Upson County GaArchives Photo place.....Auchumpkee Creek Covered Bridge March 6 2004 ************************************************ 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 Bickel donash@gnat.net March 6, 2004, 9:37 pm Source: Family History Files Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/upson/photos/ph821auchumpk.jpg Image file size: 152.9 Kb This covered bridge has been restored; however is no longer in use. It is said to be the last remaining covered bridge in Upson County, Georgia. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb
Upson County GaArchives Photo place.....Auchumpkee Creek Bridge History March 6 2004 ************************************************ 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 Bickel donash@gnat.net March 6, 2004, 9:34 pm Source: Family Research Files Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/upson/photos/ph820auchumpk.jpg Image file size: 152.9 Kb This sign, is mounted close to the old covered bridge. Additional Comments: Located on Allen Road, in Upson County, Georgia. Allen Road forms a type of arc, which connects Hwy 19, and US 80. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb
Pike-Upson County GaArchives Biographies.....Jessie Lee Harrison 1836 - 1862 ************************************************ 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: Vickie Davis Viclynn05@wmconnect.com March 6, 2004, 2:14 pm Author: Vickie Davis Bios of Jessie Lee Harrison Jessie Lee Harrison Father: William Washington Harrison Born: 3 April, 1836, Georgia Died: 22 July, 1862, Barnesville, Upson Co. Georgia Mother: Sylvia Angetine Childs born: abt 15 May, 1938 Georgia died aft. 1880 Married: 22 February, 1855 Pike Co. Georgia Jessie was the fourth child of William and Sylvia. William enlisted in the Civil War in March 4, 1862 and died of disease on July 22, 1862 in Barnesville, Upson Co. Georgia. William was a member of the Company A-46th Regiment of Upson Co. Georgia. William was in the military only four months before becoming sick and passing away like so many of the soldiers in the Civil War. Jessie, my grandfather was two-years-old at the time of his fathers death. Sylvia was a young mother with three children to care for. In the poor school records of Upson co. Georgia is listed: Child Mother Harrison, Fannie C. Widow Harrison 1864 Harrison, John Sylvia Bailey } Harrison, Fannie Sylvia Bailey } 1868 Sylvia remarried to George Tillman Bailey, more about Sylvia and George later. William maybe buried in Barnesville, Upson Co. Georgia or he maybe buried close to his mother on Logtown Rd. near Yatesville, Upson Co. Georgia close to his mother Lucinda (Smith) Harrison on the land his father Isham Harrison owned. William Washington Harrison Sylvia Angetine (Childs) Harrison Children: 1. Frances H. Harrison b. 26 Sept. 1856 Pike co. Georgia 2. Lucinda C. Harrison b. 4 May 1857 Pike co. Georgia d. 21 Sept. 1858 3. John Thomas Jefferson Harrison b. 29 February 1859 Pike Co. Georgia d. aft. 1930 Married: Sarah E. F. Pilkinton, abt 1879 according to 1900 census of Flint co. Georgia 4. Jessie L. Harrison b. 30 June 1860 Pike Co. Georgia d. 9 Dec. 1934 Paducah, Cottle co. Texas (my great-grandfather) 5. William Daniel Harrison b.20 Dec. 1861 Pike Co. Georgia Sylvia and George Tillman Bailey married about 1865 and listed in 1880 census, District 505 Children: 1. Levisa Elizabeth Bailey b.20 Sept. 1867 Pike co. Georgia 2. William Columbus Bailey b. 7 March 1870 Pike co. Georgia 3. Drew Drury M. Bailey b.4 Apr. 1872 Pike co. Georgia 4. Janie C. Bailey b. 26 Jan 1874 Pike co. Georgia 5. Carrie Dicy Bailey b.30 Jan. 1876 Pike co. Georgia No record of Sylvia after 1876. In 1880 Jessie lived with the family of Jeff Cariker in Pike co. Georgia. On the 24th of Nov 1881 Jessie married Janie Lovice Moore. Source: Copy of Marriage of Pike Co. Georgia page 390, Georgia Department of Archives Pike Co. Georgia census 1880 District 581 pages 151C-167D Janie is the child of Merzilla Moore widow living in Pike co. Georgia in 1880. Merzilla came to Texas with Jessie and Janie about 1890. In the 1900 census it states that Janie was the mother of 9 children and 7 of these children were still alive, with Merzilla listed as mother. Sources: 1900 census of Panola Co. Texas, J-Pct 2, Series T623, Roll 1663, Page 92 1910 census of Quinlan, Hunt Co. Texas 1920 census of Van Zandt Co. Texas J-Pct 3 1930 census of Collinsworth Co. Texas By 1910 Jessie and Janie had two more children, Robert and Ocie, at this time Jessie and Janie had 9 living children. Jessie and Janie moved from Panola co. to Van Zandt co. between 1900 and 1920. Janie died in 1924 in Van Zandt co. and is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Kaufman co. Cedar Grove was a small town close to the Van Zandt and Kaufman county line. This town in no longer there but the cemetery is. My grandmother Tommie A. (Phelps) Harrison said the first time she met Jessie he was wearing Six Shooters with Pearl handles. Jessie moved to Ranger Texas and brought a farm and had a store there. He sold the land and store before moving to Collinsworth co. Texas. It appears Jessie may have married a second time in Collinsworth Co. Texas, according to the 1930 census in Collinsworth Co. Texas; Jessie L. Harrison married to a Lilla with stepchildren living with them by the last name of Scapher. I believe this is our Jessie L. Harrison and the birth year and age or the same. Jessie Cleve Harrison, Jessies son was living in Collinsworth Co. Texas in 1930 as well. It is rumored that Jessie did remarry about this time but the family could not remember the name of his wife. They were not together very long, as Jessie moved to Paducah in 1933 with only his children. My grandmother stated the Jessie would come to visit them and stay for a few hours or a day or two, and then leave without saying good-bye. The children of Jessie found this to be the way he was and accepted his ways. Jessie left Collinsworth Co. in around 1933 and moved to Paducah, Cottle Co. Texas along with daughters Daisy and Letty Mae and son William Herman Bill. In Paducah, Bill brought land and this land is still owned by his family today in 2004.The Harrison family has owned land in Cottle County for seventy one years. It is believed that Jessie died of a heart attack he died in Dec 1934 and is buried in Paducah, Cottle Co. Texas along with some of his children and grandchildren. Children: 1. Daisy Harrison b. 30 may 1886 Georgia d. 24 June1970 Lodi California Married: Thomas J. Truelock (1881-1964) 9 Dec 1902 Carthage, Panola Co. Texas 2. Letty Mae Harrison b. Dec 1887 Georgia d. 24 Apr 1975 Paducah , Cottle Co. Texas Married: Sidney Truelock (1881-1968) 28 July 1902 Panola Co. Texas 3. Carrie Elizabeth Harrison b. 29 Nov. 1888 Georgia d. 30 April 1932 Kaufman Co. Texas Married: Landa Jenavia Land Ashby (1886-1959) in Texas 4. Lerma Lamar Harrison b. Apr 1891 Georgia? Place of birth based on 1900 census Panola Co. Texas 5. Jessie Cleave Cleveland Harrison 19 Nov. 1892 Texas d. 28 Feb 1960 Farwell, New Mexico, buried Morton, Cochran cemetery, Cochran co. Texas Married: Hattie Eva Lucas (1899-1994) 11 Aug. 1913 Wills Point, Van Zandt co. Texas 6. William Herman Bill Harrison b. 20 March 1895 Wills Point, Van Zandt Co.Texas d. 1 March 1968 Paducah, Cottle Co. Texas Married: Mildred Vernon Mollie Williams b. 22 Jan. 1904, Oklahoma 25 Jan. 1924, Wills Point, Van Zandt co. Texas 7. Claud Jefferson Claudie Harrison b. 12 April, 1898 Texas d. 1 Jan 1954 Phoenix AR. Married: Beulah Moore ( - ) 1 Feb. 1919 Van Zandt Co. Texas 8. Robert Lee Harrison b. 1904 Panola Co. Texas d. 18 June 1979 Morton, Cochran Co. Texas Mary Louise Jamison ( - ) 31 Oct. 1924 Van Zandt Co. Texas 9. Ocie Lee Harrison b. 21 Jan 1905 Carthage, Panola Co. Texas d. 30 Dec 1980 Lubbock, Lubbock co. Texas buried in Quitaque, Briscoe Co. Texas Married: Tommie Addie Phelps (1910-1999) 6 Aug.1925 Ninnekah, Grady Co. Oklahoma Ocie Lee Harrison named after his father Jessie Lee Harrison, is my grandfather. Ocie and Tommie (Phelps) Harrison were married in Oklahoma. The day after they were married, they left Ninnekah and went to Van Zandt co. to pick cotton. Ocie and Tommie had eleven children, five of these children died as infants. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 7.5 Kb
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PASSMORE, THIGPEN, DEASE, DEESE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/1286 Message Board Post: Looking for a PASSMORE who married Anna THIGPEN, b. 1819, their daughter Mary Jane PASSMORE was born February 1839/40 after the death of her father. Anna married Isham DEESE/DEASE and the family moved to Barbour County, AL. Thanks! Lyn McIntosh-Sherwood Winter Park, FL
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PASSMORE, DEASE, DEESE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/959.1 Message Board Post: Looking for a PASSMORE who married Anna THIGPEN, Thomaston, Upson County, GA. Their daughter, Mary Jane PASSMORE, was born in February 1839/40 after her father's death. Her mother then married Isham DEESE/DEASE and the family moved to Barbour County, AL. Thanks! Lyn McIntosh-Sherwood Winter Park, FL
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/Dd.2ADI/440.2.1.1 Message Board Post: i sent you an email...are you still blocked?
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/Dd.2ADI/1285.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Dottie, Thanks for your reply. I can't connect any of the names you sent but will keep them for reference. I also sent Lorenda an email. Thanks again Harold
Google Searches are based on the number of times a page is linked to another page. (Not all Search Engines work this way, but Google does). Therefore we could all help each other get more attention in a Google Search, if we would link to each others pages. I have some "home pages" listed on the County Pages --- but I'm always looking for more. And if you would do the courtesy of listing the County pages on your sites, that would help me too. Please pass this along to anyone you know who does have their own pages on-line ! I really do want to list more of these "family pages" -- so please write me if you have a family page which involves some counties in Georgia. Thanks. Virginia Crilley
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moore, Colquitt, Black, Trice Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/528.530.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello. Since the first posting, we're back to square one on the grandparents of Mary Eliz., Mary Annie, J. J. and O. F. Moore. Other information continues to hold up, however. Are you in touch with Timothy T. Turner, who is also a descendant of Mary Elizabeth Moore Colquitt and a super genealogist? Write to me directly by e-mail. Thanks.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COLQUITT, MOORE, MCEACHIN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/528.530.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Barbara, Mary Elizabeth Moore (AKA Elizabeth or Bettie) who married James Banks Colquitt lived long after 1850 per your post above. She is on the 1870, 1880, and 1900 censuses in Upson County; in 1900 she is living with her daughter Mary Colquitt McEachin (spelling uncertain). She managed to collect a pension in the 1890s for the service of James B. Colquitt, who died in the Battle of Gettysburg. I am trying to locate the family in 1860.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beall-GiIbert-Riggins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/1285.1.1 Message Board Post: P.S. The Salters are also related to my mother who was a Gilbert whose mother was a Riggins from Upson County.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/1285.1 Message Board Post: Contact Lorenda Todd at jclatodd@numail.org She has Goins info. Jenny Goins married my great-uncle, Allen J. Beall.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goins - Foster - Salter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/1285 Message Board Post: I am searching for any information on the family of William and Ludy Salter Goins of Upson Co., Ga. Ludy was born 1863 and died 1938. She is buried in Smyrna Ch. Cem., Upson Co., Ga
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hollingsworth/Pate Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/260.1 Message Board Post: I have tried to email you, but the email came back. I have information on Stephen Hollingsworth, such as he was the son of Stephen Hollingsworth and Lydia Pate and that he had two brothers, Raiford N. and Pinkney Hollingsworth. Please contact me.
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/Dd.2ADI/440.2.1 Message Board Post: Jacob, So glad to get your message. Tried to reply to your e-mail address but it bounced back. You can write me at caldbeck@isoa.net. Will be interested in what information you have. I am sure we can help each other. Job Allen is my brick wall!! I have searched for his family for the last 30 years. Yes, Job married Sara Frances McMichael Sept. 14, 1856 in Crawford Co., GA. Job was born @ 1835 and d. Jan. 21, 1862 in War at Camp Pickens, Va. They had two children: John Wesley, my ancestor. I can supply you with all of his descendents. The other child was Martha called Sissy. Her name may have been Mary Martha or Martha Mary. My info is that she married a yankee, Don Cominsky, from N.Y. Not sure of spelling. It could be Kyminsky or Cyminski or any such spelling. They went to Oklahoma as many in this family did. Would love to know more about her. She was not alive in 1932 when John Wesley's obituary was written. The only sibling he was surviived by was his step-sister, Lucille McMichael. After Job died, Frances married Green Carpenter and had Lucille. Lucille married her cousin, Walter Scott McMichael, and they too went to Oklahoma. They would come back to Upson Co. to visit. We have pictures of them. Lucille died @1938 in Oklahoma. Will be glad to correspond with you and furnish you with all the information I have. And I sure am interested in the information that you have. Will be looking forward to hearing from you sooner than later, I hope. Sincerely, Mary Ann Caldbeck
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/Dd.2ADI/440.2 Message Board Post: Mary Ann, i have quite a bit of info on your ancestors line...John Wesley Allen, son of Job Allen, Job married Sara Francis McMichael and Sara remarried to Green Carpenter son of Hamilton Carpenter...i have a lot on the desendants of Sara Francis McMichael but still missing a lot too. would like to hear from you please email me
Thanks to all of you who so patiently have helped me understand the cemeteries and the mills. Here's a summary and I hope that we can continue to work on gathering information for both these cemeteries. A. East Thomaston "Old Mill" was chartered in December 1899 This mill is being torn down at the present time 2004 "Old Mill" is located on Barnesville Street with its gates in front of Paulk Pharmacy. The East Thomaston cemetery is located on Avenue D. The Old Mill Village was considered the village facing the mill which included Avenues D thru L. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/upson/cemeteries/eastthom.txt (I've added some names from Obits. I'd really like to add information about these families buried here. So many of them are young children.) I think this is the earliest recorded one: Walker, Carl Woodrow Aug 22, 1915 - Jun 23, 1916 Unfortunately the obits didn't have dates on them....so if anyone can help with those it would be great. B. The Peerless Mill was chartered on July 28, 1919 ("Old Mill Cemetery" - The one Diane Caldwell is working on) http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/upson/cemeteries/oldmill.txt This cemetery was originally called "Confederates Cemetery" 1867 -- later "Thomaston Colored Cemetery (1897) and now "Old Mill". C. The Thomaston Bleachery was chartered on August 19, 1924 D. The Martha Mill was chartered on October 2, 1926
I'm trying to learn the different "villages" and the cemeteries in this same area and the churches. I've seen mentioned East Thomaston Methodist Church, East Thomaston Baptist Church. Did both of these grow up around the mill families? Maybe someone can tell me the dates of when these Mills were active. Which one of these mills is the one being torn down right now? 1) the Old Mill Village was considered the village facing the mill which included Avenues D thru L. Cemetery: The cemetery on the Old Mill Village is located on Avenue D This is the one Diane Caldwell has written about, and which needs work. 2) Bleachery Village which included the houses around the Bleachery or finishing division of the mill. 3) Peerless Mill village which was the houses around that mill. There is a cemetery near this -- What is its name? All three were owned by the Hightower family Apparently they named the cemetery near the Peerless Mill wrong. East Thomaston Cemetery is on Barnesville Road near Thomaston Mill. Can anyone give me the Avenues it is between? and What Village was it the closest to? I want to be sure I'm attaching the right name to the right cemetery...and have gotten two conflicting descriptions of cemeteries -- not sure which one is East Thomaston. 1)It is kept locked at all time or from what I can tell because every time I have gone there it was locked. Is this East Thomaston? 2)it is not fenced in. Anyone can walk into it. Is this Old Mill? I sorted through some of our obits posted and came up with several additional names for East Thomaston Cemetery. Many buried there seem to be young children, so probably children of people who worked in the Mills and lived near by. Unfortunately the obits don't have years.... Walter Thomas Pipper, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Pipper Mrs. Maudie Alice Loftin, age 47, Thomas Watson Beeland , age 19, died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Beeland Katherine Winslett, age 12 years, daughter of Mrs. M. F. Johnson, died at her home at 114 "G" Circle infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Brady Morgan Billie Joe Edwards , little six month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie C. Edwards passed away at the residence on Greene Street Grace Amelia Edwards, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Adair Edwards Boutwell, Howard the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. George Boutwell Botts, infant (son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Botts)
Diane Caldwell continues to work on the Old Mill Cemetery . We've mentioned this before on this list....and to help with this an organization has been created: The Upson County Cemetery Preservation Society This Society's purpose is to identify, restore, preserve and maintain abandon and neglected cemeteries, including those located on private property in Upson County, many of which have fallen into a bad state of disrepair since they were established. And now I wanted all of you to know about the page that she has created. http://www.rootsweb.com/~gatccrfs This page is "on-going" -- so as she finds more materials about these Cemeteries and those families buried there, she'll add them. She would be very interested in hearing from any of you. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/upson/cemeteries/oldmill.txt David Paterson has previously provided some information on this cemetery which he surveyed in 1996. Diane has worked with this listing, and also explored the suggestion that some indigent soldiers may have been buried there as well.
Hello, Need help. Looking for information on John Coulter who married Frances Louisa Brand. John Coulter (b) abt: 1861 (d) don't know married Frances Louisa Brand (b) 10-21-1877 (d) 3-23-1947 in Taylor County, Georgia Children William Coulter Elizabeth Ophelia Coulter Sallie L. Coulter Maude Lee Coulter