This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ya.2ADI/790.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I've either confused my self or else I'm not reading chart correctly::::::: Sarbra Harralson born 1805 was dau of Reuben and Kizzah Harralson. Ok, I have that: Reuben was son of Elisheba; Elisheba was DAU of Burgess and on down to Paul Harralson Sr. Reuben was son of Elkanah; Elkanah was SON of William and on down to Paul Jr. then to Paul Sr. Elisheba and Elkanah were kin.right? I also have a Polly Harralson, dau of Reuben and Kizzah. She married Henry Brown who married Kizzah Yawn, sister to Calvin Yawn. John William Harralson, son of Reuben married Elizabeth Clark. They had a dau Mary born abt 1840. I bet she'lll turn out to be the one who married Calvin Yawn. Then it seems that John William and Elizabeth Harralson's children married into the Buch and Purvis families which are also connected to each other. It's not a family tree, it's a kudzu vine!!!! Bernice

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ya.2ADI/790.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Sorry for all those typos!! Sometimes my fingers cant keep up.. Also wanted to say that Delialah Cadwell's mother was named Sabry Harrelson.. Oh what a tangled web!!!! Bill

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ya.2ADI/790.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Sabra does belong to Young Allen Yawn and Delilah Cadwell. 1860 GA. Census, Telfair Co. ISION: Sugar Creek Dist. 340 16 July 1860 REEL NO: M653-137 PAGE NO: 43 15 276 276 Yawn Allen 23 M farmer GA. 16 276 276 Yawn Delilah 21 F GA. The 1860 Census was done in Juy and sabra was born in October. She's on the 1870 census with Granparents and her mother, Delila, age 31, Because her Dady Young Allen died at Petersberg Va in Civil War on April 2, 1865.. SAo she's probably the only child they had.. I have that Delilah remarr'd a Thomas Berryhill; but have no info on that marriage.. Bill

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ya.2ADI/790.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for all that excellant info!!! I had all the Census info except 1880.. I would of never found Calvin YARM.. I searched using soundex and got a Calvin Yon in Calhoun Co.. Give me some time to git it all into my tree and I'll git back to you.. Sabra Yawn and husband William Daniel McArthur are bur'd at Yaun family Cem in Suomi, Dodge Co.. I have Pics; will post on another message if you want them.. Happy New Year!! Bill

Hi Bill, I recently saw a reference to Livingston/Yawn info that you posted on the Dodge County website. Do you have any info regarding parents of Rutha Caroline Yawn or John S. Livingston, Sr? They are one set of my wife's paternal g-g-grandparents. One of her g-grandmothers was Nancy Ann Phelicia, one of their daughters. John

Get me off this list! [email protected] Its a bother and heaven only knows who put me on it! S ----- Original Message ----- From: Jen's Gen Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 1:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GADODGE] Re: GADODGE-D Digest V04 #141 Thanks, Gloria, for your comments. They are very well expressed and we do need to use any submitted material we see as leads and do our best to verify facts with actual records, etc. Thanks, Joy, as well, for all the submitted work, and time you have put into these submissions. Folks, much of these will also be available by page or link on our GADODGE site with Joy's generous permission. Watch for them to appear soon! Jennifer Braswell List Manager [email protected] Sheila Rawlins & Jennifer Braswell Dodge CO Co-Coordinators The GAGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~gadodge2/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.824 / Virus Database: 562 - Release Date: 12/28/2004 ==== GADODGE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from the list send your message to <[email protected]> for individual list messages; <[email protected]> for digest messages. Then put the word unsubscribe in the subject line and send your message. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Jen, it is great getting all of this Dodge County information online as it will be a big help to all of us researchers whose families were in Pulaski County and Dodge County. Joy has really put a lot of Georgia data online in the way of out of copyright county histories and also census indexes. She is a one woman dynamo and I appreciate all that she has done for Georgia researchers. Please convey my appreciation to her. Now if we can get some of our relatives to place some photos of our ancestors online. I know someone must have some photos of Charles Harrell and some of the others. I do have photos of Levi Holt Harrell, William Holt Harrell, Mary Jane Willcox Harrell, John Willcox, III, and a photo of a painting of John Willcox, I who owned and operated the iron foundry located on Deep River in Chatham County, NC. Julian Williams has many stories of these pioneer families along with photos of many ancestors which is online at Julian's "Old Jacksonville" site. Including a copy of the photo of both John Willcox's mentioned above and others. My great wish is to find photos of Elizabeth McKay, wife of Charles Harrell, a photo of Charles Harrell, Some images of the earlier Harrell's if they survived the years. Also would like to see some photos of the Harrell school and the students. One was published in a Dodge County newspaper some years ago and my own grandmother was in that one. It would be nice to see what some of the Harrell children looked like. Our Cousin Dr. Jim Burnham sent me some wonderful photos of Wright Harrell and his entire family taken at an early family reunion. I was very grateful to receive that one and will get it online one of these days so others can enjoy it. Eventually I will have a Harrell and allied families page back online. Someone said that there is a church that has a lot of photos of the early Dodge County residents. Anyone know about that? Kind Regards, Gloria > Thanks, Gloria, for your comments. > They are very well expressed and we do need to use any submitted material we > see as leads > and do our best to verify facts with actual records, etc. > > Thanks, Joy, as well, for all the submitted work, and time you have put into > these submissions. > Folks, much of these will also be available by page or link on our GADODGE > site with Joy's generous permission. > Watch for them to appear soon! > > Jennifer Braswell > List Manager > [email protected] > > Sheila Rawlins & Jennifer Braswell > Dodge CO Co-Coordinators > The GAGenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gadodge2/ > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.824 / Virus Database: 562 - Release Date: 12/28/2004 > > > ==== GADODGE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list send your message to > <[email protected]> for individual list messages; > <[email protected]> for digest messages. Then put the word > unsubscribe in the subject line and send your message. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

Great idea! Folks, if you have read this and have pictures you can contribute to view, please contact me or Sheila. Our addresses are available on the Dodge County, Georgia site. Sheila Rawlins & Jennifer Braswell Dodge CO Co-Coordinators The GAGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~gadodge2/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [GADODGE] Re: GADODGE-D Digest V04 #141 : Jen, it is great getting all of this Dodge County information online as it will be a big help to all of us researchers whose families were in Pulaski County and Dodge County. Joy has really put a lot of Georgia data online in the way of out of copyright county histories and also census indexes. She is a one woman dynamo and I appreciate all that she has done for Georgia researchers. Please convey my appreciation to her. : : Now if we can get some of our relatives to place some photos of our ancestors online. I know someone must have some photos of Charles Harrell and some of the others. I do have photos of Levi Holt Harrell, William Holt Harrell, Mary Jane Willcox Harrell, John Willcox, III, and a photo of a painting of John Willcox, I who owned and operated the iron foundry located on Deep River in Chatham County, NC. : : Julian Williams has many stories of these pioneer families along with photos of many ancestors which is online at Julian's "Old Jacksonville" site. Including a copy of the photo of both John Willcox's mentioned above and others. : : My great wish is to find photos of Elizabeth McKay, wife of Charles Harrell, a photo of Charles Harrell, Some images of the earlier Harrell's if they survived the years. : : Also would like to see some photos of the Harrell school and the students. One was published in a Dodge County newspaper some years ago and my own grandmother was in that one. It would be nice to see what some of the Harrell children looked like. : : Our Cousin Dr. Jim Burnham sent me some wonderful photos of Wright Harrell and his entire family taken at an early family reunion. I was very grateful to receive that one and will get it online one of these days so others can enjoy it. Eventually I will have a Harrell and allied families page back online. : : Someone said that there is a church that has a lot of photos of the early Dodge County residents. Anyone know about that? : : Kind Regards, Gloria : : : > Thanks, Gloria, for your comments. : > They are very well expressed and we do need to use any submitted material we : > see as leads : > and do our best to verify facts with actual records, etc. : > : > Thanks, Joy, as well, for all the submitted work, and time you have put into : > these submissions. : > Folks, much of these will also be available by page or link on our GADODGE : > site with Joy's generous permission. : > Watch for them to appear soon! : > : > Jennifer Braswell : > List Manager : > [email protected] : > : > Sheila Rawlins & Jennifer Braswell : > Dodge CO Co-Coordinators : > The GAGenWeb Project : > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gadodge2/ : > : > : > : > : > : > --- : > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. : > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). : > Version: 6.0.824 / Virus Database: 562 - Release Date: 12/28/2004 : > : > : > ==== GADODGE Mailing List ==== : > To unsubscribe from the list send your message to : > <[email protected]> for individual list messages; : > <[email protected]> for digest messages. Then put the word : > unsubscribe in the subject line and send your message. : > : > ============================== : > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the : > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. : > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx : > : : : ==== GADODGE Mailing List ==== : Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This infraction will earn you immediate removal from the list. : : ============================== : View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find : marriage announcements and more. Learn more: : http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx : --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.824 / Virus Database: 562 - Release Date: 12/28/2004

