This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MATTOX, MADDOX, MADDUX Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADE/861 Message Board Post: I am seeking information on Samuel MADDUX (also spelled MATTOX and MADDOX). He was born in Maryland in about 1760, but is alive at 90 in the Pike County 1860 census. I believe he died in Pike County as his family remainded there in 1870, but he is not listed. I would appreciate any information about Samuel, especially his will abstract or deed information. Thank you!

Many of you have seen the Pike History Book and know of the articles written by Phil Storey. Phil had been working on his Storey lines for nearly twenty years and was near the end to publish his book before he passed away in April of 2005. Phil's wife Miriam promised to complete the book and have it published. She has ordered 100 copies. If interested in the Storey family from Lifsey Springs, Pike County, GA then contact Mrs. Miriam Storey, 2804 Lynn Dr., Dalton, GA 30721-8460. $60.00 includes postage. Barbara Slade Dayhuff Great Grandmother was Martha Ann Storey married to Samuel Simon Slade, buried in Fincher Cem. Martha Ann had a sister Nancy who married Thomas Jefferson Slade, brother to Samuel Simon.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pilkinton, Pilkenton, Pilkington Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADE/339.2 Message Board Post: Jerry, Contact me at [email protected] We might have connections.

Spalding-Henry-Pike County GaArchives News.....OSCAR WILLIAMS - LYNCHED AT GRIFFIN July 23, 1897 ************************************************ 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: Don Bankston [email protected] July 25, 2006, 12:44 am Jackson Argus July 23, 1897 Negro Rapist Strung Up At Griffin Yesterday Morning Oscar Williams, the Negro who committed rape on the person of a little girl in Henry county, fell into the hands of a very humane lot of citizens at Griffin yesterday morning while enroute to safety and was lynched. He was not buried, which shows that the lynchers were kind to a fault. He was shot about 800 times and this shows that the lynchers were generous to a fault. It was a lavish waste of bullets. Our southern people are so kind and wasteful that most of them stay poor. The following is a brief account of the hanging: Griffin, July 22 – Oscar Williams, the Negro brute who assaulted the little Pearl Campbell, the six year old daughter of A. C. Campbell, in Henry county Saturday afternoon, July 10, was taken from the Central railroad passenger train, en route from Macon to Atlanta, and lynched by an infuriated mob in the outskirts of this city at 7 o’clock this morning. The body was swung to a red oak limb and was literally torn to pieces with pistol, shotgun and rifle wounds. By 10 o’clock this morning the little clump of trees where the body hung suspended was surrounded by a big crows that had come from the country many miles around. Among the thousands who viewed the body was the father of the victim of the brute. Coroner Jesse Williams empanelled a jury at 10:30 this morning, and after a few minutes, a verdict of death at the hand of parties unknown was reached. Not a single witness was examined. I have looked all over town cant find a soul who knows anything about the case, said the coroner, and so the verdict was formulated. At 11 o’clock this morning the body was cut down and there was at once a rapid division of the rope among the spectators. It was cut into small pieces and distributed as far as it would go. Some of the men were content with pieces of the dead negro’s shirt, trousers or suspenders, and desires were expressed even for pieces of his body for a memento. Men, women and children, black and white, were gathered abent the scene of the lynching all the morning. The body, after it was cut down, was carried to the city hall where it was viewed by thousands who came too late to see it swing. The negro’s relatives at Zebulon have been wired to know if they want the remains. If not the burial will take place at the county poor farm. It is an open secret that the lynching was done by some of the best citizens of Griffin. There have been rumors current that the men who took the law into their own hands were farmers, but the facts do not support this. Eye witnesses to the whole affair say confidentially that in the mob there were not a half dozen men who live outside the city. Jackson Argus – Week of July 23, 1897 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/spalding/newspapers/oscarwil1520gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb

Butts-Pike County GaArchives News.....Tom Delk Hanged June 1897 ************************************************ 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: Don Bankston [email protected] July 25, 2006, 12:36 am Jackson Argus June 1897 Tom Delk’s name is now a memory – his life is a small speck on the face of the past that is fading, even now, from the minds of men. Tom was a sinner against both God and man, but his” sins have found him out” and carried him out. In the late afternoon of April 2nd, last year, Billy Gwen, the noble sheriff of Pike county, took a posse of men and went out from Zebulon to Concord to arrest Taylor Delk on an indictment charging him with robbery. The sheriff had arrested Delk several times before and had treated the “old man”., as he was called, with such uniform kindness that he did not expect any serious resistance. But this was a very serious charge and the evidence in the case was direct and conclusive. An arrest would have meant conviction. The “Old man” knew this. He asked one party on the morning of the day of the killing: Do you know whether the grand jury has indicted me for that robbery or not?? On receiving the reply he said, “Well, if Gwyn comes out here tonight after me I’ll do him this way”, and raising his Winchester he killed a dog some distance away. He told another party that he had been pulled around by bailiffs and sheriffs until he was tired of it, and do you see her, he said as he rubbed his Winchester, “she’s a daisy, and if my son comes in tonight as I expect and Gwyn does come after me, by G- - we’ll smoke him ! Gwyn went. He tried to reason with the inmates of Delk’s house to let him in but they would not do it. He had started to leave the house and was shot down and died a few hours later. The evidence against three men – the two Delks and Tom Langford – was overwhelming. The two former were arrested. They were tried in some of the daily papers several times with shrewd lawyers and pretty twin girls as the star witnesses and in every such trial the good people of Pike county were convicted of perjury and murder and the Delk’s were set free and the honor of knighthood conferred upon them. But upon every trial which was conducted under the solemn forms of law these men were found guilty, and last Friday at 2 o’clock p.m. Tom Delk was hanged by the neck until he was dead. It has never been my fortune to have a better friend than W. O. Gwyn. He was a friend to me when I needed friends, and his friendship was as true as the needles on the pole. He was a good man and a brave man, and it may be stated as general fact that good men are brave and that brave me are good men. There is a distinction, however, between true bravery and recklessness. Gwyn typifies the one and Delk the other. On Friday morning at 8 30 o’clock in company with J. L. Hooten, Dr. Cantrell and Sheriff Beauchamp I landed in Zebulon. Hundreds of familiar faces greeted me. There was no drinking or signs of drinking observable and the large crowd which was being constantly increased was as orderly as the congregation at a camp meeting. I noticed some half dozen white women who had evidently come to see what they could see. One of these women was the wife of Tom Delk’s captor. She was leading a 10 year old girl named “Sis” and Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams showed by their bearing that they felt that they were sharing in the attractions of the day. They were pointed out hundreds of times during the day and everybody who went to Zebulon Friday must certainly have a perfect picture of his mind of Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams and Sis. The sheriffs from Butts, Henry and Upson were present and gave Sheriff John H. Milner their assistance in arranging the preliminaries. At two o’clock the sheriff and his posse arrived at the gallows. There was a large crowd present and in order that the crowds might be kept back a rope had been put around the enclosure. Delk ascended the scaffold and made a short talk in which he said he had been brought to the end of his tether by whiskey and bad company. He asked Elder J. A. Wright to lead in prayer and he concluded the prayer himself. Sheriff Beauchamp, by request of the prisoner, bound the arms and legs in as firm a manner as consistent with humanity and every detail was well arranged. Sheriff Milner sprung the trap and the body shot through the door like an arrow. Though death resulted from strangulation it is hardly possible that the slightest consciousness remained after the sudden shock. As I looked at the handsome young man standing on the gallows I thought about the wonderful activity of the human mind, and what must be his thoughts as the floor flies from under him and he goes downward through this space! As this sad picture stood before me I could feel myself standing on the brink of time with eternities - - past and future - - on either side. Under such conditions the wrongs that have been done us are forgotten and the prayer of my heart was - - “God forgive him!” Jackson Argus – Week of June 24, 1897 ………………………………………………………………….. Tom Delk is booked to hang at Zebulon today Jackson Argus – Week of June 18, 1897 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/butts/newspapers/tomdelkh1518gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.6 Kb

Butts-Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mathews, Mrs. J. B. June 1897 ************************************************ 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: Don Bankston [email protected] July 25, 2006, 12:01 am Jackson Argus – Week of June 18, 1897 Mrs. Mathews The Argus tenders sincere sympathy to Dr. J. B. Mathews of Zebulon and his excellent children in the loss of a beloved wife and mother. Mrs. Mathews was a woman in whom the Christian graces were ever to be seen and admired. She was a noble woman and her life was a sweet incense and such a woman never lives in vain or dies without her reward. To her dear ones we send greetings of tender sympathies. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/butts/obits/m/mathews4971gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb

Butts-Pike County GaArchives News.....Langford July 23, 1897 ************************************************ 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: Don Bankston [email protected] July 24, 2006, 11:34 pm Jackson Argus July 23, 1897 Zebulon, Ga. July 19. – Tom Langford, the third member of the Delk outlaw gang and the long missing link in the trial of the individual desperadoes for the murder of Sheriff Gwyn, which occurred at Concord, in this county, in April, 1896, was safely landed in jail here yesterday after by sheriff J. W. Milner and Deputy P. M. Sullivan of Pike county, who went to Arkansas, where he was arrested, for him. Langford says Tom Delk fired the first shot on that fatal night and that shot killed Gwyn and states there was no shooting done by the posse until Gwyn was shot down. He will not state now what part Taylor Delk took in the affair, but will tell the truth, he says, at the proper time, just as it happened. As a matter of fact, however, Langford stated on his way here that Taylor Delk was not in the house at the time of the shooting. Langford has not yet employed counsel, but says he will take steps at an early date to secure the same File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/butts/newspapers/langford1510gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb

Butts-Pike County GaArchives News.....Delk to Hang July 30 June 18, 1897 ************************************************ 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: Don Bankston [email protected] July 24, 2006, 11:00 pm Jackson Argus June 18, 1897 Old Taylor Delk, the notorious villain who was the inspiration, the head and front of Sheriff Gwen’s assignation , has been again found guilty of murder, and on last Thursday in Pike Superior court he was sentenced to be hanged July 30. It is said that Attorney Harden will ask for a new trial and in case his motion is denied will carry the case again to the Supreme Court. This may be true. Mr. Harden may exhaust his ingenuity and his energy but until justice becomes one of the lost arts in law such infamous assassins will be in danger, and the faith we have in mankind impels us to watch with interest the coils and the toils of justice as they are tightening around this arch fiend. Jackson Argus – Week of June 18, 1897 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/butts/newspapers/delktoha1505gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb

Recently a Griffin Daily News article reported that a cemetery book has been published for the Mt Zion United Methodist Campground Church Cemetery by Dwain W. Penn. Mr. Penn believes that this is probably the oldest organized cemetery in the county. The cemetery is located in the southwestern part of Spalding County on Vaughn Road and was part of Pike County prior to the creation of Spalding. The oldest marked grave he found was a child's dated 1848. Mr. Penn's book includes a detailed map of the cemetery. You can order the book directly from Mr. Penn: Dwain W. Penn PO Box 101 The Rock, GA 30285 The cost is $20.00 which includes postage and handling. Lynn Cunningham GaPike List Admin

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADE/860.1 Message Board Post: You can order the book directly from Mr. Penn: Dwain W. Penn PO Box 101 The Rock, GA 30285 The cost is $20.00 which includes postage and handling. Mr. Penn believes that this is probably the oldest organized cemetery in the county. The cemetery is located in the southwestern part of Spalding County on Vaughn Road. The oldest marked grave he found was a child's dated 1848. Mr. Penn's book includes a detailed map of the cemetery.

I saw this on one of my other lists and thought I would pass it on to y'all. Steph While searching for particular information on the Georgia Department of Natural Resources website, I came across the following link for a new license plate for Historic Preservation (see below). According to the information there, 1000 applications must be received by the end of 2007 in order for production to begin. The link also provides an application form and mailing addresses for each county's tag office. The application fee is $25.00. If the production quota is not met, your application fee will be refunded. http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=327 Please pass this info along to friends who might be interested and to those in other counties' listserv lists. With the number of counties in GA, it would only take less than 10 requests from each county to get the plate printed.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADE/859.1 Message Board Post: There is a notebook with Pike cemeteries, complete with an index, in the Zebulon library. The cemeteries were surveyed in the late sixties or early seventies. Some of the burials have Confederate veteran notations (if known).

Pike-Lamar County GaArchives News.....Lifsey Locals August 4, 1904 ************************************************ 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: Lynn Cunningham http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00011.html#0002535 July 2, 2006, 9:41 pm Barnesville News-Gazette, Barnesville, Ga., Thursday, August 4, 1904 August 4, 1904 The Lifsey anual [sp] family reunion was held here last Saturday. It was a pleasant, happy occasion. There were 96 of the relatives present, and about 25 visiting friends. Among those that live some distance were, Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Lifsey and daughter Miss Carrie Lee of Conyers, Mr. J.H. Lifsey and two daughters Misses Ruth and Lucile of Stone Mountain, Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Lifsey and Mr. Lonnie Lifsey of Barnesville, Mr. Melvin Lifsey of Birdie. [Transcribed 7/2/06 Lynn B. Cunningham] File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/pike/newspapers/lifseylo2514nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

Pike-Lamar County GaArchives Marriages.....Jones, Alma - Owen, Emmett Marshall July 27, 1904 ************************************************ 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: Lynn Cunningham http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00011.html#0002535 July 2, 2006, 9:26 pm Barnesville News-Gazette, Barnesville, Ga., Thursday, August 4, 1904 Hon. E.M. Owens Becomes a Benedict The many friends of our representative will be interested to learn of his marriage which occurred last week. He has many well wishers in this city and county who extend congratulations. His bride will receive a cordial welcome when she comes to make this county her home. The following paragraph from last Thursdays Constitution will tell of his marriage. “The house adopted a very interesting resolution relative to the disappearance from the city of Hon. E.M. Owen, of Pike, who had absented himself from the house without leave for the purpose of embarking upon the sea of matrimony, that the speaker will be authorized to send the sergeant at arms and a committee to find the said absent member and bring him before the bar of the house. In the event of the failure of the arresting party to find the offending member, it was provided that the house congratulate the gentleman from Pike and extend its sympathy to the bride. It was resolved that the speaker be authorized to telegraph a copy of these resolutions to the bride. Speaker Morris introduced the resolution, and Speaker Pro Tem. Howard declared it passed by a vote of 175 to 0. The resolution caused much amusement. Mr. Owens was married last night at Greenville, Meriwether county, to Miss Alma Jones, one of Greenville’s most charming and popular young ladies. His many friends in the house will extend him the warmest congratulations upon his return.” Additional Comments: Benedict - "a newly married man who has long been a bachelor" At East View Cemetery, Pike County, Georgia: Owen, Alma Jones, b. Dec. 25, 1881, d. Jan. 19, 1928 Owen, Emmett Marshall, b. Oct. 19, 1877, d. June 21, 1939 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/pike/vitals/marriages/jones2442mr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb

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/hd.2ADE/858.1 Message Board Post: The following Pike County newspapers/issues have been microfilmed: Pike County Journal Nov. 1888 - Jan. 1980: title merged with Pike County Reporter to form Pike County Journal and Reporter Pike County Reporter/The Reporter Sep. 8, 1976 - Jan. 30, 1980; title merged with Pike County Journal to form Pike County Journal and Reporter Pike County Journal and Reporter Feb. 6, 1980 - Jan. 1986; Feb. 1987 - present title formed by merger of Pike County Journal and Pike County Reporter Pike County Times Jan. 2, 1903-Aug. 1907 The library in Zebulon has the newspaper microfilms.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Drewry, Holsey, Dickinson, Banks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADE/857.1 Message Board Post: Descendants of Ferdinand Sylvester Drewry 1 Ferdinand Sylvester Drewry b: 25 December 1848 in Georgia d: 22 June 1939 in Pike County, Georgia +Rebecca Holsey b: 02 May 1851 in Georgia m: 02 December 1869 in Pike County, Georgia d: 13 December 1924 in Pike County, Georgia 2 Mattie Belle Drewry b: Abt. 1874 in Georgia d: 12 April 1947 in Bibb County, Georgia ... +Clark Alexander Dickinson b: 12 April 1844 in Pike County, Georgia m: 29 December 1891 in Pike County, Georgia d: 26 December 1916 in Pike County, Georgia .. 3 Pauline Dickinson b: January 1893 in Pike County, Georgia .. 3 Emma Dickinson b: May 1895 in Pike County, Georgia .. 3 C. Drewry Dickinson b: October 1898 in Pike County, Georgia .. 3 Alton E. Dickinson b: Abt. 1902 in Pike County, Georgia .. 3 Hoke Smith Dickinson b: Abt. 1907 in Pike County, Georgia 2 William E. Drewry b: Abt. 1875 2 Thomas E. Drewry b: 22 May 1877 in Georgia d: 27 December 1950 in Pike County, Georgia ... +Clara L. Banks b: 21 November 1879 in Pike County, Georgia m: 30 November 1898 in Pike County, Georgia d: 15 June 1939 in Pike County, Georgia .. 3 Vivian Drewry b: 05 December 1900 in Pike County, Georgia d: 03 July 1919 in Pike County, Georgia .. 3 Willie R. Drewry b: Abt. 1903 in Pike County, Georgia

FYI The Georgia State Archives web site now has Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery book online: http://www.georgiaarchives.org/what_do_we_have/online_records/oakCemBk/default.htm Lynn

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/hd.2ADE/188.193 Message Board Post: Hi Michael McCowell and Amandy Tuner are are my ggrand parents Mary was my grandmother Ezra J Fowler mother I dont know much fact is nothing about Michael or Amanda but would love to hear from you. Thanks Pat Bratcher

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/hd.2ADE/846.1.1 Message Board Post: The Pike County Cook Cemetary is in the woods on Harden Road on land that was sold off my farm on Harden Road-"Harden Farm" 305 Harden Road.....There are marked and unmarked graves there...Contact me and I will tell you how to get to the family grave yard. Played there as a child. The "Old Cook Place " burned down on my land-the well is still there...lots of history around. Old slave cabin on my property that Cook and Harden workers lived in. Home of John Ira Harden on property too . John Ira Harden married Bessie Lee Parker. My dad James Poe Harden was born on

Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Coggin, John L. July 11, 1907 ************************************************ 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: Lynn Cunningham http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00011.html#0002535 June 9, 2006, 8:05 pm Pike County Times-Journal, Zebulon, Ga., Friday, July 12, 1907 John L. Coggin, of Hollonville, Killed by Louis Henderson Early Wednesday morning John L. Coggin and Louis Henderson engaged in a difficulty which resulted in the death of the former. They were in Mr. Coggin’s barn, it seems feeding the stock when the trouble arose. No one else was present. According to the statement of Henderson, Coggin was advancing on him with an open knife when Henderson seized a wagon standard and struck him three blows across the head breaking the skull for several inches. Mr. Henderson immediately notified the family and neighbors of what had happened and assistance was given Mr. Coggin at once. He never spoke nor moved after the blows. He lingered during the day and night in an entirely unconscious condition and died yesterday morning at six o’clock. The deceased served the county as commissioner for four years and was during his life a prominent citizen of West Pike. He has large connections in the county and was a man of considerable means. Mr. Henderson was a tenant of Mr. Coggin’s and has many connections in the county. The unfortunate affair is greatly deplored by the entire community. A fuller account of the occurrence and the deceased will be given next week. (Transcribed 6/9/06 Lynn Ballard Cunningham) Additional Comments: At Hollonville cemetery: John L. Coggin, b. 30 May 1851, d. 11 July 1907 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/pike/obits/c/coggin8116ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb