Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=304 Surname: Leopold Bohn, Heinrich Bohn, Mauritius Bohn ------------------------- I am searching for my gr.gr.uncles Leopold BOHN * 01/16/1858 Heinrich (Henry)Bohn *08/27/1860 and Mauritius Bohn *05/14/1867 born in großweier/baden/germany. Can you help me?

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Biographies Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BrooksBios?read=9 Surname: HOPPER, FOLSOM, BARWICK ------------------------- Nick, If you are interested I can give you a great deal of info on Marshall's mother, Martha Folsom. I can take that line back to the 1500s in England. Marshall's first marriage might also be of some interest to you. Susan, if you read this I have some corrections to your Folsom info where the Barwicks and Folsoms connect. Harry Link: Folsom Family Association URL: <http://www.flash.net/~miamibig/folsom/>

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Biographies Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BrooksBios?read=7 Surname: Barwick, Lee, Hopper ------------------------- Greetings Susan, Wow! Thanks for telling me more about our family. I did not have the prior info on William Barwick of Darlington, SC I had contributed info to Pioneers of Wiregrass Ga. on William Barwick III of Brooks County and the marriage of Marshall Benton Hopper, my G.Grandfather to Letitia ReDella Lee, G.Grandmother. Did not know much about the Barwicks except some of relatives were in Gasden County, Fla and Tallahassee area. But, as with most families, I'm sure they are scattered all over by now, with some remaining in those areas. Thanks again so much. If you think I can help you please let me know. Sincerely, Nick.

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Obituaries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BrooksObits?read=3 Surname: QUICK, WEBB ------------------------- Arthur F Quick was born in Richmond Co, NC about 1878. He married Mattie Webb and was living in Colquitt County in 1920 census with a family of children. Arthur died 6 March 1932 in Quitman, GA and is buried in Pleasant Hill Cem, Barney Ga in Brooks County. Any information on this family, the cemetery mentioned, any help at all will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, ZHC

According to "A Survey of Brooks County Cemeteries", Mt. Zion AME Cemetery is located on County Road 21, off Highway 76, 3 miles from Quitman, Brooks Co., GA. Faye Jones Yager - Alexandria, MN -----Original Message----- From: Robert Lamar Whittle <rlwhittle@earthlink.net> To: GABROOKS-L@rootsweb.com <GABROOKS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: Mt. Zion cemetery >Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum >Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=303 > >Surname: Reddick, Whittle >------------------------- > >Can anyone tell me where the Mt. Zion cemetery is locaated in Brooks County? > >

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=303 Surname: Reddick, Whittle ------------------------- Can anyone tell me where the Mt. Zion cemetery is locaated in Brooks County?

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=302 Surname: LUMPKIN ------------------------- There is a town called Dahlonega, Georgia, the seat of Lumpkin County, which was named after a Lumpkin family that came from somewhere else in Georgia. I do not know the entire history of it, but the family was quite important and there are numerous records on the internet, and you might even contact the Lumkin County website and get the historian for this area. Good luck... Anyta

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=300 Surname: POWELL, SLAUGHTER, TAYLOR, BYRD, DILBON, DILBONE, DIEHL BOHN, BOHN, McCLELLAN ------------------------- CORRECTION: My last message states that Edward SLAUGHTER's middle name is Eugene. Since that time I have found out that may not be correct. It could be Gene or George. Also Virginia POWELL may in fact have been Virginia ROWELL. Still searching. Anyta

Joe, I checked the index of Brooks County Georgia: Echoes of Its People for your Joseph Browning WILLIAMS. I found the following on page 343. "WELLBORN ...The children of David and Mary Wellborn were: 4. Matilda Wellborn (b. 1792) married John WILLIAMS, son of John Roger Williams (b. March 22, 1759). a. David Morgan WILLIAMS (1812 - February 28, 1868) married February 28, 1833 to Elizabeth Ann Judy Mann, daughter of Peter Mann and Sarah Freeman whose father was Gideon Freeman. b. Jonathan W. (b. 1815) married July 18, 1848 to Sarah Ann Talley. c. Joseph Browning WILLIAMS (b. 1821) married January 4, 1849 to Sarah Jordan ROGERS, died the 4th or 5th of April, 1882. d. Elizabeth WILLIAMS (b. 1832) first married a Johnson then a Gray..." This family history was part of histories/biographies of the WELLBORN, MANN, and WILKERSON families submitted by Peyton and Mildred Simpson Miller. Faye Jones Yager - Alexandria, MN -----Original Message----- From: Joe Williams <joe_marywilliams@prodigy.net> To: GABROOKS-L@rootsweb.com <GABROOKS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:30 PM Subject: Joseph Browning Williams >Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Obituaries >Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BrooksObits?read=2 > >Surname: Williams >------------------------- > >Looking for more family information. Joseph Browning Williams died April >1881 in Quitman Ga. in the home of Vic Folson [ niece ] and was buried >in the Concord Church Cemetery. >He had moved to Texas but came back to Brooks County Ga. after wife Sarah >James [Rogers] died in 1880. >I am trying to collect any family history on the Williams family. > >

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Obituaries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/BrooksObits?read=2 Surname: Williams ------------------------- Looking for more family information. Joseph Browning Williams died April 1881 in Quitman Ga. in the home of Vic Folson [ niece ] and was buried in the Concord Church Cemetery. He had moved to Texas but came back to Brooks County Ga. after wife Sarah James [Rogers] died in 1880. I am trying to collect any family history on the Williams family.

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=299 Surname: RICKS, RIX ------------------------- I am searching for information on my great grand father and his family before him. I think that he was born around the Brooks Co. Area. He was born around 1870. I don't know who his parents were but he had a brother named Brack. If any one has information on Samuel Thomas (S.T.) Ricks who changed his name to S.T. Rix in about 1890. I would greatly appreciated any help. Thanks Rose Marie Rix Jones

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=298 Surname: BRADLEY, GLOVER ------------------------- looking for info on ALICE GLOVER BRADLEY who was married to H.T. 'TOM' BRADLEY.

I am searching for Hilliard SLAUGHTER, his wife Virginia POWELL Slaughter, their son Edward George SLAUGHTER and his wife Mary Jane TAYLOR.......any help will be appreciated......the only information I have on these people is that Edward died in 1938 in Alma, Bacon County, GA, and that Mary Jane TAylor also died in Bacon County, GA around the 1940's.......Can anyone help me?

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=297 Surname: Phillips ------------------------- I too am looking for any records of African Americans that lived in Brooks County. I have left several queries and have searched the Brooks County Page with no luck. My Phillips line still has many descendant living in the Brooks County and Lowndnes County area. If you have a Phillips from Brooks County circa 1870 to the present, please contact me at rae_72@excite.com. Thanks Ralanda

Good morning, Anita. I was going to suggest that you start at the Brooks Co. GA web page @ <http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/brooks.htm> but checked the page out again this morning and saw that you had already registered the BURNEY and EVERETT surnames. If you haven't already, you could call the Probate Judge's office (The Ordinary) at 912/263-5567 to ask them to check the marriage books for these surnames. I learned while completing my research in Brooks Co. that they initially kept separate marriage records for "Whites and Coloreds". I even found one of my white relatives listed under "Colored". Perhaps she was considered "Colored" because she was Native American. I checked the Quitman telephone directory for BURNEY and EVERETT and found the following: BURNEY, Roy A., Jr., Hickory Head Plantation - 912/263-9743 EVERETT, Mary, Route 2 - 912/263-8776 "A Survey of Brooks County Cemeteries" Old Bethel Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery located south of Highway 122, Tallokas District, Page 6: BURNEY, Amanda Hicks, b. March 6, 1835, d. April 11, 1921 BURNEY, Gaston, b. Dec. 23, 1838, d. June 8, 1896 Columbia Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery is located approximately 12 miles south of Quitman off the Quitman-Madison, FL road to Nankin. Turn right onto dirt road at Nankin. The church is a short distance on the left. Page 34 EVERETT, Robert F., b. Feb. 8, 1883, d. Oct. 24, 1966 EVERETT, Jessie Rambo, b. March 17, 1880, d. Jan. 15, 1964 w/o Robert F. EVERETT. EVERETT, Rayford, b. Feb. 22, 1913, d. Nov. 17, 1965 s/o Robert F. and Jessie. EVERETT, Mabel Jarvis, b. Jan. 23, 1916, d. July 25, 1977 w/o Rayford EVERETT. Evergreen Baptist Church Cemetery located at Dixie on the Barwick Road. Page 76 EVERETT, Emma, b. 1865, d. 1950 EVERETT, Infant with no dates EVERETT, Robert S., b. 1865, d. 1953 Harmony Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, take the Quitman Highway from Barwick, Church and Cemetery are located one (1) mile from Barwick. Page 102 EVERETT, Amanda M., b. March 15, 1825, d. July 16, 1913. EVERETT, John, b. Aug. 30, 1822, d. Dec. 22, 1898. EVERETT, Peyton B., b. Dec. 16, 1852, d. Sept. 23, 1872. I believe these cemeteries are usually regarded as white cemeteries. I learned while I was in Quitman in September 1999 that the genealogical society had asked the African-American community if they would work with them to complete surveys of their cemeteries. You may want to contact Alene Kitchens at 912/263-8880 to see if she can give you a contact name for the African-American community in Brooks County. Do you live near Quitman and Brooks Co., GA, Anita? I hope some of this information is helpful to you. Faye Jones Yager - Alexandria, MN -----Original Message----- From: A. Cummings <marya67@ij.net> To: GABROOKS-L@rootsweb.com <GABROOKS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 1:51 AM Subject: African-American Records >Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum >Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=296 > >Surname: Everett, Burney >------------------------- > >I would appreciate any information someone can give me about to African-American >families who lived in Brooks County near Pidcock. The family names are >Everett and Burney. I know for certain that both families were there through >the early 1920's. even if you don't know the names can anyone give any >search tips. > >

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=296 Surname: Everett, Burney ------------------------- I would appreciate any information someone can give me about to African-American families who lived in Brooks County near Pidcock. The family names are Everett and Burney. I know for certain that both families were there through the early 1920's. even if you don't know the names can anyone give any search tips.

Faye, Cecil, Tom, and Bonnie: You are all gracious people and I appreciate your prompt response to my question about Melus Thigpen. If I can ever be of help to you about any other names in the Thigpen family, I will be glad to do so. I have some of Smith, The Thigpen Tribe. I have information on the Folsoms, the Gilmans, and the Grubers if you need it. I am also researching the Woods and Hooks families in Georgia. ENP

I checked the index of "A Survey of Brooks County Cemeteries" for Rev. Melus THIGPEN and his wife, Sarah Whaley THIGPEN and found no listings for THIGPEN in any of the Brooks Co., GA cemeteries. Faye Jones Yager - Alexandria, MN -----Original Message----- From: KY2KRNLZ@cs.com <KY2KRNLZ@cs.com> To: GABROOKS-L@rootsweb.com <GABROOKS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, April 17, 2000 3:21 PM Subject: Brooks County Cemeteries >Would someone with access to the book, please look up Bethany Primitive >Baptist Church to see if Melus Thigpen is listed as being buried there?. He >was pastor of the church from 1835-January 18, 1839 when he died. His wife >Sarah Whaley Thigpen was also a member. Thank you for your help. > >

Would someone with access to the book, please look up Bethany Primitive Baptist Church to see if Melus Thigpen is listed as being buried there?. He was pastor of the church from 1835-January 18, 1839 when he died. His wife Sarah Whaley Thigpen was also a member. Thank you for your help.

Posted on: Brooks Co. Ga Queries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Brooks?read=295 Surname: Dowling, Collins ------------------------- Would like to talk with descendants of Dowling or Collins in Brooks County, Georgia. Collins in North Florida moved to Brooks, late l800's. Nancy