Thanks, Gloria, for your comments. They are very well expressed and we do need to use any submitted material we see as leads and do our best to verify facts with actual records, etc. Thanks, Joy, as well, for all the submitted work, and time you have put into these submissions. Folks, much of these will also be available by page or link on our GADODGE site with Joy's generous permission. Watch for them to appear soon! Jennifer Braswell List Manager [email protected] Sheila Rawlins & Jennifer Braswell Dodge CO Co-Coordinators The GAGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~gadodge2/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.824 / Virus Database: 562 - Release Date: 12/28/2004

Hezekiah Dowdy married Lucretia (Creasy) Yawn who was born in 1832 with whom he had ten children. The Dodge County Newspaper memorial for Creasy Dowdy gives a wealth of information on the family and is copied below. Creasy Dowdy died in 1909 and Hezekiah in Dodge County Georgia in September of 1878. His cause of death was consumption. Hezekiah is listed on the 1870 census as the head of household but his widow is the head of household in 1880. “Memoriam: Thursday October 21, 1909. On the seventh day of October, as the sun was casting its last rays from the West, the spirit of Mrs. Lucretia Yawn Dowdy, was borne by angels to the God who gave it. Mrs. Dowdy was born near the Flint River in Dooly County 77 years ago and in her girlhood was married to Mr. Hezekiah Dowdy who preceded her to the spirit world 31 years ago. She leaves ten children, five sons and five daughters, fifty-nine grandchildren and forty-four great grandchildren to mourn their loss but their grief is not like that of those who have no hope, for they have the blessed hope that she is resting in that home beyond the skies where sorrow and pain are not known. The remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Hopewell Church near those of her devoted companion. She has been a member of that church 54 years. Her nephew, Reverend W. H. Dowdy, in very appropriate and touching words, conducted funeral services.” I am trying to write a family history of my Dowdy line and can tell you that there are mistakes in all of the material I have consulted for my information. Mistakes in census records, mistakes in court records, Mistakes in newspaper accounts and mistakes in my text. However all of the records prove that our line was there at the time the text was written. We all do the best we can and are alwalys looking for improvement.The real fun of genealogy is in the chase. The Dowdy line will give you a run for your money. Happy New Year. Emma

