Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10741 Surname: Roberts, Nelson ------------------------- Does this Sophia Roberts have any connection to Joseph Roberts Sr or Joseph Roberts Jr of Wilkes County in the 1790,s? Pat in FL
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10740 Surname: Barclay, Wynn, Echols ------------------------- You may have the following information: [Source: EARLY RECORDS OF GEORGIA, VOL'S I & II, WILKES, CO., GA., by Grace Gillam Davidson, 1932, Vol. II, p. 271-272] JOSIAH PATTERSON, Sr., J. P., Abbeville, SC. His affidavit Apr. 17, 1806 that "ROBT. RAFFERTY, son of MALCOLM RAFFERTY, late of Wilkes Co., but now of KY., came to his house from Augusta, GA on Feb. 25th. last, and I left him there when I returned Mar. 2, I found him fighting fire to prevent our plantations from burning. So he could not be guilty of murdering a MR. BARCLAY in Wilkes Co., GA about Mar. 1, last, according to a report to that effect." Will McGough, John Patterson, Robt. Carson also testify to his being with them on these dates.
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10738 Surname: ------------------------- Published author seeks copies of war-time images/photos of Georgians (in uniform) that were documented casualties at Gettysburg, PA, July 1-5, 1863, to be featured in the upcoming book, "Georgia At Gettysburg". (Casualty - killed, wounded, captured) Soldier letters, reminiscences, human-interest stories, etc. by Georgians regarding their Gettysburg experience also wanted. Please contact me first before sending anything! Gregory C. White 3101 Mills Ridge Drive Canton, GA 30114 gcw31ga@mindspring.com 770-345-7640 (evenings)
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10737 Surname: Barclay ------------------------- In Wilkes County, supposedly in May 1806, a Polly or Mary Barclay was hanged for the murder of her husband, assisting her was supposed to be a Mark Mitchum, her lover. Judge Tait held the trial. Mr. Barclay's grave is supposed to be located on the old Elbertson and Augusta road a few miles beyond Sandtown (Hyde). A Mr. T.W. Callaway had a map of Wilkes County, and a spot is marked "Murdered Bartlett's Grave" which should have been Barclay. This Polly was my great great grandmother. Can you give me any information on thi subject? Supposedly there is a Polly Barclay tree, named after her in Washington, GA, being the tree where she was hung. Can you give me additional info?
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10736 Surname: ------------------------- Looking for info on pottery in Wilkes County, in Mallorysville. Have found photo of pot signed Wright, Hinton and Wright, 1896. Know of Wright estate, bought part of it, neighbor Sam Harris says the pottery was on his land and was an Indian pottery first. Have found location. I'm sure there was a pottery there in colonial/post-revolution times.
In my previous message I stated that there was an Abraham Holloday on the 1820 Wilkes County Census--I should have said on the Putnam County, Georgia Census 1820. Does anyone know if there is any connection? Thanks Ellen Early, Fairfax, VA
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10735 Surname: Reynolds ------------------------- Check my Reynolds web page on my home page. Link: James Lee Weaver's Genealogy Page URL: <http://home.earthlink.net>
I am developing a website for Georgia Counties and need someone that is familiar with this counties information to take a look and see if anything needs to be corrected or added. Especially the Local Genealogical Societies. Its located at http://segenealogy.com/georgia/gacnty32.htm Thanks in advance. Becky Southeastern Genealogy Online www.segenealogy.com
Appearing on page 48 of EARLY RECORDS OF GEORGIA, Abraham Holliday is listed as a child of William Holliday, Pvt. (GA) Rev. War, Wilkes CO., GA. Born 1723 Ireland, d. July 7, 1786, Wilkes County, GA. If anyone has any information on this person I would love to hear from them. Thanks in advance for any help I may receive. On the 1820 Census for Wilkes County, GA, there is an Abraham Holloday listed and am wondering if there is any connection between the two. Ellen Holladay Early Fairfax, VA
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10733 Surname: Melear ------------------------- I am looking for listing of 1775-1825 Wilkes County residents, Richard and Martha Hardwick Melear, espically son Richard Pendleton. I have seen children Fenton, Hannah and Lemuel but cannot find a list documenting all children. I found a marriage of Richard Malear to Elizabeth Miller in 1821 but in Oglethorpe County. Attempting to connect to parents and siblings.
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10730 Surname: Sale ------------------------- Buried in the Fishing Creek Baptist Church cemetery are four women and a child. The record indicates that one of the women may have been the widow of Richard E. (?) Sale. I have an 1800's photo of an Odelle Sale, taken in Huntsville, Limestone County, AL. I also find in Madison county, AL, record of a (very beautiful) Nancy Sale, daughter of ??? and Jane Dawson Sale. Since so many of the Wilkes County folks wound up in the Huntsville, AL, area, I'm wondering if this family went with them. Al Hill
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10729 Surname: Hill, Reeves, Callaway, Lipscomb, Pope, Burwell, Taliaferro ------------------------- I'm related to all of these north Georgia families too. Glad to exchange information. My Abraham & Clarissa Callaway Hill went to Grenada, MS, before 1850, along with daughter Sarah Ann & son-in-law, Judge Abner Reeves & their family. Al Hill
TERRELL GENEALOGY, Emma Dicken, 1952, page 142, has info on Elizabeth Wingfield Grimes. Send US Mailing address and I will copy and send. Do not know it will answer your questions. Anne Barrett Chamlee Milledgeville GA 478/452-7877
Can someone tell me which Marriage Book and page number contains the marriage of Henry Shelton OLIVER to Nancy Frances WIMBISH on 24 NOV 1819 in Elbert County,GA. Also, to whom can I write to request a copy of this Marriage Record and what would the cost be for such a request? Would someone be willing to make a copy for me upon my request? Thanking you in advance for your time, Robert C. Johnston, Jr. 284 Redland Downs Trail Wetumpka, AL 36093 USA rcj@mindspring.com
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10727 Surname: Grimes, Terell, Wingfield, Fontaine ------------------------- This was sent to me, without the resource..but it was from a History of one one the counties in Va. Linda ( This was sent to a list i am on , i have found just about the same info except for the Va. part :-), but Linda had put the info together so nicely, so will send her info CGT.) MARIA MERWIN FONTAINE (1789-1822) was born on her father's plantation of "Bien Venue" in Louisa County, Virginia on February 16, 1789. She spent most of her childhood there, but in 1797 was taken to Kentucky by her parents. Growing up in the vicinity of Louisville, Kentucky, settlement, Maria married in Louisville on June 24, 1810, STERLING GRIMES. He was the son of John Grimes, a native of Hanover County, Virginia, who had settled in Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1784, and his second wife, Elizabeth Wingfield.**(i think this was John's 1st wife CGT) Sterling was born in Hanover County,Virginia, on January 10, 1782, and was carried as a small child to Wilkes County, where he grew to manhood. The two families, Fontaine and Grimes, were undoubtedly acquainted back in Virginia and related. The mother of Maria, Barbara Terrell, was a cousin to Sterling's grandmother, who was also a Terrell. It is possible that the marriage between Sterling and Maria was an arranged one. Soon after their wedding, the couple left Louisville, and Maria never saw her famiily or Louisville again. Sterling was a man of varied business interests. He was a practicing physician, a planter who owned a large plantation near Greensboro, Georgia, and the founder and chief stockholder of the Bank of Greensboro. Unfortunately, Maria died on their plantation on July 18, 1822, and Sterling lived on only a few years, dying in Greensboro on December 14, 1826. They left four orphaned children who were: THOMAS PRATHER GRIMES, STERLING FONTAINE GRIMES (1812- ), MARY JANE GRIMES (1816-1884), and ANNE AMERICA GRIMES." ** Sterling Grimes m Sarah Bowdree and they and some of the other Grimes went on down to Columbus Ga. and died there. I have put the Tombstone pictures on the WWW.FIND A GRAVE.com site it will be under Linwood Cemetery, Muscogee Co., Ga. Good luck to all
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10726 Surname: Grimes ------------------------- WILKES COUNTY JOHN GRIMES, b. 1758 d. 1804 Received bounty in Georgia for his services. See: (1) Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County, v. 1, p. 254. (2) Gone to Georgia, p. 54. (3) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, p. 78.
Meredith, your query came across on the list from the query server. You are the first person I've seen who identified Margaret S. Dyson (who, I presume, was a daughter of John and Ann (Heard) Dyson) as having the middle name Stuart. Do you have solid info on this middle name or are you guessing what the S stood for? John and Ann Dyson were my 3ggps - thru their son John Heard Dyson. (Both John and John Heard Dyson served as clerks of court in Wilkes County.) Can I help you with the Dyson or Heard lineage? Jim GAWILKES-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Cooper > Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:18:42 -0700 > From: meredith clapper <meredith_clapper@hotmail.com> > To: GAWILKES-L@rootsweb.com > > Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10715 > > Surname: Cooper, Dyson > ------------------------- > > John had a son James but he was born 1799 and married Margaret Stuart Dyson > 1822 Wilkes Co., GA. They were still in Wilkes for the 1840 census.
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10725 Surname: HARDIN ------------------------- Looking for someone with access to "The Wilkes County Papers, 1773-1833" also "The Supplement to the Wilkes County Papers" who would look for Adam Hardin b. 1760 or his sibs, Mary and Eve Hardin. Adam had a daughter Sarah Hardin b. abt. 1794 in Wilkes County. Thanks for your efforts. email: jimedbaker@aol.com
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10724 Surname: Glazener, Lee, Lea ------------------------- Seeking information on George Glazener and his wife Elinor Lee/Lea Glazener. They are shown in Wilkes Co.by 1786.According to family information their daughter Annie, my ggg grandmother ,would have been born while they were in Wilkes Co., in 1794.George and Elinor(Nellie) sold their land in Wilkes Co. in Sept. 1795 to Fleming Jordan. By 1797 they had returned to Buncomb/Transylvania Co. N.C. Did they buy more land in Wilkes?Supposedly some of Elinors brothers were also in Wilkes Co. ,James Lee/Lea for one.Any help greatly appreciated.
Posted on: Wilkes Co. Ga Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkes/10723 Surname: Askew ------------------------- I am searching for any information on ASKEW in Wilkes County and am thrilled to see another post with information/questions on Askews. According to a gg-uncle,Pleasant Askew, his ASKEW grandfather came to Wilkes County, GA from VA in 1814. He said that Wilkes County was made up almost "exclusively of Virginians." My unknown ASKEW ancestor was said to have become "a county officer in Wilkes and died in 1822." (Are there any records of Wilkes County Officers abt 1820?) His son and my gg-grandfather, Henry James Askew, was born a year earlier, in 1821. No Askew is listed on the 1820 census in Wilkes County, and I haven't been able to document the above information which came from the biography of Pleasant Askew in GA Men of Mark. Henry James Askew's mother is thought to have married a Purvis after the death of her Askew husband and removed to Webster County, GA. Pleasant Askew was the youngest son of 13 Askew children of Henry James and Polly Dykes Askew. I have pictures of a number of the Askew children, and there is a picture of Pleasant in GA Men of Mark.