Charlie hit south of Sarasota. We are safe and are back online. Others in Charlie's path were not as lucky as you are seeing on television newscasts. I am on list and here to help with any queries and to offer direction with your research. Gloria, Irwin County Mail List Mom "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HICKS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tc.2ADI/780.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thomas Co. was taken from part of Irwin Co. Therefore, these folks might be yours. I am not related, I did take the cemetery survey..........Winnette HICKS FAMILY CEMETERY Metcalf, Thomas Co., Georgia Hicks Family were founders of Hicks Clothing Company in Downtown Thomasville, Georgia. It is still owned & operated today by some of the Descendants. Hicks, Ralph 1700’s DOD unknown Hicks, Elias h/o Elizabeth 1840 June 27, 1879 CSA. Hicks, Elizabeth w/o Elias .? 1881 no other date Hicks, John 1804 1881 Hicks, George F. Sr. h/o Julia Dec 26, 1868 Mar 18, 1952 Hicks, Julia Reynolds w/o Geo. Oct 20 1879 Jan 24, 1952 Hicks, George F. Jr. h/o Kate Aug 13, 1901 Jan 19, 1952 Hicks, Kate Caldwell w/o Geo. Nov. 28, 1903 - Mar 31,1965 Hicks, Robert T. h/o Mary d Nov 20, 1957 CSA Co.E 29 Ga. Inf. Hicks, Mary C. w/o R. T. d 1901 aged 67 Hicks, Robert L. ? Nov 20, 1957 Hicks, Virginia Horne 1844 Feb 22, 1901 Long, Missouri 1938 1918 Sparks, William dob unknown 1911 Varn, Arron B. Nov 25, 1896 Dec 22, 1965 Varn, Lucy Hicks Aug 3, 1903 April 27, 1969 Varn, Cecil aged 3 no dates Lila Lee Hicks Davis Nov 18, 1906 Sep 18, 2002 D/o George F. Hicks, Sr & Julia Reynolds Hicks Thomasville Times Enterprise Letters to the Editor May 1, 2003 Thomas County should be proud of its rich history I have, over time enjoyed books of Bailey White. Her father Robb White, also wrote memorably. Thomas County has been blessed with the beauty of nature and populated by exceptional people. I just visited our family cemetery in Metcalfe where many of my ancestors rest. Absent are graves of John David and Moses Hicks, two teenagers who died in the Civil War. One died in a Yankee prison camp. What I gain from study and research of my forebears is sheer inspiration. The same is true of all American histo- ry, especially Texas, where I have lived mostly since 1945. I also lived in many other places as an Air Force wife. I have read how pioneers to Texas left a trail of lark feathers and jack rabbit bones. My, they had to be good marksmen to hit one of those fast, huge jack rabbits. Once at the San Angelo, Texas, Air Base on a nature walk, a jack rabbit, tall as my waist, refused to move for a while and arrogantly just stared at me and my little children. Those pioneers who died were buried along the way, not even in a marked grave. The old cemeteries of Thomasville on Madison Street provide truly interest- ing sites of local history that can be read on gravestones. William Faulkner said, "Down South, the past isn't dead. It's not even passed." Well, Faulkner was right, and how glad we are and how enriched we are with the example and beauty left to us, preserved and enhanced by all our wonderful ancestors who had great stamina, ambi- tion and courage. I salute the beloved parents and grandparents of all Thomas Countians of all generations. They deserve to never be forgotten. Katherine Hicks Blackson Thomasville High School Class of 1940

Hi, since I may be offline for a few days and some new folks may not know how to unsubscribe themselves from the mail list in the event they want to the instructions are below: Unsubscribing. To leave GAIRWIN-L, send mail to GAIRWIN-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word unsubscribe in the message subject and body. To leave GAIRWIN-D, do the same thing with GAIRWIN-D-request@rootsweb.com. Unsubscribe from GAIRWIN-L Unsubscribe from GAIRWIN-D (digest) June Harper, George Turner, Gene Givens, Donna Newman, Catherine Fussell Wells, Dave Watson and other Irwin County volunteers check their mail often and can help with your questions too. Gloria, List Mom "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!

