerk's job in the steamboat town of
Columbia, Alabama, near the point that grandfather
DEMPSEY had crossed the Chattahoochee . . . Just
after the Civil War began he went to Barnes Cross
Roads and joined the 7th Infantry Regiment for the
twelve months the war was expected to last. Upon discharge, he helped organize the "Partisan Rangers", a
group of Dale Countians who marched to Montgomery
for their initial orders. Later, as a scout, he discovered
Colonel Coreigne's northerners crossing the Tennessee
River near Florence, Alabama, and helped spread the
alarm.
In preparing for the Battle of Atlanta, Captain
JOHN WESLEY'S company (E of the 53rd Alabama
Mounted Infantry) was defending against a Yankee
break-through when a shell-explosion so severely
wounded him that he was given a permanent discharge. It was only through the careful nursing of his
wife and brother NOEL PEELER, both of whom came
to the devastated city to care for him, that he survived!
Captain Dowling's entire possessions when the
war ended were two old cavalry horses, a sword, two
navy pistols, four bales of cotton, and two chairs. He
made a third chair by sawing off the end of a log! . . .
Inability to take the iron-clad oath threw him out of his
elected position of Educational Superintendent for
Dale County. But by teaching and farm work he saved
enough to buy a small farm near Ozark. In 1867 he
found a man who could swear that he had never
rebelled against the Union . . . and through him secured
mail hauling contracts which, combined with the hauling of merchandise during twelve subsequent years,
laid the basis for his fortune. (An indication of money's
scarcity in the post-war South is given by the 25%
interest-rate paid for a $750 borrowing by JOHN
WESLEY in 1870.)
The mule-trains of Captain JOHN Dowling
became famous throughout southeast Alabama in this
period. Ann Walker recalls in her excellent book,
"Backtracking in Barbour County", that in 1876 the
town of Eufaula (fifty-five miles from Ozark) "was
having a great Centennial Tea Party. Its streets were
blockaded with cotton, and the caravans had the right
of way. Wednesday was 'Ozark Day'. Captain JOHN
W. Dowling of Dale County brought his wagons along
28, 1846. Her mother named her Rebecca. MILLY Cox
died when this child was one year old.
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The fifth child born to DEMPSEY and Martha Stokes
Dowling came on Christmas Day of 1809. He was
appropriately named; they called him NOEL! Nothing
is known of the sixteen years that this youth spent in
the Jeffries Creek area of South Carolina.
By the time he reached his majority in Dale
County, Alabama, he had fallen in love with Sarah
Delaney McDonald. They married where present-day
Skipperville stands, November 17, 1831. Her father,
Reverend John McDonald, had founded Antioch
Methodist Church nearby; it was probably that denomination's first organized place of worship in Dale
County. (Sarah had been born in Jasper County,
Georgia, on November 17, 1813; her father had emigrated from Scotland in 1778 to Virginia. At least nineteen of DEMPSEY'S descendants have been named
for two of Sarah's brothers, Angus and Daniel
McDonald.)
NOEL'S home, where his eight sons and one
daughter were born, stood on the Newton to Haw
Ridge road half-way from Beaver Branch to where the
Claybank-Daleville road crossed. Just before the Civil
War ended two Speller youths had just passed his
home, accompanied by Lieutenant Spears. They were
taking provisions to the Dale Home Guard, whose
headquarters were in the Newton, Alabama, county
seat. Suddenly, at the Claybank fork just east of
NOEL'S a gang of deserters from the Rebel ranks
jumped out of the woods and surrounded the helpless
wagoneers. Tradition seems to have lost the point of
whether there was a "fair" fight . . . or whether the lieutenant was ambushed; in any event, he was killed.
Young Alec Speller was wounded. The ambushers told
him and his brother Nat to go on up to WESLEY
Dowling's blacksmith shop to care for Alec's wounds
. . . By the next day, Captain Breare's guardsmen had
not been able to locate any of the bushwhackers.
Knowing, though, that boys by the name of Blackmon,
Peters, and Hodges were in the gang, Captain Breare
arrested the respective fathers. He brought these elderly men to the scene of the crime and began threatening
to hang them "for harboring the enemy".
NOEL'S son, Confederate Captain JOHN WESLEY Dowling, had just been given a disability discharge due to war wounds and was recovering at home
at the time. Hearing the nearby ruckus he went to
where the commotion was going on . . . and noticing
the drum-head justice that was being meted out, he
threatened Breare with courtmartialing "by the
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promising young man I know; he will do well and
have friends in any country." In the ensuing years he
saw service from one end of Alabama to the other as
pastor in charge of stations or circuits and as presiding
elder.
This Dowling supplemented his meager education by continued study after entering his profession.
He used to say that most of what he knew about Greek
he learned as he rode horseback over his circuits. Wife
Laura helped him greatly; their children can recall discussions between her and ANGUS over the origin and
meaning of words. Largely because of her influence
this couple's children, shown on Chart 563, were
among the first of ROBERT'S descendants to pursue a
college education. (Laura Lavinia Boswell had
become the wife of ANGUS in Montgomery County
on November 7, 1865. She had been born to Sarah
Martha Herrin and Thomas Coke Boswell on April 20,
1845. She died in Ozark on April 29, 1909, and is
buried at Claybank beside Reverend Dowling.)
NOEL'S THIRD SON was named in honor of
this boy's uncle who had died so young in South
Carolina, SIMEON. This little SIMEON was born
May 15, 1835 . . . At the age of twenty Dowling married Sarah Jane Welch, February 7, 1856; their thirteen children are shown on Chart 564. (Jane had been
born to Cassie and Ned Welch in Georgia on
September 29, 1835. She lived until April 23, 1914;
SIMEON died November 24, 1911. Both are buried at
Claybank.)
SIMEON gave three years of the prime of his life
"to follow the leadership of General Wheeler, under
whose command he engaged in many bloody conflicts". He fought as a soldier of Company E of the
53rd Alabama Mounted Infantry along with nearly a
dozen other first cousins.
Following the war SIMEON returned to the
occupation of ninety percent of his male cousins:
farming. The 1870 Agricultural Census shows his
ownership of 575 acres of land and states that he paid
a grand total of thirty dollars in wages during the year
surveyed! Yet there was a sufficiency of everything;
so much so, that it was the pride of SIM'S life when
he had the privilege of entertaining some minister
who happened to be in the Claybank area . . . On the
banks of Claybank Creek, some distance, from this
Dowling home stood SIMEON'S "meat house". It was
a small building, enclosed on its sides by stout logs,
and with a shingled roof to shed the rain. An elderly
grandson, DANIEL YOUNG, IInd, remembers vividly the huge, deep, claw-marks that had been made in
the log sides by varmints that had come out of nearby
this great trade route and loaded them with merchandise bought in the Eufaula stores. Twenty-six wagons
formed this one caravan and all travel turned aside for
it! It had one route for good weather and another for
bad. The start, from Ozark, would be on Monday and
the return on Friday."
From 1882 to 1886 JOHN WESLEY served in
Alabama's legislature. During this time the Ozark
courthouse burned; a simultaneous effort to have it
rebuilt at the old county-seat town of Newton was
defeated largely through his efforts. The present building was then constructed with a bond-issue authorized
under his leadership.
The construction of southeast Alabama's first
railroad was about to be abandoned in the late eighties . . . at which time Captain Dowling secured a
promise from Major Alexander, the promoter, that it
would be built. The money that JOHN WESLEY
invested in it (today's Central of Georgia) and in the
Alabama Midland (today's Atlantic Coast Line),
together with the work done on their behalf, won him
a directorship on the former railway.
JOHN WESLEY was married to Annie Jane
Thompson, daughter of a Massachusetts seafarer.
They never had any children. Our subject was once
Mayor of Ozark. A plaque on the side of today's Ozark
Theatre mentions that this building was his business
headquarters. He died unexpectedly December 14,
1893; it is rumored that his safe contained $100,000 at
the time of his death. (Wife Annie Jane was born in
Key West, Florida, January 20, 1837. She died May
19, 1912. Both are buried in Claybank Cemetery.
They were married during the war, May 11, 1862.)
NOEL'S SECOND CHILD, ANGUS, was born
near Claybank on February 20, 1834, and died just
before his seventieth birthday in Daleville, January 8,
1904. ANGUS'S whole adult life was spent in the
ministry of the Gospel; for forty-five years he was an
active member of the Alabama Conference, Methodist
Episcopal Church South. His tombstone bears the
inscription, in words chosen by his widow: "A Man of
One Work".
ANGUS preached his first sermon in the little log
church at Claybank in the 1850's . . . and his last one
on the Daleville Circuit late in 1903. He all but
achieved his aim of "dying in harness", for his death
came less than a month after the Conference had
passed him to the superannuate list. His "call" to
preach was a very real one, both grandfather
McDonald and grandfather Dowling having been pioneer preachers in Dale. When he was licensed in 1857,
the presiding elder stated: "ANGUS is the most
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in Ozark, Alabama,the manufacture of shoes, harness,
and leather. Tanyard Branch, flowin' southwest of
today's War Memorial Library, derived its name from
that enterprise. An ad of theirs mentioned that they
had increased their manufacturing capacity by the
addition of thirteen hand (!) power . . . The firm of
"DANIEL Y. Dowling & Brother" was also established by these two and invited ladies of the town to
"buy a nice 'fall and winter dress' for $1.20"! By 1886
such outstanding merchandising had allowed their
addition of a branch store in Geneva, Alabama. Four
years later DAN'L helped establish a "state bank" for
Ozark, serving as its vice-president. He was on the
town's municipal board for years and the committee
which erected the first Methodist church in Ozark. As
old time members of Claybank, however, he and
Becky were buried there. She died seven days after
her seventy-seventh birthday; he died ten days before
his eightieth!
NOEL'S SEVENTH SON saw the first light of
day on May 7, 1845. The baby shared the name of his
father, NOEL, and Methodist Minister James Peeler,
who had served Claybank two years earlier. As a man,
NOEL PEELER did one thing that will assure hisname being known a thousand years hence; he took
the material that he, and older brother ANGUS, and
others had gathered to his local newspaper and got
them to publish "The Dowling Genealogy" mentioned
in this book's preface. "N. P." Dowling’s article (at
least old dog-eared typewritten copies of it) have been
offered to the author from Brooklyn to Baton Rouge!
. . . Yet no Dowling will ever again refer to him as an
antecedent; for his three sons died before reaching
adulthood. PEELER married the daughter of his uncle
EDWARD, this marriage taking place on December
23, 1875. Her name was CHARLES ETTA EUDORA. Their offspring are listed in Addendum 674.
"DORA" had been born March 22, 1857.
PEELER'S first love after his family was his
church. He served Claybank for years as its secretary;
the journal he kept is the only existent first-hand
record of that venerable institution's history known to
the author. It is owned by the Dale County Historical
Society. As a lad of seven, PEELER had helped hand
up hand-riven shingles to roof the present building,
constructed at Claybank in 1852. Later, he helped
build China Grove School near Claybank.... In war, he
was a mounted infantryman with the 53rd Alabama
Regiment. Among his business achievements was the
directorship of an Ozark bank and the various partnerships with brother DANIEL YOUNG. At eightythree, he died August 23, 1928. Wife "DORA" had
creek bottoms and attacked the building when the
winds had blown in the right direction to attract them.
A varmint of just as much danger was the Dale Ceunty
bear that SIMEON once had captured and chained to
a tree in his yard!
NOEL'S FOURTH AND FIFTH SONS left no
descendants. MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE was born
August 19, 1837. He was named in honor of the
French general whose triumphal tour of the country he
had helped liberate came so near crossing the
Alabama-bound caravan of Dowlings in 1825. (La
Fayette's river boat went past Fort Gaines, Georgia,
when that Frenchman came to Alabama, a few weeks
before DEMPSEY'S family entered Alabama there.)
MARQUIS died as a youth. His marker in Claybank
Cemetery is in error; it states that death occurred June
24, 1843, but NOEL told the 1850 census-taker that
the twelve-year-old boy among his eight was named
MARQUIS!
JAMES KING Dowling, the fifth son, was born
in the spring of 1840. On April 3, 1861, he and brother JOHN WESLEY had joined the 7th Alabama
Infantry Regiment's company called the Dale Guards.
Following repeated drilling on Ozark's old "mustering
grounds" where father NOEL and the others had
drilled for the Indian militia some thirty years earlier,
JAMES, JOHN, Needham Hughes, J. J. Bottoms, and
the others were marched to Pensacola. A Dale newspaper, “The Newton Standard” later reported that on
September 6, 1861, JAMES KING died of typhoid.
He was single. His body was sealed into an iron coffin and shipped by rail to Greenville, Alabama.
NOEL'S slave hauled it on a wagon from there to
Ozark . . . One out of every four Confederates would
suffer a similar fate before the war was over!
NOEL'S SIXTH SON, shown on Chart 331, was
born on the eve of Independence Day, 1842. DANIEL
YOUNG was his name . . . Like four of his brothers,
DANIEL responded when the call to colors was made.
He participated in the battles of Murfreesboro,
Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Stone Mountain, and
Kennesaw Mountain. In the latter battle he was captured and imprisoned at Camp Morton, Indiana, until
March 13, 1865. On November 14th of that year
Dowling married Rebecca Jane Dick; the daughter
and ten sons born to them are shown on Chart 565.
(Wife "Becky" was born to Mary Andrews and
William Obediah Dick on July 13, 1846; her father
had been born in North Carolina but had come to
Alabama four years earlier than DEMPSEY; her
mother was a South Carolinian.)
In 1870 DANIEL, with brother PEELER, began
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second husband are buried in Ozark's City Cemetery;
Wall lived from 1852 to 1922. First husband Smith
was born near Lumpkin, Georgia, on November 1,
1847, to Susan Hooks Smith. He died March 24,
1889, and was buried at Claybank.)
It is said that NOEL was one of Claybank
Church's first Methodist stewards. He and wife Sarah
sleep in the adjoining burial ground; his death came
on June 15, 1892, just three years after the old home
burned in which all their children had been raised.
Mrs. Dowling died November 9, 1894. Both had
enjoyed the company of each other for over sixty
years. The four Charts, 563, 564, 565, and 566 show
32 great-grandsons of theirs by the name of Dowling.
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The pulse of JOHN Dowling probably quickened in
1812 when the new country that he had helped establish tangled again with the British. But he was too old
to enter the lists again; he was fifty-three . . . At least
one of the family (ZACHEUS), however, was off
doing his part. And four months before Congress
declared war, son DEMPSEY had presented the old
gentleman with another grandson. This was February
12, 1812, and it was decided that his name should be
FLETCHER.
As a thirteen-year-old boy FLETCHER was wild
eyed with excitement during the Dowlings' move to
Alabama. There was good reason to be! .. . For the
mighty Tecumseh had just come there a few years previously and stirred the fires of Indian warfare. It was
not long after this boy and the rest of mother Martha's
children were moved to the Hurricane Creek farm
before FLETCHER joined the militia in nearby
Woodshop (now Ozark), Alabama. He was later given
military Warrant 44434 for this. The year he bought
his first government land, 1835, there were only 480
able-bodied white men in southeast Alabama available to quell any Indian attack! The Battle of Hobdy's
Bridge, just north of Dale in Barbour County the following year, was the last Indian action (excluding
Seminole) east of the Mississippi.
About 1847 FLETCHER Dowling married. The
bride, Caroline Martin, had been brought to Barbour
County just before the Indian uprising mentioned
above. She had been born in Moore County, North
Carolina, to Randol and Mary Martin on January 8,
1829. She was about eighteen, therefore, at the time of
this union.
The first child born to her and FLETCHER was
baby JEFFERSON; this happened May 6, 1848, in
Dale County. The high spot in JEFFERSON'S life was
the day he married Margaret Kelly, January 22, 1874.
died May 25, 1914; both are buried at Claybank.
NOEL'S EIGHTH SON was born on August 6,
1848, and named GABRIEL PASTORY. His formal
schooling consisted of one year when he was eighteen; yet he became Probate Judge of Dale County at
the age of fifty! . . . People called him "GABE". An
event later recalled by Congressman Henry B. Stegall
(a fellow townsman who was co-author of the GlassStegall Banking Act) illustrates our subject's popularity. Elderly Judge Dowling was walking the long distance one day from G. P. Dowling Hardware
Company to his beautiful mansion on Broad Street,
when Stegall stopped him with, "GABE, why don't
you get a car and quit taxing your strength?"
"Many of my old friends have no car, Henry,"
answered GABE; "I would not want one, when they
have none!"
GABE and Zilpha Ann Smith Dowling were parents of the children shown on Chart 566. A handsome
couple, they lived to celebrate their Golden Wedding
Anniversary on January 13, 1920. A life-size portrait
of Judge Dowling was unveiled during the huge dinner commemorating the event. (The "Star" reported
this as the fourth such celebration by Dowlings "lately".) During his fruitful life GABE had been instrumental in helping Ozark have its first waterworks. He
was president of the Ozark Cotton Mill and of the
town's First National Bank. "The Dowling scrape"
that his hardware had manufactured, for redistributtion, was so widely publicized in papers of the day
that the author thought for a time that he had uncovered a hellatious internecine scrap! For example, this
article in "The Pinckard Pilot": . . . "Judge Dowling,
widely known for the Dowling scrape, was in town
Monday of this week . . .'' (GABRIEL PASTORY died
February 7, 1931; Zilpha, on October 31, 1925. Both
are interred at Claybank. Mrs. Dowling was the
daughter of Reverend Caswell Smith's wife Susan and
had been born on Independence Day of 1850. More
Smith genealogy is given below.)
NOEL'S LAST CHILD was his only daughter,
one girl with eight brothers! She was born November
14, 1853; named ANNA JANE, she married at the age
of sixteen James Walter Towns Smith, one of
Reverend Caswell Smith's thirteen children. This took
place December 21, 1869. The six children born to
them are named in Addendum 675; one of them,
eighty-year-old "Alley", had more Dowling genealogy stored in his head than any cousin that the author
contacted. ANNA JANE died May 31, 1895. (The
year before her death she married Austin David Wall,
but there were no children born to them. She and this
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February 21, 1855, near Ozark just after the town
had been named; he was given the name of
ANDERSON . . . In the beginning of the twentieth
century he wrote the following:
"As a grown man I moved with my father-in-law,
Reverend J. Z. S. Connelly to where Dothan is now
located; this move was made in January of 1881.
We found three families there, near the springs. All
of the land around us was public except the homestead patented to W. J. Baxley. Mr. J. P. Folkes and
I engaged in the mercantile business and also handled whisky; the latter, I will always regret! Ours
was the only store there. At the close of that year we
sold out to Reverend Connelly, who discontinued
the store's bar. He was elected first mayor of
Dothan."
ANDERSON later moved to Woodville, Texas,
where he farmed and became a close friend of Texas
Congressman Martin Dies. Son WILLIAM
PIERCE was later postmaster of the town. Other
children born to ANDERSON are shown in
Addendum 679. His wife was Caledonia Connelly;
a sister of Caledonia's, named Ida, married LOUIS
LAWRENCE Dowling, whose sketch is given in
the third section following this. Other data on the
Connelly ancestors may be found there also.
(ANDERSON died January 24, 1919, and was
buried in the Woodville Cemetery; wife "Callie" is
also there. She lived until November 8, 1922, and
had been born February 24, 1858. She and
ANDERSON had married in Newton, Alabama, on
January 10, 1878, just prior to their move to "Poplar
Head" (Dothan).)
Two years after the last of FLETCHER'S four
children was born, he died, August 31, 1857. He
and Carolina Martin Dowling had only had ten
years together. The young widow buried him in
Claybank Cemetery. (About three years later
Caroline married an Alabama-born Presbyterian
named John W. Murdock and moved with him to
Tyler, County, Texas. She was buried there in
Woodville's cemetery; her death came on August
20, 1901.)
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DEMPSEY and Martha already had three sons
and two daughter when infant ZILLIH arrived, May
11, 1813. As a child she was respectful and obedient. She loved to talk of heaven and religion; none
of her six sisters lived as long as her eighty-five
years. The Jeffries Creek Methodism taught this girl
meant much to her later life as an Alabama mother
of eleven children, five of whom would tragically
die.
Neither of their sons shown in Addendum 676 left any
male offspring; the names of sixteen children born
to this couple's three daughters and other names are
listed in this Addendum. Pneumonia cut JEFFERSON'S life short March 12, 1887, on the Coffee
County farm he moved to with his small family
after 1880. His obituary states that he lived a quiet
and honorable life, conforming all the time to the
requirements of true citizenship and the care of his
home. The happiness of his wife and children were
the pride of his life. Mrs. Dowling, mother of his
five children, died five months after this on August
16th. Both were buried at Claybank. Margaret was
the daughter of Suzanna and W. F. Kelly She was
born October 7, 1850.
FLETCHER'S SECOND CHILD was born to
mother Caroline on October 12, 1850. They named
her MARY JANE and later called her MOLLIE.
After the Civil War was over she married Jim
Harris, a twenty-six year old veteran of the many
campaigns that the 33rd Alabama Infantry
Regiment had participated in. He had joined
Company I of that organization in the spring of
1862. This marriage took place January 9, 1868,
and leaves the many grandchildren shown in
Addendum 677. (Jim was the son of Mary
Character and Zackie Harris. When he died July 20,
1924, his life had lasted eighty-two years, his birth
having been December 18, 1842. MARY JANE
Harris died July 18, 1918. She and Mr. Harris are
buried in Union Cemetery north of Slocomb,
Alabama.)
FLETCHER'S THIRD CHILD was another
girl . . . a daughter who would remember the Civil
War, the Spanish American War, World War I, and
World War II! Daughter MARGARET VICTORIA'S span of life reached from February 7, 1853,
to August 27, 1943; she had been named for the
long lived queen of Great Britain. MARGARET
married when she was sixteen. She lived sixty-three
years after the death of her husband, John Jefferson
Bottoms! Two generations of their descendants are
shown in Addendum 678. (Jeff was a veteran of the
1st Battalion of Hilliard's Confederate Legions
when he married this Dowling on February 18,
1869. He was born to Dr. James J. Bottoms and wife
on March 29, 1847, probably in Barbour County,
Alabama. Young Jeff died September 27, 1880, and
was buried in the nearby "Union" Cemetery of
Ozark. MARGARET is in the burial ground of
Burns Church, near Malvern, Alabama.)
FLETCHER'S LAST CHILD was born
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was born May 29, 1831, and named for the sixth
Dowling brother of hers. As an adult, James married
Mary J. Skipper December 15, 1851. It is thought that
infant Nancy J. Hallford was their only offspring. Two
weeks after the child's death this young father also
died . . . Referring to first-cousin James, years later,
Reverend ANGUS Dowling indicated that he was of
mankind's finest! ANGUS wrote: "By the triumphant
and glorious death of James (Hallford) on the 5th day
of August, 1854, the writer was reclaimed and established in the faith of the gospel, and has been pressing
on ever since. I expect to meet him in heaven as
requested by him on his deathhed." . . . Methodist
Archives show 1854 as the year of this great preacher's conversion to Christianity! Surely God works in
wondrous ways . . .
ZILLIH'S SECOND CHILD, with four of his
brothers, was destined to serve in the Civil War; two
of them would never return. This son that followed
James was named Wesley H. Hallford; he was born
"at Woodshop, Alabama" (Ozark) on March 29, 1833.
Twenty-one years later, on June 4th, Wesley married
Sophia Ann Figg. Government land that this couple
purchased in 1856, for less than $1.30 per acre, is
shown on page 88 of the Dale County Plat book . . .
Very little of this land had been cleared before the
young man felt compelled to help the Confederacy.
He enlisted as a private in Company E of the 53rd
Alabama Mounted Infantry Regiment; JOHN WESLEY was his captain . . . Descendants of Wesley
Hallford are named in Addendum 680; son James
Samuel helped establish old Corbin School near
Hartford; grandson Ed Watford, Sr., founded Madrid,
Alabama. (Wife Ann was born in North Carolina; she
lived from January 27, 1833, to January 7, 1910. Her
parents, James and Margaret Figg, had both been born
in the same state of Carolina . . . but had moved the
family to Barbour County, Alabama, by 1850. Just as
Wesley's date of birth followed his wife's by a few
months, so did his death! He died May 29, 1910; both
were buried west of Dothan, Alabama, in Pilgrim's
Rest Cemetery.)
ZILLIH'S FIRST DAUGHTER "Susan" lived
nineteen years. At birth, March 11, 1835, she had been
named Susannah . . . A dreaded epidemic must have
prevailed in the Hallford neighborhood during the
summer of 1854. Three of their lives were snuffed out.
On July 22nd granddaughter Nancy, previously mentioned, had died . . . Six days later, the child's "Aunt
Susan" had died! Finally, on August 5th, ZILLIH'S
oldest son died. (ZILLIH'S obituary forty years later
referred to this time as the "long spell of severe sick-
Before leaving Darlington District ZILLIH probably knew the Hallford family that she would marry
into as a seventeen year old Alabama girl. The
Hallfords, Dowlings, Matthews, and Woodhams were
probably within a stone's throw of each other before
so many of them went to pioneer Dale County. ZILLIH'S mother-in-law to be . . . Nancy Huggins
Hallford had named one of her sons Moses Gordon.
(No doubt, this was in honor of Moses Matthews, Sr.,
the revolutionary grandfather-in-law of LACY who
lived nearby. This M. G. Hallford went to Pike
County, Alabama, and married Nancy Warrick. He
eventually went on over to Kemper County,
Mississippi. Sons of his were named Samuel, Julius,
Ezekial (or George!), Moses, and John. Son Moses
stayed in Mississippi; Julius and John took their families on to Texas. And the author believes that the
other two went to Dale County where their uncle
Samuel H. Hallford lived.)
Nancy Huggins and Burrell Hallford had given
an older brother of Moses Gordon the name of Samuel
H. Hallford. He is the one that ZILLIH married. This
marriage occurred July 8, 1830, in Dale County,
Alabama. It was about this time that Samuel became a
devoted Christian; he and ZILLIH "erected a family
altar on which they offered their devotions with their
children day by day; the result was that the whole
family embraced and lived the religion of the family's
head". (Taken from "The Southern Christian
Advocate" of December 1, 1864.) Samuel H. Hallford
was one of Claybank Church's first stewards.
By 1854 ZILLIH's husband had bought several
tracts of government land in Dale County. The small
home of theirs, in which they entertained Judge
Lansdale, probably stood on the first tract they had
bought. This distinguished Henry Countian was on his
way to the southern part of Dale County where he, and
Asa Alexander and H. A. Young would lay out the
town of Geneva. Bill Peters now owns the place, near
Ozark's Holiday Inn, where the Hallford home stood.
A small daguerreotype of ZILLIH is presently
owned by a greatgranddaughter, Mrs. John M.
Hudspeth, of Dothan. Of any of DEMPSEY'S seven
daughters' pictures this is the only photograph known
to exist.
ZILLIH was living with son Wesley at the time of
her death May 7, 1898. She was buried beside her husband, Samuel H. Hallford, in Claybank Cemetery. He
had died on October 28, 1864, ten days after his fiftyeighth birthday. His last illness had begun on that
birthday!
ZILLIH'S OLDEST CHILD, James Hallford,
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were from daughters' heads that would now be gray.
ZILLIH'S SEVENTH CHILD was born on
September 4, 1843. The name of Gordon L. was most
likely given in honor of his uncle Moses Gordon
Hallford who eventually settled in Kemper County,
Mississippi. Four days after reaching adulthood
Gordon married Emily Mullins. The 1880 Dale
County census shows this young family as occupants
of a farm adjoining one of George and Roxy Hallford.
The grandchildren of Gordon's are listed in
Addendum 682. One of them, Fern Wynn, owns the
waterworks of Newton and Pinckard, Alabama.
(Gordon Hallford died November 8, 1895, and was
buried at Claybank. In 1933, his ninety-year-old wife,
Emily Mullins Hallford Reynolds, was buried beside
him. She was the daughter of Catherine Gibson, a
Georgian, and Lewis Mullins, a North Carolinian.)
Emily had much faith in prayer; once when Gordon
was away from home, a distant forest fire had threatened to come on down-wind to their small home. She
bent to her knees and called on Almighty God!
Tradition has lost the amount of time involved in the
prayer's answer . . . but it was a positive one, in the
form of a thunderstorm, for this trusting mother!
ZILLIH'S EIGHTH CHILD, Samuel Jesse, died
in the General Hospital operated by the Confederates
in Petersburg, Virginia. Following brother Wilburn's
death this lad had gone into the armed forces to do his
part; but his health was poor and he had been discharged in the winter of '63. The following spring he
helped out at his mother's church by superintending
the Claybank "Sabbath School" . . . But the South was
drained of manpower; the authorities sent word that
the boy should shoulder arms again. He reported to
Company C of the 11th Florida Infantry Regiment, the
one from which his uncle JAMES Dowling would
never return. Jesse Hallford was sick during the trip
north, no doubt. "His company was ordered to
Virginia where he passed on by slow and easy stages",
says his obituary. Death took this nineteen year old
boy July 27, 1864 . . . Just before this he had written
a friend: "It may be that I shall be killed in this land,
far from home. My body may betrodden under foot;
yet I feel that I have a home in heaven."
ZILLIH'S NINTH CHILD was this mother's
third daughter. Her name was California Josephine
Vinetty Hallford! The author's greatgrandfather performed her marriage ceremony to James Phillips
Pritchett on January 9, 1872. This couple reared their
children in Geneva County, Alabama. These children
and their offspring are shown in Addendum 683.
Josephine Hallford Pritchett lived thirteen days past
ness in the summer of 1854". All three victims of the
malady were probably buried in Claybank.)
ZILLIH'S FOURTH CHILD, born February 24,
1837, was the daughter Sarah Ann. Near maturity, she
married Robert Green Skipper, son of Reverend
Nathaniel A. Skipper. Her husband helped pick the
site for Ozark's first Methodist church. Daughter
Alabama Skipper and ten other children of Sarah
Ann's are shown in Addendum 681. Also there are the
names of most of the twenty-eight offspring born to
one son of Sarah Ann's! (Sarah Ann's death on May
24, 1909, came more than fifty years after her marriage to "Bob", January 4, 1855. Her father-in-law is
known to have been a "local" Methodist preacher of
Claybank; a historical quarterly refers to him as
"Doctor" Skipper. In any event, we know that this thirty-nine-year-old North Carolinian's son Bob was born
in Bibb County, Georgia, October 30, 1833. The two
Skipper girls who married Sarah Ann's two brothers
were most likely sisters of Bob . . . Bob died
December 12, 1911. He was buried beside Sarah Ann
at Claybank.)
ZlLLIH'S FIFTH CHILD was to die for the land
of Dixie. He, Jason Wilburn Hallford, along with Bob
Skipper and brother Gordon Hallford served In the
ranks of Company I, an Infantry Company, in
Alabama's 33rd Regiment. The photostatted record of
his military career is available in Washington, D. C.
He died single on June 7, 1862; his date of birth was
April 7, 1839.
ZILLIH'S SIXTH CHILD was one that she called
"Dixie"! At birth, July 17, 1841, she and Samuel H.
Hallford had named the boy Dixon H. L. Hallford. But
especially after his service in the cavalry-like regiment of the 53rd Alabama Partisan Rangers, Mrs.
Hallford always referred to him as "my Dixie". On
November 10, 1861, Claybank's minister W. R. Talley
married Dixie Hallford to Harriett A. F. Skipper. Bride
Harriett was twenty-three. Some forty years after this
marriage NOEL PEELER'S article stated that this
couple went to Texas. The author was shown, in the
smokehouse of an Alabama nephew of Dixie (where it
had been placed during the first World War for safekeeping!), a drawer of material giving more information. In addition to several sheets of handsomely
inscribed foolscap there were five beautifully woven
lockets of delicate childrens' hair. Each of them was
tagged with paper saying, something like, "Locket of
Dixie's child, A. A. Hallford". The hairs' texture indicated that this child was a male, as was N. W.
Hallford. The three little golden-haired lockets of L.
A. E., S. C. (or L. C.), and L. L. V. A. (or S. S. V. A.)
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brothers by the name of Parrish, and Dale
Countians know little about the offspring of either
Dowling sister.
Sister MARTHA was born to mother Martha
in 1816 in the Jeffries Creek area of South
Carolina. MARTHA married twenty-eight-yearold
Emmanuel Parrish in the Dale County area of the
state of Alabama about 1842 and by the time of that
county's census eight years later had borne two
sons . . . The older one, Levin C. Hill Parrish
(known as Hill Parrish) resided in the Westville
beat of Dale County in 1870 with wife Ardilla and
son J. W., age three. Hill was twenty-eight at the
time.
MARTHA'S younger son, Jefferson B. Parrish,
was born about 1844. The following (taken from
the gathering of a historian hired by the
Confederacy to begin a compilation of material for
that nation) was recorded "in the field near
Richmond, Virginia, on New Year's Eve of 1864".
"Jeff Parrish enlisted at Glenville, Alabama, on
July 3, 1861, in Company H of the 15th Alabama
Regiment. He was then eighteen, single, and a resident of Echo, (Dale County), Alabama. He deserted this regiment August 1, 1863, but is now in the
cavalry."
An 1899 article by Dale County's best nineteenth century historian, Berry Andrews, stated that
Jeff and brother Hill "are in Texas". NOEL PEELER'S later article only mentioned their names; this
latter article did say that some of the double firstcousins of Jeff and Hill were in the Lone Star State
so Andrew's informants may have had those
Parrishes in mind. (MARTHA'S husband remarried
after her 1854 death, and had sons Lee, Morgan,
and Emmanuel Monroe.)
MARY ANNA was the other daughter of
DEMPSEY'S who married a Parrish. She married
James Parrish about the time that her sister married
his brother. MARY ANN also died young; she was
only thirty-three when they buried her in 1857. At
this time her oldest child, Chapman Parrish, had
already died; he was a year older than Marcellus,
her second son.
Marcellus Parrish was another of
DEMPSEY'S eight grandsons that the old gentleman lost in the Civil War. He had been born in 1843
in Dale County. In the first year of the war he had
become a soldier of the 15th Alabama Infantry
Regiment's Company E, Confederate States Army.
Just after they had defeated McDowell's forces in
the First Battle of Bull Run (the engagement in
her eighty-first birthday, dying February 16, 1930.
(She is in an unmarked grave next to her husband
in the Dundee Cemetery near Hartford, Alabama.
He was buried there May 1, 1917; he had been born
May 20, 1851. Both of Mr. Pritchett's parents had
been born in Alabama, as was he; they were named
Lena Stripland and Frank Pritchett. A brother of
Jim's also married a granddaughter of DEMPSEY
and is named in FRANCES'S section following
here.)
ZILLIH'S NEXT CHILD was daughter Piety,
born April 23, 1851, and lived to be seventy-nine
years old. As a sixteen-year-old, she had married
Samuel Ezekial Hallford, whom everyone called
"Zeke". The author believes that Zeke was the oldest son of Piety's Uncle M. G. Hallford, mentioned
at the beginning of this section. It is true that
today's Kemper County Bible owned by Lizzie
Hallford of DeKalb, Mississippi, shows that "their"
Samuel had a brother named Ezekial . . . but it also
shows that the said Samuel was born within two
days of the time that Piety's Samuel Ezekial was!
Piety's husband had been in the same
Regiment as brother Samuel Jesse had. Six weeks
after Jesse had died, Zeke was detailed by
Company C officers to accompany and watch over
Private JAMES Dowling on his recuperative furlough to Ozark. The story of how Zeke let JAMES
look out for himself is given in a later section!
Zeke married Piety after the war, December
16, 1867. Two of their children (all of whom are
shown in Addendum 684) died before reaching
their second birthday. At one time, 1902, this family owned the old LACY Matthews farm which that
venerable aunt had owned so long before the Civil
War. Later they lived west of Dothan, near Brannon
Stand. Zeke lived from December 30, 1846, to
November 25, 1917; Piety died May 21, 1930.
Both are buried in the Wiggins Church graveyard
near the place that her grandfather DEMPSEY had
first resided. No vestige of old Richmond courthouse remains . . .
ZILLIH'S LAST CHILD, her eleventh one,
was little Clayton Monroe Hallford. He only lived
from New Year's Day of 1860 to the tenth day of
August, 1862. There is no grave-marker for him
anywhere in Dale County, so it is assumed that he
was buried without a headstone in Claybank
Cemetery.
The fifth and sixth daughters of Martha Stokes
Dowling and DEMPSEY will be the author's subjects in this short section. Both of them married
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Chart 331 shows fourteen Parrishes, including
the two Dowling sisters. Only the burial place of
Lawrence was ascertained. If MARTHA or MARY
ANNA were buried in any of Dale County's one hundred cemeteries, there is no headstone marking such.
There is a possibility that burial grounds in adjoining
Coffee County might contain some of these who died
in Alabama.
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DEMPSEY had already had three sons before he
finally had one that he named for his father. The old
revolutionary soldier, JOHN, probably bragged all
over the Jeffries Creek area about this new little
grandson, born July 20, 1818; for this grandson would
extend the first and the last name of the elderly
farmer. (Notice that the author calls this son of
DEMPSEY by the name of JOHN, SR., for the latter
began signing documents that way, four decades later,
after he had sired a son JOHN P. See Chart 331.)
Down in Alabama our subject, JOHN SENIOR,
was charmed by Charlotte Brackin to such an extent
that he was bethrothed to her. Their wedding followed
on January 10, 1841. It was at this time that JOHN
was a captain in the State Militia, serving in Colonel
John Merrick's organization. (Charlotte was the
daughter of Isaac Brackin; her younger brother,
Mathias, later married the youngest of JOHN
SENIOR'S seven sisters. Her father and uncle,
Matthew Brackin, had come to southeast Alabama
from Georgia after her birth, September 30, 1820.)
JOHN SENIOR had already bought two tracts of
government land at the time of this marriage. Farming
remained his major livelihood, though he followed in
father DEMPSEY'S steps as a "local preacher". By
1870 he was owner of 420 acres of land. It lay halfway from DEMPSEY'S Hurricane Creek home to
Claybank. The double-pen loghouse in which his nine
children were born sat atop a beautiful wooded hill
(east of today's Holiday Inn, south of Ozark). One of
the ways JOHN was able to make 500 bushels of
Indian Corn, the year of the first agricultural census
after the Civil War, was to keep plenty (?) of implements for the tillage of his 150 cleared acres. A hasty
examination of that inventory showed that the one
hundred dollar value of his farm tools exceeded that of
any other man in Dale County!
Before dying, at the age of eighty-one, JOHN
SENIOR liked to tell of the night that he received a
call to the ministry: "I was standing out in the yard one
night near where Ozark is now located. Charlotte was
away visiting. The stars above made me feel I was
back in South Carolina. Suddenly a voice asked, 'Do
which Thomas Jonathan Jackson earned the nickname of "Stonewall"), this eighteen year old boy
was stricken with typhoid. He died in Haymarket,
Virginia, October 23, 1861.
MARY ANNA'S THIRD AND FOURTH OFFSPRING were the daughters born in 1845 and 1847.
Savannah Parrish was the older. Some say that she
married a Clark. She and sister "Alphia D." are shown
on their father's 1850 and 1860 Dale County censuses. The author believes, mainly by the process of elimination, that "Alphia" is the Parrish whom NOEL
PEELER'S article called Rosaberg. The author further
believes that "old Aunt Epsey Parrish" who once lived
in Montgomery or Eufaula is this cousin, "the one of
many names"!
MARY ANNA'S FIFTH AND SIXTH OFFSPRING were boys. The older, Young, was ten years
old during this family's last (1860) Dale County enumeration. NOEL PEELER stated forty-three years
later that Young Parrish died in Texas. This boy had
originally been given the first name of his father,
James, but when the latter's first son was born to second-wife Elizabeth Body Parrish, he named that baby
James A., and Young never used the name "James"
again.
The younger of these two brothers was Lawrence
Parrish, born to “ANNIE” (as he called her) on March
8, 1852. When he died over eighty-five years later, a
Della Parrish of Route 4, Waco, Texas, stated that
Lawrence had lived in McLennan County, Texas, for
sixty-eight years, on Route 1. He was buried
September 10, 1937, in nearby Leon County, in the
Concord Cemetery. Lawrence and wife Martha had
two children though neither of those nor his wife lived
until 1937 as he did. This Parrish farmed, and had visited Dale County in 1898 to look for the site of the old
homeplace and Parrish Mill.
A census made by the state of Alabama in 1855,
wherein only the heads of families were listed, shows
MARY ANNA and James's family shortly before her
death. They were (temporarily) in Coffee County,
Alabama. MARY ANNA'S SEVENTH AND
EIGHTH CHILDREN were living at the time. They
were the daughters Sarah and Mary A., named in order
of birth . . . Sarah did not live five years. The later life
of Mary A. is not known; she was born in 1856, the
year before her mother died.
Based on tradition and the statement made at the
time of Lawrence's death, several of these Parrishes
went to Texas. MARY ANNA'S husband, James, himself a native of South Carolina, is probably buried
there. He had been born between 1817 and 1820.
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ers HENRY PORTER and MASON MORTON went
to Louisiana about the turn of the century where this
triumvirate was the largest landowner in Desoto
Parish (until the 1929 crash wiped it out). PORTER
served three terms in the Louisiana Senate and was
mayor of Grand Cane, Louisiana. Our subject,
SAMUEL LAWSON, died January 15, 1919, and
was buried in Claybank Cemetery near Ozark,
Alabama. Wife Jane died June 15, 1925, and was
interred beside him.
JOHN SENIOR'S SECOND SON, ELISHA
MATHIAS CONVERSE, has a Southern Cross of
Honor at the foot of his Claybank grave. For his
birthdate of February 7, 1843, had put him in an
excellent age group for Civil War service. Few people know that the renowned "Dowling's Boarding
House", operated after the war by him in Ozark, was
a copy of a beautiful Atlanta home which infantryman Dowling had kept admiring as he lay in the
trenches of that embattled city. (He was there with
the 53rd Alabama Infantry Regiment.) The two story
home was in no-man's land . . . and its replica may
now be seen as one of the miniatures in the Grant's
Park Cyclorama in Atlanta. "LISHE", as our subject
was called, vowed that if he survived the war he
would one day have a home like this one!
LISHE'S wife, Tansy Jane Britt, was the one
whose food made their dining table so famous as a
commercial stop-over. She and Mr. Dowling celebrated their fiftieth marriage anniversary in their
"Atlanta" home, in Ozark, on August 21, 1912.
Nearly fifty of their "kissing-kin" were present.
Addendum 685 lists the four children of this couple;
none left descendants. LISHE'S occupation had been
that of mill-operator; in 1899 he was sheriff of Dale
County, the county of his birth. Ozark's first telephone system, "Dowling and Hill" was installed by
members of his family. LISHE died at the age of
eighty-six, January 7, 1929, and was buried beside
Tansey Jane at Claybank. She had died December 6,
1919. Her birth had occurred in Randolph County,
Georgia, March 20, 1838.
JOHN SENIOR'S FIRST DAUGHTER brightened mother Charlotte's room on the last day of July,
1846; this child was to live eighty-eight years. They
named her LACY ANN LUIZA . . . and called her
LOU! Little LOU became a young lady and became
Mrs. John Calvin Parker. Her two children and three
grandchildren are shown in Addendum 686. (Her
husband was the son of Amos Parker and had been
born July 13, 1849. John C. died at the age of eighty;
he and LOU are buried in Claybank Cemetery.)
you accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour ... or do you
reject him?'.... I knew the answer; I was so happy I
shouted all over the yard!" . . . This was the third
Sunday night in September of 1848.
In 1853 JOHN SENIOR was licensed as a
Methodist preacher. Eleven years later Bishop James
J. Andrew ordained him as a deacon. . . . and twentyeight years after that fateful Sunday call, Reverend
Dowling became an elder. For a long period JOHN
held "every-Wednesday-night-prayer-meetings" in
his home on the hill. Neighbors were encouraged to
come. One tells of the holes in the edge of the earthern hearth, adjoining the "stick and dirt" chimney,
where the constant kneeling of this good Christian
had worn them. In 1865, JOHN was pastor of the Big
Creek Mission (probably the Dothan area). Six years
later he was pastor of the Cerro Gordo Mission. In
1873, he headed the Ozark committee which chose
the site for the first Methodist Church built in that
town.
JOHN SENIOR'S OLDEST CHILD was the
son, SAMUEL LAWSON, born November 3, 1841.
This Dowling's marriage to Sarah Jane Windham
occurred about the year that he became a mounted
infantryman in the company of the 53rd Alabama
Partisan Rangers commanded by a cousin, Captain
JOHN WESLEY. Corporal "LAWSE" (pronounced
"Loss") suffered battle wounds in the terrific fight for
Atlanta's defense. He was home on furlough when
the war ended. (Wife Jane was born in Alabama on
February 22, 1839, to South Carolinians. Mother
Elender Dupre was a Woodham granddaughter of
Frederick 1st, mentioned in the first section of this
chapter. Grandfather John Windham, sire of Jane's
father Samuel, was in Dale County by 1830.)
SAMUEL LAWSON was a man of diversified
talents. In addition to being an outstanding farmer he
won election twice as treasurer of Dale County, in
the beginning years of this century. An earlier
"Southern Star" had bragged about his huge twentyfive horsepower, eight-saw "Centennial" cotton gin
that was serving farmers in the Daleville area. This
newspaper, in 1884, had reported LAWSE'S contract
with the county to bridge Claybank Creek where
Crittenden's Mill stood. He was the builder of the
first church ever erected in Ozark by the Methodists,
1873.
This man's offspring, shown on Chart 568, were
also destined to win fame. Besides JUDSON
DAVIE, sketched in a later chapter, there was son
TOLBERT LEE who was on the committee which
chose the site for Montevallo College. He and brothPage 57
"COME ONE! COME ALL! !
TO N. B. DOWLING,
JOHN SENIOR'S LAST DAUGHTER was the
next child, NANCY JANE, born on October 3, 1851.
She lived until February of 1925. She had married at
about the age of nineteen. Her husband was John F.
McDonald (son of Annie Williams and Randol
McDonald. John F.'s grandfather was pioneer
preacher John McDonald. NANCY JANE and her
husband are in the second and third graves south of
son Marvin in the Ozark City Cemetery. Mr.
McDonald died October 22, 1922, at the age of seventy.) Of six children born to him and NAN only one
leaves descendants; . . . Marvin was shot down in
Ozark . . . Lula died in childbirth . . . Farley was
killed by a falling pole . . . Lucy died of "dropsy" as
she reached adulthood . . . and Jesse suffered accidental death during the construction of the railroad to
Dothan. See Addendum 687.
JOHN SENIOR'S FIFTH CHILD was born on
August 15, 1853, two years after the birth of Ozark,
Alabama. Preacher Dowling proudly announced the
birth of son NOEL BAXTER to the score of aunts
and uncles, shown on Chart 331.
As "N. B." grew to manhood, he was captivated
by the long-haired, dreamy-eyed daughter of Eben
Josiah Wells, a nearby neighbor of his father's. On
May 9, 1874, he married her. Her name was
Elizabeth, though during the entire eighty-five years
of her life people called her "Lizzie". (Mrs. Dowling
was the only grandparent of the author that he ever
knew. She had been born June 25, 1853, to Tamsey
Johnson Wells, a daughter of Ben and Hannah
Johnson. The latter's tombstone indicates a life that
lasted 104 years! Lizzie's mother died while father
Eben was away in the Civil War; she was then reared
by maternal Aunt Eliza whom Eben subsequently
married.)
"Job-down" farming offered a scant living in the
eighties; NOEL BAXTER sold his major asset, the
one hundred acre farm (lying at the junction of new
and old U. S. 231, south of Ozark) for $2.85 per acre
in 1886. He then tried his hand in the Ozark mercantile business. Such ads as the following must not
have worked the expected wonders. (See next column)
NOEL BAXTER also did some house building;
two of the ones he built on Newton Street in Ozark
are still there. He operated a saw-mill at Honeytown,
one at Kennedy-Crossroads (now Midland City), and
another south of Newton. His family is shown on
Chart 569.
At about the time that Dothan, Alabama, was
getting its first railroad, N. B. moved his family half-
Dealer in Gen'l Merchandise
consisting in part of
DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS
Hats, caps, boots and shoes; also a
good line of Hardware, glassware,
crockeryware, and tinware; will
keep constantly on hand
FANCY AND FAMILY
GROCERIES, the very best
Grades of Flour, Sugar; Coffee,
and in fact everythin kept in a
first class FAMILY GROCERY.
Excellent Grades of Tobacco,
Cigars and Snuff, the purest and
best Candies Fruits &c.
BAGGING AND TIES always on
hand at low figures.
way there from Ozark, locating near the junction of
the roads coming from Campbellton, Florida, and
Columbia, Alabama. This was the place that
Professor Oscar Pinckard was working hand in glove
with promoters of the Alabama Midland Railway to
establish as a division headquarters for the new line.
This infant railroad town bore Pinckard's name, and
in it Dowling erected one of the two "hotels" needed
to handle the drummers who came there to work the
surrounding countryside . . . It was in this period that
HAYWOOD HART, a son of N. B., entered business. The old fifteen by twenty foot store in which
this boy started his fortune still stands on the
Dowling farm west of Pinckard. "H. H.", as he was
known, railroad N. B. moved his family half-way
there from Ozark, locating became the first millionaire to descend from ROBERT . . . Yet one of his first
endeavors had been the job of "butch" boy on his
hometown's railroad, selling onion plants, seed,
newspapers, etc.
NOEL BAXTER died March 28, 1915. He was
buried near beloved Claybank Church, which grandfather DEMPSEY had helped found nearly a century
earlier. Wife Elizabeth Wells Dowling, whose fortitude meant so much to their children, lived over two
decades longer, dying October 31, 1938. She was
buried next to Mr. Dowling in the cemetery containPage 58
1902, and is buried in Ozark's City Cemetery.
Christian then married Judge E. Short Windham.
Ida Connelly's mother, Elizabeth Ann McKissack,
had been married to Reverend Pierce Harris before
marrying Reverend Connelly. Her father, Jim Z. S.,
had been born in Charleston, South Carolina, in
1830, to Rachel Anne Harmon and J. S. Connelly.)
JOHN SENIOR'S NEXT CHILD was also a
boy. Charlotte and Mr. Dowling named him JOHN
PARROT, the middle name honoring a Jeffries
Creek family who had lived near JOHN SENIOR'S
boyhood home. This baby, born October 10, 1859,
lived only for ninety-nine days; he was buried in
Claybank. Death was attributed to erysipelas.
JOHN SENIOR'S NINTH CHILD was the last
one that he and Charlotte had. He was one of the
fifty-three grandsons of DEMPSEY'S. His name
was GEORGE WASHINGTON and he was born on
June 17, 1862. He and thirteen other grandsons of
DEMPSEY'S are ancestors of Dowling grandsons.
(Nine of DEMPSEY'S Dowling grandsons died
young or as batchelor soldiers . . . Seven had only
daughters.)
GEORGE made his living, as dozens of the
other first cousins had done, by farming. At about
the age of forty he migrated from Ozark to Valdosta,
Georgia. There he entered the dairy business. At the
time of his death, September 28, 1929, he was a
building contractor. He and his wife Mollie Carroll
are buried in the Sunset Hill Cemetery, Valdosta.
They had married December 20, 1883. Two generations of descendants are shown on Chart 571.
(Mollie was a Dale County-born daughter of Sarah
A. Casey and John Carroll. Mollie was a granddaughter of Lemuel Casey, mentioned in MILLY'S
section of this chapter, and had been born February
22, 1867; she died June 24, 1938. A son of hers and
GEORGE'S, Dr. Gus T. Dowling, is the past president of the National Association of Chiropodists; an
Atlanta resident, he is on the medical staff of
Georgia Tech's football team.)
Mother Charlotte Brackin Dowling died
October 20, 1888; her obituary stated that the burial
ceremony at Claybank was "attended by an
immense congregation of relatives and friends".
JOHN SENIOR'S life ended during the last year of
the nineteenth century on February 28, 1900. The
following inscription is on his headstone at
Claybank:
“His toils are past—his work is done
He fought the fight—the victory won
A member of the Methodist Protestant Church
ing three generations of his forebears.
JOHN SENIOR'S SIXTH CHILD was another
of the seven sons that this patriarch would ultimately have. Named JARRETT MALONE: . . . this offspring was later known as "JERVE". He lived from
October 10, 1855, to June 6, 1935. "J. M." Dowling
was one of the twenty petitioners in 1885 who
asked that the little sawmill camp of Poplar Head be
incorporated as the town of Dothan, Alabama! . . .
Five years later this fledgling place contained 247
people. Some fifty years later JERVE'S grandnephew, the author, started the city's third radio station; Dothan is the youngest city in Alabama of over
5,000 people . . . yet has already grown to a population of 30,000!
JERVE operated sawmills at Ashford and
Midland City . . . also a gristmill on Crim Creek
north of Pinckard. His wife was Ella Crim; his
descendants are named in Addendum 688. (This
couple married in May of 1875. Ella was the daughter of Betsy Johnson and granddaughter of Hanna
Johnson, mentioned above. Ella had been born to
David Crim in 1856, probably near the creek above,
for it was named for him. Ella died in December,
1931; she and JARRETT MALONE are buried at
Claybank.)
JOHN SENIOR'S SEVENTH CHILD was
born on January 8, 1858, and named LOUIS
LAWRENCE. As a young man, LOUIS was a carpenter boss in the Ozark area; later, he entered the
sawmill business east of that town. When he was
twenty, he married Ida Connelly, daughter of James
Zechariah Simpson Connelly. Connelly was a
farmer-preacher like LOUIS'S father and grandfather. Connelly owned a three mile stretch of land
running southward from Poplar Head Springs along
the St. Andrews Bay road. In 1881, Dowling moved
with his father-in-law and ANDERSON Dowling to
that place to cut the beautiful virgin pine standing
on Reverend Connelly's land. Residents of Dothan,
Alabama, ride the length of this tract nowadays in
traversing all of South St. Andrews Street!
About 1894 LOUIS LAWRENCE moved his
family, shown on Chart 570, to Tyler County, Texas.
Dothan's first mayor, LOUIS'S father-in-law, was
either already there . . . or followed. Typhoid fever
struck down Ida Connelly Dowling within eighteen
months after they arrived there; she is buried in
Woodville, near her father . . . LOUIS was disheartened with Texas; he brought his children back to
Ozark, Alabama. On October 3, 1900, he married
Christian V. James. (LOUIS died on February 25,
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at the annual China Grove camp meetings (near
Ozark), where for eleven seasons he kept open house
and fed thousands without money. . . . Around the
great tent in the center of the square he was always
recognized as a captain among the hosts of Israel. . .
Whether it was to look after law and order, to chant
sweet songs of Zion, labor with penitents, or pray for
them, he was always ready. He labored with zeal
where-ever he was called to go . . . but always according to knowledge."
All of EDWARD'S nine children were born to his
first wife, Anna. The first child they had was born on
September 14, 1842, and named HENDERSON
JESSE. Called "HENNY", this baby only lived until
June 28, 1843. His headstone can be found in
Claybank Cemetery.
EDWARD'S SECOND SON was born on April
4, 1844, and named for the founder of our family and
DEMPSEY'S Uncle JAMES. This son's name was
ROBERT JAMES. Forty years after birth he was serving Dale County as its treasurer. During the Civil War
ROBERT was in the 53rd Alabama Partisan Rangers.
This Dowling and his wife, Drucilla Thompson, were
buried in Claybank Cemetery beside each other,
though her grave is un-marked. A son, SHELLEY
DUKE, an only child of this couple . . . a boy who
lived a wild life . . . died single at the age of twentyeight (ROBERT died on New Year's Day, 1892. Wife
Drucilla was a sister-in-law of Captain JOHN WESLEY. She had been born in Jacksonville, Florida
October 4, 1852; she died August 31, 1932. Two of the
other Thompson sisters married Hart McCall and
James Parker, in Dale County.)
EDWARD'S THIRD CHILD was the daughter
MARGARET FRANCES, born July 12, 1845. This
girl and her next-younger sister were the beautiful
brides in a thrilling double wedding just after the Civil
War. MARGARET'S husband was ex-First Sergeant
Daniel Martin of the 33rd Alabama Infantry
Regiment, Company I. Daniel was a son of Benjamin
B. Martin, Jr., and Mary "Polly" Myers, North
Carolinians who had come to Dale County and lived
to the average age of ninety! (Daniel was almost
eighty when he died, February 8, 1923, as he was born
on August 8, 1844. MARGARET died November 14,
1913. Their descendants are shown in Addendum 689.
Originally this couple was buried at Mt. Liberty
Church, two miles northwest of the junction of
Bowles Creek and Black Mill Creek. When Fort
Rucker absorbed over sixty square miles of Dale
County land, this cemetery was evacuated to a place a
few miles west of Daleville, Alabama.)
A pioneer of the Cross”
–––––––––––––––––––
.... "EDWARD Dowling is dead. A prince of
Israel has fallen .... and the people mourn.
Behold, a good life full of good works is ended,
and the doer of them has gone to hear: 'Well
done, thou good and faithful servant; enter thou into
the joys of thy Lord"' . . .
Thus began an obituary of DEMPSEY'S fifth son
who died in Dale County, Alabama, at the age of
eighty-five. This Dowling left a total of over 179
great-grandchildren, yet not one of them bears the
name Dowling! (EDWARD had three sons . . . of
these three, only one had a son . . . and this son had
none!)
EDWARD had been born to Martha Stokes
Dowling in the Jeffries Creek area of South Carolina
on October 15, 1820. Twenty-one years and nine days
later, he married Anna Oates. Anna had been born in
North Carolina on May 8, 1822, to Stephen Oates
after his marriage to Elizabeth Shipps. Her parents
had also been born in that state in Sampson County.
She was one of sixteen children; her brother William
was father of Alabama's Governor Oates.
When Anna and EDWARD moved into their new
home (that he had bought from his Aunt RHODA
Stokes's husband) this young couple determined that
the Lord would come first. They set up an altar with
an open Bible on it. It became their measure of conduct. As their children grew up, they knew to honor
God with their lives, which belonged to Him. Father
EDWARD stressed that they should do good to all
with whom they should come in contact.
Though a farmer EDWARD was always a
builder. As a boy of seventeen, he had helped build
one of southeast Alabama's earliest mills. He later
said: "I helped hew the timbers for it. My brother
JOHN SENIOR and a slave of my Daddy's by the
name of Cain did the scoringin. It was hot! Later, we
stopped to gather the crops. When we got through, we
worked at it again until planting time. Then, the second fall, we finished it. Sim Parrish was the builder.
He put the griststones in first and a saw in afterwards." After the Civil War EDWARD, NOEL PEELER, SIMEON, Fletcher Cox (son of MILLY), and one
or two more built China Grove School, near
Claybank. Its teacher in 1883 was LACY'S grandsonin-law, Bartow Metcalfe.
EDWARD was a "class-leader" of the Methodists
as well as a steward of Claybank. He was often chosen as a delegate to the District Conferences. His obituary states: "He was among the first to pitch his tent
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Holman, a son of SUSAN, will be remembered as the
greatest mule-trader ever to bring a shipment into
South Alabama. Grandson H. L. Holman, Jr., Ozark,
is an outstanding architect. Greatgrandson Joe Adams
heads the oldest business in Dale County, "The
Southern Star". Other descendants are shown in
Addendum 692. (SUSAN died February 28, 1915,
and is buried with John Clinton, Sr., at Claybank.
Their marriage had come on February 16, 1868,
shortly after Holman had been denied service in the
Civil War. He was the only doctor in the Ozark area
and was needed at home. He was a son of South
Carolinian Martha Ligon and Thornton Holman, the
latter being a North Carolinian of Rockingham
County birth. John lived from January 13, 1829, to
March 15, 1904; he had been born in Grantville,
Georgia.)
VANTILLER OPHELIA RIO DE JANEIRO
Dowling Byrd was the seventh child of EDWARD'S.
She had become the second wife of William Acrel
Byrd after the death of first wife Margaret Tacier
Dela Pegary Matthews Byrd. OPHELIA and "Billy"
married about 1875. All of their twelve children and
many grandchildren are named in Addendum 693.
(OPHELIA'S span of life was from March 7, 1854, to
January 27, 1931. "Billy" Byrd was the son of Bartilla
and Acrel Byrd, Sr., and a brother to Ransom, above;
his death occurred ten days after OPHELIA'S. He had
been born on June 15, 1850.)
EDWARD'S EIGHTH CHILD was the daughter
CHARLES ETTA EUDORA, born March 22, 1857.
Her descendants are shown in Addendum 674, as she
was the wife of NOEL PEELER Dowling, a firstcousin. They married on December 23, 1875. More
information is given in an earlier section about this
family. "DORA" died May 25, 1914. She and PEELER are buried at Claybank.
EDWARD had become the father of six daughters in succession before his third son was born to
him and Anna. Anna probably chose the baby's name.
She named him for her father and her husband. This
was on STEPHEN EDWARD'S day of birth, August
11, 1862.... Young EDDY lived only nineteen years,
dying October 19, 1881; he had not married. His
grave is in Claybank Cemetery, near Ozark and the
Dowling farm where all these children had been born.
Anna Oates Dowling died September 16, 1874,
when this last child was only twelve. Two years later,
October 18, 1876, EDWARD married a granddaughter of Reverend Jesse Battle, Maggie A. Barnes.
Battle had resided in Virginia and North Carolina but
was probably living in Jackson County, Florida, at
EDWARD'S FOURTH CHILD was the daughter who participated in the double wedding mentioned above (on April 21, 1867). This was ELIZABETH ANN, born October 18, 1846. Her bridegroom
was Captain Needham Hughes, the Dale Countian
who had become commander of the second group of
men he recruited for war duty . . . this group becoming Company I of Alabama's 33rd Infantry Regiment,
with Daniel Martin above as the first-sergeant.
("Redbone" Hughes had already marched one bunch
of men to Mobile . . . ones that he had recruited
around Haw Ridge and enrolled as 7th Regiment
infantrymen. Confederate officials told him to go
back and get more and he could be their captain. This
he did!) The eight children and many grandchildren
of this couple are named in Addendum 690. Mother
"BETSY", as she was called, died in Nacogdoches,
Texas, on December 14, 1916. (She and Needham
had moved there some years earlier. He died June 9,
1905; both are buried at Old North Church. Needham
was born October 10, 1836, to Elisha Matthews's
half-sister, Rachel Matthews, and Benson Hughes. At
one time he served Dale County as its sheriff.)
THE FIFTH CHILD OF EDWARD'S was born
on his Bear Creek farm May 27, 1848. Just prior to
her two sisters' marriage, this girl, MARTHA JANE,
married Ransom Byrd. He was another of the Dale
Countians who had been in Captain "Redbone"
Hughes's company. This marriage took place on
January 18, 1866, and leaves the nine children shown
in Addendum 691. (JANE died at the age of seventyone, September 10, 1919. Farmer Ransom died at the
age of seventy-two, September 29, 1914. He had been
born to North Carolinians, Bartilla and Acrel Byrd,
Sr., on February 23, 1842, his mother being a Johnson
Countian. Ransom and JANE are buried in the City
Cemetery of Enterprise, Alabama. A brother of
Ransom's married EDWARD'S seventh offspring.)
THE SIXTH CHILD THAT EDWARD and
Anna Oates Dowling were fortunate enough to have
was daughter SUSAN VIRGINIA, born September
19, 1850 . . . At the age of seventeen SUSAN became
the third wife of Dr. John Clinton Holman, Sr., and
the step-mother of the three young boys who had
been born to Dr. Holman's wife Louisa S. Dunson.
(Louisa had died the preceding year; these sons were
named John Clinton, Jr., Meigs Marshall, and
William C. Doctor Holman's first wife, Nancy
Redwine, had also died, that union leaving no children.) Little William died as a child, but the other two
boys were treated with as much tender regard by
SUSAN as that given her own nine sons. Marvin
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half-mile due east of today's Fan Drive-In Theatre. A
road, which still existed in 1910, crossed Hurricane
Creek to the place he had been raised by mother
Martha Stokes Dowling.
This road . . . coming from the North . . . was
probably the one that JAMES'S children were playing
in, while waiting for their father's arrival. He had written them and wife Nancy Martin Dowling that hospital authorities were going to give him a "passport" . .
. Now it was about the day for "Daddy" to reach
Ozark. It was a day that nine-yearold GREEN
BERRY never forgot! A grey-clad rider did come . . .
The speed of his horse meant that this would be "their
soldier" whom they had not seen in a year. The rider,
however, was a courier. (Tradition has lost whether he
was soldier Hallford.) . . . Railroads were so disrupted
that it was in this manner that news of JAMES'S
Virginia death reached his family.
JAMES'S wife was Nancy Martin, whom he had
married about the time of his majority in 1844. She
had been born in Moore County, North Carolina, on
August 5, 1824, to Randol and Mary Martin. In addition to the nine children of hers sketched below, and
shown on Chart 331, she and JAMES had five offspring who died in their infancy. There is no record of
where they were buried nor of their sex or names.
Nancy was the last of DEMPSEY'S fourteen children
and their fourteen mates to die. Death took her at 3
a. m., March 26, 1910. She was buried three miles
west of home in Claybank.
JAMES'S FIRST CHILD was daughter SARAH
A. E., born May 7, 1845. "SALLY" married Timothy
Cuthbert Lee, IInd, on December 22, 1863. The previous year Tim had been discharged from Company H
of the 15th Alabama Regiment because of shellfire
deafness. Just four weeks previous to this marriage
Tim had re-enlisted; he joined the Florida Regiment
that JAMES was later placed in. Children born to the
Lees are listed in Addendum 694. SALLY was an
invalid for the last ten years of her life. The one place
she kept going during this time was "my church".
(This was "Piney Grove", today's Winslett Chapel
Methodist Church, six miles south of Pinckard,
Alabama, where this couple's graves now rest.
SARAH died March 4, 1915. Tim's death followed,
May 14, 1918. He had been born to Elizabeth
Severance and Tobias Lee, Jr., South Carolinians, on
April 2, 1843.)
JAMES'S NEXT CHILD was also a girl,
CATHERINE C., who lived from October 13, 1847,
to November 8, 1899. Page 76 of the Dale County Plat
Book shows the place that she and Spencer L.
the time of this marriage. Maggie and EDWARD
never had any children. She died ten years later,
September 18, 1887. Maggie had been born
September 30, 1841. She and Anna are buried at
Claybank beside EDWARD. He died May 21, 1906.
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The preceding son of DEMPSEY'S and his three older
brothers who were still living were too old for the
Civil War. But the sixth brother, JAMES, who had
been born in 1823 before DEMPSEY left Darlington
District, was just young enough that in the third year
of this man-sapping war it became his time to join the
ranks.
He went to Boynton Bluff, Florida, on September
11, 1863, and was placed in Company A of Florida's
4th Infantry Battalion. Eleven months, and several
battles later, this unit was in Virginia. It had been
redesignated Company C, 11th Florida Infantry
Regiment. JAMES was recuperating from a case of
German measles in the Confederates' General
Hospital, which was located in Howard's Grove near
Richmond. On September 8, 1864, his officers granted him a sixty-day "passport to Ozarke, Alabama"; the
length of this leave at such a critical point in Rebel
fortunes indicates that his health was in terrible shape.
Tradition tells us that fellow-soldier Samuel Ezekial
Hallford was designated to go with JAMES and watch
after him on the difficult trip that lay ahead . . . Hardly
had they begun the journey when a hospitable
Southerner insisted that the two soldiers stop with him
to partake of the huge repast spread on his kitchen
table. Private Dowling's weakened body couldn't
stand the shock; within hours he was dead (the cause
of death being listed as chronic diarrhea). . . It had
been exactly a year and a day since he enlisted!
Fifty-six years after this, the obituary of
JAMES'S widow stated that he was buried in
Danville, Virginia. Washington records, however,
show that his death occurred in the above hospital
which was over a hundred miles from Danville and
that the site of his grave is unknown. This latter statement plus a grandson's fruitless search of the
Confederate Cemetery in Danville indicates that
JAMES'S burial site is indeed unknown.
Not long after father DEMPSEY had paid for his
Hurricane Creek farm in Dale County, he seems to
have begun the practice of buying various forties from
the government for his sons. Thirteen-year-old
JAMES must have been proud of his first tract, lying
to the west of Reverend Dowling's . . . By 1855
JAMES had bought several more forties. The place he
built his house and reared nine of his children lay a
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said he would never forget how afraid he was that this
might not be enough, but the bear dropped before
reaching him. The Dowlings had bear-meat for supper!
THE FOURTH CHILD OF JAMES and Nancy's
was daughter ANNA JANE, born about 1852. This
girl's first marriage was about 1869 to Stephen Martin.
It is thought that Stephen was twenty-one at this time
and that he was the Dale-County-born son of
Benjamin W. and Pheriba Martin, both of whom had
been born in South Carolina. Stephen's burial place is
mentioned in the above sketch of WILLIAM
REYNOLDS. All of ANNA'S ehildren were born of
this Martin union; see Addendum 696 . . . Following
Stephen Martin's death this Dowling daughter married
Joe S. Morris. Joe's brother was probably already married to ANNA'S sister at this time. (ANNA died
January 14, 1926, and was buried in Beulah Cemetery
north of Dothan. Her un-marked grave is eleven feet
north of son Melton M. Martin's tombstone. Mr.
Morris is at her side, on the south.)
JAMES NEXT had a baby whom he named
GREEN BERRY YOUNG, born March 17, 1855. The
youngster never liked the name "Young" and consequently went by the name of "G. B." and GREEN
BERRY . . . It had dawned on this child's mind that a
war did effect all people when he had watched the difficulty that father JAMES had in "trading some
wagon-men out of a sack of salt". These men had
made the round trip of over two hundred miles to the
Gulf with their large kettles . . . and were in no mood
to let so precious a thing as a sack of salt go for a bale
of cotton, offered them by JAMES. (Dowling knew
that his family would need the precious preservative
during his impending military service and talked quite
roughly to the traders. He got the salt!)
About 1877 GREEN BERRY married Catherine
Woodham. The children born to them are shown on
Chart 574. Four years later they moved to Section 30
south of Newton, Alabama, and homesteaded land.
Dowling was instrumental in founding Mt. Hebron
Methodist Church at the crossroads south of his home.
In the late 1880's promoters (for the railroad
which was to have its headquarters in nearby
"Pinckard") went to GREEN BERRY and asked for a
donation of one hundred dollars or a forty of land to
help finance the project. Forty acres of land in those
days . . . especially the one he gave them . . . was less
dear, so Dowling gave them a tract deep in the
swamps of nearby Little Choctawhatchee River. At
last reports the railroad had still not claimed it!
(GREEN BERRY is buried at Mt. Hebron beside wife
Johnson, her husband, homesteaded just a few years
before her death. Six of their eight children died without leaving descendants; see Addendum 695.
(Spencer, a year her senior, had probably married
CATHARINE after his service in the 4th Florida
Cavalry. CATHARINE was buried in Carroll
Cemetery in the east edge of Ozark, next to Spencer's
parents. They were named Amos and Ester Johnson
and had been born in a North Carolina county named
Johnson! Spencer and his second wife are buried in
Shiloh Cemetery south of Daleville, Alabama.)
JAMES'S FIRST SON was named for the halfbrother of Grandpa JOHN whom DEMPSEY had spoken about so often. (The second part of his name was
for a nearby Dale farmer.) Little WILLIAM
REYNOLDS was born during the California goldrush, August 15, 1849. In later life many ealled him
"BUD". It was at about the age of twentythree that this
Dowling married "Matt" Howell, daughter of Mary
Andrews and John Howell. (Martha Jane and her
brother-in-law Stephen Martin were buried on the
same day in Ozark's City Cemetery but neither grave
is marked. The dates of her birth and death are
unknown.)
WILLIAM REYNOLDS Dowling and "Matt"
had only one child, born 1873. BUD left this daughter
with the Howells for a year or two following mother
Matt's death; he went to Texas. By 1882 he had
returned to Alabama and married Arminta Stanford . .
Years later, Arminta told her children that by having
looked in the family well on the prescribed date of
"first Sunday in May", she had seen her future husband's reflection before ever meeting him! (She was
the daughter of Jane Hartley and Lafayette Stanford.
Her life lasted from October 20, 1860, to August 31,
1937. She and Mr. Dowling are buried in the Pilgrim
Home Cemetery on the Dothan-Enterprise highway,
near the place he farmed. His children are shown on
Chart 573.)
Land was still available for homesteading even in
BUD'S lifetime. He claimed his 160 acres by living on
it the required period. It lay near the junction of the
Little Choctawhatchee and the Choctawhatchee. And
it was just before this that WILLIAM REYNOLDS
had gone on a Dale County bearhunt . . . The prearranged signal with his friends was to be a loud shout
if anyone should see the quarry headed toward the
other. Sure enough . . . they were not in the backwoods
long before BUD heard the yell: "Look out,
Dowling!" Almost instantly he saw the bear coming;
it was "an old she-bear". He steadied his gun . . . fired
one barrel of buckshot . . . and then the other! BUD
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large family left the Jeffries Creek home there in
Darlington District was the 1824-born child, MARY
ANNA. All the known information concerning her
has already been given in a previous section along
with her sister MARTHA Parrish . . . During the sixmonth-long trip to Dale County, Alabama, the last of
DEMPSEY'S seven sons was born, February 2, 1826,
in Georgia. Father DEMPSEY remembered his good
friends, the Zimmermans, who lived where the turnpike west of Darlington crossed Jeffries Creek, and
gave this boy a Christian name that would honor
those South Carolinians . . . Eighty-one years later,
this Dowling's children had the name of ZINNAMON engraved on the tombstone placed over his
grave, so the author uses this name. (He is buried in
Geneva County, Alabama, at the Providence
Methodist Church. The year of birth on his headstone
is also erroneous. He died May 1, 1907.)
ZINNAMON was also given land by his father,
Reverend Dowling. . . . or he had earned enough by
the age of fourteen with which to buy it! . . . Such
purchases began in 1840, judging by the Dale County
Plat Book, and continued through 1853. His home
was south of Ozark, probably on the road from
DEMPSEY'S to Claybank. The ten children of his,
shown on Chart 331, were born there to him and wife
Elizabeth Ingraham. (They married November 20,
1848. When she died, over fifty years later, an error
was also made on her tombstone wherein she was
called Elizabeth Parker. Parker was the maiden name
of Elizabeth's mother! Elizabeth died October 29,
1909; she had been born November 7, 1826, in
Georgia. She was often called "Betsy"; she was a
beautiful brunette in her youth. Her grave may be
seen in Friendship Cemetery at the ghost town of
Richburg, a mile and a half west of New Brockton,
Alabama.)
The year following his marriage to "Betsy",
ZINNAMON joined the Methodist Church at "nearby" Claybank. During the time they were putting up
the new building, 1852, he was licensed to preach.
Many of the Methodist sermons he delivered were
from a book of his father's called "Sermons on
Several Occasions". They had been compiled by a
pretty good authority . . . a man by the name of John
Wesley. (This book, published in 1815, is now owned
by ZINNAMON'S great-nephew, "Alley" Smith, who
lives near Claybank. An inscription, one hundred thirty years old, is in the front in DEMPSEY'S own hand:
"Dempsey Dowling- his book, 1829".)
ZINNAMON'S earnings as a preacher, of course,
were small. Therefore, an idea of his major livelihood
"Kit". He died April 11, 1924; she died October 9,
1919. She, Catherine, was born in Dale County
November 21, 1853, to Emma Gray, an Alabamian,
and John Robert Woodham. "Bob" Woodham had
been born in Darlington District, South Carolina, to
Mrs. Sarah Woodham twelve days after the birth of
twin brother Edward H., Jr.... Sarah was possibly the
daughter of DEMPSEY'S Uncle JAMES; see that
chapter. GREEN BERRY married Georgia Ann Dunn
in 1920. They had no children.)
JAMES'S SIXTH CHILD was born at the
Dowling farm west of Hurricane Creek in 1857 and
named PAMDORA. The William Stanford that she
married was a brother of WILLIAM REYNOLD'S
second wife. "PAM" and William went to Limestone
County, Texas, near Mexia. They had daughters
named Ella, Costella, and Mertie.
JAMES ERVIN was the next child born to
Nancy and JAMES. His date of birth was November
30, 1859. He, too, went to Limestone County, Texas.
It is thought that he married in Texas; there might
have been offspring of this marriage. Later he went to
Sabine Parish, Louisiana, where he married Lettie
O'Lillian Murray on the third day of November, 1896.
None of their four sons left any descendants; see
Addendum 697. This JAMES died May 13, 1942;
Lettie died December 4, 1956. Both are buried in
Coushatta, Louisiana. (Lettie had been born June 1,
1883.)
JAMES'S EIGHTH OFFSPRING was daughter
BUNEY. She was about fifty-four years old at the
time of her burial, October 5, 1917, in the cemetery in
the west edge of Black, Alabama. Twenty years later,
her husband, Sam Calvin Windham was buried
beside her. Two generations of their progeny are
shown in Addendum 698. One son of theirs, Mace,
was a Methodist preacher. Grandson Sam W.
Windham is an outstanding surgeon in Dothan,
Alabama.
JAMES'S LAST CHILD, the ninth of those we
know, was born a few months after this-forty year old
soldier had left for the war. This was the daughter,
CALLIE. On January 31, 1885, she married I. V.
Morris, a twenty-one-year-old man called "Ivy" by
some of his kinsmen. He and Joe Morris, the husband
of CALLIE'S sister, were brothers. Their father once
lived at Newton, Alabama. (I. V. died in 1933; he and
CALLIE are buried in one of the Mt. Pleasant cemeteries near Quincy, Florida. Their four children and
four grandchildren are named in Addendum 699.)
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The last child of DEMPSEY'S to be born before his
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Her full name was JETSON CAMILLA and the date of
her birth was sometime in 1852. The author has visited
her grave in the Bellwood, Alabama, Cemetery, but
knows no other dates concerning this family. Her husband was named John Bailey. He might have been born
in Coffee County, Alabama, in 1847, and had the middle initial of "W". All of JET and John's children and
grandchildren are shown in Addendum 702.
THE FOURTH CHILD OF ZINNAMON'S was
the son born on April 4, 1854, and named SIMPSON
QUITMAN . . . When he was about twenty-five,
"SIMPS" married Frances Golden and moved to
Smuteye, Alabama (present-day Mt. Meigs). While living there, Dowling carried mail from Montgomery to
Troy for several years. During heavy rains the primitive
roads became quagmires; SIMPS often worried over
the possibility that his horse would break a leg in one
of the knee-deep mudholes! (Wife Frances, "Fannie",
Golden was probably the eight-year-old daughter of
William and Eliza Golden who lived in Chambers
County, Alabama, according to the 1870 census.
Because of her early death, about 1900, it is not now
known what happened to the several other members of
her father's family. Her children only remember having
been told that she was raised by foster parents.)
During the eight-years following 1885 SIMPSON
QUITMAN lived near Ozark, Alabama, on Captain
JOHN WESLEY Dowling's farm, saving what money
he made so that he, too, could own a farm. By the time
he was thirty-nine SIMPS had the necessary amount.
The land he selected lay in nearby Coffee County, one
and a half miles north-east of New Brockton. The
Dowling children (shown on Chart 577) grew up on
this farm. Vivid in their memory is the large, "yellow
pine" house that father SIMPSON built there in 1904
. . . Years later, a fire destroyed this wonderful place.
Though a farmer, SIMPS was also a great builder.
The bridges he built were considered by many engineers to be the best in Coffee and Dale Counties.
Dowling even built the wheels, spokes and all, for his
home-made wagons. Made of hickory, they lasted for
years. This self-sufficient man also made the handtools so necessary for conversion of God’s forests into
useful items.
SIMPSON QUITMAN Dowling was a great
believer in independence. Though known to drink only
once in his life, he had voted against Prohibition . . .
Nor would he deny this when faced with expulsion
from his church. But SIMPS died an honest man!
On October 16, 1901, SIMPSON married a second time. This wife, Mrs. Willie Adams Ramsey,
was the daughter of Julia Bennett and Thomas A.
is gained from such a thing as the 1870 Agricultural
Census of Dale County . . . He had a horse and two
oxen with which to tend the thirty acres that he was cultivating. His production that year amounted to 650
pounds of rice, twenty pounds of tobacco, and one hundred bushels of Indian Corn. The tobacco was probably
for negro Alex Dowling, occupant of a lean-to adjoining the house. ZINNAMON'S four milk cows were
often fed moss from trees chopped down in the nearby
woods.
Reverend Dowling's obituary states that "he was
often associated with the sainted Metcalf and Gipson in
great revivals. It was his habit to become filled to overflowing with divine love at these meetings. He did not
pretend to great brilliancy or oratorical power in the
pulpit, but did possess great zeal, magnanimity and
faith. He was one of the pioneers and in common with
other co-workers experienced many trials and hardships."
THE FIRST CHILD born to ZINNAMON and
Elizabeth Ingraham Dowling was little LAURA. She
was nine months old when the Dale County enumerator visited her parents in 1850. Some time after 1870
LAURA married George Washington Duncan, a
Confederate veteran of the 30th Alabama Infantry.
About 1885 he died. She lived until January 6, 1916,
dying in Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama She is
buried there; Mr. Duncan is buried in Pike County,
Alabama. Their offspring, including Reverend Calhoun
Duncan (Methodist Minister since 1909), are shown in
Addendum 700.
THE FIRST SON born to ZINNAMON was the
boy named PINKNEY MANCIL. His birth came on
November 27, 1850. "PINK", as they called him, married Sarah G. Brown. Then he married Nancy Ruth
Brown. On August 15, 1909, he next married Jane
Brown Maund Cotton, who was a sister of Sarah
Brown and Nancy Brown! All of his children, who are
named in Addendum 701, were born to the second
wife. Mr. Dowling resided in Bellwood, Alabama, until
the year preceding his third marriage. He died near
Wewahitchka, Florida, July 26, 1917. His grave is next
to Nancy's in the Daleville Alabama Cemetery. (Nancy
lived from March 31, 1847, to July 28, 1909. PINK'S
first wife, Sarah, died on the last day of 1879, just
twenty-nine days after her eighteenth birthday. She is
buried in the City Cemetery of Ozark, Alabama. Thirdwife Jane died in March of 1930; her tombstone in
Providence Cemetery, Clayhatchee, Alabama, has dates
on it that are extremely erroneous. Mr. Dowling did
some preaching for the Baptists.)
ZINNAMON'S THIRD CHILD was called "JET".
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August 11, 1858, and it occurred in Coffee County
. . . the place of his later interment.
ZINNAMON'S father had been born about the
last year of the Revolutionary War. ZINNAMON'S
last son, who would grow up, was born in 1864
about the last year of the Civil War. Reverend
Dowling named him STEVEN CALVESTUS. He
went by the name of "CALVESS". Evidently, he
must not have married until about the age of thirtythree; GENERAL SOLLIE, the oldest child, was
born in 1898. (This family's Bible was lost in the
terrible 1929 flood of rivers in south Alabama.)
CALVESS'S first wife was Lavonia Forehand,
daughter of Elizabeth Durdon and Jesse Forehand.
The seven children born to her and Mr. Dowling are
shown on Chart 578 with their offspring . . . About
1912, Lavonia died and was buried in Bethany
Cemetery, south of New Brockton, Alabama. She
and CALVESS were Missionary Baptists, and his
occupation was farming.
Shortly after Mrs. Dowling's death CALVESS
married Mrs. Emma King Thompson; they had one
child. Emma died in October of 1929 at the age of
fifty-four, and this husband died twenty-six months
later. Both are buried in the City Cemetery of
Geneva. (The year prior to CALVESS'S death he
married Mary Leddon in Geneva County, where he
resided. No children were born to them.)
Adams. She had been born on March 18, 1869. She
died August 21, 1928; SIMPS died nine years later
in November of 1937. Both are buried in the City
Cemetery of New Brockton. Mr. Dowling's first
wife is buried near his mother in the Friendship
Methodist Cemetery, west of town.
ZINNAMON'S FIFTH CHILD was born on
March 5th. Her family Bible indicates a birth year
of 1861 though her parents' statement to the censustaker in 1870 would have placed the time in 1856.
Named MATTIE, she married James Robert Lewis
Shephard O'Neal on May 10, 1891. The numerous
children and grandchildren of this couple are shown
in Addendum 703. MATTIE was buried west of
New Brockton, Alabama, in Friendship Cemetery,
after dying August 13, 1945. (Husband Jim O'Neal
is buried beside her. He had been born in Upson
County, Georgia, November 25, 1869; he died July
21, 1958.)
THE THIRD SON OF ZINNAMON'S was his
sixth child, WILLIAM LEROY. This Dowling,
born in 1858, married Net Marsh. She was a sister
of J. A. Marsh, who married ZINNAMON'S next
offspring. She died in October of 1931 at the age of
eighty-one; she had been born in Coffee County,
Alabama. She is probably buried in the Clintonville
Cemetery, west of Enterprise, Alabama. LEROY is
supposedly buried in Cool Springs Cemetery southeast of Enterprise. Though they had adopted children, there were never any born to them.
ZINNAMON'S SEVENTH CHILD was
daughter PENNY LOUETTA. They called her
"LOU". She was born in 1859 and lived until
December 10, 1941, a period of eighty-two years.
The ten children born to her and Mr. Judge A.
Marsh are named in Addendum 704. (Marsh died
June 26, 1927, at the age of seventy-two; he and
LOU are buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery north
of New Brockton, Alabama. Marsh's mother was
Mary Duberry, who had come to Colquitt, Georgia,
from her Michigan birthplace. His father, Needham
Marsh, had been born in Georgia in Jones or Harris
County. Judge's brother, Tobe, married a daughter
of SIMEON Dowling.)
ZINNAMON'S EIGHTH CHILD was another
daughter, JOICY, born March 18, 1862. At the age
of twenty-one JOICY married Nace Russell. Two
generations of their descendants are shown in
Addendum 705. JOICY died in December of 1910;
Mr. Russell died in July of 1919. Both are buried in
the cemetery of the Calvary Baptist Church, west of
Enterprise, Alabama. Nace's date of birth was
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ZINNAMON'S TENTH CHILD was the boy,
M. Y. Dowling, who died at the age of two in 1870.
He was buried in Claybank Cemetery, though the
site of his grave is now unknown.
The fourteenth child of DEMPSEY'S was born
after his arrival in Dale County, Alabama, from the
Jeffries Creek area. Daughter FRANCES was born
near the old Richmond courthouse on October 18,
1827. Her father was forty-three at the time; mother Martha Stokes Dowling was forty.
Like her mother, FRANCES married young.
She was only seventeen or eighteen when she and
twenty-one-year old Mathias Brackin married.
(Mathias had been born to Isaac Brackin in
Alabama on January 5, 1824. Isaac's daughter
Charlotte, who married an older brother of
FRANCES'S, had been born in Georgia. Mathias's
uncle Matthew had also been born in the Peachtree
State so it is thought that Isaac was a Georgian.)
Mathias Brackin was a justice of the peace in
Dale County during the Civil War. This might have
been in the area where he and FRANCES were later
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buried, because Dale County encompassed much of
what is now Geneva County until just after the war. The
various tracts of land that Mathias purchased from the
government are shown on the Dale Plat Book in the
Probate Judge's office; most of it was bought some ten
years prior to the war.
Many descendants of FRANCES and Mathias currently attend a Geneva family reunion (The "Metcalf"
Reunion) . . . From about the time of World War I to
World War II FRANCES'S children and grandchildren
were among the various thousands that flocked to "Old
Claybank Church" for the memorable "first Sunday in
May" reunions that, in the main, had drawn descendants of DEMPSEY.
Of DEMPSEY'S seven daughters only three lived
past the age of forty! FRANCES was one of these. She
lived to the age of eighty. (Sister ZILLIH died at the
age of eighty-five. Sister LACY lived to be seventynine.) FRANCES died December 29, 1907. She was
interred in the burial ground adjoining her church,
Providence Methodist, in Geneva County, Alabama.
"Baby brother" ZINNAMON, who had spent his last
days with her, is nearby. Next to her is Mathias
Brackin; he died May 12, 1899.
The oldest of FRANCES'S eleven children was
born on August 11, 1846; this was Simeon W. Brackin.
Before maturity he served as a cavalryman with the 5th
Florida's Company E. After maturity he married and
had sixteen children. They are named in Addendum
706. Grandson John S. Roth is a retired Army Colonel;
granddaughter Mary Larkin teaches at Montevallo.
Simeon's wife was Almeida Jane Windham, daughter
of Jane Peacock and Thomas Windham, the senior
Windham being a Darlington District emigrant.
(Almeida Jane lived from July 1, 1846, to April 25,
1935. She and Simeon are buried in Claybank
Cemetery. He died March 2, 1914.)
FRANCES'S SECOND CHILD was daughter
Martha Jane, born June 27, 1849. She married an exinfantryman of the 57th Alabama Regiment's Company
I on the second day of January, 1868. His name was M.
Lafayette Metcalf. The "M" probably stood for
"Marquis" . . . but Metcalf preferred the name of
"Fate"! His great-grandson, Neil, a World War II buddy
of the author's, is a former Senator of Alabama. Other
descendants of Martha Jane's are shown in Addendum
707. (Martha Jane died November 23, 1915; she and
Mr. Metcalf are buried in the City Cemetery of
Hartford, Alabama. He died July 3, 1927. He had been
born on May 21, 1843, in Alabama, to Sarah Strand and
John W. Metcalf. More information on them is given
under the sketch of FRANCES'S eighth child.)
THE NEXT CHILD OF FRANCES'S was wee
Warren W., born on April 17, 1851. Too young for the
war, he later married Sarah Frances Conner (whose
mother was the former Jane Reynolds). Their ten children are named in Addendum 708. The Claybank marker of wife "Sallie" gives no death date. She was born
December 13, 1851. Her husband was buried in the
cemetery at Daleville, Alabama; he died December 31,
1905.
THE FOURTH CHILD OF FRANCES'S was Lucy
Lavannah whose birth to the Brackins came on the second day of August, 1853. She lived for one-half of a century; her husband lived one century! . . . His name was
Thomas W. Pritchett, his brother Jim married ZILLIH
Hallford's daughter, Josephine. Thomas and Lucy's offspring are listed in Addendum 709. (Thomas lived from
February 14, 1849, to January 29, 1949; he is buried in
Collins Chapel Cemetery, west of Malone, Florida. He
and Jim were sons of Lena Stripland and Frank Pritchett,
both parents being of Alabama birth. Lucy Lavannah,
called "Vannah", died November 20, 1903; she was
buried in the Bethel Assembly Cemetery, northeast of
Ariton, Alabama.)
FRANCES'S FIFTH CHILD was also a daughter.
She was born November 17, 1855, and named Velie.
Velie was almost eighty-four years old when she died,
May 25, 1939. She is buried beside her husband, Ira
Green, in Geneva County's Providence Cemetery. He
died December 15, 1902. Green progeny are named in
Addendum 710. (Ira might have been the son of John
and Frances Green, thirty-eight year old Georgians, who
resided in Dale County, Alabama, during the 1860 census. Family records show Ira's birth as August 17, 1856.)
THE SIXTH CHILD born to Mathias and
FRANCES was a boy. He was born at their Dale County
home February 7, 1858, and named Hayden L. Brackin.
On April 14, 1881, Hayden married Mary Elizabeth
Brown. Their three children, all daughters, are named in
Addendum 711. Land that this family homesteaded in
1894 is shown in the Dale County Plat Book. Mr.
Brackin died on July 5, 1920. He is buried in the City
Cemetery of Hartford, Alabama, next to "Mollie".
(Mollie Brown was the daughter of Elizabeth Day and
John Brown. She lived from March 3, 1856, to May 13,
1932.)
The seventh child of FRANCES'S eleven children
was born on March 1, 1860. When the census-taken
came by that year, a name had not yet been selected for
the baby so they called her "Sissa".... Later she was
named Roxy Ann. She died at the age of fourteen, March
11,1874. A headstone marks her burial place at
Claybank.
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The baby was a boy, whom they named ELIAS. It was
now imperative for this young war veteran to find a
place of his own, ROBERT'S small house being too
crowded. In 1788, therefore, JOHN bought the
"William Barron" farm from ROBERT and Sarah
Guinn Dowling. He paid his father twenty pounds
sterling for this land. It lay on both sides of Jeffries
Creek and was "bounded on the upper side by land of
ROBERT Dowling . . . on the lower side by land of
John Stewart, Sr.... and on the south by vacant land".
This land, and that acquisition mentioned in JAMES'S
chapter, seem to be all that JOHN ever acquired.
About 1813 ELIAS Dowling married. Bride
Mary was a North Carolinian and had been born twenty-five years earlier. It was this same year that young
ELIAS Dowling bought his first land. It lay near that
of his father's, mentioned above and near the place
where Grandmother Sarah had died a few years earlier. ELIAS bought this 101 acre tract from his older
brother, DEMPSEY. It was between Lake Swamp and
Jeffries Creek.
In that marriages were not considered to be of
governmental concern in South Carolina until nearly a
century after ELIAS'S marital union, it is because of
this same tract's sale in 1818 that Mary's name is first
recorded . . . Two years after that, ELIAS bought a
fifty acre farm; it was on Lake Swamp. Again, he only
retained ownership for five years, selling it to brother
ZACHEUS.
ELIAS had the job of administering his brother
SIMEON'S estate after the latter's untimely death. He
and ALLEN and LEVI signed the necessary bond
pledging a proper administration on November 24,
1826. The settlement of this estate required such acts
as ELIAS'S payment of his brother's eight-month-old
promissory note. Its principal amounted to $3.81 and
3/4th's cents! The interest totaled fifty cents . . . On
September 4, 1828, ELIAS made an affidavit to the
Darlington court showing full settlement of the estate.
During the time that ELIAS was settling this
estate, he began hearing from DEMPSEY "out west".
DEMPSEY wrote from infant Alabama that except for
a few Indians, one had only to deal with The Almighty
Himself concerning the ownership of that un-worn
land. ELIAS felt that as his father had benefitted by
the emigration from Virginia he, too, would better
himself by moving to a frontier . . . On April 25, 1828,
he and Mary sold a grand total of 275 acres of land
(Iying between Jeffries Creek and Camp Branch);
they had decided to begin a new home.
DEMPSEY'S seven sons and seven daughters
had already been born by 1828. This was the year that
FRANCES'S EIGHTH CHILD was daughter
Piety Elonia, born May 2, 1862. At the age of twentyone Piety married a brother-in-law of her sister
Martha Jane. The bridegroom was twenty-seven-year
old Dallas Metcalf. The date that these Holy Rites of
Matrimony were performed was November 27, 1883.
A daughter of theirs, Mrs. Mae Metcalf Williamson,
gave the author much help on this section of the family; her brothers and sisters are named in Addendum
712. (Piety died May 24, 1920, and Dallas died
September 18, 1933. Both are buried in the City
Cemetery of Geneva, Alabama. Dallas's birthdate was
January 18, 1855. His mother, Sarah Strand, had been
reared near Elba, Alabama. His father, John W.
Metcalf, had been reared near Charleston, South
Carolina.)
The last of FRANCES'S six daughters was born
on December 6, 1865. She was named Rebecca . . .
and as a young lady, married Reverend Neil B.
Keahey, Presbyterian preacher. Little else is known of
her except for the names of a few descendants, named
in Addendum 713.
THE TENTH CHILD OF FRANCES Brackin's
was the son called "Bud". He had been born January
22, 1867, and given the name of M. Lawrence
Brackin. His un-marked grave is between his mother's
and ZINNAMON'S in Providence Methodist
Cemetery in Geneva County. When only sixteen, Bud
had married Lena Jacobs on November 17, 1883.
Following her death he married Mattie Hudson July
26, 1896. A widow, she still lives in Geneva County;
she was born May 15, 1877. (Bud died in 1933. His
first wife was buried in Sweet Gum Head Cemetery
southwest of Geneva, Alabama. Her grave seems to be
un-marked. The eleven offspring of both marriages
are listed in Addendum 714.)
THE LAST CHILD OF FRANCES'S and
Mathias's was born October 21, 1870. Called "Tarve"
Brackin, his real name was Thady H. The seventeenyear-old girl that he married on January 3, 1889, still
lives. Her home is with daughter Dorothy Brackin
Tew in Geneva, Alabama, and she is the former Miss
Alice Jones. (Addendum 715 contains the names of
Alice and Tarve's eleven children. Alice was born
August 21, 1871, to Frances Louise Granger and John
Jones. Mr. Brackin died February 20, 1916, and was
buried in the City Cemetery of Daleville, Alabama.)
JOHN'S SECOND CHILD, ELIAS
(See Charts 332 and 101)
Twenty-four-year-old Nancy Boutwell Dowling
bore a second child for her husband, JOHN, in 1787.
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1847, when she was twenty. (She had been born in
Georgia on February 13, 1826. The headstone on her
grave in deserted Zion Chapel Cemetery, east of
Clayton, records her death, January 6, 1887.)
HANSFORD'S OLDEST SON was born in 1848
and named WALTER T. S. At the age of sixteen he
joined the Alabama Reserves, 2nd Regiment. By the
following spring this organization, then the 63rd
Alabama Infantry Regiment, was helping withstand
the month-long seige of Fort Blakely and Spanish
Fort (east of Mobile, Alabama). Finally, their efforts
failed and WALTER was captured. After the war's
end this lad was still in a Federal Hospital, suffering
from a two-month-long attack of chronic diarrhea.
Washington records show his discharge from the Post
Hospital at Jackson, Mississippi, on June 29, 1865.
Tradition claims that mother Martha went to a
Montgomery hospital, expecting to aid him on his trip
home; "his hat was laying on the bed in anticipation
of the homeward journey . . . but his lifeless body lay
under the covers!"
HANSFORD'S SECOND CHILD was one who
would later be known as "BERRY" Dowling. He was
born on October 1, 1849, and named ZACHEUS
ASBURY, in honor of two Methodist favorites of
Martha and Mr. Dowling, namely: Bishop Frances
Asbury and ELIAS'S brother ZACHEUS . . . Names
influence their bearers; this boy grew up and became
a great preacher.
BERRY taught school as a young man, aiding
the Barbour and Pike County, Alabama, families who
sought to raise their following generation above the
semi-illiterate status that fate had thrust upon them.
After thirteen years, however, an even greater calling
laid its weight upon his conscience; he went eastward
to Eufaula and received his license to preach,
December 10, 1885.
Months of study followed at Southern University
of Greeneboro, Alabama, and at Vanderbilt. At the
latter place he was paid to teach Latin and Greek.
BERRY'S first pastorate was Town Creek, Alabama.
By 1890 Bishop Granberry had ordained him as a
Methodist elder. His spiritual ministrations during the
following thirty years gained him even greater love
from his congregations than that given him by his students in the small one-room schools of southeast
Alabama.
ZACHEUS ASBURY died August 28, 1920.
Descendants of his and Adelaide Josepha Glenn's,
whom he had married February 5, 1880, may be seen
on Chart 581. (Adelaide died on the eve of her eightysixth birthday; she and BERRY are buried in
ELIAS was blessed with his seventh little South
Carolinian. Named KEZIAH, this daughter was the
last known child of ELIAS'S. (Nothing more is
known of her except that she was still single and living in Mr. Dowling's home twenty-two years later.)
Shortly after KEZIAH'S birth this family moved to
Alabama.
Tradition, slightly warped, recalls that one of
DEMPSEY'S brothers was not satisfied with Dale
County; "he said that he was going to push on farther".... This would have been ELIAS. This generation-to-generation story is supported by the following. The 1830 enumerator listed ELIAS as head of a
Dale County family; but when he called he seemed to
never be able to find anyone home. Finally, he disgustedly wrote "Blank" after ELIAS'S name! This
book's Chart 332 shows these Dowlings.
By 1836 ELIAS had bought 120 acres of land in
Dale. It covered most of the southeast quarter of
Section 29, Township 6, Range 23, and was on
Painters Creek seven miles due west of today's town
of Ozark. This was about the time that the Indians of
the Creek Nation, northward, and their brother
Seminoles, in the Florida territory on the south edge
of Dale, began making one last effort to eject the
whites from their old hunting grounds.
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HANSFORD, the oldest son of ELIAS, served in
this "Florida War". He was nineteen (having been
born in 1817) and a member of Captain Arch Justice's
company called The Alabama Volunteers . . . A letter
from war-headquarters at Daleville, Alabama, during
those engagements told of the furloughing of many
men due to the scarcity of food among the troops!
And, we are told in "Piney Wood Echoes" (by Fred
Watson), that an entire family by the name of Hart
was massacred west of Daleville during this bitterness; also, that two Albrissons lost their scalps!
HANSFORD'S war record is available from the
General Services Administration, Washington, D. C.
Land granted him in 1852 expressing the government's gratitude for this military duty lay three miles
north of east from Clayton, Alabama, county seat of
Barbour County.
Martha Weaver Dowling was HANSFORD'S
first wife. She and Reverend Sheldon Weaver "of the
South Carolina Methodist Conference" were offspring of Reverend John C. Weaver, who died in
Barbour County in 1872. Martha and HANSFORD
married in Fort Gaines, Georgia, on January 26,
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September 30, 1883. "The History of Jackson County
Florida" has an interesting account of his legislative
maneuvering in the Tallahassee assembly. Grandson
John S. Rawls is currently a Florida Senator from that
same county. LILY'S daughter Lula Dowling Rawls
holds an important hospital job in Mexico City. Other
Rawls offspring are shown in Addendum 718. The
graves of LILY and Junius are in a pasture . . . in a
"private" cemetery . . . a few hundred yards east of
Greenwood, Florida. Their burial place is typical of
thousands of similar ones used by many of the landed
gentry in the South until the first World War. (Junius
died February 10, 1912. Born April 17, 1842, he had
been a First Sergeant of the 4th Florida Infantry's
Company I, during the Civil War. SUSAN LYLIS died
November 12, 1925.)
LULA COTTRELL, the last child of HANSFORD'S, died in 1887 at the age of twenty-six. She
died of fever eight days after childbirth. The only
child of hers that is remembered by relatives was a
son, Cottrell Stapleton, who might have offspring living in Yazoo City, Mississippi. LULA'S husband was
Doctor R. B. Stapleton, whom she married in Barbour
County, Alabama, in March, 1885. LULA'S grave is
in the north cemetery of Greenwood, Florida.
HANSFORD remarried after the death mentioned above of Martha Weaver Dowling. He was seventy-four at the time, December 3, 1891; bride Nancy
Harrod was thirty-nine. They had no children. It is not
known how long HANSFORD lived after this. He is
buried inside the iron fence surrounding his first
wife's grave. His second wife lived until November
20, 1919, dying in Barbour County, Alabama, where
she and HANSFORD had spent most of their lives.
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ELIAS, father of the preceding Dowling, left Dale
County between 1836 and 1840 and moved to
Barbour, on Dale's north border. Part of Barbour's territory had been ceded to the whites by the Indians
after ELIAS'S arrival in Alabama. On January 25,
1841, oldest daughter NANCY married. The twentyfour-year-old bridegroom, H. W. Wicker, was a steammill engineer. In 1870 he was still following this trade
in Dale County, Alabama. NANCY had at least seven
children (see Chart 332). The author is in touch with
descendants of only one and that one is Martha, who
married W. W., "Bill", Rutland. Martha Wicker Rut"
land had five offspring: 1-W. J., who married
Addendum 719's Carrie Burton; 2-Tom, who married
Nannie Adams; 3-Henry, who married Ida Pierce; 4Reuben, who married Mable Ward; and, 5-Emma,
who married John Taylor.
Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery. She had been
born July 21, 1855, to Barbara Wesley Herndon and
Massillon McKendree Glenn. A maternal cousin,
Ellen Herndon, married American President Chester
A. Arthur.)
HANSFORD'S THIRD CHILD, JOSEPH
BASKERVILLE, was born November 15, 1850. Mr.
Dowling was a big believer in the use of surnames as
middle names for his sons, as evidenced by this boy's
name. "JOE" was born in Barbour County as were
HANSFORD'S other children.
After JOE married Sallie Elizabeth Tucker on
January 8, 1879, the two of them moved to Lincoln
Parish, Louisiana. His first son, WALTER TUCKER,
was born there in the small community of Wesley
Chapel. The other sons were born in Alabama, however, during the brief period that the family lived back
there. In Louisiana, JOSEPH BASKERVILLE taught
school. His sartorial demeanor . . . the hat, the gloves,
and even a cane . . . was the thing most remembered
about him by his students a half century later. Chart
582 shows two generations of his offspring. (JOE died
on Christmas Day of 1893. Sallie died August 4, 1938,
and was buried beside him in Vienna, Louisiana. She
had been born July 15, 1855, probably to James and
Eliza Tucker, who resided near Dowling's home in
Barbour County, Alabama, in 1870.)
HANSFORD'S FOURTH SON was murdered
after reaching adulthood. His name was ANDREW
TURNER and he had been born in 1854. . . . On a
spring morning of 1903 an insanely drunken tenant on
ANDREW'S farm called him to the front door just
after Mr. Dowling had awakened. Without saying anything the intruder fired point-blank! Unfortunately,
ANDREW'S wife was standing behind her husband,
and the same ball that killed him seriously wounded
her. She died two weeks later. She was the former
Mary Frances Coskrey. She and ANDREW are buried
in deserted Zion Chapel Cemetery six miles north of
east from Clayton, Alabama Addendum 716 shows
their children.
THE FIFTH CHILD OF HANSFORD'S was
another boy. He was born in 1856 and named
GEORGE PIERCE. GEORGE married twentyfiveyear-old Alice Martin of Ocala, Florida, in 1883. The
three sons and three daughters born to them are shown
in Addendum 717. GEORGE PIERCE reared these
children in Gadsden, Alabama. He died in 1904; Alice
died April 16, 1922. Both are buried in Gadsden.
HANSFORD'S LAST TWO CHILDREN were
girls. The older, SUSAN LYLIS, was born November
5, 1857. Called "LILY", she married Junius Rawls on
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was buried in Kneebo Cemetery, a place so far off
the beaten path nowadays that the author rode "over
every hill in Barbour County" looking for such a
graveyard!
THE FIRST CHILD OF ELIAS G. was a
daughter who proved to be a long-lived one. Born in
the days of Empress Victoria this girl, FRANCES
JOSEPHINE VICTORIA was named after her. This
Dowling was born August 21, 1849. On April 11,
1867, she married Robert Jesse Burton. The children
born to them are named in Addendum 719. (Burton
was born in Crawford County, Georgia, on August
28, 1846; he died May 28, 1918, and was buried in
Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama. Wife
"JO" Dowling Burton died on Christmas Day of
1937; she is in Montgomery's Memorial Cemetery.)
ELIAS G'S SECOND CHILD was one by the
name of NOAH COLUMBUS, born in 1856. Chart
586 records the names of his children and grandchildren, as well as those of their mates. NOAH had
been married to Martha Ellen Jones before leaving
Barbour County for Birmingham, where the major
part of his descendants now live. Reverend Jessie
Robinson performed this marriage ceremony on July
21, 1885. NOAH COLUMBUS died November 4,
1927, and was buried in the Avondale Section of
Forest Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama.
Martha Ellen is buried in the Woodlawn Section of
the same cemetery. She died on November 10, 1937.
Her parents could probably be ascertained by ordering Alabama Death Certificate 53-26136 of the year
1937. The date of her birth was October 2, 1862.
THE NEXT CHILD BORN TO ELIAS G. and
Lucilla Russell Dowling was ANTOINETTE, also
born in 1856. This daughter always preferred the
name of "NETTIE". On December 19, 1875, she
married John Thomas Burton in Barbour County.
Their five children are listed in Addendum 720.
THE FOURTH CHILD OF ELIAS G. was born
in 1861; EUGENE L. was his name, though most
people knew him as "GENE" Dowling. He married
in Barbour County on October 10, 1888, Martha
Day. They had at least four children. Son HENRY is
probably the Private Henry L. Dowling who was
honorably discharged on August 23, 1919, from the
157th Depot Brigade; his residence was at 904 North
48th Street in Birmingham. Daughter LUCILLE
married Scaduto Paschal in Birmingham on April 4,
1915, and her sister DAISY is thought to have married a Salvation Army officer. Then there was one
named DORA who married several times including a
mate by the name of Culberson. The father of these
It is said that one of NANCY Wicker's other
children, the boy called Franklin, had a son named
Malachiah Wicker. It is also said that one of
NANCY'S seven children married a Mr. Adams and
that one married a Mr. Pittman. Nothing more is
known about NANCY Wicker, another granddaughter of Revolutionary Soldier JOHN Dowling.
On June 2, 1842, in Barbour County, Alabama,
the second daughter of ELIAS'S was married. Her
name was EMALINE; her husband was Henry
Hendrix. She probably bore only two children: Mary
Ann, in 1846 . . . and Perry Hendrix, in the last part
of 1847 or early part of 1848.
Courthouse records show the marriage of
ELIAS'S third daughter, MARY ANN, to a Henry
Hendrix six years and eighteen days after EMALINE
married such a person. The author believes that the
same Mr. Hendrix married these two sisters. The
1850 census shows only one Henry Hendrix in
Barbour County; at this time MARY ANN seems to
have had no children of her own, but she was caring
for her stepchildren. . . . who, of course, were her
nephew and niece. Hendrix was of South Carolina
birth and had been born in 1802.
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ELIAS'S second son, the last one he ever had,
was born in 1824 in the Jeffries Creek area of South
Carolina, just a few years before he left there for
Dale County, Alabama. This son was named ELIAS
G.
ELIAS G. was not over sixteen years old when
Mr. Dowling moved the family to Barbour County.
Shortly after the last Hendrix marriage mentioned
above, ELIAS G. married a twenty-two year old
widow. This was on November 2, 1848; the young
lady's name was Lucilla Russell Flournoy. Her father
is thought to have been Joseph C. Russell, Sr., who
came to Barbour County before 1850; he had been
born in Virginia. Lucilla's brother was the Probate
Judge of Barbour County after the Civil War.
During the Civil War ELIAS G. fought as a cavalryman under McKenzie in the Jeff Davis Legion
and in Alabama's 4th Cavalry Battalion. After the
fighting was over ELIAS G. supposedly went to
Coffee County, Alabama, and remarried. The name
of this mate of his is unknown but it is said that their
only child was named EUGENIA HARTENE.
Dowling and this second wife are thought to have
died about 1868. Lucilla Russell Dowling and her
five children continued living a few miles east of
Clayton, Alabama. She died October 22, 1885, and
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second mate's name as Elizabeth Steward. A fortyfive year-old widow named Elizabeth Stewart (born
in South Carolina) had lived near ELIAS in 1850 and
the author believes that this is the second Mrs.
Dowling.
ELIAS died about 1865. Son HANSFORD
made the proper bond to administer his estate in
September of that year and reported the next month
an out-of-court settlement of the small estate left by
his father. This file, in Clayton, Alabama, also
showed that there were no heirs under the age of
twenty-one. It is improbable that the gravesite of
ELIAS or either wife will ever be found.
four Dowling children, EUGENE L., died January
10, 1918, from a fractured skull following an automobile collision. He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery
in Birmingham.
ELIAS G'S FIFTH CHILD was the last one that
he and Lucilla Russell had. This was a boy called
"DOSHE" whose actual name was WILLIAM
THEODORE, SR. He married Hattie McLeod
February 11, 1894, three days before her twentieth
birthday. Their only child died as an infant. Hattie
died about three years after their marriage. Mr.
Dowling then married Hattie's sister Ella. This marriage occurred April 29, 1897, and leaves the children shown on Chart 587. WILLIAM THEODORE,
SR., died at the age of thirty-nine, November 26,
1904, and was buried near the grave of his mother in
Kneebo Cemetery in Barbour County. (His first wife
is buried "out from Clayton, Alabama". Second wife
Ella lives in Columbus, Georgia; the majority of
Dowlings in that city descend from DOSHE. Ella
was born September 6, 1879.
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IN 1826 ELIAS and Mary Dowling had had
their sixth child. This was in Darlington District,
South Carolina, and they had named the girl SENY
LENA.
She married in Barbour County, Alabama, on
August 10, 1848, within a few months of the time
that brother ELIAS G. and sister MARY ANN did.
LENA married John Davis. Their permanent place of
residence has not been established by the author. By
1870 Mrs. Davis was living in the home of her brother, HANSFORD. The census did not mention her
husband but showed a seventeen year old son,
William. Ten years after that, William had a small
family at Spring Hill, in the north part of Barbour
County. Mother SENY was living with them.
William stated that he had been born in Georgia; his
twenty-year-old wife was of Alabama birth. This
young couple had a four month old daughter called
Mandy.
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The I840 Barbour County Census shows that ELIAS
and Mary took all seven of the previously mentioned
children to that place from Dale. Only KEZIAH was
unmarried within the decade following this. She and
her sixty-two year old mother were the only members of ELIAS'S family living at home in 1850.
Shortly after that, Mary died.
ELIAS, though seventy, married again. The ceremony on March 31, 1807, was performed by
Reverend James Harrod. Courthouse records list this
JOHN'S THIRD CHILD, LYDIA ANN (Stokes)
(See Chart 333 and 101)
LYDIA ANN, a sister of ELIAS, was born to
JOHN Dowling in 1789. This was less than ten years
after he had served against the British in the South
Carolina fighting of the Colonists.
She and her husband, John Stokes, co-signed a
deed with most of JOHN'S other heirs on January 20,
1829, disposing of her interest in the land at his
death. This is recorded in Darlington Deedbook K,
page 456.
Except for ALLEN, who lived there his entire
life, LYDIA ANN is possibly the only member of the
eleven originally in JOHN'S family who still
remained in South Carolina four years after the old
soldier's death. She went to Alabama within fourteen
years of his death, however. Three of her six sons
were living with her near Daleville, Alabama, in
1840. Older sons Isaiah, William, and Burrell had
already married. The fate of her husband is not
known.
LYDIA ANN'S youngest son was only thirteen
at this time. His name was Edwin Stokes. By 1850 he
was married to a nineteen-yearold Georgia-born girl
named Martha Jane. Five years later, an Alabama
census recorded a daughter and three sons in this
Coffee County family, one of whom would have
been George W. Stokes, born 1849.
The next to youngest son of LYDIA ANN'S was
John O. Stokes, named for his father. Apparently a
widower, young John lived next to Uncle ZACHEUS
Dowling in Dale County in 1860 and two doors from
brother Isaiah. Daughters Mary E. and Cynthia were
eighteen and fifteen, respectively, at the time. A
decade earlier, John O. Stokes had resided in Coffee
County, Alabama. Mother LYDIA and his wife were
with him at that time; the latter was named Edy and
had been born in Alabama in 1826. Again, the only
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Faircloth and two other companions of Isaiah were
killed as well as seventeen of the red men. Captain
Justice took one or more of them as his slaves!
Isaiah Stokes married by the time he was twentysix; his wife was a girl named Rebecca Gooden, a
Georgia girl. She married him just before the 1840 census enumeration was made, at which time she was fifteen. An old Claybank Church journal shows that she
lived to the age of sixty; she is possibly buried beside
him in the (relocated) Haw Ridge Cemetery. No dates
are given there on his marker but Coffee censuses indicate his death between 1870 and 1880. After coming to
the Haw Ridge area from South Carolina with mother
LYDIA Ann, he never lived anywhere else.
Chart 333 shows the thirteen children of Isaiah's.
The one about whom the author learned the most was
Melinda, who married Barzilla H. Mixon as his first
wife. Her many offspring are recorded in Addendum
721. She was born to Isaiah on September 6, 1843, and
only lived to October 10, 1882. Her grave is with his at
the new location of Haw Ridge Cemetery. (Barzilla
married Melinda when she was fourteen or fifteen. He
had come to Coffee County from his birthplace in
Monroe County, Georgia, with his father, William.
Barzilla was a mounted infantryman with Company H
of the 53rd Alabama Regiment. His mother's name was
Julia Harris Mixon. Barzilla's span of life reached from
October 1, 1835, to January 9, 1914.)
Isaiah had six sons. The oldest was Joseph
Wilburn Stokes, born 1849. Mrs. Mattie Feagin of
Enterprise is a daughter of his first wife, Fannie Hope
Mizell; Wilburn married a Williams the second time.
Isaiah's second son, Jeremiah Sylvester, born in 1852,
died single in Texas; he was called "Jerry". The third
son, Commodore Stokes, married Susan Ann Fountain;
of the ten children they raised, nine were still living 106
years after the birth of their dad in 1853! They live in
the West. One of these nine, Martin Isah, received
national attention far his work as a bloodhound trainer
in the Oklahoma penal system. Martin Stoke's ninetyeight-year-old mother resided in Cushing, Texas, when
the author last heard from him. The Stokes in Navarro
County, Texas, are probably descendants of LYDIA
ANN or RHODA.
Isaiah's fourth son was born in 1857 and always
went by the name of Doc; he married a Deloney. The
fifth son, born 1858, was originally called Richard but
preferred the name of Gus. Samuel Thomas Stokes,
who married a McGee, was the youngest of the six having been born in 1862. His descendants live near
Samson, Alabama.
Besides the daughter Melinda, Isaiah and
two children that he seemed to have were Mary E. and
Cynthia.
The other son of LYDIA ANN Stoke's who was
living with her in 1840 in Dale County, Alabama, was
twenty-two-year-old Jehu. He married within two years
after that and lived there in Dale County during the censuses of 1850, 1860, and 1870. Wife Sarah was of
Alabama birth and had been born between 1820 and
1823. Chart 333 shows ten of their children and the
years of their births. Son Tom had a daughter who married Jim Nevels and a boy called "Nodding Head"
Stokes because of the way he greeted each passer-by so
affably!
LYDIA ANN'S fourth son was "batching" it as late
as 1850, in Coffee County. Though the census lists him,
William, as a twenty-six-year-old South Carolinian, he
was actually twenty-seven. His headstone in the (relocated) Hawridge Cemetery, lying on the Coffee-Dale
border, records a birthdate of September 30, 1822, (and
a death date of August 1, 1888). Judging by the Coffee
censuses of 1870 and 1880 he and wife Amanda never
had any children. (She had been born in Georgia in
1845.)
LYDIA ANN'S next to oldest son was named
Burrell C. Stokes. His first wife, Elizabeth, was an
1819-born Alabamian so Burrell probably married
there as most of his brothers did. This union resulted in
at least the eight children named on Chart 333. Burrell
lived in Coffee County in 1880... During prior enumerations he lived in Dale. He had been born in 1819 but
still served in the Civil War (Company I of the 33rd
Alabama Infantry Regiment). His second wife, Mary
Emma Marsh Savage Stokes, was drawing a pension
shortly before her death on November 22, 1900,
because of this military duty performed by her husband. Burrell married her between 1870 and 1880.
They had no children. (Emma was the widow of Dan
Savage and a sister of J. E. Marsh; she had been born
in 1835. She is buried in the relocated Hawridge
Cemetery. Burrell and his first wife may be buried in
Coffee County, Alabama; their graves are not in Dale
County or they have no markers.)
The oldest son of LYDIA ANN Stokes was born in
1814 and named Isaiah. At the time that the Hart family was murdered near Indigo Head in the western part
of old Dale County, Isaiah Stokes was a Third
Lieutenant in Captain Arch Justice's company of militia. Isaiah and HANSFORD Dowling, a first-cousin,
helped chase the renegades. HANSFORD became sick
at "McDade's Pond in Florida" (the lake in middle of
present-day Florala, Alabama?) just before the Indians
were caught near Pea River. In the resulting fight a Mr.
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"Tallahassee District" as the Presiding Elder. Doctor
Anson West's previously mentioned history states that
this was "perhaps the most laborious field he ever
occupied owing to the largeness and rudeness of the
country embraced. To fill the appointments Reverend
Dowling was compelled at times to swim swollen, turbid and dangerous streams. But God preserved his life
and blessed his labors". The territory he covered
reached from St. Augustine, Florida, to where
Montgomery, Alabama, now stands! Yet to the sparse
inhabitants of that great area he sold five hundred dollars worth of Christian literature in one year's time.
The pay for this preaching was about as small as
the territory was large; so ZACHEUS supplemented
his ministerial earning by buying and selling land.
Records in Tallahassee, Florida, and Dale County,
Alabama, describe hundreds of acres which he bought
and sold.
When the Alabama Conference was established
by the Methodists in 1832, ZACHEUS became a charter member of it by accepting an assignment to the
Choctawhatchee Circuit. Dowling was equipped for all
kinds of weather. He called his horse "Dicky"; an
immense sheepskin saddle-blanket nearly covered his
back and hung down on each side of the animal. Over
the saddle were slung Reverend Dowling's saddlebags, containing his Bible, study, wardrobe, barbershop, and laundry. Behind him was a blanket that he
used for a bed and an overcoat for rain or cold weather; then there was an umbrella, should the sun be too
hot. The stirrups in which his feet rode were faced
around and lined within with sheepskin to keep his feet
warm . . . Whatever came, ZACHEUS was ready for
it! Such types have vanished but mighty workmen of
God were they . . .
ZACHEUS was often referred to as "ZACKY"
and "ZACHARIAH"; the author uses the name that is
on his tombstone. During the ninetytwo years of his
life, his work was chronicled in at least five books.
Anne Kendrick Walker, for example, in the previously
mentioned history of Barbour County, stated that "It
was along the streets of Irwington (now Eufaula),
Alabama, that Mrs. Polly Barefield trotted with her
own plan for the Methodist Church that would soon be
built. The churchgoers also passed by, discussing the
fine sermons of the Reverend ZACHEUS Dowling."
This was in 1834 in the edge of the former Creek
Nation. As the Indians were driven out, the Methodists
were making certain that the Bible would not be forgotten by the invading whites.
Two years later, ZACHEUS and Reverend
Edward Graves were sent to the Wills Valley Mission
Rebecca had six other girls. One of the oldest was
Catherine Lucinda, born September 16, 1846. She
reared some of Melinda's children after that sister's
early death. Lucinda's own children are recorded in
Addendum 722; her granddaughter Marie Donnell is a
well-known businesswoman of Daleville, Alabama.
(Lucinda's second husband was A. Jack Donnell. Jack
had been born in Alabama on November 14, 1851, to a
thirty-year-old North Carolinian by the name of
Thompson Donnell. Jack died August 7, 1921, and is
buried with Lucinda in Providence Cemetery south of
Daleville. She died April 15, 1911. Her first husband
was a Mr. Walden.)
Lucinda and Melinda had two sisters who were
very short lived. Mittie Ann Stokes, born January 26,
1860, only lived until April 20, 1884. She was the wife
of John J. Jones and is buried in Haw Ridge Cemetery.
Sister Jennie died at twenty-seven on January 12,
1894. She had been born August 6, 1866. Her husband,
James Buchanan Pouncey, is buried beside her in
Providence Cemetery. He lived from August 28, 1877,
to April 4, 1937.
The author knows little of Isaiah's other three
daughters. Ellen married a Jernigan and has children
north of Elba, Alabama, at this time. Another of the
three married a Donnell by the name of Matt; this was
daughter Mollie, born in 1863. Then there was daughter Georgia, whose descendants run Paschal Dairy of
Enterprise, Alabama. She died March 18, 1915. Her
husband, J. Sam Paschal, lived from September 11,
1837, to February 16, 1910. He had been born in
Georgia to Benjamin and Martha G. Paschal, natives
of that state.
JOHN'S FOURTH CHlLD. ZACHEUS
(See Chart 101)
Another of the twenty-three known grandchildren
belonging to our family's founder, ROBERT, was the
son of JOHN'S who was born July 29, 1792. He, too,
was born in the Jeffries Creek area of South Carolina
to which his father had migrated before the
Revolution. This child's name was ZACHEUS; see
Chart 101.
After serving in the War of 1812 against the
British, ZACHEUS was given a license by the "new"
Methodist denomination to exhort, July 23, 1814. By
1820 he was an elder, the honor coming after his pastorage at Charleston, South Carolina. During the next
eight years he preached in such North Carolina places
as Sugar Creek, Sandy River, Reedy River, Rocky
River, and "along the Upper French Broad".
In 1828 ZACHEUS was sent to the newly created
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bought from brother DEMPSEY. Thirteen years
later, ALLEN acquired 225 more acres in a grant
made him by the state of South Carolina. Its plat
may be seen in the War Memorial Building,
Columbia, South Carolina.
The 1830 Darlington census lists three daughters and two sons in ALLEN'S home. SARAH was
either the oldest or youngest of the daughters; she
died at the age of eighteen and was buried in the
small "Garner Graveyard" west of Jeffries Creek.
The middle one of these daughters in age was
born on March 12, 1821. Her name was HESTER.
She lived to the age of seventy-five, dying October
7, 1896. The author does not know by whom she had
her Dowling son, WILEY W. He was born May 24,
1842, in Darlington County. He was an OrderlySergeant under Beauregard during four years of the
Civil War. Immediately after the war, August 31,
1865, WILEY married Caroline Josey, daughter of
Robert Sinkler Josey. WILEY W. Dowling and
Caroline then moved to Texas. A ninety-one year old
son, J. WELSMAN, lives in Lufkin; a seventy-seven
year old son, GEORGE H., lives in Alto. WILEY
married again after Caroline's death but the name of
this mate was not learned by the author. WILEY
died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. J. A.
Hillenkamp, DeRidder, Louisiana, on September 25,
1913. He was buried in that town's cemetery. His
twelve children are shown in Addendum 723.
Carolin Josey Dowling lived from January 28, 1845,
to August 8, 1885.
HESTER'S SECOND CHILD was born to her
and James Nelson Suggs (her last husband) on
December 18, 1852. This boy was named William
Asbury Suggs and at maturity was studying for the
ministry when death struck him down, January 20,
1874. HESTER'S third child and her youngest child
also died without leaving descendants. The third
one, Samuel R. Suggs, born August 13, 1854, married Ida Sansbury first and then Rhoda Register. The
youngest child, Mary Anna, married William "Babe"
Fields; she had been born June 22, 1861.
HESTER'S FOURTH CHILD was born
December 18, 1855, and named John T. Suggs. Two
days before Christmas of 1877, he married Eliza
Best. The sixth generation descendants of
ROBERT'S born to this couple are shown in
Addendum 724. John died in September of 1926. He
is buried with Eliza in Wesley Chapel Cemetery,
near his grandfather ALLEN. Eliza Best Suggs lived
from February 6, 1860, to March 8, 1939.
The fifth child of HESTER Suggs was born on
in north Alabama. From a membership of 118 whites
and four negroes they expanded the church in about
twenty months to a membership of 410 whites,
twenty-four negroes, and 160 Indians. (The latter
were mainly Cherokee . . . some 14,000 of that
Nation having just left the surrounding mountains
on the "Trail of Tears" leading west to the setting
sun.)
ZACHEUS married three times. He had no
children. In 1842 in a Mechanicsville, North
Carolina, newspaper he "warned the world" that he
would not be responsible for wife Eliza Dowling's
debts. Thirteen years later he received an Alabama
divorce from her. On July 15, 1856, at the residence
of Colonel J. C. Julian in Santa Rosa, Florida, he
married Zadie Capp, a thirty-nine-year-old
Kentuckian. Thirty-two days after Zadie's death
(which occurred August 2, 1866, in Milton, Florida),
the old gentleman married Miss Permelia Head. She
had been born in Georgia in 1802 . . . but told the
1870 census-taker that she was forty-seven! She
died July 11, 1885. The author did not learn the location of her burial place nor that of ZACHEUS'S
other two wives. His head-stone stands in Mt.
Liberty Cemetery west of Greenville, Alabama; he
died June 19, 1885.
JOHN'S FIFTH CHILD, ALLEN
(See Chart 335 and 101)
The only child of JOHN and Nancy's who did
not emigrate from South Carolina was son ALLEN
(excepting seventh child SIMEON, of course, who
died there just after maturity). ALLEN was born on
the tenth day of February, 1795. This was about the
time of the death of JOHN'S second brother.
ALLEN married when he was twenty-four. His
wife, Polly Heath, is mentioned in Darlington Estate
File 295 as an heir of Absolam Garner. Horace F.
Rudisill of Florence, who has done much research
on Darlington's oldtimers, believes that Polly might
be the former Miss Mary Flowers of Indian Branch,
South Carolina. She was older than ALLEN and
may have been the widow Heath. She was possibly
eighty-eight at the time of her death, May 22, 1873.
Mr. Dowling had died a few weeks earlier on April
8, 1873, at the age of seventy-eight. Both are buried
in Wesley Chapel Cemetery near the place on
Jeffries Creek that ALLEN'S grandfather had come
to from Virginia.
The first recorded purchase of land by ALLEN
was on September 27, 1825. This was a 330 acre
tract lying on both sides of Lake Swamp that he
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works of God. After he and Martha married
ASBURY arose before dawn and drew water for the
day's use; then he went back into their small home,
lighted a candle, and read the Bible. Each noon he
went to the rail fence-corner near the woods where
he knelt and mediated with God. At night he led family prayers, a practice followed by his children with
their families after they reached maturity.
Martha Heath Dowling was twelve years
younger than ASBURY. Though he lived to the age
of eighty-three, she lived over three years after his
September 25th, 1906, death. Both are buried in
Wesley Chapel Cemetery.
ASBURY'S FIRST CHILD was the most wellrounded of ROBERT'S many great-great-grandchildren (over two hundred of whom are at the head of
each Addendum and 500-series-chart in this book) . .
. Sunday school teacher, banker, planter, state legislator, merchant, Masonic Chancellor, county supervisor, school trustee, church steward, and loving
father . . . WILLIAM ANDREW Dowling, born July
22, 1859, lived to August 4, 1924.
On January 27, 1884, ANDREW married Leola
Large, daughter of Martha Dubose and Francis
Marion Large of Williamsburg County, South
Carolina. The children born to her and to Mr.
Dowling's second wife, Gertrude DuBose, are shown
on Chart 591. (Leola lived from January 30, 1869 to
July 1, 1902. On May 18, 1904, ANDREW married
Gertrude. She was the daughter of Janie C. Josey and
Oscar B. DuBose, Darlington Countians, and lived
from October 2, 1872, to January 3, 1952. She and
Leola are buried on either side of ANDREW in the
Wesley Chapel Cemetery.)
ANDREW won a seat in South Carolina's
House of Representatives by 1896. As a member of
the important Ways and Means Committee, he
secured approval of a bill to provide text-books for
the state's children, black or white, at actual cost.
Later he was elected Darlington County Supervisor;
the present courthouse was built under his supervision. Always, he found time to oversee his large
plantation, brick and syrup mills, and cotton gin.
When he was young, ANDREW had donated a
site near his Jeffries Creek land for a schoolhouse.
Many of the different teachers stayed at "The Oaks",
the beautiful plantation home built by this Dowling.
As chairman of the school board, he saw to it that the
school had at least one teacher who could double as
a music-instructor. His appreciation of life's finer
things is reflected by the twinkle in the eyes of this
jovial Carolinian's portrait.
January 17, 1857, and named Sarah Lou. She and
husband Mellon N. Sansbury are buried in the Lake
Swamp Cemetery, Timmonsville, South Carolina.
She had six children: -Wiley; -Eugene, married
Lizzy Pipkin; -Homer married a Huggins; -Flossie
married Leonard Pipkin; -Alberta married Clifton
Anderson and had a son named Frank; -Mattie married Boyd Cassity.
HESTER'S SIXTH CHILD was born July 23,
1859, near Darlington, as were all her other children.
This child was a boy named Rufus Allen Suggs. In
November of 1880 he married Ann Clyborne. Their
offspring are named in Addendum 725. Rufus died
May 18, 1926; Ann died March 7, 1929, exactly four
months before her seventieth birthday. Both are
buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Hartsville, South
Carolina.
HESTER'S last husband, James Nelson Suggs,
died in 1912, two months before his eighty-fourth
birthday (this date being June 13, 1828). He and
HESTER are buried in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery
near her father, ALLEN.
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In the spring of 1823, on May 12th, ALLEN'S
first son was born. Little FRANCIS ASBURY (SR.)
was probably the apple of Grandfather JOHN'S eyes
before the old soldier passed away in 1826.
This Dowling was known as ASBURY. He married Martha Caroline Heath on August 5, 1858, in
Darlington County, South Carolina. She was the
daughter of Suzanne Muldrow and William Heath.
She lived from January 1, 1835, to January 9, 1910.
The six sons and four daughters born to her and
ASBURY are shown on Chart 335.
ASBURY served the Confederacy with honor;
he fought with the 3rd Palmetto Battalion of Light
Artillery as a member of Company E. A typhoid
attack suffered during hostilities settled in his leg and
crippled him so severely that he walked with a cane
during the remaining half-century that he lived.
This son of ALLEN'S always longed for a better
education, yet he shared the little he had with others
by teaching school. He earned a daily fee of five
cents from each of his pupils in the "Lake Swamp"
school (of the Jeffries Creek area) where he taught
from 1870 to 1879. He also operated a blacksmith
shop where he shod many a horse and repaired
scores of wagons.
ASBURY was a great nature-lover. Even in old
age, his eyes seriously weakened, he enjoyed hobbling about the plantation appreciating the wondrous
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ery terrified them so much that they never asked to
return!
JOHN followed in his father's footsteps by teaching school. There was little to work with but there was
always the promise of a better tomorrow. In 1941, when
he and Benlah celebrated their Golden Wedding
Anniversary, neither realized that only one more July
5th would be shared. Mrs. Dowling's death came on
May 29, 1943, two months after that of her husband.
(She had been born to George and Jane Galloway on
December 30, 1871, but was later adopted by JOHN'S
Uncle SAMUEL SEWALL. She attended Williamston
Female College. She and JOHN CHAPEL are buried in
Wesley Chapel Cemetery.)
ASBURY'S FIFTH CHILD was the first daughter
that he and Martha Caroline had. She was born
September 5, 1886, and named MARY SUSANNAH.
When she was about twenty-four, she married Capers
Raines of Oats, South Carolina. Her few descendants
are named in Addendum 727. MARY died exactly a
week after her seventy-sixth birthday. She and Mr.
Raines are buried west of Jeffries Creek in Wesley
Chapel Cemetery. Raines lived from November 6,
1886, to September 3, 1950.
Mother Martha Caroline named the sixth child
MARTHA CAROLINE on the day of her birth,
February 27, 1868. This daughter lived four score and
nine years, dying March 24, 1957. MARTHA was a
saintly woman... a lifelong member and supporter of
Philadelphia Southern Methodist Church. She had
attended school in the old church building, as a girl.
From the many hymns they sang every day she picked
a stanza of one for her lifelong favorite. It went:
ANDREW'S humility is mentioned in Reverend J.
L. Tillman's book, "In His Service", wherein the author
had asked Dowling if he would not profess Christianity
at a small mission meeting. "He did . . . and the good
work has lived there ever since". ANDREW'S biography is to appear soon in "The National Eyclopedia of
American Biography". Death has stilled his voice . . .
but the legacy he left is a rich one. People will remember WILLIAM ANDREW Dowling, Sr.
THE SECOND CHILD OF ASBURY was born on
February 17, 1861, and named HENRY ALLEN. He
lived to September 6, 1943, a period of eighty-two
years, but never had any children. Wife Sarah, the
daughter of Mrs. Susie Moore, suffered terribly from
cancer for years but remained a cheerful giver, both to
the Church and other charitable causes. The days she
spent on this earth were from September 9, 1861, to
November 28, 1933. Sarah and HENRY are buried near
his father in Wesley Chapel Cemetery.
ASBURY'S THIRD CHILD took the exact name
of his father, though this younger Dowling was usually
called "DORSEY". He, FRANCIS ASBURY, JR., was
born November 28, 1862. When Grandfather ALLEN
died, he willed a nice tract of land to this ten-year-old
boy. Young Dowling married in 1885. Bride Lydia Sue
Kelley was the daughter of Mary Stewart and George
Kelley; she lived from September 10, 1864, to March
20, 1952. She, too, had been born in Darlington
County. FRANCIS ASBURY, JR., and brother HENRY
were honored by Philadelphia Methodist Church in
1940 as two of its oldest members. (It is said that the
original site of this church was provided by family
founder ROBERT just after the birth of America!)
"DORSEY" and Sue lived past their sixtieth wedding
anniversary. He died March 22, 1947. Their graves are
beside the Methodist Church to which they belonged.
Their ten children are recorded in Addendum 726.
ASBURY'S FOURTH CHILD was another of the
eighteen grandchildren that ALLEN Dowling had (see
Chart 335). This boy's name was JOHN CHAPEL and
he had been born during the Civil War, July 2, 1864. He
lived until the middle of World War II, dying March 26,
1943.
In young manhood JOHN went to Moore's
Business College in Atlanta. For a three month course
in penmanship, bookkeeping, correspondence, lecturing, partnership-settlements, and arithmetic, he paid. .
$45.00! On July 5, 1891, he married Benlah Galloway.
Their little Dowlings are shown on Chart 592. JOHN
farmed. With brother ANDREW he operated a cotton
gin; once, all of ALLEN'S great-granddaughters were
permitted to visit it.... The whirling, clanging machin-
. . . They who seek that throne of grace
Will find that throne in every place;
If we live a life of prayer,
We'll find God is everywhere.
MARTHA CAROLINE Dowling Thomas's offspring
are shown in Addendum 728. She is buried at Wesley
Chapel. Husband J. Ferdinand Thomas is buried in
Columbia, South Carolina.
ASBURY'S SEVENTH CHILD was another
daughter, born October 9, 1869, and named AGNES
LOUIZA. The author failed to learn her marriage date.
She and Jim Lloyd had the six children named in
Addendum 729. He died January 27, 1924. Her death
was ten years later on September 13, 1934. Both are
buried in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery. Mr. Lloyd had
been born February 28, 1861.
JAMES MULDROW, SR., was the next child of
ASBURY'S. People called him MULDROW (this havPage 77
had an infant son. They had married on his thirty fourth
birthday. Mrs. Dowling was the daughter of Frederick
Ham; she and SAMUEL SEWALL adopted Beulah
Galloway, the girl who later married their nephew.
SAMUEL SEWALL served in the 3rd Palmetto
Light Artillery Battalion, the same Confederate outfit
that his brother was in. Earlier, though, he had been in
the 26th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
He and Cordelia are buried in Wesley Chapel
Cemetery, Darlington County, South Carolina. The date
of his death was February 12, 1904.
ing been the surname of his maternal grandmother). His
date of birth was September 29, 1873. His helpmate
throughout forty-six years, following their Christmas
Day marriage in 1905, was Agnes Yarborough. Their
children and grandchildren are shown on Chart 593.
Primarily, this Dowling was a farmer; however, he was
the last postmaster at nearby Philadelphia before it was
closed. On the last day of the year 1951, MULDROW
died; Agnes's death followed on July 24, 1953. In their
place they have left a teacher, a nurse, an organist, a
salesman, a bookkeeper, housewives, a merchant, a
minister . . and a memory! (Agnes was the daughter of
Garon Windham and and W. T. Yarborough. She was
born on January 20, 1885.)
ASBURY'S NINTH CHILD was the daughter
SALLY JANE. She was born on the first day of July,
1875, and still lives (in Columbia, South Carolina.) Her
husband, L. W. Ham, died in 1923. They had two children, Margeurite and Euphree. The latter married John
Pope and then Joseph Miller; by Mr. Miller she had a
son, Joe Ham Miller.
ASBURY'S LAST CHILD was the son SAMUEL
PINKNEY, born August 16, 1878. He is still living . . .
within a few miles of the place that ROBERT settled
nearly two centuries ago: Jeffries Creek. "Uncle SAM"
related to the author recently how as a child he and the
other children of Martha had gathered wild indigo
along “The Gully” and in the nearby woods. After
hours of carefree frolicking, they would return home
and place the indigo in a barrel. Mrs. Dowling then
poured steaming water onto the plants . . . and carefully submerged hanks of cotton yarn into the colored
solution. Behold! . . . A beautiful, sky-blue thread
emerged, thread that was later woven into jeans and
other apparel by the family's women-folk.
On December 27, 1910, SAMUEL PINKNEY
married Mary Alice Yarborough. Their children are
shown on Chart 594. Behind their comfortable farm
home sits the old building last used as a postoffice by
brother MULDROW for Philadelphia. "Uncle SAM"
owns the small powder horn that his grandfather
ALLEN used in providing meat for the Dowling dinner
table. He also owns the Confederate sword of FRANCIS ASBURY, SR.; a snake-like head adorns its top.
(Wife Mary Alice was born on October 8, 1885, to
Lucy Ann and John Murray Yarborough. She, too, is
still living.)
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JOHN'S SIXTH CHILD, RHODA (Stokes)
(See Chart 336 and 101)
South of Ozark, Alabama, where the highway
sweeps near the valley through which Claybank Creek
flows, an observer can look westward for miles . . .
westward to the hills from whence the name Ozark supposedly originated. It was in these hills on the the western border of Dale County that ZACHEUS Dowling
had donated land for and founded Zion Methodist
Church . . . The furtherest thing from Reverend
Dowling's mind was the burial there, as the first interment, of his sister RHODA.
RHODA had been born in the last six years of the
eighteenth century in the old Jeffries Creek home country of South Carolina. She had been acquainted there
with her future husband, Henry Stokes. His sister
Martha had married her oldest brother, DEMPSEY
(Henry's Stokes parents are listed in that Dowling's section). Henry had borrowed money there in February of
1827 from the administrator of her brother SIMEON'S
estate ($35.89 on three cows). Within two years of that,
RHODA and Henry were married; they co-signed the
previously mentioned deed with LYDIA and John
Stokes.
Henry and RHODA were in Dale County by 1830.
Grandson Joe King wrote in his memoirs that Mr.
Stokes helped found Claybank Church at about that
time. Dale historian W. L. Andrews referred to
RHODA's husband as "Major" Henry Stokes; this title
was probably one earned in militia duty performed for
defense against the Indians. After RHODA'S death,
Henry remarried; he lived the major part of his life in
Barbour County, Alabama, where he had more offspring besides the three mentioned below. He died in
1886; his tombstone is in the City Cemetery of
Louisville, Ala.
The oldest child of RHODA'S was James Wilson
Stokes, born in South Carolina, on December 2, 1828.
Twenty-two years later, this young man was living with
Robert Kennedy, a business partner, in Henry County,
The second and last son of ALLEN'S was born two
days before Christmas, 1825, and named SAMUEL
SEWALL. SAMUEL and his wife, Cordelia Ham, only
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Bethune. (Her mother was Mary Calloway, Ola lived
from June 22, 1871, to February 27, 1939. Ed died three
months later on May 26th. He and Ola had married May
17, 1892. He and both wives are buried in the City
Cemetery of Abbeville, Alabama. His children are shown
in Addendum 732. Vickey was born November 6, 1872.)
THE SIXTH CHILD of Captain Stokes was the
child Ida Dora, who lived from March 5, 1868 to October
4, 1879. The seventh child was Roy Dowling Stokes; he
lived from April 26, 1875, to October 13, 1902, dying
single. Both of these offspring are buried near mother
Martha Ann Lee Stokes at Abbeville's City Cemetery; she
was born December 7, 1834. She died January 1, 1894,
and Captain Stokes died on December 22, 1901. "Wils"
was once a county commissioner of Henry County . . .
and postmaster at Abbeville for over twenty years.
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RHODA Dowling Stoke's only son besides James Wilson
was the one named Seaborn Glenn. Unlike "Wils", this
boy was born in Alabama. The birth occurred a few miles
north of Daleville, Alabama, on January 8, 1830, about
the time that this first permanent town of Dale was coming to life. On his twenty-second birthday S. G. Stokes
married the granddaughter of a Dutchman named
Andrew Seccrist (Segrest). Her name was Emma Simon
Laney and she had been born in 1832 in North Carolina
or shortly after her father's move to Talbot County,
Georgia. By the age of eight she had been carried to
"Rocky Head" in Dale County (ten miles northwest of her
future husband's birthplace).
In 1858 Emma and S. G. Stokes moved their young
family to Clopton, Alabama. He and brother-in-law J. P.
Laney formed a partnership. Within four years, however,
the war had broken out . . . and Stokes felt it his duty to
serve. He enlisted in Captain W. H. Stukey's company. In
less than three months this thirty-one-year-old father was
dead of pneumonia, death occurring in a Confederate
hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee. Shortly after 1870,
Emma and the children moved back to Rocky Head.
(Neither the place nor time of her burial was learned by
the author; S. G. Stokes was buried at Knoxville. He died
December 14, 1862.)
THE FIRST CHILD of S. G. Stokes was named
John Evan who died as a child; our only record of him is
his name (on a long-hand sketch of the Stokeses which
lies in one of the hundreds of "family folders" maintained
by Alabama's Department of Archives). The second
child, James Harmon Stokes, was born in Dale County in
1855. As a grown man, he married Zion Patterson. The
nine offspring born to them are shown in Addendum
733. Zion and Mr. Stokes are buried in the Universalist
Cemetery at Ariton, Alabama.
Alabama. He was called “Wils” Stokes. During the Civil
War he became a Captain. Later, in 1876, Wilson went to
one of NOEL Dowling's boys in Dale County. Stokes
handed to that second cousin a powder-gourd. On it were
inscribed the following words: "JOHN DOWLING
USED IN THE '76 REVOLUTION" . . . Some fifty years
later, this gourd was seen by thousands across the nation
as part of a historical collection on a railway car that
toured several states. (The President of the Louisiana
State Board of Health, Doctor OSCAR Dowling, sent this
car to various places with exhibits in it showing that
state's progress in sanitation measures. OSCAR was a
great-nephew of RHODA Stokes. The current owner of
this powder-gourd is Doctor STUART PUGH Dowling
of Birmingham, a great-great-great-great-grandson of
JOHN. He states that he was instructed by his grandfather
to pass it on to the oldest male Dowling grandchild of his
when he dies.)
THE OLDEST CHILD of James Wilson Stokes and
his wife, Martha Ann Lee, was the son Walter K., born
the year after their 1854 marriage. Walter only lived thirty-three years, dying Christmas day of 1888. The four
children born to him and his wife, Elizabeth, after their
1878 marriage, are shown in Addendum 730. (Elizabeth
had been born to Martha Gamble and Robert Kennedy on
December 2, 1860. Her father and father-in-law, Captain
Stokes, had once been business partners. After Walter's
death she married a Crawford and lived until October 10,
1924. She and Walter are buried in the City Cemetery of
Abbeville, Alabama.)
THE SECOND CHILD of Captain "Wils" Stokes
was born in 1858 and named Lee G. He lived a lengthy
life and died a batchelor. The third child, Mattie Eugenia,
was born August 20, 1860. The offspring born to her and
Benjamin White Clendenin Sr., are shown in Addendum
731. One of them, "Ben", did missionary work in Mexico
during the thirties and now operates a religious supplyhouse in Dothan, Alabama. (Benjamin W., Sr., was born
to Rosa White and James Augusta Clendenin April 10,
1860. He died March 27, 1943, after living the same
number of years that Mattie lived. She died July 30,
1943; both are buried in the Dothan City Cemetery.)
THE FOURTH CHILD of Captain Stokes only lived
from August 1, 1862, to January 26, 1865; this was a boy
named James. He was buried at Abbeville. The fifth
child, Robert Edward, became a leading merchant in
Abbeville; the date of his birth was July 27, 1866. In
1899 he married Vickey Lee, the seventeen-year-old
daughter of Doctor W. J. Lee. This wife died February 20,
1891, shortly after the birth of her only child. "Ed"
Stokes, as our subject was called, then married Ola
Malissa Bethune, daughter of Doctor William C.
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as the EDWARD Dowling place. RHODA'S husband,
Major Henry Stokes, had cleared this land on which to
raise his young family when they came from South
Carolina. Major Stokes named this child for his sister
who had married DEMPSEY. It was on the day of
Martha's birth that her mother, RHODA, died.
At the age of eighteen, Martha Stokes married
Phillip H. King. This was on September 7, 1854, four
years after King had been brought by his father, James,
from Georgia. Phillip's birth had occurred in Darlington
District, South Carolina, on August 6, 1833. When he
married Martha, young King was a Whig; a few years
later he opposed Alabama's secession from the United
States. However, after the hotheads at Fort Sumter had
sparked the war that was to claim approximately onehalf million of the South's finest males . . . King joined
the Confederate forces and became a lieutenant.
The eight children born to this daughter of
RHODA'S are shown on Chart 336. They were reared in
the western edge of Dale County at "Haw Ridge"; that
community no longer exists, as one-crop farming had
about wiped it, and the topsoil, off of the map before
World War II's Fort Rucker completed the job.... Phillip
King's "tax notice" published by him in 1887, advertising the places he would appear to serve the public (in his
capacity as Dale County Collector), gives the names of
other population centers in that old county that have disappeared: Westville, Gilley's Store, Echol's Mill, and
Barefield.
Prior to that office, King had served Dale as a state
senator (1868-1872). He was chairman of the Ebenezer
Missionary Baptist Church deacons for several years
(this church being so old by 1895 that it was occupying
its fourth building). He and Martha were buried in the
adjoining cemetery. He died September 22, 1901;
Martha died May 7, 1913, after seventh-seventh birthday. (Ebenezer graves, and Zion Methodist ones, and
those at Haw Ridge were all moved a mile or two north
to Haw Ridge Church's location when Fort Rucker
enveloped the three former sites.)
THE OLDEST CHILD of Martha Stokes King was
daughter Susanne, born June 15, 1855. This girl married
the son of Helen Mixson and George Hayes named
William Eben Hayes; she only had three offspring,
Early, Charlie (who became a doctor in Elba, Alabama),
and Nora. Mrs. Susanne King Hayes died February 2,
1929; her husband died March 6, 1938, and had been
born October 12, 1856.) Both are buried with her parents. . . . Nearby, is the second child of Martha Stokes
King, little C. J., who lived only seven years and four
months following his birth, March 20, 1857.
THE THIRD CHILD of Martha's was named
THE THIRD CHILD of S. G. Stokes became an
Alabama Senator (1911 to 1915). This was son Charles
Asbury . . . born November 9, 1856. At the age of eighteen, he had married Nancy Ellen Beasley. In 1889
Charles moved into the town of Ozark and began a livestock business. By World War I, he had become a bank
director, the president of a fertilizer company, and had
served continuously as a steward of the Methodist
Church for thirty-two years. Senator Stokes and Nancy
Ellen never had children of their own; his outstanding
accomplishment was the love and care given to over a
dozen orphans that he and his wife adopted. He died
Scptember 4, 1920. Nancy Ellen died January 28, 1945;
she had been born October 13, 1857. Their graves are in
Ozark's cemetery.
THE FOURTH CHILD of S. G. Stokes was his
only daughter, Mary Emma Rebecca. She was born two
years before the beginning of the Civil War. Like two of
her brothers, she married a Beasley; his name was
James Tom. He was the son of Eliza Jernigan and
Daniel Beasley, who had come to Dale County in the
1840's from North Carolina. Our subject's ten children
are named in Addendum 734; one of her grandsons,
Frank Young, is a city commissioner of Ozark,
Alabama.
THE FIFTH CHILD of S. G. Stokes was another
son, born the year that Seaborn Glenn left for the battlefront. This boy was named William Bartow Stokes. In
adulthood he, too, married a Beasley, his wife Jane
being a sister of previously-mentioned Nancy Ellen and
James Tom. Jane and "Willie", as Mr. Stokes was called,
had nine children; they are named in Addendum 735.
0ne of them, Charles O. Stokes, Ozark attorney, has just
been recommended as the Circuit Judge of a new southeast Alabama judicial circuit by Dale and Geneva bar
associations. William Bartow Stokes and his wife died
shortly after the turn of the century and were buried in
the City Cemetery, Enterprise, Alabama.
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RHODA'S ninety-year-old grandson told the author
about the birth of RHODA'S third child, Martha: "My
mother, Martha, had just been born to Grandmother
Stokes . . . Grandmother knew that the bed she lay on
was a bed of death, but her only concern was for little
Martha. Over and over, she asked, 'What will happen to
my baby after I'm gone?!' Then she died.... And for a day
or two after that, until one of the baby's grandmothers
had volunteered to care for it, there was a strange noise
in and around the house that no one could explain!"
This birth of Martha occurred December 12, 1835,
near Claybank Church, on the farm that was later known
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made arrangements for the new ones so necessary to
finance another crop. Joe and Amanda Clark had the
nine Kings listed in Addendum 738. (Amanda was the
daughter of Confederate Lieutenant Fernie Clark and
Frances Snellgrove, the latter's father being Riley
Snellgrove. She lived from October 7, 1867, to
December 26, 1938. She and Joe are buried in the cemetery at Pinckard, Alabama.)
THE SIXTH CHILD born to Martha Stokes King
and Phillip was daughter Sarah Frances; her birth
occurred April 7, 1869. She did not die until 1959, three
months before her ninetieth birthday! At the time that
the author visited her, he and this elderly cousin did not
know that her grandmother Stokes had been born a
Dowling and the job of listing her children and grandchildren was neglected. She and husband William Jones
had about ten offspring including sons named Louie,
Herbert, and John I. Jones was the son of Jane Byrd and
Elvin "Dick" Jones, both of whom are buried at
Ebenezer Cemetery near old Haw Ridge. "Sally", as our
subject was called, and her husband are buried in New
Brockton, Alabama.
THE SEVENTH CHILD of Martha's was the
grandchild of RHODA'S named Amy V. She and husband Joe Clark had six children: Harry, Max, Ralph,
Otis, Mattie (Kerling), and Glenny—who died as a boy.
Amy is now eighty-eight years old and lives in
Birmingham, Alabama. Her brother, Joe King, told the
author of church services that they used to go to at old
Ebenezer Baptist Church where the sermons were two
and a half hours long! The date of Amy's birth was
December 12, 1871.
THE LAST CHILD that Martha and Phillip had
was the son John Oscar King. He lived from November
22, 1873, to June 27, 1931; his grave is in the cemetery
adjoining the Bethel Assembly Church at Ariton,
Alabama. The only child born to his wife, Minnie
Knight, whom Mr. King had married October 11, 1893,
was a boy named Max. This son left no descendants.
Minnie lives now in Ariton, Alabama.
Martha J.; she was born May 12, 1859, and lived for
seventy years. When this child was growing up, the only
Christmas decorations were those on the communitytree that sat in the Haw Ridge Academy school building.
Children tasted fruit once a year; that was at Christmas.
Such a luxury as biscuits was served only on Sundays.
Week-day meals often consisted of "sow-belly, taters,
and turnips". Martha J. married William M. Snellgrove.
Their children and grandchildren are named in
Addendum 736. (Martha J. died August 24, 1929, and
was buried in Dale County's Ebenezer Cemetery beside
Mr. Snellgrove. He was the son of Carolyn Gunter and
Jesse C. Snellgrove and had lived from May 1, 1860, to
November 28, 1922. William's grandfather Snellgrove
was named Jessie—had been born in 1792—and has a
headstone near our subject's grave.)
THE FOURTH CHILD of Martha's was born
August 28, 1862, at about the time that Mr. King left for
the war. They named the little girl Nancy Louisa. On
Christmas Day, twenty-five years later, she married
William M. Gunter. Their offspring are shown in
Addendum 737. Chet Allen, a great-grandson of theirs,
recently was featured as the boy soprano on the RCA
album of "Amahl and The Night Visitors". (Lou died at
the age of eighty-one, February 21, 1944. She and Mr.
Gunter are buried in the Pinckard, Alabama, cemetery.
He was the son of Matilda Snellgrove and Jake Gunter
and a double-first-cousin of the William M. Snellgrove
mentioned in the preceding paragraph. He, William
Gunter, had been born in Coffee County November 11,
1854, two years before the death of his mother. He died
March 15, 1916.)
THE FIFTH CHILD born to Martha came after Mr.
King's return from the Civil War; Joe Wilson King was
born July 28, 1867, and lived more than ninety years,
dying November 28, 1957. He was born just after the
death of his grand-uncle DEMPSEY; America's youthfulness is indicated by the realization that its entire history can thus far be measured by the length of only two
men’s lives (such as these two) ! Joe told the author that
in his youth the seventy-mile trip to the nearest railroad
(at Eufaula) took three days. He said that Ozark learned
of Garfield's assassination two days after the news had
been wired to the nearest telegraph point, Troy,
Alabama. Joe loved the area of his youth, Haw Ridge.
His father told him that few of the large slave-owners
had lived on such an upland farm country as was there
but that most had their plantations on the rich river-bottoms miles away. Even in Joe's time the small farmers
in northwest Dale County still followed the practice of
annually hauling their cotton by wagon to Troy, over
forty miles away, where they settled their old debts and
JOHN'S EIGHTH CHILD, LEVI
(See Charts 338 and 101)
SIMEON, the seventh child born to JOHN and
Nancy Boutwell Dowling, was probably a twin brother
of this couple's eighth child, LEVI. The death of SIMEON as a twenty-six year old batchelor in the Jeffries
Creek area shortly after elderly JOHN had picked him
as executor of his will has previously been mentioned.
SIMEON and LEVI were the youngest of the halfdozen sons recorded in the household of JOHN
"Dooling" by the 1800 census-taker. That was the year
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Church.
THE FIRST CHILD OF MARY'S was named
Wilson G. McLean. Born in 1848, the boy was later
known by the nickname of “Wish”. He never married.
He choked to death at the age of twenty-four and was
buried in Old Salem Cemetery in Attala County,
Mississippi, where Grandfather LEVI had taken him as
a youth.
THE LAST CHILD THAT MARY J. had was born
in 1850 and named Daniel (Jr.). It was only a short time
before the boy's birth that Grandfather LEVI was
involved in a memorable event. His Dale County home
near Haw Ridge was so well known by surrounding settlers that it was designated as a polling place for an election that promised to be a hot one! Captain Arch Justice,
who had so recently led the local militia against nearby
Indians, had now turned his attention to matters politic.
He vowed "to split Dale County in two, even if it had to
be done with a broad axe". This had won him a seat in
Alabama's legislature; people living near present-day
Graceville, Florida, and Opp, Alabama, were tired of
having to go to Newton to transact courthouse affairs.
The decision to cut off Dale's west half into a new county known as Coffee had already been made; a majority
vote was to decide the spot on which "Wellborn",
Coffee's first county-seat would be located.... The number of land-owners desiring the location of this government-decreed town is unknown, but at least one was
pulling for the selection of his site. He passed out so
much honey to the pioneers trooping in to vote, that the
community around LEVI'S house was known as
Honeytown for a century following the occurrence!
Daniel McLean, Jr., was taken care of by LEVI
during the first nine years after MARY’S death.
Following Mr. Dowling's death, Uncle ROBERT S. did
a lot for him and brother “Wish”. These two boys were
entitled to their mother's share of LEVI'S small
Mississippi estate during its settlement in the time of the
Civil War. Administrator ROBERT told the court that he
would need the following for one year's support of these
two youths: eight hundred pounds of pork at fifteen
cents per pound, twenty gallons of molasses costing
thirty dollars; three bushels of peas (for seed?) costing
$4.50 total; and fifty bushels of corn costing one dollar
per bushel.
In 1870, Daniel McLean, Jr., married the eighteenyear-old daughter of Newton N. McDaniel. Her name
was Margaret and she had been born to Mr. McDaniel
by his first wife, a Jones (before his later marriage to
Daniel's Aunt SUSAN Dowling). Daniel died at the age
of forty-two; Margaret's death came ten years later in
1902. Their graves are in Salem Cemetery; in Attala
that LEVI always referred to as the year of his birth in
later enumerations.
LEVI married a South Carolina girl who had been
born in 1801. Her first name was Ann, but the author
has never learned what her surname was. On January
20, 1829, LEVI and brothers ELIAS and ZACHEUS
sold the eighty acres of land that they jointly owned on
the north side of Jeffries Creek. By the following year
LEVI had moved to Alabama.
On May 9, 1832, LEVI bought his first government land in Dale County (the west half of the northeast
quarter of Section 33, Township 6, Range 23). It was
near this farm on a wintry morning some twenty-one
years later that his oldest daughter was murdered.... A
young slave of a neighboring farmer had been given a
week-end pass by his master to visit an adjoining farm.
About daylight, Monday morning, February 7th, 1853,
this scoundrel entered the house of Mrs. MARY J.
Dowling McLean.
The first knowledge that outsiders had of the
resulting horror came when her brother ROBERT, who
happened to ride by, noticed her two little sons huddling
tearfully near the front door of the McLean log-cabin. .
. . As his horse neared them, it suddenly snorted and
jumped to the side; MARY, her brains beaten out, lay on
the edge of the path!
A posse was scouring the area within the hour. Yet
it was not until mid-morning that any progress was
made in apprehending the Negro; word was received by
them that, a slave they all knew, had been questioned
earlier about the blood on his clothes. Frightened, the
man had taken flight. The group that ROBERT was with
heard that the culprit had been seen entering a nearby,
deserted cabin. When they reached there, the searchers
found nothing! Most of them were getting back on their
horses when ROBERT'S attention was attracted by the
huge rock chimney; he went to it, pointed his rifle up it,
and pulled the trigger. Down fell the injured slave!
MARY'S grandson states that the man was chained to a
stake and put to death by fire.
MARY J. had been born to Ann and LEVI on
March 17, 1824, a few years before they left South
Carolina. Marriage records of Barbour County,
Alabama, state that she married a John Savage on
February 28, 1841. It is known that within seven years
of this date she was married to a McLean, possibly
named Daniel (the author referring to their son, therefore, as Daniel, Jr.). Tradition has not preserved knowledge of his whereabouts the morning of MARY'S murder; they might have separated by then or Mr. McLean
may have died earlier. The headstone of her grave may
be seen on the north edge of Fort Rucker at Haw Ridge
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one county farther west to Burleson County. This was
Dan's home for a short time after his marriage, but
after the death of their two year old son Willis (killed
in a fall from a swing in 1887) he and Abi decided to
leave there.
They moved to Brandon, Texas. Kinfolks were
there, for second-cousin Harriett Hildreth Grimes
(daughter of JEMIMA Hildreth) had carried her children there from Alabama. Dan housed his small family in a tent next to the house of Tom Grimes until the
necessary building arrangements had been made.... By
the early 1900's Dan moved the family into the county-seat of Hill County. There, in Hillsboro, as a peace
officer, he made a lasting impression on all who knew
him. In the ninety-four years of his life he was never
known to display fear, yet he was only five feet tall!
. . . Until the week before his death on September 9,
1946, he was interested in people's doings whether he
had to use the radio or the garden fence as a medium.
Dan is buried in Hillsboro's Ridge Park Cemetery; Abi
was interred there January 13, 1932. (She was the
daughter of Elizabeth Ann Patterson and Wiley
Archibald Thomas Rhodes, a wealthy settler of
Washington County, Texas. Abi was born there June
27, 1854. She and Dan had married there in Texas's
oldest Baptist Church, the Old Rock Church—where
Sam Houston had professed Christianity.)
CAROLINE'S TWO OLDEST DAUGHTERS
were named Mary Ann and Sarah. It is known that
Mary Ann Hooks married a Dehart, but it is not known
whether she raised her family in Mississippi or Texas.
Sarah stayed in Mississippi; she married William
Hutchinson and they had sixteen children, eleven of
whom are named in Addendum 741. She and William
are buried in Salem Cemetery of Attala County.
THE OTHER THREE CHILDREN OF CAROLINE'S were the boys named Jim and Dave and the
daughter named Ellen. The Hooks in Greenwood,
Mississippi, are probably Jim's grandsons. Dave
Hooks, however, went to Texas where he married
Susie and was a guard at the huge Huntsville prison.
Sister Ellen Hooks married a Smith. Her husband was
probably a close kinsman of Dale County, Alabama's
Reverend Caswell Smith and wife Susan Hooks Smith
(two of whose children married NOEL'S children).
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The third, fourth, and fifth children of LEVI'S
will be covered in this short section. Third child
ROBERT S. was born March 18, 1827, before these
Dowlings left South Carolina. In Dale County,
Alabama, he purchased land from the government on
four occasions; he served there as a justice of the peace.
County, Mississippi. Margaret had been born in that
state. MARY'S seven grandchildren, the children of
Daniel's, are shown in Addendum 739.
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LEVI'S second child was daughter CAROLINE, born
in 1825 in the Jeffries Creek area of South Carolina.
She and MARY are the two daughters listed "by sex"
in Mr. Dowling's Dale County, Alabama, home some
five years later. This daughter of LEVI'S was not
named among the children in her father's home on the
1850 census so the author assumes she had married
before reaching the age of twenty-five. Her husband,
John Franklin "Jack" Hooks was quite a bit older than
CAROLINE was. He had been born in Augusta,
Georgia, in 1801, and had already had sons by a previous marriage named J. Frank (born 1839) and William.
Chart 338 shows that CAROLINE and Mr. Hooks
probably used the names of two Dowling sisters and a
brother in naming their children. Hooks died in March
of I859 in Alabama (probably Montgomery County).
Within three years CAROLINE had moved near
Kosciusko, Mississippi, where she lived until 1869
when she and brother BENJAMIN and probably other
close-kin moved further westward to the Brazos
County area of Texas. She is probably buried there; the
author contacted her descendants only a few weeks
before this book's closing date and was not able fully
to trace this limb of the family tree.
ONE CHILD OF CAROLINE'S was born about
twenty-five miles from Montgomery, Alabama, on
April 3, 1852, and named Benjamin Daniel Hooks.
People called him Dan. In Texas, Dan worked for Sam
Houston’s son-in-law; this was in Washington County,
where that state's independence had been declared.
Young Dan's boss had him sleep in a little room off to
the side of the house. In this room there was a most
peculiar looking saddle and bridle, which Dan noticed
were never used by the owners. The saddle and the bridle were beautifully decorated with Mexican silver. . .
One Sunday afternoon Dan decided to test these
accouterments. He did. . . only to find the saddle very
uncomfortable; it seemed to be made of wooden
boards, covered with leather! The boss of Hooks drove
up as Dan was dismounting. "Dan", he said, "Do you
know that you happen to be riding in the former saddle
of Mexican General Santa Anna?!" (These historical
trappings hang in a Texas museum today.)
On August 8, 1875, Dan Hooks married Abi
Adeline Rhodes, widow of Lewis Uphold. Two generations of Dan's descendants may be seen in Addendum
740. Dan's mother had not stopped in Brazos County,
Texas, with her brother, BENJAMIN, but had gone
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however, of leaving some males scattered around for
the backbreaking chores that women couldn't possibly
do and for possible uprisings by the slaves. BEN, therefore, was the only living son of LEVI'S who did not see
action.
The hand to mouth existence of rural life had probably caused this family's move to Mississippi. Money
was not circulating so freely there, though, judging by
the fact that it took BEN seven years to recover from
his father's estate the fifty dollars that he had lent him
to build his Attala County home! This homeplace of
LEVI'S stood in Section 3, Township 12, Range 5 (on
the south half of its southeast quarter). At the end of the
war, money became really scarce; BEN'S brother, as
executor of their father's estate, was allowed to pay
only ninety-six cents per year of property tax on
LEVI'S eighty acres of land. The old Indian patches
used so long without fertilizer, however, were beginning to wear out in this area too. BEN'S great-grandfather had moved from Virginia to South Carolina, taking
"Grandfather" JOHN on what was probably a quest for
better land. Father LEVI had left his native state for
Alabama, where BEN grew up, for the same reason.
BEN'S eyes were now turned toward the west; the land
of Texas looked greener than the land he now owned.
On Christmas Eve of 1869, BEN and his family
arrived at their destination: Brazos County, Texas. The
trip on ox-carts would long be remembered by Mrs.
Dowling, for a hundred miles east of there at Alto,
Texas, she had asked the party to halt so that another
little Dowling (SHELTON ISAAC) might be born!
(This second wife of BEN'S, Cena D. West, had been
born in Georgia. As shown on Chart 338, she bore most
of his children. They had married in Barbour County,
Alabama, November 7, 1857. Cena lived from August
10, 1837, to February 9, 1900. She is buried with BEN
near their Brazos farm, in Providence Cemetery. This
cemetery, like thousands of others in the United States,
is deserted . . . but remains like the mark of a cog made
by the passing wheel of civilization. BEN was buried
there in 1913.)
The name of BEN'S first wife is not known by the
descendants of her only child that is known to have
reached adulthood. Judging by the birthdate of this
child (MARTHA ANN, below), BEN married that wife
when he was seventeen. That wife probably died before
BEN married Cena. William Everett, age fifty-nine,
who lived with BEN in Dale County in 1860, might
have been a close kinsman of one of these wives.
BEN'S OLDEST CHILD, MARTHAANN, lacked
only five days of living for ninety years after her birth
on June 23, 1851. Addendum 742 shows her descen-
After the family's emigration to Attala County, he
became a member of the 1st Mississippi State Troops....
Just prior to the war's end he bought two Confederate
bonds at par; eleven months later, as the Federal jaws
clamped tighter, he bought more of them; this time at
ten cents on the dollar! The dire circumstances of his
government, however, are more forcefully emphasized
by the paper that the last bonds were printed on; they
were on the back sides of old CSA fuel requisitions!
ROBERT and his wife, Mary S., never had any
offspring. She was of Florida birth (1830) and lived
until 1905. Her property was left to the children of a
sister, a Mrs. McKinnon. Mary and ROBERT S.
Dowling are buried in the Old Salem Cemetery of
Attala County, Mississippi. He died January 21, 1884,
a few months after an old war-wound in his leg had
finally healed!
The 1830 census of Dale County, Alabama,
recorded two sons in LEVI'S home. The older would
have been son ROBERT, mentioned above. The author
feels that the other son must have died by the time of
the 1840 census (especially if headmarker birthdates
and a Civil War statement of age are to be trusted). This
unidentified son, the fourth child of LEVI'S, was not
given a Dale County tombstone, though, as little sister
MARTHA M. was.
The fifth child of LEVI'S "was the best woman
who ever broke bread" according to her first cousin
LACY ANN Matthews. This was the daughter SARAH
J Savage, the only one of LEVI'S dozen offspring to
rear her family in Dale County, Alabama. She is buried
there, in Claybank Cemetery, near her Uncle
DEMPSEY. Her headstone indicates an April 22nd,
1887, death. She had been born in Alabama fifty-six
years earlier, probably the first child to arrive after the
family had left South Carolina. All informants are certain that SARAH'S three grown children left no offspring. Son Jim W. Savage (born 1860) married Mollie
Moseley but they did not live together long nor have
any progeny. He was still alive in 1891 but, if buried in
Dale, is in an un-marked grave. Daughters Alcena
(born 1855 and called "Cena") and Nan J. Savage (born
1857) died as spinsters.
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The sixth child of LEVI'S was his first Alabamaborn son. This was the boy that Ann gave birth to on
April 6, 1833, whom they named BENJAMIN L.
Dowling. Later, as a resident of Attala County,
Mississippi, where LEVI moved these Dowlings (or
just across the line in Madison County), BEN was of
prime age for war duty. The officials followed a policy,
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BENJAMIN ORA is an oil operator at Robstown,
Texas. SHELTON died June 23, 1944, and was buried
in Bryan's City Cemetery; his widow, born December
13, 1876, still resides in Bryan.
BEN'S NINTH CHILD, ANNIE FRANCES, was
born on August 17, 1874, in Brazos County, Texas.
She died October 25, 1895, when only twenty-one;
her only child had been born a week earlier. This child
and its offspring are shown in Addendum 744.
ANNIE'S husband was Isaac R. Vannoy; he lived the
eighty-one years from February 2, 1867, to October
28, 1948.
BEN'S TENTH CHILD was the last of his halfdozen sons. Named DAVID EDWARD he lived from
March 22, 1877, to May 12, 1949. Of the Dowlings
who carried on the surname of our family's founder,
ROBERT, this one was the youngest of the youngest
of the youngest of the youngest, DAVID EDWARD'S
youngest son, however, was lost in World War II; his
other son is a batchelor. Therefore, the name Dowling
is disappearing on this limb of the tree and the author
shows its descendants in an Addendum (745). DAVID
is buried in Bryan's City Cemetery; beside him is his
wife, Dora Creed, who lived from July 22, 1884, to
October 23, 1954. They married about 1900.
BEN'S ELEVENTH CHILD, his last one, was
named FENNIE WEST. She had eleven offspring;
their fifty-six children are proof to the reader that this
Dowling family is still a virile one some two hundred
years after its Virginia beginning. FENNIE'S husband
was Fred Vannoy; Addendum 746 shows their offspring. FENNIE WEST Dowling Vannoy died at the
age of fifty-seven. She was about sixteen when she
married in 1895.
dants. Husband William Bibb Royall lived from
January 3, 1825, to October 8, 1901; they married
about 1878. BEN'S second child, HAYDEN W.
Dowling, was also born to this first wife (in 1856); he
must have died as a child.
BEN’S THIRD AND FOURTH CHILDREN
were the first ones that he and Cena had. They and
HAYDEN probably died in an epidemic after the 1860
census-taker had visited their Dale County home, for
BEN'S grandchildren were not familiar with these
three names when contacted by the author. These third
and fourth children’s names were SUSAN L. (born in
1858) and SAMUEL L. (born in 1859).
THE FIFTH CHILD OF BEN'S was born in
1860, about the time of the Alabama-Mississippi
move, and named JOHN HARRISON. He lived for
eighty-five years, dying November 7, 1945, in Texas.
He and his wife are buried in Wellborn Cemetery at
Wellborn, Texas. Her name was Fannie McPhail; their
children and grandchildren are named on Chart 596.
BEN'S SIXTH CHILD was born in Mississippi
in 1864 and named ELLA. She, too, went to Texas but
died at the age of forty-three. She had married Jack
McGregor about 1888; Addendum 743 lists their two
children and four grandchildren as well as some of the
people that these people married.
ROBERT ZEDOCK Dowling, the seventh child
of BEN'S, inherited some of the property of his uncle
ROBERT S. after his Mississippi death. Young
ROBERT had been born there on August 18, 1866.
After his aunt CAROLINE had brought many of the
Hooks on out to Texas, he married the daughter of
CAROLINE'S step-son, J. Frank Hooks. This girl's
name was Hattie Gertrude Hooks. Descendants of this
union are shown on Chart 597. (Hattie's parents were
both of Alabama birth; her mother was Sallie Martin,
thought to be a daughter of Benjamin B. Martin, Jr.,
who is mentioned on page 59 of this book. Hattie was
born in Willis, Texas, on March 10, 1879; she was
seventy-seven at the time of her death. She and
ROBERT are buried at Wellborn, Texas. He died April
11, 1941.)
BEN'S EIGHTH CHILD is the one for whose
birth the ox-cart caravan was stopped. Cena gave birth
to him on November 25, 1869; his name was SHELTON ISAAC. This Dowling farmed in Brazos County,
like all of BEN'S other sons (except DAVID
EDWARD who operated a store in Bryan). He and
Lillie Eugenia Kincannon Dowling had the offspring
shown on Chart 598. Son WILLARD ISAAC, SR.,
was of great aid to the author in gathering the names
of all of BEN'S descendants; he lives in Houston. Son
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The seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth children of
LEVI'S will be sketched in this section. Son JOHN W.
died single at Front Royal, Virginia, in August of 1864
in prison after being captured there in Virginia, fifteen
months earlier. Prior to his capture he was a member
of the 18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company
C. If the "W" in this boy's name stood for Wesley, then
he was the fourth such descendant of ROBERT'S who
carried the name of Methodism's founder into battle!
JOHN W. had been born in Dale County, Alabama, in
1833. He was not married. The "JOHN W." who was
"Alabama Administrator" of LEVI'S estate in 1869
would have been this boy's second cousin, Captain
JOHN WESLEY Dowling.
Eighth child DANIEL POSTELL, also born in
Dale County, died at the age of "22 years, 5 months,
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widower. A daughter of that previous marriage has
been mentioned earlier as the bride of SUSAN'S
nephew Daniel McLean, Jr. Two spinster daughters of
that previous marriage named Mildred and Fronia are
buried near SUSAN and their father in Attala
County's Old Salem Cemetery. SUSAN died
February 7, 1909. Mr. McDaniel died June 11, 1901,
not long before his eightieth birthday. (The 1870
Attala census indicates that his parents were still living at the age of eighty-five and that his father had
been born in Mississippi in 1785!)
The author calls your attention to the irregularity in Addenda 747 and 748. Each of them contains
several of ROBERT'S fifth-generation descendants
(instead of the one such person found in each other
Addendum of this book). Lack of time and the youthfulness of this family limb caused this to be done. The
beginning of each paragraph in Addendum 747
names such a descendant that was born to SUSAN
McDaniel above, namely her children: A. Gus,
Robert William, Lillie, Amanda, and Bessie.
Addendum 748 likewise begins its eight paragraphs with the eight children of LEVI'S youngest
daughter, AMANDA. Those children were: John M.,
Zack IInd, James Luther, Levi Elva, Ann, Nannie,
Mallie, and Pearl. AMANDA married Ben Frank
Massey about 1864, when both were twenty years of
age. He was just nearing the end of his Confederate
service in Company D of the 40th Mississippi
Infantry Regiment. He had been born in South
Carolina to Nancy McCool and Zack Massey and
lived forty-eight years after marrying this Dowling.
AMANDA was only forty-seven at the time of her
death. Both are buried in Attala's Old Salem
Cemetery near Sallis, Mississippi. (Mr. Massey married Ida Angel after AMANDA'S death but they had
no children.) A descendant of both AMANDA and
SUSAN by the name of Mrs. Eunice Massey
Goodson was especially helpful to the author in tracing LEVI'S Mississippi offspring.
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Reverend LEVI Dowling moved his family to Attala
County, Mississippi after the census enumeration of
Dale County in 1860. He arrived there by January of
1861, for his executor later had to re-imburse son
BENJAMIN L. for groceries purchased in Goodman
(across the Big Black River) that month. The following year, on October 17th, the old gentleman died.
Ann, his wife, must have also died between 1860 and
1870. Neither one seems to have been given a headstone; none of the descendants now knows the cemetery in which this grandson of ROBERT'S is buried.
and 2 days" on January 3, 1857. His headstone, and
that of LEVI'S tenth child, MARTHA M., stand next
to that of their murdered sister on the north edge of
Fort Rucker, Alabama (in the re-located Zion
Methodist Cemetery). POSTELL was single at the
time of his death. MARTHA'S headstone is possibly
the oldest of the 8,000 markers in Dale County; she
died August 16, 1839. She had been born July 12,
1838. These three descendants of LEVI'S are the only
ones of his several hundred progeny whose graves
can be found in Dale County, Alabama.
Ninth child JAMES JACKSON interrupted his
Mississippi farming to fight with the 18th Mississippi
Infantry Regiment. He joined it in the fall of '63 after
hearing of the disappearance of brother JOHN W.
JAMES saw action at Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Deep
Bottom, Charleston, and Berryville; he stayed with
his brother's old outfit the entire time . . . Following
the war, on October 23, 1877, he married Mrs. Mary
Etta Huckerby Spier. He died seven years later,
January 8, 1880, without having any issue. His wife
subsequently married a Reuther, but was buried near
JAMES after she died in 1932 at the age of eightythree. The author has visited their graves at West
Point, Mississippi; they are buried in Greenwood
Cemetery. JAMES was born September 4, 1836.
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The eleventh and twelfth children of LEVI'S and
Ann Dowling will be covered in this last section.
Both of these daughters were born at Honeytown
(now a ghost name in Dale County, as Fort Rucker
has enveloped it). They did not marry until they
moved to Attala County, Mississippi, from "Peachtree
Creek in Alabama".
SUSAN D., the eleventh child, was born on
March 16, 1840. A reference to an event involving
her father the following year is of interest. Dale
County's only history book thus far, "Piney Wood
Echoes" by Fred Watson tells that: "As early as 1841,
and continuing for three years thereafter, a campmeeting was organized and held at Zion Methodist
Church. Some persons ‘without the fear of God or
the law of the land’ disturbed the people who had met
for worship. They were arrested and brought before
Reverend LEVI Dowling, a local preacher and justice
of the peace." The author is certain that the fine was
not light, if LEVI was as stern as his brother
DEMPSEY!
SUSAN married when she was twenty-three on
December 19, 1863. The license was bought in
Madison County, Mississippi, adjoining Attala. Her
husband, Newton McDaniel, was a forty-year-old
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(born 1849). The author believes that William and a
younger brother, James, were residents of Covington
County, Alabama, by 1880.
The 1850 Coffee County census (covering, actually, the old west half of Dale) reveals the name of
four more daughters that JEMIMA had. There were
fourteen-year-old Mary, twelve-year-old Martha M.,
ten-year-old Frances, and one-year-old Saphronia J.
Their fortunes are unknown as are those of Susie and
another child among the thirteen that tradition tells us
that JEMIMA had.
Her oldest daughter was named Harriett
Calloway Hildreth; she was born June 17, 1825, in
Charleston, South Carolina. This was while the
Hildreths were there for Benjamin to receive his ministerial training. Harriett also married young; she was
only fifteen at the time of her betrothal to Henry B.
Grimes, a twenty-year-old Dale Countian who had
been born in Goldsboro, North Carolina. (Henry was
a son of Stephen Grimes and Bethany Hines and had
been born on June 10, 1820. Stephen used military
warrants in 1852 and 1853 to acquire Dale County
land and thus might have been a veteran of the War of
1812 or of Indian conflicts. )
THE OLDEST CHILD of Harriett Hildreth
Grimes was born September 30, 1841, and named
Haywood Pinkney Grimes. This man married
December 13, 1865, just after the war ended. Wife
Nancy Sanders probably died in Dale County shortly
after this; her youngest child was born there at Haw
Ridge in 1869. Mother Harriett and the five children
of hers who reached adulthood (see Chart 339) went
to the Hillsboro area of Texas between this time and
1883. Haywood Pinkney was one of these, of course,
and it was probably there that he met his second wife,
for she had been reared in Navarro County, Texas.
Her name was Elizabeth Holman Eggleston, the latter
name probably being a surname of marriage.
Offspring born to both of these wives are shown in
Addendum 749.
THREE CHILDREN of Harriett's died young.
These were Frances Catherine, born March 15, 184l,
and Amon Travis, born August 7, 1851, and James
Buchanan, born September 27, 1856.
THE SECOND SON of Harriett's was the one
who "led the way to Texas." He had been born near
Haw Ridge on May 20, 1846, thirteen years before
the death of his father. Harriett and Henry named him
Benjamin William. When in his teens, this boy, with
older brother H. P., fought as a member of General
Hood's crack corps of Confederates. At the time of
their surrender in Greensboro, North Carolina,
The only item listed in his small estate at the time of
his death that some might consider a luxury was a set
of books called "Clark's Commentaries". (These
books were bought at the subsequent auction by his
son JAMES JACKSON, though this Dowling was
plagued by myopia all the days of his life. Eyeglasses
were a rare luxury then!)
One of the bills rendered against LEVI'S estate
after his death is of interest. It stated that he owed the
following:
$40.12 1/ for the hire of slave Tom
7.01 "on the plank account"
7.58 for a barrell of molasses
7.50 for a half-bushel of salt
This bill was written on the back of a "Ladies Mt.
Vernon Association" form which strongly exhorted a
donation from whomsoever should be "honored in
being selected to help purchase the estate of George
Washington" for its proper preservation!
Some two score years after Reverend Dowling's
death, the "Southern Star" of Dale County, Alabama,
had this to say: "LEVI Dowling was one of the first
settlers in the Honeytown beat. He was a local
preacher of great usefulness. LEVI and his two brothers who preached were strict in their lives and in their
teachings; they had the courage of their convictions
and persisted in planting the seeds of the gospel into
the evil that was springing up on all sides. Their
course often brought criticism which occasionally
ripened into bitter persecutions."
JOHN'S NINTH CHILD, JEMIMA
(See Charts 339 and 101)
The youngest child of ROBERT'S youngest son
was the daughter JEMIMA. She was born in the
Jeffries Creek area of South Carolina on March 1,
1807. At the age of sixteen this Dowling girl married
a twenty-one year old South Carolinian named
Benjamin J. Hildreth. They attended the auction of
the few goods left by brother SIMEON at the time of
his Darlington death in 1826; Hildreth bought three
of Dowling's pamphlets for ten cents . . . his crockery
for fifty cents . . . and a used curry-comb for eight
cents!
By the time of the 1830 census in Dale County,
Alabama, JEMIMA had moved there. The three children she had borne by then were probably all of
South Carolina birth; the only boy among them,
William C., was six. This oldest Hildreth son married
some nineteen years later and resided for awhile in
Coffee County with wife Milly and daughter Mary A.
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had preached to a half-century earlier in North
Alabama. Reverend Grimes attended the sick, night or
day, near or far; to him, the spiritual hunger of people
was uppermost. He was self-educated; the times he
read the Bible from cover to cover are unnumbered!
Such faith lengthened his life. He and Altie renewed
their marriage vows on the fiftieth anniversary of their
original pledge to each other; nearly one hundred
descendants witnessed this in 1927 at the Avoca,
Texas, Methodist church. All nine of his adult children
became upstanding citizens; the love given them by
their parents caused none to resent the strictness with
which they were raised. (Rev. Grimes died December
3, 1930. Altie died May 6, 1948, at the age of eightysix. She had been born to Amanda Jane Sheppard and
Martin Van Buren Nelson on March 4, 1862, in
Jacksonville, Texas. She and Henry Edwin are buried
in Spring Creek Cemetery at Avoca.)
JEMIMA'S daughter Harriett, mother of the preceding eight children, died in Hill County, Texas, on
February 20, 1883. Her grave is in the Brandon cemetery, hundreds of miles from that of her husband's, for
Henry B. Grimes had died a quarter-century earlier in
the Haw Ridge area of Dale County on March 26,
1859. Coffee County graveyards within a few miles of
that old community may contain his headstone.
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The next to oldest son of JEMIMA'S was probably the first child that she and Reverend Hildreth had
after leaving the Carolinas. He was born December
30, 1830, near Haw Ridge, and named Travis
Zaccheus Hildreth. Twenty-one years later, this
Coffee Countian married Quincy Ann Whittle; they
had no children before her death a year later. (She had
been born October 4, 1826.) Travis was a chartermember of Tabernacle Methodist Church, founded
three miles northwest of his birthplace.
In 1853 Travis married Elizabeth Samantha
Hayes, the sixteen-yearold daughter of Mary and
Alonzo Farmer Hayes. Travis's nine children were
born to this wife in the Tabernacle Church area. On
November 24, 1860, the Haw Ridge Circuit was host
to the Methodists' Quarterly Conference. Hildreth was
licensed as a preacher that day and for nearly forty
years following this he delivered the fourth-Sunday
sermons at Tabernacle. His farming supported his
family; he was never known to accept pay for any
work for the church. The night of September 30, 1900,
this Christian lay dying; he said, "I have fought a good
fight . . . I have finished the course. I have kept the
faith; henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness". Then he folded his hands and said no
Haywood Pinkney had already been captured by the
enemy; Benjamin William was one of four men surviving of the ones in his company two years earlier!
(This was Company A of the 54th Alabama
Regiment.) The third wife of Mr. Grimes is still living
in Brandon, Texas; she celebrated her ninety-first
birthday in September of this year of 1959! (She is the
former Mollie Reed, whom he married October 8,
1898. Grime's first wife, Caroline Shepherd, died May
24, 1883; they had married July 14, 1878. He then
married Vinia Forbes Sams; she died February 8,
1897; their marriage occurred August 14, 1884. Both
are buried with Benjamin William in the BrandonBynum cemetery, near the large farm he settled three
generations ago. He died January 12, 1929. His children are named in Addendum 750.)
THE THIRD SON of Harriett's was born
November 30, 1848, and named John Thomas
Grimes. Texas kin always heard his wife referred to as
"Aunt Liney" though an obituary reportedly calls her
America Ann. Her maiden name was Watters. The
grandchildren of JEMIMA'S by John Thomas are
shown in Addendum 751.
THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER of Harriett's,
like all her other children, was born near Haw Ridge
in Dale County, Alabama. Little Georgiann gasped the
first breath of life on September 27, 1853. About the
age of nineteen, she married W. Lafayette McCauley
in Hill County, Texas. The first American Air Force
pilot to land in Italy during World War II, Jerome
McCauley, was a grandson of hers. His father, Baptist
minister John McCauley, and other children of theirs
are listed in Addendum 752. Georgiann's husband
died in the spring of 1929 and was buried in the cemetery at Brandon, Texas; her grave is probably beside
his. She died about 1905.
THE YOUNGEST SON of Harriett's was born
June 6, 1859, three months after his father's death;
Henry Edwin was named for Mr. Grimes. After their
arrival in Texas, this boy did the work of a man in
helping care for his widowed mother. At Blooming
Grove, Texas, December 2, 1877, he married Altie
Myra Ethel Nelson; Addendum 753 contains the list
of all their children and grandchildren.
Henry Edwin rode a horse to the Methodist
Conference west of Fort Worth in the late 1880's to be
ordained a minister. He loved revivals. He preached at
more than a hundred of them, helping to found
churches in Central and East Texas as he went. Many
summers were spent by him in this work among
Oklahoma Indians, some of them descendants, probably, of the Cherokees that his great-uncle ZACHEUS
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names the author learned were Ada's children: Wade,
Earl, Aubrey, Mabin, and Kate, the latter being the
wife of B. B. Hardwick. Ada has at least two grandsons: Methodist minister Rex Mixson and Maurice
Andrew Mixson, a physician of Hattisburg,
Mississippi.
THE TWO YOUNGEST SONS of Travis's were
Henry Walter and Marvin Bascomb. Henry lived from
February 15, 1869, to July 19, 1933. He, also, was a
steward of Tabernacle Methodist Church. His marriage
on July 21, 1891, to Lillie Ann Skipper, a granddaughter of MILLY Dowling, left such descendants as "Red"
Hildreth, former Dothan, Alabama, Methodist preacher. He and others are shown in Addendum 756. The
Skipper kin of Lillie Ann are shown in Addendum 681.
Marvin Bascomb Hildreth was the father of
Alabama state Senator Emmett F. Hildreth of Eutaw,
Alabama, a judge in later years, whose biography
appeared in "Who's Who in Methodism". Marvin
Bascomb was married to Lula Lee Cotter on
September 25, 1890; she is still living. He died
December 22, 1952, three days before his eighty-first
birthday. He is buried in Tabernacle Cemetery.
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Among JEMIMA'S thirteen children there were
also two other boys. The author learned nothing about
her fourth son, John M., except that he was born in
1844.
The fifth son, born April 30, 1846, was called
"Jack"; his full name was Robert Henry Jackson
Hildreth. Like brother Travis he was a preacher. Jack
served the Congregational Methodists. His first wife,
Julia S. Hamner (born October 17, 1845) died in 1892.
Two sons of his and Julia's live in Enterprise,
Alabama; they are E. Homer, and R. Bunyan. Another,
A. Lonnie (married to Bessie ? ) lives in Lake Worth,
Florida. Then there were six girls born of this marriage: Vickie (Hollis); Muncie, who married Finley
Griffin; Benlah, who married Frank Fleming; Vinnie,
who married Will Newman of Geneva, Alabama;
Daisy, who married Lee Green of Dallas, Texas; and
Ida Roberta, who married Alonzo Bolyn Green. (Ida
Hildreth Green's descendants are shown in Addendum
757. She lived from January 7, 1878, to July 26, 1940,
and was buried in the City Cemetery of Opp, Alabama.
Mr. Green was buried at Florala; he lived from March
1, 1876, to June 24, 1919 and had been born in
Barbour County, Alabama.)
Jack married his second wife, Annie Ruth
Carmichael, about two years after Julia's death. (Annie
Ruth lived from January 7, 1878, to February 1, 1947,
and is buried at Enterprise.) Three children were born
more. (He is buried in the cemetery beside his beloved
church. Elizabeth died thirteen years later, May 21,
1913, and was interred beside him. Her father was a
South Carolinian but she had been born in Oglethorpe,
Georgia, on March 24, 1837.)
THE OLDEST CHILD of Travis's, Franklin
Pierce Hildreth, lived from July 1, 1854, to March 26,
1890. The thirteen offspring of his seven children are
shown in Addendum 754. Pierce married Lenora
Frances Mims on November 16, 1876. Both are buried
in the City Cemetery at Enterprise, Alabama.
THE NEXT THREE CHILDREN of Travis's
were daughters and long lived. Nancy Jane lived seventy years from February 23, 1856, to November 17,
1926; she married James Madison Heath on January
28, 1875. Missouri Frances lived eighty-three years
from October 2, 1858, to February 22, 1942; she married John Robert Engram at the age of seventeen.
Sarah Elizabeth lived seventy-three years from
February 16, 1860, to April 15, 1933; she married
James Monroe Chancey October 12, 1884. All three of
these couples are buried in Enterprise's City Cemetery.
The author did not have time to search for their
descendants' names. Engram was one of four men who
signed a note in the 1890's making it possible for
Enterprise, Alabama, to have its first public school.
THE FIFTH CHILD of Travis's, born July 7,
1862, was named George Travis by Elizabeth and
Reverend Hildreth. His family could easily be called
the "house of doctors"! Three physicians in Dothan,
Alabama, alone are grandsons of his; Addendum 755
names them as well as three who practice elsewhere.
Also, a daughter and granddaughter married doctors.
George Travis's wife was Emma Missouri Mixson,
whom he married December 30, 1886. He, too, was a
pillar of Tabernacle Church, serving as its Sunday
School superintendent and as a steward. He and his
wife are buried in the Brundidge, Alabama, City
Cemetery. He died April 15, 1940; she died October 5,
1943, and had been born November 12, 1868.
Granddaughter Maud Byrd Windham, Daleville
schoolteacher, gathered most of this section's material.
THE TWO YOUNGEST DAUGHTERS of
Travis's were the following. Mittie Emma, who married Anderson Lafayette Wilson on December 23,
1883, and who lived from October 25, 1865, to July
26, 1932. The Wilsons are buried at New Hope Church
in Coffee County. Travis's youngest daughter, Ada
Lillian, married David Marion Mixson on February 9,
1893, and lived from November 10, 1876, to October
25, 1946. They are buried at Tabernacle. The only
grandchildren of Travis's (by these daughters) whose
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to this union: B. Horace, who lives in Memphis,
Tennessee; B. Malcom, who lives in Plant City,
Florida; and, Lillie Mae. This daughter married
Emmett G. Miller and lives out from Dover, Florida.
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JEMIMA'S husband, Reverend Benjamin
Hildreth, is said to have moved to Butler County,
Alabama, in the 1850's and to have died about the end
of the Civil War. The author found no Hildreths on that
county's 1860 census, nor does anyone seem to know
the exact cemetery in which he is buried. (He and a sister, Betty, probably the only two children of some
Carolina Hildreth, were orphaned early in life. An aunt
reared them. Betty later married a Stokes.) JEMIMA'S
obituary states that she was buried at "Carmichael's
Chapel, Coffee County". She died February 8, 1891, in
the home of her son Jack, six years before the roadfork
at which Carmichael Church stood was incorporated as
the town of Enterprise! She was survived by seventy
grandchildren. A letter she wrote the month before her
death makes one realize that most Dowlings sketched
in this book lived in almost a different world from this
twentieth century one now surrounding us. It was written to the child of JEMIMA'S whose name the author
learned last: Sarah (Bailey).
possoms. I am Iying on the bed with my feet to the
fire, well covered. And when I go home they have
the stove moved in the kitchen and my room and
the joining room all closed in nicely and will get
A chimney as soon as they can. When it is cold I
can sleep till breakfast if I want to. They have not
got no hirelings to now. They do what they can
themselves and let the rest go undone A part of the
time. I can stay with Nora and Nancy Heath wants
me to stay with her some. Juley's health is improving, tho Jack is never very well. The children is all
A looking well and four of them is A going to
school. I want to see you all. Come when you can.
Kiss little Benny for me. Give my love to all the
children. Frankie, Tiney and all the children send
their love to you all. Frankie would write some
but she is A fixing to go off to see Emmer to
morrow, About 20 miles, be gone 2 days. Tiney is
not very well. I hope to get A letter from Susan
soon. Give my love to all inquiring friends and
relatives, A double portion for yourselves. love to
all, I will close. Write soon and I remain your true
mother, as ever,
JEMIMA Hildreth.”
JOHN'S WIFE, Nancy Boutwell Dowling
(See Chart 101)
The mother of JEMIMA and JOHN Dowling's
other eight children was Nancy Boutwell. She was
thirteen when America's Declaration of Independence
was signed. After the revolutionist whom she married
had died "of old age" in the Jeffries Creek area, this
sixty-three year old mother moved to Dale County,
Alabama, to be near most of their children. She was
living with JEMIMA in 1830 and alone, near
DEMPSEY, in 1840. Such economies as the purchase
of son SIMEON'S cow for eight dollars, just prior to
the emigration from South Carolina, enabled this
elderly mother to live.
"In the seventy-third year of our Independence"
this mother of pioneers died, March 30, 1849. Though
her husband was a rebel against governmental control,
she and he had great faith in their ability to govern
themselves . . . also faith in God. Her grieving sons
buried her in a Methodist Cemetery next to Zion
Church, not far from Haw Ridge. ZACHEUS had
carved it out of the wilderness a few years after
Alabama's creation. The tombstone covering her grave
marks the closest kin of our family's founder that can
be found. She was ROBERT'S daughter-in-law.
“Mr. and Mrs. Bailey and family:
Dear Son and Daughter, these few lines in
reply to your letter we got yesterday. The package
got here last Monday. It came in a hurry. We are
all tolerable well. We had a pleasant Christmas. I
had fried chicken for dinner. I was glad of my
sack. It fits all right. Mary wrote a card as we had
not got your letter then. Mr. Bailey, we was
sorrow that you mailed your card to Ozark. You
must write again. Sarah, I have been taking the
Shakor medicine as I have to take something
nearly all the time and I take Blue Mass some
times tho to now I need a tonic to strengthen me I
am agoing to get a bottle of Harter's Iron Tonic.
They say it is so good to strengthen. I have not
needed money as yet, tho I am out. Now you need
not rest uneasy about me. Tho if you want to you
can send me a dollar or two to get medicine with.
I can't tell you where you could register a letter to
Enterprise or not. I will find out when I go home
and let you know. Tho at present you had better
register it to Haw Ridge, Coffee County direct it
to Mary and she can get it and send it to me all
right. I shall stay over here A while anyway. I do
fairsplendid here. I have A plenty to eat fresh
pork, chicken, eggs and squirrels, rabbits,
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Recent Endeavors of ROBERT’S Descendants
A
tutional. It is still in operation though a similar
attempt three years earlier by others had failed . .
. During the 1941 bus strike in New York City its
mayor appointed Dowling chairman of his fact
finding board . . . A 1948 Navy Distinguished
Public Service Award commended Dowling for
important board work on that branch's disciplinary system. (In the first World War NOEL was a
major in the office of the Judge Advocate
General.)
NOEL THOMAS Dowling's family is shown
on Chart 563. As son of a Methodist minister,
ANGUS, he learned God's laws before he
learned man's. By 1939 he was serving on
Riverside Church's Board of Trustees with such
men as John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and William T.
Gossett. Six years later, he became the board's
president.
Doctor Dowling is also highly regarded for
his ability as an author of legal tomes. Alone, he
compiled and edited "Cases on Constitutional
Law" (which reached its sixth edition in 1959).
NOEL collaborated with Richard A. Edwards on
"American Constitutional Law" and with others
in the authorship of such books as "Cases on the
Law of Public Utilities" . . . He now lives in
Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire, though he
spends most of the winter in New York City
where he practices as a Constitutional
Consultant.
s mentioned in the Preface, the author took
little time gathering dates of birth, occupations,
ete., on any of ROBERT'S descendants later than
the fifth generation. In other words, his time was
concentrated on every person who heads an
Addendum or (500 Series) Chart in this book and
on their mates and on kinsmen who lived during
their "Civil War" times, and before.
To give the reader an idea of the present-day
doings of ROBERT'S descendants, however, the
author presents here a few sketches of the various
offspring of our family's founder who have lived
in the twentieth century.
Constitutional Lawyer
"Talented teacher . . . interpreter of
Constitutional Law" . . . So begins the citation to
NOEL THOMAS Dowling by Columbia
University's President Grayson Kirk in 1954
when this legal leader was honored with an LLD
degree (NOEL THOMAS'S ancestry was
ANGUS, NOEL, DEMPSEY, JOHN, and
ROBERT.)
NOEL was born in Ozark, Alabama, August
14, 1885. After receiving an AB degree from
Vanderbilt and his LLB degree from Columbia
he became a law professor . . . first at the
University of Minnesota . . . and then at
Columbia. At the latter University he served
from 1922 until 1954, when he retired from
active service in the school. At that time he held
the envied title of "Harlan Fiske Stone Professor
of Constitutional Law."
Harlan Fiske Stone, Dean of the Columbia
Law School and later Chief Justice of the United
States, had said before leaving the School: "We
must bring to our faculty young men of promise",
men having intellectual power, scholarship, ability as teachers, and personality. The "Columbia
Law Review" states that NOEL was the first
selection made in fulfillment of the Dean's prescription. It further states that "thousands of students have derived understanding and inspiration
from his great classes in Constitutional Law".
In off-campus activities his agricultural
cousins should remember him most for the "Soil
Conservation Act". Washington had asked him in
1936 to help the Agriculture Department devise a
farm-assistance program which would be consti-
Missionary
WILSON THOMPSON "PETE" Dowling
was born in Fairfax, South Carolina, January 4,
1923, of the following ancestry: BENJAMIN
WYMAN, SR., OLIVER PERRY, JOHN
JABEZ, JAMES, and ROBERT. He attended
grammar school in Fairfax and graduated from
high school at Dreher High School, Columbia,
South Carolina, in 1941.
He served in the U. S. Air Force for three
years, after which he was graduated from
Presbyterian College in 1951. From there, he
went on to finish Columbia Theological
Seminary of Decatur, Georgia, in 1954. While
serving as a Chaplain's assistant in the Air Force,
he had decided to become a minister or a missionary.
PETE was, and still is, a member of the
Shandon Presbyterian Church in Columbia; he
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nation's finest, had been killed. Posthumously, he
was awarded a Presidential Citation for bravery
beyond the call of duty; also, the Bronze Star. The
epic picture of his brother Marines' final raising of
Old Glory on top of Iwo Jima will always remind
millions of their debt to such heroes as Francis
William Lowry. (The Francis W. Lowry Political
Science Scholarship has been established in honor
of this brave American at his second Alma Mater.)
was ordained there July 25, 1954. After his ordination, he went to the Presbyterian General
Assembly's conference for final training prior to an
overseas assignment. His wife, Helen Irvin, was a
leading architect of Aiken, South Carolina; their
children are named on Chart 557.
WILSON THOMPSON was sent to the East
Brazil Mission, supported by Southern
Presbyterians; he was commissioned an evangelical missionary August 4, 195 l. His wife aids their
church in her profession. Reverend Dowling has
been working with one of South America's noted
missionaries, Doctor Sydenstricker (brother of
Pearl Buck). During the doctor's recent furlough
PETE was placed in full charge of the Dourados
Division in East Brazil.
Civic Leader
VICTORIA LOUISE (daughter of WILLIAM
ANDREW who was son of FRANCIS ASBURY,
SR., son of ALLEN, son of JOHN, son of
ROBERT) . . . the beautiful, petite, brunette wife of
Doctor William Jesse Beasley, Hartsville, S. C. She
died August 22, 1956, two weeks before their anticipated Golden Wedding Anniversary.
VICTORIA was the sixth generation Dowling
to have lived within a stone's throw of Jeffries
Creek. Born September 3, 1888, she later majored
in music at Williamston Female College and
Lander College. The esteem in which her family
was held is indicated by the instructions that
wealthy young Doctor Beasley's mother had given
him: "Son, I'd like for you to marry one of the
daughters of ANDREW Dowling; I've never heard
any unkind thing about the Dowlings or Duboses .
. . and I'd like for my grandchildren to have this
blood in their veins!"
The Beasley children are shown on Chart 691.
Their mother's first love in extracurricular affairs
was gardening; she was a pioneer in camellia horticulture in the Pee Dee District of South Carolina.
The American Camellia Society's "Buster
Newman" seedling was developed by her . . . and
named for the negro gardener that has spent a lifetime tending the four acres of lovely grounds which
surround VICTORIA'S Hartsville home.
In rural Ashland this leader had taught an
Adult Bible Class; upon moving to Hartsville she
became the teacher of the Methodist Girls' Class at
Coker College. The eighteen years spent in the latter brought her the honor of having a high school
church circle named for her. VICTORIA was Art
Chairman of South Carolina's Federated Women's
Clubs and an active worker in the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, the Argus Literary
Club, the Pine and Lake Garden Club, and the
Methodists' W. S. C. S.
Like her mother-in-law, Mrs. Beasley was a
strong believer in ancestral traits; she was a mem-
Student and Soldier
Francis William Lowry was born August 5,
1923, in Tallahassee, Florida. His Dowling ancestry was as follows: Letitia Dowling Rawls, William
Andrew Rawls, Sr., LETITIA Owens Rawls,
WILLIS H., JAMES and ROBERT. His immediate
family is shown in Addendum 668.
At the time of his high school graduation in
1940 the Jaycees picked him as the "Best AllAround Boy" in the class; he was also valedictorian and recipient of the Student Council and
Scholarship medals.
After attending St. John's College, Annapolis,
Maryland, he transferred to Washington & Lee. He
graduated from there at the age of nineteen, Magna
Cum Laude. Due to the excellence of his scholastic
work he was extended a membership in Phi Beta
Kappa and awarded two scholarships (one in
Political Science and the other History). His social
fraternity was Kappa Alpha.
While in Lexington, Francis saw America
plunged into World War II. Upon graduation he
immediately joined the Marines. After intensive
training at Parris Island, Quantico, and Fort
Benning, he became a Communications Officer.
Lt. Lowry went to the Pacific battle area with
the 4th Marine Division. In June, 1944, he participated in the Battle of Saipan; two months later, in
that of Tinian. Francis saw the American flag go
up, as a symbol of the latter island's liberation, on
the eve of his twenty-first birthday.
After a few weeks of rest the 4th Marines were
assigned to the planned invasion of Iwo Jima . . .
Before the terrific fighting had gone twenty-four
hours Francis, and hundreds of others of the
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ROBERT.
JUDSON DAVIE was born in Dale County,
Alabama, and finished school there. As a train
dispatcher in St. Augustine, Florida, he read law
in his off-duty hours. Then, using the savings
from his salary as a Municipal Judge there, he
went to Medical School in Birmingham. After
graduate studies in the North he returned to the
Magic City as a specialist in obstetrics.
By 1917 he was given the dual post of Health
Officer for this huge city and surrounding
Jefferson County. Birmingham at that time had
the highest death-rate from typhoid fever, diarrhea, and colitis of any place in America. JUDSON DAVIE changed this. He gathered a staff of
skilled, dedicated workers around him; within
five years he had rallied support for the city's first
milk code and food code. But pasteurization of
milk cost money! . . . May 17, 1922, Doctor
Dowling was lured from his home by hired thugs
on the pretense of needing medical help; by dawn
he had been severely flogged!!
But Birmingham remembers what he did for
them; just recently, a resident asked the author:
"What kin are you to our Doctor Dowling that
had so much pluck?". In 1924 he received the
Birmingham News loving cup; he was "number
one" in a quarter-million.
In the five years prior to his death JUDSON
DAVIE, SR., served as Regional Medical
Director of the U.S. Public Health Service and as
Superintendent of Knoxville's Eastern State
Hospital for Mental Diseases. He was a fellow of
the American Medical Association and a director
of the Alabama Tuberculosis Association. His
family may be seen on Chart 568.
ber of the Huguenot Society, a delegate to the D.
A. R. Continental Congress and a member of the
U. D. C., as well as local and state historical societies. VICTORIA was a founder of Byerly
Hospital's Women's Auxiliary; the courtyard there
is named in memory of her.
Diplomat
Just prior to the printing of "A DOWLING
FAMILY OF THE SOUTH" it was announced by
President Eisenhower that he had picked WALTER CECIL Dowling as the new Assistant
Secretary of State for European Affairs.
Born in l905, in Atkinson, Georgia, Mr.
Dowling's ancestry was as follows: AARON
WALTER . . . JAMES RILEY . . . AARON . . .
JAMES IInd . . . JABEZ . . . WILLIAM . . .
ROBERT Dowling, father of our family.
WALTER was the private secretary of the
late Howard Coffin of Sea Island, Georgia. But
having graduated from Mercer College he decided to enter the foreign service in 1932. Service at
such places as Oslo, Lisbon, Rome, Vienna, and
Bonn gave him a good background for his present
position.
By 1949 Dowling was Deputy High
Commissioner in Austria where he represented
our country on the Allied Council; after that country's independence he was switched to the same
post in Germany. It was during that time that he
became minister to Germany.
In 1956 his nomination as Korean
Ambassador was confirmed by the U. S. Senate.
The New York Times described Dowling as having established in Korea a "reputation for
patience, tact, and skill in one of the most difficult
and challenging assignments in the foreign service", for getting along with President Syngman
Rhee was not an easy diplomatic job!
WALTER CECIL is an eighth-generationDowling and thus is one generation too young to
be on any Chart in this book. His father is one of
the many grandchildren shown on Chart 506.
Educator and Author
Believing that the highest calling one can follow is that of teaching, THOMAS IRVING
Dowling has given his talent to that task. Born
February 10, 1903, in Denmark, South Carolina,
his Dubh-Fhlann antecedents were: THOMAS
ELIJAH, AARON DECANIA, SR., DECANIA,
ELIJAH, WILLIAM. and ROBERT.
THOMAS began his teaching in the Parker
School District in Greenville, South Carolina.
Then for fourteen years he taught in the public
schools of New Rochelle, New York.
At the close of World War II he was Director
of the Education Department of Newberry
College, Newberry, South Carolina. Then he was
Public Official
JUDSON DAVIE Dowling, Sr., doctor,
health-officer, clinician . . . the man for whom
Dowling Auditorium in Birmingham's Public
Health Building was recently named. He lived
from April 30, 1880, to November 2, 1946.
Dowling male progenitors of his were: SAMUEL
LAWSON, JOHN, SR., DEMPSEY, JOHN, and
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two years later asked for overseas service . . .
Bougainville . . . the Gilberts . . . Munda . . . New
Guinea; Roy MacLean did his part in driving
back the enemy . . . Then Luzon: at 8:30 a.m. on
D-day, January 9,1945, this brave soldier led the
first men of the 37th Infantry into the assault
craft. He was their first man to fall! . . . Yes, some
cynical soldiers would say that the prayer meetings led by Roy were in vain . . . but historians
know differently!
made the first Director of Instruction in the State
Department of Education, Columbia, South
Carolina, where he served for five years. At the
present time (1959) he is Superintendent of
Schools in Greenwood in that state.
THOMAS'S specialty in education is in the
field of elementary school science. He devotes his
spare time to conducting workshops and teaching
courses in elementary science for colleges and
universities.
He has authored the "Understanding Science
Series" of textbooks for the John C. Winston
Company. He wrote the first syllabus for the
teaching of elementary science for the State of
South Carolina and has had the honor of being
named in "Leaders in Education". His family is
shown on Chart 522.
Humanitarian
HERNDON GLENN Dowling, Sr., president
of the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind at
the time of his death, May 21, 1948 . . . Son of
ZACHEUS ASBURY, son of HANSFORD, son
of ELIAS, son of JOHN, who was the son of
ROBERT.
HERNDON had reeeived his A. B. Degree
from Birmingham Southern Methodist College at
the age of seventeen; he was valedictorian of his
class. Further studies at Peabody and the
University of Chicago were culminated in a later
award of an honorary L. L. D. degree by his Alma
Mater in recognition of his contributions to
mankind.
Dr. Dowling's first important job was the
principalship of the large County High School at
Cullman, Alabama. Next he was elected
Superintendent of County Education there. While
heading the educational systems of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, he followed Dr. George H. Denny,
University Chancellor, in receipt of that city's
"Outstanding Citizenship" plaque.
As president of the Alabama Educational
Association and on another occasion as its fulltime Secretary, he was to a large extent responsible for the passage of Alabama's Tenure Law for
teachers and the creation of a Pension Fund for
teachers' retirement.
By 1943 Governor Sparks had appointed him
to the State Revenue Commission. Yet this busy
man found time for such jobs as teaching a
Sunday School class, governing a Kiwanis district, and presiding as chairman of his Methodist
board of stewards. HERNDON also established
the framework for a statewide medical clinic
which would provide for the indigent through the
use of generous doctors' services. His work and
that of other leaders in this field has placed
Alabama among the foremost in the nation in
crippled children’s work.
Entertainer
Robert Le Roy MacLean . . . Gilbert and
Sullivan star of the 1930's. Ancestry . . . NETTYE
Tresca, JOHN WESLEY, WILLIAM HAMPTON, WILLIAM H., JAMES, AND ROBERT.
Date of birth . . . January 31, 1909, near Lake
City, Florida, where Grandfather Dowling operated a big sawmill and lumber railroad. Roy's family is shown in Addendum 638.
He was taken to Baltimore, Maryland, as a
child. At the age of seven he was given piano
lessons; at eight, training in saxophone. Church
and theatre groups were using his talent before he
had completed the sixth grade of school. Upon
noticing the remarkable bent toward entertainment possessed by the youth his mother sent him
to the Peabody Conservatory of Music for several years. Simultaneously Roy studied six languages at The Berlitz School of Languages.
By the age of sixteen he had been paid professional fees to appear on radio in Baltimore and
Jacksonville. The same year he was given the roll
of Major General Stanley in "The Pirates of
Penzance". His versatility allowed him to make
such appearances as one in New York where he
conducted a fifty-voice Polish Choir. He was with
the San Carlo Opera Company in "The Great
Waltz" and performed at Atlantic City's Steel Pier,
and Jones Beach, Long Island. The Actors Equity
group appointed him to a position on their
Executive Board.
In April of 1941 the U. S. Army's Special
Services offered him the chance of doing his military time in the morale section. He declined, and
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caused his acquaintances' referral to his as "R.
RAY" . . . and then "RAY". The name, RAY A. is
on this Dowling's tombstone in Pinckard so the
author uses that name for his father on Chart 669.
Every Dowling ancestor of RAY'S back to
Revolutionary Soldier JOHN Dowling is buried
in Claybank Cemetery, fourteen miles north of
Pinckard.)
R. A. was active in Methodist youth work as
a child. At the University of Alabama, he won the
Phi Eta Sigma scholarship award. He met Agnes
Westervelt there; they were married in Dunedin,
Florida, her home, on December 12, 1943. After
two years in the South Pacific, R. A. returned to
Southeast Alabama and applied for a radio station
permit. The low-frequency channel (560 kc)
granted by the F. C. C. to WOOF (called "Woof"!)
gave Dothan, Alabama, one of the nation's most
powerful stations.
At present, he is Junior Warden of the
Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Dothan. He
has served as chairman of the National Peanut
Festival, Deputy District Governor of a Lions district, chairman of his county's Crippled Children's
Society and Red Cross Chapter and Better
Schools Committee. Currently, he is president of
the Dale County Historical Society and Dothan
Toastmasters.
HERNDON was born in Town Creek,
Alabama, one of his father's ministerial appointments, June 25, 1888. He married Ada Dora
Camp, July 14, 1919. Their family is shown on
Chart 581. He is buried in City Cemetery,
Talladega, Alabama.
Congressman
Born September 24, 1903, a few days after the
death of his father, Joseph Edward Hendricks, Jr.,
is an honor to his ancestors. His line of ascent to
our family's founder is as follows: Mary Eleanor
Andrews, EMILY Andrews, ELLEN, JAMES,
JR., JAMES, and ROBERT . . Sixty-six of his
first cousins are shown in Addendum 644.
At the time of his mother's death, 1913,
young Hendricks was living near his birthplace,
Lake Butler, Florida. Four years later, he began
realizing the need for a better education. He
worked his way through The Montverde School
of Orlando, receiving his high-school diploma at
the age of twenty-one. By taking occasional hiatuses in which to save more college money,
Joseph Edward finally graduated from John B.
Stetson University with a Batchelor of Law
degree in 1934.
Following brief jobs with the state and the
American Oil Company, Mr. Hendricks opened
law offices in Deland, Florida. Almost simultaneously, he threw his hat into the ring against nine
candidates for the position in Congress representing Florida's fifth district. He won this and five
successive elections.
In 1948, Congressman Hendricks declined to
serve any longer. Since that time he has been
active in the development of ocean-front courts at
Daytona Beach and in home building. Also a
grove-owner, and rancher, he resides in Plant
City, Florida.
R.A. Dowling Crushed to Death, 1960
R. A. Dowling, Jr., manager of Radio Station
WOOF, was crushed to death beneath his tractor
in a heavily wooded ravine near Dothan Sunday
morning.
His son Britt, 13, saw the tractor flip over,
toss his father into the ravine, and then go crashing down on him. Britt was standing about 100
feet away and had climbed off the tractor several
minutes before.
Several cranes were required to remove the
heavy tractor from Dowling’s body.
The tragedy occurred on a secluded piece of
property owned by Dowling about three miles
east of Dothan on Old Webb road. Dowling was
reportedly clearing the land with his tractor for
construction of an auxiliary radio station.
Dowling, a native of Pinckard, opened the
radio station shortly after he was discharged from
military service following World War II. He gave
Dothan one of the nation’s most powerful lowfrequency stations.
Jess L. Jordan, president of the Alabama
Author of This Book
When Elizabeth Wells Dowling had her second son in 1885, she asked his twelve-year-old
brother what she should name him. Little HART
answered. "R. A., for my friend R. A. McKellum"
. . . This baby in turn grew up to have two sons
and passed the name on to the second of his; R. A.
(Jr.), born January 27, 1922, in Pinckard,
Alabama, is the author of this book. (As in the
case of millions of names, the elder Dowling's
name became corrupted. The repeated pronounciation of the two letters comprising his name
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Broadcasters Assn., of which Dowling was a
member, said, “The vital contribution Dowling
made to the broadcasting industry and its service
to the people of Alabama will be greatly missed.”
Dowling played a prominent role on state
legislative committees dealing with bills affecting
radio stations.
He was active in civic affairs, serving as chariman of the National Peanut Festival, Houston
County Crippled Children Society, American Red
Cross, and the Better Schools Committee.
In addition, he was president of the Dale
County Historical Society and the Dothan
Toastmasters Club, a deputy district governor of
the Lions Club and junior warden of the
Episcopal Church of the Nativity.
Dowling was a graduate of the University of
Alabama where he won a Phi Eta Sigma scholarship award. Recently he wrote a book entitled, “A
Dowling Family of the South.”
He is survived by his widow, and four children. Britt, Bryan, 11, Hart, 6, and Jeannie, 9.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 3
p.m. from Episcopal Church of the Nativity in
Dothan, with the Rev. Ben A. Meginnis officiating. Burial will be in Memory Hill Cemetery in
Dothan.
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The Charts
For help in reading the charts please see
To Understand the Charts at beginning of the book
Page 97
Page 98
ROBERT
A. Unknown
B. Sarah Guinn
See Page 1
Master Chart 101
|
A-
WILLIAM
Rebecca Walker
See Page 3
B-
JAMES
Mary Boutwell
See Page 21
B-
JOHN
Nancy Boutwell
See Page 38
|
|
|
JABEZ
Rebecca
See C-311 & Page 3
WILLIAM H.
Elizabeth Watson
See C-321 & Page 21
DEMPSEY (Rev.)
Martha Stokes
See C-331& Page 39
|
|
JAMES JR.
Jane White
See C-322 & Page 25
ELIAS
A. Mary ?
B. Elizabeth Stewart
See C-332
& Page 67
|
|
|
CAGEBY (MICAJAH)
Sarah ?
See Page 20
JOHN JABEZ
Susan Barnes
See C-323 & Page 30
John Stokes
LYDIA ANN
See C-333 & Page 71
|
|
WILLIS H.
Nancy Cook
See C-324 & Page 35
|
(John?) Stewart
MARY AN
See Pages 1 & 2
|
ELIJAH
Elizabeth Rice
See S-312 & Page 12
?
B-
|
|
ZACHEUS (Rev.)
A. Eliza ?
B. Zadie Capp
C. Permelia Head
See Page 73
|
DAUGHTER
See Page 37
ALLEN
Polly Heath
See C-335 & Page 74
|
|
DAUGHTER
See Page 37
Henry Stokes
RHODA
See C-336 & Page 77
|
|
LETTIE
See Page 37
SIMEON
Died Single
See Page 80
|
|
POLLIE
See Page 37
LEVI (Rev.)
Ann ?
See C-338 & Page 80
|
|
SALLIE
See Page 37
Benjamin Hildreth
JEMIMA
See C-339 & Page 86
?
X
Page 99
?
B-
? Ogelsbee
ELIZABETH
See Page 2
|
Milly (Oglesby or
Dowling??)
See Page 2
?
B-
(Fredrick Lee?)
SARAH
See Pages 1 & 2
|
?
Chart 311-L
-JABEZ
Rebecca ___?___
See C-101 & P-3
-ELIZABETH
died single
See Page 3
-WILLIAM II
Elizabeth Rhoden
See Page 4
-DENNIS
Mary E. Moore
See Page 6
-JAMES II
Rebecca ___?___
See Page 7
-JABEZ LAZARUS, SR.
H. Elizabeth Davis
See Page 8
X
-JOHN RILEY
Margaret Alden
See C-501 & P-4
-WILLIAM WESLEY
Ardelia E. Frier
See C-504 & P-6
-AARON
Sarah A. Winn
See C-506 & P-7
-DAVID C.
Letitia Thomas
See C-509 & P-8
-MATTHEW B.
Jane ___?___
See Page 5
Samuel Register
-REBECCA
See A-602 & P-6
-REBECCA
See Page 7
Jacob Altman
-LUVICEY
See Page 9
-REBECCA E.
See Page 6
Charles King
-ELIZA
See Page 6
-DARLING II
See Page 7
James A. Rowell
-TEMPERANCE
See A-604 & P-9
X
-JABEZ JACK
Sarah Hickox
See C-507 & P-7
Isham Crews
-ADELINE
See A-605 & P-9
X
X
Wm. John Crews
-SABRA SALINA
See A-606 & P-9
-AVERY
died as a child
See Page 9
William Edwards
-SOPHINA BELL
See Page 9
David Raulerson
-MARY MARTHA
See A-607 & P-9
-HESTER ANN
died as an infant
See Page 9
-JABEZ LAZARUS, JR.
Susan Crews
See C-511 & P-9
A. Petty (or)
___?___ Roberson
-REBECCA ELIZA
See Page 9
-JOHN D.
Nancy Taylor
See C-512 & P-10
X
Page 100
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CHART 311-R
JABEZ
Rebecca ?
See C-101 & Page 3
|
-
DARLING
Sophie Davis
See Page 10
-
|
-
Dempsey Griffin
MARY E.
See A-608 & Page 10
|
-
|
-
Edmond Thomas
MARTHA
See A-609 & Page 10
LAZARUS
Mary Ann Guy
See C-514 & Pge 10
-
JOHN
Sarah Johns
See C-515 & Page 11
-
JAMES R
Annie Johns
See C-516 & Page 11
-
Daughter
Born About
1800-1810
-
|
|
?
?
-
|
-
|
J. J. Johns
Mary
Born 1830
Frank Prescott
Ulmer
(These Names
Just Received)*
-
Nancy
Born 1832
-
Elizabeth
Born 1834
|
Nelse Bowers
Becky Ann
(These Names
Just Received)*
|
-
George Bowers
Lyna
(These Names
Just Received)*
James
Born 1835
|
-
|
-
Jeremiah Walker Sr
NANCY
See Page 4
|
|
|
-
Daughter
Born About
1800-1810
|
|
-
James Henry
Henrietta Davis
See Page 3
-
|
|
-
Hansford Cleland
SARAH
See Page 3
Jeremiah, Jr.
Born 1839
|
? Sauls
Caroline
(These Names
Just Received)*
-
Susannah
Born 1839
-
Rebecca
Born 1841
|
|
Wm. Henry Stone
HARRIETT
See A-610 & Page 11
|
-
Allen Stone
SELETA
See A-611 & Page 11
|
-
Elmer Thomas
Mary Ann
(These Names
Just Received)*
|
|
X
-
* These comments
refer to the original
1959 text
|
-
Esther
Born 1845
-
John
Born 1846
Unknown
MELINDA AVEY
See A-612 & Page 11
|
|
- DARLING WESLEY
Mary F. Harris
See C-517 & Page 12
|
-
|
a
John Harris
b
Joe Thornton
c
Nathan Dryden
- EMMA SORENTHO
See A-613 & Page 12
X
L. R. Harris
SOPHIA
See A-614 & Page 12
|
-
Hampton
Born 1850
|
|
-
Keziah
Born 1845
DENNIS II
Died as a Child
See Page 12
|
X
Page 101
Chart 312-L
-ELIJAH
Elizabeth Rice
See C-101 & P-12
Zachariah Graham
-SARAH
See Page 13
John Hanberry
-ELEANOR
See Page 13
-DECANIA
Elizabeth Zorn
See Page 14
-WILLIAM BENJAMIN
A. Maria Holman
B. Rebecca Staley
See Page 16
James Jones
-Ida Elizabeth
See A-615 & P-13
-Washington Aaron
Lena Hurst
See A-617 & P-13
Andrew J. Cox
-ELLEN ELIZABETH
See A-622 & P-14
Jacob E. Free
A-ELIZABETH
MAGALENE
See A-626 & P-16
-Winchester
a. Eliza C. Smith
b. Julia Brooks
See A-616 & P-13
-Henry R.
died single
See page 13
Henry W. Rice, Sr.
-SARAH
See A-623 & P-14
Joseph Kennerly
A-ELLEN MARIA
See A-627 & P-16
-William Wesley
Sarah Morse
See page 13
-Bartholomew
died single
See page 13
Caleb Sauls
-MARY S.
See Page 14
J. Rufus Turner
B-EMMA
See Page 16
X
-Decania
Clara M. __?__
See Page 13
a. James Michael Barr
b. Franklin A. Warren
-REBECCA ANN
See A-624 & P-15
X
-Hansford
__?__ Slater
See A-618 & P-13
-ELIJAH HENRY
a. Virginia Spann
b. Laura Cannon
See C-521 & P-15
-John Chester
a. Honora Corniff
b. Elvira J. Padgett
See A-618.1 & P-14
-AARON DECANIA
Caroline Rebecca Tyler
See C-522 & P-15
John Sandifer
-E. Jane
See A-619 & P-14
-CHARLEIGH THADEUS
Margaret Quattlebaum
See C-625 & P-15
Henry Sandifer
-Georgianna
See A-620 & P-14
-JOHN C.
Mary E. Babers
See C-523 & P-15
-Margaret
died single
See Page 14
-WM. PRESTON, SR.
a. Emma __?__
b. Mary Ann Snider
See Page 15
__?__
-Louisa
See Page 14
X
John Witt, Sr.
-Rebecca
See A-621 & P-14
X
Page 102
Chart 312-R
-ELIJAH
Elizabeth Rice
See C-101 & P-12
Daniel Guess
-ELIZABETH
See Page 16
-AARON MADISON
A. Martha A. C. Colllins
B. Mrs Lota Cato
See Page 17
A. __?__ Rosier
B. James Hill
-NANCY ANN
See Page 19
-CHARLEIGH
A. Nancy Holbrook
B. Eliza S. Griggs
See Page 19
-John Eli Nolly
died age four
See Page 17
Dr. D. D. Briggs
A-MARY ANN
See A-631 & P-17
A -Sing
See Page 19
Bemberry Bond Jones
A -ELIZABETH
See Page 19
-James Aaron
died single
See Page 17
Alexander Taylor
A-ELEANOR KITTURAH
See A-632 & P-18
__?__ Kearse
A -Eliza
See Page 19
A-JACOB ELIJAH
Emma B. Dotson
See A-634 & P-20
-Charles Z. R.
died as infant
See Page 17
A-JAMES AARON E.
a. Mary E. McDonald
b. __?__ McDaniel
See C-526 & P-18
__?__ Snider
A -Sarah Helen
See Page 19
X
-Decania Wm. D.
Calista Parler
See A-628 & P-17
Francis M. Adams
B-VIRGINIA CAROLINE
See A-633 & P-18
B -William
died as infant
(per late letter)
X
W. H. Colson
B -Harriett
See Page 19
-Sarah Ann Elizabeth
died age eight
See Page 16
-Joseph G. H.
a. Susan Barr
b. Mattie Prothro
See A-629 & P-17
?
-Samuel Daniel
Medicus (Doctor)
Sallie Barr
See A-630 & P-17
Allen Turkett
-Eleanor P. R.
See page 17
-Henry E. E.
died age one
See Page 17
-William E. B.
Louise Smith
See A-630.1 & P-17
X
Page 103
Chart 321
-son, age 10 to 16
on 1810 census
see page 21
?
-WILLIAM H.
Elizabeth Sarah
Watson
See C-101 & P-21
-daughter
under ten on
1810 census
?
-daughter
under ten on
1810 census
?
-MARGARET
See Page 21
?
-FRANCES
See Page 21
?
-WILLIAM HAMPTON
Mahaley Ogden
See Page 22
Gillum Walston
-MARY
See Page 21
-ISAAC
Henrietta Williams
See Page 23
-Thomas
Elmira Cheshire
See Page 22
-JOHN WEST
died age ten
See page 23
Lewis Wm. Rivers
-Susan Ann Amanda
See A-635 & P-22
-WILLIAM HENRY
died age seven
See page 23
Andrew Johns
-Elizabeth Jane
See Page 22
-BERIAN
died single
See page 23
Jacob R. Parnell
-Sarah R.
See A-636 & P-22
Jackson D. Mann
-MARTHA JANE
See A-637 & P-23
Jim Tillis
-Mary B.
See Page 22
Wm. Alex Townsend
-ELIZABETH SARAH
See A-637.1 & P-23
-William Franklin
Mahala Johns
See Page 22
-GEORGE DALLAS
Mary Ann Barnett
See C-531 & P-23
-Joseph E.
__?__ Gilliard
See Page 22
-LEWIS
Anna Scott
See Page 24
X
-JOHN WESLEY
Emma Ogden
See A-638 & P-24
-THOMAS
Laura Ann Weeks
See C-532 & P-24
-PHILIP HENRY
Emma Ruth Wolfe
See C-533 & P-24
-FRANCIS MARION
a. Polly Anna Weeks
b. Harriet Jaudon
c. Minnie Gillen
See A-639 & P-25
X
Page 104
Chart 322
-JAMES, JR.
Jane White
See C-101 & P-25
-WILLIAM
HENRY TUCKER
Jane Ann Cleland
See Page 26
John H. Jones
-MARY REBECCA
See A-640 & P-26
-JOHN
killed age 15
See Page 25
Charles Smith
-AUDREY
See Page 25
__?__ James
-REBECCA
See Page 25
-Jim
?
X
A. __?__
B. Stephen Denmark
-ELLEN
See Page 28
John S. Andrews
A-EMILY
See A-644 & P-28
-WILLIAM HENRY
Didamier Johnson
See C-541 & P-26
-Ned (or Med?)
A -JAMES WALTER TOM
a. Miss James
b. Martha Thornton
See C-546 & P-28
Wm. Tomlinson
-HARRIETT ADELINE
See A-641 & P-26
?
A -JOHN H. N. P.
a. Catherine Tyson
b. Lula Dixon
See C-547 & P-29
-ROBERT NELSON,SR.
Caroline Wester
Lou Venia Odgen
See C-542 & P-26
B -Stephen Banner
Mamie Crews
See A-645 & P-29
-HANSFORD JACKSON
Eliz. Shirley
Mrs. Tillis
See A-642 & P-27
Wm. Jack Johns
B -Lovey Jane
See A-646 & P-29
-MILES
died age one
See Page 27
George E. Kelly
B -Hester
See A-647 & P-29
Geroge W. Thomas
-SARAH ELEANOR
See A-643 & P-27
X
-JOHN BRYANT
Emily Roberts
See C-543 & P-27
-RAMSOM TUCKER
Ida Massey
See page 27
X
Page 105
Chart 323-L
-JOHN JABEZ
Susan Barnes
See C-101 & P-30
-JAMES THEOPHILUS
Mary Ann Long
See Page 30
William Croft
-RENNIE
See Page 32
-WILLIAM MATTISON
Eliz. Harrison
See Page 32
John Harriett
-HESTER ANN
See Page 33
-WILLIAM HAMILTON
Clara L. Ruth
See C-551 & P-30
-William, Jr.
See Page 32
James Harriett
(first cousins)
-VICTORIA
See Page 32
-Frank
Annie Priester
See Page 33
John Asa Tuten
-SUSAN CATHERINE
See A-648 & P-31
-Rosa
See Page 32
-WM. FERDINAND
died as a child
See Page 32
-William
a. Missie Mole
b. Sarah Benton
See Page 33
John Fred. Rivers
-ARGENIE ROSETTA
See A-649 & P-31
__?__ Rivers
-Anna
See Page 32
a. Joseph Rosier
b. Blakely Mason
-CLEMENTINE PAM.
See A-652 & P-33
-James
a. Martha Myers
b. VICTORIA Dowling
See Page 33
-JOHN VIRGLE
Annie Williams
See C-552 & P-31
?
-RILEY R.
died single
See page 33
William Priester
-Susan
See Page 33
X
__?__ Simmons
-Nancy
See Page 33
-DECANIE DEXTER
Mary Marg. Thames
See C-553 & P-31
Jos. D. Deloache
-DEBORAH MELLISON
See A-650 & P-32
Henry Kinard
-Mary
See Page 33
Thos. T. Speaks
-EMMA ELIZABETH
See A-651 & P-32
?
-LUCIOUS RHETT
Mary Susan Goethe
See A-651.1 & P-32
-ANNIE REGINA
died single
See P 32
X
Page 106
-JOHN JEFFERSON
died single
See Page 33
X
Chart 323-R
-JOHN JABEZ
Susan Barnes
See C-101 & P-30
-ELBERT LIGAH
Ann Harriett
See Page 33
George Googe
-CORA HAZELTINE
See Page 33
-JOHN HAMPTON
Lelia Ambrose
See Page 33
X
a. Humphrey Moore
b. J. H. Cope
-JULIA
See Page 33
X
Mike Freeman
-MARY
See page 33
-OLIVER PERRY
a. Josephine Prescott
b. Henrietta Googe
See Page 33
-Charlie
See Page 33
a-JOSEPHINE
died age nine
See Page 33
-Sula
See Page 33
b-SARAH VIOLA
died age seven
See Page 33
-Mary Jane
See Page 33
John Ham. Nix
b-AIMEE GERTRUDE
See A-653 & P-34
-Lou
See Page 33
b-JULIA E.
died single
See Page 34
__?__ Loadholt
-Julia
See Page 33
b-JOHN CALHOUN, SR.
Lillie Cleland
See C-556 & P-34
?
b-WADE HAMPTON
Laura Bassett
See A-654 & P-34
b-BENJ. WYMAN, SR.
Mary E. Sullivan
See C-557 & P-34
b-HENRY GOOGE
died single
See Page 34
b-OLIVER PERRY, II
(”DOLLY”)
Agnes Sullivan
See C-558 & P-34
b-ABRAM DAVID
Edith Barker
See A-655 & P-35
X
Page 107
-ELIZA JANE
died single
See Page 35
X
Chart 324
-WILLIS H.
Nancy Cook
See C-101 & P-35
-JOSEPH
a. Catherine __?__
b. Eliz. Johns
See Page 36
-son
(born 1810-1815)
See Page 37
?
?
-son (JAMES?)
(Born 1810-1815)
See Page 37
?
Absolam Presnal
-JULIA
See Page 36
?
-daughter
(born 1810-1815)
See Page 36
?
-MADISON
See Page 37
?
a.Samuel A. Austin
B. David Crowell
-HANNAH JANE
See Page 36
a. Thos. D. Owens
b. Thos. J. Rawls
-LETITIA
See Page 35
a. -James
See Page 36
John Wm. Britton
a. -Mary Ellen
See A-656 & P-35
a. -Frank
See Page 36
Albert E. Philips
b. -Eugenia
See A-657 & P-35
?A. J. Barrett?
a. -Letty
See Page 36
b-Wm. A. Rawls, Sr.
Mary Maxw. Flagg
See A-658 & P-36
?
b-Annie E.
died age three
See Page 36
E.J.K. Johnston
b-Frances
See A-659 & P-36
b-Thomas Glover
Sadie Williams
See Page 36
b-Edwin Blake
died as infant
See Page 36
X
Page 108
Page 109
Chart 331-L
-DEMPSEY (Rev.)
Martha Stokes
See C-101 & P-39
Elisha Matthews
-LACY
See Pages 39 & 41
-WESLEY
Amanda E. O’Neal
See Page 43
-ELIZABETH (twin)
died as child
See Pages 40 & 44
William Cox
-MILLY (twin)
See Page 44
-NOEL
Sarah D. McDonald
See Page 47
-FLETCHER
Caroline Martin
See Page 50
Sam’l H. Hallford
-ZILLIH
See Page 51
-William Edward
a. Lucy Brackin
b. Nancy J. Brown
See A-660 & P-42
-COLONEL JASPER
died single
See Page 43
X
M. Gordon Matthews
-Martha Ann
See A-669 & P-45
-JOHN WESLEY
Annie J. Thompson
See Page 47
-JEFFERSON
Margaret Kelly
See A-676 & P-50
-James
Mary J. Skipper
See Page 52
Sam’l J. Andrews
-Martha Ann
See A-661 & P-42
-MARTIN R.
died single
See Page 43
-Nancy
died as child?
See Page 45
-ANGUS (Rev.)
Laura L. Boswell
See C-563 & P-48
Jim Harris
-MARY JANE
See A-677 & P-51
-Wesley H.
Sophia Ann Figg
See A-680 & P-52
Wm. Henry Martin
-Mary Mancey
See A-662 & P-42
-MARION JACKSON
Ursula Atkinson
See C-561 & P-43
a. Simeon P. Gray
b. Edward G. Didham
-Mary Elizabeth
See A- 670 & P-45
-SIMEON
Sarah Jane Welch
See C-564 & P-48
John Jeff. Bottoms
-MARG. VICTORIA
See A-678- & P-51
-Susannah
died single
See Page 52
John C. Clark
-Sarah Jane
See A-663 & P-42
Elisha R. Woodham
-FRANCES
See A-668 & P-44
Elcanah Chambliss
-Sarah Savannah
See Page 46
-MARQUIS DE
LAFAYETTE
died as child
See Page 49
-ANDERSON
Caledonia Connelly
See A-679 & P-51
Robt. G. Skipper
-Sarah Ann
See A-681 & P- 53
X
-Wm. Fletcher
a. Martha Ann Bush
b. Matilda K. Parker
See A-671 & P-46
-JAMES KING
died single
See Page 49
John F. Martin
-Aquilla Malissey
See A-665 & P-43
-Jesse James
died single
See Page 46
-DANIEL YOUNG
Rebecca J. Dick
See C-565 & P-49
-Dixon H.L.
Harriett Skipper
See Page 53
James C. Ross
-Talitha
See A-666 & P-43
-Henry Edmond
died single
See Page 46
-NOEL PEELER
“DORA” Dowling
See A-674 & P-49
-Gordon L
Emily Mullins
See A-682 & P-53
Hugh McDonald
-Eliz. Ann Joseph.
See A-667 & P-43
William A. Gray
-Cornelia
See A-672 & P-46
-GABRIEL PASTORY
Zilpha Ann Smith
See C-566 & P-50
-Samuel Jesse
died single
See Page 53
Wm. Acrel Byrd
-Margaret T.D.P.
See Page 43
Henry Thos. Casey
-Delilah Marena
See A-673 & P-46
a. Jas.W.T. Smith
b. A.D. Wall
-ANNA JANE
See A-675 & P-50
Jas. P. Pritchett
-Calif. Josephine
See A-683 & P-53
-Mellon Thoory
Rebecca Treadwell
See A-664 & P-42
X
-Saphronia Ann
died as child?
See Page 46
-Rebecca
died as child?
See Page 46
X
Page 110
X
X
-Jason Wilburn
died single
See Page 53
Sam’l Ez. Hallford
-Piety
See A-684 & P- 54
-Clayton Monroe
died as child
See Page 54
X
Chart 331-R
-DEMPSEY (Rev.)
Martha Stokes
See C-101 & P-39
Emmanuel Parrish
-MARTHA
See Page 54
-JOHN, SR. (Rev.)
Charlotte Brackin
See Page 55
-EDWARD
a. Anna Oates
b. Maggie A. Barnes
See Page 59
-JAMES
Nancy Martin
See Page 61
James Parrish
-MARY ANNA
See Page 54
-ZINNAMON (Rev.)
Eliz. Ingraham
See Page 63
Mathias Brackin
-FRANCES
See Page 65
-Levin C. “Hill”
Ardilla __?__
See Page 54
-SAMUEL LAWSON
Sarah J. Windham
See C-568 & P-56
a-HENDERSON JESSE
died as child
See page 59
Timothy C. Lee, II
-SARAH A. E.
See A-694 & P-61
-Chapman
See Page 54
Geo. W. Duncan
-LAURA
See A-700 & P- 64
-Simeon W.
Almeida Windham
See A-706 & P-66
-Jefferson B.
See Page 54
-ELISHA MATHIAS C.
Tansy Jane Britt
See A-685 & P-56
a-ROBERT JAMES
Drucilla Thompson
See Page 59
Spencer Johnson
-CATHERINE C.
See A-695 & P-61
-Marcellus
died single
See Page 54
-PINKNEY MANCIL
a. Sarah G. Brown
b. Nancy R. Brown
c. Jane Brown
See A-701 & P-64
Lafayette Metcalf
-Martha Jane
See A-707 & P-66
John C. Parker
-LACY ANN LUIZA
See A-686 & P-56
Daniel Martin
a-MARGARET
FRANCES
See A-689 & P-59
-WILLIAM REYNOLDS
a. Matt Howell
b. Arminta Stanford
See C-573 & P-62
-Savannah
See Page 55
John P. McDonald
-NANCY JANE
See A-687 & P-57
Needham Hughes
a-ELIZABETH ANN
See A-690 & P-60
a. Stephen Martin
b. Joe S. Morris
-ANNA JANE
See A-696 & P-62
-Rosaberg (?)
See Page 55
-NOEL BAXTER
Elizabeth Wells
See C-569 & P-57
Ransom Byrd
a-MARTHA JANE
See A-691 & P-60
-GREEN BERRY YOUNG
a.Catherine Woodham
b.Georgia Ann Dunn
See C-574 & P-62
-Young
See Page 55
-JARRETT MALONE
Ella Crim
See A-688 & P-58
John C. Holman, Sr.
a-SUSAN VIRGINIA
See A-692 & P-60
William Stanford
-PAMDORA
See Page 63
-Lawrence
Martha __?__
See Page 55
-LOUIS LAWRENCE
Ida Connelly
See C-570 & P-58
Wm. Acrel Byrd
a-VANTILLER OPHELIA
RIO DE JANEIRO
See A-693 & P-60
-JAMES ERVIN
a. __?__
b. Lettie O. Murray
See A-697 & P-63
-Sarah
died as child
See Page 55
-JOHN PARROTT
died as child
See page 58
(first cousins)
NOEL P. Dowling
a-CHAS. E. E., “DORA”
See A-674 & P-60
Sam Calv. Windham
-BUNEY
See A-698 & P-63
-Mary A.
See Page 55
-GEORGE
WASHINGTON
Mollie Carroll
See C-571 & P- 58
a-STEPHEN EDWARD
died single
See Page 60
I.V. Morris
-CALLIE
See A-699 & P-63
X
X
X
(five infants)
See Page 61
X
X
John Bailey
-JETSON CAMILLA
See A-702 & P-64
-SIMPSON QUITMAN
a. Frances Golden
b. Willie Adams
See C-577 & P-64
Jas.R.L.S. O’Neal
-MATTIE
See A-703 & P-65
-WILLIAM LEROY
Net Marsh
See Page 65
Judge A. Marsh
-PENNY LOUETTA
See A-704 & P-65
Nace Russell
-JOICY
See A-705 & P-65
-STEVEN CALVESTUS
a. Lavonia Forehand
b. Emma King
C. Mary Leddon
-M.Y.
died as child
See page 65
X
-Warren W.
Sarah F. Conner
See A-708 & P-66
Thos. W. Pritchett
-Lucy Lavannah
See A-709 & P-66
Ira Green
-Velie
See A-710 & P-66
-Hayden L.
Mary Eliz. Brown
See A-711 & P-66
-Roxy Ann
died as child
See Page 66
Dallas Metcalf
-Piety Elonia
See A-712 & P-67
Neil E. Keahey
-Rebecca
-M.Lawrence “Bud”
a. Lena Jacobs
b. Mattie Hudson
See A-714 & P-67
-Thady H. “Tarve”
Alice Jones
See A-715 & P-67
X
Page 111
Chart 332
-ELIAS
a. Mary __?__
b. Elizabeth Steward
See C-101 & P-67
Henry Hendrix
a -MARY ANN
See Page 70
a -ELIAS G.
A. Lucilla Russell
B. __?__
See Page 70
John Davis
A -SENY LENA
See Page 71
A -KEZIAH
died single?
See Page 71
?
Robt. J. Burton
A -FRANCES JO. VIC.
See A-719 & P-70
-William (b. 1853)
Amanda __?__
See Page 71
?
-Perry (b. 1848)
A -NOAH COLUMBUS
Martha E. Jones
See C-586 & P-70
?
?
John T. Burton
A -ANTOINETTE
See A-720 & P-70
a. -HANSFORD
A. Martha Weaver
B. Nancy Harrod
See Page 68
H. W. Wicker
a -NANCY
See Page 69
Henry Hendrix
a -EMALINE
See Page 70
A -WALTER T. S.
died single
See Page 68
-Dilley (b.1844)
-Mary Ann (b. 1846)
A -ZACHEUS ASBURY
Adelaide J. Glenn
See C-581 & P-68
W. W. Rutland
-Martha (b. 1844)
See Page 69
A -JOSEPH
BASKERVILLE
Sallie Tucker
See C-582 & P-69
-Julia (b. 1845)
A -ANDREW TURNER
Mary F. Coskrey
See A-716 & P-69
-Arbena (b 1847)
A -EUGENE L.
Martha Day
See Page 70
A -GEORGE PIERCE
Alice Martin
See A-717 & P-69
-James (b. 1849)
A -WM. THEODORE
1. Hattie McLeod
2. Ella McLeod
See C-587 & P-71
Junius Rawls
A -SUSAN LYLIS
See A-718 & P-69
-Alex (b. 1856)
B -EUGENIA HARTENE
See Page 70
Dr. R. B. Stapleton
A -LULA COTTRELL
See Page 69
-Franklin (b. 1858)
X
X
?
Page 112
Chart 333
John Stokes
-LYDIA ANN
See C-101 & P-71
-Isaiah
Rebecca Gooden
See Page 72
-Jehu
Sarah __?__
See Page 72
-Burrell C.
A. Elizabeth __?__
B. Mary E. Marsh
See Page 72
-Barzilla H. Mixon
-Melinda
See A-721 & P-72
-Mary A. (b. 1842)
A -Henry T. (b. 1835)
a. __?__ Walden
b. A Jack Donnell
-Catherine Lucinda
See A-722 & P-72
-Tom (b. 1843)
-Joseph Wilburn
a. Fannie H. Mizell
b. __?__ Williams
See Page 72
-Susan E. (b. 1844)
A -Rachel (b. 1843)
-Jeremiah Sylvester
died single
see Page 72
-Caroline (b. 1845)
A -Millissa J.
(b. 1841)
-Commodore
Susan A. Fountain
See Page 72
-Frances A. (b. 1846)
A -Eliza A. (b. 1845)
-Doc
__?__ Deloney
See Page 72
-Olin E. (b. 1849)
A -Mary Ann
(b. 1848)
-Andrew Joe
(b. 1855)
A -Sarah (b. 1849)
John J. Jones
-Mittie Ann
See Page 73
-Josephine
(b. 1856)
died young?
A -Martha (b. 1851)
-Samuel Thomas
__?__ McGee
See Page 72
-Frank Judge
(b. 1858)
Matt Donnell
-Mollie
See Page 73
-Matilda (b. 1860)
-Richard Gus
See Page 72
__?__ Jernigan
-Ellen
See Page 73
-William
Amanda __?__
See Page 72
-John O.
Edy __?__
See Page 71
-Edwin
Martha Jane __?__
See Page 71
-Mary E. (b. 1842)
-George
See Page 71
?
A -John S. (b. 1839)
-Cynthia (b. 1845)
?
?
?
Jas. Buch. Pouncey
-Jennie
See Page 73
Sam Paschal
-Georgia
See Page 73
X
Page 113
?
Chart 335
-ALLEN
Polly Heath
See C-101 & P-74
-SARAH
died age 18
See Page 74
a. __?__
b. James N. Suggs
-HESTER
See Page 74
X
a -WILEY W.
A. Caroline Josey
B. __?__
See A-723 & P-74
-Unidentified
-daughter (born
1819 to 1830)
-FRANCIS ASBURY,
SR.
Martha C. Heath
See Page 75
?
-WILLIAM ANDREW
A. Leola Large
B. Gertrude Dubose
See C-591 & P-75
b -William Asbury
died single
See Page 74
-HENRY ALLEN
Sarah Moore
See Page 76
b -Samuel R.
A. Ida Sansbury
B. Rhoda Register
See Page 74
-F. A., Jr. “DORSEY”
Lydia S. Kelley
See A-726 & P-76
b -John T.
Eliza Best
See A-724 & P-74
-JOHN CHAPEL
Beulah Galloway
See C-592 & P-76
Mellon Sansbury
b -Sarah Lou
See Page 74
Capers Raines
-MARY SUSANNAH
See A-727 & P-76
b- Rufus Allen
Ann Clyborne
See A-725 & P-75
J. Ferd. Thomas
-MARTHA CAROLINE
See A-728 & P-76
William Fields
b -Mary Anna
See Page 74
Jim Lloyd
-AGNES LOUIZA
See A-729 & P-76
X
-JAMES MULDROW
Agnes Yarborough
See A-593 & P-76
L. W. Ham
-SALLY JANE
See Page 77
-SAM’L PINKNEY
Mary A. Yarborough
See C-594 & P-77
X
Page 114
-SAMUEL SEWALL
Cordelia Ham
See Page 77
X
Chart 336
Henry Stokes
-RHODA
See C-101 & P-77
-James Wilson
Martha Ann Lee
See Page 77
-Seaborn Glenn
Emma Simon Laney
See Page 78
Phillip H. King
-Martha
See Page 79
-Walter K.
Elizabeth Kennedy
See A-730 & p-78
-John Evan
died as child
See Page 78
Wm. Eben Hayes
-Susanne
See Page 79
-Lee G.
died single
See Page 78
-James Harmon
Zion Patterson
see A-733 & P-78
-C. J.
died age seven
See Page 79
B. W. Clendinen, Sr.
-Mattie Eugenia
See A-731 & P-78
-Charles Asbury
Nancy E. Beasley
See Page 78
Wm. M. Snellgrove
-Martha J.
See A-736 & P-80
-James
died as child
See Page 78
Jas. Tom Beasley
-Mary Emma Rebecca
See A-734 & P-79
Wm. M. Gunter
-Nancy Louisa
See A-737 & P-80
-Robert Edward
a. Vickey Lee
b. Ola M. Bethune
See A-732 & P-78
-William Bartow
Jane Beasley
See A-735 & P-79
-Joe Wilson
Amanda Clark
See A-738 & P-80
-Ida Dora
died as child
See Page 78
X
William Jones
-Sarah Frances
See Page 80
Joe Clark
-Amy V.
See Page 80
-Roy Dowling
died single
See Page 78
-John Oscar
Minnie Knight
See Page 80
X
X
Page 115
Chart 338-L
-LEVI (Reverend)
Ann __?__
See C-101 & P-80
__?__ Savage
- SARAH J.
See Page 83
-BENJAMIN L.
a. __?__
b. Cena D. West
See Page 83
-Alcena, “Cena”
born 1855
died single
Wm. Bibb Royall
a -MARTHA ANN
See A-742 & P-83
Wm. Hutchinson
-Sarah
See Page 82
-Nan J.
Born 1857
died single
a -HAYDEN W.
died as child
See P-83
-Jim
See Page 82
-Jim W.
Mollie Mosely
See Page 83
b -SUSAN L.
died as child
See Page 84
a. John Savage
b. Daniel(?) McLean
-MARY J.
See Page 81
John P. Hooks
-CAROLINE
See Page 82
b -Wilson, “Wish”
died single
See Page 81
__?__ Dehart
-Mary Ann
See Page 82
b -Daniel (Jr.?)
Margaret McDaniel
See A-739 & P-81
X
-ROBERT S.
Mary __?__
See Page 82
X
-Benj. Daniel
Abi Adeline Rhodes
See A-740 & P-82
-son, unidentified
born before 1830
See P-83
?
X
b -SAMUEL L.
died as child?
See Page 84
-Dave
Susie __?__
See Page 82
b -JOHN HARRISON
Fannie McPhail
See C-596 & P-84
__?__ Smith
-Ellen
See Page 82
Jack McGregor
b -ELLA
See A-743 & P-84
b -ROBERT ZEDOCK
Hattie G. Hooks
See C-597 & P-84
?
b -SHELTON ISAAC
Lillie E. Kincannon
See C-598 & P-84
Issac R. Vannoy
b- ANNIE FRANCES
See A-744 & P-84
b-DAVID EDWARD
Dora Creed
See A-745 & P-84
Fred Vannoy
b -FENNIE WEST
See A-746 & P-84
X
Page 116
Chart 338-R
LEVI (Reverand)
ANN ?
See C-101 & Page 80
|
-
JOHN W
Died Single
See Page 84
|
X
-
DANIEL LOSTELL
Died Single
See Page 84
|
X
-
JAMES JACKSON
Mary E Huckerby
See Page 84
-
|
MARTHA W
Died Age 1
See Page 84
-
|
X
X
Newton McDaniel
SUSAN D
See A-747 & Page 85
-
|
|
-
A. Gus
Melinda Simson
See A-747 & Page 85
-
Robert William
Julia Ballard
See A-747 & Page 85
-
Zack IInd
Pearl Carnes
See A-748 & Page 85
a
b
James Luther
Bertha Neaves
Lillian McNeer
See A-748 & Page 85
-
Levi Elva
Callie Parrish
See A-748 & Page 85
|
|
|
Emmett E Ousley
Lillie
See A-747 & Page 85
|
|
J W Neaves
Amanda
See A-747 & Page 85
|
James G Flowers
Ann
See A-748 & Page 85
|
|
-
Charlie Brown
Bessie
See A-747 & Page 85
-
|
X
Ben Frank Massey
AMANDA
See A-748 & Page 85
Nannie
Died Single
See Page 85
|
Jim A Mabry
Mallie
See A-748 & Page 85
|
-
Tom Merriweather
Pearl
|
X
Page 117
Chart 339-L
Benjamin Hildreth
-JEMIMA
See C-339 & P-86
-William C.
Milly _?__
See Page 86
Henry B. Grimes
-Harriett C.
See Page 86
?
-Haywood Pinkney
A. Nancy Sanders
B. Eliz. Holman
See A-749 & P-86
-Susie
See Page 86
?
-Travis Zaccheus
a. Qunicy Whittle
b. Eliza. S. Hayes
See Page 87
b -Franklin Pierce
Lenora E. Mims
See A-754 & P-88
-Frances Catherine
died as child
See Page 86
James Mad. Heath
b -Nancy Jane
See Page 88
-Bejamin Wm.
A. Caroline Shepherd
B. Vinia Forbes Sams
C. Mollie Reed
See A-750 & P-86
Joh Robt. Engram
b -Missouri Frances
See Page 88
-John Thomas
America Watters
See A-751 & P-87
-Amon Travis
died as child
See Page 86
W. L. McCauley
-Georgiann
See A-752 & P-87
-James Buchanan
died as child
See Page 86
-Henry Edwin
Altie Nelson
See A-753 & P-87
Jas. Monroe Chancey
b -Sarah Elizabeth
See Page 88
b- George Travis
Emma Miss. Mixson
See A-755 & P-88
And. L. Wilson
b -Mittie Emma
See Page 88
b -Henry Walter
Lillie Skipper
See A-756 & P-88
b -Marvin Bascomb
Lula Lee Cotter
See Page 88
David M. Mixson
b -Ada Lillian
See Page 88
X
X
Page 118
__?__ Bailey
-Sarah
See Page 86
-James
(b. 1836)
See Page 86
-Mary
(b. 1836)
See Page 86
?
?
?
Chart 339-R
Benjamin Hildreth
-JEMIMA
See C-339 & P-86
-Martha M.
(b. 1838)
See Page 86
?
-Frances
(b. 1840)
See Page 86
?
-John M.
(b. 1844)
See Page 88
?
-Robt. Henry Jack
a. Julia S. Hamner
b. Annie Carmichael
See Page 88
a -E. Homer
See Page 88
a -R. Bunyan
See Page 88
a -A. Lonnie
See Page 88
__?__ Hollis
a -Vickie
See Page 88
Finley Griffin
a -Muncie
See Page 88
Frank Fleming
a -Beulah
See Page 88
Will Newman
a -Vinnie
See Page 88
Lee Green
a -Daisy
See Page 88
Alonzo B. Green
a -Ida Roberts
See A-757 & P-88
b -B. Horace
See Page 89
b -B. Malcom
See Page 89
Emmett G. Miller
b -Lillie Mae
See Page 89
X
Page 119
-Saphronia J.
(born 1849)
See Page 86
?
-child, unidentified
See Page 86
?
Chart 501
-JOHN RILEY
Margaret M. Alden
See C-311 & P-5
-WILLIAM NEWTON
Caroline Center
-JAMES J.
Annie Harville
-JOHN WESLEY
killed by horse
as a young man
A. Jesse L. McGlon
B. H. B. O’Berry
-ELIZABETH
-CHARLES EDWIN
-6
Julia J. Howell
Frank Tate
-6
-JIMMIE
?
a. Edward Owen-1
b. W. E. Gebhardt-1
A-Jessie Elizabeth
-JOHN TIMOTHY
-2
Sarah Pritchard
X
B-Noah Austin
-6
Eva Shaw
Riley Pritchard
-4
-ETTA MAE
B-Frank
-2
Naomi J. Kearns
X
B-Newton Dowling
-2
Marian Shay
B-Robert E. Lee
-0
died, age ten
B-Lumia Eston
-0
died, age 11
Mason B. Hunt, Sr.
-1
B-Maggie Jane
B-Ella
-0
died as an infant
X
Page 120
Page 121
Chart 504-L
-WILLIAM WESLEY
Ardelia E. Frier
See C-311 & P-6
-JOHN MOSES
Mary Ann Avery
-WM. HENRY TAYLOR
Georgianna Hayes
-DAVID
died as a child
-RYAN ELI
Beulah Roberts
-SAMUEL
LEONARD, SR.
A. Bertha Prevatt
B. Linda Corbitt
-JAMES DENNIS
Mary E. Swilley
-OSCAR POWELL
-12
Lovie Roberts
-WILLIE EDWIN
-2
Sallie McLeod
X
-WILLIAM ELI
a. Thelma Pelton-?
b. Ruby Dyal-?
c. Jane Morgan-?
A-SAMUEL L., JR.
-0
died as an infant
-JAMES ALFRED
-3
Gertrude Jones
-WILLIAM MANNING
-4
Melissa Duncan
-JOHN RICHARD
-8
Beulah Sanders
-VIRGINIA
-0
died as a child
___?__
-0
A-MARY
-MAXCY EDWIN
-5
Arrell Coppage
-JOHN H. PERRY
a. Mary Freeman-2
b. Kate Palmer-5
-LEONARD FRANKLIN
-1
Pearl Davis
X
A-MARTHA
-0
died age three
-LEONARD JACKSON
-0
died age three
-DANIEL DREW
-3
Lizzie Britt
-JUNIUS ALEXANDER
a. Carrie McLeod-0
b. E. V. Etheridge-2
-LAWRENCE M.
-0
died age one
-MILTON
-0
died, age three
Wm. M. Durance
-9
-LENORA
-MAGGIE
-0
died as an infant
Johnny P. Barrs
-12
-AMIE ELIZABETH
-LOU
-0
died as an infant
-EMILY
-0
died, age four
-JIMMIE ELLA
-0
still single
-ISABELL
-0
died, age two
W. B. Watson
-2
-BELLE
-MARY
-0
died, age 13
Herbert Sloat
-2
-LORA
X
X
J. T. Studstill
-5
-ADEL
Ed. Dasher
-8
-LOUANNIE ARDELIA
-EMMA ELIZABETH
-0
died age one
-LEILA
-0
died age two
J. R. Copeland
-4
-JEWEL RUTH
Ben H. Wisenbaker
-2
-THELMA
M. D. McLane
-_?_
-SARAH
Preston H. Bray
-0
-MARY LEE
G. A. Jack
-_?_
-NAN
X
Homer Waldrop
-_?_
-ANNA
Joseph T. Webb
-6
-ALICE
Vaud Thompson
-4
-BESSIE
X
Page 122
Chart 504-R
-WILLIAM WESLEY
Ardelia E. Frier
See C-311 & P-6
Edwin Dasher
-SARAH ELIZABETH
Richard Black, Sr.
-MARY EMILY
J. Matt Penny
-JANE AMANDA
Jim P. Fletcher
-JULIA SAMANTHA
John J. McDonald
-CAROLYN
-John H.
-5
Berta Roberts
-Richard, Jr.
-3
Freddie Hayes
-Tom
-5
Genie Drawdy
-John
-2
Justine Foster
-Wm. Augustus
-4
Sue Rivers
-Joseph J.
-3
Bessie Hightower
-Robert E.
-5
Ruth Miller
-Charles L.
-6
Lillian Dasher
(first cousin)
-Joe
-0
Ida Swain
-Lee Roy
-2
Mamie Redfern
-Leonard Hayes
(”Bud”)
-4
Ollie Gaskins
-John
-7
Ida Dennis
-James C.
-1
Ruby Wise
-Tommy
-1
Maude __?__
-Perry John
-6
Rosa Alcorn
-Edwin Stewart
(”Doc”)
Estelle __?__
-Ben
-6
Nell Dennis
-Matthew
-7
Mollie Tyler
J. H. Prescott
-2
-Maude
-Norman Chester
-3
Mae Middleton
-Orren Perry
(”Cap”)
-3
Lucille Peters
-Henry
-0
died, age ten
-Frank
-1
Lena Outlaw
Charlie Freeman
-5
-Eva
-Henry Webster
a.Ruth Cone-4
b.Mable Turner-4
-James Augustus
(”Gus”)
-2
Cleola Peters
John Story
-8
-Lula
-Leonard Golden
-0
died single
Lawrence Courtney
-4
-Katie
Charles M. Fields
-1
-Ethel
(first cousin)
Charles Penny
-6
-Lillian
Berty Wells
-7
-Madge
-Edwin Tolly
-0
died single
X
Herman R. Rivers
-1
-Esther
Sim Prevatt
-5
-Ida
Cleo Wisenbaker
-2
-Pearl
-Albert
-3
Mollie Pittman
John Knight
-3
-Mollie
Bird Wisenbaker
-7
-Eva
Nedum Tomlinson
-2
-Hattie
-Minnie
-0
drowned, age 13
X
-unnamed girl
-0
infant twin of Frank
X
X
-Georgia
-0
died single
Thomas Muphy
-4
-Ida
John F. Moore
-5
-Mary Julia
X
Page 123
Chart 506-L
a
b
c
JAMES RILEY
Altie Raulerson
Mary Highsmith
Ardelia Westberry
-
|
a- JAMES LEMUEL 1st
-2
Mary Paxson
a-
|
WILLIAM
Died as Infant
a-
a-
|
AARON WALTER
-4
Alice Benton
|
IVEY (NMI) "Doc"
-4
Mattie Dryden
a-
FRANK JOSEPH
-2
Nancy Burnsed
- JAMES WALTER SR
-2
Eva Strickland
-
OSWALD
-0
Died Single
THOMAS J. (i.o)
a Minnie Roddenberry
b
Janie Chencey
|
a-
SARA
Died Age 1
|
a-
a-
S A King
-8
RHODA
a-
W A Courson
-5
NANCY M
|
CHARLIE
-3
Edna Moseley
a-
a-
JOHN
-0
Died Single
|
WALTER
-0
Died Single
-
Jesse P Mizell
-6
MINNIE
-
DANIEL DAVID
of Chart 512
-0
SARAH
|
Lester Griffin
-4
VIOLET
a-
FITZHUGH LEE
-0
Died Single
|
|
- BERT GWYNETT SR
-3
Clifford Everett
|
|
|
-
John H Nichols
-4
ALTAMINE
-
Charney Johns
-5
ELLA
|
ALICE S
Died Single
|
|
X
X
|
|
|
|
MARTHA
Died Age 4
-
|
b-
JOHN CLYDE
-1
Jessie Joyner
b-
BEN JONES
Died Single
b-
ALLEN D ?
-0
Josephine ?
|
|
|
N R Reynolds
-4
VERDIE
-
Dan Reynolds
-2
LIZZIE
|
X
|
c-
|
- JAMES ARTHUR SR
-2
Gertrude Cox
-
JACK J
-4
Lalia Crews
|
JEANETTE
Died Single
b-
X
JACKSON of
Chart 509
MARTHA
|
|
a-
-
|
|
-
MOSES AARON
Nancy J Harris
of Addendum 613
Julia Donaldson
|
C C Pickren
-5
ZOIE ALTIE
a-
b
|
|
a- JOSEPH LESTER SR
-12
HATTIE DOWLING
From Chart 507
a
|
-
THOMAS
Died as Infant
|
JOSEPH S.
Sarah Davis
-
E F Higginbotham
-6
MARY
|
BLANCHE
Died Single age 20
|
c-
Ernest Williams
-1
GWENDOLYN
c-
Nick Ellis
-1
MAUDE J.
|
|
X
Page 124
AARON
Sarah A. Winn
See C-311 & Page 6
|
-
MISSOURI
Died as Infant
Chart 506-R
-AARON
Sarah A. Winn
See C-311 & P-6
Jackson Prevatt
-MARY ANN
Robert T. O’Quinn
-NANCY
Jack J. Johnson
-SUSANNAH
Lewis Altman
-ETTIE
__?__
-SARAH
Jim Kelly
-ISABELL
-Joe Allen
-4
Ellen Altman
W. T. Pullman
-2
-Ethel
-Francis Hall
-2
Katie White
-James Aaron
-0
Stella Mikell
-Sebe S.
-1
Marie __?__
-Tom J. __?__
-Owen K.
-5
Gladys Grooms
a.Elbert C. Altman-1
b. H. E. McDuffie-0
-Ettie
-Thomas Jefferson
-1
Ruth __?__
-Allen Lewis
-0
Letha Walker
-James H.
-0
Dahlia __?__
-John Stanley
-3
Mary Chesser
X
-Robert Theodore
-3
Vera Orchard
-Estes
-5
Annie Highsmith
S. Brantley King
-0
-Bertha
a. S. E. Hardison-4
b. __?__ Pope -?
-Sarah
-Benjamin Allen
-2
Lillie Gardner
-Joseph Leon
-2
Peggy Aspinwall
X
C. F. Meehan
-6
-Mattie
-James Tracy
a. Viola Weiss -1
b. Louise __?__ -1
Jesse Griffin
-5
-Lois
Jess Nazworth
-4
-Nora
-Paul Lemuel
-1
Odessa Durrance
B. E. Courson
-5
-Belle
a. Alvin Robinson-3
b. Gordon Hughes-?
-Minnie
-Aaron Dowling
-0
Marian Rock
X
Coil Reed
-?
-Vera
X
X
Page 125
?
?
Chart 507
-JABEZ JACK
Sarah Hickox
See C-311 & P-7
-REBECCA
died young
Martin Harris
-SARAH
Addendum 604’s
John D. Howell
-DRUCILLA
Bart Crawford
-EMMA
(twin of AARON)
X
-Mart (Rev.)
-10
Lelia Tatum
-W. A.
-2
Florence Adams
-Ezekiel
-7
Amy E. Rhoden
-JAMES MELVIN
-2
Odelia Waldron
-Calvin Lee
a. Frances King-7
b. Lillie Turner-5
c. Mae L. Thornton-0
-Jim
Emily Herrin
-Arch
-7
Annie Stone
-ALBERT LEE
-4
Antisgene Wood
-ELBERT RILEY
-0
died as a child
-Jimmy
-7
Mae Dorsey
-Joseph Jackson
-0
Lucy Carter
-Ardell
-9
Nancy Bennett
-PERRY LEE, SR.
-5
Hester Walker
-JAMES DESO
-4
Ruby Crews
Giles H. Neel
-4
-MILDRED JELENA
-Jack
a. Lois__?__ -2
b. __?__ -0
-John Henry
-6
Rhodie Lewis
-Riley
a. Minnie Bradley-2
b. Louise Connors-2
JOSEPH LESTER
of Chart 510
-12
-HATTIE
-JAMES CARL
a. Josephine Wildes-0
b. Ann Woodard-2
John P. Wilson
-4
-LOLA PRUDENCE
-John Henry
-0
Wilma Thomas
-Sophie
-0
still single
-Jack
-0
died single?
H. H. Horton
-1
-MATTIE
Andrew Robinson
-7
-DORINDA
Byron B. Brown
-3
-ANNIE VIOLA
Lee O’Berry
-4
-Ocie
-Nancy D.
-0
died single
-Paul
-1
Pauline Martin
Addendum 609’s
Ernest Harris
-5
-VICTORIA
a. Romie Eason-3
b. Chart 511’s Mr.
Wiley Robinson-0
-BEULAH
X
-Mollie
-0
still single
a. I. W. Carter-11
b. Adam Bowen -0
-Zettie
-James Bart
-8
Mattie Rhoden
Lester Beckham
-4
-LIZZIE
a. Zeb Murray-3
b. Alvin E. Hand-0
-SARAH
G. J. Johns
-7
-Ollie
E. H. Aldridge
-2
-Julia
-Marshall
-3
Verdie Canady
Lonnie Walker
-1
-ANNIE
John Tyson
-2
-SEVERA
Ivan Hickox
-7
-Sallie
Tike Carter
-7
-Janie
-Arthur
-2
Courtney Raulerson
Brad Ferrel
-2
-MARY
a. Carl Walters-0
b. J. C. Lee-5
-DAISY LEE
a. Will O’Berry -2
b. Richard Farr -0
-Lucinda
Rob Smith
-2
-Sarah Ellen
-Amelia
-0
died single?
X
Scott Corbett
-4
-Emma
-AARON
Martha Rowell of
Addendum 604
-JAMES J.
Maggie Sturtevant
-WILLIAM RILEY
Ella 0’Berry
-WILLIE
-6
Mary Anderson
-WILLIAM ARTHUR
a. Middie Banks-8
b. Aurelia Tatum-2
-WILLIAM OSCAR
-0
Valeria White
-DAVID
-0
died single
-HENRY JACKSON
a. Eldis Eason-3
b. Annie Herring-2
-unnamed boy
-0
died as infant
X
X
-Mary
-0
died single
Berry Crews
-7
-Sarah
X
Hiram J. Nipper
-13
-Maggie
-Emma
-0
died single?
X
Page 126
Page 127
Chart 509-L
-DAVID C.
Letitia Thomas
See C-311 & P-8
-WILLIAM W.
disappeared or
died in the war
-JACKSON
A. Chart 506’s
MARTHA Dowling
B. Martha Hollis
-BANNER EDWIN
Annis Highsmith
-DAVID L.
disappeared or
died in the war
-PAUL C.
Nancy O’Quinn
?
A-JAMES ARTHUR, SR.
-2
Gertrude Cox
-RAYMOND COLQUITT
-6
Elizabeth Morgan
?
-IRA
-0
still single
A-FITZHUGH LEE
-0
died single
-WILLARD “Bob”
MORTON
a. Velie Rowell -4
b. Minnie Harris -4
-OSCAR “Preacher”
-0
died single
Jesse P. Mizell
-6
A-MINNIE
-FRED
-0
Lois Bennett
Lewis Thrift
-1
-NANCY
Chart 512’s
DANIEL DAVID
-0
A-SARAH
-DAVID ALLEN
-7
Nancy Highsmith
First cousin
Ben D. Johns
-5
-ALTIE
B-DEWEY
-1
Addie Carter
-EDWARD BANNER
-2
Sarah J. Tatum
Harry Smith, Sr.
-1
-KATE
__?__ Courson
-1
-AGNES
X
X
John Dykes
-0
-GUSSIE
X
Page 128
Chart 509-R
-DAVID C.
Letitia Thomas
See C-311 & P-8
Ambrose Woodard
-ARDELIA
Franklin Johns
-COLASTINE
“Kate”
A. __?__
B. I. Champ. Johns
-BATHSHEBA
A. Patrick Griffin
B. Johnathon Hickox
-NANCY
Bryant Crews
-POLLY
-Dawson A
-2
Delila Mills
-Ben D.
-5
ALTIE Dowling
first cousin
a. __?__ -2
b. John Ferguson-5
A -SALLIE
A-Horace (dead)
-6
Annie Howard
-Ambrose
-0
died young?
-G. Gordon
-7
Georgia Justice
-Jeff F.
a. Sally Griffin -0
b. Beulah Ammons -0
B-John Schwint
-4
Gussie Harper
B-David Can
-13
Dorah Knox
-Layton
-11
Lilla Tatum
R. J. Thomas
-5
-Varna Bell
-Morton M.
-4
Icie Jones
B-David
a. Mary Harper -6
b. Dollie Harper -1
c. Isabelle Ryals -7
Frank Knox
-7
B-Lillah
-Mack
-2
Addendum 614’s
Seleta Harris
Audie A. Warren
-3
-Florrie
-Walter R.
-8
Janie Morgan
__?__ Geiger
-5
B -Erie
Ellison Rozier
-6
B-Tishie
-John
-3
Ida Altman
John W. Hilton
-3
-Rosa Kate
M. F. Wilds
-7
-Zonie
Mose Hendrix
-8
B-Bertha
-Cuthbert
-0
died single
W. B. Hinchey
-7
-Polly
X
Jim Baker
-2
-Georgia
E. P. Higginbotham
-3
-Cora
Timothy Melton
-10
-Letitia
X
Gunter Melton
-6
-Nan
William Mathis
-3
-Missouri
X
-Melvin
-11
Mary Cox
-Britton
-14
Nancy Aldridge
Ansle Cox
-9
-Katie
X
Walter Lee
-10
-Annie
Addendum 608’s
Britton Griffin
-10
-Mary
Mathew Tatum
-8
-Emma
Addendum 614’s
Darling Harris
-4
-Allie
X
Page 129
Chart 511
-JABEZ LAZARUS, JR.
Susan Crews
See C-311 & P-9
-DENNIS JAMES
Sarah Roberson
-JOHN RANDOL, SR.
Vandelia Hickox
-IZAKIAH J. TOM
A. Melissa Gigger
B. Mary D. Strickland
Massey Robinson
-MARY
Ben Gunter
-MISSOURI MARTHA
-JAMES WILEY, SR.
-8
Lily Horton
-JAMES NEWTON
-11
Caroline Hanchey
-LONNIE (nmi)
-4
Viola Williams
-John Ban
-7
Dorsey Woodard
-Lonnie
-7
Collie Mercer
-LETCHER
-2
Rilla Aldridge
-Corley
-4
Irene Aldridge
-Lester
-5
Martha Hendricks
Lawt Howe
-4
A -Susie
__?__ Crosby
-?
-NORA
-Newborn
-4
Thelma Aldridge
-Willie
-6
Ida Craven
a. Joe Tuten -1
b. Ed Knight -1
A -Nora Lee
Gus Taylor
-3
-AGNES
(twin below)
-Martin
-1
Orrie Woodard
-Albert
-3
Pearl Aldridge
B -Melvin
-4
Leona Griffin
a. Henry Boyd-4
b. Swede Farncey-0
-OCIE
-Everett
-2
Cora Strickland
-Alan
-7
America Howell
B- unnamed boy
-0
died as infant
-little boy
-Jesse
-0
died single
-Ivey
-0
still single
Harvey Hurst
-4
B -Effie
-little boy
-Wiley
a. Agnes Carter-5
b. Chart 507’s
BEULAH Dowling-0
Tom Howell
-6
-Avey
X
Doc Strickland
-8
-NETTIE
Levi Strickland
-5
-Annie
-Alma
-0
still single
Will Barker
-0
-GERDIE
Aussie Crews
-7
-Kate
Ed Morgan
-3
-Inez
-WM. DENNIS, SR.
-7
Ethel Woodard
-CHARLIE
MITCHELL, SR.
-10
Minnie Johnson
Albert Strickland
-10
-AGNES
Leon Strickland
-4
-MOZELLE
Frank Raulerson
-6
-HATTIE
a. Rupert Thornton-3
b. Ben O’Berry-0
-MAMIE
G. Newt Strickland
-6
-EULALIE
-JABEZ LAYTON
-1
Lemmer Dubose
-LONNIE (nmi)
a. Jessie Hickox -3
b. Margaret Jones -4
X
A. Frier O’Berry
B. Elias Howell
-LETITIA
A -Robby
-5
Sarah Crews
-WALTER EVERETT
-1
-Maggie Bell
-WILBUR (nmi)
-3
Vivian Morgan
-IVY (nmi)
a.Florence Drawdy-9
b. Marie McAllister-0
-JOHN RANDOL, JR.
a. Effie Powers -5
b. Rose Lane -4
Jasper Dubose
-11
-LOANIE
Eustace Griffin
-8
-VIOLA
a. Reuben A. Altman-2
b. Bob Mullins -0
-MATTIE
X
-SARAH
died single
-VANDELIA
-0
born dead
Chart 517’s
Darling Altman
-8
-IDA
X
X
Lawton Crews
-5
-Nola
X
a. Virgil Cheshire -6
b. Claydell Black -2
c. Raymond Waters -1
-LAVERNE
Leonard Carter
-2
-FROANIE
Everett Griffin
-0
-ROSE ELLA
X
Page 130
Chart 512
-JOHN D.
Nancy Taylor
See C-311 & P-10
-WILLIAM LAYTON
A. Mary Martin
B. Kansas Lloyd
-JESSE D.
died as a child
-EVAN LAYTON
A. Roney Rhoden
B. Effie Mae McLean
-DANIEL DAVID
A. SARAH Dowling
of Chart 509
B. Rhoda Craven
A. Timothy Crawford
B. Andrew Hale
-SABRA R.
Will B. Carter
-11
A-MARY
X
Jesse Hickox
-6
A -ETHEL
B -THOMAS ALVIN
-7
Margaret O’Berry
Raymond Hickox
-5
A -Gerdie
B-JOHN LAYTON
a. Lucille Davidson-2
b. Josephine
Oosterga-7
a. Wm. Thompson -5
b. T. D. Hankins -0
A -NETTIE
B -JAMES RUSSELL
-0
died single
B -Alfred
-4
Elma O’Berry
B-WILLIE
-0
died as a child
B- LEROY (nmi)
-1
Mildred Herring
B -DANIEL ELLIS
-5
Nellie Hinkle
Randle E. Lee
-4
B -Lois
B- unnamed boy
-0
died as infant
B -JESSE WILLARD
-2
Pauline Batten
B -WILLIAM ELMO
-3
Ledea Daugnault
Silas Edwards
-8
B -Mamie
Chart 509’s
a. ROSSIE Dowling-0
b. Paul C. Hartley-4
B-ANNIE
B -VON HENRY
-6
Mavis Hutchinson
Oscar Davis
-0
B -RUTH
Roger Highsmith
-9
B- LIZZIE
B -JAMES ALLEN
-4
Vallie Bell
X
a. Ed Harris-1
b. Lawrency Moody-0
c. Jesse Davis -0
d. Lincy Courson-0
B -OLLIE
B -DANIEL WALTER
-1
Sallie Carter
X
X
Page 131
X
Alfred Hickox
-LIZA L.
X
Chart 514-L
-WILLIAM M.
(on 1860 Pierce
census;
died as a child?)
X
-LAZARUS
Mary Ann Guy
See C-311 & P-10
-LAZARUS E.
Elizabeth Warren
-ALONZO
Vannie White
-JOHN DARLING, 1st.
Melinda Sapp
-PERRY FRANKLIN
Susan Dryden
-JOEL R.
Rhoda Crews
-MARTIN EDGAR
Nancy Dryden
-RALEIGH CARSWELL
-3
Eva Weston
-LYMON CLAUDE
-5
Fannie Woodard
-JAMES LAZARUS
-0
Mary Bennett
-unnamed son
-0
High Bluff grave
-JOE LEE
-2
Corrie Turner
-MORRIS MARTIN
a. Elsie Courson-2
b. Affie Battle-0
-WILLIAM QUINTON
-4
Ellen Foster
-DELLIE DEWITT
-0
died single
-JOHN HENRY
a. Lula DeBose-6
b. Nora Jacobs-2
-JOEL SPAIN
-4
Mellissa Thomas
Bee Lazenby
-2
-JESSIE LEE
-TOLLIE EDGAR
-0
Delilla Lee
-BENJAMIN ALONZO
-0
still single
-BRAINARD FERNANDO
a. Agnes Hendrix -1
b. Helen F. Lee -1
-JAMES ELISHA (IRA)
a. Daisy Harris-4
b. Genara Scruggs-1
-WILEY LAZARUS
-9
Cordie Thomas
X
-HOMER JESSE
-2
Mary McCloud
-ERNEST LEON
-0
Ruth Merrill
-LORAN ALONZO
-2
Lillian Halley
-EZRA MARTIN
-3
Omie O’Steen
-EVIE ELMER
-0
Etta Grover
-ELTON ROMMIE
-6
Ruby Lee
W. E. Middleton
-4
-AGNES MAGNOLIA
-THOMAS JAMES
-0
Gussie Raulerson
-TOLLIE TERRAL
-0
Minor King
Edwin A. Herrin
-6
-ARRIE
Andrew Walker
-2
-LEILA
W. H. Jones
-1
-GOLDIE MAE
Wm. T. Strickland
-15
-0MA LORRAINE
Arthur Lastinger
-3
-LORA MAE
J. M. Allen
-2
-JESSIE BELL
Dewey Walker
-3
-EFFIE
- unnamed infant
Jeff Sistrunk
-3
-CLARA CORENE
Charley Kimbrell
-2
-ELIZABETH
Preston Herrin
-4
-IDELL
Harley Strickland
-5
-ONIE
- unnamed infant
Richard Bennett
-4
-ANNIE MAUD
Joe Raulerson
-6
-MOSELLA
-THELMA
-0
died as a child
Ben Hicks
-6
-ALENE
X
Lonnie Griffin
-4
-EVA
Addendum 609’s
Elbert Stokes
-1
-ETTA
-NORA
-0
died single
-Albert Linton
-5
-ESTELL
Walter Lane
-3
-ALMA
X
X
Silas Lee
-10
-ELVERA
X
X
Page 132
Chart 514-R
-LAZARUS
Mary Ann Guy
See C-311 & P-10
Jasper J. Winn
-MELISSA
James A. Dixon
-BETHANY COURTNEY
Josiah Warren
-MARY
Bryant M. Riggins
-KATENY
John Riggins
-ROSE ELLA
Riley Dixon
-ETTIE
-KEZIAH
died young?
-Willie
-1
Saphronia Davis
-Lester
-0
Equilla Wasdon
-Dr. Edmond
-3
Louise Stanton
Willie Shumans
-3
-Ruby
X
-Pomeroy
-3
Idell Altman
X
-Archie P., Sr.
-8
Ruth Gill
-Wilbur
-0
Mamie Easterling
-John L.
-1
Cassie Weaver
Jodie Clark
-13
-Janie
-Preston
-4
Algie Woodard
-Jim
-15
Ella Hiers
-Troy
-0
Connie Waters
-Lucious
-1
Elizabeth Hardy
George W. Harper
-3
-Maude
-Leigh
-0
still single
-John
-0
died single
-John Audy
-4
Amanda Cleland
-Loring
-0
Louise Ware
Walton Tatum
-1
-Era
-Colquitt
-0
still single
-Timmie
-0
Bertie Geiger
Chart 547’s
Will A Bowen
-6
-Navara
-Gerney E.
-1
Elizabeth Hurton
a. Emmett Dedge -2
b. W. L. Roberts-0
-Beulah
L. V. Beatty
-4
-Sarah
Will C. Davis
-4
-Mary
Allen Kimbrell
-2
-Ida
-George M.
-2
Mildred David
Neal Ayres
-3
-Eva Kate
Theron Kimbrell
-2
-Cecile
a. Julian Bowen -2
b. Jim Loper -13
-Ida
John D. Witt
-0
-Mae
-Melvin
-0
Josephine Frow
Allen Dixon
-5
-Gertrude
N. L. Riggins
-13
-Osie
Millard Lightsey
-7
-Mary
Jim Kimbrell
-5
-Irene
-Manning
-0
Cora Edenfield
Harry Stewart
-2
-Arrie Bell
-Doss B. Chancey
-1
-Alma
Sam Padgett
-2
-Alice
-Pearl
-0
still single
-Ardis
-0
Agnes Smith
W. J. Boyette
-7
-Susie
Ralph Kimbell
-0
-Ivy Lee
Dexter Smith
-6
-Janie
Moultrie Yeomans
-2
-Rhoda
X
Arthur Phillips
-1
-Annie
J. B. Dixon
-4
-Alma
-Elma
twin of above
-0
still single
X
K. N. Davis
-2
-Viola
-Hazel
-0
still single
X
J. E. Courson
-5
-Mamie
X
X
Page 133
Chart 515
JOHN
Sarah Long
See C-311 & Page 11
|
-
JOHN RILEY
Emmie Crews
|
-
WILLIE ELBERT
-3
Stella Rhoden
|
- JAMES LONNIE SR
a
Della Harris-7
b
Ada Rewis-1
c
Daidy Dinkins-0
d
Nettie Johns-1
|
-
WALTER
-0
Died Single
|
-
Sebastian Taylor
of Chart 516
-5
HATTIE
|
a.
b.
-
Lee M. Taylor-4
of Chart 516
Walter Mulkey -0
ELLA
-
a
b
c
d
e
f
-
-
LEE (a son)
-0
died, age nine
JAMES FRANKLIN
Flossie Harvey-2
Verdie Raulerson-0
- SPENCER GRACE
-1
Claudia Addison
- AARON CHARNEY
-6
Elvia Taylor
RILEY JOHN
-0
Nancy ?
-
CHESTER
-0
Died as a baby
Lonnie Williams-4
William H Odum-0
LIZZY
Owen Raulerson
-3
MARY
-
Joe Kelly
-3
LETHANIE
Lonnie Davis-0
Carl Hughes-0
MARY
-
-
-
-
-
-
Noah Raulerson
-0
SARAH
|
Walter Crews
-0
EMMIE
Ernest V Taylor
of Chart 516
-10
HATTIE
|
-
Joel
-7
Annie Taylor
-
-
Virgil D.
-0
Auro Cobb
-
Ernest
-4
Thelma Long
-
-
-
-
Roy Williams
-10
ESTELLE
-
John
-1
Mary Crews
-
Enoch
-3
Maude Sapp
|
a-
Charley, Jr.
-2
Ella Taylor
|
-
Josh
-2
Ida Combs
-
Archie
-5
Nora Williams
|
|
|
a-
Duncan Rhoden
-0
Lila
|
|
|
Glenn T.
-1
Still Single
a-
Asia Reynolds
-3
Minnie
Oscar Harvey
-3
Mattie
Roy
0
Died as infant
Unnamed boy
0
Died as infant
Artis
-0
Ann Matt
-
Arthur
-0
Died Single
|
Holiday Rhoden
-5
Mae
b-
-
|
Harley
-3
Janie Tucker
-
Aaron
-0
Died Single
a
b
c
-
Joe Peterson-1
Ed White-0
D. W. Darley-0
Nettie
|
|
|
|
-
|
-
Asa Williams
-2
Mattie
|
-
Chris J. Walker
-2
Sarah
|
JAMES W DOWLING
of Chart 516
-1
Lois
|
X
Page 134
Rob Cox
-4
Sarah
-
|
X
Paul
-0
Died Single
|
|
b-
|
-
-
|
b-
R. L. Phillips
-1
Belva E.
Sylvester Taylor
-9
Ethel
|
X
-
Forest
-5
Minnie Taylor
-
|
X
|
|
B. R. Dinkins
-4
Elva
|
Maxie Reynolds
-3
JULIE
Johnny
-3
Dolie ?
Louis Hogan
MARY
|
|
|
Auzzie
-11
Sarah Harvey
a-
|
-
-
|
|
-
Charles Harvey Sr*
Andrew Harvey Sr*
LETHANA
* brothers
|
J. Ivey
-0
Lila Taylor
of Chart 516
|
a-
|
Tom Johnson
-3
SOPHIA
Zade Cowart
-3
RETHA
a-
|
|
-
a
b
-
|
Joseph J. Eddy
-1
NOVIE
|
|
Jim D Norton
-5
EMMA
-
|
|
Jack Williams
-2
MELINDY
J. Ed.
-8
Maggie Knabb
|
|
Leon Chisholm
-4
EFFIE
-
|
|
a
b
-
W B Dinkins
-10
LILLIE
-
|
a
b
-
|
|
|
-
-
J. J. Combs
MARTHA W.
|
|
-
AARON DENNIS
Julia A. Booth
|
|
|
X
|
WM. AMBLER SR
Della Norton-9
Mamie Milton-0
Dorothy Gatling-0
Clarkie Martin-0
Unknown-0
Eula Dannely-0
|
-
|
a
b
|
Lucius Knabb
-3
MINNIE
WILLIAM HARDEE
Loamy Thomas
Tom Johnson
-0
Lily
|
-
Jim Phillips
-1
Minnie
|
X
Chart 516
-JAMES R.
Annie Johns
See C-311 & P-11
-JAMES DENNIS, 1st.
Catherine “Kate”
Taylor
Thos. P. Taylor
-MARTHA
Thos. P. Taylor
married Dowling
sisters
-SARAH JANE
-WILLIAM CORLEY
-5
Essie Davis
-William Barney
-3
Mamie Williams
-Wilbur
-0
died age one
-LASHUM EDWARD
-2
Paytie Crews
-Sebastian S.
-5
HATTIE DOWLING
of Chart 515
-unnamed infant
-JAMES GORDON
-7
Ollie Sweat
-Earnest V.
-10
MATTIE DOWLING
of Chart 515
-CURTIS DENNIS
a. Sarah Lee -1
b. Gladys Coleman -2
-Olin
-0
died age 16
-unnamed boy
-0
died as infant
-Lee Monroe
-4
ELLA DOWLING
of Chart 515
Alva Dauphin
-3
-LOTTIE
Parnell Combs
-9
-Courtney Anna
(his second wife)
B. B. Wyse
-3
-LAVADA
J. I. Harvey
of Chart 515
-2
-Lila
James S. Davis
-6
-HATTIE
Carl Brown
-11
-Minnie Jane
N. Jeff. Davis
-7
-MATTIE
Ernest Rhoden
-0
-Pearl
Willie Crews
-8
-ZILLA
X
a. Allen Sellers-1
b. I. C. Bear -0
-SARAH
Parnell Combs
-0
-LOU
his first wife
Richard W. Brand
-1
-VICTORIA
X
Page 135
X
Chart 517-L
-DARLING WESLEY
Mary F. Harris
See C-311 & P-12
-DARLING S. (i.o.)
Avyann Shumans
-LEWIS MOSES
Mattie Crews
Thomas R. Altman
-MARY ELIZABETH
Chas. Hyson Altman
-EMMA
Carr Thrift
-NANCY S.
Joe Powers
-MELINDA AGNES
-DARLING EDWARD
called “Bud”
-5
Mary Brooker
-ALBERT LEROY
-3
Polly Melton
-Darling
-7
Cora Dixon
-Noah Wilbur
a. Rosa Lee -0
b. Josie Herrin -13
-Riley
-5
Mary Mock
-Arthur C.
-4
Mattie Gibson
-PERRY LEE
-2
Estella Bell
-CLYDE WASHINGTON
-0
Sadie Cawthon
-Lester Brantley
-0
died single
-Darling O.
a. Mattie Lynn -0
b. Chart 511’s
IDA Dowling -8
-Owen
-4
Birtie __?___
-Nesbitt “Jimmy”
a. Allie Mott -1
b. Norene Byrd -0
-WILLIAM WALTER
-0
died single
-ELVIE LEWIS
-8
Luree Aldridge
-Leon Gentry
-0
died as an infant
-Charlie H., Jr.
-0
still single
-W. Oscar
-6
first cousin
NICIE
-Dexter Preston
a. Blanche Eunice -9
b. Minnie Thomas -0
-JAMES ARTHUR
-0
died single
W. C. Drawdy
-8
-GOLDIE
a. Lee Dixon -5
b. Jim Proctor -5
-Bertie
-Albert George
-0
still single
-Arthur
-4
Essie Griers
-Alver W.
-2
Rhodia Bennett
-TOM (nmi)
-2
Minnie Rouse
Hardy Stone
-3
-EDNA
John D. Wiley
-0
-Minnie
-Reggie Elbert
a. Clattie Fish -6
b. Cora Hickox -7
-Nathaniel
a. Eliz. Deloach -5
b. Mamie Dixon -0
-John W.
a. Beulah Dixon -3
b. Gladys -0
c. Ethelene Woodard -0
Lester O’Quinn
-7
-MAGGIE
Noah A. Lee
-11
-INEZ
Allen E. Tuten
-2
-Nola Mae
-Ira M.
-0
died age four
J. T. Riggins
-2
-Viola
-Winton
a. Bertha Kimbrell -5
b. Ida Walker -5
first cousin
W. Oscar Thrift
-7
-NICIE
a. Willie Bell -2
b. J. B. Cowart -0
-NOLA
A. Dewey Bass -1
b. Hubert Crawford -0
-Pearl
-Oscar Lewis
a. Rose Jacobs -3
b. Mary Altman -0
a. N. B. Walden -3
b. J. L. Pearson -2
-Bertha
-Oswald
-0
died as a child
-AMY JENETTI
-0
died as a child
John R. McClain
-9
-ETTA
-Goldie Virginia
-0
died single
-Brantley C.
-2
Minnie Lee
-Mary
-0
still single
-Lewis
-0
died as a child
-Beluah Isabel
-0
died single
Lewis Griffin
-11
-Sadie
R. W. Morris
-8
-Gertrude
-Artis
a. Mamie Thornton -6
b. Johnnie Dixon -0
c. Georgia Bennett -0
d. Estelle Griffin -4
Jimmy Screws
-2
-GUSSIE
-Mary Olive
-0
died as a child
Walter Hickox
-9
-Ida Belle
Forte Parker
-0
-Lanie
Everett Griffin
-2
-IRENE
a. J.M. Purdom -0
b. Walter Peace -0
c. Jos. L.Dixon -0
-Vannie Maude
John Hickox
-7
-Mary Iona
Silas Howell
-3
-IOLA
X
Harrison Lee
-13
-SARAH JANE
X
Lester Brooker
-11
-Clara L.
Hoke Sapp
-9
-Goldie C.
E. C. Howell
-8
-ARGENIA
X
X
Page 136
X
X
Chart 517-R
-DARLING WESLEY
Mary F. Harris
See C-311 & P-12
Lawrence Williamson
-CIVIL M.
Matthew Griffin
-LILLA V.
A. Everett Mizell
B. W. D. Highsmith
-ZILLIE CECELIA
A. Fleming Altman
B. Wm. H. Crawford
-MARTHA M.
-Stacey
-2
Archie Wainwright
-Alfred
-3
Agnes Taylor
A- Homer T.
-2
Audrey Cline
E. C. Gaster
-2
A-Ada
-James
-2
Mollie Smith
A-Lonnie F.
-2
Willie Haig
A-Cecil (no issue)
a. Ida Strickland
b. Fannie Byers
-Jesse
-0
Lula Durnsey
Leroy Bennett
-3
A-Pearl
B-Toomer
-10
Alma Thrift
-Owen
-0
died single
B-Wiley D., Jr
-2
Louise Haskins
B-Elvie
-7
Lola Broughton
-unnamed boy
-0
died as infant
Howard M. Barber
-3
B-Gertude
B-Preston
-7
Pearl Cox
Neal Cameron
-6
-Bell
James Benj. Byrd
-4
B-Ruth
B-Lester
-3
Ruby Lee
Matt Tatum
-7
-Minnie
B-Virgil Dewey
-0
died single
R. A. Blackburn
-3
B-Ada
-Nolan
-6
Mary Clark
-Johnny
-1
Macy Thornton
-Homer
a. Maude Bowen -2
b. __?__ -0
-Leon
-0
__?__
Paul Morgan
-4
-Mae
Chart 547’s
Dewey Bowen
-Nora -3
Tom Fulford
-1
-Agnes
E. O. Joyner
-1
-Gladys
Ephrom Walker
-12
-Cina
X
X
-Lizzie
-0
died single
-Mamie
-0
died age one
-Gertrude
-0
died age one
Frank Bowen
-__?
-Zoie Pearl
Bernard Overstreet
-0
-Sallie
-Nettie
died as infant
X
Ivan Taylor Harris
-__?
-Lera Pauline
-Robert Mitchell
died, age 34
X
Page 137
-IDA MISSOURI
died, age two
X
Chart 521
-Dr. ELIJAH HENRY
A. Virginia Spann
B. Laura Cannon
See C-312 & P-15
A -HENRY SPANN
Bertha Sharp
A -DECANIA II
(Called “Dick”)
Margaret Eaves
Austin R. Neal
A -CAROLINA ELIZ.
A -LAURA CANNON
died as infant
H. V. Brockman
-3
-LAURIE VIRGINIA
-HENRY SPANN II
-0
died as infant
-Austin R., Jr.
-3
Betty __?__
X
X
-HAVELOCK EAVES
-3
Virginia Salley
-Unnamed boy
-0
died as infant
Marvin S. Faires
-0-MARGARET M.
X
-VIRGINIA SPANN
-0
died as infant
X
Chart 522
-AARON DECANIA, SR.
Caroline Tyler
See C-312 & P-15
Darling J. Knotts
-LEILA ELIZABETH
Samuel Hare
-REBECCA OLIVIA
X
W. H. Stalvey
-__?
-Leila
-THOMAS ELIJAH
Mattie Meetze
-DECANIA TYLER
died single
-CHARLES BUIST, SR.
Virginia Whetstone
-AARON DECANIA, JR.
Esther Quattlebaum
C. H. Corbett
-MARGARET C,
-WILLIAM MURRAY
-0
still single
X
-CHARLES BUIST, JR.
-4
Ruth Havener
-SUSAN
-0
still single
-Lynwood Dowling
?
-JOHN AARON
Lena DeWitt
-HAZEL
-0
still single
-Thomas Warren
-0
died as infant
W. B. Connelly
-1
-Sammie Lou
X
-Claudius H.
-0
died as infant
X
-THOMAS IRVING, SR.
-3
Fleda Purkerson
X
-META LEE
-0
died single
X
J. Fred Till, Jr.
-5
-MINNIE CAROLINE
Clifton Geiger
-4
-LEILA
Rev.
Thomas Jernigan
-2
-MARGARET C.
X
Page 138
Page 139
Chart 523-L
-JOHN C.
Mary Elizabeth Babers
See C-312 & P-15
-THOMAS COUNTS
Ida Saunders
Jasper E. Furman
-JANE MELISSA
A. G. T. Rhodes, Sr.
B. T. A. McAllister
-ELIZABETH
-Harry D. (Pete)
-0
Lillian Armstrong
A -George T., Jr.
-2
Laura McAllister
-TAFT
-John Henry (Hal)
-0
still single
A -Goran Simms
-2
Pratt Deree
-MARY
-Counts Vernon
-6
Catherine Crowley
A -Henry Dowling
-3
Evelyn Williams
-PATRICIA
-Eldred Conner
-1
Lily B. Parr
A -Calhoun Babers
-1
Cordelia Herndon
?
-Charles Carroll
-0
still single
A -D. Clarkson
-2
Sallie Roberts
-George Rhodes
-0
died single
A-Butler Means
-2
Elizabeth Wright
-J. Elsie, Jr. (Jack)
-2
Doris Anderson
a. C. W. Mobley -8
b. __?__ Ellis -0
A -Alice K.
Lester Bourn
-3
-Eugene
A. C. Sibley
-3
A -Zailee Evelyn
W. R. Easterling
-2
-Meta Annette
Charles W. Willets
-3
A -Harriett Elizabeth
-JOHN WHITFIELD, SR.
-__?
Margaret Buckley
-HENRY ELIGHA
(killed as young
man in train
wreck)
X
-JOHN BABERS
died age one
X
J .L. Fisher
-0
-Mary D. (Molly)
Charles Skinner, III
-0
-Carolee
X
Page 140
X
Chart 523-R
-JOHN C.
Mary Elizabeth Babers
See C-312 & P-15
sisters married brothers
-ESTHER
died young
X
A. Goran S. Simms
B. Dr. R. W. Riley
-META ELLEN
E. Dowling Free, Sr.
-CAROLINE ANNIE
Henry J. Free, Sr.
-MARY ALLIE
B -Richard Wilson, Jr.
-1
Vivian Owens
-Elijah Dowling, Jr.
-2
Ruth Pellum
-Henry J., Jr.
a. Ruth Durr-1
b. Inez Dent -0
B -George Owen
-0
Lydia Glover
-Duncan B.
-0
Genevieve Smith
-Aaron R. “Bob”
-0
Emily Fairy
B -Edward P., Sr.
-2
Martha Dixon
-John Allen
-1
Sophia Vogel
-Herbert
-2
Daisy Herndon
a. Jasper Johns -1
b. Robt E. Lee -3
B -Jeanette
-Carl Aubrey
a. Sara Baldwin -2
b. Annie Jones -1
Roy Crowe
-5
-Hilda
X
C. M. Reames
-3
-Mary Juliette
Albert Brown
-1
-Natalie
Hodges A. Moore
-1
-Martha Adelaide
X
Sidney W. Carter
-4
-Dorothy
-Erma Beryle
-0
died as infant
X
Page 141
Chart 526
-JAMES AARON E.
A. Mary McDonald
B. __?__ McDaniel
See C-312 & P-18
A -JOHN MADISON
M. E. McFarland
-WOODROW WILSON
-1
Delores Livingston
George McFarland
A -MARTHA ANN
CAROLYN
Ernest Jones
B -NANNIE
-Louis
?
-JAMES MADISON
-3
Jennie Thomas
-Claud
-GEORGE KIRBY
-3
Ruth Jones
-Jim
-JOHN McFARLAND
-0
still single
-Lillian
Mulford Gatlin
-7
-LOTIS
-Nannie Lou
J. O. Buchanan
-5
-ANNIE MARY
?
Kearney Yarbrough
-RUBY CAROLYN
Eugene Campbell
-1
-JENNIE
Leonard Finley
-4
-SARAH
James Windham
-2
-IRMA VIVIAN
X
Page 142
B -HALLIE
died young
X
B -WILLIE
died young
X
Chart 531
-THOMAS BERRIAN
Mary Ella Carver
-DAVID OSCAR, II
-0
died single
-GEORGE DALLAS
Mary Ann Barnett
See C-321 & P-23
-DAVID OSCAR, 1st
died as youth
X
-ROBERT LEE, SR.
A. Minnie Dennard
B. Beulah Barnet
A -CLAUDE
-0
died age five
-FRANCIS SIDNEY
died age four
X
A. Walter K. Collins
B. J. C. Pinkham
-EMMA VIRGINIA
Alonzo Williams
-CALLIE ELIZABETH
A -Roy James
-2
Thelma McClung
-George Clyde
-1
Claudia Poston
-ARLEY CLIFTON
-0
died age three
A- CURTIS FINLEY, SR.
a. Zella McGinnis -2
b. Wilma Clark -0
A -George Ralph
-1
Doris Cross
-unnamed infant
-GEORGE CARLE
-0
died age one
A -JULIAN GEORGE, SR.
-7
Ruth Eliz. Minium
a. Wm. L. Woods -0
b. C. F. Bannell -0
A -Lillie
Leonard Elvin
-0
-Vera Elizabeth
Auburn Parrish
-1
-PEARL
J. R. Arnold
-6
A -EVA LEE
A -Walter Guy
-0
Mary K. Lowry
X
A. R. Barnett
-2
A -ETHEL MAY
A -Clarence
-0
died as infant
B -ROBERT LEE, JR.
-0
still single
Herman L. Deaver
-5
A- Mazie
X
-George D. Orr
-2
A -Mamie
X
James F. Lucas
-2
B -Beulah
a. Clark W. Wager -1
b. John D. Pique -1
B -Eulah
X
Page 143
Chart 532
-THOMAS JESSE
Henrietta Bremer
-THOMAS
Laura Ann Weeks
See C-321 & P-24
-WATERMAN EZEKIAL
died single
-WM. HAMPTON, II
Hallie Mardre
-JAMES HAMPTON, SR.
Elizabeth Jane
Finlayson
O. O. Williams
-TINNIE
Joel D. Radford
-LILLIE (twin)
A. G. P. Butler
B. W. E. Ambrose
-GEORGIA (twin)
X
-WM. HAMPTON, III
a. __?__ -_?_
b. Gatha L.__?__ -_?_
-JAMES HAMPTON, JR.
-3
Helen Dabney
-Thomas Earl
-0
died age one
-Thomas Henry
-?
__?__
A -George R., Sr.
-?
Rolline D. __?__
Thomas Luster
-1
-GAIL
Raymond E. Barnes
-2
-MARY VIRGINIA
X
-Charles Denson
-?
__?__
A -Chas. Marvin, Sr.
a. __?__ -_?_
b. __?__ -_?_
Thos. J. Turnage
-1
-Laura Frances
Rev. Roy Crews
-1
A -Doris
-infant, unnamed
X
X
X
X
A -infant, unnamed
X
Page 144
Chart 533
-PHILIP HENRY
Emma Ruth Wolfe
See C-321 & P-24
-CLARENCE WILLIAM
died age two
-CHARLES EDWARD
Irene I. Pratt
E. B. Leatherwood
-RUBY ESTELLE
X
-ELMER EDWIN
-2
Margaret Kelly
-Dowling Burruss
-1
Charlotte Wood
Alfred Spaudling
-2
-SARA
-HARRY ELLIS
-2
Lozelle Beasley
-William Henry
-0
Patricia Booth
X
-PHILIP WASHINGTON
(”PETE”)
-0
Lucille Ward
X
-PHILIP ARTHUR
Nina Barrette
-HARRY LELAND
Virginia Burney
-ARTHUR WAYNE
-0
still single
a. James Ray Wilks -1
b. Norma Foster -0
-RENA GRACE
-JEROME MAURICE, SR.
-3
Frances Eblen
-CARNER WOLFE, SR.
-3
Arlene Miller
-CLARENCE MARVIN
-3
Barbare Stevens
-WILLIAM HANK
-5
Salome Taylor
X
Wm. John Colona
-2
-LOUISE
Robt. W. Beatty, Jr.
-2
-MARJORIE
Oscar L. Martin
-2
-ORRIE
Vernon D. Whealton
-0
-ALICE
a. J. L. Southwell -1
b. Clarence L. Nash -1
-GRACE
X
Page 145
David L. Byrd
-MINNIE LEE
X
Chart 541
-WILLIAM HENRY
Didamier Johnson
See C-322 & P-26
-FRANCIS MARION
Dollie Markham
Charlie Douglas
-CHRISTINA
Benj. L. Duke
-ELIZABETH
-unnamed infant
-George
-3
Inez Million
-Dana
-2
Blanche Cathern
-Bland
a. Yeoland Brooks -0
b. Freda Burton -0
c. Mattie Garner -0
-Dewey B.
-1
Lily __?__
B -ROBERT CHANDLER
-3
Harriet Sherman
Bentley C. Robinson
-6
-Annie
-Grace
-0
died an infant
Homer R. Parrish
-5
B-EDNA MAE
Charles Horton
-0
-Thelma
Rett Drawdy
-6
-Lena
M. J. Benson
-1
B -NINA ERMA
C. Edwin Inches
-2
-Beatrice
L. M. Evans, Jr.
-2
-Mae
F. J. Beaumont
-1
B -ANGES GERTURDE
E. Clayton Thomas
-0
-Alice
Milton T. Simmons
-1
-Gladys
-HENRY TUCKER
Eula Ward
-JESSE LANG
A. Agnes Roberts
B. Eula B. Roberts
C. Lois B. Mays
-LEON PURVIS, SR.
-4
Mary Harrell
I. S. Mikell
-3
A -EARNIE
-RESSIE TUCKER
-4
Myrtle Anderson
B -CLAUDE HENRY
-2
Cuba Parrish
Roy Burnside
-5
-IVA
X
-BRYANT MANSIL
Saphronia Johns
X
X
X
X
Jim H. Whitehurst
-4
-Donnie
Charlie Thomas
-5
-Maude
Lacy Williams
-1
-Delma
X
Page 146
Page 147
Chart 542-L
A -WILLIAM HENRY
died age one
X
A -ELIAS NEWTON
Josephine
Turner
X
-ROBT. NELSON, SR.
A. Caroline Wester
B. Lou Venia Ogden
See C-322 & P-26
B -PERCY
died age one
B -EARNEY
JACKSON, SR.
Cleone Moore
X
-EARNEY
JACKSON, JR.
-1
Dorothy Wooten
William Johns
A -DIANNA
Chas. B. Roberts
A -ELIZ. RHOFILER
S. D. Dukes
A -NONA EVA
-Levy
a.Beatrice
Abernathy -2
b. __?__ -0
-Roy
-1
Era Crews
-Leland Hershell
-0
still single
-Ruie Brinson
a. Thelma Newsome -2
b. Marian __?__ -1
-Perman
-1
Leola Fogg
-Robert Nelson
a. Betty Jo Webb -1
a. Dorothy Johnson -0
-WILLIAM ENNIS
-5
Margie Matthews
Edward Kirkland
-3
-Edna Caroline
Eugene Long
-2
-MARIAN GREY
Karl Smith
-5
-Retha Mae
Robt. Maher Lee
-3
-HELEN MAY
-Lucian Albert
-3
Stella Collins
X
-William, Jr.
(twin below)
-0
died age 17
-Rance
(twin above)
-__?
Anna M. Haddock
X
-Robbie
-0
died as infant
Perry Reynolds
-0
-Martha (twin)
a. John Drawdy -3
b. Martin Dyal -0
-Doshia
X
Page 148
X
Chart 542-R
-ROBT. NELSON, SR.
A. Caroline Wester
B. Lou Venia Ogden
See C-322 & P-26
-ROBERT NELSON, JR.
died as infant
X
B -ETHA
died age 15
X
Truman U. Dyal
B -NETA
C. G. Latham , Sr.
B -IDA A.
V. M. Nutall, Sr.
B -MINNIE LEE
B -VENA
died as child
-Leo A.
-2
Thelma Cain
-Charles G., Jr.
-2
Bealinda Sierra
-Vernon M., Jr.
-3
Martha Sorenson
X
-Lloyd L.
-2
Theo Kelly
-James Robert
-0
still single
-Leroi D.
-1
Mary L. Johnson
-Trubey E.
-0
died age 10
J. H. Staples
-2
-Lorraine
-Robert Eugene
-1
Claire Palmer
-Maurice
-0
Ethel Dempsey
X
L. H. Pierce
-2
-Wynona
Joe Ellerby
-3
-Ethel Vera
T. N. Poulson
-4
-Eunice (twin)
Roy McDavid
-3
-Gloria Marie
M. T. Christensen
-4
-Bernice (twin)
X
X
Page 149
Chart 543
-JOHN BRYANT
Emily Roberts
See C-322 & P-27
-HARDEE BRYANT
a. Gertrude DeWitt
b. Lila Hewett
-JOHN B.
Belle Dobson
-EBEN EVERETT
a. Elsie Smith
b. Fannie Price
a-JOHN DEWITT, SR.
-6
Hester Stratachos
-VASCO EBB
-1
Alma Andrews
-GRAHAM PRICE
-2
Mary N. Rachels
Raymond Fitzgerald
-4
a-RUBY
-FRED JOHN
-1
Catherine Steiner
-JOHN FREDERICK
-3
Eloise Sconyers
Earl Lehman
-0
a-MARGARET
-ALBERT FONZO
-3
Raye Christie
-HILDA CLAIR
-0
died age two
X
-BEULAH
-0
died age one
Aaron S. Crews
-MAUD
X
Addendum 647’s
Jas. Robt. Kelly
-FANNIE
Horace S. Priest
-0
-Delores
X
X
Ray F. Gallop
-1
-LOISELLE
X
Page 150
-SALLIE J.
died as infant
X
Page 151
Chart 546-L
A -RANSON T.
died single
in Georgia
X
A -JOSEPH P.
died age three
in Georgia
X
-JAMES WALTER TOM
A. Miss James
B. Martha Thornton
See C-322 & P-28
John Dyal
A-MALISIA CAMILLE
Ed Peacock
A -KATE
-Mark Bowen
A -CECELIA
B -THOMAS STEPHEN
Hattie Burton
B -WILLIAM NELSON
Ollie Higgins
Dessie Oglesbee
-?
-Ellie
-Dothan Alabama
-?
__?__
-Tom M.
-?
Etta Roberson
-THOMAS J.
-5
Mildred Brooks
-WILBERT NELSON
a. Lila Hester -1
b. Cecil King -1
X
-Leroy
-?
Clara Bowen
-Dave
-?
Edith Boozer
-JAMES HAMILTON
-0
Jewel Deese
X
-Carl
-?
Lottie Harvey
-Robert L. (Bob)
-?
Ida Rhodenberry
-JOHN HENRY, II
a. Marietta George -0
b. Iona Anderson -2
-Ira
a. Hettie Harvey -?
b. Lucille Clark -?
-Eldon
-?
Pearl Thornton
-RICHARD JOSEPH, SR.
a. Mae Curls -0
b. Margaret Pons-5
-I. S.
a. Corene Harvey -?
b. __?__
-Dewey
-?
Nora Williamson
of Chart 517
Fred Nell Pons
-13
-ATCHIE
-Ben F.
a. __?__ -?
b. __?__ -?
-Frank
-?
Blanche Cowart
a. Lang Pons -2
b. Langford Smith -1
c. Marvin Chalflinch -0
-EVELYN
-John
-?
Julie Carter
Tuck Griner
-?
-Eliza
Ernest McLendon
-1
-IDA
Fred Brown
-?
-Lottie
a. Forrest King-?
b. Roy Greenleaf -?
-Nettie
-MARY LOUISE
-0
died age two
-Lillie
-0
died single
Nelson Yeomans
-?
-Lizzie
a. Eugram Tucker-0
b. J. W. Sullivan -4
c. Jack Phipps -0
d. Gene Rolen -0
e. Rudolph Stevens-5
-DAISY
a. Martin Brown -?
b. Homer H. Gregory-?
-Clara Bell
a. Chart 517’s
Homer Williamson-?
b. George Semar-?
-Maude B.
F. L. Oglesbee
-?
-Edrie
-Will A.
Chart 517’s
Miss Havara Dixon
X
-Fred
-?
Blanche Cowart
X
Page 152
X
Chart 546-R
-JAMES WALTER TOM
A. Miss James
B. Martha Thornton
See C-322 & P-28
B -WILLIE McMILLAN
J. V. Ballard
a. Peter Pons
b. Buster Nobles
B -ATCHIE FILA
Johnny Pons
(brother at left)
B. -MAUDE
John Strickland
B -CAROLINE EMMA
-BELLE
died young
-DINK
died age seven
-WILLIE M.
-?
__?__
a.-Thurman
-10
Alene Smith
-Avery McMillan
a. Bertha Faulkner-2
b. Salome Morris -0
-Fonzo
-?
__?__
X
X
-NELLIE
1. Oscar Hunter -5
2. Pete Douglas -1
a. -Thelma
-Eddie
-3
Ida C. Morris
-Earl
-NETTIE
b. -Johnny
1.Berta M. Collins-4
2.Jeanette Beckham-1
-Lorin H. Hill
-6
-Marie
-J. M.
Paul Wilson
-?
-MAUDE
b. -William
-5
Gracie Godwin
a. Wm Hammock -2
b. Henry Morris -1
-Annie
-Maggie Viola
-0
burned to death
at age five
-CATHERINE
b. -Clara Bell
-0
died single
X
X
X
X
Page 153
Chart 547-L
A -BENJAMIN
died as infant
X
-JOHN HENRY N.P.
A. Catherine Tyson
B. Lula Dixon
See C-322 & P-29
A -WILL H.
died single
X
A-STEPHEN TUCKER
Alice Dixon
A -JOHN RANCE, SR.
Debby Browning
A -JAMES ELLISON
a. Ila Waters
b. Jennie Reynolds
Bryant Roberts
A- BELLE
-WILLIE H.
-0
Amelia Cason
-JIMMIE E.
-0
died as infant
Dewitt Davis
-3
a. -EDNA
-Benjamin Joseph
-2
Nellie Johnson
-TOMMIE
-0
Beatrice Cason
-CHARLIE W.
-1
Alice Smith
b -CHARLES HERBERT
-3
Doris Montgomery
-Arthur Maurice
a. Edna __?__
b. Lorine __?__
1. Ezra Stewart -1
2. __?__ -0
-CLARISE
-JOHN HENRY, SR.
-4
Dorothy Woods
b -CECIL LAWRENCE
-0
Margaret Morton
-Oscar Powell
-7
Myrtle __?__
a. Levy Alvarez -2
b. Russell Rediash
-DOLLY
-JOHN RANCE, JR.
-4
Wanda Bauknight
b -HARRY JAMES
-0
Norma Scoville
Joe E. Williams
-9
-Katie Mae
-LUCIAN
-0
died as infant
J. A. Detzel
-1
b -CATHERINE
Anthony Johnson
-8
-Phillis Enad
-JESSIE R.
died as infant
Richard D. Capps
-1
b -DORIS
a. Leamon Dyal
b. Robert Mitchell
-Pauline Susie
-CATHERINE
-0
died age one
-un-named infant
W. H. Shaw
-3
-BERTHA MAE
X
X
S.C. McClellan
-5
-ANNIE MAUD
W. R. Hunnicutt
-2
-DEBBIE LOU
X
Page 154
X
Chart 547-R
-JOHN HENRY N.P.
A. Catherine Tyson
B. Lula Dixon
See C-322 & P-29
a. Ollie Browning
b. Raleigh Johns
A -PEARL
B -JOSEPH PAYNE
Nola Wilcox
B-JEFFERSON HUDSON
a. Altie Winn
b. Beatrice Allen
a. J. B. Hood
b. Cleve Alford
B -ELIZABETH
a. Sinclair Bryan
b. Joe R. Cason
B -ELLEN ALICE
Jim Bridges
-4
a -Ida
-EDWARD NEAL
-4
Mary Va. Gay
a -JOSEPH JAMES
-1
Berline Goyens
X
a -Ray
-4
Charmeon Boyles
b - Wilbur
-5
Jean __?__
Grady Lipham
-1
-NAOMI
a -HUGH DORSEY
-2
Florence Shutes
a -Joseph Plen
1. Maurice Mott-1
2. Doris Bryan
Halegood -4
Howard Farrington
-1
a -HENRIETTA
Hurbert Johnson
-1
a -Blanche
John K. Chase
-2
a- LULA MAE
b- Jack David
Cassie Rosier
b -MONROE
JEFFERSON
1. Nancy Harrod -0
2. Carmel Lettieve -2
b -Robert Lee
-0
still single
b- ROY GERALD
-2
June Orr
b -Jimmy
-0
died as child
b -WILLIAM LAMAR
-0
Pat __?__
Joe Norman
-1
b -Joyce
b -EARL L.
-0
still single
X
b -Janice
-0
died single
X
X
b -JOHNNY LEE
-0
still single
Al Williams
-2
b -MARY
Larry Simpson
-2
b -DARLENE
b -NORA
-0
still single
X
Page 155
Chart 551-L
-WILLIAM HAMILTON
Clara L. Ruth
See C-323 & P-30
-W. HAMILTON, JR.
A. Mary Murphy
B. Dorothy Wentworth
-DUNCAN BUIST, SR.
Essie Daniel
-GRAFTON GEDDES, SR.
Leonora Mauldin
-JOEL FRAMPTON, SR.
A. Mattie Miller
B. Ila Underwood
-HARRY (nmi)
Inez Nichols
Wm. H. Turner
-ANNIE MAUD
A -JAMES HAMILTON,
SR.
-1
Loulie Haile
(Colonel)
-DUNCAN BUIST, JR.
-3
Majorie Mason
-GRAFTON GEDDES, JR.
-3
Edith Bannister
R. S. Marr
-0
A-CLAIRE
-EVANGELINE
-0
died as a child
-James H.
a. Susan Dryden -1
b. Esther Gage -0
A-MARGARET
-0
still single
Emmett F. Gill
-1
-SARAH CORRINE
-JOAB MAULDIN
-3
Katherine Douglas
A-JOEL FRAMPTON, JR.
-3
Frances Lewis
Don C. Young
-0
-ADA MAUD
-W. Homer
-2
Clara Anderson
John C. Otwell
-0
-ELIZ. LOUISE
Wm. Guy Hood
-2
-ADA LEONORA
A-MARION MILLER, SR.
-3
Clementine Shanks
X
T.C. Anderson, Jr.
-5
-CORA LOUISE
X
X
X
X
X
Chart 551-R
-WILLIAM HAMILTON
Clara L. Ruth
See C-323 & P-30
John J. Cowart
-ADA MAY
-John J., Jr.
-0
died 1-1/2 years
Calhoun H. Young
-0
-Ruth
-MELINDA RUTH
died single
X
-MARY SUSAN
died as child
X
A. T.H. Bryson, Sr.
B. Edward Crouch
-CLARA LOUISE
Charles D. West
-ADDIE ROSA
A -Thomas. H., Jr.
Addie M. Owens
-Charles Dowling
-3
Frances Phelps
X
-James I.
-1
Dorothy Cooper
Frank Edenfield
-0
-Louise
Stanley A. Webb
-2
-Ada Ruth
X
S. J. Frazier, Jr.
-2
-Mary Frances
X
Page 156
Chart 552
-JOHN VIRGIL
Annie Williams
See C-323 & P-31
-WALTER TALMADGE
died as child
John S. Hiers
-ANNIE ELLIS
Maurice E. Weems
-JAMESINA VIRGINIA
-ROSA KIRBY
died as child
-MARY LOUSIE
died as child
X
-Jack S.
-2
Minnie Mitchell
-Maurice D. (Took
Hiers surname)
-4
Jeanne Purdom
X
X
-Cecil Virginia
-0
still single
-James Acton
-3
Vera Summerfield
-VIRGINIA ELIZ.
-0
still single
-Sarah Eleanor
-0
died as infant
X
-RUTH ESTELLE
-0
still single
X
-CHARLES
THEOPHILUS
Ethel Ford
-BROADUS ESTES
a. __?__
b. Louise Cleveland
-HENRY ATWELL
-2
Dorothy Hodges
b-EDWARD
CLEVELAND
(took surname of
Huckabee)
-CHARLES ESTES
-2
Dora Hagwood
X
-ANNIE ALICE
-0
died as infant
X
Chart 553
-DECANIE DEXTER
Mary Margaret Thames
See C-323 & P-31
-CAMERON LEROY, SR.
Lois Duncan
-WILBUR BOYCE.SR.
Lily Maude Boyd
-MOYE CLIFTON, SR.
Maude Wiggins
-JAMES FRANKLIN
Rosena Youmans
-ALBERT LEWIS
Ethel McDaniel
Joe W. Tuten
-IDA MAE
Mack C. Mixson
-EDNA LENORA
(”Nonie”)
E. H. Fluker, Sr.
-HARRIETT MAMIE
SUE
-CAMERON LEROY, JR.
-2
Shirley Peacock
-JAMES DEXTER, SR.
-2
Mary E. Goldberg
-MOYE CLIFTON, JR.
-1
Dympna Richards
Verne Sassaman
-4
-MIRIAM
-HERBERT LEWIS
-4
Anna Ruth Flood
George O. James
-0
-Edna Mae
-William Edward
-3
Marlene Hart
-E. H., Jr.
-2
Joan Gardard
X
-WILBUR BOYCE, JR.
-0
died as infant
-RICHARD HAMILTON
-0
Alice Pilkington
Henry Roseberry
-3
-MARY MARTHA
Cliff Wood
-1
-SADIE ELISE
X
-Cameron Clifton
-0
died single
-David
-1
Barbara LeVanga
X
L. F. Poole, Sr.
-3
-SUE MORRIS
X
X
-James Claude
-2
Lyde Mack
Lyman Smith
-4
-Carolyn
-MARY MARGARET
-0
died as infant
-Richard
-2
Christine Miller
X
X
Addendum 654’s
GUY JEFF Dowling
-3
-Margaret
a. Berkley Farrell
b. Curt Swofford
-0
-Helen
X
Page 157
Chart 556
-JOHN CALHOUN, SR.
Lillie Cleland
See C-323 & P-34
J.G.E. Harrison, Sr.
-EDITH MYRTLE
William R. Ott
-LILLIAN INEZ
William S. Ware
-BESSIE VIOLA
-BEULAH IDELIA
still single
-J.G.E., Jr.
-2
Jean Youmans
-John Dowling
-0
still single
-William S., Jr.
-0
still single
X
-THOMAS EDWARD
CALHOUN
-0
still single
-Brooks Dowling
-2
Eliz. Cameron
-William Bruce
-0
still single
-Sandra Kaye
-0
still single
-SARAH LAKE
-0
still single
-Ralph Marion
-0
still single
-Barbara Ellen
-0
still single
-Martha Jean
-0
still single
X
Burton F. Ford
-2
-Doris Dean
-Judy Carolyn
-0
still single
-Barbara June
-0
still single
-JOHN CALHOUN, JR.
Mary Whisonant
-JAMES HARRY
Sarah Lane
X
-JOE HARRY
-0
still single
-CLARENCE EDWARD
Maxine O’Brian
X
-Ruth Annette
-0
still single
-Donald Lee
-1
Barbara Farr
Luke Trowell
-3
-Barbara Jean
X
Page 158
X
X
Chart 557
-BENJAMIN WYMAN, SR.
Esther Sullivan
See C-323 & P-34
-HENRY GOOGE, SR.
Louise Smith
-JULIAN PARDUE
Meredith Holt
-OLIVER PERRY
a. Beatrice Turner
b. Ann P. Stinson
-WILSON THOMPSON
Helen Irvin
-JACK (nmi)
Marie Grimes
-CECIL WYMAN
Idelle Elledge
-BENJAMIN WYMAN, JR.
died as infant
-HENRY GOOGE, JR.
-0
still single
-JEFFERSON PARDUE
-0
still single
b-MICHAEL OLIVER
-0
still single
-WILSON T., JR.
-0
still single
-LEWIS WAYNE
-0
still single
-MARGARET WYAMN
-0
still single
X
X
-WILLIS IRVIN
-0
still single
-JACK DALE
-0
still single
-HELEN STUART
-0
still single
X
-MARY LOUISE
-0
still single
X
X
X
X
Chart 558
-OLIVER PERRY, II
Agnes Sullivan
See C-323 & P-34
-O.P. III
(”PETE”)
Mildred Torrence
-NED JEFFERSON
Ruth E. O’Berry
R. P. Preacher, Sr.
-DOLLY RUTH
J. Frank Patrick
-MARY VIOLA
-OLIVER TORRENCE
-0
still single
-EVELYN ANN
-0
still single
-Ronald P., Jr.
-0
still single
-J. Frank, Jr.
-2
Betty J. White
X
Rudolpho Toro
-2
-Ruth M.
Charles Evans
-1
-Mary Claire
X
X
J. C. Kellett, Jr.
-1
-PATRICIA EDNA
-JEAN ALICE
-0
still single
X
Page 159
Chart 561
-MARION JACKSON
Ursula Atkinson
See C-331 & P-43
-JASPER BOSWELL, SR.
a. Maggie Horne
b. Mary Horne
(sisters)
-CLARENCE ELMER
a. Alice Bailey
b. Marie Peterson
T. A. Slater
-NETTIE
John W. Mathison
-MAIDRA CLYDE
C. M. Logan
-WILLIE
C. M. Wimberly
-EXA
b-JASPER BOSWELL, JR.
-1
Gloria Ward
a-MARION PRESCOTT
-0
still single
-Burdette (Dr.)
-0
Wilma Byxbe
-Clyde, “Si”, (Rev.)
-2
Mary Spear
-Charles M., Jr.
-1
Gloria Evans
-Clarence
-0
died as child
E.T. Denmark, Jr.
-2
b -PATSY
a-TRAVERS ELMER
-1
Mary Rena Dorn
-Carl
-1
Bernice Glenn
-Rufus
-2
Eunice Camp
-Clarence
-2
Hilda Hadley
-Clinton B.
-0
died as child
b -WENDELL
LOWELL, SR.
-2
Shirley Gunter
Fritz VanArnam
-0
a-URSULA
C. P. Peacock
-6
-Audra
-Howard
a. Kathleen White -1
b. Lillian Wilson -0
J. B. Hunt
-1
-Marion
H. E. Rooks
-2
-Hortense
X
-Thelma Jewell
-0
died as child
Flory Diehl
-2
-Nettie Ruth
-Mildred
-0
still single
J. K. Peacock
-2
-Jeanette
-Willie Dow
-0
died age two
Julian Hilliard
-3
-Helen
-Vera Clyde
-0
died age two
N. H. Tullington
-1
-Bonnie Jean
-Floyd
-0
died as child
-Lois
-0
died age 18
X
X
X
X
Olin Triplett
-0
-Exa Mae
Virgil Strickland
-0
-Nina
X
Page 160
Chart 563-L
-ANGUS (Rev.)
Laura L. Boswell
See C-331 & P-48
-MARVIN (nmi)
Alberta Byrd
-ANGUS, JR. (nmi)
-NOEL THOMAS
Elizabeth Molloy
-OSCAR (nmi) (Dr.)
Lula Tindyll
-HENRY BASCOM
Caledonia Mancill
X
-JOHN WESLEY, II
-3
Mamie Hall
-ZACK (nmi)
-0
Elina Anderson
-HERBERT BASCOM
a. Kathleen Pugh-2
b. Stella Jones -0
-JERRE LAND
-1
Andree Gouard
-ELIZABETH M.
-0
still single
-ANGUS MANCILL
-2
Laura Molloy
-ALBERT RENO
-0
Katheryn Dickey
X
L. D. Petrey
-2
-KATHLEEN
-DEAN BERROW
-0
Edyth Chernstrom
-LAURA V.
-0
died as infant
-ALEX HOOD
-0
died single
died as infant
X
X
-JANET C. B.
-0
still single
-ANGUS BIRTIS, SR.
-3
Essie Wilson
X
Chart 563-R
-ANGUS (Rev.)
Laura L. Boswell
See C-331 & P-48
-NETTIE
-MATTIE
-ANNIE
-GUSSIE B.
died age two
died single
died single
still single
X
X
X
X
Page 161
Chart 564-L
-SIMEON
Sarah J. Welch
See C-331 & P-48
L. Eben Wells
-BLANCHE B.
David Sconyers
-ELIZA
Allen Sconyers
-VIRGINIA
-Nigel
-2
Jewell Richardson
-Shelly
-3
Lucy Snell
-Roscoe
-5
Mae Bennett
-RICHARD W.
-2
Eliz. Carroll
-Glenn L.
-2
Dorothy McGee
Coley T. Wells
-2
-Annie
-Jesse
-2
Annie B. Cook
-WILLIE SIMUEL
-4
Claudia White
-EMBREE HOSS, SR.
-1
Nan Jones
-Ralph
-2
Betty Mock
-Nina T.
-0
died as infant
-Jim
-10
Wessey Miller
-ANGUS FRANK
-2
Era Miller
-ELSIE
-0
died age one
-Leslie E.
-2
Nina Marley
X
-Seymour
-2
Claudia Cox
-WILLIAM NOEL
a. Bonnie Austin -9
b. __?__ -?
Kirvin Bagette
-0
-NORMA
-Gladys
-0
died age one
-Charles
-3
Ola Hodge
Coot Austin
-0
-MAE BELLE
J. M. Holley, Jr.
-4
-MILDRED
Pate H. Spears
-1
-Tamsy Louise
-Lonnie
-9
Ethel Bradley
Wm. H. Goolsby
-10
-JEWEL
Wm. Paul Kolb
-3
-DOROTHY
-Corinne
-0
still single
-Amy
-3
Merriam Hudson
A. Coy Chambliss
-5
-INA
X
-ANGUS FRANKLIN
Ella Gullage
-JOHN TOLBERT
Cora Warren
-DANIEL YOUNG, II
a. Mitty Hagler -8
b. Martha Snell -0
-JOHN WILLIAM
-0
June Faulkner
-BASCOM (nmi)
Valley Layton
-BOBBY
-JAMES FADY
died as infant
died as infant
X
X
X
John Parker
-2
-ANNIE
O. G. Purdue
-3
-Virginia
X
Jamie Bennett
-3
-VERLIE
X
Page 162
Chart 564-R
-SIMEON
Sarah J. Welch
See C-331 & P-48
Tobe Marsh
-EMMA GERTRUDE
Geroge S. Bernard
-LAURA REBBECA
-LIZZY D.
died age one
-ELLA IRENA
died age seven
-MARTHA E.
died as infant
Meigs Holman
-ANNA J.
-Simmy
-0
Susan Martin
-George S., (Jr.?)
a. Carolyn Dowdell -2
b. Lucille Baird -0
X
X
X
-Norma
-0
died age one
-John Dowling
-11
Abbie Gilley
-Virgil Oates
-5
Emma Saunders
-Needham
-0
died single
-Horace
-2
Mary Dunklin
-Elijah
-3
Lizzy Hughes
-Clarence D.
-0
Alma Mintie
-Grady
-0
died as child
Ben Y. Martin
-1
-Annie Laurie
-Harvey
-0
died single
X
X
-Cossey
-3
Lula Lockard
-Charley
-0
still single
-Frank
-1
Ollie Williams
Ed Underwood
-2
-Gertrude
Alto Cox
-4
-Laura
Alto Pope
-4
-Sally
X
Page 163
Chart 565-L
-DANIEL YOUNG
Rebecca J. Dick
See C-331 & P-49
-YOUNG DANIEL
Bonnie Johnson
of Addend. 695
-EARLY LATE
A. Maggie Baker
B. __?__
-HARTWELL EXCELL
A. Anna L. Spears
B. Leila C. Owens
-MARGARET ANN
-0
still single
A -EARLY RALPH
-3
Marjorie Jones
A-HART HUBERT
-0
Minnie Habney
X
A-DANIEL BAKER
a. __?__ -1
b. Adeline Bergheim -1
c. Ann __?__ -?
A-FRANK DEWEY
-1
Rhodora Corcoran
A-JOSEPH ELROY
-3
Virginia Moran
A -LEO BERTIE
-3
Rita Ruby Carver
a. H.C. Harris, Jr. -1
b. H.E. Erickson -1
A-JANE
Julius Russell
-0
A-MARGUERITE
Galen O. Elson
-3
A-BLONDELL
a. C. E. Delacroix -2
b. Jimmy O’Brien -0
A-THELMA IRENE
a. Hal Green -0
b. Harvey Nolte -0
A-GLADYS
B- OSCAR WILTON
-2
Avis Irene Bass
X
George Van Auken
-2
B-RUBY
-ANGUS LEONIDAS
called “Lonnie”
died single
X
-MYRT M.
Ruby Fox
-MARCELOUS
died as child
-HENDERSON FOX
-2
Jeanne Miller
X
X
X
Chart 565-R
-DANIEL YOUNG
Rebecca J. Dick
See C-331 & P-49
-MARCUS (nmi)
Marguerite Patzman
-MARCUS LEON
-0
Katherine Dale
-WILLIAM
died as infant
X
-ALVIA AUGUSTA
died as child
X
-HARLEY OBIE
died as child
X
B.B. Romine
-2
-IRENE GURTRUDE
X
Page 164
-IRENE GERTURDE
died age twelve
X
Chart 566
-GABRIEL PASTORY
Zilpha Ann Smith
See C-331 & P-50
-ALBERT TOWNSHEND
Addie Ruth Harris
Addendum 692’s
Jesse D. Holman
-SUSAN O.
H. M. Sessions
-WILLIE GERTRUDE
X
-James Dowling
-2
Mary Hornsby
-Lewie
-3
Mary Blanton
-ALBERT McINTYRE
-0
died as child
-Jessie Neil
-0
still single
Addendum’s 735’s
Chas. O. Stokes
-0
-Willie Belle
a-ALBERT BOWEN
-0
died as infant
Jake C. Marley
-1
-RACHAEL
-E. Hendrix
-0
still single
X
-unnamed girl
-0
died as infant
A. J. Kelly
-2
a-NORA GERTRUDE
X
-Leslie Dacosta
-0
still single
X
Rufus Hulsey -2
J. E. McChessney -1
a-SARAH HELEN
Walton Jackson
-4
-Sally Mae
J. L. Hill
-3
b -CAROLYN ROSE
John Q. Adams
-4
-Elizabeth
D. P. O’Donnell
-4
b-SUSAN JEANETTE
T. J. Patterson
-2
-Dorothy
-HARVEY CLAYTON, SR.
Grace M. Mewborn
-HORACE 0’NEAL, SR.
a. Nora Bowen
b. Jennie Nickels
-JAMES ROSCOE
Frances A. Wilson
-HARVEY C., JR
-0
still single
a-HORACE O., JR.
-2
Pearl Payne
-JAMES WILSON
-0
Velma Vavra
W. James Brown
-0
-KATHRYN
a-ANGUS GABRIEL
Olive Fubtz -0
Alma Goff -0
Rev. Candler Budd
-0
-GRACE M.
X
X
Page 165
John W. Hilliard
-SALLIE CAMILLA
X
Chart 568
-SAMUEL LAWSON
Jane Windham
See C-331 & P-56
-ROBERT YOUNG
Melissa Pridgen
-HARDEE BRYANT
A. Erin Reynolds
B. Ruth Parker
-JUDSON DAVIE, SR.
A. Lillian MacKenzie
B. Fleta McWhorter
-MASON MORTON
Nina C. Graves
-TOLBERT LAWSON
A. Polly Thomason
B. Laura Newman
-HENRY PORTER
Maude Sledge
-LEILA BELLE
died single
-FRED TOLBERT
-4
Sallie Williams
A-HUGH REYNOLDS
-3
Dorothy Midgley
A-JUDSON DAVIE, JR.
-5
Kathryn Shirley
Joe H. Palmer
-1
-DORIS
B-ROBERT NEWMAN
-0
Golda Mullins
-HENRY LANDON
-2
Selma Shelton
X
-ROBERT LOUIS
“Buddy”
-0
still single
A-MACK DAVID
-1
Annie R. Smith
A-WILLIAM MACKENZIE
-1
Jeanette Leslie
Ham B. Crouch
-1
-NINA
B-unnamed infant
-THOMAS LAWSON
-1
Ophie Stockton
X
a. M. B. Harrison -2
b. J. Weldon Jacobs-0
A-MARY M.
Leland M. Guise
-1
-JANE
X
George H. Miley
-1
-NORMA
-SAMUEL MARION
-0
Fannie Henderson
-ALONZO GILLS
-0
died single
-JESSE BRYAN
-0
died single
X
Dr. Wm. Palmer
-1
-BERTIE MAE
Fred E. Enslen
-0
-KATE F.
-GRAYMO
-0
still single
C. Kirk Enzor
-0
-GRACE
-ERIN ELIZABETH
-0
died as infant
-PAULINE
-0
died age two
X
Page 166
X
-JOHN WESLEY, SR.
-2
Jessie M. Scaife
X
Chart 569
-NOEL BAXTER
Elizabeth Wells
See C-331 & P-57
-RAY A. (i.o.)
Cona Alene York
-HAYWOOD HART
died single
R. H. Ramsey
-CORA LEE
Charles McCarn
-CARROW
Chas D. Murphy, Sr.
-LOTTIE B.
-NOEL MITCHELL
-1
Margaret Pearson
X
-Richard Heywood
-4
Lucille Radney
Ken Towe
-3
-Elizabeth
-Charles D., Jr.
-0
still single
-R.A. (i.o.)
(book’s author)
-4
Agnes Westervelt
-J. Robert
-5
Hilda Hawkins
Erwin T. Brooks
-1
-Mavis
Ewell W. Powers
-4
-Maude
a. Earle Stapleton -4
b. John Drake -0
-HELEN VIRGINIA
-Cassie
-0
still single
J. L. McMullen
-2
-Kathryn
Judson Bentley
-2
-Louise
Frank M. King
-1
-RANAH ALENE
a. Hugh Garner -0
b. Clyde Ford -1
-Frances
L. Ennis Gibbons
-3
-LILLIAN EUGENIA
X
E. Martin Price
-4
-CONA KENNETTE
X
E. B. McDaniel
-2
-Nell
John B. Hazard
-0
-Mary E.
X
X
Page 167
Chart 570
-LOUIS LAWRENCE
A. Ida Connelly
B. Christian James
See C-331 & P-58
A-ARTHUR CRAWFORD
Addie Mae Posey
A-CONNIE WYATT
Cona Martin
A- JOHN LAMAR
a. Cordie Folsom
b. Lelia Collier
John H. Morgan
A-LUCY
Ernest Armstrong
-1
-DOROTHY
-HENRY LAWRENCE
-2
Esther Bell
a-GEORGE LOUIS
-2
Thelma Riley
-George C.
-3
Imogene Holman
of Addend. 692
-unnamed girl
-0
died as infant
-ROY LANIER
-1
Annabelle Elliott
a-JULIAN LAMAR
-0
Ima L. Spence
Floyd McKnight
-1
-T. Elizabeth
X
Joe W. Horn
-1
-MARIE
a-WALTER BRITT
-0
died single
Charles A. Kilpatrick
-0
-Helen
Eric Ballard -2
Ralph Valentine -0
-EVELYN
-EDWARD LAMAR
Elsie Morgan -4
Betty Grogan -1
X
Chart 571
B-EXA MAE
died as infant
X
X
X
-GEORGE WASHINGTON
Mollie Carroll
See C-331 & P-58
-GUS T. (i.o.)
Viola Simms
-HEYWOOD AUGUSTUS
-4
Ruby Lilly
-JOHN CARROLL
Lydia Simms
X
-DEMPSEY LEMUEL
a. Nora Lewis
b. Ruth Byrd
a-BEN LEWIS
-1
Mildred Marshall
-WILLIAM ASHLEY
Willie Harrell
X
-ALLEN VINSON
Nina E. Pelton
-GEORGE BERTON
a. Dorothy Belote -2
b. Janet Davis -0
D. N. McClanahan
-3
-MARY ELISE
b-RUTH B.
-0
still single
-ROBERT CARROLL
-1
Amanda Hancock
X
b -ANNA CARROLL
-0
died as child
-GLENN AARON
-2
Dorothy E. Bush
X
Page 168
X
Chart 573
-WILLIAM REYNOLDS
A. Martha J. Howell
B. Arminta Stanford
See C-331 & P-62
Will Lewis
B-LEILA BELLE
Jim Beckham
B-EMMA
Lee Hall
B-CARRIE
Walter Watford
B-JOHNNIE
-Billy
-3
Margaret King
-A. J.
a. Willie Turner -1
b. __?__ Hall -0
-Herman Kermit
-0
killed WWII
C.V. Dillard
A-ELLA RENORA
B-WILLIE DAVENPORT
Minnie Turner
B-JAMES BLANT
Flora Raines
B-GRADY MANCIL
a. Lola Bell (Roach)
b. Bessie Norton
Orlando L. Smith
-4
-Lily
-WILBUR RAY
-2
Emma Davidson
-CULLEN EDSEL
-0
Betty A. Hinson
a -JOHN WYATT
-0
Dorothy Reid
X
a. B. D. Smith -0
b. __?__ Russell -0
c. Emmett Mitchell -0
-GLADYS LOUISE
Spurgeon Bonner
-2
-BETTY JEAN
1. James Perron -0
2. Leo Tuttle -2
b- TOMMIE LOIS
-Waitus
-0
died age four
X
Theo Lee, Jr.
-1
-PEGGY FAYE
Jimmy Peacock
-0
b- “JACKIE” SYLVIA
Dewey Scarbrough
-1
-Maudie Bell
-Dowling R.
-2
Martha Sellers
X
X
Foster Clark
-0
-Ernestine
-Harold L.
-6
a. Aline Andrews
b. __?__
-Hilda
-0
still single
-Howard Williams
-3
Ovie Johns
X
X
Page 169
X
-Huey Glenn
a. Virgina __?__
b. Edna __?__
X
Chart 574-L
-GREEN BERRY
A. Catherine Woodham
B. Georgia A. Dunn
See C-331 & P-62
A-BERRY YOUNG
Lillian Harper
A-ROBERT ALTO
Flossie Lassiter
A-OMER HOKE
Wilma Dooling
Emmett Byrd
A-IDUMA
Will Palmer
A-OLA
-FLOYD VERNON
-3
Cynthia Franz
-CODY (nmi) (twin)
-0
died as baby
-DONALD LEVON
-0
Maxine Smith
J. C. Burch
-2
-Ruby Lee
-J. D.
-3
Edna Hagler
of Addend. 677
a -LOCKARD LEON
-1
Annel Brown
Fauline Pyke
-2
-RUTH
-COY (nmi) (twin)
-0
died single
-unnamed boy
-0
died an infant
X
-Alphus
a. Thelma McClellan-1
b. Louise Quinn-1
a -ARTHUR CARY
-2
Tommie Lewis
X
-ROBERT VIRGLE
Silver Star Award
-3
Viola Carmack
Delton Strickland
-6
-DOROTHY DELL
-Harvey S.
a. Muriel Snell-2
b. Hortense Williford-2
a -FORDYCE SAMUEL
-2
Louise Arnette
-GEORGE VOLLY
-1
Lilly Favata
-Hubert Talley
-1
-CATHERINE
C. L. Helms
-1
-Myrtle
a -YOUNG DAN
-3
Kathryn Peters
-HUBERT ALTO
-2
Zora Hallman
Tommy Pierson
-1
-FLORA NELL
A. B. Hughes
-2
-Minnie
a -STEWART ALLEN
-0
died age one
-PAUL LEE, SR.
-1
Jean Wyper
Johnny Janowski
-2
-MARGARET
I. D. Chancey
-0
-Willie Maud
Hugh Justice
-6
a -OSSIE LEE
-JAMES BLACKSHEAR
-2
Patricia Moore
-Fred Hinson
-2
a -MARY CATHERINE
-DOYLE FRANKLIN
-0
still single
John Brewer
-2
a -CONA JEWELL
William Lowery
-4
-ESSIE MAE
Horace Miller
-3
a -VIRGINIA
Hugh Smith
-1
-JOHNNIE
A-ELDER LEON
a. Leila Stewart
b. Thelma Rhodes
a -CHARLIE D. (i.o.)
-3
Gladys Snuggs
X
A-CARSON CLANTON
a. Eliza Godwin
b. Emma Poyner
X
Robert Pair
-1
-WILLIE KATE
-ROSA NELL
-0
died age 16
-RUBY J.
-0
died age two
X
Page 170
X
Irvin Callahan
-0
-Alma
Don Smith
-0
-Trudie
X
Chart 574-R
-GREEN BERRY
A. Catherine Woodham
B. Georgia A. Dunn
See C-331 & P-62
Rom Singleton
A -COLLIE EVADA
A -MERTIE JEWEL
died age one
Will Waites
A -CLIDE
James J. Peacock
A -FLOSSIE MAE
Addendum 665’s
Marion Martin
A -AVER EUGENIA
Lovelace Savell
A -NANNIE INEZ
-Dewey
-1
Helen Montgomery
X
-Glenn
-0
Vertus Hodges
-J. Lockard
-4
Lillian Messick
-Wm. Marion, Jr.
a. Ruth __?__ -0
b. Florence __?__ -1
c. Gertrude __?__ -0
-Curtis M.
-2
Willie Metcalf
Henry Gray
-1
-Cora Lee
-Leamon
-0
died single
killed WWII
J. N. Beckham
-5
-Katie Lou
-Cleopas C.
-2
Fannie McDonald
-Preston D.
-4
Jetta Morris
John Coleman
-1
-Era Mae
-Benton
-3
Leila Clark
Tom F. Watson
-1
-Wilma
-Monroe Young
-10
Corene Davis
X
X
-Willie Jessie
-0
died age five
X
-Eugene
-5
Edna Harris
-Raleigh
-1
Clara Mae Tharpe
X
-Roy
-0
died as infant
a. John James -4
b. __?__ -?
c. __?__ -?
-Voncile
-Eunice Orene
-0
died age two
X
Page 171
Chart 577-L
-SIMPSON QUITMAN
A. Frances Golden
B. Willie Adams
See C-331 & P-64
A -LEON LAWRENCE
Ida Folsom
A -OSWALD (nmi)
Mary Harper
A -L. L.
died as child
-a. Willie Hutchinson
b. Walter A. Brown
A -VASSIE
J. P. Hanks
A -MINNIE
G. W. Metcalf
A -PERLA
-LEX EDWIN
-3
Jerry Morgan
Robert Stephens
-1
-MARTHA FRANCES
X
a -Dan
-3
Jimmie Halford
-Louie
-2
Helen Roll
-Holton
-0
Francella Fogle
-JACK LEON
-0
__?__
Billy Rowe
-0
-MARY OSWALD
a -Phil D.
-1
Helen Hutchins
-Joseph P.
-0
Pauline Malone
-Roy
-0
still single
X
X
-Wm. Lawrence
-2
Marjorie Johns
-William Henry
-2
Claytie Leonard
-Harry
-0
still single
-Alphonso
-0
Agnes Spicer
-unamed boy
died as infant
-George Taft
-4
Catherine Carmichael
X
-Joseph Leon
-0
died single
X
-Arthur Paul
-3
Lillian Mixon
-James Peler
-0
died an infant
-Ethel
-0
died as infant
H. C. Thompson
-2
-Mary Belle
X
-SIMPSON QUITMAN
Chart 577-R
A. Frances Golden
B. Willie Adams
See C-331 & P-64
A -ALVA
died age eight
X
A -JUAL
died age five
X
B -THOMAS BEN
Pearl Hundley
?
Page 172
Chart 578
A -SELMON
CALVESTUS
Ebbie Andrews
Bobby Roberts
-0
-CAROLYN
X
A -GENERAL SOLLIE
Sophia Rogenski
X
-STEVEN CALVESS
A. Lavonia Fo rehand
B. Emma Thompson
C. Mary Leddon
See C-331 & P-65
A -ZINNAMON
FLETCHER
Estelle Haire
A -ZACKIE FRANCIS
Pauline Boswell
-JAMES LOYD
-0
Nora Harbin
-PATRICIA
-0
still single
-CURTIS NEWELL
-1
Joann Bell
A -MARY JOICY
died age three
Berry Adams
A -GUSSIE ELIZ.
X
-Sollie M.
-4
Lettie Russell
G. F. Spivey
-0
-Verna L.
X
-CECIL FLETCHER
-0
still single
H. J. Grantham
-10
-Mary Lee
-ROBERT LEROY
-0
still single
X
-BILLY DUANE
-0
died as infant
Barney O. DeBary
-2
-LOIS
Walter D. Griffin
-2
-VIVIAN
-JANICE
-0
still single
Russell F. Smith
-3
-VERNA LEE
X
Page 173
Horace Weeks
A -CLESSIE LEVONIA
X
B -WILLIE ELVESTUS
(male)
still single
X
Chart 581
-HERNDON
GLENN, SR.
Ada Camp
-ZACHEUS ASBURY
Adelaide Glenn
See C-332 & P-68
-unnamed son
died as infant
E. B. Heiser
-JULIA BELL
-ADELAIDE LUCILLE
died single
-LILY BERRY
still single
-CLAUDE LULA
still single
X
-Edward Bryon, Jr.
-0
died single
X
X
X
-HERNDON
GLENN, JR.
-4
Peggy Purcell
-EDWARD CAMP
-3
Juanita Sexton
-Sarah Adelaide
-0
still single
R. Merrell Sweat
-2
-BARBARA RUTH
X
X
Chart 582
-JOSEPH BASKERVILLE
Sallie E. Tucker
See C-332 & P-69
-WALTER TUCKER
Mattie McMillan
-WIGHTMAN
HANSFORD
Annie Eliz. Aswell
-WM. GLADSTONE
Leska Mitchell
-RUEBEN WAVERLY
still single
-JOS. COTTRELL
Willie E. Jiles
-LOYAL WALTER
-0
still single
G. F. Keller
-0
-BONNIE ELIZ.
-JOEL LOUIS
-3
Mavis E. Baxter
X
-DHU (nmi)
-4
Anne Youngblood
-CLAYTON (nmi)
-0
still single
-L. L. Bishop
-1
-MABLE CLAIRE
-WOODROW WILSON
-4
Lillian E. Lee
X
X
-NORMAN LAMAR
-4
Martha A. Watson
Thos. J. Lawrence
-2
-DOROTHY MAE
-ROBERT McMILLAN
-1
Narvis Davidson
a. Z. B. Weingart -1
b. E. H. Hosford -2
-LENORA
-BETTY VERA
-0
still single
X
Neil Caldwell -0
W. F. Hammel -1
-IVA MAE
X
Page 174
-MABLE GLENN
died single
X
Chart 586
-NOAH COLUMBUS
Martha E. Jones
See C-332 & P-70
R. P. Blocker
-FANNIE LEONIA
A. Oscar Evans
B. C. G. Byars
-LILLIAN
Wesley M. Roberts
-EDNA PEARL
a. Frank Massey
b. Sam Smith
-KATIE LEAN
Jimmy Null
-EVA MAE
-Clifford
-5
Kate Nimmers
John Randall
-4
A -Mineola
-Earl
a. Loretta
Packelburger -2
b. Doris Arnold -0
a -Warner
-1
Nell Shiflett
Francis Wooten
-4
-Gloria
Albert Thompson
-2
a - ARA EVELYN
Harold L. Bates
-3
-Thelma
B -Thomas William
-0
died young
James McCormick
-1
-Opal
X
X
b -WALLACE RAY
(twin)
-1
Faye Busby
a. Ross Cannon -2
b. Edward Folmar -0
-Gertrude
B -James Russell
-0
died young
a. Martin Acker -1
b. Harry Arnold -2
-Geraldine
X
a. Coleman Blue
b. Lawrence Calfee -1
c. Randolph Johnson -0
B -Mary
Beckham Harris
-0
-Rilla Mae
-ALTO WALLACE
a. Hattie Cummings
b. Bertha Isbell
a -MAX CUMMINGS
-2
Margaret Thompson
b -WALTER FAY
(twin)
-4
Billie Jo Owens
-HENRY WILSON
died age four
X
-CLINTON RUSSELL
died single
X
Bobby Logan
-2
b- DELORES
X
-Willie
-0
died age two
J. E. Cannon
-2
b -HAZEL
-Inez
-0
died as infant
X
X
Page 175
Chart 587
-WM. THEODORE, SR.
A. Hattie McLeod
B. Ella McLeod
See C-332 & P-71
A -unnamed girl
died as infant
X
B -CHARLIE
McCDOWELL
Bessie Bloodworth
B -WM. THEODORE,
JR.
A. Lillian Baggett
b. Florence Hancock
-CHARLES EARL
-3
Edna McNamarra
b -WILLIAM TED
-3
Pauline Dillashaw
-JAMES DOUGLAS
-0
Nell Hart
b- CARLTON EUGENE
-2
Annette Sasser
-HUGH LAVEN
-1
Annie Dansby
b -BOBBY RAY
-0
Johnnie Howell
-EDWARD CORTEY
-2
Ruby I. Thomas
b-RAYMOND JACKIE
-0
still single
James B. Guest
-2
-PEGGY JUNE
b -CHARLES HERMAN
-0
still single
X
X
Page 176
Guy Vann
B -ANNIE LUCILLE
Glenn Gilbert
B -ELEANOR
X
-Herman Glenn
-?
Edna Buntin
X
Chart 591-L
-A. ZACKERY SEWELL
died age one
X
-WILLIAM ANDREW
A. Leola Large
B. Gertrude Dubose
See C-335 & P-75
Clyde R. Wilson
A -ELIZABETH VIOLA
Dr. W. J. Beasley
A -VICTORIA LOUISE
G. W. Woodham
A- EVA ESTHER
C. C. Jeter
-1
-Annie Laurie
-Wm. Jennings
-0
died age five
-G. W., Jr.
-2
Minnie Rhodes
Barney Holt
-0
a -JEWEL
H. M. Jordan
-0
-Edith
C. A. Manship, Jr.
-0
-Louise
-Andrew D.
-2
Mary Ida Warner
L. F. McCutcheon
-1
a -CATHERINE
B. W. Konopa
-1
-Leola
X
X
L. M. Wiest
-2
-Martha Eliz.
A -MORTON DAVID
a. Ethel Lewis
b. Myrtle Jackson
A -WILLIAM
COURTNEY
Virginia Taylor
1. Paul Wigginton -0
2. Russell Broadus -0
a -DOLLY G.
X
X
Richard Hearon
-2
-Lessie Gertrude
X
Chart 591-R
-WILLIAM ANDREW
A. Leola Large
B. Gertrude Dubose
See C-335 & P-75
Ira B. Brown
A -FANNIE “FAY”
a. A. L. Harper, Sr.
b. Dr. Eldridge Baskin
A -ROSA JENKINS
B -BENJ. ANDREW, SR.
a. Martha Hardin
b. Marj. White
B -EDWARD
SYLVESTER
Eliza. Roberts
-Frederick Dowling
-1
Gladys Smith
a -Arthur Lide, Jr.
-5
Amelia Barnwell
a -BENJ. ANDREW, JR.
-0
still single
-WM. ANDREW, II
-0
still single
X
b -McIVER DUBOSE
-0
still single
-EDWARD S., JR.
-0
still single
b -GERTRUDE
-0
still single
-REBECCA
-0
still single
b -CAROL DEAN
-0
still single
X
X
X
Page 177
B -WILEY ASBURY
died as infant
X
Chart 592-L
-JOHN CHAPEL
Beulah Galloway
See C-335 & P-76
-ERNEST LEROY, SR.
Carrie Turner
-HENRY GRADY, SR.
Anna L. Bush
-LOUIS MAJOR, SR.
Fostine Tallon
-LEON DUDLEY
died as child
-ERNEST LEROY, JR.
-0
Helen Godfrey
-HENRY GRADY, JR.
-0
still single
-DANIEL EARLE
-2
Mattie Stewart
X
-DAVID HARRIS
-2
Louise Harrell
-DOROTHY
-0
still single
-LOUIS MAJOR, JR.
-0
Mary L. Shytle
X
X
X
-JOHN EDGAR
died as child
X
Chart 592-R
-JOHN CHAPEL
Beulah Galloway
See C-335 & P-76
-VICTOR KINLOUGH
died as child
-VERNON LOVELL
died as child
X
X
a. John C. Norwood
b. Alger Yarbrough
-MARIE
a -John E. Jr.
-2
Kathleen Daniel
X
Page 178
-MALTIE KATHLEEN
died age one
-ALMA MAE
died as infant
X
X
Chart 593-L
-JAMES MULDROW, SR.
Agnes Yarborough
See C-335 & P-76
-WILLIAM ASBURY
Iris Price
-JAMES MULDROW,
JR.
Dorothy Stokes
John F. Clayton
-MARGARET
Leroy Tallon
-MAMIE
Edell Sansbury
-FLORRIE
John H. Browning
-MATTIE LEE
-WAYNE (nmi)
-0
still single
-JAMES CLEVELAND
-0
still single
-Joyce
-0
still single
-Samuel
-0
still single
-James
-0
still single
-John H. ,Jr.
-0
still single
-JUNE
-0
still single
-THOMAS EDWARD
-0
still single
X
-Sybil
-0
still single
-Jerry
-0
still single
-Robin
-0
still single
-Ann
-0
still single
-Madelyn
-0
still single
-PHILLIP (nmi)
-0
still single
X
X
-STEPHEN (nmi)
-0
still single
X
X
-MARY YVONNE
-0
still single
X
Chart 593-R
-JAMES MULDROW, SR.
Agnes Yarborough
See C-335 & P-76
-AGNES LOUISE
died as child
-MARTHA ERIN
died young
-SADIE LEE
died as infant
X
X
X
Page 179
Chart 594
-SAMUEL PINKNEY
Mary Yarborough
See C-335 & P-77
-LAURIN PINKNEY, SR.
Orilla Truluck
-JOHN FRANCIS, SR.
Geraldine Gardner
-SAMUEL CHARLTON
died as child
A. G. White
-RUE DELLE
-LAURIN PINKNEY, JR.
-0
still single
-JOHN F., JR.
-0
still single
X
-Samuel B.
-0
still single
-THOMAS ALLEN
-0
still single
-SAMUEL GARDNER
-0
still single
-Paula Diane
-0
still single
C. L. Windham
-0
-MARY FRANCES
-PHYLLIS EILEEN
-0
still single
X
-NORMA JEAN
-0
still single
-JANIS FAYE
-0
still single
X
X
Chart 596
-JOHN HARRISON
Fannie McPhail
See C-338 & P-84
-ROBERT JOHNSON
died single
-HUGH SHELTON
Gladys Barron
-WILLIAM LEE
Grace Kellett
A. Lawrency McCollough
B. James Wade
C. Otho Williams
-EDNA
Joseph Sunkel
-LILLIE FRANCES
X
Elgin Glenn
-1
-LOUISE
-JOHN K.
-_?_
__?__
A -Ray
-1
Vineta Green
Robert Sneed
-2
-Frances Ann
Wm. Mahoney
-2
-FRANCES
-GLENN
-?
__?__
B -James, Jr.
-2
Dorothy Plant
Melbert Schwartz
-2
-Katherine
X
-W. Patterson
-4
-MARY BETH
-Searcy
X
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X
X
Chart 597
-ROBERT ZEDOCK
Hattie Hooks
See C-338 & P-84
-ROBERT CECIL
Tennie Warren
Jesse H. Wade
-MYRTLE
-ROBERT LEE
-3
Leona Weiss
-Thomas
-3
Elsie Marquara
-WARREN
-2
Geraldine Cunningham
-Bobby Joe
-1
Jo Ann Norwood
-JIMMY
-0
still single
Amos Veazey
-3
-Winnie
Rudy Weiss
-4
-EVELYN
Ernest Redman
-2
-Dorothy
Charlie Crouch
-1
-LILLIE PEARL
John Taylor
-4
-Cora
Albert Weiss
-2
-PATSY
X
X
Chart 598
-SHELTON ISAAC
Lillie Kincannon
See C-338 & P-84
-WILLARD ISAAC, SR.
Icy Barron
-BENJAMIN ORA
Katie Cardwell
Wayne H. McClure, Jr.
-GLADYS
-WILLARD ISAAC, JR.
-3
Thelma Massingill
Roy Floreke
-2
-ORA MARIE
-Wayne
-0
still single
-MILTON WAYNE
-2
Marie McDaniel
X
X
X
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Addenda
IF POSSIBLE, AS YOU READ THESE
GUIDES GLANCE AT AN ADDENDUM
WHICH CONTAINS PEOPLE YOU KNOW...
1. The first person named under each Addendum
is the 5th-generation-descendant of ROBERT'S
about whom much more information is given in
the text of this book.
2. Underscored names show the 6th-generationdescendants who were the children of the firstnamed-person.
3. All other names that are preceded by a dash
are the various 7th-generation-issue of
ROBERT'S (and who, of course, are the grandchildren of the first-named-person).
4. No brothers and sisters are necessarily listed in order of birth; in fact, most of the male
issue are ordinarily named before the females
are.
5. In some cases a female's “new” surname, that
she adopted at the time of her marriage, is
shown in parentheses . . . for her cousins were
unable to give the author any other marital data.
As an example, see Addendum 611.
6. Unless the author uses some term such as
“died single”, “still single”, etc. the reader
should not assume that the listing of a person's
name by itself precluded marriage. As an example, see Addendum 603.
7. A question mark (?) is used to show the
author's failure to learn the surname that would
ordinarily be listed in that space; for example,
see the seventh line of Addendum 644.
8. The numbering of children runs consecutively
(for the 5th generation parent) regardless of
whether they are "full" or "half" brothers and
sisters. For example, see Addendum 613.
10. Remember that every fifth-generation
descendant of ROBERT’S is alphabetically listed in the index of this book, should you wish to
find more text material about any person who
heads one of these Addenda. (Every person born
a Dowling is also indexed.)
married Jane Corbett; issue, -James, -Carl,
-Berry, -Nathan, -Guilford, Jr., -Ricy, -Teedy,
and Anna. 4-William Jasper married Jane
Geiger; no issue. 5-Samuel Robert married first
Lula Bennett; issue, -Freeman, Gulf Agent,
Starke, Fla.. pres. of Register Family Reunion,
(m) Alice Agin; -Floyd (m) Alice Wright;
-Candacy (m) John Chitty; Samuel Robert married second Rotilda Tumblin; no issue; Samuel
Robert married third Luraney Register; issue,
-Arzel, male, (m) Miss Zipper; -Plez, a male;
-Chandler; -Ruby (m) J. W. Rewis; and -Ruth.
6-Aaron Robert Lee Register married Sarah
Peterson: issue, -Sesh, male; -James, -Tinion, a
male; -Peter, -Lessie (m) Mr. Chitty; -Nita, and
-Sudie. 7-Mary Ann Elizabeth died at the age of
two. 8-Zilpha married Francis M. Rogers; -Bud,
-Sam, -Ben, -John Henry, -Quarterman, -Creasy,
female (m) Lovin Davis; -Leila, -Eva, -Beckie,
and-Martha. 9-Ricy Caroline married Paul
Deese;issue, -John, -Frank died single,
-Guilford, -J. B., -Rebecca, -Beulah, -Ellen,
-Carrie,-Victoria,-Minnie,and-Pearley.
Addendum 604
-TEMPERANCE Rowell and James A.
Rowell had thirteen children: 1-David married
Lucy Grimes; issue, -D. Frank (m.1st) Vashtie
Lynn and (m.2nd) Emma White; -James (m),
Aussie Blount; -Reed (m) Bessie Blocker;
-Clifford (m) Ruth Bell; -Nellie (m) Elwood
Knox; -Monti (m) Jim J. Griffin; -Lou, female
who died single; and -Sara (m) Bailey
Wainwright. 2-Jabez James married first Jane
Anthony and had at least the following issue by
her: -Avner (m) Verdie Harris; -Jennie (m) Bud
Wainwright. Jabez James also married Ranie
Ammons and Eilen McBee, these unions having
three issue including -Walter (m) Jeannette
Stone, and -Velie (m) WILLARD MORTON
Dowling of Chart 509. 3-Jesse married Mary
Jane Moody; issue -Baxter (m) Ada Harrison;
-Presley (m) Addendum 605's Martha Jane
Crews; -Jimmy (m) Lily Music (or Rawlings);
-Columbus, died young; -Navada (m) Vander E.
Roberson; and -Minnie (m) David Roberson.
4-John D. married DRUCILLA Dowling of
Chart 507; all of their issue are shown there.
5-William Henry married Claudia Moody; issue,
-Silas (m) Myrtle Crews; -Barney (m) Algie
Addendum 602
-REBECCA CAROLINE Register and
Samue1 Register had nine children: l-John
Moses married Martha Rhoden; issue,
-Elizabeth. 2-Dennis Dowling Register married
Nellie Rhoden, sister of Martha; issue, -George,
-Joe, -Tommy, -Mary, and -Effie. 3-Guilford H.
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Stewart; -Tollie (m), Sarah Davis; -Math (m)
Eva Roberson; -Hardy (m) Earnie Roberson;
-Mitch (m) Becky Smith; -Dave (m) Hazel
Prescott; -Dennis (m) Lena Dubose; -J. C. (m)
Kay Biggs; -Clester, male, died as child;
-Tempie died as child; -Betty died as child and
-Lilly Mae (m) Henry Brauda. 6-Martha Matilda
married “Little” AARON Dowling; their issue
are shown on Chart 507. 7-Eliza Rebecca married Samuel Morgan; issue, -Dave (m) Jane
Highsmith; -Jack (m) Ida Highsmith; -Tempie
(m) Bill Riggins; -Rosey (m) John Smith;
-Cresey (m) Lonny Riggins. 8-Sophia Jane married Daniel Wilkinson; they were last heard from
in Florida; she was born in 1853. 9-Mary
Elizabeth married William Fiveash; a grandson
of theirs, Ray Fiveash, is a policeman in
Waycross, Georgia. 10-Hester Ann married I.
Benjamin Lyons; issue, -Sam D., Sr. (m) Minor
Corbitt; -George (m) Merriam Griner; -Charlie
(m) Nellie Rutherford; -William Darrel “Doc”,
died single; -Tempie (m) Shepherd Boyd; -Janie
(m) Henry Ammons; and -Ella (m) Jackson
Corbitt. 11-Tempie Adeline married first Silas
Johns; issue, -Rutus (m) Katie White; -Kizzie
(m) James Walker; and -Emmie (m) John
Register; Tempie Adeline married second
Lymon Wilcher but there was no issue to this
union. 12-Frances Dorinda married James
Harris; issue, -John (m) Willie Mae Riggins;
-Joe (m) Annie Bell Bonham; Jim, Jr. (m)
Emmie Godwin; -Ban (m) Susie Thornton,
-Carswell (m.2nd) Connie Byrd; -Lyman (m)
Ola Houston; -Addie (m. lst) Nick Tatum & (m.
2nd) Ocie Fiveash; -Maude (m. lst) George
Joynor & (m.2nd) Jesse Lucas; -Ocie (m) Jasper
Crawford; -Myrtie (m.lst) Purdom Howard &
(m. 2nd) Russell Howard & (m.3rd) Henderson
Davis. 13-Rachel Keziah married first Jim
Jacobs; issue, -James Britt (m) Zonie Harris;
-Jack, died age five; -George, died age nine;
-Tempie (m) Felder Drury; -Mary (m) Rutus F.
Crews of Addendum 605; -Cora (m) Addendum
605's Solomon D. Crews; -Alice (m) Lang Lynn;
-Lou (m) C. E. Wilcher. Rachel Keziah married
second D. A. Carter but they had no children.
D. (m) Cora Jacobs of Addendum 604; -Isham
(m. lst) Mollie Lewis &(m. 2nd) Zula Hodge;
-Rutus F. (m) Addendum 604's Mary Jacobs;
-Jack (m) Katie Douglas; -Charlie (m) Mary Lee
Hodge; -unnamed boy; -Delie, died as child;
-Gussie (m. lst) Harry Benefield & (m. 2nd) Gus
Medlin; -Martha Jane (m) Addendum 604's
Presley Rowell; -Mary (m) Will Crews. 2-Jabe
married twice, lived in Daytona Beach, and had
several children. 3-Sinai, female, had sons
-Johnny Crews and -Keat Crews, the latter killed
still single; and -Willie, female, (m) Doll
Hunnicutt. 4-Nancy married Mr. Cheatham and
had one son, -Franklin. 5-Delie married Willie S.
Echols; issue, -Willie M. (m) Sara Mae
Crawford; -George (m) Thelma Strickland;
-Etheridge female, died single; -Cheatham,
female, (m) Willie R. Johnson; -Beulah (m. lst),
Mr. Crosby & (m. 2nd) George Fussell; -Florine
(m) Dilworth Strickland.
Addendum 606
SABRA SALINA Crews and William John
(Jack) Crews had thirteen children: 1-David
Lawton married Mary Roberson; issue, -Minnie
(m) Addendum 609's James Allen Stokes; and
-Lovey (m) Rube Morgan. 2-Perry lived near
Lelatown, Georgia, and has children there. 3-Jim
married Virginia Harrell; issue, -Wally (m. lst)
Cora Dyal & (m. 2nd) Bessie Yarbrough;
-Calvin J. (m) Edna Baxter; -Minnie (m) E. M.
Hazen; and -Alva (m), G. B. Colson. 4-Isham
IInd married first Kizzie Johns; issue, -Barten
(m) Georgia Rozier; -Johnny (m) Liza Woodard;
-Dessie (m) Thomas Clynes; -Della (m), Jim
Day; -Hattie (m) John Riley Carter;
-Lizzie (m) Richard Bell; -Sabra (m) Lum
Peacocks: Isham IInd married second Missouri
Johns but they had no issue. 5-Billy married
Lizzie Thornton; no issue. 6-Sam married
Maggie Hunter; issue, -Arlie who married three
times; -Early and -Jeff; these three resided in
Florida. 7-Cain C. married Laura Dubose; issue,
-Walter, sheriff of Brantley County, (m) Verona
Howard. -Irvin (m) Lillie Walker; -Ruben (m)
Elma Howard; -Gordon (m) Sammie Hogan;
-Beulah (m) Raymond Hickox; -Leila (m) B. N.
Hinson; -Maggie (m) Owen Strickland; -Hattie
(m) Tom Lloyd. 8-Brantley married Mary
Dixon; issue, -Alvin (m) Desie Lee Moody; -J.
L. (m) Myrtle Griner. -Wilbur (m) Olie Phyfe;
-Alphie (m) Edmond Walker; -Nora died as
Addendum 605
-ADELINE Crews and Isham Crews had
five children: 1-Sam married first Ellender
Sweat; issue -Lee (m) Addie Williams; Sam
married second Martha Knight; issue, -Solomon
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Addendum 608
MARY E. Dowling Griffin and Dempsey Griffin
had eleven children: 1-Avery R. died young.
2-Pleasant Dempsey married first Jane Elizabeth
Thornton; issue, -P. U. (m. lst) Vallie Altman &
(m. 2nd) Julia Gibson; -F. H. (m) Gertie
Strickland; -B. A. (m) Myrtie Altman; -John G.
(m) Anna Mott; -G. R. (m) Minnie Davis, and
three others who died single, -Mary Jane,
-Gracie Ella, and Yorkie Rilla; Pleasant
Dempsey married second Mary Lee; issue,
-Moses (m) Lennie Strickland; -Jeptha (m)
Zettie O'Quinn; -Joseph (m. lst) Janie White &
(m. 2nd) Hattie Nelson; -Nora, still single;
-Rachel (m) W. O. Herrin; -Ruth still single;
-Sareptha, still single; -Cora (m) L. M. Tomerlin;
-Zettie (m) Albert Thomas; and -Zoie (m) O. W.
Crosby. 3-James Darling married Henrietta
Melton; issue -J. B. (m) Ada Walker; -Manning
(m) Charlotte Altman; -Britton (m) Chart 509's
Mary Crews; -Melissa (m) John Ammons, and
-Bessie (m) David O'Quinn. 4-Noah N. married
first Nancy Stone; issue -Irving B. (m)
Addendum 613’s Emma Dryden; -Ernest A. (m)
Luzanna Baker; -Victoria (m) Jack Hagen; Noah
N. married second Rosa E. Thornton; issue,
-Lester E. (m. lst) Chart 506's VIOLET Dowling
& (m. 2nd) Ida Walker, -Noah Bernice (m) Mary
Meeks; -Namon U. (m) Julia Hickox; -Peurifoy
(m. lst) Tassie Lanier & (m. 2nd) Estelle?;
-Onimous (m) Alma Meddlin; -George Burrell,
died as child; -Viola (m) Noah Albritton; -Ella
(m) Math Strickland; -Mary Jane (m) Riley
Altman; -Goldie (m) Jack Hickox; -Ruth (m) lst,
Clarence Guy & (m. 2nd) Mr. Yates;
-Josephine (m) Charley Hickox. 5-Nancy S.
married John Strickland; nothing more learned
of her. 6-Mary M. married James Stone issue,
-Allen (m) Abbie Boyd; -Griffin D. (m) Rachel
Walker; -Lillie (m) Isham Aldridge; -Maggie
(m), Henry Highsmith; -Lonie (m) Herschel
Davis; -Mattie (m) Ira Hickox; -Julia (m) Jim
Harris; -Nettie, still single; -Nicie (m) Frank
Willlams. 7-Martha M. married Archibald
Crews; issue -Charles C. (m) Emmeline Lee;
-Lawt (m) Nolie Gunter; -Ira (m) Nevie Dixon;
-Levy (m) Katie Stone; -Whit (m) Bell
Strickland; -Cage (m) Becky Hickox; -Mary (m)
Jim Lee; -Katie (m) Jack Crawford. -Emma (m)
David Chestnut; and -Mattie (m) Chart 517’s
LEWIS MOSES Dowling. 8-Harriett Letitia
married Banner Crews; issue, -Lovie Elizabeth
infant. 9-John married Earlie Johns; issue,
-Nathan (m. lst) Nolie Manning & (m. 2nd)
Rosie Beverly; -Jerry, married; -Roney, “Bud”,
(m)Frances Crawford; -Mary (m) Jim Swindle;
-Lifie Ann (m) Lawton Crawford. 10-Eliza married Ed Carew; issue, -Pat, still single; -Eddie
(m) Bertie?; -Mollie (m) J. M. Brantley; -Ida,
still single; -Susie Mae (m) Lee Dubose. 11-Jane
married Sam Griffin; issue, -Jim, married twice;
-Owen; -Minnie, died young; -infant daughter;
-Oscar, died young. 12-Sue married John
Dubose; issue, -Levy, -Benny, Johnny, -Ida,
-Lissie, and -Macy. 13-Mary married John
Johns; issue, -Peter (m), Lolie Raulerson;
-Johnny; -Fannie (m) Owen Griffin; -Lennie (m)
Elson Howell; -Kate (m) Will Griffin.
Addendum 607
-MARY MARTHA Raulerson and David
Raulerson had eight children: 1-David Canady
died young. 2-James Darling died at the age of
ten. 3-Sydney, female, married Jesse Hilton;
issue, -Harry, English male, -Eddie, -Putnam,
-Alex, -Millard, -John, -Ira A., died as boy,
-Denton, -Lizzie, and -Mary Anna who died single. 4-Mary Isabelle married James R. Roberson,
whose ancestors are shown in "Pioneers of
Wiregrass Georgia"; issue, -Andrew (m) Chart
507's DORINDA; Cuyler R. (m) Hattie Lou
Pearson; -Johnny (m. lst) Janie Steward & (m.
2nd) Miss Raulerson & (m. 3rd) Miss Johns;
-Allen (m) Gertie Manning; -Vander, male, (m,
Vada Rowell; -Clester, “Cap”, (m. lst) Ida
Kimbrell & (m. 2nd) Ada Turner; -David (m)
Lois Scott; -Loannie (m) Joseph Chancey.
5-Eliza died at the age of nine. 6-Mantia M.,
female, married Madison Honney. 7-Macy
Malinda married Alex Manning; issue, -Joseph
J. (m) Millie A. Knight; -John D. (m. lst) Carrie
Boomer & (m. 2nd) Georgia Johns; -Evan, died
single; -Mizell (m) Ben Carter; -Lovey (m)
Charlie Moody; -Viola (m) Charles C. Knight;
-Oma (m) Joseph L. Rogers; -Lessie (m) Jasper
Strickland; -Earnie (m) Tom Brown; -Lettie,
married; -Kate (m) Lester Anderson; and there
was one issue. 8-Nettie married Saint Clair
Manning; issue, -unnamed boy; -David M., died
single; -Jim Curtis (m) Mildred Farrell; -Lonnie
W., still single; -Ernest S. (m) Doris Mock;
-Tyrus Jerrell (m) Ida Herrin; -Mary Lou (m. lst)
J. O. Knox & (m. 2nd) Lonny B. Smith; -Pearl
(m) Erlish Bennett; -Ethel (m) Alton Tomlinson.
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8-Marzilla married Carswell Warren; issue,
-Gross, -Jushua, -Johnny, and -Roscoe (m)
Martha Stokes; maybe others.
(m) Alfred Thomas; -Melissa (m) Andrew
Shuman; -Hattie Mae (m) George Anderson.
9-Lovey E. married Dennis Edwards; issue,
-Dempsey (m) Mollie Jacobs; Fronie (m) Martin
Lane; -Nola (m) Melvin Courson; -Mattie (m)
Edgar W. Hall; -Hattie (m) Raymond Hickox;
10-Sarah Ann married Ransom Guy, and had at
least one child, -Verdie (McLeod). 11-Amarintha
Emmie married Bartow Mercer; nothing else
learned about her.
Addendum 610
-HARRIETT Stone and William Henry
Stone had seven children: 1-William Henry, Jr.
married Mary Livinia Rhoden; issue -Oliver,
-Colquitt, -Ezra, -Effie, -Annie, -Mattie, and
-Rosa. 2-Isaiah D. married first Sallie Roberts;
issue, -Fred (m) Sallie Boyd; -Ralph (m) Cora
Bell Brown, -Algie, died age five; Isaiah D. married second Mary Lillian Clark; issue, -WilIiam
Henry II, -Voliet (Dobson), -Willie May
(Peterson), and -Catherine (Wrigley). 3-Colquitt
died single. 4-Allen died age one. 5-Aurelia
married Thomas Abel Reynolds; issue, -Arley
(m) Edna Keller; -Joel (m) Lollie Williams.
-Forest (m) Pearl Abneathy; -Hassie Cole (m)
Agnes Harvey; -William Henry, killed in World
War I when Germans blew up the USS TAMPA;
-Burtle (m) Margaret Bracol; -Thomas Abel Jr.
(m) Faith Soward; -Douglas Whitten (m. 1st)
Martha Barrow & (m. 2nd) Lois Jordan; -Hattie
(m) Stanley Birmingham; -Nora Mae (m) Carlos
E. Johns. 6-Emma R. married J. Thomas Harris.
issue -Perry Edward, -Earl, -Della (m) Chart
515's JAMES LONNIE Dowling, Sr., -Hattie
Elizabeth, -Carmen Elsie (Walker), -Isaiah,
-Lorenzo, -Vandie, -Thelma (m. Mr. Wells & Mr.
Ryan), -Juanita (Williams), and -Vivian
(Clements). 7-Cevilla married Joseph Harris;
issue, -Daniel, -Raiford, -Paul Joseph, -Stanley,
-Radford, -J. R. -Mace, -Ivie, -Jessee, -Johnnie,
and -Pearlie (Lyons).
Addendum 609
-MARTHA Thomas and Edmond Thomas
had eight children; 1-Banner M. Sr., Georgia
Legislator, married first Mollie Jones; issue,
-Henry (m) Liza Carter; -Jim E. (m) Agnes
Griffith; -Mary (m) Hamp Crews; -Martha (m)
Hardy Crews; Banner M. married second Peggy
Knox; issue, -Russell (m) Nora Herrin; -Walter
(m) Alva Davis. -Ira (m) Ivory Brooker; -Banner
M., Jr., postmaster of Hoboken, Georgia (m)
Thelma Tallevast; -Bob (m) Willie Upton; -Liza
(m) Burie Thomas; -Ruth (m) C. S. Doster;
-Bessie (m) J. B. Carter; -Lillie died single.
2-John married first Miss Jones; issue two
daughters thought to live in Bradenton, Florida;
John married second Mozelle Dollison; issue,
-Don, and -Oscar who operates Savannah store.
3-Ed married Nancy L. Jones; issue -Johnny,
-Leila, -Lethie, -Lillie, and Edna T. (Barrett).
4-Sophia married Jim B. Harris; issue -Ernest
(m) Chart 507's VICTORIA Dowling; -William
H., “Billy”, (m) Mary Kimbrell. 5-Mary married
John Jacobs. issue -Eddie (m) Janie Thomas;
-Bert (m) Hattie Walker. 6-Martha married
Richard Stokes; issue, -James Allen (m)
Addendum 606's Minnie Crews; -Johnny (m)
Frances Barber; -Lucien (m) Nora Harris;
-Elbert (m) Chart 514's ETTA Dowling; -Henry
(m) Viola Bradley; -Noah Frank (m) Mary Jane
Jacobs; -Richard died as infant; -Willie (m. lst)
Vada Herrin & (m. 2nd) Ella Highsmith; -Hattie
and -Martha died as infants; -Sarah (m) Dave
Pearson; -Lizzie (m) Raiford Thornton of
Addendum 613; -Rilla (m) Melt Williams;
-Nancy (m) George Dryden, -Mary (m) Russell
Raulerson. 7-Margaret married Lige O'Quinn;
issue, -Banner Calvin (m) Janie Godwin;
-David Ezekial (m) Ella Williams. -Thomas
Oliver (m) Edna Taylor; Elijah Duncan (m) Avie
Jones; -Hardy Edmond (m) Effie Taylor; -Agnes
(m) James I. Godwin; -Lillie (m) Jesse Teston.
Addendum 611
-SELETA Stone and Allen Stone had three
children: 1-John married Emma Byrd. 2-Harriet
Elizabeth (Harrison). 3-Sophie Ester (Byrd),
whose daughter Hattie Byrd (Smith) presently
lives in Collinsville, Alabama.
Addendum 612
-MELINDA Dowling had one child:
1-EDGAR DEMPSEY married first Laura S.
Carver, issue, -JESSIE (m) Babe Fisher; -OPHELIA (m) Reverend R. J. Revels; EDGAR
DEMPSEY married second Lilla Ellis; issue,
-HARRY OTIS, SR., (m) Bertha Hinnant;
EDGARD DEMPSEY married a third time;
issue, -EDGAR (m) Maggie Zettles.
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Addendutm 613
-EMMA SORENTHO Harris Thornton
Dryden and her first husband, John Harris, had
one child: 1-Nancy J. married MOSES A.
Dowling; their issue are shown on Chart 506.
-EMMA SORENTHO bore two more children
by her second husband Joe Thornton: 2-Raiford
married Addendum 609's Lizzie Stokes; issue,
-George (m) Ocie Strickland; -Joe (m) Martha
Mercer; -Jim (m) Lula Crews; -Arthur, died single; -Avey (m) Ben Guy. 3-Sabra married Mann
Altman; no issue. EMMA SORENTHO bore
four more children by her third husband, Nathan
Dryden: 4-Ben married Mary Mercer; issue,
-Nathan II (m) Tishie Melton; -Bertha (m. brother of Tishie's) Floyd Melton; -Beulah Lee (m. the
father of Tishie and Floyd) Dorce Melton;
-Pauline (m) Leroy Aldridge. 5-Savila married
Seward Lee; issue, -Elbert (m) Ethel Guy; -Alex
(m) Almeida?; -Lindy (m) Bill Sams;-Reavis,
female (m) Leroy Mercer. 6-Emma married
Addendum 608's Irving B. Griffin; issue, -Henry
(m) Letha Hickox; -Naldo Mary, male, (m) Ida
Dyals; -Wilson, still single -Bobbie Mae still single; -Goldie (m) David Willis; -Gladys (m)
Monsie Crawford; -Verona (m) Hilry Fort.
7-Hattie married Perry Jones; issue, -Carlos (m)
Susie Jacobs; -Jesse (m) Bessie Stone; -Edward
Benjamin (m) Georgia Lee; -Clyde (m) Mildred
Dixon; -Inez, married twice.
-Elizabeth (m) William Anderson. 3-Elizabeth
married Theodore Moseby; issue, -Winchester,
Samuel, -Dwight, -Richard, -Theodore, -John D.
Addendum 616
-Winchester Graham and Eliza Carey Smith
Graham had eight children: 1-Harry Malcom
married Jennie Kirkland; issue, -Hunt (m) Sarah
Hunter; -Reuben J. (m) Beatrice Chitty; -Henry
Maner (m) Margaret Bryson; -Hamilton Yancey
(m) Earle Foster; -Winchester II (m) Julia C.
Goolsby; -Frank Kirkland (m.lst) Alice
Elizabeth Knight & also (m) again; -Jane, still
single; -Eliza C. (m) W. Hilton Harvey;
-Rebecca H. (m) E. Hayes Reynolds; -Grace,
still single; -Amy, died as infant. 2-Wilson died
at age of seventeen. 3-Frank Dunbar married
Harriett Ayer; issue, -Providence (m) Edwin L.
Culler, Jr. 4-Bothwell married Sarah Virginia
Ayer; issue, Bothwell, Jr., (m) Katherine Louise
Bean; -Enni (m) Lula May Brake; -Franklin Ayer
(m) Lydia Schneal; -Grantland died single;
-Malcom, died single; -Iverson (m) Laura
Stoney; -Nellie; -Julia Elizabeth, died single;
-Cornelia, died single; -Leila (m) James H.
Cross; -Sarah Virginia, died single. 5-James
Hagood died at age of four. 6-Elizabeth died as
an infant. 7 and 8-twin boys, un-named.
Addendum 617
-Washington Aaron Hanberry and Lena
Hurst Hanberry had eight children: 1-James
Leonard, a hero of the Panama Canal Zone, married Lillie Powell; issue, -James Leonard, Jr.,
(m) Lois Phillips; -Joe M. (m) Esther Ott;
-Agnes (m) Ea King; -Mary Lillian (m) J. D.
Patrick; -Eleanor (m) Herman Dantzler.
2-William Edward married Lula Witt and had at
least one offspring, -William Frederick. 3-Fred
died at age of five. 4-Everett H. married Alva
Wroton and had at least one offspring, -Homer
B. (m) Grace?. 5-Earl died at age of five.
6-Atmar, male, married Nadine McKerley; no
issue. 7-Nellie married Frank E. Dozier; issue,
-Francis E., a son. 8-Eva Marie married Eligah
Hightower and had at least one offspring,
-Erlene (m) Lige Kittrell & (m. once or twice
more).
Addendum 614
-SOPHIA Harris and Lewis Randall Harris
had seven children: 1-Joseph married Mary
Anderson. no issue. 2-Lazarus married Emma
O'Neal and had about eight offspring. 3-Darling
married Chart 509's Allie Crews; issue, -Fred,
-Tommy, -Minnie, and one or two others. 4-King
married Arrell Crews and had several, offspring.
5-Lee married Lindy Carter, female, and had two
offspring. 6-Seleta married Mack Crews of
Chart 509; issue, -Jasper, and -Dellie, male (m)
Miss Crews & Miss Meeks. 7-Mittie married
Oscar Shumans.
Addendum 615
-Ida Elizabeth Graham Jones and James
Jones had at least three children: 1-William.
2-Sarah Ann married John O. Darby; issue
-William Ansley (m) Matilda Feaster; -John G.
(m) Bessie Wilson; -Joseph J.; -Graham; -Edgar;
-Theodore; -Azuba; -infant; -Sarah Ann;
Addendum 618
-Hansford Hanberry and ______S1ater
Hanberry had at least three children: 1-George
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-John Thomas (m) Vertie Lee Shillings; -Edna
Maranda (m) William Rex Bass; -Ina Gertrude
(m) Maxie Hamilton. 12-James Christian married Dawsy Johnson; issue -Clara and -Lillie,
both married. 13-Mattie Bell married Charles
Arthur Stuart; issue, -Arthur Virgil (m) Olivia
Elizabeth Lewis; -Ruby Virginia, never married;
-Ruth Ophelia (m) Otis William Lewis. 14-Lillie
died at age of two. 15-Kittie D. married Robertus
Levi Webb; issue -John Joseph (m) Thelma
Turnipseed; -Beulah (m) Peter Ealum Hatten.
16-Elinor Elizabeth, “Nellie” married J. W.
Myles, issue -Annie Lou, -Charley, -Aubrey,
-Dewey, and -Pearl. 17-Frances Julia married
Barney Owens; issue -Bessie (m) J. C. Faircloth;
-Clyde (m) girl in Oregon.
D. Sr. married Miss Carroll; issue -George D.,
Jr., -Julia, and another daughter. 2-Jane, 3-Nelli.
Addendum 618.1
-John Chester Hanberry and his first wife,
Honora Corniff, had two children: 1-John Frank
married Lizzie Carlovitz; issue, -Hobert,
-Gilbert, died age three; -Phillip still single,
-Mabie (m. lst) Gilbert McDonald & (m. 2nd)
Dr. A. H. Letten; -Eva (m) Leon Elders: -Bessie
(m) Terrell Evans. 2-Joe G. married Lizzie
Yelverton; issue, -William Wley (m) Iris Elles;
-Joe Mertz (m. 1st) Loraine Kimmons & (m.
2nd) Emmie Morris; Cora (McArthur); -Ella (m)
E. G. Vinson; -Juanita (m) Allen Mizella;
-Lillian (m) Albert Sellers.
-John Chester Hanberry and his second wife,
Elvira Jane Padgett Hanberry, had fifteen children: 3-Homer Jessie married first Bertha
Stillman; issue, -Shirley Nell (m) Dick
Davenport; -Betty Jane (m) Archie Graham;
-Frances (m) J. R. Wilson; Homer Jessie married
second Bessie Bridges. 4-Edgar Hugh married
Miriam Girley; issue, -Edwin Earl (m) Agnes
Inez May; -Charles Lynn (m) Wanda Iris Morris;
-Shirley Wayne, male, (m) Geraldine Bura;
-Royce Sexton, Sr., (m) Jewel Fay; -Linnie Jean
(m) James Eugene Fogg; -Harry Olan (m)
Catherine Yvonne Standly. 5-Charles Arthur
married Inez McNease; issue, -James Edward
(m) Gladys Herrin. 6-Chester Harry died single
at age of seventeen. 7-Clarence Palmer married
Tillie Patterson; issue -Kittie Dorls (m) Mr.
Johnson; -Nellie Rea (m) Mr. Green; -Frances
(m) Henry Johnson; -Palmer Gene (m) ? ;
-Hilton, died age seven; -Cecil (m) ?. 8-Thomas
Samuel married first Luna Hathorne issue,
-Voncille (m) Mr. Wright; -Alice (m) James
Rollins. Thomas Samuel married second Mrs.
Luna Mae Brldges; issue, -Hugh (m) Faye
Coulter. 9-Ernest Fredrick married Ruby Frey;
issue, -Ernest (m) Beatrice Wilson; -Reggie,
Baptist Minister, (m) Doris Landry. -Cleo (m) ?.
10-Willie W., male, married Riller Lott; issue,
-Elvie (m) Ben Favella; -Arlene (m) Harry
Dunno, -Howard (m. lst) Cozine Rayborn & (m.
2nd) Claude Smith; -Hazel (m) Howard Carruth;
-W. L., died age twenty-three; -Ladell (m) Alcus
Graham; -Magdaline (m) John T. Boyd.
11-Henry Robert married Clara Izzie Bell
Garner; issue -Linnie Elizabeth (m) Robley
Haley -Lola Jane (m) A. Fifford McLemore;
Addendum 619
-E. Jane Hanberry Sandifer and John
Sandifer had five children: 1-Decania W. died at
age of nineteen. 2-Fanny married Charles
Hartzog; issue, -Anderson, -Lodie, -Lizzie, and
-Luna. 3-Ellen married Allen Simmons; issue,
-Joel, now of Bamberg, S. C.; -Ida (m) Samuel
Ayers Hand. 4-Lizzie married Aaron Ratcliff; no
issue. 5-Emma married Tom C. Tant; no issue.
Addendum 620
-Georgianna Hanberry Sandifer and Henry
Sandifer had six children: 1-Marion, 2-Quinney,
3-Sally (McMillan). 4-Victoria Erbanna married
James William Hill; issue, -Virginia, still single,
of Bamberg, S. C.; -Ada Juanita (m) Martin
Hughes; -Maybelle J. died single; -Grace
Truman (m) Reed Addy. 5-Lucia (Jordan).
6-Rebecca (Jordan).
Addendum 621
-Rebecca Hanberry Witt and John Witt Sr. had at
least four children: 1-John Jr., had a son in
Houston, Texas. 2-Charlie never married. 3-Lula
married W. E. Hanberry. 4-Ella, has a daughter,
-Nellie (Ross).
Addendum 622
-ELLEN ELIZABETH Cox and Andrew
Jackson Cox had six children: 1-Elijah M. married Julia Emma Free of Addendum 626; no
issue. 2-Aaron Dixon died single, about age of
forty-one. 3-Sallie D. married Addendum 626's
Charles B. Free, issue, -B. F. (m) Harriett
Mitchell; -W. E. (m) Bertie Gill; -Fred Wilbur,
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Robert Lee Allen; -Ruby, died age one; -Lina
(m) Frederick William Kinard; -Ruth (m)
Raymond A. McDaniel. 4-infant daughter.
Sr. (m) Minnie Black; -Clarence Edwin, died as
infant; -Jacob Decania, died as infant; -Charles
Dowling, died single; -Mary Caroline died as
infant; -Ellen Elizabeth, "Essie", (m) E. A.
Hooten. 4-Carrie,"Shug", married J. J. Simmons;
issue, -Ralph E. (m) Connie Bustree; -John
Joseph (m) Pleasant Spell; -Earl J.; -Edwin E.;
-un-named infant; -Annie Dowling; -Edna L.,
Carrie R.; Nina F.; (the preceding seven died as
infants or in childhood,; -Mary Ellen (m) G. O.
Simmons; -Bessie (m. lst) C. E. Tyler (m. 2nd)
A. N. Whetstone; -Marian (m) Olin W.
Whetstone; -Ottie E. (m.lst) R. A. Ayer & (m.
2nd) T. T. Elmore, 5-H. Rebecca died at age of
thirteen. 6-Mary Elizabeth married Jacob D.
Felder; issue Jackson Cox, died age two;
-Nathaniel Elijah died age five; -Isaac Bamberg
(m. lst) Annie Black & (m. 2nd) Mildred Beatty;
-Jacob Edward (m) Inez Brabham; -Charles
David, died single; -Benjamin Tillman (m. lst)
Wilhemina Zeigler & (m. 2nd) Nelle Bamber;
-Ernest Gary, died as infant; -Ann Bertha (m)
Thomas H. Watson; -Mary Elizabeth (m) J. K.
Inabinet; -Jan Ellen (m) Michael Ayer; -Sallie
Emma (m) James H. Lever; -Mable Rebecca (m)
A. M. Watson.
Addendum 625
-CHARLEIGH THADEUS Dowling and
Margaret Quattlebaum had four children:
1-CHARLEIGH THADEUS, JR. married Selina
Moss; issue, -MARGARET (m) Dr. C. W.
Morrison; -ELIZABETH (m) Dr. E. G. Able;
-AMELIA (m) W. L. Califf; -MARTHA ANNE
(m) J. U. Bell Jr. 2-WILLIAM ELIJAH died as a
child. 3-EDGAR died as a child. 4-ERNEST
died as a child.
Addendum 626
-ELIZABETH MAGALENE Free and Jacob
E. Free had seven children: 1-William Dowling
married Harriett Mary Sandifer; issue, -Dowling
William (m) Florence Sandifer; -Charles
Benjamin II (m) Lillie Ackerman; -Laura Mable
(m) Aquilla Willis; -Elizabeth M. (m) Offie
Griffith; -Florence Rebecca (m) Clinton E.
Sandifer. 2-Charles Benjamin married first Sallie
D. Cox, of Addendum 622 where their issue are
listed; Charles Benjamin married second
Amanda Rutledge; issue -Harold B., died age
six; -Josephine (m. lst) J. Buice Brickle & (m.
2nd) Henry Lawrence Hinnant; Charles
Beniamin married third Elizabeth Jenkins; issue,
-Katherine Elizabeth (m. lst) William Duncan
Rhoad & (m. 2nd) Percy Eugene Brabham, publisher of "The Bamberg Herald" and a South
Carolina legislator; -Louise Jenkins. 3-Thomas
Jefferson died at age of two. 4-Francis Barton
died at age of one. 5-Jacob E. Jr. died at age of
nine. 6-Rebecca married Sam E. Ulmer; issue,
-Julia Emma (m) Miles Blount & (m. once or
twice more); -Elizabeth (m) Dr. L. P. Weekly;
-Janie Sue (m) W. H. Weekly. 7-Julia Emma (m)
Addendum 622’s Elijah M. Cox.
Addendum 623
-SARAH S. Rice and Henry William Rice,
Sr., had seven children: 1-Henry William. Jr.
died as a child. 2-Thomas. 3-Ellen married J. H.
Drummond and had at least one offspring,
-William Henry (1877-1903). 4-Catherine
(Ensminger). 5-Rosa (Sandifer). 6-Hattie.
7-Emma (Morris), whose daughter married a
Jackson.
Addendum 624
-REBECCA ANN Barr Warren and James
Michael Barr, her first husband, had four childred: 1-James Dowling. died single at age of
fourteen. 2-John Wesley married Alma B. Hays;
no issue. 3-Charles Decania married Eula Lillian
Mitchell; issue, -James Michael II (m) Alba
Haymes; -Decani Dowling (m) Mattie Lena
Watson; -John Wesley II, died single; -Franklin
Asberry (m) Mary Leila Bauknight;
-McKendree (m) Kathleen Counts; -Charles
Decania Jr., (m) Addendum 630's Mary Frances
Guess. -Clyde Mitchell (m) Minnie McDaniel
-Louis Monroe, a twin, died as infant; -Lucilie
twin of preceding, died as infant; -Alma (m)
Addendum 627
-ELLEN MARIA Kennerly and Joseph
Kennerly had one child: 1-Leda married Stanwix
Greenville Mayfield, Sr.; issue, -Joseph;
-William Dowling, Sr. (m) Marian Riley;
-Stanwix Greenville, Jr., (m) Nan Sams; -Judson
Townes (m) Marjorie Maxwell; -Leda Christabel
(m) S. S. Williams; -Eleanor died age one;
-Blythe, died age two; and -Lillian Katherine.
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Addendum 630
-Samuel Daniel Medicus Guess, who was
born May 3, 1836, and Sallie Barr Guess had one
child; 1-James B., Sr. married Sallie Mitchell;
issue, -James B., Jr. (m) Mary Connor; -Samuel
(m) Annie Lou Collins; -Hattie Lee (m) Hubert
Matthews -Sadelle (m) Milton Crum; -Emmie
Ruth (m) Reynoid Wiggins; -Mary Frances (m)
Addendum 624's Charles Decania Barr, Jr.
Addendum 628
-Decania William David Guess and Calista
Parler Guess had two children; 1-Lucia B. married A. R. Saunders; issue -Decania, -Milford,
-Mamie Lou, and -Ada. 2-Mary Augusta,
"Mamie" married Asbury D. Pearson; issue,
-Ernest C. (m) Rosa Marie May; -Edgar Guess
(m) Mayme Sturkie; -Howard D. (m) Ruby
Haynes; Nina Earle (m) Willie Metz; -May (m)
Edward Easterling; -Alma (m) Poinsett M. King;
-Olive Clare (m) Charles Coleman; -Eleanor,
died as infant.
Addendum 630.1
-William Elijah Bartholomew Guess and
Louise Smith Guess, who was born March 13,
1849, had three children: 1-Annie married
Weims Armory Smith; issue, -Armory, -Louise,
-Helen. 2-Hattie married Frank McMillan; issue,
-W. Frank (m) Ruth McDonald; -Rayerson (m)
Miriam Carson. 3-Ryerson Smith married
Louise Dawson; issue -Anna (m) Neal Merritt;
-Eleanor (m) Robert E. Florrie.
Addendum 629
-Joseph Gardner Hamilton Guess, who lived
until December 13, 1918, and his first wife,
Susan Catherine Barr Guess, had three children:
1-Bellinger, a minister, married Mitty Decherd;
issue, -J. Decherd, a doctor, (m) Mary Smith;
-Clarence II (m) Helen Fitts; -Robert; -Earl;
-Katherine Eloise, still single. 2-Eugene married
Mattie McMichael; issue -Eugene Jr. (m) Hedvig
Amalie Manofsky; -Merritt Barr (m) Ena Pearl
Gregory; -Joseph William, still single; -Paul E.
(m) Bernice Givens; -Jimphen; -Mattie E., single; -Emma Sue, died single. 3-Clarence, died at
age of eighteen, single.
-Joseph Gardner Hamilton Guess and his
second wife, Mattie Prothro, had eight children:
4-Julian P. married Maude Walker; issue, -Joe
(m) Mary Vickery; -St. Julian, female, (m)
Delmar Rivers; -Josephine (m) Rev. Peter
Stokes; -Louise (m) Norman Bull; -Norma (m)
Roy Reams. 5-Algernon P. married Rosa B.
Strait. issue, -Algernon P., Jr. (m) Eva Fair;
-William Francis, still single; -Rosanne (m)
Edwin James. 6-St. Clair P.. Sr. married Sarah
Heriot; issue, -St. Clair P., Jr, former mayor of
Denmark, S. C., (m) Martha Howell; -Joseph
Heriot, physician, (m) Julia Easterling; -Carolyn
(m) Maynard Watson; -Martha (m) Samuel
Finley Johnson; -Sarah (m) Henry Barton; and
-Betty (m) Dr. Joseph D. Thomas. 7-Joseph died
single. 8-Sallie married Frank V. James; issue,
-Joseph, -Pauline, -Martha, and -Frances, all
four dying as children. 9-Ida May married Rev.
William Haynsworth: issue, -Charles, died as
child; -Ida May (m) Curtis Bull. 10-Estelle married Dr. Percy A. Bethea, no issue. 11-Ruby
Michelle married Dr. Irving P. Carr; issue, -Ruby
Michelle, died single.
Addendum 631
-MARY ANN ELIZABETH and D. D.
Briggs had nine children: 1-Aaron Madison married Emma Boyd; issue, -John James (m) Mary
Maggie Smith; -1. Hector (m) Madie Mosley;
-Elmer Aaron (m) Earl Davis; -Edgar (m) Laura
Brown; -Lida (m.lst) Watt Haley & (m. 2nd)
Will J. Brantley; -Bertha Grace (m) Oscar
Thomas; -Margie (m) C. B. Aust; -Nina (m) Sam
Bartlett; -Ruby (m) Ernest Harry; -Agnes (m) Ed
Hudnall; and -one other offspring. 2-William
Bennett married Maude Loper; issue, -Hugh;
-Estelle (m) Irvin Heflin; -Leona (m) Duff
Perryman; -Grace (m) Horace Johnston; -Maude
(m) Frank Baggett; -Gladys (m) Frank Wood.
3-Edward L. C. died single. 4-Nathan Grace
married Sally Kerr; issue, -Ben L. (m) Nell
Davidson; -Aaron K. (m) Hazel Fea; -Dick
Dowling (m) Anita Carnathan; -Frances (m)
Glen Rush; -Olive (m. lst) Norman Mitchell &
(m. 2nd) Fred W. Phelps. 5-Martha H., died as
infant. 6-Mary Kitturah married Nelson
Harrington; issue, Charlie, -Aaron B., -John,
-Nelson, -Laura, and -Alma. 7-Charles female,
married Thomas Rhyne; issue, -Charnes, male,
-Kirk (m) Eva Harry; -D. D. (m. lst) Daisy
Rigdon & (m. 2nd) Myra Davis; -Byrd, female,
(m) Bob Rigdon; -Ann B. (m) James
McConnell. 8-Lavenia died as infant. 9-Sarah
Lota married R. L. Phillips, issue, -R. L. Jr. (m)
Viola Johnston; -Grace Briggs, male, (m) Annie
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Decell; -Paul Jerome (m) Biddy Shamburger;
-Kitura (m) Dr. James Glenn; -Ida (m) George
Aust; -Lydia (m) Edwin Neilson; -Mary Louise
(m) O. R. Swann; -Lota Alma (m. lst) H. S.
Rayner & (m. 2nd) P. K. Gwin; -Lucile (m.lst)
John Hale & (m. 2nd) Joseph Dunn.
ried Sam Williams and had one offspring.
7-MARGARET L. married George C. Ford;
issue, -George, -Charleigh, -Billy, -James B.,
-one other son, -Margaret, -Emma Lee, and
-Louise.
Addendum 635
-Susan Amanda Walston Rivers and Lewis
William Rivers had ten children, of which at
least nine were sons: 1-infant un-named.
2-David Gillum married first Mary Elizabeth
Hancock; issue, -Charles Oswald, died single;
-Lewis William II, died age one; -Lucius Lamar,
died age one; -Susan Pearl, thrown from horse at
age sixteen and killed; -Ethel Annie, died age
seven; -Alice Agnes (m) John E. Perry; -Hazel
Madaline (m) George W. Whilden. David
Gillum married second Willie Langford but they
had no issue. 3-Lewis William. Jr. married first
Alice Ann Lee; issue, -John Horman; -Roger
William (m) Ola May Jones; -Paul Edgar;
-Lewis Wiley (m) Nettie Smith; -Sadie Lee (m)
Marion Moore; -Mary Amanda; -Elizabeth, died
single. Lewis William. Jr. married second Zettie
Hardy Gibbons but they had no issue. 4-Francis
Bartow married Madeline Proctor; issue,
-Wayne Kirby, Sr. (m) Evelyn Thompson;
-William Robert (m) Dorothy Grubb; -Francis P.
(m) Ruth Christopher; -Frederick Pasco; -John
W.; -Julian Max (m) Nathalie Williams; -Bernice
Marie (m) L. E. Johnson, Sr.; -Edith Amanda;
-Lois Virginia. 5-James Kirby, died single.
6-Thomas Max, physician, married first Rosalie
Clare Godfrey; issue, -Lewis Godfrey;
-Creswell; -Gerald (m) Mary Moore. Thomas
Max married second Roberta Peterson; issue,
-Lillian Madge (m) Herbert E. Vedeman;
-Eunice, still single; Thomas Max married third
Josie Amy Prouty; no issue. 7-Joseph Michael
married Leona Martha Blitch; issue, -Lueius
Blitch Sr., (m) Minnie Amelia Gable; -Leon
Madison (m) Martha Fiebke; -Joseph Michael,
Jr., (m. lst) Hazel Phiebke & (m. 2nd) Erenza ?;
-Glenn (m) Frances Bailey; -Byron, still single.
8-Dewitt Oscar, minister, married first Lorena
Amando O'Neal; issue, -Thomas Dewitt (m)
Vera Magness; -Fred William (m. lst) Elizabeth
Heatley & (m. 2nd) Bess Revels; -James Kirby;
-Mary Amanda; -Audrey. 9-Albert Percy died at
age of one. 10-Henry Walter, died at age of ten.
Addendum 632
-ELEANOR KITTURAH Taylor and
Alexander Taylor had seven children:
1-Jonathon M. 2-James Alexander. 3-Charles
Dale died at age of one. 4-Martha Ann, probably
called “Sissy”, died as child. 5-Nancy Elizabeth
married Dr. D. M. Gatlin; issue, -Irma Eleanor.
6-Eleanor K. (McCoy). 7-Virginia Caroline married C. E. Morrison; issue, -Willie Alexander,
-James Edward -Thomas Franklin, -Ernest
Aaron, druggust of Meridian, Mississippi,
-Robert Taylor, -Paul, -Emma Lucille -Mamie
Eulah, -Carrie Pearl, and -Velma (m) Will L.
Fuller of Meridian.
Addendum 633
-VIRGINIA CAROLINE Adams and Francis
M. Adams had seven children: 1-John Earl married Charity L. Morgan; issue, -Lee Allen (m.
lst) Charlotta O’Neal & (m. 2nd) Ruth Alex
ander; -Thomas Angus, died as child; -William
Earl (m) Willie Reeder; -infant son; -John Elmer
(m) Daisy L. Parr; -Lotie Malissa (m) Barney S.
DeLong; -Floy Aileen (m) James E. Bennett;
-Faye Moline (m) Earl G. Holt; -Crystal
Madeline (m) R. T. Kennemer; -Ada May (m) C.
D. Hachett; -Mary Virginia (m. lst) Edward
Long & (m. 2nd) Lawrence J. Ward. 2-Thomas
A. S., died single. 3-Abram Dowling died as
infant. 4-Lota Morgan, died single. 5-Allen
Pearl, female, died as child. 6-daughter, unnamed. 7-Mary Virginia married H. L. Carpenter
issue, -P Giles, died single; -Floy Aileen (m) G.
T. Thexton.
Addendum 634
-JACOB ELIJAN Dowling, who lived from
11-7-1847 to 6-26-1926, and Emma Brozolia
Dotson Dowling had seven children; 1-LESTER
LEWIS. 2-CHARLES EDWIN married Betty
Gray; issue, -HELEN (m) Howard Baughman;
-DOROTHY (m) Earl Clayton. 3-STANLEY
died as child. 4-LOUISE married J. O. Burns; no
issue. 5-FATIMA “TIMMIE” married George G.
Appling; issue, -Charleigh; -Irene, still single;
and -Evelyn (m) John K Wilson. 6-IRENE mar-
Addendum 636
-Sarah Walston Parnell and Jacob R. Parnell
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had five children: 1-Henry Thomas married May
Elizabeth McKenny. 2-John Joseph married
Lillian Powell first, and once or twice more
including a bride named Singletary. 3-Mary
Mancy married Jack Levi Wright; issue -West
Berry (m) Annie J. Tulley -Jacob Levi (m) Lennie
Lawrence; -James Eppie (m) Cora Lou Jones;
-Matthew, died as infant; -Robert E.; -Florence
Mae (m) David L. Hemrick; -Grace Corine (m)
Edgar Taylor; -Edna H. (m) Avery L. Freeman;
-Asa Belle (m. the 2nd time) Joseph Masselas.
4-Martha Jane died at age of five.5-Sarah Rebecca
married Willias David Parnell; issue,-Charles
Alfonso (m) Nellie Hodges; -Rayford T. (m)
Daisy Moseley; -Horace David; Roy Steth; -Paul;
-Mary H. (m) Fred J. Dempsey; -Sadie Mae (m)
R. E. Still; and -daughter who (m) Jack Wright.
-ELIZABETH SARAR Townsend and
William Alex Townsend had nine children:
1-William Riley married first Lena Sealey but
they had no issue; William Riley married second
Minnie Daughtry; issue -Ceci1 Isaac (m) Nettie
Lovett. 2-John Marion has two children.
3-Samuel E. married first Annie Carver and second Sarah Brinkley; he has at least one offspring
(by Sarah), -Evanell Elizabeth (m) Benjamin
Alvin Durrance. 4-Thomas died single. 5-Mary
Jane married James A. Neal; issue, -William
Alex, -Amos Jasper who died at three, -Lonnie,
-Isa Cerula. 6-Maggie Elizabeth married first
William P. Wall and married second Samuel
Simmons and married third John Gillson;
-Flossie (Miller) of Jacksonville, Florida, is an
offspring of hers. 7-Virginia married William
Simmons; issue, -Lewis, -John Samuel, -Maud,
-Sarah, -Grace (m) W. R. Thomas. 8-Susan
Mahala (Johnson); no issue. 9-Texas Missouri,
female, married Dr. Gordon A. Taylor, issue,
-Gordon Andrew, Jr. (m) Nell?; -Inez Sarah (m)
Frank Lee Brooks; -Ruth Edna (m) John P.
Crosier; -Edith Alene and (m) John R. Hudson.
Addendum 637
-MARTHA JANE Mann and Jackson D.
Mann had five children; 1-Henry B. married
Addie Bailey; issue, -John Henry, Sr. (m) Hazel
Fisher; -Robert Frank (m) Nell Dillard; -Jackson
Dean (m) Myra McAllister; -Mable Florence (m)
David Henry Tart; -Minnie (m. lst) Eugene C.
Stevens & (m. 2nd) Mr. Boyett; -Elsie Geneva (m)
Claude Foy Koonce; -Martha Josephine (m)
Lonnie O. Newsome; -Bessie Mae (m) Bernard L.
Grayson; -Addie Eloise (m) Leslie Lon Warnock.
2-Rebecca Elizabeth married Hope A. Farmer;
issue, Napoleon B., died age three; -Ernest Duval
(m) Opal Gamble; -Horace Woodland (m) Hazel
Belcher; -Leon Jerome, died age three; -Marion,
died age one; -Eugene M., died age two; -Webster
Jackson; -Edna (m) Frederick Sydney Jackson;
-Josephine (m) Frank L. Rider; -Eva (m) Charles
Frederick O'Neill. 3-Atlanta Oscola married
James Alexander Bowen; issue, -James Henry,
died age two; -Paul Alex (m. lst) Edna Aiken &
(m. again); -Oliver M. (m) Henrietta Viola
O'Steen; -Marion Irving (m) Naomi Sherouse;
-Margaret Jane (m) Samuel H. Roberts; -Emma
Ruth (m) M. J. Burns, Jr.; -Elizabeth R. (m) J. C.
Myrick; -Ruby Nae (m) J. B. Penny. 4-Henrietta
Mahala married Lucius M. Lloyd; issue, -Robert
Kissler (m) Mamie Brassart; -LeRoy (m) Cleo
Crawford; -Lawrence Conley (m) Ruth White.
5-Emma Adeline married Thomas Burton Glover;
issue, -Harry Bacon (m) Leonora O'Berry;
-Murrill, died age three; -Esther Naomi (m)
William Roy Reed.
Addendum 637.1
Addendum 638
-JOHN WESLEY Dowling and Emma
Ogden Dowling had one child: 1-NETTYE married first Clifford Tresca; issue, -CIifford F., who
later took surname of MacLean, (m) Helen Mary
Casserly; -Robert Le Roy, who later took surname of MacLean, (m) Alice Garnett; his sketch
is elsewhere in this book. NETTYE married second A. L. MacLean and third E. H. Semon and
fourth Samuel Waddell.
Addendum 639
-FRANCIS MARION Dowling and his first
wife, Polly Weeks Dowling had one child:
1-NELLAH married Thomas M. Lipscomb;
issue, -Thomas Herbert (m) Anah McCoy;
-Arthur Markwood; -Harry Dowling (m) Hazel
McCance; -Frank Marion; and -infant, unnamed.
-FRANCIS MARION and his third wife,
Minnie Gillen Dubose Dowling, had one child:
2-MARION, female, married T. F. Trowell;
issue, -Edith, still single.
-FRANCIS MARION also adopted a son
and named him William Hampton Dowling.
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Addendum 640
-MARY REBECCA Jones and John H. Jones
had six children: 1-Joseph P. married Annie L.
Bryan; issue, -Drew H. (m. lst) Lilly Mae
Middleton, (m. 2nd) Altie Pierce; -John Bryant,
died age one; -Clarence, still single; -Nelson,
died as infant; -Hansford P. (m) Eunice Sapp;
-Lewis, a twin (m) Tressie Davis; -Joseph P., Jr.,
a twin of preceding, died single; -Johnny Ray,
died as child; -infant, un-named; -Rosa Clarine,
died as infant; -Pauline (m. lst) Jim Helen (m.
2nd) Amos Griffith; -Cassie B. (twin of
Hansford P.) died as infant; -Beatrice (m)
Preston T. Roberts; -Ethel S. (m) George
Altman; -Mae (m) Ellis Franklin; -Ernestine (m.
lst) George Campbell & (m. 2nd) Mr. Moates &
(m. 3rd) Mr. Wiley. 2-John Henry married first
Lizzie Stalling; issue, -Joe (m) Ella Andrews;
-Clifford, postmaster of Raiford, Fla., (m) Lillian
Morrell; -Alfonzo (m) Mary?; John Henry married second Ida Hill; no issue. 3-James T. F. married Clara Driggers; issue, -Aaron (m) Venie
Berry; -Joe (m) Alma Thomas; -Johnny (m)
Annie Bryan; -Lonny (m) Miss Johnson; -Myrtis
(m) William Pierce; -Eva (m) Robert Ward.
4-Delila Addie married Billy Simmons; issue,
-Roy (m. lst) Gracie Greene & (m. 2nd) Miss
Prevatt; -Albert, died as child; -Lawrence;
-Bernice; -Sadie; -Mazie; -Daisy (m) Lonnie
Canova. 5-Sarah Jane married first Buddy
Greene; issue, -Johnny (m) Annie Dobson; Sarah
Jane married second Aaron Dennis Andrews of
Addendum 644; their issue are shown there.
6-Mary L. married Andrew J, Greene; issue,
-Paul (m) Eloise Meads, -William (m) Inalee
Baxley; -Esca (m) Lillian Thompson; -Rowe (m)
Beatrice?; -Romey (m) Eamie Green; -Raiford
(m. lst) Winthrop Aldrich & (m. 2nd) Prize
Hoffman; -Gussie (m) Shannon Wiggins;
-Mallie (m) Pearl Fouraker; -Pearl (m) Ozzie
Davis; -Nettie (m) Ed Alford; -Effie (m) Calvin
Stafford; -Maude (m) Dealous Stafford; -Sadie
(m) Ellis Richardson.
2-Harris married first Minnie Adams and secondly Etta?; his issue, -Jim; -Clarence; -Johnny;
-Boyd Marvin, a doctor; -Della R. (m) Arthur
Ritch; -Venie, female; -Annie (m) George
Douberly; and -Addle. 3-Henry, Sr. married
Maggie Coleman; issue, -Roy (m) Annie Sweat;
-Shep (m) Rosa Bell Cooper; -Henry Jr. (m)
Maggie Sweat; -Harral (m) Ruth?; -Ella (m)
Riley Sweat, Police Chief of Starke, Florida, and
brother of the other three Sweats that married
into this family; -Virginia (m. lst) Ben Kite (m.
2nd) E. B. McKinney; -Rosa (m. lst) Mr.
Thomas & (m. 2nd) Wade Gibbs; -Mazie (m) Joe
Sweat; and -Altie, died as infant. 4-Tucker married Pearlie Nettles; issue, -Audry, male, (m)
Flossie?. -Thelma; and -Edna. 5-Johnny died as
a child. 6-Butler married Vada Douberly; probably had severaI children. 7-Louvenia married
Fate Harden after her sister Lula died; issue sons
-Garvin and -Nevel... and daughters Creel and
-Geneva. 8-Lula was the first wife of Fate
Harden, issue, -Mitchell, -Willie, -Reed, -Julius,
-Bessie (McCarly), -Doree. 9-Mandy married
Mr. Hill and had at least two issue, -Will T. and
-Beatrice.
Addendum 642
-HANSFORD JACKSON Dowling and his
second wife, Mrs. Tillis, had no chlldren; he and
Elizabeth Shirley had nine children: 1-GEORGE
B., who disappeared just after the SpanishAmerican War. He was born on March 16, 1877;
2-WILLIAM NELSON died at age of fourteen.
3-ROSCOE died at age of eleven. 4-BLOXHAM, a male, died at age of fourteen.
5-EDGAR died at age of thirteen. 6-HARRIETT SARAH married Nathaniel Milton
Goodridge; issue, -Percy Lee, died age nine;
-Richard Gardello, died age one -Milton Oliver
died age eighteen; -Alberta Opal (m) George
Earl Clark; -Thelma Pearl (m) Benajha Earl
Helms; -Maud Belle, died age eleven; -Sarah
Vatilda (m) John David Williams Sr. 7-MINNIE
married William Alford; no issue. 8-EFFIE married Elsie Gunter; issue, -Wilbert Hanse (m)
Jewel Estelle Wasdin; -Emmanuel E. (m)
Carolyn Shivers; -Thelma Kathleen, still single;
-Leila Mae (m) Charles Ernest Durham. 9-COY.
female, died single.
Addendum 641
-HARRIETT ADELINE Tomlinson and
William Tomlinson had nine children: 1-Mark
married Cynthia Elizabeth Nettles; issue,
-Charlie (m) Lizzie Sewell; -Naion (m) Linnie
Smith; -Bill (m) Annie Lou Dukes, -Joe (m) Ida
Faircloth; Seeber (m) Willow Mae Sallsbury;
-Lula (m) Troy Norman; -Emma (m) Bill Smith.
Addendum 643
-SARAH ELEANOR Thomas and George
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Addendum 644
-EMILY Andrews and John Slicer Andrews
had eight children: 1-Aaron Dennis married first
Sibel Hickox; issue, -Hamp (m) Eva White;
-Willie (m) Virginia Roberts; -Benjamin Drew
(m) Gertrude Whitehead. -Charles W., died as
child; -Ransom James II (m. lst) Rebecca
Winderweedle & (m. 2nd) Catherine ? ; Aaron
Dennis married second Sarah Jane Jones of
Addendum 640; issue, -Adelaide (m) Wash I.
Roberts; -Nancy (m) Walter Graham. 2-Ransom
James married first Amanda Touchtone and married second Ida Murrhee but had children by neither. 3-Thomas Jefferson married first Allie
Johns; issue -E. Barnard (m. lst) Mae Norman &
(m. 2nd) Addendum 643's Ruby Thomas;
-Willie, male, (m) Corrie Beasley; -Dennis (m)
Agnes Carter; -Henry (m) Agnes Alford; -R. A.
(m) Margaret ? -Sam J. (m) Norma ? ; -Sadie (m)
Lee Douglas; -Ruby (m) Wiley Brannon;
Dorrie, female, (m) Ari Wilkes; -Edna (m) Jack
Poore; Thomas Jefferson married second
Rhodilla Harvey but they had no children;
Thomas Jefferson married third Lois Allen;
issue, -T. J., -R. J., and -Joanna (m) J. W.
Bieling. 4-William Henry married first Nancy
Whitehead; issue, -James Jefferson (m. lst)
Dollie Tyre & (m. 2nd) Ina Mae Suggs. -John
Slicer II (m. lst) Ola Renfroe & (m. 2nd) Pearl
Brantley; -Dennis (m) Lillie Parrish; -Adam (m.
lst) Lovey Douglas & (m. 2nd) Mae Clemons;
-Bryant died at the age of fifteen; -Everett, died
as child; -Kate (m) C. A. Boyd; -Ida (m) Allen
Parrish; -Mandy (m) Rance Parrish; -Ollie,
female, (m) Hansel Parrish; William Henry married second Gerdie Forsyth. issue, -Arthur (m)
Dorothy?. -Edward (m. lst) Reece Smith; -L. J.
Seward Andrews (m) Annie Belle Clements;
-Ella (m. lst) Marvin Brannen; -Wilma (m)
Eddie Catter; -Lula (m) J. L. Parrish; -Viola (m)
Lewis Rizk. 5-John Tucker married Florence
Dyal; issue, -Rance (m) Eddie Spires; -Vollie,
named for a brother of Grandfather Andrews,
(m) Annie Mae DuBose; -Ethel (m) Troy
Thomas; -Iris (m) Bernard Gay; -Louise (m)
Stephen Zant. -Virgie (m) George Cawthon.
6-Joe married Ollie Lewis; issue -Fred (m. lst)
Emmie Coleman & (m. 2nd) Lula Wiggins
-Gilchrist; -Tuck (m) twice and 2nd wife was
Elsie Loadholtz. -Barney (m) Eloise Addison;
-Cora (m) Lewis Dobson; -Lizzio (m. lst) Ernest
Croft & (m. 2nd) Tom Mann. 7-Mary Eleanor
Washington Thomas had eleven children:
l-Ohlie married Emma Knight (and her sister
married his brother); issue, -Seeber (m) Thelma
Gillen; -Ruby (m. lst) Brady Rosier & (m. 2nd)
E. Barnard Andrews of Addendum 644; -Virgie
(m) John Ritch Townsend, Jr.; -Iva died as
infant. 2-Malory married Addendum 646's
Lovey Hester Johns; issue, -Cecil C. (m. lst)
Dorothy Snead & (m. 2nd) Alice Boutell & (m.
3rd) Irene Ray; -Robert Leon (m) Violet Horn;
-Ressie (m) Hazel Thomas; -M. Clayton (m. lst)
Loraine Starling & (m. 2nd) Virginia Ebersole &
(m. 3rd) Alice Rakowski; -Malory Jr. (m) Leora
Whitworth; -Oveida (m) Berney Horne; -Oletha
(m) Ford Manning; -Odessa, still single.
3-George Washington, Jr. married first Florence
Knight. issue, -John Ed, died as infant,
-Cleveland (m) Lura Mae?; -Rufus D., married
two or three times; -Georgean, female, still single; -Fayree died as child; -Ouida (m. lst) Leon
Edenfieid & (m. 2nd) Ted?; -Retha (m. lst)
Purvis Lewis & (m. 2nd) Clarence Houston;
-Elva (m) Elliott Anderson; -Edna, died as
infant; George Washington, Jr. married second
Bell Taylor; no issue. 4-Brady married first
Florence Crawford; issue, -Wilvern; -Freeba,
male; -Leo; -Lavondus; -Ewell (m) Marie?;
-Verdie (m) Thomas W. Hiers; -Irece
(Robinson). Brady married a second time. 5Walter died as a child. 6-Bryant died as a child.
7-Rance Tucker married first Lula Cone; issue,
-Wilbur D. (m) Elizabeth Tanner; -Delma Ranee
(m) Mae Williams; -Geneva (m) Ernest Tanner;
-Inez (m) Wilbur J. Nettles; Rance Tucker married second Mrs. Effie Hurst Brannon; issue,
-Ovid D. (m) Susie?; -Jo Ann (m) David
O'Steen. 8-Minnie married Tom Chancey; issue,
-Leon (m) Eva Roberts; -Ressie, male; -Tommy
(m) Ruth?; -Fred (m) Miriam Miller; -Woodrow
(m) Bessie; -Manus (m) Mary Crawford; -Linnie
(m) Steve Williamson. 9-Essie married Jackson
Nettles; issue, -Mainard, died as infant; -Carl
(m) Flora Bell Johns; -Mernie (m. lst) Geneva
Goodge & (m. 2nd) Leona Simmons & (m. 3rd)
Rosa Lee Phipps; -infant boy, un-named;
-Beadie (m) Alfred A. Sweat; -Loreeta. 10-Nora
married John Shaw; issue -Royce (m) Eulala
Moore; -Mannon, male, still single; -Leedie (m)
Mr. McCall; -Eunice (m) Tom Hall; -Sallie (m)
Freeman Tyre; -Ruth (m) Theordore Thompson;
-Johnnie (m) Roosevelt Rosier; -Vera (m. lst)
Plez Russ. 11-Annie died as child.
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1-Stephen Tucker married Opal Gordon; issue,
-Broward, died single; -Johnny B. (m) Irene
Yarbrough; -Bryant Tramble, died age one;
-Beatrice, died age one; -Bertice (m) Billy Jones;
-Berla (m) Bill Pritchett; -Bertha (m) Irving
Connell. 2-Willie, male, married first Phoebe
Nettles; issue, -L. J. (m) Connie?. Willie married
second Havana Cone; issue, -Dorothy (m) Ed
Hicks. 3-Clayton Calhoun married Fronia
Moody; issue, -Bryant Mansil (m) Susie
Knowles; -Stephen T. (m) Idell White; -Clarence
C. (m) Shirley Calder; -E. L. (m) Fayma
Carroway; -Elizabeth (m) Robert Adams;
-Agnes (m) Ovid Thomas. 4-S. A. died as an
infant. 5-Sanhronia married first, Chart 541's
BRYANT MANSIL Dowling and she married
second Lewis Clements; she had no children of
her own. 6-Lovey Hester married Addendum
643’s Mallory Thomas and their offspring are
shown there. 7-Emmaline married Henry Rivers;
issue, -George (m) Ollie Kelly; -Jackson (m)
Mildred Eddingfield; -Bill (m) Flora Bell Johns;
-W. S. (m) Ruth Colton; -Lovey (m) David L.
Shaw; -Fronia (m) Pierce Crews; -Mary (m)
Charlie Sellers; -Onie (m) Allen Thornton; -Ella
Mae, died as infant; -Donie (m) Waldo Pringle.
8-Minnie D. (Bradford) was listed by Mrs.
Beulah Dowling as a daughter of Lovey Jane and
William Jack Johns.
married first Joseph Hendricks, Sr.; issue,
-Thomas Andrews (m. lst) Myrtie Dyal & (m.
2nd) Nora Freeman; -Stephen Butler (m) Ollie
Langford; -Barney J. (m. lst) Mamie Watts & (m.
2nd) Alma Alverez & (m. 3rd) Jenner King;
- Joseph Edward, Jr., congressman, (m) Jane
Morrison Harris; -Amanda (m) John Carroll;
-Mable Atta (m) Avery Parrish. Mary Eleanor
married second Clinton Carroll; issue, -Aaron
Dennis (m) Lucille Bass; -William (m) Charlott
Hall; -Agnes (m. lst) Roy Merritt & (m. 2nd)
Leslie Hutchingson; -Ida (m. lst) Charles Padgett
& (m. 2nd) Lester Ryals; -Lola (m) J. E. Crews;
-Daisy (m. lst) Glenn Byrd & (m. 2nd) William
Mundy. 8-Cora married John P. Bryan; issue,
-Wilson (m) Miss Hurst, -Joe; -Willie, male, (m)
Callie Finley; -Annie (m. lst) Johnny Jones &
(m. 2nd) Jim W. Priester; and -Mamie (m)
Sidney Walker.
Addendum 645
-Stephen Banner Denmark and Mamie
Crews Denmark had eight children: 1-Smith
married Emily Johns; issue, -Claude Delma (m)
three times); -Stephen George (m) Ernestine
Morris; -John Edward, still single; -Lois (m)
Joseph Thomas; -Lucille (m. lst) Roger Ward &
(m. 2nd) Bill Tyson. 2-John Henry married
Georgia Whitten issue, -Seeber (m) Betty;
-Mildred (m. lst) Jack Bazemore & (m. 2nd)
Tom Hilton: -Barbara Jean (m) Tommy Pucket.
3-Tate married Ruth Fender; issue, -Shirley;
-Betty Jo (m) Larry McKinney. 4-Annie married
first Job Driggers; issue -Rosa (m) Adam Oreen;
Annie married second Arthur Alvarez; issue,
-Tate (m) Eva Edwards. -Chester (m) Miss
Clayton Crawford; -Willard (m) Onie Green;
-Thelma (m) William A. Andrews; -Edna (m)
Ray Stone -Marvel, female, (m) Dock Warren. 5Ada married Will Baisden; issue -Johnny, male;
-Jessie Mae (m) Harry Blakely. 6-Mamie married Driskell Handley, Sr.; issue, -Driskell, Jr.
(m) Pat Headlee; -Leon (m) Mary Virginia
Wolfe. 7-Onie married Bud Sapp, issue, -S. B.
(m) Mildred Cook; -B. J. (m) Elethia
Humphries; -Elbert (m) Edna Jualis; -Atha, died
single at age eighteen. 8-Sam married Edith
Stebbins; issue, -Fred.
Addendum 647
-Hester Denmark Kelly and George Ellison
Kelly had twelve children: 1-Redding married
Ruby Boutwell; issue, -Melvin (m) Louise
Castell; -Joe Henry (m) Margaret Dreschel;
-Kate (m) Robert Arthur; -Alice (m) Cecil
Ansley; -Elizabeth (m) Pete Butler. 2-Joe S.
married Alice Boutwell; no issue. 3-James
Robert, judge, married Chart 543's FANNIE
Dowling; his offspring is shown there. 4-John N.
married Arzula Wells; issue, -Warren, "Pat", (m)
Regina Pearce; -Mills (m) Ina Kearse; -Swinton
(m) C. C. Crosby; -Bertie (m) Buie Griner.
5-Henry N. married Myrtle Hammond; no issue.
6-Alan married Beulah Crosby; issue, -James
Robert II, Bradford County, Florida, Tax
Collector, (m) Allie Mae Driggers; -Henry B.
(m) Bernice Woods; -Lillian (m) Marcus
Conner. 7-Ellison died as infant. 8-Blake
Benjamin married first Maude Gordon; issue,
-Clyde T. (m) Winnie Rooks; -Dorothy -Neva;
-Merle. 9-Dowling S., Sr. married Allie
Addendum 646
-Lovey Jane Denmark Johns and William
Jack Johns had at least seven children:
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died as infant; -Helen Marjorie (m) J. C. Slice.
11-Ivy Lee married James Polk; issue, -Leighton
(m) Vera Mixson; -Charles (m) Hattie Best;
-Ellis, still single; -Rose Alita (m) Wilbur
Mixson; -Enome (m) James Fowler; -Alice (m)
Benjamin Ford.
Snowden issue, -Dowling S. Jr.. -Louise (Kite);
-Mildred (Smith); -James; -Harold. 10-Omage
married Martin Rosier; issue, -Shepherd (m)
Tessie Moon; -Ellison (m) Jessie Gordon;
-Thedough (m) Ruby Browning; -boy, died
small; -Rettie (m) Nathan Padgett; -Ruby (m)
Johnny Yarbrough. 11-Ruby married Willie
Edmondson issue, J. B. (m) Marie?; -Oveita,
female, (m) Babe Loney. 12-Catherine (m)
Andrew Crosby.
Addendum 649
-ARGENIE ROSETTA Rivers and John
Frederick Rivers had six children: 1-William
Holbrook died at age of one. 2-Amon died as an
infant. 3-Argenia married Andrew J. Blount;
issue, -Rivers Taft (m) Susie Ginn; -Arthur M.
(m) Mary Campbell; -Robert Gene (m) Betty
Avenger; -David Wyatt (m) Kate Kirkland;
-Andrew James (m) Mary Antley; -two infant
boys, not named; -Roslyn (m) E. L. Sanders,
-Mildred (m) Horace L. Kearse; -Edna Mae (m)
John C. Bell, Jr.; -Marjorie (m) H. B. Marshall;
-Joan (m) Wallace N. Blackwell; -Grace (m)
Angus Priester; -infant girl. 4-Mary Susan
“Mamie Sue” married William Lawrence Brant;
issue, -Willie Lorena (m. lst) Mr. Harvey & (m.
2nd) Gray Kearse. 5-Lougenia Melerson died on
eve of marriage, age eighteen. 6-Annie Jane died
at fourteen.
Addendum 648
-SUSAN CATHERINE Tuten and John Asa
Tuten had eleven children: 1-Southwood Walter
married Eliza Stokes; issue, -John Arthur (m)
Ethel Kroeg; -Southwood Walter Jr. (m) Othelia
Buckner; -Birdie Estelle (m) Gibson McKenzie;
-Rosa Jane (m) Carl Golden; -Susie Eliza (m)
John Allen Miles; -Aline (m) James Leitner;
-Thenia Alice (m) Edgar Mixson and Jewel
Lyles; -Dorothy Catherine (m) Odell Horton.
2-J. Greene, physician, married Minnie Walters;
issue: -J. Greene, Jr., (m) Anita Davis; -Louise
(m) John H. Baker. 3-Richard H., physician,
married Danie Weaver; issue, -Richard H., Jr.
(m) Marcelle?; -Thelma (m) Mr. Veal. 4-John
Jefferson married Leslie Powell; issue, -Mills P.
(m) Jewel DeLoach; -Helen Ruby, a twin, (m)
Leroy F. Smith; -Hilda Garnett, a twin, (m)
Norman G. Rentz; -Leslie Louise (m. lst) H. S.
Denny. 5-Frank Boyce married Mattie DeLoach;
issue, -Boyce H., still single; -Harold J. (m)
Shirley Brewer. 6-Grover Cleveland married
Cleo Shuman; issue, -Grover Claude (m) Helen
Smith; -Henry Asa (m) Mary Scarbrough and
Dorothy Willlams; -Ivy Lee (m) Fred Warth;
-Naomi (m) G. W. Goghan; -Ruth (m) George
Skutt; -Mariam (m) Harvey Paulk; -Veronica
(m) Robert Horton; -Elizabeth (m) Norman
Williamson. 7-Charles Wilkins died as child.
8-John Garnett, physician, married Lillian
McPhail; issue, -Lillian (m) Dr. Kenneth Yost.
9- Susie D. married first Lauren Fitts; issue,
-Rosalie Maud (m) Isaac D. Bradwell; Susie D.
married second Robert Fleming but they had no
children. 10-Lillie Rose married O. F. Brunson,
Sr.; issue, -Reuben E. (m) Edna Langley; -John
F. (m) Beulah P. Lewis; -Robert Paul, died single; -O. F., Jr., (m) Natalie Stone; -Cecil Foy (m)
Caroline Corbin; -Bernard Hamilton (m) Ethel J.
Clifton; -Lillie Rose (m) I. F. Bodholt; -English
Garnett (m) W. C. Staples; -Susie Catherine,
Addendum 650
-DEBORAH MELLISON DeLoache and
Joseph D. Deloache had nine children:
1-Wideman H. married first Lauretta Chaplin;
issue, -Blanche D., and -another daughter.
Wideman H. married second Eloise Reeves but
they had no children. 2-Robert Luther married
Ella Casteel; issue, -Arthur A. (m) Mildred
Mills; -Robert Luther, Jr. (m) Grace Wise;
-Emogene, twin, died at birth; -Imogene, twin,
(m) Dewey Ross; -Annie Mae (m) Percy Richs;
and -Margaret, still single, 3-Joel died single.
4-Ellerbe married Mary Daughtry; no issue.
5-Alma Bertha married James William Hay;
issue -Ben Franklin (m) Lucy Bruce; -Sarah
Lawrence (m) Ben Atchley, -Lillian Tobles (m.
the widower of her sister). 6-Laura Alice married
Charles C. Nettles; issue -Heber (m) Stella S.
Davis; -Lee (m) Mable Bailey; -Gertrude (m) E.
R. Boothe. 7-Hattie married C. M. Malphrus.
8-Clara Mae married John E. Carter. 9-Marie
died as infant.
Addendum 651
-EMMA ELIZABETH Speaks and Thomas
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-CLEMENTINE PAMELIA Rosier Mason
and her second husband, Blakely Mason, had
three sons: 6-Gether L., Sr., male, (has namesake
who m. Miss Davis) ; 7 & 8, - boys died as children.
T. Speaks had seven children: 1-Willlam James
married Richie Bostic; issue, -William Robert
(m) Elsie Hollis. 2-Robert Rhett, still single.
3-Bunyan Lee married first Lona Mae
Thompson; issue, -infant, un-named; Bunyan
Lee married second Ethel Nix but they had no
issue. 4-Hamilton Green married Eva
Richardson; issue, -Mary Evelyn (m) John?.
5-Virginia Maude married Edward A. Zeigler;
issue, -Edward Tate (m) Dorothy Bobo; -Robert
Marion, still single; -Virginia (m) Robert L.
Deloache. 6-Mary Julia married Harry Wagner;
issue, -Sarah Elizabeth (m) John C. Adkerson.
7-Annie Lou died at age of three.
Addendum 653
-AIMEE GERTRUDE Nix and John
Hamilton Nix had six children: 1-John Hamilton
Jr. (m) Emma Chesser; issue, -Ray (m) Ethel
Anderson; -Oliver Perry (m) Agnes Paul; -John
Hamilton III (m) Eunice Belger; -Archie (m)
Myra Willis; -Gertrude (m) Pink Harvey; -Emily
(m) John Baggett; -Hazel (m) John Thompson;
-Lillie Mae (m) Drexel Brant; -Bettie Louise (m)
Bill Hughey. 2-Ben Webb married Minnie Lou
Hogarth; issue, -Kenneth (m) Carol Hamrick;
-Margie. 3-Archie Campbell married Richie
Lucille Smith, issue, -Richard D. 4-Thomas
Jefferson Sr. (m) Beulah Shipes; issue, -Thomas
Jefferson, Jr., lost life in World War II, single,
-Henry Lamar (m) Eleanor Tatum; -Mary Ellen
(m) Peter Rivers. 5-Sarah Viola married
Addendum 652's Oscar Leon Kelehear, Sr.;
issue, -Oscar Leon, Jr. (m) Kathryn Burrell;
-Jack C.; -Amy Leon; -Sarah Elizabeth (m)
Winston LaPorte; -Anna Ruth (m) Douglas
Baker. 6-Lillie Idelia married Roy McElheney;
issue, -Roy, Jr.; -Beulah (m) King Sullivan;
-Sarah (m) Terrell Dyches.
Addendum 651.1
-LUCIOUS RHETT Dowling and Mary
Susan Goethe Dowling had ten children:
1-CLARENCE EUGENE died single.
2-HENRY HOYT married Mary Pope
Frampton; issue -MARY POPE (m) E. H.
Pickney; -RENA FRAMPTON (m) Thomas E.
Phillips. 3-PAUL EDWIN married Mary Lee
Geer; no issue. 4-son un-named. 5-MARIE married Charles H. Bailey, Sr.; issue, Charles H.
Bailey, Jr. (m) Elizabeth Rusk; -Paul Rhett, still
single. 6-SALLIE GERTRUDE married W. V.
Bowers, Sr.; issue, -W. V. Jr., (m) Elizabeth Pitts
Johnson; -William Rhett, died age one; -Mariam
Elise (m) Elza L. Warr; -Mary Susan (m)
Richard C. Barker; -Edith (m) David W. Haigler.
7-CLARA ELIZA, died young. 8-LULA
RHETT married first Roscoe Reid and married
second Vardry McBee but had issue by neither.
9 & 10-infant daughters, un-named.
Addendum 654
-WADE HAMPTON Dowling and Laura
Bassett Dowling had three children: 1-GUY
JEFFERSON married Chart 553's Margaret
Mixson; issue, -JIMMY, -LARRY and -MARGARET ANN, all still single. 2-ANNIE SUE
married E. H. Bonner; issue, -Anna Claire
(Lane). 3-”NETTIE” married C. Murphy
Crosby; issue, -Annette (Rumple).
Addendum 652
-CLEMENTINE PAMELIA Rosier Mason
and her first husband, Joseph Rosier, had five
children: 1-Robert Dexter, 2-Hastings E. married Juanita?, no issue. 3-Wilkins, 4-HattieMae
married Mr. Parker. issue, -Joseph Willard;
-Virginia Elizabeth (m) George Miles, Jr., a Wall
Street broker; -Ruby Mae; -Josie Ernestine;
-Mary Clementine; -Edith Margaret. 5-Susannah
Elizabeth married Z. T. Kelehear; issue, -Oscar
Leon, Sr., (m) Addendum 653's Sarah Viola Nix;
-Gary (m) Elizabeth Kerson; -Joseph E. (m)
Jennie Bell Browning; -Zack T. (m) Belva
Gooding ; -Ronella (m) Phillip Terry; -Iola (m)
L. O. Tuten; -Omie (m. lst) C. V. Thomas & (m.
2nd) Gerald Mahle; -Ada Essie (m) Bratten
Hiers.
Addendum 655
-ABRAM DAVID Dowling, Sr. and Edith
Barker Dowling had four children: 1-ARCHIE
HAMMOND, still single. 2-FRANCIS WILSON married Elizabeth Birt; issue, -WILLIAM
BIRT, still single; -DAVID WILSON, still single; and -FRANCES PEARLE, still single.
3-WILLIAM BARKER married Christime
Hoffman; no issue. 4-ABRAM DAVID JR., died
at age of two.
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Addendum 656
-Mary Ellen Owens Britton and Johnathon
William Britton had four children: 1-William
Andrew Sr. married Rosa Lee Baker; issue,
-William Andrew, Jr., (m) Jean Davis; -Elizabeth
B. (m) A. D. Browne. 2-Eugene married Lula?;
no issue. 3-Edward, died single. 4-Mary Ellen,
died at birth.
Charles Alexander Korbly; -Letitia Johnston (m)
James Bradley Croft.
Addendum 660
-William Edward Matthews and his first
wite, Lucy Brackin, had five children: l-Mary
Frances married John Henry Wilson; issue,
-James E. (m) Margaret Rowe; -Shelly (m) Mary
Gause; -Harley B. (m. lst) Inez Knight; -Charles,
died single; -Minnie (m) Augustus Lemmert;
-Lucy (m. lst) Walter Hodges & (m. 2nd) J. A.
McCord; -Zora (m. lst) Ernest Holcomb & (m.
2nd) Gus Klein; -Leora (m) Jim Crumpler.
2 & 3 & 4 & 5 -children, unknown.
-William Edward Matthews and his second
wife, Nancy Jane Brown Matthews had eight
children: 6-William Walker married Mary
Agusta Damon; issue Arthur C. (m. lst) Verna
Bryant & (m. 2nd) Ruth Smith; -Gaston W. (m)
Mittie Ola Brunson; -Altus L., died age four;
-Maude M. (m) Brady E. Godwin; -Mary A., still
single; -Helen W. (m) Arthur V. McLean; -Sybil
L. (m) John W. Holloway; -Velma D. (m) Roy T.
Mothershed. 7-Edward Walkley married Joanna
C. Price, issue, Walker, a doctor, (m) Margaret
Flemings; -Fred P. (m) Olive Watts; -S. P. (m)
Cora Butler; -L. G. (m) Maggie Rucks; -J. W.
(m) Susie Feigan; -Walkley C. (m) Margaret
Mauldin; -Minnie Merle, still single; -Elizabeth
Jane, died single. 8-Elisha G., died single at age
of twenty-six. 9-Ollie married Joe Miller but had
no issue. l0-Lona married Isaac M. Valentine;
issue, -Howard Edward (m) Annie Clyde Loftin;
-Ralph Emerson (m. lst) Bertha Price & (m. 2nd)
Chart 570's EVELYN Dowling; -Ray, died as
child. 11-Vedora married J. S. Grace; issue,
-William F. (m) Snow Ward; -M. O., physician,
(m) Bertie Riley; -Flora (m) ROBERT MONROE Dowling of Addendum 685; -Clara (m)
Gus Pippin; -Helen, still single. 12-LUCY “Lou”
married T. J. Hundley; issue, -Dess (m) Nicey
Cullifer; -Zolly (m) Mamie Bell; -Claude (m)
Blanche Lasenby; -Alma (m) Addendum 693’s
Wade Hampton Byrd; -Ella (m) Rufus Laten;
-Tonnie Edna (m) James McDonald; -Mattie
Lou, still single. 13-Emma Jane married Tom
Allen Hendrick, but they had no issue.
Addendum 657
-Eugenia Rawls Philips and Albert Edwin
Philips had four children: 1-Alma married
Stephen Olin Shinholster, Sr.; issue, -Stephen
Olin, Jr., (m) Mercedes McClendon; -Albert
Edwin (m) Elizabeth Stewart; -Antoinette (m)
Charles W. Cogburn; -Clifford Louisa (m)
Ernest B. Shaheen. 2 & 3 & 4-infants, un-named.
Addendum 658
-William Andrew Rawls, Sr. and Mary
Maxwell Flagg Rawls had six children:
1-William Andrew. Jr., married Ethel
McDonald; issue, -William Andrew III (m)
Roslyn Craig; -Mary Billie (m) David Byron
Lee. 2-Francis Flagg died at age of sixteen.
3-Annie Maxwell married F. D. Chittenden.
issue, -Simeon Dudley (m) Ellen Thomas;
-William Rawls (m) Velma Enfinger; -Flagg
London (m) Julia Campbell; -Mary Frances (m)
Leo L. Foster. 4-Letitia Dowling, married Dexter
M. Lowry, Sr.; issue, -Dexter N., Jr. (m) Mary
Adelaide Rhodes; -Francis William, whose
sketch is given elsewhere in this book; -Mary
Maxwell (m) Frank S. Shaw. 5-Eunice married
William Bethell Long; issue; -William Bethell
Jr., still single; -Mary Pillow (m) Ted Irwin.
6-Theora married George Schley Whittlesey;
issue, -George, died as infant; -George Schley,
Jr., (m) Lynelle Knighton; -Mary Theora (m)
Scott Brown.
Addendum 659
-Frances Rawls Johnston and Edward John
Kent Johnston had four children: 1-Edward
Glover married Stella Frances Newell; -issue,
-Glover Newell; -Frances Irene (m) Robert Jory;
-Erma Letitia. 2-John Kent, physician, married
Frances Tippetts. 3-Francis Rawls married
Helen Breslin; no issue, 4-Letitia Rawls “Lettie”
married Benjamin Johnson Bond; issue, -Henry
Jackson (m) Caverly Ann Tye; -John Johnston
(m) Dorothy B. Brown; -Frances Rawls (m)
Addendum 661
-Martha Ann Matthews Andrews and Samuel
James Andrews had six children: 1-William
Eugene “Billy” married Mollie Langston; issue,
-Marvin, who has donated so much time to the
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Lillian Sewell; -Mary Jane (m) Wiley Ward;
-Cammie (m) Tom Strickland. 3-John married
Mary McGowan; issue, -John C. (m) Nora
Dunnaway; -Dee, male, (m. lst) Avary Hicks &
(m. 2nd) Mae Holt; -Elisha (m) Willie J. Turner;
-Wilburn, "Webb", (m) Beulah Kirkland; -Emma
(m. lst) Lee Hagler & (m. 2nd) Claude
Thompson; -Clemmy (m) Joe Tomlin.
4-Middleton married Lizzy Judah Baldwin;
issue -Major (m) Alma Hunt; -Ashley (m) Evie
Bell Campbell; -Ardilla (m) Terrell Balcom.
5-Eligha married Frances Smith; issue, -Asia (m.
lst) Annie B. Homes & (m. 2nd) Docky Bird &
(m. 3rd) Emma Rogers; -Raymond (m) Mary
Wayngate; -Perry J. (m) Estell Holland; -Oscar,
died single; -Gladys (m) Fred Holdeman; -Annie
Camilla (m) Alto Holland; -Alice (m) Ted Gilley.
6-Mary married Wiley Ward; issue, -Toy (m)
Bonnie Robinson. 7-Elizabeth married John
Lisenby; issue, -Tim (m) Meedie Snell; -Penny
(m) Dave Eughes; -Quilla (m) Harley Hughes.
care of Claybank Cemetery, (m) Addendum
693's Emmie Byrd; -Grover (m) Nora Goff;
-Fred (m) Callie Brown; -Era (m) Addendum
677's Zachariah Harris; -Jessie (m) Bob Mosely;
-Allie, female, still single; -Mary Lily (m) Ewell
Harris. 2-Berry married Pauline?. and had three
sons, -Fred, -Ralph, and -Harold. 3-Jane died
single. 4-Eliza married Reverend Ashley Bartow
Metcalfe, a Baptist minister of forty years service in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia;
issue, -Charles Gillis (m) Katie Thrower;
-Spurgeon (m) Bertha Callen; -Bill Joe, still single; -Clyde, female (m) Hubbard Stamps; -Votie
(m) George B. Stoffregen; -A. B., female, (m)
John K. Lauderdale; -Leota (m) James B.
Rhodes; -Eloise (m) Cleve A. Perry. 5-Aquilla S.
died single. 6-Susan Virginia married Joel
Parker; issue, -Aquilla Clyde (Sellers), -Eva,
-Annie (Sweitzer), -Ruth (Jackson), and -Lizzie
who is still single.
Addendum 662
-Mary Mancey Matthews Martin and
William Henry Martin had three children:
l-Henry A. W. married first Ida Barnes; issue
-Argus (m. lst) Ruth Pouncey & (m. 2nd) Tee
Baldwin; -Leon (m) Annie Hollingsworth;
-Cona (m) Chart 570's CONNIE WYATT
Dowling; -Berta (m) Harvey Windham; -Donnie
(m) Foy Smith; -Loura (m) Ellis Walton; -Clory
(m) Walton Andrews; -Myrtle (m) Ed Byrd;
Henry A. W. married second Annie Pridgen;
issue, -Henry P. (m) Jean Hurst; -Maxie (m)
Clarence Cox. 2-William Edward married Ada
N. Sansbery; issue, -Wyatt R., died single;
-Susie (m) W. P. Price; -Willie (m) Nathan M.
Godwin. 3-Elizabeth married Jason Andrews;
issue, -Carley (m) Josie Helms; -Bascom (m)
Allie Jernigan; -Tully (m) Virginia Johnson;
-Lewie (m. lst) Berta Lathram & (m. 2nd) Myrtle
Cotton.
Addendum 664
-Mellon Thoory Matthews and Rebecca
Treadwell Matthews had six children;
1-Augustus Calhoun married Mollie Percival;
issue -M. T., still single; -Ernest, still single;
-Nannie B., still single; -Tommie Lou, female,
died single. 2-Albert Bartow married Sue Ann
Marks; issue, -Charlie (m) Sarah A. Grace.
3-Frank H. died at age of one. 4-Porter E. died as
infant 5-Eulae Deboys, female, married Jim
Gray; issue, -Nomi, male, (m) Glenny Lyman;
-Will (m) Susie Searcy; -Gus (m) Maudie
Wright; -Myrtle (m) McNeal Bowman; -Ella (m)
A. C. Farmer; -Mary Lou (m) Tom Bowman.
6-Nannie Allen died as infant.
Addendum 665
-Aquilla Malissey Matthews Martin and
John Floyd Martin had ten children: 1-Angus
married Queen Victoria Jerkins; issue, -Thomas
-Marion (m) Chart 574's AVER EUGENIA
Dowling; -Zack (m) Zeta Swann; -Ella (m)
Frank Dillard; -Anna (m) Tom Clark; -Vermel
(m. lst) Judge Harris & (m. 2nd) Jim Chancey;
-Minnie (m. lst) Ulas Newsome & (m.2nd)
Legus Smith; -Ewell (m. lst) Wayne Metcalf &
(m. 2nd) Noah Carroll; -Marietta (m) Eldridge
Medley. 2-James Elisha married Virginia
McCleod; issue, Homer Elisha (m) Dovie Baker;
-Peeler, died age one; -Clara (m) John L. Goff.
Addendum 663
-Sarah Jane Matthews Clark and John C.
Clark had seven children: 1-Young Man "Onion"
married Ione Miller; issue, -Peeler (m) Bertha
Hale; -Pearl (m) Calvin Newsome; -Printy,
female, (m. lst) Bartow Walden & (m. 2nd)
Marvin Hagler; -Prilly female, (m) Raley
Kirkland. 2-William E. married Mary D.
Lisenby; issue, -M. Jeter (m) Alzie Woodham;
-Jesse (m) Haughty Baldwin; -Malcom D. (m)
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Caraway; & (m. 3rd) Mr. McDowell; -infant;
-Eva (m) John H. Hall; -infant; John Welly married second Versia Holland; issue, -Lennell (m.
lst) Donald Hendrix & (m. 2nd) Hugh Kinard;
-Trudelle (m) Shelly Turner. 4-Early married
Beulah Posey; issue, -Ervin (m) Annie Mae
Brown; -Buford (m) Minnie C. Davis; -Bartow
(m) Merle Defnall; -Tilmon (m) Sharan Welfare;
-Lucille (m) John W. Steverson; -Katrene (m)
Leslie Heath. 5-Robert Jasper, preacher, married
Ida?; issue, -Gary, -Hubert, Lucille (still single),
-Mable, and -Kathleen (m) H. R. Hardy. 6-Pearl
married Bob Meredith; issue, -W. C., “Toy”, (m)
Clara?; -Ernest; and -Mamie, (m. 2nd) Mr.
White. 7-Margarett A. J., died on eve of third
birthday. 8-Ninnie Bell married Albert Paul;
issue, -boy, killed age seven; -Leila (m) J. R.
Hall; -Mildred (m) John Sears.
3-John Gill married first Blandy Cogburn; issue,
-Mather, male, (m) Allie Morgan; John Gill married second Arra Bell Alberson; issue, -Johnnie
Bell (m) Hubert Broxson; -Capitola (m) Angus
Miller. 4-William Henry, "Bud", married Leanna
Brackin; 1ssue, -Comer L. (m) Emma Jackson;
-Ocia (m) G. H. Hall; -Willie Lee (m) S. J.
Trevena; -Jewell (m) Fred Gomez; -Mary Ruth
(m) R. L. Carter; -Cleola (m) L. C. James.
5-Susan Rebeeca married George Cicero
Hatcher; issue, -J. Will (m. lst) Arcadia Brackin
& (m. 2nd) Ouida Pelham; -Eddie (m. lst)
Eroshia Burch & (m. 2nd) Loona Myers; -Obed
(m. lst) Annie Young; -Marvin (m) Rae Lee;
-Albert, died as a child; -Alvin (m) Edna
Register; -Eddie Mae (m) Dr. W. A. Parrish;
-Dovie (m) Henry McCroan. 6-Margrate,"Siss",
died single. 7-Emma Jane married Steven
Childs; issue, -Gus (m) Allie Fulford; -Monroe
(m) Addie McDuffy; -Will (m) Callie Ausley;
-Pearl (m) Henry Wood; -Susie (m) Gus Cullifer;
-Ida (m) Jim Bartow. 8-Mary married Elijah
Holland and had a son named -Floyd. 9-Mattie
married Tom B. Capps; issue, -Bristow (m) Eula
Howell; -Grady (m) Leila Hendrix; -John (m)
Etta Baker; -Annie Laurie (m) John McLane;
-Bessie (m) L. A. Smith. 10-Sarah Frances,
"Fannie" married William S. Fulford; issue,
-Danny (m) Mittie Bottoms; -Homer S. (m)
Maudy Clemmons; -William M. (m) Annie Mae
Spann; -Curtis, died as child; -Millie Loretta (m)
John Hatcher; -infant; -Abbey (m) Melvin Coe;
-Ava (m) Homer Grantham; -Aquilla (m) Wayne
Tomlin; -Ora Mae, died age fourteen; -Esther,
died as child.
Addendum 667
-Elizabeth Ann Josephine Matthews
McDonald and Hugh McDonald had five children: 1-Willie married Gertrude Galloway;
issue, -Julius (m) Ruth McCathen; -Ben Lee,
died single; -Roy, died single; -Flora (m) George
Strickland; 2-Charley C. married Kitty Givens,
and has at least a son, -Winston, in Houston,
Texas. 3-Albert married Mildred Galloway;
issue, -Lawrence, still single; -Ella Mae (m)
John Woodall. 4-Arch married Bera Everett;
issue, -Coy D. (m) Annie Lou; -Hazel (m) Ray
Ellis; -Minnie Mae (m) N. R. Trawick; -Nellie
(m) Chester Marlow. 5-B. D. married Mitty
Hughes; no issue.
Addendum 668
-FRANCES Woodham and Elisha R.
Woodham had seven children; 1-Tollie died at
age of four from burns. 2-Charles Wesley
"Bunk" married Claudia Everett; issue -Dorothy
Grace (m) Hubert McLenny; 3-Clayton married
Willie Hughes; issue, -Henry Clayton (m) Jean
Justice; -Bertha (Talley); -Sybil (m) Arthur
Watkins; -Robbie (m) Bill Talley. 4-Martin married Julia Green Weeks; issue, -Roy (m) Annie
Grant Finley; -Ludie (m) B. I. Hughen. 5-Bertie
Lee married Joe Cotton; issue, -Myrtle (m)
Lewie Andrews; -Theodora (m) T. B.
Armstrong; -Hildred (m) John Helinus; -Eleanor
(m) George Arkos; -Edith (m) ?. 6-Lily married
Foy Carr; issue, -Pete, and possibly others.
7-Ella married Jeff Bostick; issue, -Marvin (m)
Addendum 666
-Talitha Matthews Ross and James C. Ross
had eight children: 1-Tolton E., minister, (m)
Mollie Chancey; issue, -E. C. (m) Cora Edna
Cobb; -James Alford (m) Johnnie Mae Judah;
-C. C. (m) Helen Justice; -Annie Mae (m)
Andrew J. Price; -Ibby, female, (m) Matha
Brown; -Tee (m) Oscar Anderson; -Nora (m)
Grady Howell; -Dulana (m) Ralph Cobb; -Alma
Lee (m) G. P. Strickland. 2-James Tally married
Marteal Judah; issue, -Bob (m) Mamie Cope;
-Ivanora (m) Cecil Howell. 3-John Welly married first Jo Lucinda Napier; issue, -Walter (m)
Winnie Christmas; -Lillian (m. lst) Charles C.
Price & (m. 2nd) Walter J. Randolph; -Vota Lee
(m. lst) Porter Counts & (m. 2nd) Raymond
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Whitehurst; -Gordon (m. lst) Lucille Bryan &
(m. 2nd) Nell Jones; -Maude (m) Dewey
Daughtry; -Annie Newman, died single; and
-infant.
Della Williams; -Alto (m) Vala Cantwell; -Foster
(m) Ellen Wallace; -Reuben (m) Mattie Sexton;
-Rufus (m. lst) Effie Mae Bean & (m. 2nd) Ida
Mahon Grimes; -Winnie (m) W. M. Dennis;
-Willie (m) Herschel Gregory; -Myrtle (m)
George Anderson; -Texa (m) E. E. Love.
Addendum 670
-Mary Elizabeth Cox Gray Didham and her
first husband, Simeon Paskal Gray, had nine
children: 1-Abner Lafayette, died single.
2-Seaborn Monroe married Mary Susan Fuller;
issue -Robert B. (m) Ruby Collier; -Lee Hendrix
[m) Jeta Frances Gibson; -Josie (m) Edward
Jones; -Fannie O. (m) William Gerard Banks.
3-Simeon Paskal. Jr., who was called "Grey"
Gray, married Miss Frank Starkes; issue, -Tom
(m) twice, including Annabelle ?; -William (m)
Lizzy ? ; -Houston (m) Heady ?; -Ramsey (m)
Laura Biscamp. -Eddie, died as child; -Laura
(m) Sam Christan; -Nellie (m) Joe Kelly; -Alice
(m) Jess Biscamp; -Josephine (m) Julian Herrin.
4-William Edward, once judge of Newton
County, Texas, married first Tama Elizabeth Lee;
issue, -George Leigh (m. lst) Annie McKenzie;
-Dennis Call (m) Alma Brady; -William Jesse
(m. lst) Lorene Jones & (m. 2nd) Catherine
Grant; -Guy James (m) Edith Harris; -D.
Swinney (m) Adell Montgomery; -Billie (m) O.
R. Burch; -Florence (m) R. G. Collier; -Mary
(m) W. C. Kinsolving. William Edward married
second Mary Jackson but they had no issue.
5-Rebecca Jane died at age of four. 6-Marjah
Ann died as infant. 7-Mary Ophelia married
Charley Wilson; issue, -Wallace (m) Mollie
Carter; -Grover (m) Dora Shepherd; -Herbert
(m) Bessie Ferguson; -Mabel (m) Austin Spikes;
-Myrta (m) James Robert Wilson; -Edna (m. lst)
Sid Cousins & (m. 2nd) Karl McAlester;
-Maggie Ellsabeth (m) W. E. Powell; and -Pearl
(m) Joe McCleland. 8-Susan Ellen died as an
infant. 9-Heneretta died as an infant.
-Mary Elizabeth Cox Gray Didham and her
second husband, Edward Gerald Didham, had
one child: 10-Emma Marie Levenia Hanna married Arlanda Biscamp; issue -Hoy (m) Callie
Smith; -George (m) Madge Herrin; -Everett (m)
Allie Williams. -Edward W. (m) Grace Denby;
-Florence (m) Virgil E. Pate; -Pearl (m. lst)
Robert Calhoun & (m. 2nd) Howard Harris;
-Anna (m) Jim Calhoun; -Mable (m) S. E.
Kelley; -Minnie (m) Martin Reddie; -Lola (m.
lst) Jack Lafour & (m. 2nd) Robert L. Grillette.
Addendum 669
-Martha Ann Cox Matthews and Moses
Gordon Matthews had eleven children:
1-William Gordon married Eliza Smith; issue
-Charlie (m) Sue Tee Beacham; -Alto (m. 1st)
Laura Sims & (m.2nd) Ruth Lane; -Walter, died
single; -Clifford, female died single; -two
infants. 2-Rosier Lafayette married Mary
Francis Faulk; issue, -Wyman (m) Cleo Baxley;
-Samuel L. (m) Rosie Lewis; -Rosier F. died as
infant; -John Gordon (m) Pearl Rambeau; -Lily
Dale (m. lst) Ernest O. Speigner & (m. 2nd)
Harry L. Hillman; -Tabbie Lee (m) Henry M.
Kincey; -Elizabeth (m) Thomas O. Mullins;
-Cloa (m) Oscar Byrd; -Mollie Bess (m) John L.
Domingus, Jr.; -Smitha Martha (m) Robert
Darden. 3-J. Asbell married Ella L. Simmons;
issue, -Asbell, died single; -Harry (m,) Ida
Noblin; -Lucy (m) O. A. Brownlow. 4-Sarah
Ann Lavinna married Harrison Crawford
Yelverton; issue -Willlam G. (m) Betty
Abercrombie; -Oscar (m) Penny Parker; -Zella
(m) Curt Byrd. 5-Nancy Savannah married Jason
J. Fain; issue, -William Henry (m) Minnie
Lloyd; -Shelly (m) Cora Dean; -Frank (m) Dale
Matthews; -James Carl (m) Henrietta Dean;
-Gordon (m) Alice Mixon; -Mark (m) Laura
Skipper; -infant daughter; -Eva (m) Ed Dean;
-Viola (m) Tip Mixon; -Ludie (m) Malcom
Dean; -Sadie (m) Ed Walker; -Bessie Lee (m) L.
W. Terry. 6-Esther Ann died at age of three.
7-Rachel Vincey married William E. Mauldin,
pioneer lawyer of Newton, Alabama; issue,
-Whiteford C. (m) Edah Hopson; -Althorna, died
as child; -Martha, died as child; -Mary (m) Louis
Wardlaw. 8-Salathy Mosetta Townsend married
S. C. D. Brown; issue, -Forrest C. (m) Mary
Alice Thompson; -Leamon (m) Emma Whatley;
-Cecil (m) Verna Lanier; -Louie G. (m) Estelle
Windham; -Sally Mae (m) Walter Byrd; -Mattie,
died single; -Mertie (m) G. C. Sansberry; -Mable
(m) Zack Pierce; -infant daughter. 9-Palmetto
married J. O. Blackwood; issue, -Ormond.
10-Ella died single. 11-Mattie married Eugene
R. Jordan; issue, -Eugene C. (m) Annie
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Addendum 671
-Wllliam Fletcher Cox and his first wife,
Martha Ann Bush Cox, had nine children:
l-Julius Edward married first Willie Averett;
issue, -Charles A. F. (m. lst) Sabie Bailey and
(m. 2nd) Pauline Chandler; -Pony Black (m)
Gladys Grant; B. C. (m) Callie Hardwick; -E.
Maud, a male, (m) Lillian Caldwell; Bush M.
(m) Ruby Hawk; Walter W., still single. -Dera
(m) Alto Lee Casey; -Aldine (m. lst) Ike Rigell
and (m. 2nd) Sam Hinson; -Thelma is still single. Julius Edward married second Addendum
707's Mattie Metcalf; issue, -Edward (m) Elaine
Roberson; -Martha (m) Thomas Benjamin
Thomley. 2-John, died single. 3-H. Tollie L.
married Ollie Murdock; at least four issue,
including -R. A. and -Lewie, of Texas. 4-William
J. married first Dollie Parker; issue, Henry (m.
lst) Dovie Hollis & (m. 2nd) Era Mae Gilley;
-Otis (m. lst) Irene Connell & (m. 2nd) Claudia
Stembridge; -Claudia (m) M. M. Hollis; -Mattie
(m) Addendum 690's Ollie Hughes; -Lizzy (m)
R. J. Eughes; -Nola (m) J. W. Helms; William J.
married second Lessie Payne. issue, -Ralph
"Hamp" (m) Alma ?; -Leamon (m) Mae Cotton,
-Buney (m) Hosea Brackin; -Annie Belle (m)
Haley Hollis; -Clyde, female, (m) Bob Jones.
5-Martha A. died at age of two. 6-Rosilla A.
married Ansel M. Hudgens; issue, -Gideon, former Midland City mayor, (m) Minnie Adams;
-John F. (m. lst) Miss Jim Phillips & (m. 2nd)
Eunice, “Dump” Thomas; Tom (m) Hortense
Bowen; -Olaudius M. died age two; -Lillian R.
(m) Reverend W. B. Segrest; -Jewel (m) Leonard
Herring. 7-Henrietta married W. A. Goff; issue,
-John W., Sr. (m. lst) Ola Engram. -Hugh G., disappeared single, -Marvin (m. lst) Mattie Russ;
-Fletcher (m) Blanche ?; -Malcom T. died as
infant; -Lily (m) Henry Cline; -Etta (m) Oscar
Brock; -Lena (m) W. M. Jerkins; -Mattie (m)
Frank Hall. 8-Georgia Ann married R. P. Martin,
who is mentioned in Addendum 690; issue,
-Richard B. (m) Leila Stokes of Addendum 735;
-Willie F. (m) Ura Heath; -Lewis (m) Alta
Nabors; -Pearl R., male, (m) Annie Walker;
-Georgia Mae (m) Ed Chancey. 9-Nora married
Archie Scalfe; issue -Oliver, -Terry, and -Pauline
(Blanchette).
Tululah Griner; issue, -Mable Gertrude, and
-Edna T., both dying as children; Gilman Walker
married second Sarah Henrietta Oates; issue,
-Roger Walker (m) Loraine Peoples; -Lala
Agnes (m) Willie Powell. 2-infant boy. 3-Rosa
married George Miller: issue, -Dallas (m) Nellie
Gunter; -Hamp (m. lst) Sallie Newberry &
(m.2nd) Onie Rea; -Carroll (m) Ara Crowell;
-Perry (m) Allie Love; -Orlean (m) Ruthie
Phelps; -Cecil, died as child; -Bee (m) Ella
Crowell; -Ellie (m) Lola Richmond; -Leta (m)
Wayne Pittman; -Nellie (m. lst) Bill Langley &
(m. 2nd) Joe Porter; -Bessie (m. lst) Ed. Rudd &
(m. 2nd) J. P. Coon & (m. 3rd) Allen Phelps;
-Ora (m) Dan Easley; -Florence (m) Everett;
-Beulah (m) Allen Phelps -Jessie (m) Roy Rudd;
-Earl, female, (m. 1st) Tom Rea & (m. 2nd) San
Sanders & (m. 3rd) Arliss Teston. 4-Betty married Jim Westbrook; no issue. 5-Rebecca Jane
married John J. Newman; issue -Ulus B. (m)
Sallie Lancaster; -Ottis A. (m) Maud Anderson;
-Hoy Erie, male, (m) Murl Anderson; -Everett,
died as infant; -Thomas Arleigh, still single;
-Fredie Ray (m) Mary Swope; -Wordie Wayne
(m) Betty Waldrop; -Myrtle Bertha (m) R. L.
McCraw; -Ethel (m) W. E. Woodard; -Vivian
Odessa (m) William J. Martin; -Mary Essie (m)
J. J. Johnston; -Verdie May (m) R. L. Van
Cleave; -Irene Johnnie (m) Walter Gragg.
6-Jessie, female, died single.
Addendum 673
-Delilah Marena Cox Casey and Henry T.
Casey had eight children: 1-Monroe married
Patty Scruggs; issue, -Henry (m) Mandy
Howard; -Harry (m) Lula Bell Latham; -John
Kirby (m) Francis Payne; -Cairo; -Willie; -Alma
(m) Alphonso Lucas; -Katie (m) Walter P. Smith;
-Olive (m) Jim Smith; -Daphne (m) Wesley
Neal. 2-C. Ed, a judge, married Phoebe Hines;
issue, -Eddie and -Ima (m) S. W. Cowles. 3-Tom
married Bergie ? ; no issue. 4-Willie, male, died
single in college. 5-Fannie married Charlie
Downs; issue, -Troy, -Tolbert, and -Day. 6-Lottie
married Walter Wilson; issue ? -Willie and -Ora.
7-Lena married Lewis Downs; issue, -Eddie,
-Word, -Jeff, -Bill, -Lillie, and -Annie. 8-Annie
married first Jim T. Stringer; issue, -Garnet and
-Jim; Annie married second W. H. Morrison but
they had no issue.
Addendum 672
-Cornelia Cox Gray and William A. Gray
had six children: l-Gilman Walker married first
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Addendum 674
-NOEL PEELER Dowling and CHARLES
ETTA EUDORA Dowling had eight children:
1-MUNCY died single at age of twenty.
2-JAMES KING II died at age of seven.
3-EDWARD LINUS died at age of two.
4-LENA married Marcellus Frank Pridgen;
issue, -Noel Frank, Dothan attorney, (m) Minnie
Woods Carroll; -Sarah Elza still single.
5-GEORGIA married George E. Brunett; no
issue. 6-JULIA HOLMAN married Oscar Akins;
issue, -Howard (m) Ellen Fortenberry; -Glynn
D. (m) Elsie Purdue; -Helen still single.
7-FLORRIE REBECCA married Renaldo E.
Hunt; no issue. 8-MAGGIE died when one
month old.
Crocker; -Mildred (m) Richard Hyde; -Stella
Lucie (m) Honree York; -Thaddie (m) Carson
Buchanan.
Addendum 677
-MARY JANE Harris and Jim Harris had
eleven children: l-Fletcher "Ted" married Lena
Peters issue, -Charles, still single; -Jack, died
single; -Milton George, still single; -Kirt, still
single; -Roy, still single; and -Jean (m) Paul
Kelly. 2-Zachariah married Addendum 661’s Era
E. Andrews; issue -W. Ernest (m) Vassie Lewis;
-J. R. (m) Lois Lewis; -Henry G. (m) Lesie
Dean; -Harry (m) Gladys Hardwick. 3-John married Maudie Sorrells; issue, -Hoyt (m) Johnnie
Ester Cherry; -James A. (m) Grace Dean; -Doyle
Wallace (m) Robbie ? ; -George Hamilton (m) Jo
Ann Herrington; -Gladys (m) Lester Deal; -Lois
(m) Sigmond Buckworth; -Dorothy (m)
Reverend Ed Cozart; -Johnnie Maud
(m) Johnny Hallford; and -Lottie Lee, died age
two. 4-Lily married Charlie Byrd; issue,
-Charles N. (m) Rachel Woods; -Alton (m) Lora
Lisenby; -Albert Lonnie (m) Louise Carroll;
-Beatrice (m) Glenny Snellgrove. 5-Mary Elizabeth married J. I. Hagler issue, -J. Alphus (m)
Era Hayes; -Wesley (m) Verna Range,
-Newman, died age nineteen; -Adolph, died age
twelve; -Carey, female, died as infant; -Mildred
(m) Pitt Dean; -Ethelyn (m) Carl Stoup; -Blance
(m) Lee Smith; -Edna (m) J. D. Palmer. 6-Ethel
married J. A. McLeod; issue, -Max E. (m) Eloise
Swann; -Gaynelle (m) Cuthbert Woodham; Jeanette (m) James Stork; -Myra (m) Ernest Smith;
-Margeurite (m) Erskine B. Crews. 7-Martha
married E. B. Welch; issue, -Chisholm, still single; -Zenobia, female? (m) Cecil Woodham;
-Alva Mae (m) Howard Register; -Evelyn (m.
lst) Walker Snowden & (m. 2nd) Joseph Kuchta.
8-Ellen married Jess White; issue, -Howard G.,
still single; -J. Millard (m) Irell Sewell; -Ruth G.
(m) Frate Skipper; -Robbie Lee (m) H a r r y
Moore; Lena Irene (m) Wilmer Hall. 9-Pearl
married. M. A. Anderson; issue, -Marius, male,
(m) Wynuna McCamey; -Geraldine (m) Hubert
Brannon; and -Cosett (m) Royce Myers.
10-Louisa died at age of three. 11-Ara Mente
died at age of one.
Addendum 675
-ANNA JANE Smith and James Walter
Towns Smith had six children: 1-Allison
Gildreth "Alley" married Effie Sims; issue,
-Allison Gildreth, Jr. (m) Eugene Roberts;
-Albert, still single; -Mitchell (m) Myrt Ezell;
-Ramsey (m) Eulalis Andrews; and -Annie
McRae (m) Wyatt Crumpler. 2-William Towns
married Missouri Wall; issue, -Martha (m) Oscar
Thrower. 3-James Forest married Bonnie
Martin, issue, -James (m. lst) Ria Tuttle & (m.
2nd) Beulah Dyer; -Mildred, still single. 4-Pallie
married James Terrell Crawford; issue, -Towns,
died age fourteen; -Annie Jean (m) Steve
Anderson. 5-Sallie married Addendum 692's
Marvin Holman; their issue is listed there.
6-Lillie Estelle died as infant.
Addendum 676
-JEFFERSON Dowling and Margaret Kelly
"Dolly" Dowling had five children: l-WILLIAM
PORTER, a merchant who lived in Tuskeegee,
Alabama, married Lucy Fort; their two offspring
died as infants. 2-FLETCHER II died as an
infant. 3-BIRTIE married W. M. Keith; issue,
-John Calvin, died age two; -William D., sti1l
single; -Paul S., still single; -Margeurite (m) T. J.
Hooks; -Kate (m) Kenneth Collins; -Elisabeth
(m) W. E. Sharp; -Mary Frances (m) John C.
Shephard; -Rebecca, still single. 4-GERTRUDE
married Stacy Stephens; issue, -Porter Douglas
(m) Eleanor Harshburger; Stacy Belle (m) Ed
Firestone. 5-STELLA married Charles L.
Gregory; issue, Charles D. (m) Hessie Moncrief;
-Alwyn A. (m) Bessie Adair; -Paul (m) Hazel
Addendum 678
-MARGARET VICTORIA Bottoms and
John Jefferson Bottoms had five children:
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infant. 5-BLANCH IRENE married A. H.
DeVilleneuve; issue, -Jeannette (m) Paul B.
Nicks; -Margeurite died young.
1-James Fletcher married Bessie Jane Boldon;
issue, -Jim F., Dothan druggist, (m) Merle
Chalker; -John Watson (m) Ruth Hill; -Wilmer
Rudolph, minister, (m) Marie Brandon;
-Plummer Weldon “Sid” (m) Ellen Register;
-Hill (m) Evelyn Wachob; -Jack, died as infant;
-two un-named infants; -Lily Marlin, still single;
-Bertha Modell; -Louise; -Bessie Mae; the last
three died young. 2-Mary Ann married first
Charlie Potts; issue, -Lewie (m) Alene
Chapman; -Charles Eulon (m) Florrie Sloan;
-infant boy un-named; Mary Ann married second George E. Hawkins; a baby boy of theirs
only lived a few months. 3-Nettie married John
Ellis Johnston; issue, -Aubrey, Dothan Tax
Assessor, (m) Madie Silcox; -Ross (m) Rosa
Peel; -Hubert (m) Delma Gaylord; -Robert Zell
(m) Nellie Smith; -Ora Lee, who found that
Dowling, Ohio, is not named for our set of
Dowlings, (m) Sam Newton; -Buney Vista (m)
Charlie Burns; -Myrt (m) Charlie Burns; -Willie,
female, (m) Sanford Nowell; and -Ruth (m)
Clarence Gaul. 4-Mattie Estell married Marvin
Tindell; issue, -Rush (m) Bobbie ? ; -Clawton
(m. lst) Irma Watford & (m. 2nd) Eva Parrish;
-Wyatt C. (m. lst) Marie Windsor & (m. 2nd)
Enya Fernandez; -Johnie (m) Mary McLain;
-Rayford died single; -Olin (m. lst) Elizabeth
Reddick & (m. 2nd) Peggy Seggy; -Kermit (m)
Delores Martin; and -Lillion Bottoms male, died
as infant. 5-Mallie Jefferson married first
Edmond Wilson Roach; issue, -James Elwood,
died age two; -John Malcom (m) Lila Baxley;
and -Edna Margeurite, died single; Mallie
Jefferson married second Robert W. Hardy but
they had no issue.
Addendum 680
-Wesley H. Hallford and Sophia Ann Figg had
eight children: 1-Willie married Emma Dean;
issue, -Gordon (m) Willie Lewis; -Fred (m) Maude
Pate; -Eddie (m) Mina Lee; -Nettie (m) James
Wilson; -Cora (m) T. F. Carswell. 2-John W. married Zorah Edwards; issue, -Lewis (m) Lila Ward;
-Jesse (m) Mary Hollis; -Marvin (m) Mae
Underwood; -Leila (m) Jack Baker; -Sally (m) Will
Purvis; -James, died age one; -Annie P., died age
two. 3-James Samuel married first Nancy D.
Parker. issue, -Angus Porter (m) Georgia Tindell; Frank (m. lst) Maggie Sasser & (m. 2nd) Ruby
Chitty; -James Shorter (m) Effie B. Corbin; -two
infant daughters; -Beulah (m) Will Miller. -Nancy
(m) Frank Smith. -Nora Lizzy (m) Will Sawyer;
-Manuel, died age eighteen; James Samuel married
second Lucy Hudspeth; issue, -Dan Gordon (m)
Lucy Thaggard; -Jewel (m) Houston Thomley; and
-infant daughter; James Samuel married third Ola
Fair but they had no issue. 4-Ida married first
Sammy Long and married second Green Brannon
but had no issue. 5-Susan L. married William G.
Watford, brother of John R. below: issue, -Charley
M. (m) Minnie Riley. -Alf (m) Alar Robins;
-Shelley (m) Claudia Herring; -Mancey, male, (m)
Susie Hicks; -Hushel (m) Loucky Sweet; Jesse (m)
Ruth Shepard; -Delphia (m) Walker Ham; -Lizzy
Pearl (m) Omer Wells; and -Mattie (m) Daniel
Hartzog & (then m.) Ester Tate. 6-Mattie married
John Hughes; issue, -Jesse (m) Willie Mae Hall;
-Grover (m) Myrtie Woodham; -Claude; Clyde B.;
-May (Hall); -Annie; -Iler (Hall); Johnnie, female;
-Pearl; -Ruby; Gladys. 7-Dora L. married Jesse B.
Hughes. issue, -Jesse James (m) Jewel Davis;
-Burney, died single at nineteen; -Willie, male, died
as infant; -Ewell died single at seventeen; -Charley
(m) Mamie Stembridge; -Clayton (m) Maudie
Jones; -Arthur (m) Verna Dupree; -Louetta (m)
Louis Upton; -Cora (m) Melon Casey; -Ouida (m)
Harmon Howard. 8-Margaret married John R.
Watford; issue, -Ed, mayor and bank official of
Madrid, Alabama, who voluntarily worked years in
paying off depositors of that town's defunct bank
after the 1929 crash, (m. lst) Jessie Watford;
-Johnny (m) Alice Brinks; -Walter (m) JOHNNIE
Dowling of Chart 573; -Horace; -Alto: -Etta (m)
Hilburn Daughtry; -Annie (m) J. J. Norris; -Lula
Addendum 679
-ANDERSON Dowling and Caledonia
Connelly had five children: 1-WILLIAM
PIERCE still single. 2-IDA MARTILE married
Arch L. Watson; issue, -Arch L., Jr., (m) Mary
Marshall; -William A. (m) Jackie Brooks; -Harry
D. (m) Nelda Ryal; -Jack (m) Minnie Stringer.
3-PEARL ESTELLE married to Mr. John W.
Hankins; issue, -Helen, still single, -Flo (m) T.
R. Causey; -Lillian (m) N. N. Zirbel; -Albert,
died as child. 4-CORDIE married T. D. Snelling;
issue, -W. D. (m) Mary Audrey Lawrence; -J.
Frank (m) Mary Alice Horton; -Vera still single;
-Ruth (m) John Trigg; -Bessie (m) Charles W.
Power; -David, died as infant; -Ruby died as
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(m) N. G. Culbreth, -Ida (m. lst) Bright Tindell;
-Gussie (m) Coker Mixon; -Gertrude (m) Travis
Mixon.
McMichael; issue, -Charley (m. lst) Minnie
Mullins & (m. 2nd) Annie Dean; -Jim (m) Sarah
Barnes; -Willis (m) Nell Rice; -Shelly (m) Carrie
Dawson; -Lila (m) Cue Mullins. 3-Estelle
"Tellie" married W. C. Wood, who was called
“Judge”; -issue, -William Horace (m) Gertrude
Levy; -Luther C. (m) Lillian Bailey; -Gordon H.
(m) Merrill Vernon; -Furn M. (m) Virginia
Lewis; -Lillie Lura (m) Roy E. Nelson; -Rosa
Pearl (m) Ed W. Bailey; -Pura Cora, died young.
4-Sula married Tom Wynn; issue, -Fern (m. lst)
Miss I. B. Vickers & (m. 2nd) a Smith; -Whit F.
(m) Bertha Osborne; -Robert L. (m) Kathryn
George; -Pat P. (m) Nona Cannon; -Ernest V. (m.
2nd) Jimmie Zametto; -B. Earle (m) Emma
Daves; -Glenn T. (m) Dorothy ? ; -Ralph, m. two
or three times; -Susie Dell (m) John E.
McLaney; -Vera E., died age one; -infant, unnamed.
Addendum 681
-Sarah Ann Hallford Skipper and Robert
Green Skipper had eleven children: 1-Marvin P,
married Maude Swope; issue -Marvin, died as
infant; -Roy Bradshaw, killed single; 2-Robert
W. "Bud" married first Nannie Blackmon and
had eleven offspring: -Oscar (m) Linnie
Godwin; -Mangum (m) Miriam Godwin; -Porter
(m) Mattie Lee Brunson; -Sidney (m) Virgie
Walker; -Juddie, male, died as infant; -Gordon
(m. lst) Floy Woodham & (m. 2nd) Lonie
Griggs; -Frank Foy (m) Willett Glenn; -Annie
Belle, died young; -Mallie (m) Homer R.
Woodham; -Flossie (m) Jim Willis; -Maude (m)
Earl F. Deese; Robert W. married second Alice
Meredith and had seventeen offspring: -Grady
(m) Sally Willingham; -Fred (m) Sadie
Anderson; -Roy (m) Toy Hatcher; -John D. (m)
Evelyn ? ; -Mancil (m) Jeannie ? ; -Howard (m)
Frankie Cooper; -Robert, died young; -Louis,
died young; -Ruby (m) Itus Grantham; -Joicy,
still single; -Mattie Lou (m) Joe Sabbers;
-Pauline (m. lst) Seaboy Sullivan & (m. 2nd)
John Scott; -Ruth (m) Melvin Snipes; -Penny
Flora, died as child and -three infants. 3-Henry
A. died at age of one. 4-Shelly Oscar died at age
of fifteen. 5-Vilua "Ludy" married Isaac
Ledbetter; only issue, -Fred. 6-Alabama B. died
at age of one. 7-Mattie married first James B.
Matthews and married second T. E. Weeks but
had issue by neither. 8-Victoria married John
Brown; issue -Bob; -Teresa (Dickson). 9-Vannie
married Elbert Matthews; issue, -Jess (m) Sallie
Dean; -Louis (m) Laura Benson; -Shell (m) Era
Dean; -Ollie (m) Ethel Lunsford; -Bob (m)
Annie Murdock; -Hubert (m) Mary Snell;
-Beulah (m) Bud Wallace; -Callie (m) B.
Whitman; -Vera (m) Jeter Murdock; and -Cora
still single. 10-Viola married three or four times
including Jim Brown and a Mr. Summers; no
issue. 11-Lillie Ann married Addendum 756's
Henry Walter Hildreth; their issue are shown
there.
Addendum 683
-California Josephine Vinetty Hallford
Pritchett and James Phillips Pritchett had five
children: 1-Samuel Monroe married Vickie Carr;
issue, -James Reva (m) Martha Juanita Lewis;
-Tommy, died young; -Leila (m) Lee A. Eckhoff.
2-Jesse F. married Lily E. Cotton; issue,
_William G. "Bud" (m) Fannie Fillingame;
-Myrtie' still single; -Nellie (m) Mack Murphy.
3-John Lewis married Eloise Jones; issue -Erea
Elvin (m) Louise Lottman; -Lewis F. (m) Annie
Lee Smith; -Woodrow Wilson (m) Louise
Phipps; -Vertis (m) Novie Hatcher; -Noble B.
(m) Louise Phipps; -Vertis, male (m) Novie
Hatcher; -Noble B. (m) Lorene Pitts; -Bessie (m)
Ester Clemons; -Ruby Nell (m) J. D. Reardon;
-Mary (m) William J. Halley; -Sally (m) David
Jones. 4-Lovey A. died single. 5-Nancy Lue died
at age of five.
Addendum 684
-Piety Jane Hallford and Samuel Ezekial
Hallford had eight children: 1-Caton Wilbur
married Lula Boyett; issue -Lily (Scott), -Marie
(Grimsley), -Helen (Gross), -Theo, and -Irma
(m) George Cotton. 2 Julius C. married Alice
Calhoun; issue, -Nellie (m) Davis Gardner;
-Melba (m) Ralph Cohen. 3-Lonnie married first
Ola Sanders; issue, -Marvin (m) Margeurite
Hudnell; -Byrd (m) Virginia Keel; -James M.,
died age two; -Mae (m) M. K. Blalock. 4-Jervey
A. had son named -Julia Merlyn and husbands
Addendum 682
-Gordon L. Hallford and Emily Mullins
Hallford had four children: 1-N. G. female, died
at age of four. 2-Ellen J. “Ella”, married Jeff D.
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Deese; -Phillip (m) Virginia Bartlett; Oliver
Dowling (m) Frances Parker; -Paul, died as
infant; -Bernice, still single and -Janelle (m) J.
Hassell Bryson, Jr. 6-NELLIE married Hunter C.
Johnson, Sr.; issue, -Hunter C. Jr. (m) Rose
Marie Alderman; -Louise (m) E. H. Michel;
-Christine (m) Robert Stephens. 7-MATTIE
married A. T. Harrison; issue; -Clifton (m)
Verdie Adams; -Woodfin (m) Margaret Miller;
-Malone (m) Margie Coleman; -Eloise (m. lst)
Miller Davis & (m. 2nd) Marvin Sullivan.
8-ANNIE VALERIA died as an infant.
named Mr. Clewis, Henry Lewis, and Babe
Brown. 5-Jessie Coriler. female, died at age of
one. 6-Tulia, female, died at age of five 7-Usula
Vesia married Sherman Jackson; issue; -infant
boy, un-named; -Minnie Belle still single; -Eva,
died single; -Bernice (m) John M. Hudspeth.
8-Willie married Hosea Ard; issue, -Irby (m)
Euncie Lee; -Cammy; -Randolph (m) Eva Moss;
-Preston, still single; -Hortense (m) Bobby
Foster; -Alarie (m) Holland Myrlck; -Carolyn
(m) Bobby Thompson; -four small infants.
Addendum 685
-ELISHA MATHIAS CONVERSE Dowling
and Tansy Jane Britt Dowling had four children:
1-ROBERT MONROE married first Flora Grace
and married second Clara Peery but had no
issue. 2-CHARLES M. married Sallie E.
Hammock; no issue. 3-TANSY, “TEE” married
W. A. Hill but had no issue. 4-VIOLA died at
age of one.
Addendum 689
-MARGARET FRANCES Martin and
Daniel Martin had eleven children: 1-”Bud” X.
Calhoun married Mollie Goff; issue, -Dewey
(m) Willie Johnson; -Floyd (m) Vera Byrd;
-Drucilla (m) T. Bernard Byrd; -Eulalah, still
single. 2-Edward Benjamin married Frances
Virginia DeLoney; issue, -R. Lounie (m) Irma
Irene Curenton; -William Edward, died age six;
-William Clinton, still single; -Madeline (m) J.
Ward Holman. 3-Jesse Malcom married Pearl
Curenton; issue, -Patsy (m) G. M. Dunnaway;
-Margaret R. (m) B. F. Bermingfield; -Mildred
(m) Coleman Butler; -Dorothy (m) H. C.
Chandler, Jr. 4-Robert H. married Pelly
McDaniel; issue, -Roy Dewitt (m) Lucreal
Parrish; -Herman Daniel (m) Ruby Head;
-Frances Hazel (m) Amos J. Howard; -Edith
Marie (m) Gary Hamm; -Mattie Pearl (m)
Barney Stanley ; -Euna Ellzabeth (m) Harry
Norton 5-Charlie Young married Mattie Maud
Young; issue -Michael, “Bill”, (m) Addie Belle
Wilson; -Charles (m) Martha Lowery ; -Fred (m)
Jeanelle Scott; -infant boy un-named; -Lois (m)
Levi Thrower, Jr. 6-Tallie M., a male, married
Dale Howell; issue -Emmett B. (m) Ethel Key;
-TaIlie Oris (m) Lila Pelham; -Haywood P. (m)
Rose Dechein; -Robert L. (m) Bernice
Scharphied; -D. Laymon (m) Inez Knowles;
-Thelma, died single; -Leita (m) L. S. Moseley.
7-Daniel died as an infant. 8-Lydia, 9-Annie
married Willie Beckham; issue; -Carlos (m)
Mattie Beverly; -Haywood (m) Mattie Reed
Gay; -Felton, "Ted" (m) Maude Grimes; -Altous
(m. lst) Rachel Morgan & (m. 2nd) Pansey
Barnard; -Bertie (m) Olney Emfinger;
-Geraldine (m. 1st) Harry Davis & (m. 2nd) John
Crawford; -Hilda (m) Hunter Garth. 10-Zadie
married Marion Waters. issue, -Harris (m) Ada
Addendum 686
-LACY ANN LUIZA Parker and John
Calvin Parker had two children: 1-Donie married Tom J. Kemp; issue, -Ewell H. and -Elyet
J., boys who died as infants. 2-Lena married
Tom's brother, Hill Kemp; issue, -Lorayne (m.
lst) Ray Fromshom & (m. 2nd) Wayne Teneyck.
Addendum 687
-NANCY JANE McDonald and John F.
McDonald had six children: 1-Marvin died single at twenty-five; 2-Farley died single at twentyfive; 3-Jessie L. died single at nineteen; 4-Lula
married Isaac Valentine; issue, -Jemima died as
infant; -Johnny L. died as infant; 5-Lucy died
single at twenty; 6-Mollie married Sidney
McIntyre; issue -Oscar (m) Letha Richardson;
-Albert (m) Doris Collins; -Macks, a minister,
(m) Miss Charlie Leslie Wadsworth.
Addendum 688
-JARRETT MALONE Dowling and Ella
Crim Dowling had eight children: 1-BARNEY
CLARENCE married Willie Brice; no issue.
2-ANGUS HORRIE married Effie Bell; no
issue. 3-BEN JOHNSON married Margeurite
Lockhart; no issue. 4-SHELLIE M., male, died
as infant. 5-ELIZABETH “LIZZY” married
Frank Kingsley issue; -William B. (m) Mildred
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Addendum 691
-MARTHA JANE Byrd and Ransom Byrd
had nine children: 1-Curtis Holton married
Charity Aby Brunson; issue, -H. Casey (m) Lucy
Butler; -Acrel A. (m) Margaret Marie Whalen;
-Ransom O., "Rank", (m. lst) Carrie Wise & (m.
2nd) Margaret Smith; -Horace M. (m) Ena Mae
Wood; -Gilbert (m. lst) Ethel Lewis & (m. 2nd)
Mary Kathleen Martin; -Edward Dowling (m)
Marlene Marie Tappen. 2-Wyatt O. married first
Winnie Dell Rowe; issue, -"Totsy", -Winnie (m)
Milton O'Neal; Wyatt O. married second Olivia
Reid; issue, -Isaac W. (m) Elizabeth Fannin.
3-Zenada married Dr. Byron Ard; issue, -Ligon
B. (m. lst) Gladys ? & (m. 2nd) Grace Inman &
(m. 3rd) Helen Lochspeich; -Waldo (m) Sue
Kolb; -Jerome C. (m) Elizabeth Dumas; -Toxie
(m) W. M. Sorrell; -Lily Ware (m) Louis Morris;
-Eva Mae (m. lst) Lester Glover & (m. 2nd) C.
S. Keller; -Peggy (m) Fred H. Taylor; -infant
daughter un-named; -Patricia died as infant.
4-Leila Jane married John T. Bell, Jr.; issue;
-Fred (m) Emmie Cooper. 5-Eva Mable married
Tom M. Cox; issue, Ligon (m) Mildred
Chambers; -Rennie, still single. 6-Arizona married first Coley Barnes and married second
George Trawick but had issue by neither.
7-Nannie Drucilla married John T. Adams; issue,
-J. M., "Mac", (m) Helen Dean; -Carlton F. died
single; -Bill (m) Roberta Largen; -Tye (m) Jean
O'Cain; -Eva (m) Leamon Griffin; -Mary Martha
(m) Ransom Jones. 8-Daisy died at age of six.
9-Maude Willie died at age of one.
Snellgrove; -Ralph (m) Lois Snellgrove; -Rufus
(m) Opal Maund; -O. V. (m) Marie Hollis;
-Sherman (m) Annie Linton; -Toxie (m) Walter
Andrews; -Alma (m) Irvin Ward; -Ruby (m) Will
Cook. 11-Dellie married Jim Crumpler; issue
-Dee (m) Ella Jones; Jin (m) Ellie Boles; -Steve
(m) Vela Woods; -Tullie, male, (m) Eddie
Owens; -Leagon (m) Zelma Harris; -Cleavie,
male; -Eura (m) Hardy Donahoe; -Dell (m)
George Turley; -Edna (m) Darwin Singleton;
-Vela (Jackson); -Maude (m) Dock Boles;
-Robbie, female, (m) June Terry; -Jenora; -Billie
(m) Joseph Eickey; -Bonnie Nell (m) Clarence
Taylor.
Addendum 690
-ELIZABETH ANN Hughes and Needham
Hughes had eight children: 1-Charlie married
Josie Jones; issue, -Will Comer (m) Omega
Wright; -Jim H. (m) Lilly Mixson; -Truitt (m)
Lorene Eubanks; -Euart, male, (m) Florrie Dean;
-Albert Edward (m) Bunea Kyser; -Lewie E.;
-Ben (m) Crumpler; -Susie (m) Basil Willis.
2-Ollie married Addendum 671's Mattie Cox;
issue, -L. Roy (m) Ruth Hall; -Robert C. (m)
Louise Burkett; -Claude (m) Valera Mobley;
-Maude (m) George Crane; -Mattie Lou (m)
Jesse W. Brandon; -Dollie Parker (m) Boisey
Fedterwitz; -Mary Lizzy (m) Henry Bryan;
-Frances (m) Joe Hornsby; -Annie Laura (m) T.
L. McComb; -Willie Mae (m) Erie Helms.
3-Will C., Methodist preacher, married Ida
Parker; issue, -Louise (m) C. B. Johnson;
-Juanita (m) Aubry Duncan. 4-Forrest Ellington
is still single. 5-Collie became the second wife
of R. P. Martin, who is mentioned in Addendum
671; issue, -J. P. (m) Bernice Baston; -Charlie
(m) Era Mae Wilson; -Albert (m) Altha Fortner;
-John C. (m) Pearl Logan; -Blanche (m) Bob
Jones; -Edna (m) Marion Griffith; -Nellie (m)
Oder Reynolds. 6-Annie married S. H. Hall but
had no issue. 7-Nettie married first John Ard and
married second. James P. Powers and married
third Walter Daniel; issue of the last marriage
was -George Fewell, who died as an infant. 8Nannie married Ovid Hardy; issue, -William
Tower (m) Pearl Darby; -Howard Lamar, still
single; -George Campbell, still single; -James
Hughes, still single; -Virginia Mae (m) C. W.
Wright; -Elsie Fae, still single; -Annie LaRue
(m) George T. Reeves.
Addendum 692
-SUSAN VIRGINIA Holman and John
Clinton Holman, Sr. had nine children; all boys:
1-Thornton R. died at age of two. 2-Robert
Edward married first Emma Hood; issue,
-Robert Edward, Jr., (m) Virginia L. Moore;
-Alexander Hood (m) Vera Weber; -William died
as infant; Robert Edward married second Clara
Dey; issue, -Frederick (m) Virginia R.
Kilpatrick; -Amelia Sue & -Clara D., died as
infants. 3-Jesse Dacosta married Chart 566's
SUSAN O. Dowling; issue, -”J. D.”, James
Dowling, (m) Mary Hornsby; -Jesse Neil, still
single; -E. Hendrix, still single; -Leslie Dacosta,
still single; -Sally Mae (m) Walton Jackson;
-Dorothy (m) T. J. Patterson; -Elizabeth (m)
John Q. Adams. 4-Henderson Looney. Sr., physician, married first Edmonia Inge; issue,
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”H. L.”, Henderson Looney, Jr., (m) Rhoda
Pfhol; -Kenneth (m) Addendum 710's Edna
Green; -Wilton (m) Syble Duggan; -Norman W.,
physician, (m) Thelma Herndon; -Richard Inge,
died age six; -Immogene (m) Chart 570's George
C. Morgan; -Edmonia (m. lst) James E. Lasseter
& (m. 2nd) Alan J. Williams; -infant daughter,
un-named; H. L., Sr. married second Florida
Arwood; issue, two infants. 5-Young Allen married Ethel G. Martin; issue, -Julian (m. 1st)
Margaret Stegall & (m. 2nd) Marian Watt;
-Martin (m) Althea Smead. 6-Marvin married
Addendum 675's Sallie Smith; issue, -Robert M.
(m) Kathryn McRinnon; -Eugene, died as infant;
-Edith (m) Maxwell E. Jones; -Marjorie, died as
infant. 7-Ligon died at age of two. 8-infant boy,
un-named. 9-Albert married Eammogene
Cheek; no issue.
ried J. Knox Davis; issue, -Julia., K. (m. lst)
Lucille ? & (m. 2nd) Mary Moore; -Grace (m)
Charley Thompson. 12-Otha Grace died as
infant.
Addendum 694
-SARAH A. E. Lee and Timothy Cuthbert
Lee II had ten children: 1-Robert Alexander
whose chance remark to the author about kinship
provided the spark that moved this book out of
the thinking stage, (m) Genora Weed; issue,
-Robert Grady, still single; -Fred Madison (m)
Molly Roundtree; -Pat Oliver (m) Lily Peterson;
-Frank (m. lst) Ruby Lockart & (m. 2nd) Florine
Windham; -Wade (m) Loanie Smith; -Tim (m)
Mary Etta Thomley; -Rupert died age two;
-Clara (m) Alto Ard; -Jewel (m) Bob Wilson;
-Gypsy (m) Doyle Holloway; -Grace (m) Amos
Williams; -Mildred (m) Leroy Johnson.
2-Charlie married Ola Hollis; issue, -Sampie (m)
Minnie Drew; -Leonard (m) Annie Mae Drew;
-Dottie (m. lst) Bessie Gavins & (m. 2nd)
Pearley Campbell; -Ralph (m) Ethel Snell; Gertrude (m) Gus Long. 3-Harvey married
Freddie Scarbrough; issue, -Sarah (m) Maurice
Fletcher; -Juanita (m) James Whatley. 4-Marvin
died at age of two. 5-Lurea Virginia married W.
J. Reynolds; issue, -Willie (m) Pauline Thomas.
-Gus (m) Glara McCraney; -Robert still single;
-Ben, still single; -Dovie (m) Emmett H. Hollis;
-Anna Laura, still single; -Lofie, "Effie", (m)
Espy Hollis. 6-Doris Udoxie married Alford L.
Jones; issue, -infant boy, unnamed. 7-Lizzy married Will W. Fowler; issue, -Fitzhugh died as
infant; -Sally (m) Bill Collins. 8-Callie married
Lavigor Warren; issue, -Willie E., male, (m. lst)
Willie Maud Kelly (m. 2nd) Jimmie Woodham;
-Hortense (m) Nathan H. Roundtree; -Mertie (m)
Grady York; -Thelma Clyde (m) Wiley Thomley.
9-Lucy married James Tancy Fowler. issue,
-Henry (m) Georgia Smith; -James R. (m) Sybil
Reeves; -Myrtle (m) Emmett O. Jordan;
-Bernice (m) M. T. Fowler. 10-Ella married Tom
Fowler; issue -T. Dawson (m) Neppie Helms;
-Harvey T. (m. lst) Ethelene Covington &
(m.2nd) Lizzie Carter; -Mancil T. (m) Bernice
Fowler; -Harold Dowling (m) Ruth Covington;
-Herman H. (m) Alma Hawthorne; -Jimmy Ervin
(m) Lois Hendrick; -Bessie, still single; -Vonnie
Estell, died age one.
Addendum 693
-VANTILLER OPHELIA RIO DE
JANEIRO Byrd and William Acrel Byrd had
twelve children: 1-Wade Hampton married first
Addendum 670's Alma Hundley, issue,
-Catherine (m) C. A. T. Lisenby; -Wade Thomas,
died as infant; Wade Hampton married second
Jewel Mixon; issue, -Fox Edward (m. lst)
Thelma Clutts & (m. 2nd) Veda Newton; -J. Pete
(m) Ruby Harris; -Lucille (m) Foy Snell.
2-infant boy, unnamed. 3-William Albert died as
infant. 4-Samuel Lewie married first Ruby
Galloway; issue, -James (m) Nell Gunter;
-Robert G. still single; -Sarah (m) R. D. Harris;
-Virginia, still single; Samuel Lewie married
second Annie Grubbs but they had no issue.
5-Robert Floyd died as an infant. 6-Cora died as
an infant. 7-Ora Clida married first Mr. Willie
Mullins; issue, -Paul (m) Esther Moll; -Alex (m)
Johnnie Thomas; -George, female, died as
infant; -Helen (m) John B. Amos; -Agnes (m)
Floyd Purdue; -Gussie (m) Gene Hodges.
8-Carrie Hart died as an infant. 9-Otha Grace
died as an infant. 9-Emmie married Addendum
661's Marvin Andrews; issue, -Frank, died single; -Acrel A. (m) Louise Gunter; -Howard (m)
Ruth Miller; -Roy J. (m) Grace Essenault;
-Louise (m) J. R. VcFadden; -Frances (m)
Rogers 0. Dansby; -Pauline (m) Milton 0.
Patterson. 10-Annona married Alto Carr; issue,
-Bomer (m) FIorence Warren; -Bill (m) Bunchey
Mitchell; -Charles (m) Beatrice ? ;-Ray D. (m)
Myrtle ? ; -Edward (m) ? . 11-Sara Susan marPage 208
Addendum 698
-BUNEY Windham and Sam Calvin
Windham had eleven children: l-Farus
Greely,Sr., married Queen Hammond; issue,
-Sam W., physician, (m) Jane Carroll; -Farus
Greely, Jr., (m) Frances Simmons; -Paul, died as
infant; -Hilda (m) Reverend George Kerlin.
2-Carl married first Mittie Clark issue, -Arthur
(m. lst) Louise Haggens; -Effie Mae (m) Thomas
R. Conner; -Pearl (m) G. E. Duncan; -Doola
Merle (m) Raymond Prickett; Carl married second
Lottie Goodson but they had no issue. 3-Otis married Gussie Powell; issue, -Buney (m) Melvin
Hathaway. 4-Mace, preacher, married Leila
Austin issue, -Byron (m) Jessie Lou Spikes;
-Ruby (m) George W. Black; -Ruth (m) Porter
Blalock. 5-Alpheus Bishop married first Maggie
Huggins; issue, -Robert L. (m) Evelyn Wyatt;
-Lloyd A. (m) Betty Shell; -Florence (m) Luke
Hammonds. 6-Alton B. died at age of two. 7-Alice
married Charlie Evans; issue, -Kenneth, -Hosea,
-Alfred E., -Sam, -Rye, -Reginald, -Rettie,
-Gurtha (Harvard), and -Willie (m) J. E. Dudley.
8-Clotee is still single. 9-Lily married Lum Walsh
issue, -Wayne C. (m) Faye Pinckard; -Clyde (m)
Cleo Ivey; -Mavonia (m) Web Edmonds; -Lottie
(m) George Walker; -Viola (m) Thurman Miller;
-Lura (m) Wiley Holland; -Alice (m) Cecil
Creamer. 10-Ollie married Reverend R. H.
Thames; issue, -Clarence William (m) Sue
Waters; -Jack Matthew, Lieutenant in WW-II who
died single; -James Madison D. (m) Mrs. Buney
"Bill" Lee; -Lura V. (m) A. Pete Hines. 11-Elberta
married Joiner Bush; issue, -Ruth, -Mrs. John
Thompson, and others.
Addendum 695
-CATHERINE C. Johnson and Spencer L.
Johnson had eight children: 1-Jim married Ida
Marchman; issue, -Grady (m. Ist) Lenna Mae
Davis (m. 2nd) Minnie Lee Newton; -Vernie Lee
(m) Louise George; -Mancil (m) Louise Parker;
-Julius (m) Bessie Jordan; -Bonnie (m) Chart
565's YOUNG DANIEL Dowling; -Floy (m) J.
L. Whitman. 2-Jesse married Lizzy ? 3-Hardy
married Lizzy Troublefield; issue, -Clarence (m)
Ruby Lee Eldridge. 4-Shelly died single.
5-Sollie died single. 6-Lovie, female, died single. 7-Christine died as infant. 8-Ernestine died
as infant.
Addendum 696
-ANNA JANE Martin Morris and her first
husband, Stephen Martin had three children:
l-Melton M. married Rabba Peacock; issue,
-John Wright (m) Emma Crozzier; -Clyde, male,
died as child; -Blanche (m) Ned Howell, -Era B.
(m) Earl Beard. -Mallie and -Elva, died as children. 2-Vonnie died as a child. 3-Della married J.
M. Peacock, issue -J. Corbitt, Sr., (m) Valeria
Vickers; -W. R. (m) Eura Dell; -A. K. (m) Mattie
Sikes.
Addendum 697
-JAMES ERVIN Dowling and his second
wife Lettie O’Lillian Murray had eleven children: 1-ELZIE JAMES, “RED” died single.
2-CLEBURNE HARRIS married Edwina
Bamburg; no issue. 3-ANGUS died single.
4-DEWEY died single. 5-VERLINE married
Henry Leroy Adams; issue, -Janis A. (m)
Thomas Lamar Gray; -Mancle L. (m) Carolyn
Mae Attaway; -Novis Amnette, still single.
6-WILLIE MAE married first Murray Evans;
issue, -Willls (m) Jan Donaldman; -Newell L.
(m) Ruby Merrel; -Troy Lee (m) Sue Carr;
WILLIE MAE married second Alex Fields but
they had no issue. 7-BERTIE married Blanton
Boyd; issue, -Clowis Mae (m) Jack Hawk; -Jim,
died single; -Margie (m) Aubrey Briggs;
-Dowling (m) Bertie Phillips; -Helen, died single. 8-SADIE married first Robert James
Alexander and married second Elbert Dickson
but had issue by neither. 9-ESTHER married
Emory Norris; issue, -Norman Woody, still single. l0-EXIE, female, died single. 11-Fannie
died single.
Addendum 699
-CALLIE D. Morris and I. V. Morris had four
children: 1-Telly, male, married Addie Barbrey
but had no issue. 2-Lonny, male, died as a child.
3-Jewel married first Gillette Cox; issue, -Annie
Delma (m) Edwin H. Hart; Jewel married second
Ivan Williams; issue -Bryant (m. lst) Lucille
Hinson & (m. 2nd) Lily Mae Joyner; -Cecil I. (m)
Anita Hartsfield. 4-Johnnie, female married
Eugene Tally; issue, -Marvin Eugene (m) Carolyn
Thomas.
Addendum 700
-LURA H. Duncan and George Washington
Duncan had four children: 1-Chalmus M., died at
age of eighteen. 2-Willie, male, died as child. 3Page 209
Addendum 703
-MATTIE O’Neal and James Robert Lewis
Shephard O’Neal had four children: 1-Judge
Codie married Bunie Mickler; issue, Bernice L.,
male still single. -Gross, died age one. -William
J. (m. 2nd) Susie Lee Horten; -Robert Frank (m)
Betty Johnson; -Judge Codie, Jr. “Pete”, (m)
Mary Louise Collins; -Olivett (m) Mr. Kincaid.
2-Jimmy Hancle married Mattie DuBose; issue,
-Robert Carl (m) Vonnette Hodge; -Jimmy
Hancle, Jr., (m) Emma Lou Jones; -Kathleen (m)
Don Haggitt. -Susan (m) S. E. Larson; -Pamelia,
still single. 3-Otis married first Willie B.
Holmes; issue, -Clifton (m) Hazel Webb;
-James, died single; -two infant boys; -Ray (m)
Hazel Bunt; -Paul (m) Dorothy Duncan; -Zackie
(m) Florence Cargill; -Nell (m) Clarence
Crowley.
-Virginia (m) Sam Tatum; Otis married second Frances Weldon but they had no
issue. 4-Flossie Lee died at age of one.
Calhoun, minister, married Buena Vista Arwood;
issue, -Walton Lee (m) Margaret Bidle; -Angus
Wade, died age four; -Aubrey Lamar, died single;
-Gladys Vivian, still single 4-Lou possibly married a Bradley; her only issue -Irene, married a
Jones in or near Troy, Alabama.
Addendum 701
-PINKNEY MANCIL Dowling and his second wife, Nancy Ruth Brown Dowling had six
children: 1-LEWIS MARSHALL married
Oneita Smith; issue -CHARLES LEWIS, still
single; -MABLE RUTH (m) Ralph A. French.
2-ROBERT GRADY married Gypsy Spear;
issue, -JAMES CLINTON (m) Edna Vickers.
3-WALTER LEE married Kathryn Stone but had
no issue. 4-BETTY married Alto V. Broxson
issue, -Emmett (m) Mary Glover; -Harmon (m)
Evelyn Justice; -Frank (m) Earline Payne;
-Lloyd (m) Vera Caraway; -Elmer (m) Vida
Fowler; -Robert (m) Miss Ted Bowden; -Ella
Ruth (m) Mr. Alma Gatling, -Mary (m) Roy
Patrick. 5-WILLIE RUTH married Oscar Spear,
Sr.; issue, -Oscar, Jr., (m) Melba Rogers;
-Eugene (m) Carrie Lee Brannon; -Wallace (m)
Sally Ellis; -Lillian still single; -Bernice, still
single. 6-EDDIE, male, died as infant.
Addendum 704
-PENNY LOUETTA Marsh and Judge A.
Marsh had ten children: l-Frank married Gussie
Mae Covington; issue, -Charles W., killed single
in WW II. 2-Rushing married Verna Green; issue
-Roy, stiII single. 3-Sid married first Mattie Mae
Stokes and had three issue who died as infants;
Sid married second Myrtle Carroll but they had
no issue. 4-Tavner married Neva Tolbert; issue,
-J. T. (m. lst) Nellie Tucker (m. 2nd) Myrtis
Godwin; -Louie Frank (m) Rachel ? ; -Mildred
(m) W. H. Weaver. 5-Henry died single. 6-infant.
7-Cora is still single. 8-Lena is still single.
9-Leila died as an infant. 10-Bonnie married
Frank Folson; issue, -Judge Mike (m) Bessy
Roberts; -Kathryn Lucille (m) Robert C. Martin;
-Sarah Frances (m. lst) Earl Morris & (m. 2nd)
John C. Raoul; -Julia (m) Bill Robb; -Bonnie
Jean (m) Willis E. Clay; -Katey Elizabeth, died
age nine.
Addendum 702
-JETSON CAMILLA Bailey and John
Bailey had at least six children: 1-William
Robert married Sarah ? ; issue, -Dora Mae (m)
Robert Woods. 2-Connie P. married Mader
Hodges; issue, -Howard (m) ? ; -Connie P., Jr.,
still single; -Mayzel; -Jewel (m) Wilbur
Thrower; -Lucille (m) John Beasley; -Pauline;
-Lily Mae (m) Burl Burkett. 3-Willie Mae married Millard W. Smith; issue, -Linton (m)
Johnnie Mae Rogers, -Max (m) Vassie Register;
-Wilbar (m) Vassie ? ; Lily Merle (m) Lloyd
Server; -Minnie Pearl (m) Leonard Barnes;
-Merriam (m) Junior Byrd. 4-Emma married
first Mr. Sandlin and married second Frank Pryer
but had no issue. 5-Jessie Byrd married E. B.
Allums; issue, -Rudolph E. (m) Thelma
Strickland, -Will B. (m) Nellie Ruth Speigner;
-Curtis Ed (m) Ginger ? ; -John T. (m) Ann Sure;
-Allen B. (m) Evelyn Boswell; -Katie Kathryn
(m) Leonard J. Glawson; -Mary Emma (m)
Horace Edward Mills; -Stella Frances (m) Ray
Lingo. 6-Maggie married Mack Davldson; issue,
-William & -Jimmy.
Addendum 705
-JOICY Russell and Nace Russell had seven
children: 1-Talmadge married Bessie McCall;
issue, -Grady Cecil (m) Annie Ogburn; -Emory
Cornelious (m) Mary B. Moore; -Hubert
Howard (m) Mary E. Shephard; -Lillian Irene,
still single; -Ruby Lee (m. 2nd) John C. Moore;
-Bertha Inez (m) James C. Floyd; -Dessie Eloise
(m) Samuel C. Gresham. 2-Prezzie Calvin, Sr.
married Irene Hildreth; issue,-Prezzie Calvin,
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died as infant. 8-Mae married Philip J. Roth.
issue, -John S. (m. 1st) Alva Stevens & (m. 2nd)
Sarah Bethea. 9-Gertrude married John W. Goff;
issue, -Richard Earle (m) Velma Lundy;
-J. Henry (m) Corra M. Thompson; -Mary Lou
(m) Richard Ramsey. 10-Ada died at age of
three. 11-Edward died as an infant. 12, 13, & 14infant boys; 15 & 16 infant, girls.
Jr., (m) Peggy Jane Sellers; -Lloyd Emory, still
single; -Marilyn L., still single. 3-Eva married J.
E., "Ted", Broxson, present Geneva County,
Alabama, tax collector; issue, -John Herman (m.
lst) Louise Smith & (m. 2nd) Jeanette Hollon;
-Ted (m. lst) Anna Timco & (m. 2nd) Arlene
Davis; -Verna (m) G. P. Weaver; -Sarah (m. lst)
Fletcher Justice & (m. 2nd) Jack Mims; -Mary
(m. lst) Henry Fransen & (m. 2nd) Walter
Stockwell. 4-Blanche married first Charley
Counts; issue -Joe R. (m) Wilma Carver;
-Victoria (m. lst) Walter Tomlin; Blanche married second Oscar Dalgren but they had no issue.
5-Birt married Dan Childs; issue, -Herman (m)
Martha Hutto; -D. Edmond still single; -Jessup
(m) Irene Jones; -Macon (m) Thelma Goodman;
-Junior (m) Coy Marsh, -Katie B. (m) Hubert
Reynolds. 6-Mae married Joe M. Clark; issue,
-Amos, still single; -Lee Edward (m) Janie
Smith; -Eunice (m) E. W. Fiedler; -Mauerine (m)
Paul E. Graham; -Syble (m) J. P. Wynn; -Jean
(m) Verb Jenkins Jr.; -Josie Mae (m) Clyde R.
Pierce; -Ivan Nei1 (m) Everett Jackson; -Hazel
Blondell (m) Clarence Adkinson. 7-Ida married
Charlie J. Marsh; issue -Charlie J., Jr., (m) Leila
Driggers; -Ethel (m. lst) Louie Curenton & (m.
2nd) Edson C. Smith & (m. 3rd) Otis Bussey.
Addendum 707
-Martha Jane Brackin Metcalf and M.
Lafayette Metcalf had eleven children: 1-Albert
married Donie Renfroe; issue, -Joe Hill, died single, -R. L. still single; -Fred Norman, died single;
-John Pelar, died single; -Stella V. (m) D. A.
Lauderdale; -Ibbie Daisy (m) Reverend J. O.
Savelle. 2-Raborn married Hattie Byrd; issue
-Pitt (m) Florine Sorrells; -Lewis (m) Carrow
Dooling; -Fatie (m) Frances Fleming; -Bea (m)
Curt Kelly; -Berta (m) Bill Coleman. 3-Minnis,
male, married Penny Dillard; issue, -Reuben P.
(m) Lora Richards; -Dee Lamar (m) Miss Grey
Cope; -Dock (m) Alice Story; -Henry Leo (m)
Minnie Bridges; -Mattie Lucy, died age two;
-Octavia (m) Joe Donaldson; -Myrtie (m) J. B.
Daffin; -Bannie (m) Mr. Lee Pelt. 4-Harvey married Fannie Jackson; issue, -Harvey Lamar (m)
Ruth White; -Herman Lee (m) Margaret Battles.
5-Wiley L. married Hattie Smith; issue, -Minter
S. (m. lst) Gladys Wynn & (m. 2nd) Ruby
Langford; -Rena (m) William H. Cooper;
-Elizabeth (m) J. Griel Russell; -Aileen (m)
Ernest W. Fisher. 6-Mack Will married first
Temperance Pouncey; issue, -Elma (m) Lawrence
Royland; Mack Will married second Gypsy
Childs; issue, -Mildred (m) Ted Steele;
Grace (m) Harvey Waters; -Voncille (m) Kenneth
Potter; -Flora Nell (m) Bill Leahey;
-Mavin
(m) Joe Miley. 7-Charles L. married Annie
Corbitt; issue, -Charles Roy (m) Irene Grissette; William Hubert, died single; -Emma (m) I. C.
Lindsey; -Christine (m) Frank Sutton;
-Floy
(m) Joe Johnson; -Gladys (m) Irving Bradley; Lillie (m) Leonard Speake. 8-Peeler M. married
Sarah Draughon; issue, Ramsey L. (m) Jimmie
Munn (these are parents of former state senator);
-Harry (m) Angeline Johnson;
-Mary Lou
(m) Grover C. Bowden; -Jessie Mae, still single;
-Lottie (m) Clarence Brock;
-Catherine
(m) Horace Loomis. 9-Mattie married Addendum
671's Julius Edward Cox; their issue are shown
there. 10-Cozy died as a child. 11-Daisy married
Addendum 706
-Simeon W. Brackin and Almeida Jane
Windham Brackin had sixteen children:
1-Leonidas B. married Mable East but they had
no issue. 2- R. L. married Mittie Baker; no issue.
3-Simeon Lewis died single. 4-Robert W. married Alene Davis; issue, -Robert Marion (m)
Mary Kendrick; -Woodrow died age two;
-Louise (m) Mackler McWhirter; -Meade (m)
Bernard Faulk. 5-Patrick B. married Lurine
Cleghorn but they had no issue. 6-Hortense married Alto Stokes; issue, -Charles Leon (m. lst)
Wanda Morgan & (m. 2nd) Lois Broadway; -Pat
H. (m) Thyra Hughes; -Doris (m) A. J. Peterson;
-Mabel (m) F. W. Lamb; -Annie Will (m) W. T.
Douglas. -Margie (m. lst) Hollis Dendy & (m.
2nd) Joseph S. Ray; -Jane Elizabeth (m) Joe S.
Neal. 7-Mary Jane married W. R. Larkin; issue,
-Guy (m) Annie Cowin; -Joe T. (m) Alice Till;
-Ralph (m) Belle McKinney; -Oscar (m)
Mildred Watts; -Fred (m) Hilda Lewis; -Rochell
(m) Charles B. Garrett; -Annie Laurie (m. lst)
Wallace Lindsey & (m. 2nd) Jack Lindsey;
-Mary, still single; -Bernice, still single; -Bessie,
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6-Thomas Harvey married Ollie Jordan; issue,
-Paul (m) Juanita Lewis; -Silas (m) Nellie
Thornton; -Talley Hubert, still single; -Annie
(m) Leamon Bertram; -Verna (m) Asa Samson;
-Jean (m) Harold Sharp; -Lesie Lavannah, died
age one. 7-Ella married Andrew Clark, issue
-Jodie; -Early (m) Eva Wadsworth; -Marion,
died single; -Lizzie (m. lst) N. H. Monneyham &
(m. 2nd) George Wilkes; -Lula (m) C. C. Hayes.
8-Sula married James W. McKnight; issue,
-Lester (m) Miss Klyde Kirkland; -James M.,
died as infant; -Ruth (m) G. C. Norman; - Gladys
(m) Lewie E. Moates; -infant daughter, unnamed. 9-Della married Alvie Simmons issue,
-Dan (m.1st) Beatrice ? & (m. 2nd) Dorothy
Peake & (m. 3rd) Georgia ? ; -Ray (m) Vivan
Pickens; -Brantley (m) Margie Johnson;
-Dorothy (m. lst) Curtis Cummins & (m. 2nd) B.
C. Aiken; -Katherine (m) Harvey L. Anderson;
-Norman (m) Lauris Joyner; -two infant boys,
un-named.
Porter Chancey; issue, Bernice (m) Ed Holmes.
Addendum 708
-Warren W. Brackin and Sarah Frances
Conner Brackin had ten children: 1-Marvin married Minnie Logan but had no issue. 2-Arthur
W., Sr. marrled Ida V. Blackman; issue, -Arthur
Jr. (m) Beatrice Kimbrell; -Marvin Murry, stil1
single; -Thomas Joseph (m) Flossie Burnett;
-Grace (m) Harry Edward Holder; -Virginia (m)
William Veron Cawlishaw; -Juanita (m) Otis
Ray Patterson. 3-T. Beachamp married Ida Mae
Norton; issue, -T. B., Jr., (m) Dorothy Cumbie,
-Walter Glenn (m) Laney Stokes. 4-Lizzie married M. N. Killebrew issue, -A. J. (m) Ludie
Pruitt; -R. L. (m) Laura Wilharm; -John (m)
Edna Lovett; -Eltrym (m) Ralph Chalker. 5-Exie
married Matthew H. Strother; issue -James W.
(m) Edna Vickery; -Thomas (m) Ethel Pipe.
6-Lucille married Joe Rogers; issue, -Jimmy (m)
Betty Scarlett; -Sarah Frances, died as child.
7-Fannie married Idus McMichael; issue, -Marie
(m) Matha Gay. 8-Nettie married first Joe Webb;
issue, -Willie; -Fleta (m) Bob Williamson; -Ola
(m) L. K. Newlen; Nettie married second Vernon
Strother but they had no issue. 9-Idah, female,
died age five. 10-Easlie C. died as an infant.
Addendum 710
-Velie Brackin Green and Ira Green had five
children, all boys: 1-W. H. married Emma
Arnold; issue, -Carson Edmond (m. lst) Doris
Varnad & (m. 2nd) Claudia ? & (m. 3rd) Mildred
Byrd; -Luther (m) Janie Pittman; -Jack B. (m)
Jean Johnston; -Rosa Lee (m) Wilbur Warren;
-Edna (m) Addendum 692's Kenneth Holman.
2-Oscar married Emma Grimmer; issue, -Ouida
(m) Clinton Bucco; -Merle, died single. 3-Lester
married first Jody Nichols but they had no issue;
Lester married second Lily Bell Jones; issue,
-Kinnis (m) Lucille Johnson. 4-Alma, male,
married Emma Bell; issue, -Cecil (m) Ruby
Stewart; -Bernice (m) Rudolph Bateman;
-Verna, still single. 5-Shelly married Myrtle
Kelly; issue, -Oscar Buford (m) Elta Scott;
-William Frazier (m. lst) Elizabeth Oliver & (m.
2nd) Frances Compher; -Mildred (m) James L.
Godwin; -Louise (m) R. F. Layfield.
Addendum 709
-Lucy Lavannah Brackin Pritchett and
Thomas W. Pritchett had nine children: 1-Talley
G. married Ellie Jones; issue, -Cora (m) Ben L.
McClendon; -Effie (m) Early Cheek. 2-Sam M.
married Hester McKnight; issue, -Walter Lee
(m) Velma Davis; -Randall (m) Kizzie Casey;
-Thomas, died as child; -Avis (m) David
Adkinson; -Ethel (m) J. O. Barnes; -Lily (m)
Henry Parris; -Pauline, died age four. 3-Ernest F.
married Donie Jones; issue -Howard (m. lst)
Eldrie Austin & (m. 2nd) Winifred Blair;
-Horace (m) Cathryn Reinhold; -Clifton (m. lst)
Minnie Mann & (m. 2nd) Louise ? ; -Wallace
(m) Myrtle Andrews; -Bessie (m. lst) A. H.
McNeal & (m. 2nd) M. C. Lanier; -Ruby (m. lst)
Moody Williford & (m. 2nd) Dr. H. F. Brewster.
4-Louis died single. 5-Simeon Warren married
Elizabeth Carmichael; issue, -Thomas Wilbur,
died as infant; -Velma (m. lst) Anthony McCrary
(m. 2nd) Robert W. Hausding; -Kerrill, female,
(m) Eskel Arrington Hunt; -Frances (m) W. J.
Bracewell; -Florence (m) Jack Mason; -Irene
(m) Richard Dudley Kirkland; -infant, unnamed.
Addendum 711
-Hayden L. Brackin and Mary Elizabeth
Brown Brackin had three children, all daughters:
1-Verian died at age of two. 2-Pearl married Farl
Edmondson; issue, -Ralph (m. lst) Vaudie Durell
& (m. 2nd) Annie Jones & (m. 3rd) Clifford
Bryan; -Jim (m. lst) Ethel Hytelane (m. 2nd)
Pearl Howell & (m. 3rd) Virgie Brown; -Ella C.
(m. lst) Willard Bryan & (m. 2nd) Bob Steele &
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(m. 3rd) Paul Jenkins; -Bernice (m) Marvin
Stone; -Ruby (m) Ray Weeks; -Mildred (m)
Julian Whigham; -Mary Ruth (m) Corbitt Rudd.
3-Erin married Ezelle Horn, issue, -Howard (m)
Lucille Heath; -Frank (m) Edna Robison.
-Hayden L. II (m) Merle Walden; -Martha (m.
lst) Leonard Herring & (m. 2nd) George King;
-Kathleen (m) Morton Thornton; -Sarah (m)
Raymond Enlo.
G. married Lily Newsome; issue -Ardell (m)
Lucille Presley; -Clarence (m) Annie Barnes;
-Christine (m) Glenn Hobbs; -Grace (m) S. E.
Bradley; -Rebecca (m) Thurman Hall; -Teresa
(m) Pudge Gorley; -Estelle, died as infant.
2-Wiley M. married Dovie Gunter; issue, -Fraser
C. (m) Freda Hayes; -Agnes (m) Clifford Byrd;
-Neva (m) Walter Wilson; -Marie (m) Debro
Sullivan; -Rosalee (m) Herman Cox. 3-Dester
married John B. Dismuke; issue, -Houston L.
(m) Marie Nichols; -Jack (m) Mary Allen; -John
B. (m) Dessa Carter; -Ivae Mack (m) Ruth
Nichols; -Abbie, killed on Saipan in defense of
this country, single; -Zelma (m) Spencer Ziglar;
-Xyzrapha, female, (m) Leroy McInnis; -Fay
(m) A. L. Pusch; -Marie (m) Homer Deese.
4-Lugie, female, married Buren Stephens; issue,
Ambrus (m) Thura Turner; -A. L. (m) Gladys
Collingsworth; -Evelyn (m) Joseph Durden;
-Mallie (m) Archie Sinclair; -Gusta Mae, still
single; -Cara (m) J. L. Ward; -Edna (m) Robert
Cameron; -Earline (m) Edward Conway.
5-Nealie, female, died as a child. 6-Mary married Sorrel Newsome; issue, -Edna (m) Orvill
Walton.
-M. Lawrence Brackin and his second wife,
Mattie Hudson Brackin had five children:
7-Emon married Alice Russell; issue, -Jack (m)
Penny ? ; -Roy (m) Eloise McCullers. 8-Otis
married Ethel Underwood: issue, -Cecil C. (m)
Lou Bryant; -Raymond M. (m) Jewell Lee; -Otis
Malcom (m) Wayveen Mims; -Billy Ray (m)
Velma Ballard; -Guy Earl, still single, -Lillian
(m) Wilmer Bridges. 9-Beatrice married Ed
Russell, issue, -M. Lawrence (m) Betty Kuefler;
-Howard (m) Colleen Campbell; -Eloise (m)
Rex McDougal; -Dorothy Jean, -Carolyn Joyce
& -Patricia, all single. 10-Jewell married Bil1
Kelly; issue, -William (m) Loretta Hughes;
-James (m) Myrna Hassen; -Earl, still single;
-Donnie Ray, still single. 11-Audra married
Woodrow Shehee; issue, -Martha Mae & -Jerry
Mac, both single.
Addendum 712
-Piety Elonia Brackin Metcalf and Dallas
Metcalf had eight children: 1-Bascomb W. married Essie Long; issue, -Dallas M. (m lst) Jean
Harrison & (m. 2nd) Marie McMillen. Lynwood (m) Merle Kornblume; -Essie Mae (m)
Sidney Hill; -Sarah Elizabeth, died age thirteen.
2-Willlie Hick married Thelma Hawkins but
they had no issue. 3-Alfred Dallas married first
Ruth Nauss; issue -Memory Ruth (m) Richard
Lewis II; Alfred Dallas married second Mrs.
Sallie Cox; no issue. 4-infant boy, un-named.
5-Eissie Mae married Dr. T. P. Williamson; they
had no issue. 6-Erie married John H. Mullins;
issue, -John Haywood, Jr., died as infant: -Mae
Frances, still single; -Minnie Lee (m) Harry L.
Williams. 7-Bertha married William J. Roach;
issue, -Daniel Gordan (m lst) Eugenia Woods &
(m. 2nd) Helen Townsend; -David Earl (m)
Corene Richardson; -William Lamar (m)
Margaret Sawyer; -Gladys (m) John W.
Thompson. 8-Jessie Jane died at age of four.
Addendum 713
-Rebecca Brackin Keahey and Reverend
Neil B. Keahey had seven children: 1-Angus,
who married about twice and probably had issue.
2-James B., later of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
who had at least the following issue, -James,
-Edward, -George, and -Mildred. 3-George P. is
still single. 4-Stella married Dr. T. M. Martin;
issue, -Tom M., Jr., (m) Miriam Martin; -Robert
(m) Bettye McDonald; -Helen (m) Dr. G. L.
Duffee; -Evelyn (m) Jack Snow. 5-Naomi married G. C. Tate; issue, -George K. (m) Lois
Hooper; -Edward; -Jack; -Frank; and -Coleman,
the latter still single. 6-Ethel (Denham).
7-Mildred married E. M. Harkins.
Addendum 715
-Thady H. Brackin and Alice Jones Brackin
had eleven children: 1-John Herman died at age
of sixteen. 2-James Lehman married Emma
Mosely; issue, -James Keller (m) Winifred
Simmons. 3-infant son, un-named. 4-Comer J.
married Mildred Vaughn; no issue. 5-Vida married John W. Curry; issue, -Geraldine (m)
Addendum 714
-M. Lawrence Brackin and his first wife,
Lena Jacobs Brackin, had six children: 1-Charlie
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William Wilkinson. 6-Ora married Durr Wood
Thompson; issue, -Roy H., died age two.
-Roward W. (m) Melvina Keeger; -Albert P. (m)
Geneva Coats; -Don Wood (m) Irene Curry;
-Grace (m) J. D. Hammock; -Mary (m) Grover
Grubbs; -Cora (m) Wallace Leet; -Paul Jones
(m) Madeline Bullington; -Ralph F. (m) Jean ? ;
-Julia (m) G. V. Galloway; -infant, un-named.
7-I1a married John A. Rutan issue, -Albert W.
(m) Jessie Mann; -Myrtie (m) George Melvin;
-Mae (m) Roy Jones; -Bonnie (m) Bill Hall.
8-Lola May died at age of one. 9-Dorothy married Perryman Tew; issue, -Anthony (m) Evelyn
Brooks, -Willie Mac (m) Frances Mann; -two
infants, un-named. 10-Alice Clyde married
Willie A. Whigham issue, -Boyd (m) Mary
Williams; -Nettie (m) Ben Helms; -Dorothy (m)
Basil Drake; -Mary Ellis, still single; -Clara,
died age two. 11-Thady Gladice, female, died at
age of two.
Long but had no issue. 2-David Gray married
Ruth Miller; issue -David Gray, Jr., (m) Betty
Atkinson; -Hugh Miller (m) Catherine
Dickenson; -John Samuel (m) Helen Barfield.
3-Mattie Lou died as an infant. 4-Lula Dowling
is still single.
Addendum 719
-FRANCES JOSEPHINE VICTORIA
Burton and Robert Jesse Burton had seven children: 1-John Robert married Ella Fuller; issue,
-James Franklin (m) Stella ? ; -Everett (m) Marie
McDuffie; -Paul (m) Doris Higgins; -Albert,
-Fred, -Earl Gordon, and -Jesse died as children;
-Leona (m) William Henry Jones. 2-James M.
married Stella Woods but had no issue. 3-Claude
E. married Mary Sumerlin; issue, -Robert Elisha
(m) Ann Jordan; -Charles Edward (m) Emma
Woodin; -Claude E. Jr.. died as infant: -Marian
(m) Jannines F. Dunn. 4-Minta married George
Lloyd, Sr., from Wales; issue, -George R. Jr., (m)
Beatrice Mitchell; -Mary J. (m) Benjamin F.
Hester. 5-Carrie L. married W. J. Rutland, a
grandson of NANCY Dowling Wicker issue
-Dick O. (m) Thelma Smith; -Carl (m) The1ma
Bagley; -Brown, still single. 6-Maude died as a
child. 7-Myrtle married first Chester Russell;
issue, -Charles (m) Lois Hutchinson; Myrtle
married second Fred Chambliss, but they had no
issue.
Addendum 716
-ANDREW TURNER Dowling and Mary
Frances Coskrey Dowling had seven children:
1-JAMES COSKREY married Zulale Johnson;
issue, -FRANCES (m) Frank W. Cayce; -ANN,
died age nine. 2-SAMUEL SOLOMON married
Dell Stroman; issue, -NETTIE (m) Wilson Lee.
3-SIMON HAYGOOD married Perla Bush; no
issue. 4-HUGH GRADY married Effie E. Bush;
issue, -HUGH COSKREY (m) Helen Kellum;
-MARY (m) Bob Pollock. 5-MAMIE married
M. D. Rainer; issue, -Ross, still single. 6-NETTIE CLYDE is still single. 7-ANNIE LOU died
single.
Addendum 720
-ANTOINETTE Burton and John Thomas
Burton had five children: 1-Willis Elonzo married ? and had seven offspring. 2-Nellie married
Lewis Gibbs; issue, -Grady & -Erskine. 3-Rosa
married William Hancock and had four offspring. 4-Mable married C. F. Stephens and had
three offspring. 5-Fannie married Joe McKinney
and had two offspring.
Addendum 717
-GEORGE PIERCE Dowling and Alice
Martin Dowling had six children: 1-LOYAL
married Lucille Stringer; issue, -LOYAL,
female, (m) Ed Taylor. 2-JUNE RAWLS married
Louise Lumpkin; issue, -GEORGE FRANK (m)
Margaret Cohen. 3-GEORGE DENT married
Marie ? ; no issue. 4-LILY BELLE married Lee
Sutley; issue, -infant boy, un-named. 5-MINNA
McNEIL married Louis Crossfield; issue, -Alice
(m) Elliott Kane. 6-WILLIE ELLEN died single.
Addendum 721
-Melinda Stokes Mixon and Barzilla H.
Mixon had ten children: 1-John Wesley was
killed, single. 2-Columbus America married
Lillie Seay; issue, -Earlie Virgil still single;
-Vannie Mae (m) Thomas Edgar Nicholson;
-Mary Della (m) Reginal Smith; -Susie Clara
(m) Olis Littleton; -Lillie Vivian (m) Leonard
Fleming. 3-William Bascom married Nancy
Florence Bowdoin; issue, -Barzilla Bascom,
died age one; -Guy George (m) Mary Helen
Addendum 718
-SUSAN LYLIS Rawls and Junius Rawls
had four children: 1-Hugh Dolphin married Ruth
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Addendum 723
-WILEY W. Dowling and his first wife,
Caroline Josey Dowling, had eleven children:
1-J, WELSMAN married ? ; issue, -HERSCHEL
(who has no offspring) -INEZ, -EULA J.,
-MARY, and -CARRIE FAE. 2-EDGAR R. died
single. 3-RUFUS MAYS probably married but
he had no issue before dying. 4-GEORGE H. has
no issue. 5-BEULAH MAE died young and single. 6-LENA BELL married John Townsend;
issue, -Maud. 7-ANNA ANIDA married J. A.
Hillenkamp; issue, -Gordon. 8-CORA E. married Dr. E. B. Lowrey; issue, -Aubrey, male, &
-Irma. 9-SARILDON “RILLIE” married Bela
Williamson; issue, -Ernest & -Beulah May.
10-LILLIE T. died young. 11-CALLIE married
W. W. Eaves; issue, -Vernon, -Curtis, & -Willie
Mae.
-WILEY W. Dowling and his second wife,
whose name the author did not learn, had one
child: 12-GERTRUDE (Adams), who has six
offspring.
Barefoot; -Carey Caston (m) Bertie Lou Odom;
-James Phillip (m) Leslie Mae Hale;
-Williamach “Roy” (m) Erlene Pope; -infant
son, un-named; -Tom Edison Watson (m) Bama
Lee Kelley; -Malinda Myrtle (m. lst) Vardie
Carroll & (m. 2nd) William Subers Roberts &
(m. 3rd) James W. Wilkes; -Lula Florence (m)
Robert Nolin; -Commie (m) James Otis
Henderson. 4-Roscoe Winston married Margaret
Donnie Harper; issue, -Henry Thomas Harris
(m) Una V. Spurlin; -Alton Gaston Bartenius (m)
Marguerite Woods; -Jasper Winston Taze
(m)Nanie Bell Ramer; -Bradford Walter
Braswell (m) Geraldine Sutherland Knox;
-Rosie Frances Malinda (m) Joseph B.
Strickland; -Leila Flossie Leona (m) William
Thomas Barefoot; -Prillie Mariah Ellafair (m)
Newton C. Pearson; -Callie Ruby Delonie (m)
Newton Calvin Pearson. 5-Benjamin Franklin
married Clara H. Starr but had no issue.
6-Victoria Caroline married Henry Marsh Tullis;
issue, -Isaiah (m) Jane McConely; -Marvin
Franklin, died as child; -Erastus, still single;
-Ella Nora (m) George W. Taylor; -Minnie Lee
(m) Norman Osker Hood; -Jennie (m) William
Marshall Jones; -Ola, died as child; -Naomi (m)
William Cook. 7-Adellar married first James
Floyd and married second M. Gorden Bowdoin;
issue, -infant daughter, un-named. 8-Arrabela
married Bryant W. Smith; issue, -Marvin Grady
(m) Mary Cordelia Hargrove; -Theodore Glen
(m) Beuna Mae Stinson; -Emmit Bryant (m)
Lillian West, -infant daughter, un-named -Mable
(m) William Marion Stewart; -Vertie (m) John
Wiley McClendon. 9-Alice married Needham
James Edmon Bowdoin; issue, -Ulys Payton,
died as infant; -Perlie Edna (m) Franklin Porter
Marsh; -Jessie May (m) Rollin Pyfrom; -Luna
(m. lst) Harry R. Brown & (m. 2nd) Cliff Morton
Leach; -Ruby Lee, still single; -Eleanor Ruth.
10-Daisy married Mancil Casey; issue,
-Randolph Jackson (m) Avie Hildred Yawn;
-Gertrude (m) Richard P. Wilkes.
Addendum 724
-John T. Suggs and Eliza Best Suggs had
eight children: 1-W. A. ''Berry” married first
Bessie Rogers; issue, -Dell (m) Cleo Smith;
-John (m) Mary E11ison; -Louise (m) Erwin
Smith. 2-John Gettys married Annie Lee; issue,
-Jack (m) Lois Frazier; -Charles (m) Doris
Hough; -Annie (m) Robert Fields; -Agnes (m)
David Doll; -Frances (m) Mr. Hallie DeWitt.
3-Mamie married Jack O. Stewart issue, -James
(m) Sybil Hatcher; -Joseph (m) Emma Cooper;
-Frank, still single; -Mary (m) Woodrow
Hughes; -Ruth (m) W. H. Jordan; 4-Bessie married W. L. Josey; no issue. 5-Fannie Mae, still
single. 6-Lois married O. M. Smith; issue, -O.
M., Jr., (m) Bernice Holloway. 7-Phila married
Richardson Chandler; issue, -Miriam (m)
Thomas A. Cockfield. 8-Margaret married Julian
Murr but had no issue.
Addendum 725
-Rufus Allen Suggs and Ann Clyborne Suggs
had three children: 1-Laurie Edward, a doctor,
married Nina Bozeman; issue, -Laurie Edward,
Jr., died as infant. 2-Raymond Nelson married
Bessie Blizzard; issue, -Raymond Nelson, Jr.,
still single. 3-Eulalie married James Ernest
Quick but had no issue.
Addendum 722
-Lucinda Stokes Donnell and A. Jack
Donnell had at least two children: 1-Henry T.
married Julia Henderson; issue, -Mark T.;
-Marie, still single; -Katherine; -Annie.
2-Wilburn married Callie Spheres; issue, -Novie,
& -Eleanor (m) G. H. Broxton.
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Addendum 726
-FRANCIS ASBURY Dowling, Jr., and
Lydia Sue Kelley Dowling had thirteen children:
1 & 2-GEORGE W. and JOHN WESLEY died
as infants. 3-NANNIE married Wiley Vaughn;
issue, -Cecil (m) Nora Weatherford; -Ellen still
single; -Myrtle (m) Robert Tyson; -Phila (m)
Ernest Beverly; -Ila Mae (m) Raleigh Kelley;
-Ruby (m) Will Casper; -Beth (m, Jack Skinner;
-Ethel (m) Joe Storey. 4-FLORENCE married
Bosie Truett; issue, -James D. (m) Katie
Johnson; -Frank (m) Addendum 728's Cora
Andrews; -Trellis, male, still single; -Fay (m)
Robert Richardson. 5-AZALIE married Alfred
Summerfield; issue, -Marilyn (m. 2nd)
Edgeworth Goodspeed & (m. lst) Edward
Morrow; -Clarisse (m) Lyndal Odom. 6-SUDIE
married John Yarbrough; issue, -Sudette (m) R.
G. Goodson. 7-LATTIE MAE married Alton
Yarbrough; issue, -Doris (m) Jack Howell.
8-LYDIA married Carl Eugene Rogers; issue,
-James Carlisle (m) Hattie Brown; -Troy (m)
Miss Fleetwood Shelly. The next five daughters
died as infants: 9-VANNIE. 10-ESTELLA,
11-MATTIE L., 12-ROSIE G., 13-MARY
AGNES.
-Annie (m) Addendum 728's Francis Andrews ;
-Edelle (m) Raymond Paquette; -Agnes (m)
Emory Smith; -Helen (m) Ben Brock.
2-Muldrow married Vera Thomas; issue,
-Dennis (m) Vivian Morrell; -Odell, still single.
3-Annie married Ben Melton as his first wife;
issue, -Braskas (m) Elizabeth Sturgeon; -Alma
(m) Cleve Davis. 4-Eulah Mae married Frank
Grooms; issue, -William, still single; -Juretha,
female, still single; -Frankie Ann, and -Patricia,
still single. 5-Marie became the second wife of
her brother-in-law Ben Melton; issue, -B. F.;
-Ruby (m) Robert Pope; -Hazel (m) Mr. Vivian
Perdue; -Elma (m) Rutledge Odom. 6-Una Bell
married first Wallace Hall and married second
Woster Knotts but had issue by neither.
Addendum 730
-Walter K. Stokes and Elizabeth Kennedy
Stokes had four children: 1-Robert Kennedy
married Hattie Mae Holley; issue, -Elizabeth (m)
Crews Johnston; -Margaret (m) Arthur Feagin;
-Frances (m) Dr. Carroll B. Jones; -Nona (m)
Bevel T. Amos. 2-Clarence Wilson married
Mary Jones; issue, -Blanche (m) Jimmy
Thornton; -Jack (m) Corinna ? ; -Carolyn
(Evans); -Mary Clair (m) Julius Sanders.
3-Lottie Lee died at age of ten. 4-Mamie married
William O. Searcy; issue, -Lottie Lee (Creel);
-Martha (m) Clarence Callahan; and -Jean.
Addendum 727
-MARY SUSANNAH Raines and Capers
Raines had two children: 1-Roy Wesley married
first Anna Dalrymple but had no issue; Roy
Wesley married second Louise Dean; issue,
-Jack Edward. 2-Asbury Stanish married Anna
Dalrymple but had no issue.
Addendum 731
-Mattie Eugenia Stokes Clendinen and
Benjamin White Clendinen had five children:
1-Beniamin White. Jr., married Myrtis Smith;
issue, Charles W. and -Anita Carol, both single.
2-Paul Linton married Blanche Couch but they
died a short while afterwards without issue.
3-Jamie, male, died at age of two. 4-Marie married W. T. Jones; issue, -Marjorie (m) Chart
565's EARLY RALPH Dowling; -Marie Louise
(m) Ted Rogers; -Evelyn (m) G. T. Newberry;
-Nell (m) Dr. James Poyner. 5-Louise is still single.
Addendum 728
-MARTHA CAROLINE Thomas and J.
Ferdinand Thomas had three children: 1-Albert
was drowned. 2-Rosa married Roy Mims; issue,
-Walter, -Troy, -Howard, -Roy, and -Mary.
3-Ollie, female, married Clyde Andrews issue,
-Francis (m) Addendum 729's Annie Lloyd;
-Marvin (m) Elsie Grey; -Vera (m) Webber
Parnell; -Cora (m) Addendum 726's Frank
Truett; -Grace (m) Frank Alexander.
Addendum 732
-Robert Edward Stokes and his first wife
Vickey Lee Stokes had one child: 1-Irene leaves
no descendants.
-Robert Edward Stokes and his second wife
Ola Malissa Bethune Stokes had five children:
2-Robert Edward, Jr. died as an infant. 3-Horace
Addendum 729
-AGNES LOUIZA Lloyd and Jim Lloyd had
six children: 1-J. Asbury married Marie Adams;
issue, -Henry, killed in World War II and had no
offspring; -Joseph (m) Joyce Taylor; -Harold (m)
Betty Watford; -Carlisle (m) Dorothy Rich;
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Bethune died single at age of eighteen. 4-Hugh
married first Bunnell Hornsby but they had no
issue; he also married again. 5-James Wiley died
as an infant. 6-Juanita married Boyd McGhee.
issue. 6-Louie Haynes died at age of two. 7-Ida
died at age of eighteen. 8-Ola married Jim
Spears; issue, -K. T., still single; -Ruth (m) Ellis
V. Long; Clyde (m) John Hinderlitter. 9-Liza
married John Richard Brown, long a road commissioner of Dale County; issue, -Lawrence (m)
Alma Riley; -John R., Jr. (m) Opal Clark; -Paul
(m) Sarah Pearson; -Emma (m) Henry Parker,
-Helen (m) James Thaggard. 10-Lanie married
Luther Skipper; issue, -Comer, (m) Clara Bell
Strickland; -Cullen (m) Mary Emma Whaley;
-Curtis, and possibly others.
Addendum 733
-James Harmon Stokes and Zion Patterson
Stokes had nine chlldren: 1-Lee married Emma
Ziglar; issue, -Roy (m) Mamie Hardin; -Roscoe
(m. lst) Virginia Corbel & (m. 2nd) Grace ?;
-Lillie (m) Ellis Heath; -Lennie, female, (m)
Looney Clark; -Lois (m) L. B. Flowers; -Foy (m)
J. B. Willis; -Jewel (m) Ralph Crumpler; -Eva
(m. lst) John D. Clark & (m. 2nd) Berman
Jackson. 2-Jim married first Henrietta Gillis;
issue, -Ruth (m) J. W. Hayward; Jim married
second Mattie Sketo but they had no issue.
3-Herny married first Bess Senn and married
seconed Oma ?; his only offspring were named
-Sarah Nell & -Edna Pearl. 4-Charley married
Grace ? ; his only offspring were a son and a
daughter named -Wilma. 5-Harry married
Bannie Matthews; issue, -Max, -French,
-Jerome, -May Ella, -Ruby. 6-Emma married
Richard Baker; issue, -Grace (m) Ray Mann;
-Thelma (m) Hayward Futton; -Carolyn (m)
Harold Atkins. 7-Mollie married Bill Wilson;
issue, -Tom, -Elmer, -Flora (m) Rand Stephens.
8-Annie married Walter Ziglar; issue, -Porter
(m) Lillian Carr; -Claude (m) Ocie Jackson;
-Dick (m) Margaret Logan; -Eunice (m) Louie
Ezell; -Polly (m) Percy Simmons; -Dorothy died
as child. 9-Jessie married Walter McKenney;
issue, -Ray, -Ralph, -Ruby, -Christine, -Jewel,
-Pearl.
Addendum 735
-William Bartow Stokes and Jane Beasley
Stokes had nine children: 1-Charles O. married
Chart 566's Willie Belle Sessions but they had
no issue. 2-W. Cleve married Dorothy ? ; issue,
- Marie (m) John Jemison; -Sarah; W. Cleve
married second Alice Hill but they had no issue.
3-H. Edward married Bessie ? , and had one son
named for himself. 4-D. Glenn married Nona ? ,
issue -Dan, and a daughter named -Glenn Ellen.
5-Leila married Addendum 671's R. B. Martin;
issue, -Leon B. (m) Frances Smith, -Mary Ellen
(m) Curtis Adams. 6-Bannie married Dr. D. M.
Adams; issue, -Daniel Marvin and -John Powell,
both physicians in Panama City, Florida.
7-Emma Lorene married Shelley Douglas
Parker; issue, -Wilmer Glenn (m) Dorothy
Brooks; -William Douglas' called ''Ike'' (m) Ruth
Williams; -Shelley Charles (m) Frances Carr.
8-Ruth married first A. M. Norris; issue,
-Michael, -Eleanor, and -Elizabeth; Ruth married second Leon Kimmel but they had no issue.
9-Dewey Lee, female, married F. E. Glover;
issue, -Fred, and -William; Dewey Lee married
second T. R. Cain; no issue.
Addendum 734
-Mary Emma Rebecca Stokes Beasley and
James Tom Beasley had ten children: 1-Charles
Brence married Dolly Ziglar; issue, -Charles, Jr.,
-Darrow, and -Jerry, all boys. 2-Henry Grady
married Mamie Riley; issue, -Billy (m) Margie
Long; -Dorothy (m) Raymond Walden; -Helen
(m) Randolph Wilkinson; -Rebecca (m) Harry
Benton. 3-Alpheus Walter married Lula Hatcher;
issue -Malvin C., A.W., Jr., called "Lovey",
-Cullen, -Bessie, and -Mary Lee. 4-Lena married
John Young; issue, -Frank (m) Daisy Herring;
-Glenn (m) Ann Metcalf; -John Branch (m)
Billie Herring; -Charlie Thomas (m) Dorothy
Morgan; -Mary Anna (m) Shelly Simmons.
5-Danie1 Thomas married Dixie ? ; they had no
Addendum 736
-Martha J. King Snellgrove and William M.
Snellgrove had eight children: 1-Walker W. married Mollie Carmichael; issue -William Young
(m) Susie Foster; -Gilbert C. (m) Gladys Munn;
-Lewie M. (m. lst) Anita Ellis & (m. 2nd)
Margaret Rice; -infant daughter, un-named;
-Mamie is still single; -Bonnie, still single;
-Helen (m. lst) Bill Hooks & (m. 2nd) Hubert
Woods. 2-Phillip W. married Buney Folsom;
issue, -Ray S. (m) Idooma Rainey; -Dort (m. lst)
Delores Snellgrove and then he married secondly to Mary Buie; -Lucy (m) Dick Rainey;
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-Mildred (m) C. C. Clark; -Marie (m) Dr. Albert
Fussel. 3-Jesse Oscar married first Esther
Hatton; issue, -Lois (m) Ralph Waters; -Paul,
Presbyterian minister, (m) Mary Ford; -Lamar
(m) Ramona Thompson; -Martha (m) R. A.
Clark; -Sue (m) Marion Oliver; -Nell (m)
Eugene Daughtry; -two others. 4-Louis W. married Mattie Mary Jones; issue, -John P. (m)
Margie Howell; -William Jones, Baptist minister, (m) Eva Lou Sims; -Louis L., "Don", (m)
Margaret Nich; -Elizabeth (m) Raymond E.
Henderson. 5-daughter, who died as a child in
1885. 6-Ada Lee married first Walter Dubose;
issue, Margaret (m) Sam Tindol; Ada Lee married second Harris Waters but they had no issue.
7-Minnie Eva married L. F. Head; issue, -Jean
(m) Bill McGraw. 8-Mattie Dewie married S. C.
Pettus; issue, -Lex (m) Martha ? ; -Mattibell (m)
R. L. Hammersla.
Watson married Flossie Hayes; -C. W., Jr.,
"Buddy", still single; -Phillip (m) Lannell
Brown; -Charlie Helen (m) Dick Myers; -Betty
Hayes, still single. 4-Harry Martin married
Florence Godwin; issue, -Bernice (m) Fred W.
Helton. 5-Lewe Frank married Alma Jernigan
issue, -Jansen (m) Lorene Hughes; -James (m)
Jewel Deese; -Joe Frank (m) Agnes Pitts; -Bill
(m) Jo Anne Bedsole; -Gladys still single;
-Virginia, a physician, still single. 6-Virgil
Kenneth married Virgie Edwards issue, -Ginny
Lynn, still single; -Kay, still single. 7-Lillian
Virginia is still single. 8-Ruth married A.
Barnard Russell; issue, -A. B., Jr., a physician,
married Jo Anne ? ; 9-Eunice married Joe
McCoy; issue, -Amanda, still single.
Addendum 739
-Daniel McLean, Jr., and Margaret McDaniel
McLean had seven children: l-John Wilson married Ada Carter; two of their issue, -Ernest and
-Jesse were killed with "Will" in the 1917 tornado at New Castle, Indiana; another, -J. W., lived
through the storm and was adopted by a Bacon
family. 2-Edward Newton married first Ada
Pettit; issue, -Maggie Sue (m) Roscoe Cave.
-Louise (m) Ben J. Gant; -Johnnie Mae (m)
Claud Skelton; -Gertrude (m) Glover Townsend;
-Corinne (m) Mr. Schafee; Edward Newton married second Annis Stevens; issue, -Hewton
Malone; -Ralph L., still single; -Robert (m)
Audrey Peebles; -Carl Edward (m) Virgie
Gardner; -Willow D. (m) David Aldridge.
-Norma Lee (m) Thomas Cothren; -Ollie Rose
(m) John Grant. 3-Mary married Will Pettit;
issue, -John Daniel (m) Addendum 747's
Katherine Neaves; -William Edward (m) Willie
May Hailey; -Harry Clayton (m) Inez Caples;
-Robert Wilson (m) Edith Thomas; -Harvey
Love, twin, (m) Veronica McGinn; -Horace
Love, twin, (m) Marian Jones; -Bennie Lee, died
single; -Ruby Katherine (m) Earl Zehner.
4-Emma married H. F. Fielder issue -Rufus (m)
Leila Green Lee; -Henry Floyd (m) Addendum
747's Ruth E. Neaves; -Dewitt D. (m) Charity
Chennault; -Maggie (m) Herbert Chennault;
-Velma (m) Bernard Dodd; -Zula (m) Leo Floyd;
-Edna, twin, (m) Herbert Kelly; -Elma, twin, (m)
Jeff Scott. 5-Lula married Lewis Perlman; issue
-Ellis, -Joseph, -Milton, -Cyrel, -David, -Harold,
-Jimmie, and -Eva. 6-Annie married Nylie
Jenkins; issue, -Eula married Grover Mabry;
Addendum 737
-Nancy Louisa King Gunter and William M.
Gunter had eight children: 1-Cecil died without
issue. 2-William Oscar married Annie
Snellgrove; they had several offspring but all
died as infants. 3-Phillip Edward married Omie
Sullivant; issue, -Howard (m) Eloise Burk;
-Edwin (m) Irene Benson; -Taft (m) Goldie
Adkins; -Rex (m) Christine Rogers; -Lucille (m)
John D. Hornsby; -Mildred, still single.
4-Maude, assistant postmaster at Pinckard,
Alabama, married Alto A. Borland; issue, -A. A.,
Jr., "Bubber" (m) Jeanette Adams; -Boyce, still
single; -Sarah (m) Edward C. Race. 5-Martha
married Dr. Daniel Porter Mixson; issue,
-Homer Lamar (m) Lois Archer; -Lucille (m)
Josh Ard. 6-Mollie married Bob Davis; issue,
-Ruth (m) Chester Allen, Sr.; -Grace (m. lst) H.
B. Smith & (m.2nd) Bob Craig; -Maulene (m)
Johnny Amole. 7-Sudie died single. 8-infant.
born and died about 1878.
Addendum 738
-Joe Wilson King and Amanda Clark King had
nine children: 1-Percy Phillip, called "P. P.",
married first Pansey Jenks and married second
Marie Harris and married third Winnie Winkler.
2-James Weaver married Mittie Gissendanner;
issue -James Elton (m) Pat Williamson; -"Rex",
Phillip Reginald, still single; -Max Decolmar,
still single; -Marion Roslyn (m) J. D. Patterson;
-Millie Kathryn (m) Neil Atkinson. 3-Charles
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Addendum 744
-ANNIE FRANCES Vannoy and Isaac R.
Vannoy had one child: 1-Allen F. married Kaleta
Lyon; issue, -Thomas (m) Sue Eloise Smith;
-Marjorie (m) Vernon Mueck; -Frances (m)
Edward Artel Metcalf.
issue, -Boykin, -Morris, -Lydia, -Ruby, and
-Ethel May.
Addendum 740
-Benjamin Daniel Hooks and Abi Adeline
Rhodes Uphold Hooks had seven children:
l-Lee, male, married Jessie Norris; issue, -Daniel
Horace (m. lst) Rita Carlin & (m. 2nd) Jeanne
Bentz & (m. 3rd) Josephine Dreiss; -Ruby Lee,
still single; -Ruth (m) Lewis Herman Drews.
2-Willis killed as child. 3-Horace died at age of
fifteen of lockjaw. 4-Laura Beatrice married
Edward R. Roberts; issue -Ruby Beatrice (m)
Robert B. Goffey; -Zelma Lucille (m) Earl
Daniel. 5-Minnie married R. B. Leatherwood but
they had no issue. 6-Willie married Hugh Miller
but they had no issue. 7-Benjamin, female, died
at age of nineteen.
Addendum 745
-DAVID EDWARD and Dora Creed
Dowling had six children: 1-EARL is still single.
2-WHEELER died single in World War II.
3-LURLINE married John Buchanan but they
had no issue. 4-ANNIE RUTH married Roger
Powers, Sr.; issue, -Roger, Jr. and -Betty Joyce.
5-HELEN married William Roberts but had no
issue. 6-MILDRED married John M. Barron Sr.,
an attorney; issue, -John M., Jr. and -David
Stewart, both still single.
Addendum 746
-FENNIE WEST Vannoy and Fred Vannoy
had eleven children: 1-Reese married Ellen
Sowells. 2-Marvin married Rosie Rowells, and
like his mother and Grandfather Dowling had
eleven offspring. 3-Fred C. married Neva
Russell. 4-Morris L. married Goldie Pruett.
5-Tonn, male, married Opal Gillian. 6-Bernard
married May Caskill. 7-Giles married Inez May.
8-Mary married Ollie Curry. 9-Mattie married
Alvin Doyle. 10-Fannie married George Doyle.
11-Ruby married Fred Caskill.
Addendum 741
-Sarah Hooks Hutchinson and William
Hutchinson had sixteen children of whom eleven
were as follows: 1-Dave, 2-Wesley, 3-John,
4-Jim, 5-Walter, 6-Paul, 7-Aaron, 8-Fannie, who
married Calvin Smith, 9-Helen, who married
Calvin Skiens, 10-Carrie, and 11-Eunice.
Addendum 742
-MARTHA ANN Royall and William Bibb
Royall had four children: 1-Eddie B. married
Maude Powers; issue, -Foster, -Eddie,
-Raymond, and -Norman. 2-John H. married
Hiida Threlkeld; issue, -Gladys Lucille (m)
Wilbur Bettel. 3-Ben H., Sr. married Annie
Ayers; issue, -Ben H. Jr., (m) Lois Demis;
-Robert H. (m) Frances Milan; -Lillie Mae (m)
Floyd Turney; -Ruth (m) Marvin Childress;
-Maurel (m) J. T. Lathan; -Dorothy (m) Elmo
Wilson; -Edwina (m) Joe Chapman; -Louise (m)
J. A. Cato. 4-Virginia Mae married Lon
Brockman; issue, -Edwin (m) ? ; -Evelyn (m)
Fritz Lempke; -Mildred (m) S. P. Vintage.
Addendum 747
Warning: In this Addendum there are five of
ROBERT'S fifth-generation-descendants (at the
beginning of each paragraph). These five people
were children of SUSAN McDaniel, sketched on
Page 85 of this book.
-A. Gus McDaniel and Malinda Simson
McDaniel had nine children: l-Earl married
Christine Young. 2-Newton IInd married Parilee
Leopard. 3-Terry married Edna Neal. 4-C. T.
”Billy”, married Zetha Pickle. 5-Clyde married
Alene Jacobs. 6-Edna married John McCrory.
7-Willie Mae married Arthur Nickelson. 8-Inez
married A. H. McCrory. 9-Buna married Biil
McAtee.
-Robert Willlam McDaniel and Julia Ballard
McDaniel had nine children: 1-Clarence married
Anna Dickerson. 2-Lamar married Mary Terry.
3-Ralph married Daisy Arnold. 4-Ernest. 5-Ada
Addendum 743
-ELLA McGregor and Jack McGregor had
two children: 1-Walter married Ollie Steele;
issue, -Walter, Jr., who is still single. 2-Annie
married W. C. “Dollie” Boyett; issue, -Linwood
(m) ? ; -Jack, still single; -Annie Bess (m) W. C.
Reed.
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married Raymond Frazier. 6-Ruth married Ben
Guyman. 7-Ruby married Aubrey Frazier.
8-Marie married Claire Flowers. 9-Clara married
Jimmy Bryant.
-Lillie McDaniel Ousley and Emmett E.
Ousley had seven children: 1-Clarence Melvin
died single. 2-E. Eugene died single. 3-T. Nixon
died single. 4-Charles D. married Aline Rogers.
5-Alma Mildred married W. E. Darby. 6-Maggie
Sue married D. H. Lewis. 7-Mary Nettie married
Frank Driskell.
-Amanda McDaniel Neaves and J. Walter
Neaves had four children: 1-Angus, named for
Reverend ANGUS Dowling of Dale County,
Alabama, married Mary Mundy. 2-Bertha marrie, Addendum 748's James Luther Massey.
3-Katherine married Addendum 739's John
Daniel Pettit. 4-Ruth married Addendum 739's
Henry Floyd Fielder.
-Bessie McDaniel Brown and Charlie Brown
had no children.
2-Floyd Eugene married Ruby Rose Ingraham.
3-Eunice Mildred married Douglas C. Goodson.
4-Lillie Mae married Berton Berry. 5-Katherine
Erline married Murphy Ballard. 6-Bessie married James C. Goodson, brother of Douglas C.
above. Mr. James Luther Massey and his second
wife, Lillian McNeer, had one child; 7-Amanda
Agnes is still single.
-Levi Elva Massey and Callie Farrish
Massey had eight children: 1-Lee married Doris
Johns. 2-Bailey married Lucille Flemmons.
3-Homer married Alice Hardin. 4-Arthur married Sarah Flemmons. 5-Frank Ray died at age
of two. 6-infant boy. 7-Alice married B. F.
Gardner. 8-Alma married Leggett James.
-Ann Eliza Massey Flowers and James G.
Flowers had eight children: 1-Hertle E. married
Rayma Withers. 2-Brooks died at age of one.
3-Robert V. married first Dessie Hunt and married second Mildred Owens Lord. 4-George died
single. 5-Joseph James married first Flora Moore
and married second Mary Rhyne. 6-J. P. married
Ottie Shepherd. 7-Evye, female, died single.
8-Lillian married Irby I. Shepherd.
-Nannie Massey died single.
-Mallie Massey Mabry and Jim A. Mabry
had five children but the author only learned the
name of: 1-Percy Nelson married Letha Flint.
-Pearl Massey Merriweather and Tom
Merriweather had five children: 1-Tom. Jr., who
died at the age of fourteen. 2-Carl married first
Nannie Pearl and also a second time. 3-Mamie is
still single. 4-Frankie married first Earl Johnson
and also married again. 5-Willie Mae married
Mitch McDaniel.
Addendum 748
It should be clear to the reader that this
Addendum, too, has several of ROBERT’S fifthgeneration-descendants (at the beginning of
each paragraph). Each of these eight was a child
of AMANDA Massey, whose sketch appears on
page 85.
-John M. Massey and his wife Anna
Saunders Massey had nine children: 1-Harvey
married Amanda Bailey. 2-John Henry. 3-Harry
B. married Edith Stanley. 4-Bertha married Jesse
Campbell. 5-Minna married Coley Redd.
6-Clara married Jim Brooks. 7-Katie married
Tilman Leach. 8-Lila (Lewis or Stanmire).
9-Annie Ruth married Raymond Lawless.
-Zack Massey, IInd, and Pearl Carnes
Massey had twelve children: 1-Ansel Z. married
Betty Edwards. 2-Levi Elvie married Ida Terry.
3-Walter Carnes married Edna Perry. 4-Seth
Upton married Opal Byrd. 5-Benjiamin Franklin
died at age of one. 6-Sherman Laverne married
Virginia Carper. 7-Hallie married first Leonard
Pope and married second W. D. Johnson.
8-Nettie married Thomas Alex Penny. 9-Ruby
married B. L. Green. 10 & 11, & 12-Amanda
Alice. -Myrtle Anita, and -Alma Pearl died as
children.
-James Luther Massey and his first wife,
Bertha Neaves of Addendum 747 had six children: 1-James Luther, Jr., married Isabel Lutz.
Addendum 749
-Haywood Pinkney Grimes and Nancy
Sanders Grimes had four children: 1-Ebb married Lena Carr. 2-Lawrence. 3-Henry youngest
child of Nancy’s, married Sallie Griffin; issue,
-Ruel V., of Oklahoma City; -Jewel (m. lst) Mr.
Strange & (m. 2nd) J. V. Boss; she resides in
Lawton, Oklahoma. 4-Missouri married a man
named Albert.
-Haywood Pinkney Grimes and Elizabeth
Holman Eggleston Grimes had six children:
5-H. Pinkney, Jr. 6-Oscar. 7-Marvin. 8-James.
9 Edna married a doctor by the name of Johnson.
10-Georgiann.
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Addendum 753
-Henry Edwin Grimes and Altie Myra Ethel
Nelson Grimes had ten children: 1-Ellis Everett,
Methodist minister, married Bessie Smith; issue,
-Nelson Smith, died as infant; -Elma Helen (m)
Albert Harper; -Ruth Lenora, died age seven;
-Geraldine (m. lst) Robby Perkins & (m. 2nd)
James Reece. 2-Joel Van Buren, Baptist minister,
married Mollie Braden; issue -William Henry
(m) Betty Johnson; -Margie Oneita (m) Hubert
Bell. 3-EImer Travis married first Flossie Hurt
issue, -Robert Travis (m. lst) Margaret Hellyer &
(m. 2nd) Elizabeth Eubanks; -Wayne Becton (m)
Kathryn Legg; -Merwyn Elmore (m) Flossie
Angeline Shook; -Billie Metz, male, (m) Johnnie
Burruss; -Betty Ruth (m. 1st ) Robert Walling &
(m. 2nd) Jesse E. Rohl & (m. 3rd) James
Munson; -Mary Dell (m. lst) Ray Hare & (m.
2nd) Glen Smith; Elmer Travis married second
Mrs. Ursula Blount but they had no issue.
4-Kyle Horace married Lula Humphrey; issue,
-K. H., Jr., (m) Helen Elizabeth Richardson;
-Erwin Elwood (m) Margaret ? ; -Madge Eloise
(m) Victor Bridges. -Peggy Marie (m) Warren
Dale Black. 5-Amos Edwin married Maude
Arnold; issue, -Edwin Gray (m) Florene Weeks;
-Arnold Lee (m) Maggie Lee Jones; -Altie Belle
(m) Kenneth Little. 6-Amanda Calloway married James Preston Herbert; issue, -George
Edwin (m) Mable Baze; -Byron James, died as
child; -Lowry Maurice (m) Doris Roberson;
-Key Horace (m) Edith Milligan; -Elva Glyn
female, (m) Emil G. Wood; -Clifford Katharyn
(m) L. H. Richardson; -Thelma Martha died as
child; -Lois Gleaves (m) Luther W. Morrison.
7-Mary Ethel married Wood W. Cantrell; issue
-Wilbourn (m) Ruby Davis; -Warren (m) Myrtle
Eunice Taylor; -Glen (m) Lila Faye Sosebee;
-Moody (m) Jackie ? ; -Leroy (m) Kathryn ? ;
-Ruby (m) George Wainscoat; -Oleta (m) Curtis
C. Miller; -Mary Fay (m) John Jenkins Tipps;
-Evalyn Esther (m) Joe Alfred Long. 8-Martha
Eva married James Haywood Lusk; issue,
-James Olen (m. 1st) Audrey Logan & (m. 2nd)
Leah Ramsey Tuttle; -Harlan Haywood (m)
Barbara ?; -Barry Otho E. (m) Mozelle Price;
-David Royse (m) Martha Beth Larche; -Vivian
Norene (m) Joseph Riley Miller; -Mildred
Estelle (m) E. Ray Franks; -Rosalyn, died as
infant; -Doris Elaine (m) William George
Ludecke. 9-Jennie Ruth died at age of one.
10-Georgiann
married
Mabin
Willard
Addendum 750
-Benjamin William Grimes and his first wife,
Caroline Shepherd Grimes, had one child;
1-Harriet Emma Ann married John E. Osborne;
issue -John Curtis (m) Bessie McClister;
-Clarence Frederick, a doctor, (m) Edna Selden;
-Madolyn Camille (m) Fleetwood Giles; -Aleen
(m) Jack Randall; -Ruth Helen (m) Henry
Pearce.
-Benjamin William Grimes and his second
wife, Vinia Forbes Sams Grimes had five children: 2-Vinia Bethany married Curtis Rhey
Walker; issue, -Mary (m) Earle G. Standlee, a
Major General in the U. S. Medical Corps.
3-Rose Hannah married Laurie Lawrence
Walker; issue Geraldine (m) Ermon Allen
Miller; -Rhey, a doctor, (m) Bettye Goodwin.
4-Alma Ethel married J. Robert Jarvis; issue,
-William Robert, a minister, (m) Mildred
Cunningham; -Mary Ann (m) Reverend Robert
Stepp; -Barbara Nelle (m) Reverend W. Andrew
Engstrom. 5-William Ezekial is still single.
6-Samuel Bernice married Edna Pearson; issue,
-Arleen LaVina (m) Webb Pyette; -Frances
Louise (m) Frederick Bolanz.
-Benjamin William Grimes and his third
wife, Mollie Reed, had two children:
8-Benjamin Earle married Elizabeth Perfect;
issue, -William, still single; -Mary Mae (m)
Frank Gifford; -Ruth, and -Carolyn, still single.
9-Luther Reed married Mattie Belle Innis. issue,
-Ronald Luther (m) Katharine Ann Stowe;
-William Jackson, still single.
Addendum 751
-John Thomas Grimes and America Ann
Caroline Watters Grimes had eight children:
1-Joseph married Bessie McAlister. 2-John died
single. 3-Thomas. "Jr". married Maggie Blair.
4-Dora married first Charley Chilton and married second Mr. Keith. 5-Belle married Wylie
Stufflemene; issue, -Wallace, -Edwin, -Bertice
A. 6-Susie married Henry Strange. 7-Docia married William Dedmon. 8-Eula married William
Clarkson.
Addendum 752
-Georgiann Grimes McCauley and W.
Lafayette McCauley had four children: 1-John,
Baptist minister married twice including Kate
Henry; issue, -Jerome, -Lafayette, and -Alta
Lois. 2-William died single. 3-Victoria died single.
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Armistead, Sr.; issue, -M. W., Jr., (m) Audrey
Motterham; -John Cahoun still single;
Virginia Lee (m) Donald Louis Anderson;
-Dorothy Bonnell (m) George Corwin Van
Husen; -Laura Annice (m. lst) Bill Scott & (m.
2nd) John Robert Riggs; -Joyce Elaine (m)
James F. Beird; -Nancy Ann, still single.
-Verdie Lee (m) Raymond T. Boomer. 7-Bessie
Missouri married Dr. L. A. Windham; issue,
-Ralph; -Travis (m) Louise Folmar; -Rex (m)
Mary Wyatt. 8-Verdie Lee married Andrew F.
Johnson; issue, -Myron, physician; -Elizabeth
(m) a doctor; -Genevieve (m) Jack ?; -Miriam
(m) Ray ? .
Addendum 754
-Franklin Pierce Hildreth and Lenora
Frances Mims Hildreth had seven children:
1-Louis Benjamin died single. 2-John Travis
died as an infant 3-Francis Marion married Alma
Ruth Carr; issue, -Frances Lenora (m) J. W.
Knowles; -Iris (m) Bernard Brunson. 4-Jesse
Lee. Sr., married Mae Logan; issue, -Benjamin
Louis, -James, -Jesse Lee, Jr., -Maxwell, -Lloyd,
-Elaine -Doris,-Joan, and -Betty Jean. 5-Terrel1
Pierce died single. 6-Erin married Dr. F. B.
Whitfield of Dothan, Alabama. 7-Ethel Lenora
married first Albert W. Howell; issue, -Albert
Wynn (m) Sara Ruth Matthews; -Lenora Merle
(m) Harry M. Feagin; Ethel Lenora married second H. Forest Wright.
Addendum 756
Henry Walter Hildreth and Lillie Ann
Skipper Hildreth had six children: 1-Glenn married first Inez Dubose and second Gladys Keith;
issue, -Herbert and -H. W. 2-Charles Henry,
"Red", Methodist preacher, married Marjorie
Spencer; issue, -Marjorie (m) Thayne Erney.
3-Pearl married Buell Turner; no issue.
4-Pauline married Henry Boswell; no issue.
5-Jewell married Dave Johnson; issue, -Roslyn,
and -Mathlyn. 6-Bobell married Conwell Jones;
issue, -Travis, and -Doris.
Addendum 757
-Ida Roberta Hildreth Green and Alonzo
Bolyn Green had eight children: 1-infant boy.
2-Walter Clyde married Viola Steele; issue, -W.
C., Jr., (m) Elica ? . 3-Lloyd Byrd married ? ;
issue, -L. B., Jr., and -Rita Marie; Lloyd Byrd
married second Opal ? . 4-Olive Leona married
Lee Locke; issue, -Henry (m) Thelma ? ;
-Charley; -Lloyd (m) Elizabeth ? ; -Clyde, still
single; -Bill; -Jesse (m) Florene ? ; -Mable (m)
Howard Burleson; -Lula Mae (m) William Orr;
-four others, who died as children. 5-Agnes
Beatrice married Grady Early; issue, -Curtis (m)
Ruby ? ; -Wilbur Hugh (m) Dru ? ; -Harvey D.;
-James; -two others, died young; -Ruby Jewel
(m) Julius Lowery; -Mary Lou (m) George
Gilkey. 6-girl, died young. 7-Lula Mae married
first Robert Foster Shofner; issue, -James Robert
(m) Elaine Sullivan; -Ralph Bolyn (m) Wilda
Holbrook. 8-Lillian died at age of sixteen.
Addendum 755
-George Travis Hildreth and Emma Missouri
Mlxon Hildreth had eight children: 1-George
Hubert married Ilabell Evans. 2-John Horace
married Genevieve Lowe; issue, -Steve, -Jack, a
doctor, and -Marilyn, all three still single.
3-Arvie Novesta married Mattie Lee Byrd issue,
-Paul (m) Annie L. Crowley; -Vestaleen (m)
Jesse Marshall. 4-Erie Mae married Ed Byrd;
issue, -Isaac Curtis (m) Doris Reed; -George
Travis II, (m) Inez Turner; -Mixon (m) Mary
Pryor; -Ben R., Dothan doctor, (m) Sue Kersey;
-Emmett, still single; -Maud (m) Ben K.
Windham; -Foye (m) Cliff Montgomery; -Susie
(m) Wattus Maddox; -Virginia (m) George Ivan
Sansbury; -Pennie (m) Willie McKnight.
5-Eunice Clyde married Reverend J. Macon
Johnson; issue, -George Edwin, Dothan doctor,
(m) Essie Tony; -Leslie Macon, Dothan doctor
(m) Elizabeth Richardson; -Herbert (m) Mary ? ;
-Hoyt (m) Carolyn ? ; -Mable (m) Glen Weeks;
-Nellie (m) Leslie E. Seigle; -Sybil (m) William
Beatty; -Lewis, physician, (m) Olie Freeman.
6-Onnie Liel married Lester Whaley; issue,
-John W. (m) Helen Marie Holly; -Edward
Rogers (m) Jeannette Beard; -Emma (m) Ernest
M. Dean; -Lundie (m) Charles Morrison Riddle;
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Index
Though there are nearly 20,000 names on the more than 200
Charts and Addenda in this book, the index lists only onefourth of them. An understanding of this explanation, however will easily aid any descendant of most of those 20,000
people to find “his place” in the book.
Any number up to 99 refers to a page of the text. Any
number from 101 to 599 refers to a Chart. Any number over
601 reters to an Addendum. The CAPITALIZATION RULE,
explained in the preface, is used here as elsewhere in the
book. Thus Anna Oates, indexed among the Dowlings, is
known to be an in-law. The ANNA Martin, listed in the M’s,
was born a Dowling.
This index helps you find a person whose name is among
the following four groups:
names begin with “E”, because his full name was JOSEPH
ELROY. ...The location of his wife, Virginia Dowling (on
Chart 565), via way of the V’s, would give you the full name
of your subject.
The reader will also notice several “bracketlines” on the
Dowling pages of the index. These serve to combine such
variants as “WILL, BILL, WILLIAM, and WILLIE”.
(2) PEOPLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
No matter what surname a person was born by, he is individually indexed if he was born into, or married into this
family by the time of ROBERT’S fifth generation. Thus, this
includes every single person on the 300-series of Charts (and
on 101) as well as the '”grandparents” who head each
Addendum and 500-series of Charts. If the parents of the inlaws of yesteryear were named in the text, then they are
indexed.
(1) PEOPLE WHO WERE BORN AS DOWLINGS
The author originally planned to publish the names of
only seven generations (counting BOBERT as the first); that
is as far as any Chart or Addendum goes in naming
ROBERT'S descendants and their mates. This index, therefore, assigns an individual line to each person named on
those Charts or Addenda who bore the name of Dowling at
birth.
Any female in this index is listed just once and that under
her married name (where known). Few Dowling girls will be
found under the D's, unless they died with the name of
Dowling or still bear it. Seventh-generation “contemporaries” of the author’s who were born on the older limbs of
the family-tree are already dying of old age. ...Their grown
ninth-generatlon grandchildren recognize few names (on
their own Charts!) in such parts of the family as outlined on
501, 504, etc. To make this book more usable to them and
others, the author has lnserted in this index hundreds of
names of male Dowlings (and their wives) who descended
from the seventh generation.
These eighth, ninth, and few tenth-generation Dowlings
ARE NAMED IN THIS INDEX ONLY AND CAN BE
FOUND NO PLACE ELSE IN THE BOOK. Such persons
can be recognized in that every one of them has two or more
people’s names on the same line. For example, turn to the D's
and find the name of ALAN ROBERTSON Dowling. Notice
that the entire entry concerning him says: “ALAN ROBERTSON OF JOHN NOLLOY OF ANGUS MANCILL OF 563”.
...Chart 563 does show the name of “grandchild” ANGUS
MANCILL, but with this book having been published fifty
years too late this seventh-generation Dowling, ANGUS
MANCILL, has now become a grandfather! ALAN R. happens to be a grandson of ANGUS MANCILL’S via son
JOHN NOLLOY. The wives’ names of these eighth, ninth,
and tenth-generation Dowlings also have two or more names
after each of them. ...The first-named-male in the parentheses is the husband...and the remainder of such an entry is
similar to the example above. Dowling wives of all generatlons are indexed.
Caution! If you fail to find a person in the index who
should be there, then look for his wife’s name. ..ELROY
Dowling, for example, is not on the page of Dowlings whose
(3) PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THE TEXT
Any other person who was mentioned in the text is
indexed below.
(4) PEOPLE WHOSE FEMALE ANCESTORS
INCLUDED A DOWLING
If your mother, or grandmother, or some other femaleancestor was a Dowling, you will most likely find her
indexed under her married name. ...However, if you do not
know any part of her name, then try using one of the many
surnames in this index.
As an example, a former school-mate of the author’s,
Carolyn Domingus, might be using this book as an aid to
entering the Daughters of the American Revolution. ...She
remembers that her mother mentioned a Dowling connection
in days gone by; therefore she wastes no time looking for the
father’s surname of Doimgus...but looks instead for the
Matthews name that her mother bore at birth. She quickly
finds, in 669, her mother’s name and ancestry plus the names
of her eighteen aunts and uncles.
Notice! There are over l0,000 names in this book that are
not indivldually indexed. In searchlng for a person, therefore,
you should turn to the indicated Chart or Addendum of any
person in this index who bears a familiar sounding surname.
In the year 2,020 A. D., for example, the grandchild of Mazie
Collins Deaver will find a wealth of information under the
innocent looking index line: “EMMA VIRGINIA Collins,
531”.. for Chart 531 shows every name of Grandmother
Deaver’s brothers and sisters, plus who they married, plus
her firstcousins, and aunts and uncles! Yet the name Deaver
is not in this book's index! ...Mazie happened to be one of
ROBERT'S seventh-generation and the names by which she
and her contemporaries (and all who preceded them) were
born...happened to be the last surnames indexed. Of course,
where new surnames have been introduced into the family on
the seventh-generation level by marriages of Dowling girls
(such as some nieces of EMMA VIRGINIA’S), then the reader gets an “extra generation” of use from this index.
Able, ELIZABETH, 625
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Adams, 70, 633, 691, 697, 735
Francis M., 18, 312, 633
GERTRUDE, 723
GUSSIE ELIZABETH, 578
Joe, 60
Julia Bennett, 65
Thomas A., 65
VERLINE, 697
VIRGINIA CAROLINE, 18, 312, 633
Akins, 674
JULIA HOLMAN, 674
Albert, 749
Albrisson, 68
Alexander, 697
Asa, 52
Major, 48
SADIE, 697
Alford, 642
ELIZABETH, 547
Mary Alston, 22
MINNIE, 642
Allen, Chet, 80
JESSIE BELL, 514
Allums, 702
Altman, 613
Annie Johns, 11
Bud, 9
Charles Hyson, 9
Dave, 9
Ella Doggett, 9
EMMA, 9, 517
ETTIE 506
IDA, 511
Jacob, 9, 311
Jane, 9
Jasper, 11
Lottie, 9
LUVICEY 9, 311
MARTHA M., 517
MARY ELIZABETH, 517
Mary Walston, 522
MATTIE, 511
Nancy Crews, 9
Noah, 9
Owen K., 9
Alvarez, 645
DOLLY, 547
Ambrose, GEORGIA, 532
Anderson, 677
Frank, 75
CORA LOUISE, 551
Clifton, 75
Alberta Sansbury, 75
Andrews, 640, 644, 661, 662, 693, 728
Aaron Dennis, 28
Berry, 42
EMILY, 28, 29, 322, 644
John J., 42
John S., 322
John Slicer, 28, 644
MARTHA ANN, 42
Martha Ann Matthews, 42, 331, 661
Andrews, continued-
Samuel James, 42, 331, 661
Sinai, ___, 42
W. L., 77
Appling, 634
FATINA “TIMMIE’”, 634
Ard, 684, 690, 691
Armistead, 753
Armstrong, DORTHY, 570
Arnold, EVA LEE, 531
Arthur, Ellen Herndon, 69
Atkinson; Ursula Eugenia Griffith, 44
William Maldre, 44
Austin, Frank, 36, 324
HANNAH JANE, 36, 324
Letty, 36
James, 36, 324
MAE BELLE, 564
Samuel A., 36, 324
Babers, Emily Turner, l6
Bagette, NORMA, 564
Bailey, 651.1, 702
JETSON CAMILLA, 64, 331, 702
John, 64, 331, 702
MARIE, 651.1
Sarah Hildreth, 89, 339
Baisden, 645
Baker, 733
Ballard, 748
EYELYN, 570
Barker, GERDIE, 511
Hani, 35
Barnard, LAURA B., 564
Barnes, 691
MARY VIRGINIA, 532
Theophilus, 30
Barnett, Clarissa Townsend, 24
ETHEL MAY, 531
Thomas Robinson (Reverend), 24
Barr, 624
Charles Decania, 15
James Michael, 15, 312, 624
Mary A., 17
Michael, 17
REBECCA ANN, 15, 312, 624
Barrett, A. J., 36, 324
Letty, 36, 324
Barron, 745
MILDRED, 745
William, 67
Barrs, AMIE ELIZARETH, 504
Baskin, ROSA JENKINS, 38, 591
Bassett, Anna Googe, 34
Michael, 34
Battle, Jesse (Reverend), 60
Baughman, HELEN, 634
Baxley, W. J., 51
Bear, SARAH, 516
Beasley, 734
Daniel, 79
Eliza Jernigan, 79
James Tom, 79, 336, 734
Mary Emma Rebecca Stokes, 79, 336, 734
Beasley, continuedPage 225
VICTORIA LOUISE, 91, 591
Beatty, MARJORIE, 533
Beauchamp, Green, 39
Beaumont, AGNES GERTRUDE, 541
Beckham, 689
EMMA N., 573
LIZZIE, 507
Bell, 691
MARTHA ANNE, 625
NOLA, 517
Benefield, Polly, 73
Bennett, ANNIE MAUD, 514
VERLIE, 564
Benson, NINA ERMA, 541
Berry, 748
Bethea, 629
Estelle Guess 17
P. A. (Doctor), 17
Bethune, Mary Calloway, 78
William C. (Doctor), 78
Biscamp, 670
Bishop, MABLE CLAIRE, 582
B1ack, LAVERNE, 511
MARY EMILY, 504
Blackburn, 3
Blackmon, 47
Blackwood, 669
Blocker, FANNIE LEONIA, 586
Blount, 649
Bond, 659
Letitia Johnston, 36
Bonner, 654
ANNIE SUE, 654
BETTY JEAN, 573
Borland, 737
Bostick, 668
Boswell, 756
Sarah Martha Herrin, 48
Thomas Coke, 48
Bottoms, 678
James J. (Doctor), 51
John Jefferson, 49, 51, 331, 678
MARGARET VICTORIA, 51, 331, 678
Boutwell, Burtonhead, 21, 39
Saoni, 21
William, 21
Bowdoin, 721
Bowen, 637
CECELIA, 546
Bowers, 651.1
Becky Ann Cleland, 311
George, 311
Lyna Cleland, 311
Nelse, 311
SALLIE GERTRUDE, 651.1
Boyd, 697
BERTIE 697
OCIE, 511
Boyett, 743
Brackin, 706, 708, 711, 714, 715
Alice Jones, 67, 331, 715
Almeida Jane Windham, 66, 331, 706
Brackin, continued-
Bud (see M. Lawrence)
FRANCES, 65, 331
Hayden L., 66, 331, 711
Isaac, 55, 65
Lena Jacobs, 67, 331, 714
M. Lawrence, 67, 331, 714
Mary Elizabeth Brown, 66, 331, 711
Mathias, 755, 65, 331
Matthew, 65
Mattie Hudson, 67, 331, 714
Roxy Ann, 66, 331
Sarah Frances Conner, 66, 331, 708
Simeon W., 66, 331, 706
Thady H., "Tarve", 67, 331, 715
Warren W., 66, 331, 708
Bradford, 646
Bradley, 700
Brand, VICTORIA, 516
Brannon, 680
Brant, 649
Bray, MARY LEE, 504
Breare, (Captain), 44, 47
Bremblet, William, 38
Brewer, CONA JEWELL, 574
Briggs, 631
D. D. (Doctor), 17, 312, 631
MARY ANN ELIZABETH, 17, 312, 631
Britton, 656
Elizabeth Rolph, 35
Johnathon William, 35, 324, 656
Mary Ellen Owens, 35, 324, 656
Thomas J., 35
Broadus, DOLLY G., 591
Brockman, 742
LAURIE VIRGINIA, 521
Brooks, 748
Brown, 669, 681, 684, 734, 747
Ainsley G., 13
Anne Graham, 13
ANNIE VIOLA, 507
Bessie McDaniel, 338, 747
Charlie, 338, 747
Elizabeth Day, 66
FANNIE, "FAY", 591
Henry, 42
John, 66
KATHRYN, 566
Lydia, 42
V. R. (General), 31
VASSIE, 577
Browning, MATTIE LEE, 593
PEARL, 547
Broxson, 701, 705
BETTY, 701
Brunson, 648
Bryan, 644
ELLEN ALICE, 547
Bryson, CLARA LOUISE, 551
Buchanan, 745
ANNIE MARY, 526
LURLINE, 745
Budd, GRACE MEWBORN, 566
Burns, 634
LOUISE, 634
Burnside IVA, 541
John, 10
Burnett, 674
GEORGIA, 674
Burton, 719, 720
ANTOINETTE, "NETTIE", 70, 332, 720
FRANCES JO VICTORIA, 70, 332, 719
John Thomas, 70, 332, 720
Robert Jesse, 70, 332, 719
Bush, 698
Frances Johnson, 46
John, 46
Butler, GEORGIA, 532
Byars, LILLIAN, 586
Byrd, 611, 677, 691, 693, 755
Acrel, Sr., 60
Bartilla ____, 60
IDUMA, 574
Margaret Tacier D. P. Matthews, 43, 60, 331
MARTHA JANE, 60, 331, 691
MINNIE LEE, 533
Ransom, 60, 331, 691
VANTILLER OPHELIA R. D. J., 43, 60, 331, 693
William Acrel, 43, 60, 331, 693
Cain, 735
Caldwell, IVA MAE, 582
Califf, AMELIA, 625
Campbell, 748
JENNIE, 526
Cannon, Beatrice Ulmer, 15
HAZEL, 586
Henry, 15
Cantrell, 753
Capps, 665
DORIS, 547
Carew, 606
Carpenter, 633
Carr, 629. 668, 693
Carroll, 644
John, 58
Sarah A. Casey, 58
Carter, 604, 650
FROANIE, 511
MARY, 512
Casey, 673, 721
Delilah Marena Cox, 46, 331, 673
Henry Thomas, 46, 331, 673
Lemuel, 46, 58
Nancy Cox, 46
Caskill, 746
Cason, ELLEN ALICE, 547
Cassity, Boyd, 75
Mattie Suggs, 75
Cawthon, BERTIE, 24
Cayce, FRANCES, 716
Chaflinch, EVELYN, 546
Chambliss, 719
Elcanah, 331
INA, 564
Sarah Savannah Cox, 46, 331
Wilcox, 46
Chambliss, continuedPage 226
W. E., 46
Chancey, 643, 707
James Monroe, 88, 339
Sarah Elizabeth Hildreth, 88, 339
Chandler, 724
Chase, LULA MAE, 547
Cheatham, 605
Cheshire, LAVERNE, 511
Childs, 665 705
Chilton, 751
Chisholm, EFFIE, 515
Chittenden, 658
Clark, 663, 705, 709
Amy V. King, 80, 336
Fernie (Lieutenant), 80
Frances Snellgrove, 80
Glenny, 80
Harry, 80
Joe, 80, 336
John C., "Jack", 42, 331, 663
Mary, 42
Max, 80
Ralph, 80
Sarah Jane Matthews 42, 331, 663
Savannah Parrish, 55
Clarkson, 751
Clayton, DOROTHY, 634
MARGARET, 593
Cleland, Hansford, 311
Henrietta Rebecca Davis, 34, 311
James Henry, 3, 34, 311
SARAH, 3, 311
Clendenin, 731
Ben, 78
Benjamin White, Sr., 78, 336, 731
James Augusta, 78
Mattie Eugenia, 78, 336, 731
Rosa White, 78
Clements, 646
Clewis, 684
Collins, EMMA VIRGINIA, 531
James, 17
Colona, LOUISE, 533
Colson, Harriett Hill, 19, 312
W. H., 19, 312
Combs, LOU, 516
MARTHA W., 515
Connelly, Elizabeth Ann McKissack, 58
J. S., 58
James Z. S., 51, 58
Rachel Anne Harmon, 58
Conner, Jane Reynolds, 66
Cook, Ephraim, 35
Cope, J. H., 33, 323
JULIA, 33, 34, 323
Copeland D. G., 3
JEWEL, 504
Corbett, HARGARET C., 522
Cotton, 668
Counts, 705
Courson, AGNES, 509
NANCY M., 506
Courson, continued-
OLLIE, 512
Cowart, ADA MAY, 551
NOLA, 515
RETHA, 515
Cox, 622, 626, 671, 691, 699, 707
Andrew Jackson, 14, 312, 622
Charlotte Brown, 45
ELLEN ELIZABETH, 14, 312, 622
Henry Edmond, 46, 331
Jesse James, 46, 331
Martha Ann Bush 46, 331, 671
Matilda "Matt" K. Parker, 46, 331
MILLY, 40, 44, 45, 46, 331
Nancy, 44, 45, 331
Rebecca 47, 331
Saphronla Ann, 46, 331
William, 44, 45, 331
William Fletcher, 46, 59, 331, 671
Crawford, 675
Elizabeth Kennedy Stokes, 78
EMMA, 507
MARTHA M., 517
SABRA, 512
Crews, 605, 606, 608, 614
ADELINE, 9, 311, 605
EMMIE, 515
Isham, 9, 311, 605
Jim, 9
Mamie Crews, 29, 322
MAUD, 27, 543
Plenn, 29
POLLY, 8, 509
Polly _____, 29
SABRA SALINA, 9, 311, 606
Walter, 9
William John, 9, 311, 606
ZILLA, 516
Crittenden, R. F. (Captain), 43
Croft, RENNIE , 32, 323
Rosa, 32, 323
William, 32 323
William, Jr., 32, 323
Crosby, 647, 654
NETTIE, 654
NORA, 511
Crossfield, MINNA McNEIL, 717
Crouch, CLARA LOUISE, 551
LILLIE PEARL, 597
NINA, 568
Crowell, David, 36, 324
HANNAH JANE, 36, 324
Crumpler, 689
Culberson, DORA, 70
Culler, Providence Graham, 13
Curry, 715, 746
Dalgren, 705
Daniel, 690
Darby, 615, 747
Dauphin, LOTTIE, 516
Davis, 693, 737
Amanda, 332
Annie Johns, 11
Davis, continued-
Benjamin, 8, 10
EDNA, 547
HATTIE, 516
John, 71, 332
Mandy, 71
MARY 515
MATTIE, 516
OLLIE, 512
Richard, 11
RUTH, 512
SENY LENA, 71, 332
William, 71, 332
Davidson 702
Dasher, LOUANNIE ARDELIA, 504
SARAH ELIZABETH, 504
DeBary, LOIS, 578
Dedmon, 771
Deese, 602
Dehart, Mary Ann Hooks, 82, 338
Delacroix, THELMA IRENE, 565
Deloache, 650
DEBORAH MELLISON, 32, 323, 650
Joseph D. 32, 323, 650
William, 32
Dement, Jane Lacy, 20
Milton, 20
Denham, 713
Denmark, 645
Doc, 28
ELLEN, 28
John, 28
Mamie Crews, 29, 322, 645
Nancy, 28
PATSY, 561
Stephen Alan, 28
Stephen Banner, 29, 322, 645
Detzel, CATHERINE, 547
DeVilleneuve, 679
BLANCHE IRENE, 679
Dick, Mary Andrews, 49
William Obediah, 49
Dickson, 697
SADIE, 697
Didham, 670
Edward Gerald, 45, 331, 670
Mary Elizabeth Cox, 45, 331, 670
Dillard, ELLA RENORA, 573
Dillon, Thomas, 23
Dinkins, LILLIE, 515
Dismuke, 714
Dixon, Amaziah M., 29
BETHANY COURTNEY, 514
ETTIE, 514
Henrietta Ritch, 29
Donnell, 722
A. Jack, 73, 333, 722
Catherine Lucinda Stokes, 73, 333, 722
Marie, 73
Mollie Stokes, 73, 333
Thompson, 73
Dotson, Elisha Walpole, 20
Douglas, CHRISTINA, 541
Dowling
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AARON, 7, 8, 311, 506
AARON, “Litten”, 507, 604
AARON CHARNEY, 515
AARON DECANIA, JR., 522
AARON DECANIA, SR., 15, 312, 522
AARON DENNIS, 515
AARON MADISON, 16, 17, 312
AARON MARIAN OF JOHN SHEPARD
OF CHARLES EDWIN OF 501
AARON WALTER, 506
ABRAM DAVID, 35, 323, 655
ABRAM DAVID JR., 655
Ada Jo ––– (WILLIAM MARTIN OF
WILLIAM AMBLER, SR. OF 515)
Ada Camp, 581
Ada Rewis, 515
Addie Carter, 509
Addie Mae Posey, 570
Adeline Bergheim, 565
Adelaide Glenn 68, 332, 581
ADELAIDE LUCILLE, 581
Affie Battle, 514
Agnes Hendrix, 514
AGNES LOUISE, 593
Agnes Roberts, 541
Agnes Sullivan, 35, 323, 558
Agnes Westervelt, 96, 569, Dedication Page
Agnes Yarborough, 77, 335, 593
ALAN ROBERTSON OF JOHN MOLLOY
OF ANGUS MANCILL OF 563
ALBERT BOWEN, 566
ALBERT FONZO, 543
ALBERT LEE, 507
ALBERT LEROY, 517
ALBERT LEWIS, 553
ALBERT McINTYRE, 566
ALBERT RAY OF ALBERT FONZO OF 543
ALBERT RENO, 563
ALBERT TOWNSHEND, 566
Alberta Byrd, 563
ALEX HOOD, 563
Alice Bailey, 561
Alice Benton, 506
Alice Dixon, 547
Alice Jernigan (WALTER CECIL OF
AARON WALTER OF 506)
Alice Martin, 69, 332, 717
Alice Pilkington, 553
ALICE S., 506
Alice Smith, 547
ALLEN, 67, 71, 74, 76, 101, 335
ALLEN OF BRAINERD FERNANDO OF 514
ALLEN D., 506
ALLEN VINSON, 571
Alma Andrews, 543
Alma Goff, 566
ALMA MAE, 592
Alphilee Dubberly (VERNON PERRY
OF ALBERT LEROY OF 517)
ALONZO, 514
ALONZO GILLS, 568
Altie Raulerson, 506
Dowling, continued-
Altie Wynn, 547
ALTO WALLACE, 586
ALTO YOUNG OF DANIEL YOUNG II
OF 564
ALTON OF VON HENRY OF 512
ALVA, 577
ALVIA AUGUSTA, 565
Amanda Hancock, 571
Amanda O'Neal 43, 331
AMY JENETTI, 517
Amelia Cason, 547
ANDERSON, 51, 58, 331, 679
Andree Gouard, 563
ANDREW TURNER, 69, 332, 716
Angela Fournler (CURTIS FINLEY, JR.
OF CURTIS FINLEY, SR. OF 531)
ANGUS, 40, 41, 48, 52, 331, 563, 747, ii
ANGUS, 697
ANGUS, JR., 563
ANGUS BIRTIS, JR., OF ANGUS
BIRTIS, SR. OF 563
ANGUS BIRTIS, SR., 563
ANGUS ELBERT OF ANGUS FRANK
OF 564
ANGUS FRANK, 564
ANGUS FRANKLIN, 564
ANGUS GABRIEL, 566
ANGUS HORRIE, 688
ANGUS LEONIDAS, 565
ANGUS MANCIL, 563
Ann ___, 81, 101, 338
ANN, 716
Ann ___, 565
Ann Bender (STUART PUGH OF
HERBERT BASCOM OF 563)
Ann Harrlett, 33, 323
Ann Stinson, 557
Ann Woodard, 507
Anna Bush, 192
ANNA CARROLL, 571
Anna Ruth Flood, 553
Anna Oates, 59, 331
Anna Scott, 24, 321
Anna Spears, 565
Annabelle Elllott, 570
Anne Youngblood, 582
Annelle Brown, 574
Annette Sasser, 587
ANNIE, 563
ANNIE, 512
ANNIE ALICE, 552
Annie Aswell, 582
Annie Dansby, 587
Annie Harvllle, 501
Annie Herring, 507
Annie Johns, 11, 311, 516
ANNIE LOU, 716
ANNIE REGINA, 72, 323
Annie Smith, 568
Annie Thompson, 48, 331
ANNIE VALERIA, 688
Annie Williams, 31, 323, 552
Dowling, continued-
Annis Highsmith. 509
Annis Jacobs (GLYNWOOD OF
WILLARD MORTON OF 509)
Antisgene Wood, 507
ARCHIE HAMMOND, 655
Ardelia Frier, 6, 311, 504
Arlene Miller, 533
ARLEY CLIFTON, 531
ARLINGTON JEROME OF WILLARD
MORTON OF 509
Arminta Stanford, 62, 331, 573
Arrell Coppage, 504
ARTHUR OF WILLIE SIMUEL OF 564
ARTHUR CARY, 514
ARTHUR CRAWFORD, 570
ARTHUR WAYNE, 533
AUDIE JOHNSON OF CHARLES
MITCHELL, SR. OF 511
Aurelia Tatum 507
AUSWAL OF DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564
Autrey Priest (JAMES BENJAMIN OF
JOHN H. PERRY OF 504)
AVERY, 9, 311
Avis Bass, 565
Avyann Shumans, 517
Babe Fisher, 612
BANNER EDWIN, 509
Barbara Lightsey (HENRY DOZIER, JR.
OF HENRY DOZIER, SR., OF
JAMES LONNIE, SR., OF 515)
Barbara Stevens, 533
BARNEY CLARENCE, 688
BARRON WILLARD OF WILLARD
ISAAC, JR., OF 598
BASCOM, 564
Beatrice Allen, 547
Beatrice Cason, 547
Beatrice Turner, 557
BELLE, 546
Belle Dobson, 543
BEN JOHNSON, 688
BEN JONES, 506
BEN LEWIS, 571
BENJAMIN, 547
BENJAMIN ALONZO, 514
BENJAMIN ANDREW, JR., 591
BENJAMIN ANDREW, SR ., 591
BENJAMIN L., 82, 85, 338
BENJAMIN ORA, 598
BENJAMIN WYMAN, 34, 323, 557
BENJAMIN WYMAN, JR., 557
BERIAN, 23, 26, 321
Berline Goyens, 547
BERNARD OF WILLIAM RALPH OF
CHARLES EDWIN OF 501
BERNARD GENE OF CHARLES
ESTES OF 552
BERNARD JAMES OF LOUIS AARON
OF CHARLES EDWIN OF 501
BERRY YOUNG, 574
BERT GWYNETT, JR. OF BERT
GWYNETT, SR., OF 506
Dowling, continuedPage 228
BERT GWYNETT, SR., 506
BERTHA, 33
Bertha Hinnant, 612
Bertha Isbell 586
Bertha Prevatt, 504
Bertha Sharp, 521
Bessie Bloodworth, 587
Bessie Lou ___ (SAINT ELMO OF JOE
LEE OF 514)
Bessie Norton, 573
Betty Barbour (WILL MORTON, SR. OF
WALTER MELVY OF WILLARD
MORTON OF 569)
Betty Bourgdoft (FRED BENNY OF
HARRY ELLIS OF 533)
BETTY JANE OF WILLIE NEWTON
OF JAYES NEWTON OF 511
Betty Gray, 634
Betty Grogan, 570
Betty Hamilton (GEORGE LOUIS, JR.
OF GEORGE LOUIS, SR., OF 570)
Betty Hinson 573
Betty Lynn (VIRGLE WALTER OF
ELVIE LEWIS OF 517)
BETTY VERA, 582
BEULAH, 543
Beulah Barnet, 24, 37, 531, ii
Beulah Galloway, 76, 335, 592
BEULAH IDELIA, 556
BEULAH MAE, 723
Beulah O'Steen (CLAUDE NOEL OF
NOEL HOPPS OF RAYMOND
COLQUITT OF 509)
Beulah Roberts, 504
Beulah Sanders, 504
Beulah Tillis, 27
BILL (see WILLIAM)
Billie Jo Owens, 586
BLANCHE, 506
BLOXHAM, 642
BOBBY OF LONNIE & Viola of 511
BOBBY OF BRAINERD FERNANDO
OF 514
BOBBY, 564
BOBBY RAY, 587
BOBBY RAY OF RICHARD JOSEPH
SR. OF 546
BOBBY WAYNE OF JOHNNY L. ROY
OF J0HN RANDOL, JR., OF 511
Bonnie Austin, 564
BONNIE JOE OF DANIEL ELLIS OF
512
Bonnie Lee (CHARLIE MITCHELL, JR.OF
CHARLIE MITCHELL, SR., OF 511)
Bonnie Johnson, 565, 695
BRADLEY OF JOHN LAYTON OF 512
BRAINARD FERNANDO, 514
BROADUS ESTES, 552
BRYANT MANSIL, 541
CAGEBY (MICAJAH), 4, 20, 101
Caledonia Connelly, 51, 331, 679
Caledonia Mancill, 56,
Dowling, continued-
CAMERON LEROY, JR., 553
CAMERON LEROY, SR. 553
CARL EDWIN OF CHARLES EDWIN
OF 501
CARLTON EUGENE, 587
Carmel Lettieve, 547
CARNER WOLFE, JR., OF CARNER
WOLFE, SR., of 533
CARNER WOLFE, SR., 533
CAROL DEAN, 591
Caroline Center, 501
Caroline Hanchey, 511
Caroline Josey, 74, 335, 723
Caroline Martin, 50, 331
Caroline Tyler, 15, 312, 522
Caroline Wester, 26, 322, 542
Carolyn Lynn (RANDALL ARTHUR OF
WILLIAM ARTHUR OF 507)
CARRIE FAE , 723
Carrie McLeod, 504
Carrie Turner, 592
CARROLL OF WILLIAM DENNIS, SR.,
OF 511
CARSON CLANTON, 574
Cassie Page (JAMES WARREN OF
CHARLES EDWIN OF 501)
Catherine ____, 37, 324
CATHERINE, 546
CATHERINE, 547
Catherine Polk (JOHN WHITFIELD JR.
OF JOHN WHITFIELD,SR., OF 523)
Catherine Steiner, 543
Catherine, “Kate”, Taylor, 516
Catherine Tyson, 29, 322, 547
Catherine Woodham, 62, 331, 574
CECIL FLETCHER, 578
Cecil King, 546
CECIL LAWRENCE, 547
CECIL WYMAN, 557
Cena West, 83, 338
CHARLEIGH, 14, 19, 312
CHARLEIGH THADEUS, 15, 312, 625
CHARLEIGH THADEUS JR., 625
CHARLES OF WILLIAM NOEL OF 564
CHARLES BUIST, JR., 522
CHARLES BUIST, SR., 522
CHARLES BUIST, III, OF CHARLES
BUIST, JR., OF 522
CHARLES BURIE OF WILLARD
THORTON OF 509
CHARLES DAVID OF CHARLES
ESTES OF 552
CHARLES EARL, 587
CHARLES EDWARD, 533
CHARLES EDWIN, 501
CHARLES EDWIN, 634
CHARLES ERNEST OF TOM OF 517
CHARLES ESTES, 552
CHARLES ETTA EUDORA, 49, 60, 331, 674
CHARLES HERBERT, 547
CHARLES HERMAN, 587
Dowling, continued-
CHARLES LENOX OF OSCAR
POWELL OF 504
CHARLES M., 685
CHARLES MARVIN OF FLOYD
EUGENE OF JAMES NEWTON OF 511
CHARLES T., JR., OF CHARLES T.,
SR., OF JAMES LONNIE, SR. OF 515
CHARLES T., SR., OF JAMES LONNIE, SR.
OF 515
CHARLES THEOPHILUS, 552
CHARLIE, 506
CHARLIE OF JOHN RICHARD OF 504
CHARLIE D., 574
CHARLIE McDOWELL, 587
CHARLIE MITCHELL, JR. OF
CHARLIE MITCHELL, SR. OF 511
CHARLIE MITCHELL, SR., 511
CHARLIE W., 547
Charlotte Brackin, 55, 58, 65, 331
Christine Hoffman, 655
Christian James, 58, 570
CHRISTOPHER OF HERNDON
GLENN, JR., OF 581
CHESTER, 515
CLARA ELIZA, 651.1
Clara Peery, 685
Clara Ruth, 31, 323, 551
CLARENCE EDWARD, 556
CLARENCE ELMER, 561
CLARENCE EUGENE, 651.1
CLARENCE LEONARD, JR, OF
CLARENCE LEONARD, SR., OF
JOHN H. PERRY OF 504
CLARENCE LEONARD, SR., OF JOHN
H. PERRY OF 504
CLARENCE MARVIN, 533
CLARENCE WILLIAM, 533
Clarkie Martin, 515
CLAUDE, 531
CLAUDE OF PERRY LEE SR., OF 507
CLAUDE ALVIN OF MAXIE EDWIN
OF 504
CLAUDE HENRY, 541
CLAUDE LEVANT OF JOHN LAYTON
OF 512
CLAUDE LULA, 581
CLAUDE NOEL OF NOEL HOPPS OF
RAYMOND COLQUITT OF 509
Claudia Addison, 515
Claudia White, 564
CLAYTON, 582
CLEBURNE HARRIS, 697
Clementine Shanks, 551
Cleona Perry (JOHN EVERETT OF
WILLIE ELBERT OF 515)
Cleone Moore, 542
Clifford Everett, 506
CLINTON RUSSELL, 586
CLYDE AUBREY OF OSCAR POWELL
OF 504
CLYDE HILTON OF DAVID ALLEN OF 509
CLYDE WASHINGTON, 517
Dowling, continuedPage 229
CODY, 574
COLONEL JASPER, 43, 331
Cona Martin, 570, 662
Corrie Turner, 5I4
Cora Warren, 564
Cona Alene York, 569 & Dedication Page
CONNIE BASCOM OF BASCOM OF 564
CONNIE WYATT, 570, 662
Cordelia Ham, 77, 335
Cordie Folsom, 570
Cordie Thomas, 514
COY (nmi), 574
COY, 642
Cuba Parrish, 541
CULLEN EDSEL, 573
CURLEY OF IVY OF 511
CURTIS DENNIS, 516
CURTIS FINLEY, JR. OF CURTIS
FINLEY, SR., OF 531
CURTIS FINLEY, SR., 531
CURTIS LAMAR OF NORMAN
LAMAR OF 582
CURTIS NEWELL, 578
CURTIS WAYNE OF CHARLES BUIST, III,
OF CHARLES BUIST, JR., OF 522
Cynthia Franz, 574
Dahlia ___, 506
DAISY, 70
Daisy Dinkins, 515
Daisy Harris 514
Dane ___ (RUSSELL Y. OF EDWIN FRANK
OF DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564)
DANIEL BAKER, 565
DANIEL BAKER, JR., OF DANIEL
BAKER and first wife of 565
DANIEL DAVID, 509
DANIEL DAVID, 512
DANIEL DAVID, 506
DANIEL DEAN OF HORACE LANKFORD
OF WILLIAM CORLEY OF 516
DANIEL DREW, 504
DANIEL EARLE, 592
DANIEL EARLE, JR., OF DANIEL
EARLE OF 592
DANIEL ELLIS, 512
DANIEL ELLIS, JR., OF DANIEL
ELLIS OF 512
DANIEL LEWIS OF BEN LEWIS OF 571
DANIEL POSTELL, 84, 338
DANIEL WALTER, 512
DANIEL YOUNG, 48, 331, 565
DANIEL YOUNG II, 564
DANIEL YOUNG III OF AUSWAL OF
DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564
DANNY OF IVY OF 511
DANNY OF HORACE LANKFORD OF
WILLIAM CORLEY OF 516
DANNY OF VON HENRY OF 512
DARLING, 10, 311
DARLING II, 7, 311
DARLING EDWARD, ''BUD", 517
DARLING S., 12, 517
Dowling, continued-
DARLING WESLEY, 9, 12, 311, 517
DAVID, 504
DAVID, 507
DAVID ALLEN, 509
DAVID AYERS OF JOHN TIMOTHY
OF 501
DAVID BENDER OF STUART PUGH
OF HERBERT BASCOM OF 563
DAVID C., 8, 10, 311, 509
DAVID DWIGHT OF DAVID HORACE
OF WILLIE OF 507
DAVID EDWARD, 84, 338, 745
DAVID HARRIS, 592
DAVID HORACE OF WILLIE OF 507
DAVID L., 8, 509
DAVID OSCAR 1st, 531
DAVID OSCAR II, 531
DAVID PAGE OF PAGE OF LYMON
CLAUDE OF 514
DAVID RICHARD OF JAMES MELVIN
OF 507
DAVID SANDERS OF GRAFTON
GEDDES, JR., OF 551
DAVID WILSON, 655
DAVID WILTON OF OSCAR WILTON
OF 565
Dawn___ , (HARRY BRADFORD OF
JULIAN GEORGE, SR. OF 531)
DEAN BERROW, 563
Debby Browning, 547
DECANIA, 14, 31, 312
DECANIA II 521
DECANIA III OF HAVELOCK EAVES
OF 521
DECANIA TYLER, 522
DECANIE DEXTER, 31, 323, 553
Della Harris, 515
Della Norton, 515
Della Stone, 610
Delilla Lee, 514
Dell Stroman, 716
DELLIE DEWITT, 514
Delores Livingston, 526
DEMPSEY (Reverend), 1, 20, 21, 37, 39, 40, 41,
51, 54,, 63, 74, 77, 80, 83, 101, 331, ii
DEMPSEY, LEMUEL, 571
DENNIS, 4, 6, 311
DENNIS II, 12, 311
DENNIS OF OLIN JEFFERSON OF
WILLIAM DENNIS, SR. OF 511
DENNIS OF JOHN WHITFIELD, SR.,
OF 523
DENNIS ARRON OF THOMAS AARON OF
AARON CHARNEY OF 515
DENNIS JAMES, 511
DENNIS WHITE OF JOHN
WHITFIELD, SR., OF 523
DENNIS WILLIAM OF OSCAR
POWELL OF 504
DEWEY, 509
DEWEY, 697
DHU, (nmi) 582
Dowling, continued-
Didamier Johnson, 26, 322, 541
DODGE OF LYMON CLAUDE OF 514
Dollie Deloach (JAMES RANDOLL OF
JOHN RANDOLL, Jr. OF 511)
Dollie Markham, 541
DON OF EMMETT OTIS OF DANIEL
YOUNG II OF 564
DON JUDE OF LEO BERTIE OF 565
DONALD OF WILLIAM QUINTON, JR.
OF WILLIAM QUINTON OF 514
DONALD GENE OF CARLTON
EUGENE OF 587
DONALD LEVON 574
DONALD McKENZIE OF HOMER
JESSE OF 514
DONNY LEE OF LONNIE & Margeret
OF 511
DORA (See CHARLES ETTA EUDORA)
Dora Creed, 84 338, 745
Dora Hagwood, 552
Doris Montgomery, 547
DOROTHY, 592
Dorothy Belote, 571
Dorothy Berger (JOHN HENRY, JR. OF
JOHN HENRY, SR. OF 547)
Dorothy Bush, 571
Dorothy Gatling, 515
Dorothy Hodges, 552
Dorothy Midgley 568
Dorothy Reid, 573
Dorothy Stokes, 593
Dorothy Wentworth, 551
Dorothy Woods, 547
Dorothy Wooten, 542
DORSEY (See FRANCIS ASBURY, JR.)
DOSHE (see WILLIAM THEODORE)
DOUGLAS OF JOSEPH ELROY OF 565
DOUGLAS DABNEY OF JAMES
HAMPTON, JR., OF 532
DOYLE FRANKLIN, 574
DOYLE LANGFORD OF CHARLIE
MITCHELL, SR., OF 511
Drucllla Thompson, 59, 331
DUNCAN BUIST, JR. (Colonel), 551
DUNCAN BUIST, SR., 551
DUNCAN BUIST III OF DUNCAN
BUIST, JR., OF 551
Dympna Richards, 553
EARL, 745
EARL DEAN OF WILLIAM CORLEY
OF 516
EARL L., 547
EARLY LATE, 565
EARLY RALPH, 565, 731
EARNEY JACKSON, JR., 542
EARNEY JACKSON, SR., 542
EARNEY JACKSON III OF EARNEY
JACKSON, JR., OF EBEN EVERETT, 543
Ebbie Andrews, 578
EDDIE, 701
EDGAR, 612
EDGAR, 642
Dowling, continuedPage 230
EDGAR, 625
EDGAR DEMPSEY, 12, 612
EDGAR R., 723
EDWARD, 40, 43, 49, 59, 331
EDWARD OF ROBERT LEE OF
WILLIAM AUBLER, SR.,OF 515
EDWARD BANNER, 509
EDWARD CAMP, 581
EDWARD CLEVELAND, 552
EDWARD CORTEY, 587
EDWARD LAMAR, 570
EDWARD LAMAR OF EDWARD
LEROY OF JAMES NEWTON OF 511
EDWARD LEROY OF JAMES
NEWTON OF 511
EDWARD LINUS, 674
EDWARD MICHAEL OF EDWARD
CORTEY OF 587
EDWARD MITCHELL OF EDWARD
CORTEY OF 587
EDWARD NEAL, 547
EDWARD SYLVESTER, 591
EDWARD SYLVESTER, JR., 591
EDWIN OF WILLIAM AMBLER, SR.
OF 515
EDWIN OF WILLIAM RALPH OF
CHARLES EDWIN OF 501
EDWIN OF EDWARD BANNER OF 509
EDWIN FRANK OF DANIEL YOUNG
II OF 564
Edna G___ (JAMES DARLING OF
DARLING EDWARD OF 517)
Edna Kilerease (ROBERT LEE OF
WILLIAM AMBLER, SR. OF 515)
Edna McNamarra, 587
Edna Moseley, 506
Edna Vickers, 701
EDGAR (see ED)
Edith Bannister, 551
Edith Barker, 35, 323, 655
EDWARD (see ED)
EDWIN (see ED)
Edwina Bamberg, 697
Edyth Chernstrom, 563
Effie Bell, 688
Effie Bush, 716
Effie McLean, 512
Effie Powers, 511
Elaine Edwards (WILLIAM BARNEY
OF AARON CHARNEY OF 515)
ELBERT LEE OF JOSEPH LESTER,
SR., OF 506
ELBERT LIGAH, 33, 323
ELBERT RILEY, 507
ELDEE (infant) OF WILLIAM
AMBLER, SR., OF 515
ELDER LEON, 574
Eldis Eason, 507
ELDON LAVELLE OF CHARLES
BURIE OF WILLAR MORTON OF 509
Eleanor Wheeler (RUDOLPH JOHN OF
WILLIE ELBERT OF 515)
Dowling, continued-
ELIAS, 38, 67, 71, 81, 101, 332
ELIAS G., 70, 332
ELIAS NEWTON, 542
ELIJAH, 4, 12, 20,33, 35, 101, 312
ELIJAH HENRY, 15, 312, 521
ELISHA MATHIAS CONVERSE, 56, 331, 685
Elina Anderson, 563
ELISE, 564
Elise Roberts (WILLIAY AMBLER, JR., OF
WILLIAM AMBLER, SR., OF 515)
Eliza ___, 74, 101
Eliza Godwin, 574
Eliza Griggs, 19, 312
ELIZA JANE, 35, 323
ELIZABETH, 3, 311
ELIZABETH, 40, 44, 331
Elizabeth Birt, 655
Elizabeth Carroll, 564
Elizabeth Finlayson, 532
Elizabeth Harrison, 32, 323
Elizabeth Ingraham 63, 331
Elizabeth Johns, 38, 324
ELIZABETH M., 563
Elizabeth Morgan, 509
Elizabeth Molloy, 563
Elizabeth Rhoden, 4, 6, 311
Elizabeth Rice, 12, 19, 10l, 312
Elizabeth Roberts, 591
Elizabeth Shirley, 27, 322, 642
Elizabeth Steward, 71, l0l
Elizabeth Stewart, 71
Elizabeth Warren, 514
Elizabeth Watson, 25, 10l, 121
Elizabeth Wells, 57, 331, 569
Elizabeth Zorn, 14, 312
Ella Crim, 58 331, 688
ELLA IRENA, 584
Ella Gullage, 564
Ella McLeod, 71, 332, 587
Ella O'Berry, 507
ELLEN, 25, 322
Ellen, (ROBERT EDGAR OF ROBERT LEE
OF WILLIAY AMBLER, SR. OF 515)
Ellen Foster, 514
ELLIOT RAY OF ELTON ROMMIE OF 514
ELMER EDWIN, 533
Eloise Mobley (LORAN ALONZO OF
EZRA MARTIN OF 514)
Eloise Sconyers, 543
Eloise White (JAMES WILEY, JR., OF
JAMES WILEY SR., OF 511)
Elsie Courson, 514
Elsie Morgan, 570
Elsie Smith, 543
ELTON HANSFORD OF ELVIE LEWIS
OF 517
ELTON ROMMIE (Reverend), 514
Elvia Taylor, 515
ELVIE DEWAYNE OF ELVIE LEWIS
OF 517
ELVIE LEWIS, 517
ELZIE JAMES, 697
Dowling, continued-
EMBREE HOSS, JR., OF EMBREE
HOSS, SR., OF 564
EMBREE HOSS, SR., 564
EMILY, 28
EMILY, 504
Emily ___ (LLOYD OF WILLIE
ELBERT OF 515)
Emily Roberts 27, 322, 543
Emma, 312
EMMA, 7, 507
Ernma Davidson, 573
Emma Dotson, 20, 312, 634
EMMA ELIZABETH, 504
Emma Ogden, 24, 321, 638
Emma Poyner, 574
Emma King (Thompson) 65, 331, 578
Emma Wolfe, 25, 321, 533
Emmie Crews, 515
EMMETT OTIS OF DANIEL YOUNG II
OF 564
EMORY MARION OF WILLIAM
AMBLER, SR., OF 515
Era Miller, 564
ERIN ELIZABETH, 568
Erin Reynolds, 568
ERNEST, 625
ERNEST LEON, 514
ERNEST LEROY, JR., 592
ERNEST LEROY, SR., 592
Essie Daniel, 551
Essie Davis, 516
Essie Strickland (ELBERT LEE OF
JOSEPH LESTER, SR. OF 506)
Essie Wilson, 563
ESTELLA, 726
Estella Bell, 517
Estelle Haire, 578
ESTES LEROY OF ALBERT LEROY
OF 517
ESTHER, 523
Esther Bell, 570
Ester Grooms, (WILLIAM QUINTON, JR., OF
WILLIAM QUINTON OF 514)
Esther Quattlebaum, 522
Esther Sullivan, 34, 323, 557
Ethel Etheridge, 504
Ethel Ford, 552
Ethel Lewis, 591
Ethel McDaniel, 553
Ethel Mikel (JAMES DREW OF JAMES
GORDON OF 516)
Ethel Woodard, 511
ETHA, 542
Etta Grover, 514
EUGENE L., 70, 71, 332
EUGENIA HARTENE, 70
Eula Dannelly, 515
EULA J., 723
Eula Roberts, 541
Eula Ward, 541
Eunice Windham (ANGUS ELBERT OF
ANGUS FRANK OF 564)
Dowling, continuedPage 231
Eva ___ (HENRY ALTON OF WILLIAM
AMBLER, SR., OF 515)
Eva Batten (WILLIAM MARTIN OF
WILLIAM AMBLER, SR., OF 515)
Eva Strickland, 506
Eva Weston, 514
EVAN LAYTON, 512
EVANGELINE. 551
Evelyn Cantler (DOYLE LANGFORD OF
CHARLIE MITCHELL, SR., OF 511)
EVIE ELMER, 514
EVELYN ANN, 558
EXA MAE, 570
EXIE, 697
EZRA MARTIN, 514
FANNIE, 697
Fannie Henderson, 568
Fannie McPhail, 84, 338, 596
Fannie Price, 543
Fannie Woodard, 514
Faye Busby, 586
Ferne Grove (JAMES ARTHUR, JR., OF
JAMES ARTHUR, SR., OF 509)
FINLEY BLAKE OF CURTIS FINLEY, JR.
OF CURTIS FINLEY, SR., OF 531
FITZHUGH LEE, 506
FITZHUGH LEE, 509
Fleda Purkeson, 522
Fleta McWhorter, 568
FLETCHER, 50, 311
FLETCHER II, 676
Flora Grace, 685
Flora Matthews, 660
Flora Raines, 573
Florence Drawdy, 511
Florence Hancock, 587
Florence Shutes, 547
Florine Harris (BERT GWYNETT, JR., OF
BERT GWYNETT, SR., OF 506)
Flossie Harvey, 515
Flossie Lassiter, 574
FLOYD EUGENE OF JAMES
NEWTON OF 511
FLOYD VERNON, 574
FORDYCE SAMUEL, "FITZ", 574
FOSTER OF JAMES ELISHA OF 514
Fostine Tallon, 592
FRANCES, 21, 321
Frances Eblen, 533
Frances Gatliff (ROY ELWOOD, SR., OF
HARRY OTTIS SR., OF 612)
Frances Golden, 64, 331, 577
Frances Harrold (ROBERT EDWARD OF
JULIAN GEORGE, SR., OF 531)
Frances Lewis, 551
FRANCES PEARLE, 655
Frances Wilson, 566
FRANCIS ASBURY, JR., 76, 335, 726
FRANCIS ASBURY, SR., 1, 75, 77, 335
FRANCIS MARION, 25, 321, 639
FRANCIS SIDNEY, 531
FRANCIS WILSON, 655
Dowling, continued-
FRANK BRITT (Judge, OF DANIEL
DREW OF 504)
FRANK DEWEY, 565
FRANK JOSEPH, 8, 506
FRANK JOSEPH, JR. OF FRANK
JOSEPH OF 506
FRED, 509
FRED BENNY OF HARRY ELLIS OF 533
FRED JOHN, 543
FRED TOLBERT, 568
FRED TOLBERT, JR., OF FRED
TOLBERT OF 568
Freeda Altman (FLOYD EUGENE OF
JAMES NEWTON OF 511)
FREEMAN LAVERN OF JAMES DREW
OF JAMES GORDON OF 516
GABRIEL PASTORY, 50, 331, 566
GARY LANKFORD OF HORACE
LANKFORD OF WILLIAM CORLEY
OF 516
Gay Bear (ROBERT WALTER OF JOHN
DEWITT, SR., OF 543 )
Genara Scruggs, 514
GENERAL SOLLIE, 65, 578
GERALD OF EMMETT OTIS OF
DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564
Geraldine Cunningham, 597
Geraldine Gardner, 594
Gerona Donnell (EMMETT OTIS OF
DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564)
GEORGE OF GEORGE KIRBY OF 526
GEORGE B., 642
GEORGE BERTON, 571
GEORGE CARLE, 531
GEORGE DALLAS, 23, 24, 321, 531
GEORGE DENT, 717
GEORGE EMMA, 16
GEORGE FRANK, 717
GEORGE H., 74, 723
GEORGE KIRBY, 526
GEORGE LEE OF HEYWOOD
AUGUSTUS OF 571
GEORGE LOUIS JR., OF GEORGE
LOUIS, SR., OF 570
GEORGE LOUIS, SR., 570
GEORGE PARKER OF DAVID ALLEN
OF 509
GEORGE PIERCE, 69, 332, 717
GEORGE VOLLY, 574
GEORGE W., 726
GEORGE WASHINGTON, 46, 58, 331, 571
Georgia Craig (TOLLIE LEROY OF
IVEY OF 506)
Georgia Dunn, 63, 331, 574
Georgianna Hayes, 504
GERTRUDE, 591
Gertrude Cox, 506
Gertrude Cox, 509
Gertrude Dewitt, 543
Gertrude Dubose, 75, 335, 591
Gertrude Jones, 504
Gertrude Windham, (RALEIGH CARSWELL,
Dowling, continued-
JR., OF RALEIGH CARSWELL OF 514)
Gladys Ammons (WILLARD OF
WILLARD MORTON OF 509)
Gladys Barron, 596
Gladys Coleman, 516
Gladys Snuggs, 574
GLENN, 596
GLENN AARON (Doctor), 571
Gloria Ward, 561
Gloria Whitehead (GORDON FRANKLIN
OF JAMES WILEY, SR, OF 511)
GLYNWOOD OF WILLARD MORTON
OF 509
Golda Mullins, 568
GORDON FRANKLIN OF JAMES
WILEY, SR., OF 511
Grace Cameron (WALTER MELVY OF
WIILARD MORTON OF 509)
Grace Kellett, 596
Grace Mewborn, 566
GRADY FELTON OF CHARLIE
MITCHELL, SR., OF 511
GRADY MANCIL, 573
GRAFTON GEDDES, JR., 551
GRAFTON GEDDES, SR., 551
GRAFTON GEDDES III OF GRAFTON
GEDDES, JR., OF 551
GRAHAM PRICE, 543
GRAYMO, 568
GREEN BERRY YOUNG, 61, 331, 574
GUS T., 58, 571
GUSSIE B., 563
Gussie Raulerson, 514
GUY JEFFFRSON, 34, 553, 654
Gypsy Spear, 701
H.H. (see HAYWOOD HART)
HALLlE, 526
Hallie Mardre, 532
HANSFORD, 68, 71, 72, 332
HANSFORD JACKSON, 27, 322, 642
HARDEE BRYANT, 543
HARDEE BRYANT, (Dentist), 568
Harriet Sherman, 541
Harriett Jaudon, 25, 321
HARLEY OBIE, 565
HARRY OF LONIE &Viola OF 511
HARRY, 551
HARRY BRADFORD OF JULIAN
GEORGE, SR., OF 531
HARRY ELLIS, 533
HARRY ELONZO OF LYMON
CLAUDE OF 514
HARRY LELAND, 533
HARRY JAMES; 547
HARRY OTTIS, JR., OF HARRY
OTTIS, SR., OF 612
HARRY OTTIS, SR., 612
HARRY WILLIAM OF HARRY ELLIS
OF 533
HART OF R. A. OF 569
HART HUBERT, 565
HARTWELL EXCELL, 565
Dowling, continuedPage 232
HARVEY CLAYTON, JR., 566
HARVEY CLAYTON, SR., 566
Hattie Burton, 546
HATTIE, 506
HATTIE, 507
Hattie Cummings, 586
Hattie Hooks, 84, 338, 597
Hattie McLeod, 71, 335, 587
HAVELOCK EAVES, 521
HAYDEN W., 84, 338
HAYWOOD HART, 67, 569
HAZEL, 522
Hazel McCleary (RUSSELL EUGENE, SR.,
OF RALEIGH CARSWELL OF 514)
Haze1 Hannigan (JOSEPH DREW OF
DANIEL DREW OF 504)
Hazel Clements (DAVID HORACE OF
WILLIE OF 507)
Helen Dabney, 532
HELEN ELIZABETH OF WALTER MELVY
OF WILLARD MORTON OF 509
Helen Godfrey, 592
Helen Irvin, 557
Helen Kellum, 716
Helen Lee, 514
HELEN STUART, 557
Helen Reppert (PERRY LEE, JR., OF
PERRY LEE, SR., OF 507)
HENDERSON FOX, 565
HENDERSON JESSIE, 59, 331
Henrietta Bremer, 532
Henrietta Googe, 33, 323
Henrietta Williams, 23, 321
HENRY, 70
HENRY ALLEN, 76, 335
HENRY ALTON OF WILLIAM
AMBLER, SR., OF 515
HENRY ATWELL, 552
HENRY BASCOM, 563
HENRY DOZIER, JR., OF HENRY DOZIER,
SR., OF JAMES LONNIE, SR. OF 515
HENRY DOZIER, SR., OF JAMES LONNIE,
SR. OF 515
HENRY DOZIER III OF HENRY
DOZIER, JR., OF HENRY DOZIER, SR.,
OF JAMES LONNIE, SR., OF 515
HENRY ELIGHA, 523
HENRY GOOGE, 34, 323
HENRY GOOGE, JR., 557
HENRY GOOGE, SR., 557
HENRY GRADY, JR., 592
HENRY GRADY, SR. 592
HENRY HOYT, 651.1
HENRY JACKSON, 507
HENRY JACKSON, JR., OF HENRY
JACKSON OF 507
HENRY LANDON, 568
HENRY LAWRENCE, 570
HENRY LAWRENCE JR. OF HENRY
LAWRENCE OF 570
HENRY PORTER, 56, 568
HENRY SPANN, 521
Dowling, continued-
HENRY SPANN II, 521
HENRY TUCKER, 541
HENRY WILSON, 586
HENRY ZIMMERMAN OF JUDSON
DAVIE, JR., OF 568
HERBERT BASCOM, 563
HERBERT LEWIS, 553
HERMAN LOUIS OF WII.LIAM NOEL
OF 564
HERNDON GLENN, JR., 581
HERNDON GLENN, SR., 93, 581
HERSCHEL, 723
HESTER ANN, 9, 311
Hester Morgan (OLIN JEFFERSON OF
WILLIAM DENNIS, SR., OF 511)
Hester Stratachos, 543
Hester Walker, 507
HEYWARD BRIAN OF R. A. OF 569
HEYWOOD AUGUSTUS, 571
HEYWOOD AUGUSTUS, JR., OF
HEYWOOD AUGUSTUS OF 571
HILDA CLAIR, 543
HILTON OF GEORGE KIRBY OF 526
HOMER JESSE, 514
Honor Eliza Davis, 3, 311, 8
HORACE OF JACK J. OF 506
HORACE BILLY, "CHICK", OF
DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564
HORACE LANKFORD OF WILLIAM
CORLEY OF 516
HORACE MARTIN OF HOMER JESSE
OF 514
HORACE O'NEAL, JR., 566
HORACE O'NEAL, SR., 566
HUBERT ALTO, 574
HUBERT FRANK OF LEONARD
FRANKLIN OF 504
HUGH COSKREY, 716
HUGH DORSEY, 547
HUGH GRADY, 716
HUGH LAVEN, 587
HUGH McKENZIE OF JUDSON
DAVIE, JR., OF 568
HUGH REYNOLDS, 568
HUGH SHELTON, 596
Icy Barron, 598
Ida Connelly, 51, 58, 331, 570
Ida Folsom, 577
Ida Massey, 27, 322
IDA MISSOURI, 517
Ida Saunders, 523
Idelle Elledge, 557
Ila Horne (HARRY OTTIS, JR., OF
HARRY OTTIS, SR., OF 612)
Ila O'Berry (JOHN SHEPHERD OF
CHARLES EDWIN OF 501)
Ila Underwood, 551
Ila Waters, 547
Ima Spence, 570
INEZ, 723
Inez Jones (CLYDE HILTON OF DAVID
ALLEN OF 509)
Dowling, continued-
Inez Kuhn (EARL DEAN OF WILLIAM
CORLEY OF 516)
Inez Nichols, 551
Iona Anderson, 546
IRA, 509
IRENE GERTRUDE, 565
Irene Pratt, 533
Iris Price, 593
ISAAC, 23, 24, 321
ISABELL, 504
IVEY, "Doc", 506
IVY, 511
IZAKIAH J. TOM, 511
J. D. (i.o.) OF DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564
J. V. (female) Ballard, 546
J. WELSMAN, 74, 723
JABEZ, 35, 101, 311
JABEZ JACK 7, 311, 507
JABEZ LAYTON, 511
JABEZ LAZARUS, JR., 9, 311, 51I
JABEZ LAZARUS SR., 8, 311
JACK (n.m.i.), 557
JACK C. OF JAMES CARROLL OF
JOHN RICHARD OF 504
JACK DALE, 557
JACK J., 506
JACK LEON, 577
JACKSON DAVID, 506, 509
JACOB ELIJAH, 20, 312, 634
JAMES (Rev. Soldier) 2, 18, 38, 40, 61, 101
JAMES (n.m.i.) OF WILLIAM NOEL OF 564
JAMES, JR.,2, 5, 101, 322
JAMES (Confederate), 54, 61, 331
JAMES II, 7, 311
JAMES, 37, 324
JAMES AARON ELIJAH, 18, 312, 526
JAMES ALFRED, 504
JAMES ALLEN, 512
JAMES ALLEN OF VON HENRY OF 512
JAMES ALVIN OF WALTER EVERETT
OF 511
JAMES ANDREW OF ROBERT EDGAR
OF ROBERT LEE OF WILLIAM
AMBLER, SR., OF 515
JAMES ARTHUR, 517
JAMES ARTHUR, JR., OF JAMES
ARTHUR, SR., OF 509
JAMES ARTHUR, SR . 506, 509
JAMES AUSTIN OF HERBERT LEWIS
OF 553
JAMES BLACKSHEAR, 574
JAMES BENJAMIN OF JOHN H.
PERRY OF 504
JAMES BLANT, 573
JAMES CARL, 507
JAMES CARLOS OF HENRY
JACKSON OF 507
JAMES CARROLL OF JOHN
RICHARD OF 504
JAMES CLINTON, 701
JAMES CLEVELAND, 593
JAMES COSKREY, 716
Dowling, continuedPage 233
JAMES DARLING OF DARLING
EDWARD OF 517
JAMES DENNIS, 504
JAMES DENNIS OF MAXIE EDWIN
OF 504
JAMES DENNIS Ist, 516
JAMES DENNIS II OF CURTIS
DENNIS OF 516
JAMES DESO, 507
JAMES DESO, JR. OF JAMES DESO
OF 507
JAMES DEXTER, JR., OF JAMES
DEXTER, SR., OF 553
JAMES DEXTER, SR., 553
JAMES DOUGLAS, 567
JAMES DREW OF JAMES GORDON
OF 516
JAMES EDWARD OF ROBERT LEE OF
WILLIAM AMBLER, SR. OF 515
JAMES EDWARD, JR., OF JAMES
EDWARD, SR., OF TOM OF 517
JAMES ELISHA (IRA), 514
JAMES ELLISON, 547
JAMES ERVIN, 63, 331, 697
JAMES FADY, 564
JAMES FRANKLIN, 553
JAMES FRANKLIN, 515
JAMES GORDON, 516
JAMES H., 506
JAMES HAMILTON, 546
JAMES HAMILTON, JR, OF JAMES
HAMILTON, SR., OF 551
JAMES HAMILTON, SR., 551
JAMES HAMPTON, JR., 532
JAMES HAMPTON, SR ., 532
JAMES HAMPTON III OF JAMES
HAMPTON, JR., OF 532
JAMES HARRY, 556
JAMES IVEY OF JOSEPH LESTER,
SR., OF 506
JAMES J., 501
JAMES J., 507
JAMES JACKSON, 85, 86, 338
JAMES JOSEPH OF MONROE
JEFFERSON OF 547
JAMES KING, 49, 331
JAMES KING, II, 674
JAMES LAWRENCE OF WILLIAM
LEON, OF WILLIE OF 507
JAMES LAWTON (killed on Luzon)
OF JAMES NEWTON OF 511
JAMES LAZARUS, 514
JAMES LEMUEL 1st, 8, 506
JAMES LEMUEL II OF JAMES
LEMUEL 1st OF 515
JAMES LEMUEL III OF JAMES
LEMUEL II OF 515
JAMES LONNIE, JR. OF JAMES
LONNIE , SR., OF 515
JAMES LONNIE, SR., 515, 610
JAMES LLOYD OF WILLIAM NOEL
OF 564
Dowling, continued-
JAMES LOYD, 578
JAMES MADISON, 526
JAMES MELVIN, 507
JAMES MOORE OF WILLIAM ENNIS
OF 542
JAMES MULDROW, JR.,593
JAMES MULDROW, SR., 76, 335, 593
JAMES NEWTON, 511
JAMES PERRY OF JAMES BENJAMIN
OF JOHN H. PERRY OF 504
JAMES R., 11, 311, 516
JAMES RANDALL OF JOHN
RANDOL, JR., OF 511
JAMES RILEY (Senator), 8, 506
JAMES ROBERT (first Georgian kllled in
Korea) OF JOHN HENRY OF 514
JAMES ROBERT OF WOODROW
WILSON OF 582
JAMES ROBERT OF WILLIAM
ARTHUR OF 507
JAMES ROGER OF JAMES CARL OF 507
JAMES ROSCOE, 566
JAMES RUSSEL, 512
JAMES S. OF JOHN WESLEY, SR., OF 568
JAMES SHIRLEY OF JUDSON DAVIE,
JR., OF 568
JAMES STANLEY OF ELTON
ROMMIE OF 514
JAMES THEOPHILUS, 30, 323
JAMES VERNON OF FLOYD VERNON
OF 574
JAMES W. OF JAMES DENNIS 1st OF 516
JAMES WALTER, JR ., OF JAMES
WALTER, SR., OF 506
JAMES WALTER, SR., 506
JAMES WALTER III OF JAMES WALTER,
JR., OF JAMES WALTER SR. OF 506
JAMRS WALTER TOM, 26, 28, 322, 546
JAMES WILEY, JR., OF JAMES
WILEY, SR., OF 511
JAMES WILEY, SR., 511
JAMES WILSON, 566
JIM JOSEPH OF RICHARD JOSEPH,
SR.,OF 546
JIMMIE E., 547
JIMMY, 597
JIMMY, 654
JIMMY OF EMMETT OTIS OF
DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564
JIMMY OF JAMES WILEY, JR., OF
JAMES WILEY, SR., OF 511
JIMMY OF JOHN RANCE, JR. OF 547
JIMMY CARL OF DARLING EDWARD
OF 517
JIMMY DOYLE OF DOYLE LANGFORD
OF CHARLIE MITCHELL, SR.,OF 511
JIMMY MONROE OF MONROE
JEFFERSON OF 547
JIMMY WAYNE OF JAMES EDWARD,
SR. OF TOM OF 517
Jane ___, 5, 311
JANE., 21, 321
Dowling, continued-
Jane Brown, 64, 331
Jane Cleland, 26, 29, 322
Jane Hendershot (OSCAR LOUIS OF
JAMES ELISHA OF 514)
Jane Morgan, 504
Jane White, 26, 101, 322
Jane Windham, 56, 331, 568
JANET C. B., 563
Janet Davis, 571
JANICE, 578
Janie Chancey, 506
JANIS FAYE, 594
JARRETT MALONE, 58, 331, 688
JASPER BOSWELL, JR., 561
JASPER BOSWELL, SR., 44, 561
JEAN ALICE, 558
Jean Gardner (CHARLES BUIST III OF
CHARLES BUIST, JR., OF 522)
Jean Wyper 574
Jeanne Miller, 565
JEANNETTE, 506
Jeannette Leslie, 568
JEFF CLAUDE OF LYMON CLAUDE
OF 514
JEFFERSON, 50, 331, 676
JEFFERSON HUDSON, 547
JEFFERSON PARDUE, 557
Jennie Reynolds, 547
Jennie Thomas, 526
Jennie Nickels, 566
JEROME MARTIN OF WILLARD OF
WILLARD MORTON OF 509
JEROME MAURICE, JR., OF JEROME
MAURICE:, SR., OF 533
JEROME MAURICE, SR. (Commander) 553
JEROME MORTON OF WILLARD
MORTON OF 509
JERRE LAND (Colonel), 563
JERRY OF WILBERT NELSON OF 546
JERRY EUGENE OF WENDELL
LOWELL, SR., OF 561
JERRY FRANKLIN OF ANGUS ELBERT OF
ANGUS FRANK OF 564
JERRY HENRY OF CLAUDE HENRY
OF 541
JERRY LAWRENCE OF ELBERT LEE
OF JOSEPH LESTER,SR., OF 506
JERRY LEE OF ROY GERALD OF 547
Jerry Morgan, 577
JERRY WILLARD OF JESSE
WILLARD OF 512
JESSE BRYAN, 568
JESSE D., 512
JESSE LANG 541
JESSE WILLARD, 512
Jessie Hickox, 511
Jessie Joynes, 506
JESSIE R., 547
Jessie Scaife, 568
Jewel Deese, 546
Jewel Smith (RAYMOND DANIEL OF
DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564)
Dowling, continuedPage 234
JIM & JIMMY (see JAMES)
JIMMIE ELLA, 504
Jimmie Farmer (JAMES EDWARD, SR.
OF TOM OF 517)
Joann Bell, 578
JOAB MAULDIN, 551
JOAB MAULDIN, JR., OF JOAB
MAULDIN OF 551
JOE & JOEL (see JOSEPH)
JOHN (Rev. Soldier) 2, 32, 44, 50, 55, 67,
71, 101
JOHN, 25, 322
JOHN (Confederate) 11, 311, 515
JOHN, 506
JOHN, SR., 40, 55, 59, 331
JOHN AARON, 522
JOHN B., 27, 543
JOHN BABERS, 523
JOHN BRYANT, 27, 322, 543
JOHN BRYANT OF JOHN HENRY OF 514
JOHN C. 15, 312, 523
JOHN CALHOUN, JR., 556
JOHN CALHOUN, SR., 3, 34, 323, 556
JOHN CARROLL, 571
JOHN CARROLL OF RICHARD W. OF 564
JOHN CHAPEL, 76, 335, 592
JOHN CLYDE, 506
JOHN D., 10, 311, 512
JOHN DARLING Ist, 514
JOHN DARLING I I OF JAMES
ELISHA OF 514
JOHN DEWITT, JR. OF JOHN DEWITT,
SR., OF 543
JOHN DEWITT, SR., 543
JOHN DOUGLAS OF JOAB MAULDIN
OF 551
JOHN EDGAR, 592
JOHN EDWARD OF CURTIS FINLEY,
SR., OF 531
JOHN EDWIN OF DAVID ALLEN OF 509
JOHN EVERETT OF WILLIE ELBERT
OF 515
JOHN FRANCIS, JR., OF JOHN
FRANCIS, SR., OF 594
JOHN FRANCIS, SR., 594
JOHN FRANKLIN OF LONNIE & Jessie
OF 511
JOHN FREDERICK, 543
JOHN FREDERICK, JR., OF JOHN
FREDERICK OF 543
JOHN GASPER, 5
JOHN H., 20
JOHN H. OF CHARLES BUIST, JR., OF 522
JOHN H. PERRY, 504
JOHN HALL OF JOHN WESLEY II OF 563
JOHN HAMPTON, 33, 323
JOHN HARRISON, 84, 338, 596
JOHN HENRY, 514
JOHN HENRY, JR., OF JOHN HENRY,
SR., OF 547
JOHN HENRY, SR. 547
JOHN HENRY II, 546
Dowling, continued-
JOHN HENRY NELSON PAYNE, 11, 28,
322, 547
JOHN JABEZ, 30, 35, 101, 323
JOHN JEFFERSON, 33, 323
JOHN K., 596
JOHN LAMAR, 570
JOHN LAYTON, 512
JOHN MCFARLAND, 526
JOHN MADISON, 526
JOHN MOLLOY OF ANGUS MANCILL
OF 563
JOHN MOSES, 6, 504
JOHN PARROT, 58, 331
JOHN PERRY OF JOHN H. PERRY OF 504
JOHN RANCE, JR, 547
JOHN RANCE, SR., 547
JOHN RANCE III OF JOHN RANCE,
JR., OF 547
JOHN RANDOL, JR., 511
JOHN RANDOL, SR., 511
JOHN RANDOL III OF JOHN
RANDOL, JR., OF 511
JOHN RICHARD, 504
JOHN RILEY, 4, 11, 311, 501
JOHN RILEY, 515
JOHN ROBERT OF ROBERT
McMILLAN OF 582
JOHN SHEPHERD, "JACK", OF
CHARLES EDWIN OF 501
JOHN TIMOTHY, 501
JOHN TOLBERT, 564
JOHN VIRGIL, 30, 323, 552
JOHN W., 84, 338
JOHN WESLEY (Captain), 49, 52, 59, 331
JOHN WESLEY, 24, 321, 638
JOHN WESLEY, 5, 501
JOHN WESLEY, 726
JOHN WESLEY, JR., OF JOHN
WESLEY, SR., OF 568
JOHN WESLEY, SR., 568
JOHN WESLEY II, 563
JOHN WEST, 23, 322
JOHN WHITFIELD, JR., OF JOHN
WHITFIELD, SR.,OF 523
JOHN WHITFIELD, SR. 523
JOHN WHITNEY OF JOHN
WHITFIELD, JR., OF JOHN
WHITFIELD SR. OF 523
JOHN WILLIAM, 564
JOHN WILLIS (Catholic priest) OF
JOHN RICHARD OF 504
JOHN WYATT, 573
Johnnie Howell, 587
JOHNNY LEE, 547
JOHNNY OF ALBERT FONZO OF 543
JOHNNY JOHNSON OF AUDIE
JOHNSON OF CHARLIE
MITCHELL, SR., OF 511
JOHNNY L. ROY OF JOHN RANDOL,
JR., OF 511
JOE HARRY, 556
JOE LEE, 514
Dowling, continued-
JOEL FRAMPTON, JR., 551
JOEL FRAMPTON, SR., 551, ii
JOEL LOUIS, 582
JOEL P., 514
JOEL PERRY OF JOEL SPAIN OF 514
JOEL SPAIN, 514
JOSEPH, 36, 324
JOSEPH BASKERVIILE, 69, 332, 582
JOSEPH COTTRELL, 562
JOSEPH DREW OF DANIEL DREW OF 504
JOSEPH EDWARD OF DARLING
EDWARD OF 517
JOSEPH ELROY, 565
JOSEPH F., 546
JOSEPH JAMES, 547
JOSEPH LESTER, SR., 506, 507
JOSEPH LESTER, JR., OF JOSEPH
LESTER, SR., OF 506
JOSEPH LESTER, III OF JOSEPH
LESTER, JR., OF 506
JOSEPH PAYNE, 547
JOSEPH S., 506
Johanna Lau (FRANK BRITT OF
DANIEL DREW OF 504)
JON MICHAEL OF ROBERT
CARROLL OF 571
JOSEPHINE, 33, 323
Josephine ___, 506
Josephine ___, (LANGFORD A. OF
LETCHER OF 511)
Josephine Oosterga, 512
Josephine Prescott, 33, 323
Josephine Turner, 542
Josephine Wildes, 507
Joyce Collins (RALPH RAY OF RESSIE
TUCKER OF 541)
JUAL, 577
Juanita McCarty (JAMES ROBERT OF
WILLIAM ARTHUR OF 507)
JUDSON DAVIE, JR., 568
JUDSON DAVIE, SR., 56, 92, 568
JUDSON DAVIE III OF JUDSON
DAVIE, JR., OF 568
Judy Snodgrass (HARRY WILLIAM OF
HARRY ELLIS OF 533)
Julia A. Booth, 515
Julia Donaldson, 506
JULIA, 34, 323
Julia Howell, 501
Julia Lelery 16
Julia Wiles (JOSEPH LESTER, JR., OF
JOSEPH LESTER, SR., OF 506)
JULIAN GEORGE, JR., OF JULIAN
GEORGE, SR., OF 531
JULIAN LAMAR, 570
JULIAN PARDUE, 557
JUNE, 593
June Faulkner, 564
June Orr, 547
JUNIUS ALEXANDER, 504
Kansas Lloyd, 512
Kate Palmer, 504
Dowling, continuedPage 235
Katherine Dale, 565
Katherine Douglas, 551
Katie Cardwell, 598
Katie Moore (LEWIS ALBERT OF
ALBERT LEROY OF 517)
Kathleen Pugh, 563
Kathryn Dickey, 563
Kathryn Peter, 574
Kathryn Shirley, 568
Kathryn Stone, 701
KENNETH M. OF JOHN DEWITT, JR.,
OF JOHN DEWITT, SR., OF 543
KENNETH STEPHEN OF WILEY
EDWIN OF WILEY LAZARUS OF 514
KENT WARRINGTON OF HARRY OTTIS,
JR., OF HARRY OTTIS, SR., OF 612
KEZIAH, 68, 332
KEZIAH, 514
L.L., 577
LACY (died in Korean War) OF JOSEPH
LESTER, SR OF 506
La Don ___ (LEON OF JOHN HENRY,
SR., OF 547)
Lalia Crews, 506
LANGFORD A. OF LETCHER OF 511
LARRY, 654
LASHUM EDWARD, 516
Laura Bassett, 34, 323, 654
Laura Boswell, 48, 331, 563
LAURA CANNON, 521
Laura Cannon, 15, 312, 521
Laura Carver, 612
Laura Molloy, 563
Laura Newman, 568
LAURA V., 563
Laura Weeks, 24, 321, 532
LAURIN PINKNEY, JR., 594
LAURIN PINKNEY, SR., 594
Laverne Kite (CHARLES T. OF JAMES
LONNIE, SR., OF 515)
Lavonia Forehand, 65, 331, 578
LAWRENCE OF WILLIE NEWTON OF
JAMES NEWTON OF 511
LAWRENCE EDWARD OF EDWARD
LAMAR OF 570
LAWRENCE M., 504
LAWTON OF IVY OF 511
LAZARUS, 10, 311, 514
LAZARUS E., 514
Ledea Daugnault, 512
LEE, 515
Lee Gilbert (JAMES HAMILTON, JR.,
OF JAMES HAMILTON, SR., OF 551)
LEILA, 504
Leila Ambrose 33, 323
LEILA BELLE, 568
Leila Collier, 570
Leila Stewart, 574
Leila Owens, 565
LENDELL DON OF J. D. OF DANIEL
YOUNG II OF 564
Lemmer Dubose, 511
Dowling, continued-
Lena DeWitt, 522
LENARD LONNIE OF LONNIE & Viola
OF 511
LEO BERTIE, 565
LEO JAMES OF LEO BERTIE OF 565
Leola Large, 75, 335, 591
Leona Weiss, 597
LEON OF JOHH HENRY, SR., OF 547
LEON DUDLEY, 592
LEON LAWRENCE, 577
LEON LEWIS OF JOHN RICHARD OF 504
LEON PURVIS, JR.,OF LEON PURVIS
OF 541
LEON PURVIS SR., 541
LEONARD CALVIN OF JOHN
RICHARD OF 504
LEONARD FRANKLIN, 504
LEONARD JACKSON, 504
Leonora Mauldin, 551
LEROY, 512
LEROY, JR., OF LEROY, SR., OF 512
Leska Mitchell, 582
Leslie Griffith (WILIIAM McKINLEY
OF JAMES LONNIE, SR., OF 515)
LESTER LEWIS, 634
LETCHER, 511
Letitia Thomas, 8, 311, 509
LETTIE, 21, 37, 101
Lettie Murray, 63, 331, 697
LEVI (Reverend), 38, 67, 80, 83, 85, 101, 338
LEWIE MUSE OF WILEY LAZARIJS
OF 514
LEWIS, 24, 321
LEWIS ALBERT OF ALBERT LEROY
OF 517
LEWIS M., 20
LEWIS MARSHALL, 701
LEWIS MOSES, 517, 608
LEWIS WAYNE, 557
LEX EDWIN, 577
LEX GERALD OF LEX EDWIN OF 577
Lila Hester, 546
Lila Hewett, 543
Lila Seay (THOMAS AARON OF
AARON CHARNEY OF 515)
Lilla Ellis, 612
Lillian Baggett, 587
Lillian Halley, 514
Lillian Harper, 574
Lillian Lee, 582
Lillian MacKenzie, 568
Lillie Cleland, 3, 34, 323, 556
Lillie Kincannon, 84, 338, 598
LILY BERRY, 581
Lily Boyd, 553
Lily Horton, 511
Lilly Favata, 574
Linda Corbitt 504
LIONEL HART OF LEO BERTIE OF 565
Lizzie Britt, 504
Lizzie Wells (see Elizabeth Wells
Dowling)
Dowling, continued-
LIZZY D., 564
LLOYD (n.m.i.) OF WIILLIE ELBERT
OF 515
LLOYD (n.m.i.) OF WILLIAM NOEL
OF 564
LLOYD CEPHUS OF RAYMOND
COLQUITT OF 509
LLOYD MIILER OF LLOYD OF
WIILIE ELBERT OF 515
Loamy Thomas, 515
LOCKARD LEON, 574
Lois Bennett, 509
Lois Combs, (JAMES IVY OF JOSEPH
LESTER, SR., OF 506 )
Lois K. Combs, (JAMES W. OF JAMES
DENNIS 1st OF 516 )
Lois Cox (PAUL CLIFTON OF JOHN
HENRY OF 514)
Lois Duncan, 553
Lois Green, (WILLIAM MCKINLEY OF
JAMES LONNIE, SR., OF 515)
Lois Mays, 541
Lola Bell, 573
Lola Hayes, (JOHN PERRY OF JOHN H.
PERRY OF 504)
Lola Thomas (JAMES LEMUEL II OF
JAMES LEMUEL 1st OF 506)
LONNIE, (husband of Viola), 511
LONNIE,(husband of Jessie and
Margaret) 511
Lonnie Blount (EDWIN FRANK OF
DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564)
LONNIE EARL OF LONNIE & Margaret
OF 511
LORAN A. OF EZRA MARTIN OF 514
LORAN ALONZO, 514
LORETTA S. ( WILLIE NEWTON OF
JAMES NEWTON OF 511 )
Lota Cato, 18, 312
LOU, 504
Lou Ogden, 26, 322, 542
LOUIE FRANK OF BASCOM OF 564
LOUIE MUSE OF WILEY LAZARUS
OF 514
LOUIS AARON OF CHARLES EDWIN
OF 501
LOUIS LAWRENCE, 51, 58, 331, 570
LOUIS MAJOR, JR., 592
LOUIS MAJOR, SR., 592
Louise Arnette, 574
Louise Cleveland, 552
Louise Harrell, 592
Louise Smith, 557
Loulie Haile, 551
Lovie Roberts, 504
LOYAL, 717
LOYAL WALTER, 582
Lozelle Beasley, 533
LUCIAN, 547
Lucilla Russell, 70, 332
Lucille Davidson, 512
Dowling, continuedPage 236
Lucille Giddins, (EMORY MARTIN OF
WILLIAM AMBLER SR., OF 515)
Lucille Stringer, 717
Lucille Tuten (LORAN A. OF EZRA
MARTIN OF 514)
Lucille Ward, 533
LUCIOUS RHETT, 31, 323, 651.1
Lucy Chesser (GRADY FELTON OF
CHARLIE MITCHELL, SR., OF 511)
Lucy Fort, 676
Lula Dixon, 29, 322, 547
Lula Dubose, 514
Lula Tindyll, 563
Luree Aldridge, 517
Lydia Sue Kelley, 76, 335, 726
Lydia Simms, 571
LYMAN EDWARD OF EDWARD
LAMAR OF 570
LYMON CLAUDE, 514
M. Y., 65, 331
M. E. (female) McFarland, 526
MABLE GLENN, 581
MACK DAVID, 568
MADISON, 37, 124
Mae Curis, 546
Mae Franklin (EMORY MARTIN OF
WILLIAM AMBLER, SR., OF 515)
MAGGIE, 504
MAGGIE, 674
Maggie Baker, 565
Maggie Barnes, 60, 331
Maggie Bell, 511
Maggie Horne, 561
Maggie Sturtevant 507
Maggie Zettles, 612
MARGARET, 21, 321
MARGARET, 551
Margaret Alden, 4, 311, 501
MARGARET ANN, 565
MARGARET ANN, 654
Margaret Buckley, 523
Margaret Cohen, 717
Margaret Eaves, 521
Margaret Jones, 511
Margaret Kelley, 50, 331, 533
Margaret Kelly, 676
Margaret Mixson, 553, 654
Margaret Morton, 547
Margaret O'Berry, 512
Margaret Pearson, 569
Margaret Pons, 546
Margaret Quattlebaum, 15, 312, 625
Margaret Thompson, 586
MARGARET WYMAN, 557
MAGNUS DANIEL OF WILLIAM
LEON, OF WILLIE OF 507
Mahaley Ogden, 22, 321
Malisia James, 29, 546
MALTIE KATHLEEN, 592
Mamie Hall, 563
Mamie Milton, 515
MARCELCUS, 565
Dowling, continued-
Marcia Ansted (THOMAS EDWARD OF
JOHN WHITFIELD, SR., OF 523)
MARCUS, 565
MARCUS GRADY OF GRADY FELTON
OF CHARLIE MITCHELL, SR., OF 511
MARCUS LEON, 565
MARGARET (see MAGGIE)
Margie Matthews, 542
Marguerite Lockhart, 688
Maria Holman, 16, 312
Marian James, 29
Marie ___, 506
Marie ___, 717
Marie Hulon (HERMAN LEWIS OF
WILLIAM NOEL OF 564)
Marie McAlister, 511
Marie McDaniel, 598
Marie Peterson, 561
Marietta George, 546
MARION EARLE OF EDWARD
LAMAR OF 570
MARION JACKSON, 43, 331, 561
MARION MILLER, JR., OF MARION
MILLER, SR., OF 551
MARION MILLER, SR., OF 551
MARION PRESCOTT, 561
Marion Turnbull (JAMES WALTER, JR.,
OF JAMES WALTER, SR., OF 506)
Marjorie Jones, 565, 731
Marjorie Mason, 551
Marjorie White, 591
MARLIN BASIL DON OF CHARLIE
MITCHELL, SR. , OF 511
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE, 49, 331
MARTHA, 504
MARTHA, 506, 509
Martha Collins, 17, 312
Martha Day, 70, 332
MARTHA E., 564
MARTHA ERIN, 593
Martha Hardin, 591
Martha Heath, 75, 77, 335
Martha Hollis, 509
Martha Howell, 62, 331, 572
Martha Jones, 70, 332, 586
MARTHA M., 83, 85, 338
Martha Rowell, 507, 604
Martha Snell, 564
Martha Stokes, 39, 41, 101, 331
Martha Thornton, 29, 332, 546
Martha Watson, 582
Martha Weaver, 68, 332
MATTIE, 563
Mattie Crews, 517
Mattie Dryden, 506
Mattie Griffin, 608
MATTIE L., 726
Mattie McMillan, 582
Mattie Meetze, 522
Mattie Miller, 551
Mattie Stewart, 592
Dowling, continued-
MARTIN ELMER OF EZRA MARTIN
OF 514
MARTIN EDGAR, 514
MARTIN R., 43, 331
MARVIN, 564
MARY, 5
MARY, 523
MARY, 723
MARY, 504
Mary ___ , 67, 71, 101, 332
MARY AGNES, 726
Mary Altman (VERNON DALHART OF
WILEY LAZARUS OF 514)
Mary Anderson, 507
Mary Avery, 504
Mary Babers, 15, 312, 523
Mary Barnett, 24, 321, 531
Mary Beasley (JAMES LONNIE, JR., OF
JAMES LONNIE, SR., OF 515)
Mary Bennett, 514
Mary Berney (WALTER RILEY OF
GEORGE LOUIS, SR., OF 570 )
Mary Boles (MARLIN BASIL DON OF
CHARLIE MITCHELL, SR., OF 511)
Mary Boutwell, 21, 30, 35, 101
Mary Brooker, 517
Mary Carver, 531
Mary Coskrey, 69, 332, 716
MARY O., 504
Mary Dorn, 561
Mary Frampton, 651.1
Mary Freeman, 504
Mary Gay, 547
Mary Geer, 651.1
Mary Goethe, 32, 323, 651.1
Mary Goldberg, 553
Mary Griffin (FLOYD EUGENE OF
JAMES NEWTON OF 511)
Mary Guy, 10, 311, 514
Mary Harper, 577
Mary Harrell, 541
Mary Harris, 12, 311, 517
Mary Highsmith, 506
Mary Huckerby, 85, 338
MARY JOICY, 578
Mary Leddon, 65, 331, 578
Mary Long, 30, 323
MARY LOUISE, 546
MARY LOUISE, 552
MARY LOUISE, 557
MARY MARGARET, 553
Mary Martin, 512
Mary Merrier (PERRY CALVIN OF
WILEY LAZARUS OF 514)
Mary Miles (JAMES LEMUEL III OF
JAMES LEMUEL II OF JAMES
LEMUEL 1st OF 506)
Mary Moore, 6, 311
Mary Murphy, 551
Mary McCloud, 514
Mary McDonald, 18, 312, 526
Mary Faxon, 506
Dowling, continuedPage 237
Mary Finder (CLARENCE LEONARD,
SR., OF JOHN H PERRY OF 504)
Mary Rachels, 543
Mary Rowell (CLYDE HILTON OF
DAVID ALLEN OF 509)
Mary Thames, 32, 323, 553
Mary S . ___, 83, 338
Mary Shytle, 592
Mary Snider, 312
Mary Strickland, 511
Mary (Esther) Sullivan, 34, 323, 557
MARY SUSAN, 551
Mary Swilley, 504
Mary VanDeMaIe (ROBERT WALTER
OF JOHN DEWITT, SR., OF 543)
Mary Whisonant, 556
Mary Yarborough, 77, 335, 594
MARY YVONNE, 593
MASON MORTON, 56, 568
MATT (see MARTHA)
MATTHEW B., 5, 311
MATTHEW MARION OF JOHN
WESLEY II OF 563
Maude Sledge, 568
Maude Wiggins, 553
Mavis Hutchinson, 512
Mavis Baxter, 582
MAX CUMMINGS, 586
MAXCY EDWIN, 504
Maxine Joyner (JOHN DEWITT, JR. OF
JOHN DEWITT, SR., OF 543)
Maxine O'Brian, 556
McIVER DUBOSE, 591
MELINDA AVEY, 11, 311, 612
MELINDA RUTH, 551
Melinda Sapp, 514
Melissa Duncan, 504
Melissa Gigger, 511
Melissa Pridgen, 568
Melissa Thomas, 514
Melvina Jordan (WAYNE KENNETH OF
RUDOLPH JOHN OF WILLIE
ELBERT OF 515)
MELVIN OF JACK J. OF 506
MELVY DAVID OF WALTER MELVY
OF WILLARD MORTON OF 509
Meredith Holt, 557
MERLE E. OF CHARLIE MITCHELL,
SR., OF 511
MERTIE JEWELL, 574
META LEE , 522
MICHAEL OF WALTER CECIL OF
AARON WALTER OF 506
MICHAEL OF JOHN LAYTON OF 512
MICHAEL CHARLES OF CHARLES
HERBERT OF 547
MICHAEL CUMMINGS OF MAX
CUMMINGS OF 586
MICHAEL CURTIS OF CURTIS
DENNIS OF 516
MICHAEL DOUGLAS OF JOHN
WHITFIELD, JR., OF JOHN
Dowling, continued-
WHITFIELD, SR., OF 523
MICHAEL DOWLING OF EARLY
RALPH OF 565
MICHAEL LAMAR OF EDWARD
LAMAR OF 570
MICHAEL OLIVER, 557
MICHAEL PAUL OF WILLIAM ELMO
OF 512
MICHAEL SIDNEY OF ELTON
ROMMIE OF 514
MICHAEL THOMAS OF THOMAS
FRED OF WILEY LAZARUS OF 514
Middie Banks, 507
Mildred Brooks, 546
Mildred Marshall, 571
Mildred Herring, 512
Mildred Smith, 574
Mildred Torrence, 558
MILES, 27, 322
MILLY, 2, 101
MISSOURI, 506
MILTON, 504
MILTON WAYNE, 598
Minnie Gillen, 25, 321, 639
Minnie Dennard, 531
Minnie Habney, 565
Minnie Harris, 509
Minnie Johnson, 511
Minnie Roddenberry, 506
Minnie Rouse, 517
Minnie Turner 573
Minor King, 514
Mitty Hagler, 564
Mollie Carroll, 46, 58, 331, 571
Monette Baggette (OSCAR OF WILLIE
SIMUEL OF 564)
MONROE JEFFERSON, 547
Morrell Hodges (HORACE BILLY OF
DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564)
MORRIS OF JACK J. OF 506
MORRIS MARTIN, 514
MORTON DAVID, 591
MOSES AARON, 506, 613
MOYE CLIFTON, JR., 553
MOYE CLIFTON, SR., 553,
MUNCY, 674
MYRT M., 565
MYRTICE OF WILLIAM AMBLER, SR,
OF 515
Myrtle Anderson, 541
Myrtle Jackson 591
Myrtle Truett (AUSWALL OF DANIEL
YOUNG II OF 564)
Nan Jones, 564
Nancy Boutwell, 39, 89, 101
Nancy Brown, 64, 331, 701
Nancy Burnsed, 506
Nancy Cook, 35, 101, 324
Nancy Dryden, 514
Nancy Harris, 506, 613
Nancy Harrod, 69, 332, 547
Nancy Highsmith, 509
Dowling, continued-
Nancy Holbrook, 19, 312
Nancy Martin, 61, 331
Nancy O'Quinn, 509
Nancy Robertson (DAVID RICHARD OF
JAMES MELVIN OF 507 )
Nancy Taylor, 10, 311, 512
Naomi Zink (PAGE OF LYMON
CLAUDE OF 514)
Narvis Davidson, 582
NED JEFFERSON, 35, 558
Nettie Johns, 515
NELL OF FRED TOLBERT OF 568
Nell Hart, 587
NELLIE, 546
Nellie Hinkle, 512
Net Marsh, 65, 331
NETTIE, 546
NETTIE, 563
NETTIE CLYDE, 716
Nina Barrette, 533
Nina Graves, 568
Nina Pelton, 571
Nita Gay, 581
Nina Smith (WALLACE LEON OF
LOCKARD LEON OF 574)
NOAH COLUMBUS, 70, 332, 586
NOEL, 47, 331
NOEL BAXTER, 57, 331, 569
NOEL HOPPS OF RAYMOND
COLQUITT OF 509
NOEL MITCHELL, 569
NOEL MITCHELL, JR., OF NOEL
MITCHELL OF 569
NOEL PEELER, 49, 59, 60, 331, 674, ii
NOEL THOMAS, 90, 563
Nola Wilcox, 547
NORA, 547
NORA, 514
Nora Bowen, 566
Nora Harbin, 578
Nora Jacobs, 514
Nora Lewis, 571
NORMA JEAN, 594
Norma Tallevast (THOMAS FRED OF
WILEY LAZARUS OF 514)
NORMAN EDWIN OF HAVELOCK
EAVES OF 521
NORMAN FRED OF THOMAS FRED
OF WILEY LAZARUS OF 514
NORMAN LAMAR, 582
Odella Waldron, 507
Ola Goodman (HORACE LANKFORD
OF WILLIAM CORLEY OF 516 )
OLIN OF HENRY JACKSON OF 507
OLIN JEFFERSON OF WILLIAM
DENNIS, SR., OF 511
Olive Fubtz, 566
OLIVER PERRY, 33, 35, 323
OLIVER PERRY, 557
OLIVER PERRY II, "DOLLY"' 34, 323, 558
OLIVER PERRY III' "PETE", 35, 558
OLIVER TORRENCE, 558
Dowling, continuedPage 238
Ollie Higgins 546
Ollie Sweat, 516
OMER HOKE, 574
Omie O'Steen, 514
Oneita Smith, 701
Ophie Stockton, 568
Orilla Truluck, 594
OSCAR, "PREACHER", 509
OSCAR (Doctor), 31, 78, 563
OSCAR (n.m.i.) OF WILLIE SIMUEL
OF 564
OSCAR LOUIS OF JAMES ELISHA OF 514
OSCAR POWELL, 504
OSCAR WILTON, 565
OSWALD, 506
OSWALD, 577
PAGE OF LYMON CLAUDE OF 514
PATRICIA ___, (REX O. OF HUBERT
ALTO OF 574)
PATRICIA, 523
PATRICIA, 578
Patricia Hazelief (JOHN DEWITT, JR.,
OF JOHN DEWITT SR., OF 543)
Patricia Loper (BOBBY OF LONNIE &
Viola OF 511)
Patricia Moore, 574
Patsy Winouski (JOEL PERRY OF JOEL
SPAIN OF 514)
PAUL, C., 509
PAUL CLIFTON OF JOHN HENRY OF 514
PAUL EDWIN, 651.1
PAUL LEE, JR., OF PAUL LEE, SR., OF 574
PAUL LEE, SR., 574
PAULINE, 568
Pauline Batten, 512
Pauline BoswelI, 578
Pauline Dillashaw, 587
Paytie Crews, 516
Pearl Aultman (HORACE MARTIN OF
HOMER JESSE OF 514)
Pearl Little (LENARD LONNIE OF
LONNIE OF 511)
Pearl Payne, 566
Pearl Davis, 504
Pearl Hundley, 577
PEELER (see NOEL PEELER)
Peggy Johnson (CARROLL OF
WILLIAM DENNIS, SR., OF 511)
Peggy Purcell, 581
PERCY, 542
Perla Bush, 716
Permelia Head, 74, 101
PERRY CALVIN OF WILEY LAZARUS
OF 514
PERRY FRANKLIN, 514
PERRY LEE, 12, 517
PERRY LEE, JR., OF PERRY LEE, SR.,
OF 507
PERRY LEE, SR., 507
PERRY LEE III, OF PERRY LEE, JR.,
OF PERRY LEE, SR., OF 507
Dowling, continued-
PERRY MARTIN OF WILLIAM
MARTIN OF WILLIAM AMBLER,
SR., OF 515
PHILIP ARTHUR, 533
PHILIP HENRY, 24, 321, 533
PHILIP SHANKS OF MARION
MILLER, SR., OF 551
PHILIP TERRY OF ELTON ROMMIE
OF 514
PHILLIP, 593
PHYLLIS EILEEN, 594
PINKNEY MANCIL, 64,, 331, 701
POLLIE, 21, 37, 101
Polly Crews (REAVIS OF ELTON
ROMMIE OF 514)
Polly Heath, 74, 101, 335
Polly Melton, 517
Polly Thomason, 568
Polly Weeks, 25, 321, 639
PORTER GARLAND OF THOMAS
LAWSON OF 568
Primrose Palmer (WILEY EDWIN OF
WILEY LAZARUS OF 514)
R. A. (author of this book), 94, 569, ii
RALEIGH CARSWELL, 514
RALEIGH CARSWELL, JR., OF
RALEIGH CARSWELL OF 514
RALEIGH CARSWELL III OF
RALEIGH CARSWELL, JR.,
OF RALEIGH CARSWELL OF 514
RALPH RAY OF RESSIE TUCRER OF 541
RALPH WAYNE OF MILTON WAYNE
OF 598
RANDALL ARTHUR OF WILLIAM
ARTHUR OF 507
RANSOM T ., 546
RANSOM TUCKER, 27, 322
RAY A., (i.o.), 569
Raye Christie, 543
RAYMOND BRITTON OF R. A. OF 569
RAYMOND CULLEN OF NOEL HOPPS
OF RAYMOND COLQUITT OF 509
RAYMOND COLQUITT, 509
RAYMOND DANIEL OF DANIEL
YOUNG II OF 564
RAYMOND GENE OF WILLIAM
AMBLER, JR. OF WILLIAM
AMBLER, SR., OF 515
RAYMOND JACKIE, 587
RAYMOND RUSSELL OF ELTON
ROMMIE OF 514
REAVIS OF ELTON ROMMIE OF 514
Rebecca ___, 4, 101, 311
Rebecca ___, 7, 311
REBECCA, 507
REBECCA, 591
Rebecca Dick, 49, 331, 565
REBECCA E., 6, 311
Rebecca Staley, 16, 312
Rebecca Walker, 3, 12, l01
RESSIE TUCKER, 541
REUBEN WAVERLY, 582
Dowling, continued-
REX C. OF HUBERT ALTO OF 574
Rhoda Craven, 512
Rhoda Crews, 514
Rhodora Corcoran, 565
RICHARD DALE OF DANIEL ELLIS
OF 512
RICHARD DONALD OF JOHN HENRY,
SR., OF 547
RICHARD DREW OF FRANK BRITT
OF DANIEL DREW OF 504
RICHARD EVAN OF THOMAS ALVIN
OF 512
RICHARD HAMILTON, 553
RICHARD JOSEPH, JR., OF
RICHARD JOSEPH, SR., OF 546
RICHARD JOSEPH, SR., 546
RICHARD LEWIS OF HERBERT
LEWIS OF 553
RICHARD LYNN OF WOODROW
WILSON OF 582
RICHARD SLOAN OF JOHN WESLEY
II OF 563
RICHARD W., 564
RICHARD WARREN, JR., OF
RICHARD W. OF 564
RICKY ELBERT OF ANGUS ELBERT
OF ANGUS FRANK OF 564
RILEY JOHN, 515
RILEY R., 33, 323
Rilla Aldridge, 511
Rita Carver, 565
ROBERT (ancestor of thousands in this
book), 1, 21, 38, 67, 101, iv
ROBERT ALTO, 574
ROBERT CARROLL, 571
ROBERT CECIL, 597
ROBERT CHANDLER, 541
ROBERT DALE OF WILLIAM
MORTON, SR., OF WALTER
MELVY OF WILLARD MORTON
OF 509
ROBERT EARL OF JAMES WILEY,
SR., OF 511
ROBERT EARL OF GLYNWOOD OF
WILLARD MORTON OF 509
ROBERT EDGAR OF ROBERT LEE OF
WILIIAM AMBLER, SR., OF 515
ROBERT EDWARD OF JULIAN
GEORGE, SR., OF 531
ROBERT EDWIN OF WILEY EDWIN
OF WILEY LAZARUS OF 514
ROBERT GRADY, 701
ROBERT JAMES, 59, 331
ROBERT JOHNSON, 596
ROBERT LEE, 597
ROBERT LEE OF BASCOM OF 564
ROBERT LEE OF NORMAN LAMAR
OF 582
ROBERT LEE OF WILLIAM AMBLER,
SR., OF 515
ROBERT LEE, JR., 531, ii
ROBERT LEE, SR., 24, 531
Dowling, continuedPage 239
ROBERT LEROY, 578
ROBERT LOUIS "BUDDY", 568
ROBERT McMILLAN, 582
ROBERT MONROE, 660, 685
ROBERT NELSON, JR., 542
ROBERT NELSON, SR., 26, 322, 542
ROBERT NEWMAN, 568
ROBERT S., 81, 338
ROBERT VIRGLE, 574
ROBERT WALTER OF JOHN DEWITT
SR., OF 543
ROBERT WARREN OF HERBERT
LEWIS OF 553
ROBERT WAYNE OF WALTER FAY
OF 586
ROBERT YOUNG, 568
ROBERT ZEDOCK, 84, 338, 597
RODNEY EUGENE OF CARLTON
EUGENE OF 587
ROGERS BENJAMIN OF HERNDON
GLENN, JR., OF 581
RONALD OF ROY ELWOOD, SR., OF
HARRY OTTIS, SR. OF 612
RONALD C. OF MAX CUMlMINGS OF 586
RONALD DEE OF NORMAN LAMAR
OF 582
RONALD TERRY OF WALTER FAY OF 586
RONALD WARD OF GEORGE LOUIS,
JR.. OF GEORGE LOUIS, SR.,
OF 570
Roney Rhoden, 512
ROSA KIRBY, 552
ROSA NELL, 574
ROSCOE, 642
Rose Cotter (HENRY LAWRENCE, .JR.,
OF HENRY LAWRENCE OF 570)
Rose Lane, 511
Rosena Youmans, 553
ROSIE G., 726
ROSSIE CECIL OF RAYMOND
COLQUITT OF 509
ROY ELWOOD, JR ., OF ROY
ELWOOD, SR., OF HARRY OTTIS,
SR., OF 612
ROY ELWOOD, SR., OF HARRY
OTTIS, SR., OF 612
ROY GERALD, 547
ROY LANIER, 570
Ruby Crews, 507
Ruby Foster (RAYMOND RUSSELL OF
ELTON ROMMIE OF 514)
Ruby Dyal, 504
Ruby Fox, 565
RUBY J., 574
Ruby Lee, 514
Ruby Lilly, 571
Ruby I. Thomas, 587
RUDOLPH JOHN OF WILLIE ELBERT
OF 515
RUFUS MAYS, 723
Dowling, continued-
RUSSELL EUGENE, JR., OF RUSSELL
EUGENE, SR., OF RALEIGH
CARSWELL OF 514
RUSSELL EUGENE, SR., OF RALEIGH
CARSWELL OF 514
RUSSELL LYNN OF DHU OF 582
RUSSELL Y. OF EDWIN FRANK OF
DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564
RUTH B., 571
Ruth Byrd, 571
RUTH ESTELLE, 552
Ruth Havener, 522
Ruth Johns (JOHNNY L. ROY OF JOHN
RANDOL, JR. OF 511)
Ruth Jones, 526
Ruth Lutz (JOHN DARLING II OF
JAMES ELISHA OF 514)
Ruth O'Berry, 558
Ruth Merrill, 514
Ruth Minium, 531
Ruth Parker, 568
RYAN ELI, 504
Sadie Cawthon, 517
Sadie Cox (GEORGE PARKER OF
DAVID ALLEN OF 509)
SADIE LEE, 593
SAINT ELMO OF JOE LEE OF 514
SALLIE, 21, 37, 10l
Sallie Carter, 512
SALLIE J., 543
Sallie McLeod, 504
Sallie Tucker, 69, 332, 582
Sallie Hammock, 685
Sallie Mac Williams, 568
Sara Lewis (JAMES LAWTON OF
JAMES NEWTON OF 511)
SARA, 506
Sara Mann (CURTIS FINLEY, JR., OF
CURTIS FINLEY, SR., OF 531)
SARAH, 506
SARAH, 509
SARAH, 511
SARAH, 512
SARAH, 1, 101
Sarah ___, 20, 101
SARAH, 74, 335
Sarah ___, (BERNARD JAMES OF
LOUIS AARON OF CHALES
EDWIN OF 501)
Sarah Brown, 64. 331
Sarah Davis, 506
Sarah Dixon (WILLIAM OSWALD OF
JOEL SPAIN OF 514)
Sarah Guinn, 1, 2, 13, 21, 35, 67, 101
Sarah Hickox, 7, 311, 507
Sarah Johns, 11, 311, 515
Sarah Lane, 556
SARAH L., 556
Sarah Lee, 516
SARAH LOUISE OF JAMES MELVIN
OF 507
Dowling, continued-
Sarah Martin (FREEMAN LAVERN OF
JAMES DREW OF JAMES
GORDON OF 516)
Sarah McDonald, 47, 331
Sarah Moore, 76, 335
Sarah Prichard, 501
Sarah Roberson, 511
Sarah Stephenson (ANGUS ELBERT OF
ANGUS FRANK OF 564)
Sarah Tatum, 509
SARAH VIOLA, 33, 323
Sarah Welch, 48, 331, 564
Sarah Jane Windham, 56. 331, 568
Sarah Winn, 7, 311, 506
Salome Taylor, 533
SAM OF JULIAN GEORGE, JR., OF
JULIAN GEORGE, SR., OF 531
SAMUEL CHARLTON, 594
SAMUEL GARDNER, 594
SAMUEL L., 84, 338
SAMUEL LAWSON, 56, 331, 568
SAMUEL LEONARD, JR., 504
SAMUEL LEONARD, SR., "LEON", 504
SAMUEL MARION, 568
SAMUEL PINKNEY, 77, 335, 594
SAMUEL SEWALL, 76, 335
SAMUEL SOLOMON, 716
Saphronia Johns, 541
SARA & SARAH (see SALLIE)
SCOTT (n.m.i.), OF NORMAN LAMAR
OF 582
SEBE S., 506
Selina Moss, 625
Selma Shelton, 568
SELMON CALVESTUS, 578
SHELLEY DUKE, 59
SHELLIE M., 688
SHELTON ISAAC, 83, 84, 338, 598
Sherrill Cofield (WILLIAM LAWSON,
SR., OF JUDSON DAVIE, JR.,
OF 568)
SHIRLEY F. OF WILLIAM ARTHUR
Shirley Gunter, 561
Shirley Peacock, 553
Shirley Schmidt (JULIAN GEORGE, JR.,
OF JULIAN GEORGE, SR., OF 531)
SIMEON, 1, 38, 67 80, 86, 101
SIMEON (Confederate), 48, 59, 331, 564
SIMON HAGOOD, 716
SIMPSON QUITMAN, 64, 331, 577
Sophia Rogenski, 578
Sophie Davis, 10, 311
SPENCER GRACE, 515
STANLEY, 634
Stella Jones, 563
Stella Rhoden, 515
STEPHEN (n.m.i.), 593
STEPHEN BERGHEM OF DANIEL
BAKER & Adeline OF 565
STEPHEN BRITT OF WALTER RILEY
OF GEORGE LOUIS, SR., OF 570
STEPHEN EDWARD, 60, 331
Dowling, continuedPage 240
STEPHEN ELLIOT OF JOHN PERRY
OF JOHN H. PERRY OF 504
STEPHEN TUCKER, 29, 547
STEPHEN WALTER OF VIRGLE
WALTER OF ELVIE LEWIS OF 517
STEVEN CALVESTUS, 65, 331, 578
STEWART ALLEN, 574
STEWART ARNETTE OF FORDYCE
SAMUEL OF 574
STUART PUGH OF HERBERT
BASCOM OF 563 (also see 78)
Sue ___, (DODGE OF LYMON
CLAUDE OF 514)
Sue Cox (AUDIE JOHNSON OF
CHARLIE MITCHELL, SR.,OF 511)
Sue Kelley, 76, 335, 726
SUSAN, 522
SUSAN L., 84, 338
Susan Barnes, 30, 101 323
Susan Crews, 9, 311, 511
Susan Dryden, 514
Susie Whiddon (WILLIAM RALPH OF
CHARLES EDWIN OF 501)
SYLVESTER OF CHARLIE OF 506
SUZANNA OF JAMES BLACKSHEAR
OF 574
TAFT, 523
Tansy Britt 56, 331, 685
Tebetha Poole, 20
TED EARL OF WILLIAM DENNIS,
SR., OF 511
Tennie Warren, 597
TERRY OF WALLACE RAY OF 586
TERRY CHARLES OF AUDIE
JOHNSON OF CHARLIE
MITCHELL, SR., OF 511
THELMA, 514
Thelma Highsmith (CHARLES BURIE
OF WILLARD MORTON OF 509)
Thelma Massingill, 598
Thelma Pace (LOUIS AARON OF
CHARLES EDWIN OF 501)
Thelma Pelton, 504
Thelma Rhodes, 574
Thelma Riley, 570
THEON OF HENRY JACKSON OF 507
THOMAS, 24, 321, 532
THOMAS OF JAMES MADISON OF 526
THOMAS, 506
THOMAS AARON OF AARON
CHARNEY OF 515
THOMAS ALLEN, 594
THOMAS ALVIN, 512
THOMAS ALVIN JR., OF THOMAS
ALVIN OF 512
THOMAS BEN, 577
THOMAS BERRIAN, 531
THOMAS CAMPBELL OF JULIAN
GEORGE, SR., OF 531
THOMAS COUNTS, 523
THOMAS DERWOOD OF WILLIAM
DENNIS, SR., OF 511
Dowling, continued-
THOMAS EDWARD, 593
THOMAS EDWARD OF JOHN
WHITFIELD, SR., OF 522
THOMAS EDWARD OF WILLIE OF 507
THOMAS EDWARD CALHOUN, 556
THOMAS ELIJAH, 522
THOMAS FRED OF WILEY LAZARUS
OF 514
THOMAS IRVING, JR., OF THOMAS
IRVING, SR., OF 522
THOMAS IRVING, SR., 92, 522
THOMAS J., 506
THOMAS J. 546
THOMAS JAMES, 514
THOMAS JEFFERSON OF WILLIAM
ARTHUR OF 507
THOMAS JESSE, 532
THOMAS LAWSON, 568
THOMAS LEE OF THOMAS J. OF 546
THOMAS STEPHEN, 546
TOM (see JAMES WALTER TOM OF
546)
TOM (n.m.i.), 517
TOMMIE, 547
TOMMY DHU OF DHU OF 582
TOMMY ROSCOE OF LONNIE &
Jessie OF 511
TIMOTHY HORACE OF HORACE
BILLY OF DANIEL YOUNG II
OF 564
TIMOTHY PATRICK OF JOHN
WHITFIELD, JR., OF JOHN
WHITFIELD SR., OF 523
TOLBERT LAWSON, 568
TOLBERT LEE, 56, 568
TOLLIE EDGAR, 514
TOLLIE LEROY OF IVEY OF 506
TOLLIE TERRALL, 514
TOM & TOMMY (see THOMAS)
Tommie Lewis, 574
TRACY (n.m.i.) OF JOSEPH LESTER,
SR., OF 506
TRAVERS ELMER, 561
TRAVERS SCOTT OF TRAVERS
ELMER OF 561
TROY EDWARD OF ELVIE LEWIS
OF 517
Ursula Atkinson, 44, 331, 561
Valeria White, 507
Valley Layton 564
Vallie Bell (1st to JAMES ALLEN OF
512) (2nd to WILLARD OF
WILLARD MORTON OF 509)
VANDELIA, 511
Vandelia Hickox, 511
VANNIE, 726
Vannie White, 514
VASCO EBB, 543
Velie Rowell, 509, 604
Velma Vavra, 566
VENA, 542
Verdie RauIerson, 515
Dowling, continued-
Vernease Hewitt (GEORGE PARKER OF
DAVID ALLEN OF 509)
VERNON DALHART OF WILEY
LAZARUS OF 514
VERNON LOVELL, 592
VERNON PERRY OF ALBERT LEROY
OF 517
VICTOR KINLOUGH, 592
VIOLA, 685
Viola Carmack, 574
Viola Simms, 571
Viola Wllllams, 511
VIRGIL EUGENE OF FLOYD EUGENE
OF JAMES NEWTON OF 511
VIRGIL WALTER OF ELVIE LEWIS
OF 517
VIRGINIA, 504
Virgina Brewer (ELDON LAVELLE OF
CHARLES BURIE OF WILLARD
MORTON OF 509)
Virginia Burney, 533
VIRGINIA ELIZABETH, 552
Virginia James (VERNON DALHART
OF WILEY LAZARUS OF 514)
Virginla Moran, 565
Virglnia Salley, 521
Virginia Spann, 15, 312, 521
VIRGINIA S., 521
Virginia Taylor, 591
Virginia Whetstone, 522
Vivian Tucker (WILLIAM LEON OF
WILLIE OF 507)
Vivian Morgan, 511
VON HENRY, 512
Vonda Baker (EMBREE HOSS, JR., OF
EMBREE HOSS, SR. OF 564)
W. P., “WILLIE”, 15
WADE HAMPTON, 34, 323, 654
WALLACE LEON OF LOCKARD
LEON OF 574
WALLACE RAY, 586
WALTER, 506
WALTER, 515
WALTER BRITT, 570
WALTER CECIL OF AARON WALTER
OF 506 (also see 8 & 92)
WALTER CECIL OF JAMES NEWTON
OF 511
WALTER CHRIS OF JAMES
BENJAMIN OF JOHN H. PERRY
OF 504
WALTER EVERETT, 511
WALTER FAY, 586
WALTER LEE, 701
WALTER MELVY OF WILLARD
MORTON OF 509
WALTER RAY OF WALTER FAY OF 586
WALTER RILEY OF GEORGE LOUIS,
SR., OF 570
WALTER SCOTT OF WALTER RILEY
OF GEORGE LOUIS, SR, OF 570
WALTER T . S., 68, 332
Dowling, continuedPage 241
WALTER TALMADGE, 552
WALTER TUCKER, 69, 582
Wanda Bauknight, 547
Wanelle Stringer (THOMAS
CAMPBELL OF JULIAN GEORGE,
SR., OF 531)
WARREN, 597
WARREN JAMES OF CHARLES
EDWIN OF 501
WATERMAN EZEKIAL, 532
WAYNE (n.m.i.) 593
WAYNE KENNETH OF RUDOLPH
JOHN OF WILLIE ELBERT OF 515
WENDELL LOWELL, JR., OF
WENDELL LOWELL, SR., OF 561
WENDELL LOWELL, SR., 561
WESLEY, 43, 331
WIGHTMAN, 582
WILBERT NELSON 546
WILBUR (n.m.i.), 511
WILBUR BOYCE, JR., 553
WILBUR BOYCE, SR., 553
WILBUR KELL "SONNY" OF MAXCY
EDWIN OF 504
WILBUR RAY, 573
WILBUR RAY, JR., OF WILBUR RAY
OF 573
WILEY ASBURY, 591
WILEY EDWIN OF WILEY LAZARUS
OF 514
WILEY LAZARUS, 514
WILEY W,. 74, 335, 723
WILLARD (n.m.i.) OF WILLARD
MORTON OF 509
WILLARD ISAAC, JR., 598
WILLARD ISAAC, SR., 84, 598
WILLARD MORTON, "BOB'', 509, 604
WILL H., 547
BILL OF GRAHAM PRICE OF 543
BILLY DUANE, 578
BILLY WARREN OF HORACE BILLY
OF DANIEL YOUNG II OF 564
WILLIAM (Revolut. Soldier), 1, 2, 3, 38, 101
WILLIAM, 565
WILLIAM OF WILLIAM QUINTON,
JR., OF WILLIAM QUINTON
OF 514
WILLIAM II, 4, 311
WILLIAM AMBLER, JR., OF
WILLIAM AMBLER, SR., OF 515
WILLIAM AMBLER, SR., 515
WILLIAM ANDREW, 75, 335, 591
WILLIAM ANDREW II, 591
WILI IAM ARTHUR, 507
WILLIAM ASBURY, 593
WILLIAM ASHLEY, 571
WILLIAM BARKER, 35, 655
WILLIAM BARNEY OF AARON
CHARNEY OF 515
WILLIAM BENJAMIN, 16, 312
WILLIAM BIRT, 655
Dowling, continued-
WILLIAM BOYD OF DANIEL ELLIS
OF 512
WILLIAM CORLEY, 516
WILLIAM COURTNEY, 591
WILLIAM DENNIS, JR;, OF WILLIAM
DENNIS, SR., OF 511
WILLIAM DENNIS, SR., 511
WILLIAM EDWARD OF JOEL LOUIS
OF 582
WILLIAM ELI, 504
WILLIAM ELIJAH, 625
WILLIAM ELLIS “TOBY”, OF JAMES
MELVIN OF 507
WILLIAM ELMO, 512
WILLIAM ELMO, JR., OF WILLIAM
ELMO OF 512
WILLIAM ENNIS, 542
WILLIAM EVERETT OF JOHN
FREDERICK OF 543
WILLIAM FERDINAND, 32, 323
WILLIAM GLADSTONE, 582
WILLIAM H., 21, 25, 101, 321
WILLIAM HAMILTON (Reverend), 30,
323, 551
WILLIAM HAMILTON, JR., 551
WILLIAM HAMPTON, 22, 321
WILLIAM HAMPTON II, 532
WILLIAM HAMPTON III, 532
WILLIAM HANK, 533
WILLIAM HARDEE 515
WILLIAM HENRY (Confederate), 23,
26, 322, 541
WILLIAM HENRY (infant), 542
WILLIAM HENRY (child ), 23, 321
WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR, 6, 504
WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER, 25, 26, 28, 322
WILLIAM LAMAR, 547
WILLIAM LAWRENCE OF LEX
EDWIN OF 577
WILLIAM LAWSON, JR., OF
WILLIAM LAWSON, SR.OF
JUDSON DAVIE, JR., OF 568
WILLIAM LAWSON, SR., OF JUDSON
DAVIE, JR. , OF 568
WILLI AM LAYTON, 10, 512
WILLIAM LEE, 596
WILLIAM LEON OF WILLIE OF 507
WILLIAM LEROY, 65, 331
WILLIAM M., 514
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, 568
WILLIAM MANNING, 504
WILLIAM MARTIN OF WILLIAM
AMBLER, SR. OF 515
WILLIAM MATTHEWS OF WILLIAM
ENNIS OF 542
WILLIAM MATTISON, 32, 323
WILLIAM MCKINLEY OF JAMES
LONNIE, SR. OF 515
WILLIAM MORTON, JR., OF
WILLIAM MORTON, SR. OF
WALTER MELVY OF WILLARD
MORTON OF 509
Dowling, continued-
WILLIAM MORTON, SR., OF WALTER
MELVY OF WILLARD MORTON
OF 509
WILLIAM MURRAY, 522
WILLIAM NELSON, 546
WILLIAM NELSON, 642
WILLIAM NEWTON, 4, 501
WILLIAM NOEL, 564
WILLIAM OSCAR, 507
WILLIAM OSWALD OF JOEL SPAIN
OF 514
WILLIAM PIERCE, 51, 679
WILLIAM PORTER, 676
WILLIAM PRESTON, SR., 15, 312
WILLIAM QUINTON, 514
WILLIAM QUINTON, JR., OF
WILLIAM QUINTON OF 514
WILLIAM RALPH OF CHARLES
EDWIN OF 501
WILLIAM REYNOLDS, 62, 331, 573
WILLIAM RILEY, 507
WILLIAM RUSSELL OF WALTER FAY
OF 586
WILLIAM TED, 587
WILLIAM THEODORE, JR., 587
WILLIAM THEODORE, SR., 71, 332, 587
WILLIAM W., 8, 509
WILLIAM WALTER, 517
WILLIAM WESLEY, 6, 311, 504
WILLIE, 507
WILLIE, 512
WILLIE, 526
WILLIE DAVENPORT, 573
WILLIE EDWIN, 504
WILLIE ELBERT, 515
WILLIE ELVESTUS, 578
WILLIE FRANK OF WILLIAM NOEL
OF 564
WILLIE H., 547
WILLIE M., 546
WILLIE MCMILLAN, 546
WILLIE NEWTON OF JAMES
NEWTON OF 511
WILLIE SIMUEL, 564
WILLIE WOODROW OF WOODROW
WILSON OF 582
Willie Adams, 65, 331, 577
Willie Brice, 688
WILLIE ELLEN, 717
Willie Harrell, 571
Willie Jiles, 582
WILLIS H., 35, 36, 101, 324
WILLIS IRVIN, 557
Willow Lee (J. D. OF DANIEL YOUNG
II OF 564)
Wilma Dooling 574
Wilma Clark, 531
Wilma Newman (JOHN DARLING II
OF JAMES ELISHA OF 514)
WILSON THOMPSON, 90, 557
WILSON THOMPSON, JR., 557
WOODROW WILSON, 526
Dowling, continuedPage 242
WOODROW WILSON, 582
YOUNG DAN, 574
YOUNG DANIEL, 565, 695
ZACHARIAH (see ZACHEUS)
ZACK (n.m.i.), 563
ZACKERY SEWELL, 591
ZACHEUS (Reverend ), 39, 43, 50, 67,
71, 73, 77, 81, 101
ZACHEUS ASBURY (Reverend ), 68,
332, 581
ZACKIE FRANCIS, 578
ZACKY (see ZACHEUS)
Zadie Capp, 74, l0l
Zella McGinnis, 531
Zilpha Smith, 50, 131, 566
ZINNAMON (Reverend), 63, 67, 331
ZINNAMON FLETCHER, 578
Zora Hallman, 574
Zulale Johnson, 716
Dozier, 617
Doyle, 746
Downs, 673
Drake, HELEN VIRGINIA, 569
Drawdy, GOLDIE, 517
Driggers, 645
Driskell, 747
Drummond, 623
Dryden, 613
EMMA SORENTHO, 12, 311, 613
Nathan, 12, 311, 613
Dubose, 606, 736
JanIe Josey, 75
Oscar B., 75
LOANIE, 511
Dukes, ELIZABETH, 541
NONA EVA, 542
Duncan, 700
Calhoun (Reverend), 64
George Washington, 64, 331, 700
LAURA, 64, 331, 700
Durance, B. LENORA, 504
Dyal, MALISIA CAMILE, 546
NETA, 542
Dykes, GUSSIE, 509
Early, 757
Eason, BEULAH, 507
Eaves, CALLIE, 723
Echols, 605
Eddy, NOVIE, 515
Edmondson, 647, 711
Edwards, 608
SOPHINA BELL, 9, 311
William, 9, 311
Ellis, MAUDE, 506
Elson, BLONDELL, 565
Engram, Missourt Frances Hildreth, 88, 339
John Robert, 88, 339
Enslen, KATE, 568
Ensminger, 623
Enzor, GRACE, 568
Erickson, JANE, 565
Evans, 697, 698
LILLIAN, 586
WILLIE MAE, 697
Everett, William, 83
Fain, 669
Jason, 45
Faircloth, 72
Faires, MARGARET, 14, 521
Farmer, 637
Farncey, OCIE, 511
Farrington, HENRIETTA, 547
Faulk, Alexander, 43
Valdonia Byrd, 43
Feagin,Mattie Stokes, 72
Felder, 622
Ferguson, SALLIE, 509
Ferrell, MARY, 507
Fields, 697
Mary Anna Suggs, 74, 335
William "Babe", 74, 335
WILLIE MAE, 697
Fielder, 739, 747
Figg, James, 52
Margaret, 52
Finley, SARAH, 526
Fisher, JESSIE, 612
Fitts, 648
Fitzgerald, RUBY, 543
Fiveash, 604
Flagg, Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, 36
Francis Hopkins, 36
Fleming, 648
Benlah Hildreth, 88, 339
Frank, 88, 339
Fletcher, JULIA SAMANTHA, 504
Floreke, ORA MARIE, 598
Flowers, 747, 748
Ann Eliza Massey, 85, 338, 748
James G., 338, 748
Mary, 74
Fluker, HARRIETT MAMI SUE, 553
Folkes, J. P., 51
Folsom, 704
Ford, 634
MARGARET L., 634
Thomas, 3
Forehand, Elizabeth Durdon, 65
Jesse, 65
Foster, RENA GRACE, 533
Fowler, 694
Frazier, 747
Free, 622, 626
ALLIE , 523
CAROLINE ANNIE, 523
ELIZABETH MAGALENE, 16, 312, 626
Jacob E., 16, 312, 626
Freeman, Charley, 33, 323
LOU, 33, 323
MARY, 33, 323
Mary Jane, 33, 323
William, 21
French, MABLE RUTH, 701
Frier, Ryan, (Reverend), 6
Sarah Peacock, 6
Fulford, 665
Furman, JANE MELISSA, 523
Gallop, LOISELLE, 543
Galloway, George, 76
Jane, 76
Gardner, 748
Garner, Absolam, 74
Gatlin, 632
LOTIS, 526
Geiger, LEILA, 522
Gibbons, LILLIAN EUGENIA, 569
Gilbert, ELEANOR, 587
Gill, SARAH CORRINE, 551
Gillen, Henry, 25
Mary Barnes, 25
Gillson, 637.1
Gipson, 64
Gilliland, Martha, 45
Glenn, Barbara Wesley Herndon, 69
LOUISE, 596
Massillon McKendree, 69
Glover, 637, 735
Goethe, Eliza Peeples, 32
Washington, 32
Goff, 671, 706
Wiley, 46
Golden, Eliza, 64
William, 64
Goodridge, 642
HARRIETT SARAH, 642
Googe, CORA HAZELTINE, 33, 323
George, 33, 323
William (Reverend), 33
Goolsby, JEWEL, 564
Goodson, 748
Eunice Massey, 85, 748
Grace, 660
Graham, 616
Eliza Carey Smith, 13, 312, 616
Julia Brooks 312
SARAH, 13, 312
Sarah Morse, 13, 312
Stephen G., 13
William Wesley, 13, 312
Winchester, 13, 312, 616
Zachariah G., 13, 312
Grantham, Jessey, 38
Graves, Edward (Reverend), 73
Gray, 664, 670, 672
Cornelia Cox, 46, 331, 672
Gilman, 46
Henrietta Oates, 46
Mary Elizabeth Cox (Didham), 45, 331, 670
Simeon Paskal, 45, 331, 670
William A., 46, 331, 672
Green, 710, 748, 757
Alonzo Bolyn, 88, 339, 757
Frances, 66
Daisy Hildreth, 88, 339
Gladys, 565
Ida Roberta Hildreth, 88, 339, 757
Green, continuedPage 243
John, 66
Lee, 88, 339
Velie Brackin, 66, 331, 710
Greene, 640
Gregg, Alexander, 21
Gregory, 676
STELLA, 676
Griffin, 606, 608, 613
Dempsey, 10, 311, 608
EVA, 514
Finley, 88, 339
IRENE, 517
James, 10
MARY E., 10, 311, 608
Muncie Hildreth, 88, 339
NANCY, 509
ROSE ELLA, 511
VIOLA, 511
VIOLET, 506, 608
VIVIAN, 578
Grimes, 749, 750, 751, 753
Altie Myra Ethel Nelson, 87, 339, 753
America Ann Watters, 87, 339, 751
Amon Travis, 86, 339
Benjamin William. 86, 339, 750
Bethany Hines, 86
Caroline Shepherd, 87, 339, 750
Elizabeth Holman, 86, 339, 749
Frances Catherine, 86, ll9
Harriett Hildreth, 82, 86, 339
Haywood Pinkney, 86, 339, 749
Henry B., 86, 339
Henry Edwin, 87, 339, 753
James Buchanan, 86, 339
John Thomas, 87, 339, 751
Mollie Reed, 86, 339, 750
Nancy Sanders, 86, 339, 749
Stephen, 86
Tom, 82
Vinia Forbes Sams, 87, 339, 750
Grooms, 729
Guess, 628, 629, 630, 630.1
Ca1ista Parler, 17, 312, 628
Charles Zach. Russell, 17, 312
Daniel, 16, 312
Decania William David, 17, 312, 628
Eleanor Priscilla Rachel, 16
ELIZABETH, 16, 20, 312
Henry Edward Elisha, 17, 312
James Aaron, 17, 312
John, Jr., 16, 19
John, Sr., 16
John Eli Nolly, 17, 312
Joseph Gardner Hamilton, 17, 312, 629
Louise Smith, 17, 312, 630.1
Mattie Prothro, 17, 312, 629
Rachel Davis, 16
Sallie Barr, 17, 312, 630
Samuel Daniel Medicus 17, 312, 630
Sarah Ann Elizabeth, 16, 312
Susan Catherine Barr, 17, 312, 629
William Elijah Bartholomew, 17, 312, 630.1
Guest, PEGGY JUNE, 587
Guise, JANE, 568
Gunter, 642, 737
EFFIE, 642
Jake, 80
Matilda Snellgrove, 80
MISSOURI MARTHA, 511
Nancy Louisa King, 80, 336, 737
William Y., 80, 336, 737
Guy, 608
Bathsheba Thomas, 10
William, 10
Guyman, 747
Hagler, 677
Hagood, 13
Hale, SABRA, 512
Ha11, 690, 729
CARRIE, 573
Hallford, 680, 682, 684
Burrell, 52
Clayton Monroe, 54, 331
Dixon H. L., 53, 331
Emily Mullins, 53, 331, 682
George Ezekiai, 52, 53
Gordon L., 53, 331, 682
Harriett Skipper, 53, 331
James, 52, 331
James Samuel, 52
Jason Wilburn, 53, 331
John, 52
JOHNNIE, 573, 680
Julius, 52
Lizzie, 54
Mary Skipper, 52, 331
Moses, 52
Moses Gordon, 52, 53
N. W., 53
Nancy J., 52
Nancy Huggins, 52
Nancy Warrick, 52
Piety, 54, 331, 684
Roxy, 53
Samuel, 52
Samuel Ezekial, 61, 331, 684
Samuel H., 52, 331
Samuel Jesse, 53, 331
Sophia Figg, 52, 331, 680
Susannah, 52, 331
Wesley H., 52, 331, 680
ZILLIH, 52, 331
Ham, L. W., 77, 335
SALLY JANE, 77, 335
Hampton, Wade, 34
Hanberry, 617, 618, 618.1, 621
Bartholomew, 13, 312
Clara Maggie ___, 13, 312
Decania, 13, 312
ELEANOR, 12, 312
Elvira Padgett, 14, 312, 618.1
Hansford, 13, 312, 618
Henry, 13
Henry R., 13, 312
Honora Corniff, 14, 312, 618.1
Hanberry, continued-
James Leonard, 13
John, 13, 312
John Chester 14, 312, 618.1
Lena Hurst, 13, 312, 617
Louisa, 14, 312
Margaret, I4, 312
Washington Aaron, 13, 312, 617
Hancock, 720
Hand, SARAH 507
HANDLEY, 645
Hanks, 577
MINNIE, 577
Hankins, 679
NETTIE, 512
PEARL ESTELLE, 679
Hammel, IVA MAE, 582
Harden, 641
Hardwick, B. B., 88
Kate Mixson, 88
Hardy, 678, 690
Hare, REBECCA OLIVIA, 522
Harkins, 713
Harper, ROSA JENKINS, 591
Harriett, HESTER ANN, 32
Annie Priester, 33, 323
Frank, 33, 323
James, 32, 33, 323
John, 33, 323
Martha Myers, 33, 323
Missie Mole, 33, 323
Sarah Benton, 33, 323
VICTORIA, 32, 33, 323
William, 33, 323
Harrington, 631
Harris, 604, 609, 610, 613, 614, 677
Civility, 12
Elizabeth Ann McKissack, 58
EMMA SORENTHO, 12, 311, 613
JANE, 565
Jim, 51, 331, 677
John, 12, 311, 613
Lewis Randall, 12, 311, 614
Mary Character, 5I
MARY JANE, 51, 331, 677
OLLIE, 512
Pierce (Reverend), 58
Rebecca, 12
SARAH, 507
SOPHIA, 12, 311, 614
Stogner, 12
Zackie, 51
Harrison, 611, 688
EDITH MYRTLE, 556
MARY M., 568
MATTIE, 688
Harrod, James (Reverend), 71
Hartley, ANNIE, 512
Hartzog, 619
Harvey, LETHANA, 515
Hatcher, 665
Hawkins, 678
Hay, 650
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Ben Franklin, 32
Hayes, Alonzo Farmer, 87
Charlie (Doctor), 79
E. H., 40
Early, 79
George, 79
Helen Mixson, 79
Mary, 87
Nora, 79
Susanne King, 79, 336
Wllliam Eben, 79, 336
Haynsworth, 629
Head, 736
Heath, James Madison, 88, 339
Nancy Jane, 88, 339
Suzanne Muldrow, 75
William, 75
Heiser, JULIA BELL, 581
Hendrick, 660
Hendricks, 644
Joseph Edward, Jr., 28, 94
Hendrix, EMALINE, 70, 332
Hendry 70, 332
MARY ANN, 70, 332
Mary Ann, 70, 332
Paul, 332
Perry, 70
Herbert, 753
Herrin, ARRIE, 514
IDELL, 514
Hickox, David, 7
ETHEL, 512
Harley J., 7
LIZA, 10, 512
NANCY, 509
Sarah Altman, 7
Hicks, ALENE, 514
Hiers, ANNIE ELLIS, 552
Higginbotham, MARY, 506
Highsmith, LIZZIE, 512
ZILLIE CECELIA, 517
Hildreth, 681, 754, 755, 756
A. Lonnie, 88, 339
Annie Ruth Carmichael, 88, 339
B. Horace, 89, 339
B. Malcom, 89, 339
Benjamin J. (Reverend), 86, 89, 101, 339
Bessie ___, 88
Charles H., “Red”, (Reverend), 88, 756
E. Homer, 88, 339
Elizabeth Hayes, 87, 339
Emma Mixson, 88, 339, 755
Emmett F., 88
Frances Catherine, 86, 339
Franklin Pierce, 88, 339, 754
George Travis, 88, 339, 755
Henry Walter, 88, 339, 756
James, 86, 339
JEMIMA, 82, 86, 89, 101, 339
John M., 88, 339
Julia Hamner, 88, 339
Lillie Skipper, 88, 339, 681, 756
Hildreth, contiuned-
Lenora Frances Mims, 88, 339, 754
Lula Cotter, 88, 339
Martha M., 136, 339
Marvin Bascomb, 88, 339
Mary, 86, 339
Mary A., 86
Milly ___ , 86, 88, 339
Quincy Whittle, 87, 339
R. Bunyan, 88, 339
Robert H. Jackson (Reverend), 88, 339
Saphronia J., 86
Susie, 86, 339
Travis Zaccheus, (Reverend), 87, 339
William C., 86, 339
Hightower, 617
Hill, 620, 641, 685
CAROLYN ROSE 566
James, 19, 312
NANCY ANN, 19, 312
William, 312
Hillenkamp, ANNA ANIDA (Mrs. J. A.), 74, 723
Hilliard, SALLIE CAMILLA, 566
Hilton, 607
Hinson, MARY CATHERINE, 574
Hodges, 47
Hogan, MARY, 515
Holbrook, Jacob, 19
Holley, MILDRED, 564
Hollis, Vickie Hildreth, 88, 339
Holland, 665
Holman, 675, 692
ANNA J., 564
H. L., Jr., 60, 692
John Clinton, Sr., 60, 331, 692
Louisa S. Dunson, 60
Martha Ligon, 60
Marvin, 60, 692
Meigs Marshall, 60
Nancy Redwine, 60
SUSAN O., 566, 692
SUSAN VIRGINIA, 60, 331, 692
William C., 60
Holt, JEWEL, 591
Honney, 607
Hood, ADA LEONORA, 551
ELIZABETH, 547
Hooks, 740
Abi Rhodes, 82, 338, 740
Benjamin Daniel, 82, 338, 740
CAROLINE, 82, 84, 338
Dave, 82, 338
J. Frank, 82, 84
Jim, 82, 338
John Franklin, "Jack", 82, 338
Sallie Martin, 84
Susie ___ , 82, 338
William, 82
Willis, 82
Hopkins, Sister, 18
Horn, 711
MARIE, 570
Horton, MATTIE, 507
Hosford, LENORA, 582
Howell, 754
ARGENIA, 517
IOLA, 517
John, 62
LETITIA, 511
Mary Andrews, 62
Hudgens, 671
Ansel, 46
Hudspeth, Mrs. John M., 52
Hughes, 680, 690
Benson, 60
ELIZABETH ANN, "BETSY", 60, 331, 690
Needham, 49, 60, 331, 690
Rachel Matthews, 60
Will C . (Reverend), 40
Hundley, 660
Hunnicutt, DEBBIE LOU, 547
Hunt, 674
FLORRIE REBECCA, 674
Hutchinson, 741
Sarah Hooks, 82, 338, 741
VASSIE, 577
William 82, 338, 741
Huxford, Folks (Judge), 3, 9, 25, 37, ii
Ingraham, Elizabeth Parker, 63
Jack, NAN, 504
Jackson, 684
Jacobs, 604, 609
MARY M., 568
James, 322, 629, 748
Elizabeth, 29
Ransom T., 25
REBECCA, 25, 26, 322
Janowski, MARGARET, 574
Jarvis, 750
Jaudon, Elizabeth Winters, 25
Henry William, 25
Jenkins, 739
James, 38
Jernigan, Ellen Stokes, 73, 333
MARGARET, 522
Johns, 604, 606, 646
ALTIE, 509
Andrew, 22, 321
BATHSHEBA, 509
Billy, 29
COLASTINE, "KATE", 509
DIANNA, 542
Elizabeth Walston, 22, 321
ELLA, 506
Jeremiah Jackson Johns, 311
Lovey Jane Denmark, 29, 322, 646
Mary Futch, 29
Mary Walker, 311
PEARL, 547
Riley, 11
Sarah Leigh, 11
William Jack, 29, 322, 646
Johnson, 637.1, 688, 695, 748, 749, 755
Amos, 62
Ben, 57
Betsy, 58
Johnson, continuedPage 245
CATHERINE, 61, 331, 695
Ester, 62
Hannah, 57, 58
Jim, 26
NELLIE, 688
Shirley, 26
SOPHIA, 515
Spencer L., 61, 331, 695
Johnston, 659, 678
Edward John Kent, 36, 324, 659
Frances Rawls, 36, 324, 659
Virginia Papy, 36
Jones, 613, 615, 640, 694, 731, 756
Annie, 19
Bemberry Bond, 19, 312
ELIZABETH, 19, 312
Elvin, "Dick", 80
Frances Louise Granger, 67
GOLDIE MAE, 514
Herbert, 80
Ida Elizabeth Graham, 13, 312, 615
James, 13, 312, 615
Jane Byrd, 80
John, 67
John H., 26, 322, 640
John I., 80
John J., 73, 333
Louie, 80
MARY REBECCA, 26, 28, 322, 640
Mittie Ann Stokes, 73, 333
NANNIE, 526
Sarah Frances King, 80, 336
William, 80, 336
Jordan, 620, 669
Eugene R., 45, 669
Irene, 45
Josey, 724
Robert Sinkler, 74
Julian, J. C. (Colonel), 74
Justice, Arch (Captain), 44, 68, 72, 81
OSSIE LEE, 574
Keahey, 713
Neil B. (Reverend), 67, 331 713
Rebecca Brackin, 67 331, 713
Kearse, Eliza Rosier, 19, 312
Keith, 676, 751
BIRTIE, 676
Kelehear , 652, 653
Keller, BONNIE ELIZABETH, 582
Kellett, PATRICIA EDNA, 558
Kelly, 647, 714
FANNIE, 543
George Ellison, 30, 322, 647
Hester Denmark, 28, 322, 647
ISABELL, 506
James Robert (Judge), 30
LETHANIE, 515
NORA GERTRUDE, 566
Kelley, George 76
Mary Stewart, 76
Kemp, 686
Kendall, Frank, 13
Kennedy, Martha Gamble, 78
Robert, 77, 78
Kennerly, 627
ELLEN MARIA, 16, 312, 627
Joseph, 16, 312, 627
Kerling, Mattie Clark, 80
Killebrew, 708
Kimbrell, ELIZABETH, 514
King, 738
Amanda Clark, 80, 336, 738
BERTHA, 506
C. J., 79, 336
Charles, 6, 311
ELIZA, 6, 311
Eliza, "Betty", 6
James, 79
James Dennis, 6
Joe Wilson, 77, 80, 336, 738
John Oscar, 80, 336
Martha Stokes, 79, 336
Max, 80
Minnie Knight, 80, 336
Nathan, 6
Phillip H. (Senator), 79, 336
RANAH ALENE, 569
Rebecca, 6
RHODA, 506
Robert Dennis, 6
Zibe, 10
Kimel, 735
Kinard, Henry, 33, 323
Mary Harriett, 33, 323
Kingsley, 688
ELIZABETH, "LIZZY", 688
Knabb, MINNIE, 515
Knotts, 729
LEILA ELIZABETH, 522
Kolb, DOROTHY, 564
Lane, ALMA 514
Laney, J. P., 78
Lansdale (Judge), 52
Large, Francis Marion, 75
Martha Dupre Dubose, 75
Larkin, 706
Mary. 66
Lastinger, LORA MAE, 514
Latham, IDA. 542
Lawless, 748
Lawrence, DOROTHY MAE, 582
Lazenby, JESSIE LEE, 514
Leach, 748
Leatherwood, 740
RUBY ESTELLE, 533
Ledbetter, 681
Lee, 613, 694
DAISY, 507
Elizabeth Severance, 61
ELVERA, 514
Frederick, 1
PEGGY FAYE, 573
Fitzhugh, 443
HELEN MAY, 542
INEZ, 517
Lee, continued-
Loafie, 43
NETTIE, 716
SARAH, 1, 101
Sarah A., "Sally", 61, 331, 694
SARAH JANE, 517
Timothy Cuthbert II, 61, 331, 694
Tobias Jr., 61
W. J. (Doctor), 78
Lehman, MARGARET, 543
Lewis, 684, 747, 748
LEILA BELLE, 573
Linton, ESTELL, 514
Lipham, NAOMI, 547
Lipscomb, 639
NELLAH, 639
Lisenby, 663
Lloyd, 637, 719, 729
AGNES LOUISA, 76, 335, 729
Jim, 76, 335, 729
Loadholt, Julia Freeman, 33, 323
Locke, 757
Logan, DELORES, 586
WILLIE, 561
Long, 658, 680
Alonzo, 30
Catherine, 30
MARIAN GREY, 542
Lowery, ESSIE MAE, 574
Lowrey, CORA, 723
Lowry, 658
Francis William, 36, 91, 658
Lumpkin, JUNE RAWLS, 717
Lusk, 753
Luster, GAIL, 532
Lyons, 604
Mabry, 739, 748
Jim A., 748
Mallie Massey, 85, 748
MacLean, 638
Robert LeRoy, 93, 638
(also see McLean)
Mahoney, FRANCES, 596
Malphrus, 650
Mann, 637
Atlanta Osceola, 23
Jackson D., 23, 321, 637
MARTHA JANE, 23, 321, 637
Manning, 607
Lonnie W., 9
Marley, RACHAEL, 566
Marr, CLAIRE, 551
Marsh, 704, 705
EMMA GERTRUDE, 564
J. E., 72
Judge A., 65, 331, 704
Mary Duberry, 65
Needham, 65
PENNY LOUETTA, 65, 331, 704
Tobe, 65
Martin, 662, 665, 671, 689, 690, 696, 713, 735
ANNA JANE, 62, 331, 696
Aquilla Matthews, 43, 331, 665
Martin, continuedPage 246
AVER EUGENIA, 574, 6665
Benjamin B., Jr., 59, 84
Benjamin W., 62
Daniel, 59, 331, 689
Elizabeth Rice Dowling Priester, 20
Hamilton, Jr., 20
Hamilton, Sr., 20
J. Mather, 43
James L. , 43
John Floyd, 43, 331, 665
MARGARET FRANCES, 59, 331, 689
Mary Matthews, 42, 331, 662
Mary Myers, 59
Melton M., 62
ORRIE, 533
Pheriba, 62
Randol, 50, 61
Sarah Smith, 43
Stephen Martin, 62, 331, 696
William Edward, 42
William Henry, 42, 331, 662
Mason, 652
Blakely (Reverend), 33, 323, 652
CLEMENTINE PAMELIA, 33, 323, 652
Massey, 748, 747
AMANDA, 85, 338, 748
Ann, 85, 338
Anna Saunders, 748
Ben Frank, 85, 338
Bertha Neaves, 338, 748
Callie Farrish, 338, 748
Ida Angel, 85
James Luther, 85, 338, 748
John M., 85, 338, 748
KATIE LEAN, 586
Levi Elva, 85, 338, 748
Lillian McNeer, 338, 748
Nancy MeCool, 85
Nannie, 85, 338
Pearl Carnes, 338, 748
Zack, 85
Zack II, 85, 338, 748
Mathison, MAIDRA CYLDE, 561
Matthews, 660, 664, 669, 681
Elisha, 39, 41, 42, 60, 331
LACY ANN, 39, 61, 42, 54, 83, 331
Lucy Brackin, 42, 331, 660
Martha Cox, 45, 331, 669
Martha Truitt, 41
Mellon Thoory, 42, 331, 664
Moses, Jr., 41
Moses, Sr., 45, 52
Moses Gordon, 45, 331, 669
Nancy Brown, 42, 331, 660
Rebecca Treadwell, 42, 331, 664
William Edward, 42, 331, 660
Mauldin, 669
Mayfield, 627
McAllister, ELIZABETH, 523
McAtee, 747
McBee, 651.1
LULA RHETT, 651.1
McCall, Hart, 59
McCarn, CARROW, 569
McCauley, 752
Georgiann Grimes, 87, 339, 752
Jerome, 87
John M. (Reverend), 87
W. Lafayette, 87, 339, 752
McChessney, SARAH HELEN, 566
McClain, ETTA, 517
McClanahan, MARY ELISE, 531
McClure, GLADYS, 598
McCollough, EDNA, 596
McCoy, 632, 738
McCrory, 747
McCutcheon, CATHERINE, 591
McDonald, 667, 687
Angus, 47
Annie Wllliams, 57
Daniel, 47
Elizabeth Matthews, 43, 331, 667
Farley, 57
Hugh, 43, 331, 667
Jesse, 57
John (Reverend), 47, 57
John F., 57, 331, 687
Lula, 57
Lucy, 57
Marvin, 57
NANCY JANE, 56, 57, 331, 687
Randol, 57
VIRGINIA CAROLYN, 504
McDaniel, 747, 748
A. Gus, 85, 338, 747
Fronia, 85
Julia Ballard, 338, 747
Malinda Simson, 338, 747
Mildred, 85
Newton N., 81, 85 338
Robert William, 85, 338, 747
SUSAN, 81, 85, 338, 747
McElheney, 653
McFarland, MARTHA ANN CAROLYN, 526
McGhee,, 732
McGlon, ELIZABETH, 501
McGregor, 743
ELLA, 84, 338, 743
Jack, 84, 338, 743
McIntyre, 687
McKinney, 720, 733
McKinnon, 83
McKnight, 709
McLane, SARAH, 504
McLean, 739
Daniel, Jr., 81, 85, 338, 739
Daniel, Sr., 81, 338
Margaret McDaniel, 81, 338, 739
Mary, 81, 82, 338
Wilson C., 81, 338
McLellan, ANNIE, MAUDE, 547
McLeod, 677
McMichael, 682, 708
McMillan, 620, 630.1
McLendon, IDA, 546
McQuarters, Sallie Turner, 16
Meginnis, Benjamin A., page ii, 95
Melton, 729
Mercer, 608
Meredith, 666
Merrick, John (Colonel), 55
Merriweather, 748
Pearl Massey, 85, 338, 748
Tom, 338, 748
Metcalf (Reverend), 64
Metcalf, 707, 712
Dallas, 67, 331, 712
John W., 66, 67
M. Lafayette, "Fate", 66, 331, 707
Martha Brackin, 66, 331, 707
Piety Brackin, 67, 331, 712
Neil (Senator), 66, 707
PERLA, 577
Sarah Strand, 66, 67
Metcalfe, 661
Bartow (Reverend), 59
Middleton AGNES MAGNOLIA, "NOLIE", 514
Mikell, ERNIE, 541
Miley, NORMA, 568
Miller, 660, 672, 740
Emmett G., 89, 339
Joe Ham, 77
Lillie Hildreth, 89, 339
VIRGINIA, 574
Mims, 728
Mitchell, GLADYS LOUISE, 573
Mixon, 721
Barzilla H., 72, 333, 721
Julia Harris, 72
Melinda Stokes, 72, 333, 721
Wade, 88
Willlam, 72
Mixson, 737
Ada Lillian Hildreth, 88, 339
Aubrey, 88
David Marion, 88, 339
Earl, 88
EDNA LENORA, "NONIE", 553
Mabin, 88
Maurice Andrew, 88
Rex (Reverend), 88
Mizell, MINNIE, 506, 509
ZILLIE CECELIA, 517
Moody, OLLIE, 512
Moore, JULIA, 33, 323
Humphrey, 33, 323
Susie, 76
Morgan, 604
LUCY, 570
Morris, 623, 696, 699
ANNA JANE, 62, 331, 696
CALLIE, 63, 331, 699
I. V., 63, 331, 699
Joe S., 62, 63, 331
Morrison 632, 673
MARGARET, 625
Moseby, 615
Mulkey, ELLA, 515
Mullins, 693, 712
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Catherine Gibson, 53
Lewis, 53
Mullis, MATTIE, 511
Murdock, Caroline Martin Dowling, 51
John W., 51
Muphy, LOTTIE B., 569
Murr, 724
Murray, SARAH, 507
Myles, 618.1
Nash, GRACE, 533
Neal, 637.1
CAROLINA ELIZABETH, 521
Neaves, 747
Amanda McDaniel, 85, 338, 747
J. W., 338, 747
Neel, MILDRED JELENA, 507
Nelson, Amanda Sheppard, 87
Martin V. B., 87
Nettles, 643, 650
Nevels, 72
Newman, 672
Vinnie Hildreth, 88, 339
Will, 88, 339
Newsome, 714
Nichols, ALTAMINE, 506
Nickelson, 747
Nix, 653
AIMEE GERTRUDE, 34, 323, 653
John Hamilton, 34, 323, 653
Nobles, ARCHIE FILA, 546
Nolte, GLADYS, 565
Norris, 697, 735
ESTHER, 697
Norton, EMMA, 315
Norwood, MARIE, 592
Null, EVA MAE, 586
Nuttall, MINNIE LEE, 542
Oates (Governor), 59
Elizabeth Shipps, 59
Stephen, 59
William, 59
O'Berry, ELIZABETH, 501
LETITIA 511
MAMIE, 511
O'Brien, THELMA IRENE, 565
Odum, LIZZY, 515
O'Donnell, SUSAN JEANNETTE, 566
Ogden, Isaac, 27
Isaac E., 24
Sarah Jackson, 27
Samuel or Solomon, 22
Sara Murphy, 24
Ogelsbee, ELIZABETH, 2, 101
O'Neal, 703
James R. L. S., 65, 331, 703
MATTIE, 65, 331, 703
O’Quinn, 609
MAGGIE, 517
NANCY, 506
Osborne, 750
Ott, LILLIAN INEZ, 556
Otwell, ELIZABETH LOUISE, 551
Ousley, 747
Emmett E., 338, 747
Lillie McDaniel, 85, 338, 747
Owens, 618.1
(Colonel), 13
LETITIA, 35, 324
Thomas D., 35, 324
Palmer, BERTIE MAE, 568
DORIS, 568
OLA, 574
Parker, 652, 661, 686, 735
Amos, 56
ANNIE, 564
James 59
John Calvin, 56, 331, 686
LACY ANN LUIZA, 56, 331, 686
Pair, WILLIE KATE, 574
Parnell, 636
Calvin Sylvester, 22
Jacob R., 22, 321, 636
Nancy Welch, 22
Sarah Walston, 22, 321, 636
Parrish, Alphia (Epsey?; Rosaberg?), 55, 331
Ardilla, 54, 331
Chapman, 54, 331
Della, 55
EDNA MAE, 541
Elizabeth Body, 55
Emmanuel, 54, 331
Emmanuel Monroe, 54
J. W., 54
James, 54, 331
James A., 54
(James Young; see Young below)
Jefferson B., 54, 331
Lawrence, 55, 331
Lee, 54
Levin C., "Hill", 54, 331
Marcellus, 54, 331
MARTHA, 54, 63, 331
Martha ___, 55, 331
Mary A., 55, 331
MARY ANNA, 54, 63, 331
Morgan, 54
PEARL, 531
Rosaberg (see Alphia above)
Sarah, 55, 331
Savannah, 55, 331
Sim, 59
Young, 55, 331
Paschal, Benjamin, 73
BESSIE, 27, 28
Georgia Stokes, 73, 333
J. Sam, 73, 333
LUCILLE, 70
Martha G., 73
Scaduto, 70
Passmore, Sarah Grady, page ii
Patrick, MARY VIOLA, 558
Patterson, MARY BETH, 596
Patzman, MARGUERITE, 565
Paul, 666
Peacock, 696
FLOSSIE MAE, 574
SYLVIA, "JACKIE", 573
KATE, 546
Pearson, 628
Peeler, Clyde, 33
Penny, 748
JANE AMANDA, 504
Perlman, 739
Perron, TOMMIE LOIS, 573
Peters, Bill, 52
Petrey, KATHLEEN, 563
Pettit, 739, 747
Pettus, 736
Petty, A., 9
REBECCA ELIZA, 9, 311
Philips, 657
Albert Edwin, 35, 324, 657
Andrew Jackson, 36
Eugenia Rawls, 35, 324, 657
Penelope Blake, 36
Phillips, 631
RENA FRAMPTON, 651.1
Phipps, DAISY, 546
Pickren, ZOIE ALTIE, 506
Pierson, FLORA NELL 574
Pinkham, EMMA VIRGNIA, 531
Pickney, Lucia 17
MARY POPE, 651.1
Pinckard, Oscar, 57
Pipkin, Flossie Sansbury, 75
Leonard, 75
Pittman, 70
Polk, 648
Pollock, MARY, 716
Pons, ATCHIE FILA, 546
EVELYN, 546
MAUDE, 546
Poole, SUE MORRIS, 553
Pope, 748
Euphree, 77
Potts, 678
Pouncey, James Buchanan, 73, 333
Jennie Stokes, 73, 333
Powers, 690, 745
ANNIE RUTH, 745
MELINDA AGNES, 517
Preacher, DOLLY RUTH, 558
Presnal, Absolam, 36, 324
JULIA, 36, 324
Priest, James, 38
Priester, Elizabeth Rice Dowling, 20
Susan Harrlett, 33, 323
William, 33, 323
Prescott, Frank, 311
Ulmer Cleland, 311
Prevatt, MARY ANN, 506
Price, CONA KENNETTE, 569
Pridgen, 674
LENA, 674
Pritchett, 683, 709
California Josephine Hallford, 53, 66, 331
James Phillips, 53, 66, 331, 683
Pritchett-contiuned
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Lena Stripland, 54, 66
Lucy Lavannah, 66, 331, 709
Thomas W., 66, 331, 709
Pritchard, ETTA MAE, 501
Pryer, 702
Pyke, RUTH, 574
Quick, 725
Radford, LILLIE, 532
Raines, Capers, 76, 335, 727
MARY SUSANNAH, 76, 335, 727
Rainer, MAMIE, 716
Ramsey, CORA LEE, 569
Ratcliff, 619
Raulerson, 607
David, 9, 311, 607
DORINDA, 507, 607
HATTIE, 511
Jacob, 9
MARY, 515
MARY MARTHA, 9, 311, 607
MOSELLA, 514
Nancy Baggs, 9
Nicebud, 9
SARAH, 515
Rawls, 658, 718
Annie Edmonson, 36, 324
Edwin Blake, 36, 324
John S. (Senator), 69
Junius (Senator), 69, 332, 718
LETITIA, 35, 36, 37, 324
Lula Dowling, 69
Mary Flagg, 36, 324, 658
Sadie Williams, 36, 324
SUSAN LYLIS, "LILY", 69, 332, 718
Thomas Glover, 36, 324
Thomas J., 35, 324
William Andrew, Sr., 36, 324, 658
Redd, 748
Rediash, DOLLY, 547
Reeves, Rebecca Turner, 16
Register, 602
REBECCA, 6, 311, 602
Ricy Johnson, 6
Samuel, 6, 311, 602
William, 6
Reid, 651.1
LULA RHETT, 651.1
Reuther, Mary Etta, 85
Revels, OPHELIA, 612
Reynolds, 610, 694
Emily Mullins Hallford, 53
JULIE, 515
LIZZIE, 506
VERDIE, 506
Rhoden, Mary, 4
William, 17
Rhodes, ELIZABETH, 523
Elizabeth Patterson, 82
Wiley A. T., 82
Rhyne, 631
Rice, 623
Aaron, Sr., 12, 17
Elender Rhoden, 12
Edmund, 12
Henry B., 14
Henry William, Sr., 14, 312, 623
SARAH, 14, 312, 623
Riggins, KATENY, "KATE", 10, 514
Riley, META ELLEN, 523
Rivers, 635, 646, 649
Abraham, 22
Anna Croft, 32, 323
ARGENIE ROSETTA, 31, 323, 649
Celia Manker, 22
John Frederick, 31, 323, 649
Lewis William, 22, 321, 635
Susan Walston, 22, 321, 635
Roach, 678, 712, 752
Roberts, 740, 745
Beatrice Jones, 26
BELLE, 547
CAROLYN, 578
EDNA PEARL, 586
ELIZABETH RHOFILER, 542
HELEN, 745
John, 27
Sallie Sweat, 27
Roberson, 607
REBECCA ELIZA, 9, 311
Robinson, BEULAH, 507, 511
DORINDA, 507
Jessie (Reverend), 70
MARY, 511
Rogers, 602, 708
LYDIA, 726
Rolen, DAISY, 546
Romine, IRENE GERTRUDE, 565
Roseberry, MARY MARTHA, 553
Rosier, 647, 652
CLEMENTINE PAMELIA, 33, 323, 652
Joseph, 33, 323, 652
NANCY ANN, 19, 312
Sing, 19, 312
Ross, 666
James C., 43, 331, 666
Talitha Matthews, 43, 331, 666
Roth, 706
John S. (Colonel), 66, 706
Rowe, MARY OSWALD, 577
Rowell, 604
DRUCILLA, 507, 604
James, 9
James A., 9, 311, 604
John, 9
TEMPERANCE, 9, 311, 604
Royall, 742
MARTHA ANN 83, 338, 742
William Bibb, 84, 338, 742
Rudisill, Horace F., 74
Russell, 705, 714, 719, 738
GLADYS LOUISE, 573
JOICY, 65, 331, 705
Joseph C., Sr. 70
Russell, continued-
MARGUERITE, 565
Nace, 65, 331, 705
Rutan, 715
Ruth, Abram M. (Colonel), 31
Mary Peeples, 31
Rutland, 719
Carrie Burton, 69
Henry, 69
Ida Pierce, 69
Mable Ward, 69
Martha Wicker, 69, 332
Nannie Adams, 69
Reuben, 69
Tom, 69
W J., 69
W W., “Bill”, 69, 332
Sandifer, 619, 620, 623
E. Jane Hanberry, 14, 312, 619
Georgianna Hanberry, 14, 312, 620
Henry, 14, 312, 620
John, 14, 312, 619
Sandlin, 702
Sansbury, Eugene, 74
FLORRIE, 593
Homer, 74
Lizzy Pipkin, 74
Mellon N., 75, 335
Sarah Lou Suggs, 75, 335
Wiley, 74
Sapp, 645
Sasserman, MIRIAM, 553
Sauls, Caleb, 15, 312
Caroline Cleland, 311
MARY S., 15, 312
Saunders, 628
Savage, Alcena, 83, 338
Dan, 72
Jim W., 83, 338
John, 81, 338
Mary Emma Marsh, 72
MARY J., 81, 338
Mollie Moseley, 83, 338
Nan J., 83, 338
SARAH J., 83, 338
Savell, NANNIE INEZ, 574
Scaife, 671
Sconyers, VIRGINIA, 564
ELIZA, 564
Screws, GUSSIE, 517
Searcy, 730
Segrest, Andrew, 78
Sellers, SARAH, 516
Semon, 638
Sessions, WILLIE GERTRUDE, 566
Shaw, 643
BERTHA MAE, 547
Shehee, 714
Shepard, 748
Shinholster, 657
Shofner, 757
Shumans, 614
Simmons, 619, 622, 637.1, 640, 709
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Nancy Harriett, 33, 323
Simms, META ELLEN, 523
Simpson, DARLENE, 547
Singleton, COLLIE EVADA, 574
Sistrunk, CLARA CORENE, 514
Sketo, Bill, 44
Skiens, 741
Skipper, 681, 734
Alabama, 53
Nathaniel A. (Reverend), 53
Sarah Hallford, 53, 331, 681
Robert Green, 53, 331, 681
Slater, NETTIE, 561
Sloat, LORA, 504
Smith, 630.1, 675, 702, 721, 724, 741
Alexander, 43
Allison G., "Alley", 50, 63
ANNA JANE, 50, 331, 675
AUDREY, “LOVEY ANN”, 25, 322
Caswell (Reverend), 50, 82
Charles, 25, 322
Ellen Hooks, 82, 338
EVELYN, 546
GLADYS LOUISE, 573
James Walter Towns, 50, 331, 675
Jim, 25, 322
JOHNNIE, 574
KATE, 509
KATIE LEAN, 586
Ned or Med, 25, 322
Susan Hooks, 50, 82
VERNA LEE, 578
Snellgrove, 736
Carolyn Gunter, 80
Jesse C ., 80
Jessie, 80
Martha King, 80, 336, 735
Riley, 80
William M., 80, 336, 736
Snelling, 679
CORDIE, 679
Snider, Sarah Helen Rosier, 19, 312
Southwell, GRACE, 533
Spann, Caroline Barr, 15
Henry Hammon, (Reverend), 15
Spaulding, SARA, 533
Speaks, 651
EMMA ELIZABETH, 32, 323, 651
Thomas T., 32, 323, 651
Spear, 701
WILLIE RUTH, 701
Spears, 734
(Lieutenant), 47
Speller, Alec, 47
Nat, 47
Stanmire, 748
Stanford, Costella, 63
Ella, 63
Jane Hartley, 62
Lafayette, 62
Mertie, 63
PAMDORA, 63, 331
Stanford, contiuned-
William, 63, 331
Stapleton, Cottrell 69
HELEN VIRGINA, 569
LULA COTTRELL 69, 332
R. B. (Doctor), 69, 332
Stegall, Henry B., 50
Stephens, 676, 714, 720
GERTRUDE, 676
MARTHA FRANCES, 577
Stevens, DAISY, 546
Steward, 724
CLARISE, 547
Stewart, John, 1, 38, 67
MARY AN, 1, 2, 101
Noel, 1
Stokes, 609, 706, 730, 732, 733, 735
Amanda ___ , 72, 333
Andrew Joe, 333
Betty Hildreth, 89
Burrell C., 71, 72, 333
Caroline, 333
Catherine Lucinda, 72
Charles Asbury (Senator), 79, 336
Charles 0., 79
Commodore, 72, 333
Cynthia, 72, 333
Doc, 72, 333
Edwin, 71, 333
Edy ___ , 71, 333
Eliza A., 333
Elizabeth ___ , 72, 333
Elizabeth Kennedy, 78, 336, 730
Emma Laney, 78, 336
ETTA, 514
Fannie Hope Mizell, 72, 333
Frances A., 333
Frank J., 333
George, 333
George W., 71
Henry (Major), 77, 101, 336
Henry T., 333
Ida Dora, 78, 336
Isaiah, 71, 333
James, 78, 336
James Harmon, 78, 336, 733
James Wilson (Captain), 77, 336
Jane Beasley, 79, 336, 735
Jehu, 72, 333
Jeremiah Sylvester, 72, 333
John, 71, 77, 101, 333
John Evan, 78, 336
John Henry, 39
John O., 71, 333
John S., 333
Joseph Wilburn, 72, 333,
Josephine V., 333
Lee G., 78, 336
LYDIA ANN, 71, 77, 101, 333
Martha Jane ___, 71, 333
Martha Lee, 78, 336
Martin Isah, 72
Mary A., 333
Stokes, contiuned-
Mary Ann, 333
Mary E., 72, 333
Mary Marsh (Savage), 72, 333
Matilda, 333
Millissa J., 333
Nancy Alford, 39
Nancy Beasley, 79, 336
"Nodding Head", 72
Ola Bethune, 78, 336, 732
Olin E., 333
Rachel, 333
Rebecca Gooden, 72, 333
RHODA, 39, 59, 72, 77, 78, 101, 336
Richard Gus, 72, 333
Robert Edward, 78, 336, 732
Roy Dowling, 78, 336
Samuel Thomas, 72, 333
Sarah ___, 72, 333
Seaborn Glenn, 78, 336
Susan E., 333
Susan Fountain, 72, 333
Tom, 72, 333
Vickey Lee, 78, 336, 732
Walter K., 78, 336, 730
William, 72, 333
William Bartow, 79, 336, 735
Zion Patterson, 78, 336, 735
Stone, 608, 610, 611
Allen, 11, 311, 611
EDNA, 517
HARRIETT, 11, 311, 610
SELETA, 11, 311, 611
William Henry, 11, 311, 610
Strange, 751
Strickland 608
AGNES, 511
CAROLINE EMMA, 546
DOROTHY DELL, 574
EULALIE, 511
MOZELLE, 511
NETTIE, 511
OMA LORRAINE, 514
ONIE, 514
Stringer, 673
Strother, 708
Stuart, 618.1
Wesley, 16
Studstill, ADEL, 504
Stufflemene, 751
Stukey, W. H. (Captain), 78
Suggs, 724, 725
Ann Clyborne, 75, 335, 725
Eliza Best, 74 335, 724
HESTER, 74, 335
Ida Sansbury, 74, 335
James Nelson, 74, 75, 335
John T., 74, 335, 724
Rhoda Register, 74, 335
Rufus Allen, 75, 335, 725
Samuel R., 74, 335
William Asbury, 74, 335
Sullivan, DAISY, 546
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Mary Pardue, 34
Summerfield, AZALIE, 726
Summers, 681
Sunkel, LILLIE FRANCES, 596
Sutley, LILY BELLE, 717
Sweat, BARBARA RUTH, 581
James A. (Captain), 10
Mattie Altman, 9
Talley, W. R., 53
CATHERINE, 574
Tallon, MAME, 593
Tally, 699
Tant, 619
Tate, 713
JIMMIE, 501
Taylor, 632, 637.1
AGNES, 511
Alexander 18, 312, 632
ELEANOR KITTURAH, 18, 312, 632
ELLA, 515
Emma Rutland, 69
HATTIE, 515, 516
John, 69
LOYAL, 717
MARTHA, 516
MATTIE, 515, 516
SARAH JANE, 516
Tew, 715
Dorothy Brackin, 67, 715
Thames, 698
James F., 32
Mary Clifton, 32
Thrift, NANCY, 509
NANCY S., 517
NICIE, 517
Thomas, 609, 643, 646
Banner (Captain), 8, 10
Banner M., "Buffalo", 10, 609
Edmond, 10, 311, 609
Elmer, 311
George Washington, 27, 322, 643
J. Ferdinand, 76, 335, 728
MARTHA, 10, 311, 609
MARTHA CAROLINE, 76, 335, 728
Mary, 10
Mary Cleland, 311
SARAH ELEANOR, 27, 322, 643
VICTORIA, 609
Thompson, 715
ARA EVELYN, 586
BESSIE, 504
NETTIE, 512
Thornton, 613
EMMA SORENTHO, 12, 311, 613
Joe, 12, 311, 613
MAMIE, 511
Till, MINNIE CAROLINE, 522
Tillis, Jim, 22, 321
Mary Walston, 22, 321
Tillman, J. L. (Reverend), 75
Tindell, 678
Tomlinson, 641
HARRIETT ADELINE, 26, 322, 641
William, 26, 322, 641
Townsend, 637.1
EL1ZABETH SARAH, 23, 321, 637.1
LENA BELL, 723
William Alex, 23, 321, 637.1
Trawick, 691
Treadwell, William A. (Doctor), 42
Tresca, 638
NETTYE, 638
Trowell, 639
MARION, 639
Truett, FLORENCE, 726
Tucker, DAISY, 546
Eliza, 69
James, 69
Tullis, 721
Turkett, Allen, 312
Eleanor Guess, 16, 312
Turner, 756
ANNIE MAUD, 31, 551, ii
EMMA, 16, 312
John Rufus (Major), 16, 312
John R., Jr., 16
Joseph Allen, 16
Tuten, 648
IDA MAE, 553
J. Greene (Doctor), 31
John Asa, 31, 323, 648
SUSAN CATHERINE, 31, 323, 648
Tuttle, TOMMIE LOIS, 573
Tyler, Elisha , 15
Eliza Millhouse, 15
Tyson, SEVERA, 507
Ben, 29
Van Arnam, URSULA 561
Van Auken, RUBY, 565
Vann, ANNIE LUCILLE, 587
Vannoy, 744, 746
ANNIE FRANCES, 84, 338, 744
FENNIE WEST, 84, 338, 746
Fred, 84, 338, 746
Isaac R., 84, 338, 744
Valentine 660, 687
EVELYN, 570, 660
Vaughn, NANNIE, 726
Wade, EDNA, 598
MYRTLE, 597
Waddell, 638
Wagner, 651
Waites, CLIDE, 574
Walden, Catherine Lucinda Stokes, 73, 333
Loafie Byrd, 43
R. C., 43
Waldrop, ANNA, 504
Walker, 750
Ann Kendrick, 47, 73
ANNIE, 507
EFFIE, 514
Elizabeth 311
Esther, 311
Hampton, 311
Walker, continued-
James, 311
Jeremiah, Jr., 311
Jeremiah, Sr., 4, 311
John, 311
Keziah, 311
LEILA, 514
Marian, 3
NANCY, 4, 311
Nancy, 311
Nathanial, 3
Susannah, 311
Wall, 637.1
ANNA JANE, 50, 331
Austin David, 50, 331
Walsh, 698
Walston, Elmira Cheshire, 22, 321
Gillum, 21, 321
Henry, 22
Joseph E., 22, 321
Mahala Johns, 22, 321
MARY, 21, 321
Thomas, 22, 321
William Franklin, 22, 321
Walters, DAISY LEE, 507
Ward, 663
Ware, BESSIE VIOLA, 556
Warren, 609, 624, 694
Franklin Asberry, 15, 312
MARY, 514
REBECCA ANN, 15, 312, 624
Waters, 689
LAVERNE, 511
Watford, 680
Ed, Sr., 52, 680
JOHNNIE, 573
Watson, 679
BELLE, 504
Fred, 68
IDA MARTILE, 679
Weaver, John C. (Reverend), 68
Sheldon (Reverend), 68
Webb, 618.1, 708
ALICE, 504
Weeks, 681
CLESSIE LEVONIA, 578
Elender Wilson, 24
James Albert 24
Weems, JAMESINA VIRGINIA, 552
Weingart, LENORA, 582
Weiss, EVELYN, 597
PATSY, 597
Welch, 677
Cassie, 48
Ned, 48
Wells, BLANCHE B., 564
Eben Josiah, 57
Eliza Johnson, 57
Tamsey Johnson, 57
West, ADDIE ROSA, 551
Anson (Doctor), 40, 73
Westbrook, 672
Wester, Elias 26
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Whaley, 755
Whealton, ALICE, 533
Wheeler, 745
Whigham, 715
White, 677
Lilly (Mr.), 45
RUE DELLE, 594
Whitfield, 754
Whittlesey, 658
Wicker, Alex, 332
Arbena, 332
Franklin, 332
Dilley, 332
H. W., 69, 332
James, 332
Julia, 332
Malachiah, 70
NANCY 69, 332, 719
Wigginton, DOLLY, 591
Wilcher, 804
Wilkinson, 604
Wilks, RENA GRACE, 533
Williams, 634, 699
CALLIE ELIZABETH, 531
Clara Hanberry, 13
EDNA, 596
ESTELLE 515
George W., 41
GWENDOLYN, 506
IRENE, 634
JOSIAH, 31
LIZZY, 515
MARY, 547
MELINDY, 515
Susan Bassett, 31
TINNIE, 532
Williamson, 712
CIVIL MAGNETTE, 517
Mae Metcalf, 67
SARILDON, "RILLIE", 723
Wilson, 660, 670, 673, 733
Anderson Lafayette, 88, 339
ELIZABETH VIOLA, 591
LOLA PRUDENCE, 507
MAUDE, 546
Mittie Enma Hildreth, 88, 339
Wimberly, EXA, 561
Windham, 698, 755
BUNEY, 63, 331, 698
E . Short (Judge), 58
Elender Dupre, 56
IRMA VIVIAN, 526
Jane Peacock, 66
John, 56
Mace (Reverend), 63
MARY FRANCES, 594
Maud Byrd, 88, 755
Sam Calvin, 63, 331, 698
Sam W. (Doctor), 63
Samuel, 56
Thomas, 66
Winn, Sarah O'Berry, 7
Joseph Jones, 7
MELISSA, 514
Wisenbaker, THEMLA, 534
Witt, 621
John, Sr., 14, 312, 621
Rebecca Hanberry, 14, 312, 621
Wolfe, Nancy Jane Bryan, 25
Daniel, 25
Wood, 682
SAIDEE ELSIE, 553
Woodard, ARDELIA, 509
Woodham, 668
Atha II, 44
Edward H., Jr., 63
Edward H., Sr., 37
Elisha R., 44, 331, 668
Emma Gray, 63
EVA ESTHER, 591
FRANCES, 44, 331, 668
Frederick Ist, 56
Frederick II, 44
John Robert 63
SARAH, "SALLIE" (?), 37, 63
Wright, 636, 754
Wynn, 682
Fern, 53, 682
Wyse, LAVADA, 516
Yarborough, Garon Windham, 77
John Murray, 77
Lucy Ann, 77
W. T., 77
Yarbrough, LATTIE MAE, 726
MARIE, 592
RUBY CAROLYN, 526
SUDIE, 726
Yelverton, 669
Young, 734
ADA MAUD, 551
Frank, 79
H. A., 52
Zeigler, 651
Ziglar, 733
Zorn, Ann, 14
Henry, Jr., 14
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2 UNMARKED
3 WARREN MARTIN II
4 WARREN MARTIN SORRELL
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6 ERATUS BYRON ARD
7 ZENADA BYRD ARD
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9 WALDO EMERSON ARD
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24 FREDERICK TOLBERT DOWLING JR
25 SARA MCKINNON WILLIAMS DOWLING
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39 CHARLES ERVIN McCARN
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41 LIZZIE E. DOWLING
42 N. B. DOWLING
43 MAUDE M. POWERS
44 LEILA BELLE DOWLING
45 SAMUEL LAWSON DOWLING
46 SARAH JANE WINDHAM DOWLING
47 REV. JOHN DOWLING
48 CHARLOTTE DOWLING
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51 WILLIAM H. SLAY
52 NANCY A. SLAY
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57 ROBERT HARRY MOSELEY
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62 WILLIE BELLE ANDREWS
63 ELEANORA GOFF ANDREW5
64 C. GROVER ANDREWS
65 JANIE ANDREWS
66 MRS. A. B. MEDCALFE
67 LITTLE SAM METCALF
68 MRS E. E. STEPHENS
69 INFANT SON MR./MRS. E. E. STEPHENS
70 R. A. KING
71 NELLIE PARKER
72 BERTHA COTHAN WOODHAM
73 R0BBIE WOODHAM
74 WILLIE A. HUGHES
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77 NORMAN O. GRAY
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82 B. F. COBB
83 EMMET O. CARR
84 HENRY G. CARR
85 CLEO M. CARR
86 MARGRETT A. J. ROSS
87 TELITHA S. ROSS
88 JAMES C. ROSS
89 MARTHA ANN BRITT
90 EARNEST M. GRACE
91 AMANDA MCDONALD GRACE
92 PHILLIP C. GRACE
93 T. W. WHITLOCK
94 ARCHIE V. MCDONALD
95 WILLIE MCDONALD GALLOWAY
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97 ALBERT T. McCDONALD
98 MILDRED G. MCDONALD
99 ROY HOWARD MCDONALD
100 BENNIE LEE MCDONALD
101 MRS. ELLA M. GALLOWAY
102 ANDREW G. GALLOWAY
103 HAROLD BERNARD GALLOWAY
104 BERA EVERETT MCDONALD
105 WILLIAM H. MCDONALD
106 BETSY ANN MCDONALD
107 ELISHA MATTHEWS
108 LACEY MATTHEWS
109 LIZZIE D. DOWLING
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112 LOUISA HARRIS
113 LITTLE FLETCHER DOWLING
114 LILLIE A. TERRY
115 MARATHA A. COX
116 GEORGIA ANN MARTIN
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118 ROBERT RALPH HOLMAN
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MEIGS M. HOLMAN
NYDIA PORCH HOLMAN
INFANT OF MR/MRS. M. P. HOLMAN
HOWARD HOLMAN
ANNIE NORMA HOLMAN
MARYANNA DOWLING
JULIA M. HALLFORD
JESSIE CORILER HALLFORD
JULIA HALLFORD
SHELLIE OSCAR SKIPPER
J. W. TOWNS SMITH
SIMEON DOWLING
SARAH J. DOWLING
EMA IRENA DOWLING
JAMES R. DOWLING
NINA TOWNS
WALTER L DOWLING
T. B. MCDONALD
MARY MCDONALD WINDHAM
SEMMIE MCDONALD HURST
UNMARKED
JOHN J. ANDREWS
REV. W. E. W. ANDREWS
CORNLIA M. MURDOCK ANDREWS
SARA BYRD HARRIS
JAMES H. BYRD
ALLIE L ANDREWS
MOLLIE ANDREWS
W. E. ANDREWS
ARTHUR PHILLP WATKINS
ELLA GULLAGE DOWLING
FRANK ANGUS DOWLING
NOEL DOWLING
FRANK H. ANDREWS
EMMIE BYRD ANDREWS
WYATT MARVIN ANDREWS
NOEL PARKER
SUSAN VIRGINIA PARKER
AQUILLIA S. ANDREWS
S. J. ANDREWS & M. A. ANDREWS
BIG BERRY ANDREWS
ALICE MAY VANWYCK
JAMES BENNETT WHITMAN
JAMES RANDALL JOHNSON
IDA CORDELIA JOHNSON
LENNA MAY JOHNSON
JAMES MAURICE JOHNSON
HENRY GRADY JOHNSON
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BENJAMIN YANCEY MARTIN
LAURA REBECCA DOWLING
JUDGE GEO. S. BARNARD
CAROLINE ELIZABETH DOWLING.
GEORGE SMITH BARNARD JR
CLARENCE DOWLING BARNARD
ALMA TURNER BARNARD
LUCILLE BAIRD TATUM
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179 H. BASCON DOWLING
180 REV. ANGUS DOWLING
181 LARUA L DOWLING
182 ANGUS MANCILL DOWLING
183 MATTIE DOWLING
184 DR. OSCAR DOWLING
185 GUSSIE DOWLING
186 ANNIE DOWLING
187 INFANT SON OF BASCOM DOWLING
PETREY & JO HARRIS PETREY
188 NETTIE DOWLING
189 LAURA V. DOWLING
190 KATHLEEN DOWLING PETREY
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192 MARY J. MCLEAN
193 MRS. NANCY DOWLING
194 MARTHA M. DOWLING
195 SAMUEL H. HALLFORD
196 ZILLIH HALLFORD
197 G. L. HALFORD
198 EMLIE MULLINS
199 MARY SULA WYNN
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205 HENRY CLAYTON WOODHAM
206 WILBER BASCOM
207 MANDY DOWLING
208 WESLEY DOWLING
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211 DANIEL P. DOWLING
212 FLETCHER DOWLING
213 MARTHA DOWLING
214 REV. DEMPSY DOWLING
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216 REV. N. A. SKIPPER
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219 RENNIE BYRD
220 WADE T. BYRD
221 OPHELIA BYRD
222 WILLIAM A. BYRD
223 CAPT. ALEX HOOD DOWLING
224 ALBERTA DOWLING
225 MARVIN DOWLING
226 ELINA DOWLING
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228 ANGUS BlRTIS BYRD
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230 JOHN W. DOWLING
231 ANNIE JANE THOMSON
232 SHELLY DUKE DOWLING
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236 ROXEY ANN BRACKIN
237 SHELLIE M. DOWLING
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239 JOHN P. DOWLING
240 ANGUS H. DOWLING
241 ELLA CRIM DOWLING
242 JARRET MALONE DOWLING
243 JAMES KING JR DOWLING
244 EDWARD LINUS DOWLING
245 INFANT DAU.- W. P. & DANA DOWLING
246 INFANT DAU. -M. E. & L. D. PRIDGEN
247 GEORGIA BURNETT
248 MUNCY DOWLING
249 DORA DOWLING
250 NOEL PELER DOWLING
251 SIMEON LEWIS BRACKIN
252 PATRICK BERNARD BRACKIN
253 ALMEIDA WINDHAM BRACKIN
254 SIMEON W. BRACKIN
255 SALLIE CONNER BRACKIN
256 IDA T. BRACKIN
257 STEPHEN EDDIE DOWLING
258 ANNA DOWLING
259 EDWARD DOWLING
260 MAGGIE DOWLING
261 DANIEL MARTIN
262 JESSE E. ANDREWS
263 MARY A. ANDREWS
264 MAUDE BYRD
265 DAISY BYRD
266 WYATT AMOS JOHNSON
267 ALMA DELL WILLIAMS JOHNSON
26B WENONA PAULINE JOHNSON PARKER
269 JOHN CALVIN McKAY
270 RANDALL MCDONALD
271 NOEL DOWLING
272 SARAH D. DOWLING
273 M. DELFAYETTE DOWLING
274 H. JESSE DOWLING
275 JUDGE G. P. DOWLING
276 ZILPHIA ANN DOWLING
277 D. Y. DOWLING
278 REBECCA J. DICK
279 IRENE GERTRUDE DOWLING
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281 YOUNG D. DOWLING
282 BONNIE J. DOWLING
283 JOSEPH ALPHONSE WISE
284 VIRGINIA B. WISE
285 CLEVIE CRUMPLER
286 WILLIAM H. MARTIN
287 MARY M. MATHEWS
288 FRANK DEWEY DOWLING
289 H. E. DOWLING
290 EARLY L DOWLING
291 MAGGIE E. BAKER
292 DADE EDMONDSON
293 HALLIE C EDMONDSON
294 JOSEPH M. EDMONDSON
295 ARLOU P. EDMONDSON
296 F. SOLLIE EDMONDSON
297 MARGARET M. EDMONDSON
298 JOE B. EDMONDSON
299 JOE F. EDMONDSON
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301 MABEL MADELINE STOKES LAMB
302 HORTENSE BRACKIN STOKES
303 CHARLES LEONIDAS STOKES
304 ESTER DORIS STOKES
305 JANE ELIZABETH STOKES NEAL
306 ALTO LEE STOKES
307 SHARON LYNN DOUGLASS BRYAN
308 WILLIAM TRUMAN DOUGLASS
309 ANNIE WILL STOKES DOUGLASS
310 ALICE STRICKLAND
311 J. TOM STRICKLAND
312 MATTIE P. MIXON
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314 ANNE ALFORD HAYS
315 LAWRENCE F. HAYS
316 MARCELLUS FRANKIN PRIDGEN
317 LENA DOWLING PRIDGEN
318 SARA ELZA PRIDGEN
319 LACY ANN ELIABETH MARTIN ANDREWS
320 JASON A. ANDREWS
321 JOSIE A. ANDREWS
322 CARLTON CLINTON ANDREWS
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335 EUGENE HOLMAN
336 MARJORIE HOLMAN
337 SALLIE HOLMAN
338 MARVIN HOLMAN
339 ALBERT HOLMAN &
STELLA EMMAGENE HOLMAN
340 SUSAN V. DOWLING HOLMAN
341 JOHN CLINTON HOLMAN
342 THORNTON R. HOLMAN
343 LIGON HOLMAN
344 INFANT SON/DR. J.C. & S.V. HOLMAN
345 SUSAN ORETHA DOWLING HOLMAN
346 JESSE DACOSTA HOLMAN
347 JESSE NEIL HOLMAN
348 EUGENE HENDRIX HOLMAN
349 YOUNG ALLEN HOLMAN
350 ETHEL GRAY MARTIN HOLMAN
351 JULIAN KNOX HOLMAN
352 ELDRIDGE MARTIN HOLMAN SR
353 ALTHEA SMEAD HOLMAN
354 ADRIAN KENNETH HOLMAN
355 EDNA GREEN HOLMAN
356 INFANT DAU./DR. H. L. &
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357 RICHARD INGE HOLMAN
358 EDMONIA INGE HOLMAN
359 DR. H. L. HOLMAN
360 FLORIDE ARWOOD HOLMAN
361 THELMA HERNDON HOLMAN
362 ALEXANDER HOOD HOLMAN
363 MATTIE EMMA HOOD HOLMAN
364 ROBERT EDWARD HOLMAN JR
365 VIRGINIA MOORE HOLMAN
366 HENDERSON LOONEY HOLMAN JR
367 RHODA PFOHL HOLMAN
368 MARY CAROLYN HOLMAN
369 EDMOND HOLMAN
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THOMAS JUDSON PATTERSON
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S. VICTORIA BROWN
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NANNIE BROWN BAILEY
JEPTHA V. BAILEY
ROBERT J. BAILEY
DR. MALCOM O. GRACE
BERTIE RILEY GRACE
HELEN GRACE
JESSE SAMUEL GRACE
VEDORA MATHEWS GRACE
382 CHARLES AUGUSTUS PIPPIN
CLARA GRACE PIPPIN
383 ANNIE CLYDE LOFLIN VALENTINE
383B HOWARD "RED" VALENTINE
384 LONA M. VALENTINE
385 ISSAC M. VALENTINE
386 RALPH E. VALENTINE
387 BERTHA PRICE VALENTINE
388 THOMAS ALLEN HENDRICK
389 EMMA JANE HENDRICK
390 UNMARKED
391 UNMARKED
392 LUCY MATHEWS
393 W. E. MATTHEWS
394 NANCY J. MATTHEWS
395 ELISHA C. MATTHEWS
396 JOEL CHRISTEN MATTHEWS
397 SARAH J. SAVAGE
398 ALTUS L MATTHEWS
399 WALKER W. MATTHEWS
400 MOLLIE A. MATTHEWS
401 WILLIAM PORTER PRICE
402 SUSIE MARTIN PRICE
403 WILLIAM EDWARD MARTIN
404 WATT R. MARTIN
405 ADA N. SANSBURY MARTIN
406 WILLIE MARTIN GODWIN
407 NATHAN M. GODWIN
408 ROBERT WILLIAM GODWIN
409 MAVIOUS HOWELL GODWIN
410 W. MARTIN GODWIN JR
411 WILLIAM MARTIN GODWIN SR
412 WILLIAM EDWARD MULLINS JR
413 ALICE AKINS
414 WILLIAM H. AKINS
415 LOURA MARTIN WALTON
416 H. A. W. MARTIN
417 ANNIE PRIDGEN MARTIN
418 LOUIS EDWARD BYRD
419 MYRTLE MARTIN BYRD
420 ARGUS B. MARTIN
421 TEE BALDWIN MARTIN
422 DONNIE M. SMITH
423 FOY J. SMITH
424 HENRY G. SHERBERT JR
425 H. LAWRENCE DOWLING
426 INFANT DAU./JOSEPH & MARIE HORN
427 MARIE DOWLING HORN
428 JOSEPH WILLIAMSON HORN SR
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CONA MARTIN DOWLING
CONNIE WYATT DOWLING
DR. JAMES L AKINS
MAE GODWIN AKINS
SALLIE HAMMOCK DOWLING
C. M. DOWLING
FLORA GRACE DOWLING
ROBERT M. DOWLING
VIOLA DOWLING
TAMSEY JANE BRITT DOWLING
E. M. C. DOWLING
TEE C. HILL
WILLIAM A. HILL
PHILLP FRANKLIN KINGSLEY
PAUL MALONE KINGSLEY
JEANELLE KINGSLEY BRYSON
LIZZIE DOWLING KINGSLEY
OLIVER FRANKLIN KINGSLEY
BERNICE KINGSLEY
FRANCES PARKER KINGSLEY
OLIVER DOWLING KINGSLEY
JOHN CALVIN PARKER
LACY ANN DOWLING PARKER
STARLIN WILSON GREENE
MAE TARTER GREENE
EDWARD J. TARTER
LESLIE J. TARTER
ALMA R. TARTER
WILLIAM RUSH HUDSON
MARY EMILY HUDSON
WILLIE PEARL HUDSON
VERA HUDSON
JIM TOM GRUBBS
JESSIE HUDSON GRUBBS
EARMOND OSCAR SCHOLL
LAURA ANN TARTER
WILLIAM D. TARTER
HENRY TARTER
SURELDA J. TARTER
WILLIAM BUELL TARTER
UNMARKED
HIRAM C. TARTER
UNMARKED
UNMARKED
JEWELL LUCILE SIMPKINS JOHNSON
WILLIAM RUFUS JOHNSON
TODIE MIZELL GOODBREAD
GARNER A. GOODBREAD
ADDIE RUTH HARRIS DOWLING
ALBERT TOWNS DOWLING
UNMARKED
TALLIE M. MARTIN
LENORA D. MARTIN
THELMA MARTIN
HERBERT W. WILLIAMS
UNMARKED
JOHN H. MORGAN
LUCY DOWLING MORGAN
INFANT DAU./HARVEY C. &
GRACE M. DOWLING
498 W. JIM BROWN
499 KATHRYNE DOWLING BROWN
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GRACE MEWBORN DOWLING BUDD
HARVEY C. DOWLING
GRACE MAYO MEWBORN DOWLING
HARVEY C. DOWLING JR
ALTO LEE CARR
ANNIE NONA CARR
ANNIE G. BYRD
LEWIE BYRD
SUSIE B. DAVIS
JOHN KNOX DAVIS
LOLA MAY GODWIN
ROBERT E. GODWIN
AMBROSE PATRICK WHITE
HENRIETTA CHALKER WHITE
ANGUS PATRICK WHITE
FONCIE WHITE HAMRICK
LILLIAN WHITE JONES
JOHN WESLEY
MARTHA A. COX
CLAUDIUS M. HUDGENS
MARCELOUS DOWLING
UNMARKED
ALIVA AUGUSTA DOWLING
JAMES K. DOWLING
MARTHA E. DOWLING
LILLIE ESTELLE SMITH
HENRY A. SKIPPER
ALABAMA B. SKIPPER
S.A. SKIPPER
R.G. SKIPPER
UNMARKED
ISAAC LEDBETTER
CHARLEY OBIE DOWLING
WILLIAM DOWLING
UNMARKED
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WADE HAMPTON BYRD
ALMA HUNDLEY BYRD
UNMARKED
INFANT SON/DR. H. L. &
EDMONIA HOLMAN
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