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Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ya.2ADI/790.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Family Group Sheet Name: Hughey Moses GIDDENS ---------------------------------------- Birth: 7 Jan 1850 [1],[2] Death: 13 Mar 1911 Father: Benjamin E L GIDDENS (1817-1893) Mother: Bedia C SMITH (1825-1901) Marriage: 24 Dec 1871 Dodge County[3] ---------------------------------------- Spouse: Mary E J THOMPSON ---------------------------------------- Birth: 1852/july 1850 [4],[5] Death: May 1929 Dodge County[4] Father: Rev John S THOMPSON (1824-1893) Mother: Caroline E (1832-1906) Children: ---------------------------------------- 1 M: John Benjamin GIDDENS Birth: 1873 Death: Mar 1925 [4] Spouse: Nancy Jane MULLIS ---------------------------------------- 2 M: James Calvin GIDDENS Birth: 1875 Death: 18 Oct 1959 Spouse: Fannie Mabel MAY Marriage: 13 Dec 1896 Dodge County, Ga.[3] ---------------------------------------- 3 F: Beadie Carolyn GIDDENS Birth: 1877 Death: 1957 Spouse: W H PRUETT ---------------------------------------- 4 F: Allie GIDDENS Birth: Apr 1880 [5] Death: 1954 ---------------------------------------- 5 M: David Wesley GIDDENS Birth: Apr 1882 [5] Spouse: Carrie Lou HARRIS ---------------------------------------- 6 F: Martha Rebecca GIDDENS Birth: Mar 1884 Dodge County, Ga.[5] Death: Mar 1935 Dodge County, Ga. Spouse: J Luther HARRIS Marriage: 1 Mar 1903 [3] Spouse: William Rufus GIDDENS Marriage: 15 Mar 1908 Dodge County[3] ---------------------------------------- 7 M: Burrell Jackson GIDDENS Birth: Feb 1886 [5] Death: 1945 Spouse: Nellie McCONNELL ---------------------------------------- 8 M: Richard H GIDDENS Birth: Apr 1888 [5] Spouse: Bertie MULLIS ---------------------------------------- 9 F: Emma Elmirah GIDDENS Birth: Mar 1890 [5] Death: 1934 Spouse: A L BOND ---------------------------------------- 10 M: Gordon Monroe GIDDENS Birth: Sep 1892 [5] Sources 1. “1880 Dodge County Census.” 2. LDS Website. 3. “dodge county marriage book.” 4. “Dodge County Newspaper Clippings,” Tad Evans. 5. 1900 Dodge County Census. ---------------------------------------- Last Modified: 2 Aug 2001 Created: 30 Dec 2004 The James Allen Yawn was a typo, it should have been John Allen Yawn. Dodge County Newspaper Clippings; Vol VI, page 3143 Jan 2, 1941 editrion: Allen Yawn, one of Dodge County's oldest and most popular citizens, died at his home in Chauncey Tues. morning quite unexpectedly. He had enjoy good health for one one of his age until Monday afternoon when he suffered a stroke of apoplexy. He was a navtive of Dodge Cty, haveing been born 84 years ago, the son of the late Calvin and Mary Harralson Yawn and spent his entire life here. He is survived by the following children, his wife having died in April this year: Mrs. Bill Mann, Rochelle, Mrs B F Williamson; Mrs Callie Kin; Mrs Manning Pitts; Mrs M L Kirkley, two sons, George and R O Yawn all of dodge Cty; two brothers Will Yawn, Helena, and Elvie Yawn, one sister Mrs Carried Achord, Chauncey. Funeral services were helf from Elbethel Baptist Church We afternoon, conducted by Rev O A Grant. The following grandsons served as casket bearers: Willie Williams, Albert Williams; Sylvester Williams, Walter Williams, J C Mann, Raymond Kirkley. Interment was in the Church Cemetery. The orbit for William H Yawn also lists parents as Calvin and Mary Ann Harralson Yawn. His wife was Cornelia Teel.Date of death, Feb 1952. 1860 Telfair Cty Ga 277 277 Calvin Yawn 32 Mary 24? John 2 Harriet l 1870 Telfair 170 170 Yawn, Calvin 44 Mary A 37 John A 12 Harriett 11 Rheubin W 9 Ephran 8 Lucy A 6 Elvin 4 Caroline 1 1880 Dodge 1254 Dist 348 351 Yarm, Calvin 53 Mary A, 40 wife Rehubin, 17, son Ephram, 15, son Elvin, 12, son Caroline 2, dau Wm. 9, son James 7, son 1900 Dodge Cty; Chauncey 247 247 Yawn, Calvin, Au 1827, 73, married 48 years Annie, wife; April 1832, 68, 12 births 9 living ( don't have 12 names, only 10) There is a Mary A Yawn age, 82, widow, grandmother, listed in household of Bille Teel and wife, Mary L. Orbit for Calvin Yawn: Nov 24, 1904: Mr Calvin Yawn died at the home of his son W R Yawn, of near Cox on Mon, the 21st inst, of dropsey......Mr Yawn was 77 years old leaves a wife and 8 children. Mrs J C Rogers and Mrs S T Rogers of Eastman are his daughters. Burial was at the Brown Cem. in Chauncey. I have a Sabra Yawn, wife of W D McArthur listed as a dau of Calvin Yawn. She was 77 when she died in 1937. Her orbit reads, dau of the late prominet pioneer citizens Mr and Mrs Calvin Yawn. ( the orbit could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time) There is a Sabra Yawn, age 9, on the 1870 Telfair census. She is listed with James and Lucy Yawn, who would be her grandparents. But the Burch Books have her as dau of Allen and Delilah Cadwell Yawn.Could be, from the census it's hard to tell; 1870 Telfair 181 181 Yawn, James, 74 Lucy 67 Elvin 22 Delila 31 Sarba 9 Burch Books also list Mary A, wife of Calvin, as a Harralson.It has her as first cousin to Ellen Harrelson (who was second wife of Charles Burch). I'm not very good at determing relationships, but I think that would mean that Ellen Harrelson and Mary A's fathers were brothers, as both were Harrelson, or it could mean that one of the unmarried sisters of Ellen's father had Mary A. You would think then that there would be a Mary Harralson age 10 on the 1850 census. I found two possibilites; one Mary Harralson, age 10, dau of John William and Elizabeth Clark Harralson, in Montgomery Cty. But this Mary would be sister to Ellen not first cousin. There was also a Mary Harralson, age 11, in Newton Cty, dau of Jesse and Mary Harralson. I've not done a lot of work on the Harralsons, but I think I remember reading somewhere that the Newton Cty and Telfair, Montgomery Harralsons were connected. If Mary was a Harrell----I found no Mary Harrells in Telfair in 1850; in Pulaski was Mary b! orn abt 1848;Mary A 1849; Mary A 1827; Mary A 1823 and Mary J 1849. None of the ages seem right to be Mary A born abt 1840. No Mary Harrells in Montgomery in 1850. Bernice

In Mrs. Smallwood's book believe she did note the errors in Mrs. Cobb's book, but then again, errors are in the Smallwood books as I am in one of those and listed incorrectly by my Mother's maiden name instead of my father's surname and believe there are many other errors. But if you think about how difficult it is to get information about our family from our own elders and when we do it is in some cases incomplete or full of errors or guess work, you will realize how these ladies must have ran into the same when they were trying so hard to get the information on each of the people mentioned in their books. Joy has done a fantastic job of putting many books online and many census records for a lot of Georgia Counties and I for one appreciate her hard work and determination to get this data online. So thanks Joy for all of this material. Now maybe all of we distant cousins can post the corrected data online to compliment what these kind ladies, Mrs. Cobb and Mrs. Smallwood did for all of us. I have thanked Mrs. Smallwood many times though she was not around to hear my thanking her. Without her hard work so much of my own lines would be a mystery to me. I descend from the Harrell's, McKay's, McNeill's, Hendley's, Horton's, Rountree's, Conner's, Willcox's and many of the allied lines that go back to colonial SC, NC and VA. With the information that Mrs. Smallwood provided in her books I was able to trace the allied lines and many collateral lines that branch out from the above named families. I have the Horton's In America book and the Horton line is all wrong in Mrs. Smallwood's book and we do not descend from the Horton in Conn. but from one of Barnabus Horton's other sons down to David Horton of Wake County, NC who was the father of Amelia Ann (Olive?) Horton. I traced the Rountree's back to SC, NC, VA and England. Then all of their collateral lines in SC. If we use these early histories as a jumping off place to do our own research they serve a wonderful purpose. Gloria > In a message dated 12/29/2004 1:36:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > The Dowdy Family. > > > > John L. Dowdy, head of this family, moved to this section from Effingham > > County in 1827 and settled in what was then Telfair County near where the > > present town of Rhine is. He married Gordy Ann Anderson, and they were the > > parents of: J. Richard, who married Polly Ryals; Joe, who married Roxie > > Ryals; > > Joe was a Confederate soldier and lost his life at Petersburg, Virginia. > > Bill > > married, first, Nancy Pitts, second, Nancy Musselwhite, and third, Catherine > > McDaniel. Hezzie married Creasy Pitts; he was also a Confederate soldier. > > Mart > > L. married, first, a Miss Musselwhite, and second, Polly Rainey. Jack R. > > married > > Betsy Jane Marchant. Mary married a Lambard. > > > > Hezzie, son of John L., married Creasy Yawn, and their children were: > > Elizabeth, who married Louis C. Burnham; Tom, who married Martha Tomlin; > > Nan, > > who married Frank Hilliard; Sara, who married, first, Jim Brown, and next, > > John > > L. Dowdy, Jr.; Uria, who married Lula Yancey; Alice, who married Wesley > > Thompson; Bill, who married Ida Reaves; Emma, who married George Coley; > > Hezzie, who married Beckie Dowdy; J. R. never married. > > > > Can someone help me with what seems to be contradictory info by Mrs. Cobb? > > In the 1st paragraph, she states that "HEZZIE married CREASY PITTS........" > > Then below that, in the 2nd paragraph, she states that "HEZZIE, son of JOHN > L., married CREASY YAWN......." > > I've run into this before in other places - on an old charts I did back in > 1995, I had "PITTS" marked out besides the "YAWN"........ > > HEZZEKIAH "HEZZIE" DOWDY was in my husb's maternal line, his GG-GF - husb's > mother was ANNIE ESTELLE (BROWN) mar JOHNNIE TALMAGE STUDSTILL.... His > G-Grandparents include URIA "TOBE" DOWDY (son of HEZEKIAH DOWDY & CREASY ??) mar > LULA > YANCEY. > > Bill Harrell, do you have any info on that CREASY YAWN or PITTS? > > I have loved reading all these files posted by Joy - what a job she has been > doing!!! > > I believe that in Marilu Burch Smallwood's book, she mentioned there were > quite a few errors in this particlar book - Has anyone else run into this? > > Many thanks for any help - from anybody! <g> > Sarah Howell Studstill > > > ==== GADODGE Mailing List ==== > Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This > infraction will earn you immediate removal from the list. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

There are many errors in this body of work. Mary Lou Burch Smallwood's "Burch, Harrell and Allied Families," I, and II provide additional information regarding most of these families mentioned in this earlier work by Mrs. Cobb. Though I appreciate very much Joy placing all of this data online, I do hope that everyone researching these families will also consult actual records and contact other researchers to find the corrections to the many errors. Mrs. Smallwood also has errors in her work as these women, though working very hard to provide this valuable information were sometimes given the wrong information by well meaning family members who did not have the correct names, dates, places and order of birth in families. I do not rely on early county or family histories but use them as clues to where to look for the actual records and then I go to those microfilmed copies of actual documents. And even in the case of actual documents often names are misspelled. Gloria > In a message dated 12/29/2004 1:36:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > The Dowdy Family. > > > > John L. Dowdy, head of this family, moved to this section from Effingham > > County in 1827 and settled in what was then Telfair County near where the > > present town of Rhine is. He married Gordy Ann Anderson, and they were the > > parents of: J. Richard, who married Polly Ryals; Joe, who married Roxie > > Ryals; > > Joe was a Confederate soldier and lost his life at Petersburg, Virginia. > > Bill > > married, first, Nancy Pitts, second, Nancy Musselwhite, and third, Catherine > > McDaniel. Hezzie married Creasy Pitts; he was also a Confederate soldier. > > Mart > > L. married, first, a Miss Musselwhite, and second, Polly Rainey. Jack R. > > married > > Betsy Jane Marchant. Mary married a Lambard. > > > > Hezzie, son of John L., married Creasy Yawn, and their children were: > > Elizabeth, who married Louis C. Burnham; Tom, who married Martha Tomlin; > > Nan, > > who married Frank Hilliard; Sara, who married, first, Jim Brown, and next, > > John > > L. Dowdy, Jr.; Uria, who married Lula Yancey; Alice, who married Wesley > > Thompson; Bill, who married Ida Reaves; Emma, who married George Coley; > > Hezzie, who married Beckie Dowdy; J. R. never married. > > > > Can someone help me with what seems to be contradictory info by Mrs. Cobb? > > In the 1st paragraph, she states that "HEZZIE married CREASY PITTS........" > > Then below that, in the 2nd paragraph, she states that "HEZZIE, son of JOHN > L., married CREASY YAWN......." > > I've run into this before in other places - on an old charts I did back in > 1995, I had "PITTS" marked out besides the "YAWN"........ > > HEZZEKIAH "HEZZIE" DOWDY was in my husb's maternal line, his GG-GF - husb's > mother was ANNIE ESTELLE (BROWN) mar JOHNNIE TALMAGE STUDSTILL.... His > G-Grandparents include URIA "TOBE" DOWDY (son of HEZEKIAH DOWDY & CREASY ??) mar > LULA > YANCEY. > > Bill Harrell, do you have any info on that CREASY YAWN or PITTS? > > I have loved reading all these files posted by Joy - what a job she has been > doing!!! > > I believe that in Marilu Burch Smallwood's book, she mentioned there were > quite a few errors in this particlar book - Has anyone else run into this? > > Many thanks for any help - from anybody! <g> > Sarah Howell Studstill > > > ==== GADODGE Mailing List ==== > Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This > infraction will earn you immediate removal from the list. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

Dodge County GaArchives History .....Conclusion ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher [email protected] December 29, 2004, 6:12 pm CONCLUSION. IN CLOSING this history of Dodge County and her people, we note the progress that has been made along all lines in the sixty-two years since the creation of the county, and compare the conditions of today with those in the beginning. From the one-room school house we have progressed to modern, well equipped school buildings with only teachers employed who have college degrees. From a school attendance of less than a thousand there are now enrolled five thousand children, with forty-four modern school buses to transport them to and from school each day. We have also made wonderful strides in an agricultural way. From 950 bales of cotton produced in the early years we now produce something like twenty thousand bales per year. Before the advent of the boll weevil in 1920 the number of bales were thirty to thirty-five thousand per year. In the early days whiskey was sold openly in this county, and at one period there were twelve barrooms in the town of Eastman. These barrooms have been replaced by handsome business houses. From the little sandy trails of earlier days, which were just wide enough for a buggy or wagon to travel, we now have sixteen hundred miles of well kept public roads throughout the county, with twenty-three miles of paved highway extending across the entire county, which gives this section a paved highway direct from Atlanta through Eastman to Jacksonville, Florida. There is also a marked contrast in the way the prisoners are cared for today as compared to the long ago. Through our efficient County Commissioner, W. D. McCranie, the old prison cages have been abandoned and a handsome stockade of concrete, reinforced with steel, was erected in 1929. It is modern and sanitary in every respect, being equipped with shower baths and has well ventilated and properly heated sleeping quarters, with clean, comfortable cots and mattresses. Today all of the principal streets in the business section of Eastman are paved with concrete, and paved sidewalks extend throughout the entire residential section of the town. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF DODGE COUNTY COPYRIGHT 1932 By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB Printed by FOOTE & DAVIES CO., ATLANTA. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/dodge/history/other/gms563conclusi.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb

Dodge County GaArchives Biographies.....Wynne, Mather ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher [email protected] December 29, 2004, 6:10 pm Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB Mather Wynne. Mr. Mather Wynne, known as "the king of merchants in Eastman," came here from Telfair County many years ago, and has been engaged in the mercantile business ever since coming to Eastman, except for about five years, at which time he engaged in farming. Mr. Wynne has always taken an active interest in all enterprises for the upbuilding of the town and county. He has at all times given freely of his time and money for the relief of the poor in the county, and has done as much, if not more, for the support of the Eastman Methodist church than any man who has lived here. He is still one of the most active members of the church and Sunday school. He married Miss Nannie McRae, and to them were born four children, viz.: Ethel, who married Pierce Harley; Mabel, who married Fred Roberts; Fred; Austin. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF DODGE COUNTY COPYRIGHT 1932 By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB Printed by FOOTE & DAVIES CO., ATLANTA. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/dodge/bios/gbs671wynne.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb

Dodge County GaArchives Biographies.....Williamson, A. G. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher [email protected] December 29, 2004, 5:59 pm Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB A. G. Williamson. Mr. A. G. Williamson came to Eastman from North Carolina in early manhood. By thrift, untiring energy, and close attention to business, he accumulated large holdings of real estate in this county. He began his career in the turpentine business, which he followed for a number of years, after which he engaged in farming, being one of the leading farmers in the county. He owned about eight thousand acres of land at the time of his death. He was a quiet and unassuming man, but loyal to his friends. He took great interest in religious work, having built and donated to the Christian denomination the church known as Orphans church, located about three miles west of Eastman. Mr. Williamson served as Ordinary of the county several years. He married Miss Mattie Buchan. No children were born to this union, and at his death the majority of his property was bequeathed to his nephew, Mr. J. G. Williamson, who married Miss Georgia Lee Graham, daughter of Judge E. D. Graham, and they are the parents of: Martha Lee; Vannie Gould; and Maude Whaley. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF DODGE COUNTY COPYRIGHT 1932 By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB Printed by FOOTE & DAVIES CO., ATLANTA. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/dodge/bios/gbs670williams.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb

Dodge County GaArchives Biographies.....Peacock, C. H. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher [email protected] December 29, 2004, 5:58 pm Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB C. H. Peacock. Mr. C. H. Peacock was another of the early settlers in Eastman. He was a brother to L. M. Peacock, Sr. He was a merchant and a banker, and to him is attributed a large part of the growth and development of this section. Mr. Peacock contributed largely of his labors and means to the building of the handsome Methodist church in Eastman. He was president of the Citizens Banking Company for many years, and was a very successful business man. He represented this senatorial district two terms. Mr. Peacock married Miss Ophelia Edwards, and they were parents of: Lillie Mae, who married S. C. Smiley; Pearl, who married W. L. Mathers; Julia, who married Jimmie Fitzgerald; Charlie Harden, who married Pauline Thompson. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF DODGE COUNTY COPYRIGHT 1932 By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB Printed by FOOTE & DAVIES CO., ATLANTA. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/dodge/bios/gbs669peacock.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb

Dodge County GaArchives Biographies.....Peacock, L. M. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher [email protected] December 29, 2004, 5:57 pm Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB L. M. Peacock. Mr. L. M. Peacock was one of the first settlers in Eastman, and he took a great interest in the growth and upbuilding of the town. He was mayor several times, and served as a member of the school board more terms than any man who has ever lived in Eastman. He was always deeply interested in the educational development of Eastman and Dodge County. He was one of the most prominent members of the Eastman Methodist church. He was a Confederate veteran, having served as Sergeant in Co. D, 8th Georgia Regiment. Mr. Peacock married Miss Valeria Sauls and to this union were born the following children: L. M., Jr., who married Miss Vassye Harrell; Etna, who married W. D. Webster; Clifford, who married, first, Dr. McGhee, and second, Wm. McRae; L. S., who married Mae Simmons; Bessie, who married Dr. A. L. Wilkins; Estoria, who married Sidney Stevens. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF DODGE COUNTY COPYRIGHT 1932 By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB Printed by FOOTE & DAVIES CO., ATLANTA. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/dodge/bios/gbs668peacock.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb