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    1. [GABERRIE] Roll Call: Sweat & Hancock 1890's -1950's GA>FL>GA
    2. Laura Sweat
    3. Hi Berrien List, I'm looking for any information on the family of MARCUS EULY SWEAT and wife SUSAN LEMA HANCOCK b. in Berrien Co., Nashville, GA. I'm particularly interested to see if the were in Berrien Co. in 1910 according to the census records. The children's names were: 1. MILTON H. SWEAT b. May 1919 in Tift Co. 2. RUBY MILDRED SWEAT b. 1925(?) in Tift Co. 3. MARCUS EULY SWEAT, JR. b. July 23, 1925 4. JOHN A. SWEAT b. Apr. 14, 1928 5. WILLIAM E. SWEAT b. Sept. 1, 1930 6. MARY JOYCE SWEAT b. Oct. 19, 1932 7. LIVING SWEAT MARCUS EULY SWEAT (SR.) is supposedly buried in Berrien Co., but I cannot locate the cemetery name. MARCUS's parents are: MATTHEW ANSEL SWEAT and ROSA LENA BROWN. The MATTHEW ANSEL SWEAT family is found on the 1900 Madison Co., FL census and found in 1920 on the Tift Co., GA census. (They might have lived in Berrien in 1910, traveling from FL back to GA.) Descendants of Matthew Ansel Sweat Generation No. 1 1. MATTHEW ANSEL SWEAT was born Bet. November 1859 - 1860 in GA, and died Abt. 1911. He married ROSA LENA BROWN February 11, 1885 in Brooks Co., GA. She was born September 1868 in Apalachicola, FL, and died Abt. 1917. Children of MATTHEW SWEAT and ROSA BROWN are: i. MARTHA C. SWEAT, b. May 1887; m. ? DOLLAR. ii. PEARL SWEAT, b. December 1888. iii. JOHN SWEAT, b. September 1890. iv. PAULINE SWEAT, b. December 1891; m. ? GOFF. v. MILTON H. SWEAT, b. November 1893. vi. MATHEW ANSEL SWEAT, b. Bet. February 1896 - 1897; d. Abt. 1913; m. WILMA ??; b. Abt. 1904. vii. MARCUS EULY SWEAT, b. Bet. October 1898 - 1899; d. 1945, Pensacola, FL; m. SUSAN LEMA HANCOCK, Bet. 1917 - 1919; b. Bet. August 31, 1904 - 1905, Nashville Berrien Co., GA; d. April 13, 1967, Macon, Bibb Co., GA. viii. RUBY L. SWEAT, b. Bet. October 1898 - 1899; m. ? BEARDEN. ix. BRYANT SWEAT, b. Abt. 1901. x. EDNA MAE SWEAT, b. April 03, 1903, Madison Co., FL; d. August 12, 1992, Chatham Co., Savannah, GA; m. SMILEY DEAN GRIFFIN, October 22, 1927, Greenville, SC; b. October 17, 1896, SC; d. March 08, 1965, Dublin, GA. xi. WILLIAM DAVID SWEAT, b. Aft. 1903. SUSAN LEMA's parents are: JOHN DURHAM HANCOCK and MARY ANN ELIZABETH BRANCH. SUSAN's mother died in Bibb Co., GA. I believe SUSAN LEMA HANCOCK and MARCUS EULY SWEAT were married bet. 1917-1919, and any marriage record found in Berrien Co. would be greatly appreciated!! If anyone could possibly help me here, I would GREATLY appreciate it! And hope to return the favor! Thanks, Laura

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