Hi, I may be offline for a day or so. Hopefully, no more than that. Hurricane Charlie is headed our way and we are in the process of making preparations in the event it touches land in our county. If we lose power I might be offline and wanted to let folks know in the event you wrote to me and did not receive an answer right away. Gloria, List Mom "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HICKS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tc.2ADI/780.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks again Gloria, but my father and grandparents were all born in Georgia. Dad John A. HICKS in Irwin county May 15, 1932, Grandfather Marion A. HICKS in Augusta 1894, and Grandmother, Elvira WILSON HICKS in Boston, GA., 1906. This is pretty much all I know according to death certificates. I know that Georgia did not officially keep records until 1919. Again, we know no one from the HICKS family and I know that I have cousins somewhere, I will keep searching, thank you so much for you quick reply. Joany

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hicks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/780.1.1 Message Board Post: Joaney, glad to see that someone helped you with the information. Since your Dad and Grandparents were born in other states you will need to write to the Department of Vital Records in those states for a copy of your Dad's birth certificate. If we can be of any assistance in the future don't hesitate to write. Kind Regards, Gloria

They appear in the 1930 Census in Columbus, Miscogee Co. He was 35, born in AL, parents born in AL She was 43, born in TN, parents born in TN Living with them was a step son Emmet (or Everitt) Leoney aged 10 (or 20) born in TN, parents born TN and a half brother of Marion, Willie Hicks, aged 17 born in MS, parents born in AL They had no children of their own, so it looks like your father was their first born. There are no on-line birth records - and this would probably be too new to put on line even if the county or state did put birth records on-line. If you need an address to write for a birth record, please write me back. --- sackettjess@aol.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Surnames: HICKS > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tc.2ADI/780.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Hi Gloria, I am wondering if Irwin County has online > records of birth. My deceased father John A. Hicks > was born in Irwin County on May 15, 1932. He never > knew his father (Marion A. Hicks) or mother (Elvira > Wilson Hicks). Would appreciate any guidance. I > have been researching (with no luck) my Hicks > lineage for several years. Thanks. > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and > Contributors for your help throughout the > years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the > new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click > to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

They appear in the 1930 Census in Columbus, Miscogee Co. He was 35, born in AL, parents born in AL She was 43, born in TN, parents born in TN Living with them was a step son Emmet (or Everitt) Leoney aged 10 (or 20) born in TN, parents born TN and a half brother of Marion, Willie Hicks, aged 17 born in MS, parents born in AL They had no children of their own, so it looks like your father was their first born. There are no on-line birth records - and this would probably be too new to put on line even if the county or state did put birth records on-line. If you need an address to write for a birth record, please write me back. --- sackettjess@aol.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Surnames: HICKS > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tc.2ADI/780.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Hi Gloria, I am wondering if Irwin County has online > records of birth. My deceased father John A. Hicks > was born in Irwin County on May 15, 1932. He never > knew his father (Marion A. Hicks) or mother (Elvira > Wilson Hicks). Would appreciate any guidance. I > have been researching (with no luck) my Hicks > lineage for several years. Thanks. > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and > Contributors for your help throughout the > years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the > new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click > to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HICKS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tc.2ADI/780.1 Message Board Post: Hi Gloria, I am wondering if Irwin County has online records of birth. My deceased father John A. Hicks was born in Irwin County on May 15, 1932. He never knew his father (Marion A. Hicks) or mother (Elvira Wilson Hicks). Would appreciate any guidance. I have been researching (with no luck) my Hicks lineage for several years. Thanks.

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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/an/Tc.2ADI/785.3.1 Message Board Post: Thanks, so much we have been in Mount Zion Church Cemetery Murdock and Abigail's name are on the big Marker but are not buried in that cemetery. But we were told that the old cemetery is under the water next to the cemetery now. That markers have been seen when the water in the pond was low and that is where Murdock and Abigail are. James might be in that one under the water. We have been all over Wilcox looking for him. We are going back to Wilcox County this Sat. we are from the McDuffie and McCall line thank so much for your help. Michele.

The following links will take you to where you can purchase books which are currently available. Some authors offer books that not limited to Irwin County but many Georgia Counties. Catherine Fussell Wells http://www.wjdasher.com/gairwin.html Passing of the Pines, Mary Lou McDonald http://www.wilcoxga.com/ http://www.wilcoxga.com/resources.html#PASSING%20OF%20THE%20PINES:%20A%20HISTORY%20OF%20WILCOX%20COUNTY Tad Evans http://www.georgiagenealogy.net/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaturner/ "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!

Hi Y'all.... Still looking for info on my ancestors from the Irwin/Berrien County areas. James Griffin 1753-1836 m: Sara Lodge Thomas Bradford Bradfords, Parrishes, Wilkes, Griffins, Howells...et al Michael Sawyer Forceps@bellsouth.net Outgoing mail is certified as being virus free...Using Norton's Anti-Virus and Norton's Internet Security Researching......SAWYER/HALSTEAD/GRIFFIN/WILKES/HOWELL/LIGHTSEY/ZEIGLER and ABRAMS/POWELL/BLEDSOE/HOLMES/HILL..... ----- Original Message ----- From: Gloria Holback To: GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [GAIRWIN] Updates On Irwin Research Welcome Joy, nice to have you join us. Please let us know what ancestors that your researching in the area? Also we want to thank you for all the transcriptions that you have placed online lately. We do apprectiate having information about our direct Ancestors online and the more that is there the better for all of us. As for the books in public domain I think that those are the ones you have placed online. The other books that I know of are still under copyright. Perhaps June or someone else on the list might be able to tell you any published work where the author did not renew the copyrights. June do you know of any works that are available that are not under copyrights? The LDS does have some material which was microfilmed but the homestead records are online which I transcribed some years ago and Edd Dorminey transcribed many records and they are online at Edds Website. Zaroga Goff who hosts the Georgia GenWeb Turner County site has been placing some Irwin County marriages online that pertain to Irwin residents who lived in the portion of the county that became Turner County. I will be scanning some Amnesty Oaths later this week to place online. Due to my mother in law being in the hospital again this past week and over the weekend that was delayed, but I will get to it this week. You might check with the LDS to see what has been microfilmed. Louie Harper and I are trying to find out about a transportion service that someone mentioned that was on a track, like a trolley in Irwin. Now this is news to all of us and I have been doing some research on it and would appreciate any information on any type of service such as that which existed before the railroad came into the area. From what I have found so far there was a type of trackless steam driven trolley that was used in the early years. I found some images of those vehicles. But we are hoping someone will find something in a state record which will provide information about a service like that used in Irwin County. For those of you who are new to the list including Joy, we have some people on our list that live in the area. I was born in the area and reared in the area until I was about nine years old and then spent all summers and many other vacations in the area. There are many people on this list who are counsins many times over as the people in the South Central portion of Georgia moved into the area from VA, NC, and SC together in small clusters of family groups from other areas. If you have questions about the history of the county, the people let us know and we will try to answer your questions. Many of these families were allied by marriage and by bloodlines long before coming into Georgia. Irwin County residents and Ben Hill County residents are very closely allied through these unions and many of the descendants are on this list. Our Harper's, Fletcher's,Paulk's, Luke's, Tomberlin's, Land's, Sumner's, Troup's, Brown's, Rodgers', Tucker's, Turner's, Horton's, Hendley's, Bass's intermarried many times over. Most families were very large and it was very difficult to live in the area and not be marrying a cousin twice removed and sometimes there are cases of first cousins being married. So most of us on this list are cousins several times over. Not just through one line but from several or more. Our lines sometimes go back to SC or the NC and VA and were allied families prior to coming to the area that became Georgia. Most of the mail list members have been with the list since I first created it when Rootsweb offered us the mail list to use for States and Counties. We are a family group and we welcome newcomers to the list. So if you need information on any of your ancestors do post a query and someone will be happy to look up the information for you. So we don't confuse any of the new members to the list or anyone who has been unsubbed during the past couple of months and came back from vacations, there is now a Georgia GenWeb Project and also a GAGenWeb Project. The original Irwin County Webpage that at one time was affliated with the GAGenWeb Project which is hosted by Gloria Holback, June Harper and Louie Harper is now with the Georgia GenWeb Project. There is also a Ben Hill and Irwin County list located in AHGP but believe those are both up for adoption in the event anyone is interested in adopting a Georgia County. The url for the original Irwin County page that I have hosted since 1996 still on comcast. This will let you all know that the original Irwin County pages are still online and we are still adding to the pages. All of the volunteers that you have had help you through the years are still here on the mail list and if you need questions answered about your ancestors don't hesitate to ask them for help. June, and Louie both live in the area and there are many of us who were born in the area who have resources also and can heip you with your questions about your Irwin County ancestors. Most of us have a personal knowledge of the area, the people and the pioneers of the county. I am in the process of building county pages that have been set up with the new Georgia GenWeb Project for those Counties that need County Coordinators. We do need county coordinators for Crisp County, Berrien County, Wheeler, Dougherty, Tift and several others. We are hoping to get County Coordinators who either live in the areas or they have direct ancestors who lived in those counties and the new County Coordinators have something to offer in the way of knowledge about those areas, the people and the pioneers and history of each of those counties. Each of those counties has close ties with Irwin County Pioneers as many of the children, and siblings of Irwin County populated those counties named above. Many of the Surnames are the same as those found in other parts of South Central Georgia. Most of us have ties to these counties and also to Pulaski, Dodge, Telfair and Dooly as many of our ancestors were first in Pulaski before coming into Irwin county. I have been adding data to each of those counties about those families who have ties to Irwin County and the family information crosses counties. For those of you searching for ancestors who are buried in Ben Hill or Irwin June Harper has surveyed the Irwin County Cemeteries and we have that data online. Also many of the Ben Hill County Cemeteries. As many of you know that Irwin County was the Parent County to Ben Hill County and many of our ancestors lived in that portion of the county before it became Ben Hill County, the Wilcox, Luke, Barrentine, Land, Tomberlin, Young, Troup and many more surnames are found in that area before the land lotteries. Those people were "squatters" and because they had lived on the land the land became theirs before the lottery and they were the Original Irwin County property owners before the land lotteries. My own John Willcox owned and operated pole boats which took the people from one side of the Ockmulgee to the other. Crisp community which was located very near the river and Bowen's Mill was the center of that first settlement in Indian Territory which later became Irwin County and even later was cut out to form parts of Ben Hill County. Steam boats went up and down the Ockmulgee. Be sure to visit Julian William's site "Old Jacksonville" to learn about our Ancestors who settled in Telfair, Laurens, Wilkinson and Pulaski before coming into Irwin County. Julian's site has some wonderful photos of our Ancestors and so many stories about the part that our Ancestors played in building South Central Georgia. Irwin has a special meaning to me for I was born in Irwin and love the county and the people. My Mother and her siblings were born in Ben Hill County and her Parents were reared in Irwin and Ben Hill Counties. There are some cases where my Mother recalls many of the early families and can tell me about them from her own first hand experiences of growing up in the area. And then June knows the area better than anyone that I know as she has been a lifelong resident of Irwin County. Anyone growing up in Irwin or Ben Hill know that the counties are adjoining and that many of us never thought much about county boundaries when we were growing up. More like Ocilla, Fitzgerald, and the places we went to like Lake Bea, Bowen's Mill, Crystal Lake, and even Ottsiwitchee Springs which is over in Turner County but at one time was part of Irwin County. We thought only of the names and not as the places being part of any one county, just being a part of "home." For home to us was South Central Georgia and the adjoining counties were just an extention of our own town or communities. Growing up in a small town or small community in that area was a gift as life was really good. Jim Rodgers has written several narratives about what it was like and his narratives are on the Irwin County Georgia GenWeb pages along with photos of early pioneers who are his direct ancestors. June wrote a wonderful narrative or growing up in Pinetta. And if any of you who grew up in the area want to share your memories with others please do send them to us. When my Mother was a girl in the early 1920s the church's in the area had all day sings and the young people would go on hay rides to the place where they would hold the all day "Sings." Eddie Bell was the person who usually organized those for the young people. Mother said they did not have any problem with the young people as they had people like Eddie Bell who cared enough about them to organize events to keep them busy and teach them at the same time. This is a good time to by the way for everyone on the list to do a roll call and post your own Ancestor's names. Be sure to put the first names or your direct ancestors if possible so others will know who it is that your researching. Gloria Joy Fisher <irwin_ga2004@yahoo.com> wrote: Hello: I have recently become the County Coordinator for Irwin County GAGenWeb. Please visit my site: www.rootsweb.com/~gairwin Consider it a work in progress - it will always be a work in progress. So far, I have added the full text of J. B. Clements' "History of Irwin County", almost the full text of William Henderson's "Family Records of the Henderson & Whiddon Families", original purchasers of land in the first 5 districts, all the census images 1820 - 1920 (NARA sent the wrong 1930 film, but 1930 will be added when the correct film arrives). If you know of any other sources of Irwin Co. information that is in the public domain, please let me know. What other materials are you interested in seeing on-line? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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Joy, many of our lines came out of Colonial VA in the earliest years. There are some excellent sites online where our Fletcher cousins have placed data online about William's line going all the way back to Colonial VA. I will get the links and post on the list. The Irwin County newspapers have already been transcribed by one of my cousins but the book is still under copyrights however, he may give me permission to post some of the transcriptions online and I will be calling him to get his permission to do that. Believe that in the Salt list that my Rountree ancestors were going down into Florida to get salt. Forget where I saw it but believe I have it in one of the books that is still under copyright. There are a lot of good books which have been written about our families but many were published in the 1980s forward. Many of us have these books but we cannot violate copyrights by posting the material in these books. However, we are happy to do lookups and help in every way that we can without violating the authors copyrights. I just gathered some of the information that is available for Irwin County researchers that might be of some help. These are links to personal websites as well as to several projects online that have Irwin County pages. Hope this will be of some help. Edd Dorminey's Website - http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/ Also See the Dorminey Book Which is still under copyright but volunteers who own a copy of the book can look up your Ancestors Name and provide you with information about that Ancestor. Which includes these surnames: http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/a-d http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/e-j http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/k-p http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/q-z Irwin County Records That Edd Transcribed and are online: http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/will.htm http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/estate.htm http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/date.htm http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/guardian.htm From Irwin County Probate Court Records / Misc. Records http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/other.htm Marriage Certificates - 1832 - 1959 http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/marrfix1.htm The Dorminey's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smaddorm.htm The Gibb's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadgibb.htm Harper's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadharp.htm Henderson's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadhend.htm Hobby's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadhobb.htm Lott's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadlott.htm Luke's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadluke.htm Paulk's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadpaul.htm Ross http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadross.htm Sumner's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/sumner.htm Sutton http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadsutt.htm Vickers http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadvick.htm Walker's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadwalk.htm Warren's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadwarr.htm Whiddon's http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/whiddon.htm Whitely http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadwhit.htm Willis http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadwill.htm Young http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/smadyoun.htm .............................................................................. Petty Family Website http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/petty.htm Index to Irwin County Records Microfilmed And Located At LDS http://www.surfsouth.com/~edormine/micro.htm ............................................................................................................................... Ben Hill County Volunteers for lookups From Published Records Family Histories, County Histories, Census Records http://home.comcast.net/~gholback/bh_vol.htm The websites below have information about many Irwin County Pioneers and for South Central Georgia See Turner County Site For Irwin County Pioneer's Information http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/turner/ Turner County Cemeteries - Whiddon's, Cravey's and many more http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/turner/cemeteries.html James Rodgers Family Website http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/d/James-C-Rodgers/?Welcome=1092157213 See Susan Barwick Elliott's pages for Whiddon's and other families http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barwickfamily/?o_xid=0026656834&o_lid=0026656834&o_xt=26656834 ..................................................................................... Cherokee Land Lottery http://www.accessgenealogy.com/georgia/landlottery/ WW I War Casualties For Irwin County http://www.accessgenealogy.com/worldwar/georgia/irwin.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/military/ww1/gaww1.htm ............................................................................................................................... AHGP GA Counties http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/state/ Irwin is up for adoption http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaunknow/Irwin.html GAGenWeb Project and Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~gairwin/ GAGenWeb Irwin County Website USGenWeb's GAGenWeb Archives Project Irwin County Files Online http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/irwin.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/irwin/census.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/irwin/history.html Hosted By Rootsweb Taylor, Hancock, Parrish Families of Berrien and others areas http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Embassy/1221/georgia/index3.htm Eileen's Worthington Family Website http://members.tripod.com/eworthington/ ........................................................................................................ Census Records Online: ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ga/irwin/1820/ ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/irwin/census/1840/1840indx.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/irwin/census/1850/1850indx.txt ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ga/irwin/1850/slave.txt ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ga/irwin/1860/slave.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/irwin/census/1860/index.txt ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ga/irwin/1860/ ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ga/irwin/1880/mortality.txt Free Online Search of the 1880 Census Index: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp On This Mail List and the Volunteer Pages For Ben Hill and Irwin George Turner, Donna Newman and Herman Johnson will lookup names from the 1820 through the 1920 Census Indexes and some may have copies of the entire census for some years. http://home.comcast.net/~gholback/irw_vol.htm Kia Hall's Transcriptions: Slave Schedules Irwin County http://home.att.net/~beaver5ll/home.html Militia Districts: http://www.us-census.org/states/georgia/teams/Irwin1900.htm http://www.us-census.org/states/georgia/teams/Irwin1930-T626-370.htm I am working on the 1830, 1840 and 1870 records but it is a slow process since I am doing it on my own and have a lot of other transcriptions and scanning to get online at the same time. See the Census pages located on the Irwin County Site listed below: And Lastly the Irwin County Website hosted by June Harper, myself and all of our county volunteers and cousins. http://home.comcast.net/~gholback/irwin.htm Homestead Records For Irwin County 1898-1924 (I am in the process of placing the data in a table but the entire transcription is online http://home.comcast.net/~gholback/irw_lnd_hme.htm Joy Fisher <irwin_ga2004@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi Gloria: Thank you for the warm welcome. I have many rolls of film on order and will be adding new materials periodically. Right now I am working on the salt lists. I am intrigued by the names Fletcher and Clements. These are two of my hubby's lines. His Clements were in VA before 1700. Several branches moved southward into the Carolinas and Georgia before the Revolutionary War. The proginator if the Irwin Clements seems to be a Joseph, born in Darlington District, SC. I have not been able to link him to any of the known Clements lines. The Fletchers came from the Delmarva area. I have less info on this line as I have just started researching them. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McDuffie Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/785.3 Message Board Post: Michele Murdock and Abligail are buried in the Mount Zion Church Cemetery. This cemetery is located in Wilcox County. It is on the James Lea Willcox Lot...where Murdock and Abigail are buried. This cemetery is located off highway US 129 in Wilcox County near Abbeville. Be sure to post a query on the Wilcox County Message Board. Gloria

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McDuffie / McDuffy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/785.2 Message Board Post: Michele, Murdock and wife are buried in Wilcox County. Go to the Wilcox County Georgia GenWeb Site and see if Janet Moore has anything on her site that might be of help to you. I looked in the books that I have on hand and found no listed for James' gravesite. Wish I could have been of more help. But do check the adjoining counties to see if he is buried in one of them. Since Murdock is buried in Wilcox I think that is the best place to look first. Kind Regards, Gloria

Hi Gloria: Thank you for the warm welcome. I have many rolls of film on order and will be adding new materials periodically. Right now I am working on the salt lists. I am intrigued by the names Fletcher and Clements. These are two of my hubby's lines. His Clements were in VA before 1700. Several branches moved southward into the Carolinas and Georgia before the Revolutionary War. The proginator if the Irwin Clements seems to be a Joseph, born in Darlington District, SC. I have not been able to link him to any of the known Clements lines. The Fletchers came from the Delmarva area. I have less info on this line as I have just started researching them. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com

Welcome Joy, nice to have you join us. Please let us know what ancestors that your researching in the area? Also we want to thank you for all the transcriptions that you have placed online lately. We do apprectiate having information about our direct Ancestors online and the more that is there the better for all of us. As for the books in public domain I think that those are the ones you have placed online. The other books that I know of are still under copyright. Perhaps June or someone else on the list might be able to tell you any published work where the author did not renew the copyrights. June do you know of any works that are available that are not under copyrights? The LDS does have some material which was microfilmed but the homestead records are online which I transcribed some years ago and Edd Dorminey transcribed many records and they are online at Edds Website. Zaroga Goff who hosts the Georgia GenWeb Turner County site has been placing some Irwin County marriages online that pertain to Irwin residents who lived in the portion of the county that became Turner County. I will be scanning some Amnesty Oaths later this week to place online. Due to my mother in law being in the hospital again this past week and over the weekend that was delayed, but I will get to it this week. You might check with the LDS to see what has been microfilmed. Louie Harper and I are trying to find out about a transportion service that someone mentioned that was on a track, like a trolley in Irwin. Now this is news to all of us and I have been doing some research on it and would appreciate any information on any type of service such as that which existed before the railroad came into the area. From what I have found so far there was a type of trackless steam driven trolley that was used in the early years. I found some images of those vehicles. But we are hoping someone will find something in a state record which will provide information about a service like that used in Irwin County. For those of you who are new to the list including Joy, we have some people on our list that live in the area. I was born in the area and reared in the area until I was about nine years old and then spent all summers and many other vacations in the area. There are many people on this list who are counsins many times over as the people in the South Central portion of Georgia moved into the area from VA, NC, and SC together in small clusters of family groups from other areas. If you have questions about the history of the county, the people let us know and we will try to answer your questions. Many of these families were allied by marriage and by bloodlines long before coming into Georgia. Irwin County residents and Ben Hill County residents are very closely allied through these unions and many of the descendants are on this list. Our Harper's, Fletcher's,Paulk's, Luke's, Tomberlin's, Land's, Sumner's, Troup's, Brown's, Rodgers', Tucker's, Turner's, Horton's, Hendley's, Bass's intermarried many times over. Most families were very large and it was very difficult to live in the area and not be marrying a cousin twice removed and sometimes there are cases of first cousins being married. So most of us on this list are cousins several times over. Not just through one line but from several or more. Our lines sometimes go back to SC or the NC and VA and were allied families prior to coming to the area that became Georgia. Most of the mail list members have been with the list since I first created it when Rootsweb offered us the mail list to use for States and Counties. We are a family group and we welcome newcomers to the list. So if you need information on any of your ancestors do post a query and someone will be happy to look up the information for you. So we don't confuse any of the new members to the list or anyone who has been unsubbed during the past couple of months and came back from vacations, there is now a Georgia GenWeb Project and also a GAGenWeb Project. The original Irwin County Webpage that at one time was affliated with the GAGenWeb Project which is hosted by Gloria Holback, June Harper and Louie Harper is now with the Georgia GenWeb Project. There is also a Ben Hill and Irwin County list located in AHGP but believe those are both up for adoption in the event anyone is interested in adopting a Georgia County. The url for the original Irwin County page that I have hosted since 1996 still on comcast. This will let you all know that the original Irwin County pages are still online and we are still adding to the pages. All of the volunteers that you have had help you through the years are still here on the mail list and if you need questions answered about your ancestors don't hesitate to ask them for help. June, and Louie both live in the area and there are many of us who were born in the area who have resources also and can heip you with your questions about your Irwin County ancestors. Most of us have a personal knowledge of the area, the people and the pioneers of the county. I am in the process of building county pages that have been set up with the new Georgia GenWeb Project for those Counties that need County Coordinators. We do need county coordinators for Crisp County, Berrien County, Wheeler, Dougherty, Tift and several others. We are hoping to get County Coordinators who either live in the areas or they have direct ancestors who lived in those counties and the new County Coordinators have something to offer in the way of knowledge about those areas, the people and the pioneers and history of each of those counties. Each of those counties has close ties with Irwin County Pioneers as many of the children, and siblings of Irwin County populated those counties named above. Many of the Surnames are