The county from which my "documented" family lines came from is such a lost county as far as records are concerned, a fire destroying the courthouse in both 1843 & again in 1893, that I am always looking for clues as to where they may have come from originally. In searching for them, I also try to help anyone else who might have had ancestors in this county. This morning while combing through the records for Heard County, Georgia, I found this data on the CHILDS family that came from Jones County and thought that someone might find it useful. There is no known connection to my own family lines as far as I know at the present. I'm just presenting it here for anyone who might be missing some of their own "links" in time. SIMEON WASHINGTON CHILDS, born February 22, 1825 in Jones County, Georgia, died may 12, 1897 in Randolph County, Alabama. His father was JOHN CHILDS and his mother was PATSY CROWDER. Simeon W. Childs married MARY ANN HOOD on November 16, 1843. Her father was WILLIAM C. HOOD, born 1801 in South Carolina and her mother was NANCY B. HOLDEN, born 1805 in North Carolina. Simeon W. Childs & Mary Ann Hood Childs had the following children: 1. Nancy Clemantine Childs, born 12/31/1844, m. C.C. McDaniel on August 10, 1865 and moved to Texas. 2. Martha Winfred Childs, born 2/19/1846, m. George W. Holdridge on March 5, 1865. 3. Milly Ann Melissa Childs, born 12/1/1848, m. 1st Henry Deberry on March 5, 1855 & 2nd Emmett Rice. 4. John William Childs, born 7/12/1852, died 9/27/1866 never married. 5. James Washington Childs, born 4/9/1855, m. Martha Jane Swann in February 1877. 6. Wilburn Mathew Childs, born 8/16/1857 St. Clair County, AL, died 2/26/1941, m. 2/1877 to Nancy Louise Conaway. 7. Jefferson Davis Childs, born 8/16/1861, died Dec. 1878. 8. Francis Marian "Frank" Childs, born 10/23/1864, m. Bona Vesta Wilson on 9/7/1882. 9. Belinda Emma Jane Childs, born June 1868, died 6/24/1872. 10. Mary Ann Childs, born 3/17/1871, m. Jessie Kersey.