----- Original Message ----- From: <JLRICKET@aol.com> To: <GACOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [GACOFFEE] Ricketson/Sears Families > Hi Diana, > > I agree that the early familes that lived in Coffee, Ware, Clinch and what is > now Atkinson counties,seemed to be one great big happy family. And they > probably had to support each other to survive in the area in the early days. > > If family stories mean anything, the Ricketson/Sears name is probably tied > together a lot more than we try to believe. According to the order of the > listing of the 1820 census records, David Sears probably lived right next to > Joseph and Serena Ricketson in Montgomery County, Georgia. In 1830 and > subsequent census after both families relocated to what is now Coffee County > or Atkinson Counties, they were again listed as living right near each other. > Several researchers that I have been in contact with believe that the three > youngest children of Serena Ricketson, born after Joseph Ricketson died, were > fathered by David Sears. Of course the correct date of death of Joseph > Ricketson is unknown. With the assistance of other researchers, a document > has been located, which was witnessed by Joseph and Serena Ricketson during > the period of time that Serena would have been pregnant with John Ricketson, > so we believe that John Ricketson probably was the son of Joseph Ricketson. > The two younger girls, Eliza and Maria, possibly were father by David Sears, > although the girls used the Ricketson name. How thats interesting...what a little Peyton Place that was!!! ROTFLOL > > Joseph and Serena Ricketson's son Allen Ricketson married Luraney Sears, > Daughter of David and Levicy Sears. David and Levicy Sears son Hiram Sears > married Harriet Ricketson, daughter of Joseph and Serena Ricketson. Hiram is my line... through Virgil...then Fanny Through > my Arnold and Mills ancestors, I am tied to the Sears family several times > again. If David Sears was really the father of John Ricketson, as some > stories go, then I guess I could be related to the Sears family several > times over. > Well then "Hamp" Hamilton Sears married one of my 2great grandmother nieces from the McClelland bunch--Lannie Malinda--and I cross again at that line! > I think it would be great to have a large map of the area and pinpoint the > location where each of these families lived. Hopefully some day I can get > the time to do the research necessary to do that. If I had only listened to > my Dad when I was a boy, I would know a lot more and not have so many > questions that need to be answered. somewhere I think I have something along that line that my brother found...I wonder if I can find it and if it what i think it is. > Either way we are definitely related!!!!!!~WOW!! > John Ricketson > > >