the same as those found in other parts of South Central Georgia. Most of us have ties to these counties and also to Pulaski, Dodge, Telfair and Dooly as many of our ancestors were first in Pulaski before coming into Irwin county. I have been adding data to each of those counties about those families who have ties to Irwin County and the family information crosses counties. For those of you searching for ancestors who are buried in Ben Hill or Irwin June Harper has surveyed the Irwin County Cemeteries and we have that data online. Also many of the Ben Hill County Cemeteries. As many of you know that Irwin County was the Parent County to Ben Hill County and many of our ancestors lived in that portion of the county before it became Ben Hill County, the Wilcox, Luke, Barrentine, Land, Tomberlin, Young, Troup and many more surnames are found in that area before the land lotteries. Those people were "squatters" and because they had lived on the land the land became theirs before the lottery and they were the Original Irwin County property owners before the land lotteries. My own John Willcox owned and operated pole boats which took the people from one side of the Ockmulgee to the other. Crisp community which was located very near the river and Bowen's Mill was the center of that first settlement in Indian Territory which later became Irwin County and even later was cut out to form parts of Ben Hill County. Steam boats went up and down the Ockmulgee. Be sure to visit Julian William's site "Old Jacksonville" to learn about our Ancestors who settled in Telfair, Laurens, Wilkinson and Pulaski before coming into Irwin County. Julian's site has some wonderful photos of our Ancestors and so many stories about the part that our Ancestors played in building South Central Georgia. Irwin has a special meaning to me for I was born in Irwin and love the county and the people. My Mother and her siblings were born in Ben Hill County and her Parents were reared in Irwin and Ben Hill Counties. There are some cases where my Mother recalls many of the early families and can tell me about them from her own first hand experiences of growing up in the area. And then June knows the area better than anyone that I know as she has been a lifelong resident of Irwin County. Anyone growing up in Irwin or Ben Hill know that the counties are adjoining and that many of us never thought much about county boundaries when we were growing up. More like Ocilla, Fitzgerald, and the places we went to like Lake Bea, Bowen's Mill, Crystal Lake, and even Ottsiwitchee Springs which is over in Turner County but at one time was part of Irwin County. We thought only of the names and not as the places being part of any one county, just being a part of "home." For home to us was South Central Georgia and the adjoining counties were just an extention of our own town or communities. Growing up in a small town or small community in that area was a gift as life was really good. Jim Rodgers has written several narratives about what it was like and his narratives are on the Irwin County Georgia GenWeb pages along with photos of early pioneers who are his direct ancestors. June wrote a wonderful narrative or growing up in Pinetta. And if any of you who grew up in the area want to share your memories with others please do send them to us. When my Mother was a girl in the early 1920s the church's in the area had all day sings and the young people would go on hay rides to the place where they would hold the all day "Sings." Eddie Bell was the person who usually organized those for the young people. Mother said they did not have any problem with the young people as they had people like Eddie Bell who cared enough about them to organize events to keep them busy and teach them at the same time. This is a good time to by the way for everyone on the list to do a roll call and post your own Ancestor's names. Be sure to put the first names or your direct ancestors if possible so others will know who it is that your researching. Gloria Joy Fisher <irwin_ga2004@yahoo.com> wrote: Hello: I have recently become the County Coordinator for Irwin County GAGenWeb. Please visit my site: www.rootsweb.com/~gairwin Consider it a work in progress - it will always be a work in progress. So far, I have added the full text of J. B. Clements' "History of Irwin County", almost the full text of William Henderson's "Family Records of the Henderson & Whiddon Families", original purchasers of land in the first 5 districts, all the census images 1820 - 1920 (NARA sent the wrong 1930 film, but 1930 will be added when the correct film arrives). If you know of any other sources of Irwin Co. information that is in the public domain, please let me know. What other materials are you interested in seeing on-line? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. 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Hello: I have recently become the County Coordinator for Irwin County GAGenWeb. Please visit my site: www.rootsweb.com/~gairwin Consider it a work in progress - it will always be a work in progress. So far, I have added the full text of J. B. Clements' "History of Irwin County", almost the full text of William Henderson's "Family Records of the Henderson & Whiddon Families", original purchasers of land in the first 5 districts, all the census images 1820 - 1920 (NARA sent the wrong 1930 film, but 1930 will be added when the correct film arrives). If you know of any other sources of Irwin Co. information that is in the public domain, please let me know. What other materials are you interested in seeing on-line? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail