Margie, If you want to learn more about sharecropping in general there is an article on pbs.org about it. http://www.pbs.org/amex/flood/peopleevents/e-sharecroppers.html You might also try typing sharecropping>Georgia>Glacock County in the address line Sharecroppers got a percentage of the crops they helped produce, in theory. They usually charged their supplies and the food etc. that they needed at the company store, which belonged to the owner of the farm. In the fall, they got money and/or supplies which was sometimes called a furnish. The system was rigged so that the sharecropper usually ended up deeper and deeper in debt to the landowner and was just another system devised to keep them tied to the land after slavery was abolished. Your grandfather was indeed very fortunate. Jinnye Nobles Koons

The same thing was happening at the logger camps. The people would have to buy all of their supplies and groceries at the company store where the prices where so high they would owe more than they made. Researching: Anderson, Byrd, Dodson, Dove, Goodson, Hunt, Miley, Neal, Nichols, Moody, Patterson, Payne, Ratcliff, Ross, Rougeou, Shumate, Walker and Weaver

My grandfather was a share cropper . my mom didn't even have shoes sometimes no way out ever. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jinnye48@wmconnect.com> To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Share Cropers > Margie, If you want to learn more about sharecropping in general there is an > article on pbs.org about it. > http://www.pbs.org/amex/flood/peopleevents/e-sharecroppers.html You might also try typing sharecropping>Georgia>Glacock > County in the address line Sharecroppers got a percentage of the crops they > helped produce, in theory. They usually charged their supplies and the food > etc. that they needed at the company store, which belonged to the owner of the > farm. In the fall, they got money and/or supplies which was sometimes called a > furnish. The system was rigged so that the sharecropper usually ended up > deeper and deeper in debt to the landowner and was just another system devised to > keep them tied to the land after slavery was abolished. Your grandfather was > indeed very fortunate. Jinnye Nobles Koons > > > ==== GA-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Faye Dyess fdy@comcast.net Listmanager > Thou shalt not use e-mail for any illegal or unethical purpose. > GA Volunteer lookups:http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/state/volunteer.html > >

then my fathers grandfather was a land owner and hired out to share croppers betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty lovell" <lovell@ragland.net> To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Share Cropers > My grandfather was a share cropper . my mom didn't even have shoes sometimes > no way out ever. > Betty > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Jinnye48@wmconnect.com> > To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:48 AM > Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Share Cropers > > > > Margie, If you want to learn more about sharecropping in general there is > an > > article on pbs.org about it. > > http://www.pbs.org/amex/flood/peopleevents/e-sharecroppers.html You > might also try typing sharecropping>Georgia>Glacock > > County in the address line Sharecroppers got a percentage of the > crops they > > helped produce, in theory. They usually charged their supplies and the > food > > etc. that they needed at the company store, which belonged to the owner of > the > > farm. In the fall, they got money and/or supplies which was sometimes > called a > > furnish. The system was rigged so that the sharecropper usually ended up > > deeper and deeper in debt to the landowner and was just another system > devised to > > keep them tied to the land after slavery was abolished. Your grandfather > was > > indeed very fortunate. Jinnye Nobles Koons > > > > > > ==== GA-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > > Faye Dyess fdy@comcast.net Listmanager > > Thou shalt not use e-mail for any illegal or unethical purpose. > > GA Volunteer lookups:http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/state/volunteer.html > > > > > > > ==== GA-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Faye Dyess fdy@comcast.net Listmanager > Thou shalt not forward any chain letter, (unless it's funny or deals with genealogy). > AGE AND TREACHERY WILL ALWAYS OVERCOME YOUTH AND SKILL > >