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| 2001 | James was 1 1/2 years old when the census was taken | MCCLAMMER, James Upshur Sr. (I13351)
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| 2002 | James was a tanner and operated a shoe factory that supplied shoes to the Confederate soldiers. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church. | PICKELL, James Elbert (I1180)
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| 2003 | James was a tanner and operated a shoe factory. | Family: PICKELL, James Elbert / WELBORN, Mary Jane (F338)
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| 2004 | James was listed in the 1860 Census, but his wife was remarried by 1870. This suggests that he may have died during the war. There is a James D. Harp listed as a private who served in the 4th Alabama Cavalry. James was living in Tisomingo County in 1860; so the fact that this unit fought in the area further suggests that the James D. Harp who served in the unit might have been this same individual. | HARP, James D. (I5479)
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| 2005 | James was living in the household of his step-father, James L. McCumber, and his mother, Clara I. McCumber. | HINDS, James Clara (I6861)
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| 2006 | James was the Enumerator of this Census. He listed his wife as "Cathie M." Broyles. | Family: BROYLES, James Marcellus / GANTT, Maria Catherine (F1335)
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| 2007 | Jamie Mefflyn Russell is his name on the death record. | RUSSELL, James Mifflin (I32)
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| 2008 | Jane appears to have been living with her daughter, Sarah, and Sarah's first husband, B.F.P. Turner | PICKEL, Jane (I1184)
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| 2009 | Jean Gibbons says his birthdate was 12/20/1890 | MCCONNICO, Roscoe (I2735)
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| 2010 | Jean Gibbons says that Erma died in 1995 in Jackson, Hinds County, MS> | MCCONNICO, Erma Katura (I2748)
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| 2011 | Jesse Bartlett was a native of Madison county, born February 5, 1810. He was the son of Jesse Bartlett, who was one of the pioneers of the state. Here he grew to manhood, and May 12, 1831, married Nancy Ann, daughter of Daniel E. and Sarah (Ingram) Adams, who died May 21, 1855. In May, 1857, he married his second wife, whose name was Sophia Stallings. By the first marriage ten children were born, whose names are given in the order of their birth: [1] Joseph, who married Nancy Ann Whiteside, by which union there are five sons and one daughter: [2] Daniel, who is dead. He married Sarah Elizabeth Sappinton, and left three children. [3] Lydia is the wife of Caleb B. Ganterman, and they have three children. [4] William R. is dead. He married Mexana Green and left six children. [5] Sarah, wife of Elias Hoskins, who have four children. [6] Nancy Catherine has been thrice married lately to William Senarar. She has two children living by her former husbands. [7] Martha Elizabeth, wife of Frederick W. Berger, who have four children. [8] Rhoda Adeline, who is the wife of William S. Judy. They have three children. [9] Jesse Allen died in his fifth year, and [10] John, in his infancy. By the second marriage of Mr. Bartlett there were seven children, whose names are: [1] Anna Eliza, [2] James M., [3] Austin (dead), [4] George Sherman, [5] Lincoln S., [6] Charles F., and [7] Maria E. The latter three are also dead. Mr. Bartlett remained in Madison county until August, 1870, when he removed to Chariton county, Missouri, and there remained until his death, January 11, 1873. His body was brought back, and interred in the old burial ground on the old homestead. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk Ware, and was first lieutenant of a company. SOURCE: History of Madison County, Illinois, Page 454 | BARTLETT, Jesse (I8703)
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| 2012 | Jesse Wright Edmondson, son of William Burwell Edmundson and Julia Pipkin Edmundson, joined the Confederate Army and served as a private in Co. I, Wilmington Rifle Guards, 8th Volunteer Infantry Regiment, until April 15, 1862. He went to Texas and served as a 3rd Corporal, Company A, ?? Regiment, 17th Brigade, under Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Blake, Texas State Troops, until Dec. 27, 1862. | EDMUNDSON, Capt. Jesse Wright (I10662)
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| 2013 | Jessie was a saleswoman at the Auto Dealership. | Family: CLARK, Truston / BUCK, Jessie (F1092)
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| 2014 | Jewell McClung of Corsicana, in a letter to my mother (T.B. Pickel) states that David Ingram (brother of Washington Ingram) had no children and lived in Beaumont, Texas) | INGRAM, David (I65)
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| 2015 | Johannes and Ursula are the progenitors of the Broyles, Broiles, and Briles families in America. Though born in the village of Dusslingen in Württemberg, Johannes moved, perhaps around the year 1700, to Ö isheim, a small village approximately 40 miles north as the crow flies. There he met and married Ursula Roup, daughter of a local gravedigger. And there he and Ursula began raising their family. Johannes' father Conrad was a farmer, and Johannes was the eldest son, thus entitling him to a good inheritance, but he forsook this to make his living as a weaver in Ö isheim. Perhaps it was this sense of trying the unknown that prompted him and Ursula to join a group of families making the voyage to the New World. There can be no doubt that Johannes and Ursula Breyhel of Ö isheim are identical to John and Urseley Broyle of Germanna. The names and ages of their children match perfectly with what is known, and they disappeared from the Ö isheim records at just the right time. 1717 - Johannes and family emigrate to America with about 20 other German families, and come to live at Germanna, in Virginia. 24 Jun 1726 - John Prial is granted 400 acres in the "first fork of the Rapidan River." [1] 2 May 1727 - John Bryoll proves his importation. He is granted the right to take up 200 acres. He states that he came to this country about nine years since with Captain Scott, and that he brought with him his wife Urseley, and children Conrad and Elizabeth. On the same day, Jacob Bryoll (John's son) proves his right to take up land, and is granted 50 acres. 7 Mar 1732 - John Broyle makes his will, Spotsylvania Co., Va., Book A, page 209: "I, John Broyles, being willing to setel my affairs, knowing that in this trancitory life we are in ye mids of death. I does after by wife's deceas leve my land, Goods, and catel to be "be" equally divided amongst all my children mail and female as witness hand. This being my last will Testament his John / Broyles mark wit: Michael Holt, Balthasar (Paultus) Blankenbaker, and Nicholas Blankenbaker. 5 Feb 1733 - At a court held for Spotsylvania County: "Urseley Broyle, widow of John Broyle decd Exhibited the above will which was proved by oath of Paultus Blankepaker one of the witnesses thereto and desired the same might be recorded which was granted." 26 Jul 1744 - Jacob and Conrad Broil convey to Adam Wilhite 200 acres of land patented 24 Jun 1726 by John Broil, and bequeathed to them. This was their inheritance, and would indicate that their mother had died. Since it appears that John Broil owned 400 acres at his death, this would also indicate that he had four children who survived him, because the estate was to be divided equally among his heirs. --------------------------------------- Source: Broyles/Briles Database http://users.rcn.com/deeds/broyles/html/ | BREYEL, Johannes (I3707)
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| 2016 | John and America were living in the household of their son, Lee O. McKee | Family: MCKEE, John Thomas / STORM, America (F2959)
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| 2017 | John and Sarah moved their family from Stafford County, Virginia to Greenville County, South Carolina before the war with England. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Anderson was a Captain in the State of South Carolina Minutemen on Feb 6, 1779. He received 162 pounds for 54 days of service. He is listed as having served in the Cherokee War under Col. Richard Richardson whose men were mainly from Camden District of Craven County and some men from the western area of Williamsburg Co, SC. Revolutionary Claim file in South Carolina # 1000-1140, 1774-1807, Ss796 which was listed from the Secretary of State, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC. " John Anderson died at the Hospital at Camden the 8th day of October 1781" stated by Alex Brevard and witnessed by John Armstrong, Lt Col on Sept 22, 1791. "To the Commissioners of the Treasury of the State of South Carolina, Gentlemen, Please to deliver Capt John Gowan Indents for the amount of the within mentioned accounts against the Public of Said State it being my just right, the widow of John Anderson, and mother of Scarlet and Joshua Anderson and Administratix of each of their estates your favor in this will Oblige your Faithful, Servant" X Sarah Anderson. Acknowledged the 20th day of May 1786 by Baylis Earle JP. Source: Descendents of John Anderson | ANDERSON, John (I296)
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| 2018 | John Daniel DuPree, born in Pulaski County in 1850, married Martha Ann Turner, January 2, 1879. They established their home near the home place of George DuPree, in DuPree's Militia District. Beautiful Mock Spring is on this place. He did a great amount of charity work, and also aided large numbers of people in this and adjoining counties in getting a start toward home ownership. Owning several thousand acres of fertile land and operating some fifty plows, a private gin, store, waterpower mill, etc., he was probably one of the largest farmers in the county. John and Martha DuPree reared a large family, of which two sons, Dr. J. L. DuPree and James D. DuPree, and five daughters, Clyde, Ethel, Greta, Nell, and Jeanette, are still living. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0012810 | DUPREE, John Daniel (I3097)
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| 2019 | John Franklin Mullens (1871-1948) came to Navarro County shortly before 1900. He was the son of Marcus D. and Mary (Acker) Mullens of Limestone County. Being a carpenter by trade, one would assume that he came to take part in the building boom which was going on in Kerens at that time. In any event, he stayed and built many of the buildings and homes that still stand in Kerens today. On April 7, 1901, he and Cora Mozell (Zella) McConnico (1876-1957) were married. (See C. T. McConnico family sketch.). Their home stood directly across from where the old Methodist church was located. They were of the Baptist faith. Their children are listed below. Ollie Dee (1900-1976) made Kerens his home all his life. Sybil Elizabeth (Bessie) married Albert Berry (son of early Navarro County Presbyterian preacher William Berry) who died in 1948. They were Kerens residents, and their children were Billy Prince and Teddy Dee. Bill (1927-1974) married Francine May of Kerens. They lived in Kerens where he was postmaster and was well known for his contributions to the community and affable wit. Their children are Lydia, William Albert, and Daniel Bunn. Ted married Theresa Faughn of Kerens, and they now reside in Pasadena, Texas with their children Todd, Donna Laura, and Timothy. In 1958 Bessie Mullens Berry married George Arnett who died in 1965. She still lives in Kerens. In 1930 Mary Nell married Middleton Grant Westbrook (1910-1967). (See G.M. Westbrook family sketch.). Though later living in Itasca, Texas, they lived for a number of years in Kerens. The children of this couple are Jean and Marianna. Jean married Dr. Robt. J. Gibbons, and they live in Arlington, Texas with their children Grant Westbrook and Kent Robert. Marianna married Dr. Walter R. Wilson, and they live in Rochester, Minnesota with their children Miranda, Zach, Nathaniel, and Amelia. Included in the Mullens household and always considered as her own child was Mrs. Mullens’ niece Addie McConnico (1901-1976) who married Horace Newsom; and they made their home in Kerens. Both their children Patricia and Charles Horace grew up in Kerens. Pat married Norris Lipscomb, and they live in Ennis, Texas as do their children Lance, Kevin, and Relda. Charles Horace married Katy Kirkpatrick, and they live in Kountze, Texas with their children Charles, Cindy, Summy, and Scott. ------------------------------- Source: ancestry.com | MULLENS, John Franklin (I2781)
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| 2020 | John George Rainer ("Ri-ner") of Carnesville, Franklin Co, GA, bought 200 acres on Stephens Creek on the old wagon ford from May Bobo (widow of Lewis) on Mar.26, 1794. He added another 39 1/2 acres on the west end of that property from Mary Bobo on May 10, 1794. On Dec.6, 1798, he and his wife Phoebe (both of Franklin Co) sold 16 acres to the commissioners of Carnesville. John George was on a jury in Franklin in 1802. In about 1806 he & his family moved via an old Indian trail to the Tennessee River valley, probably ending up in Wayne Co. By June 30, 1831, they were in Dallas Co, AL. They deeded 80 acres in the Cahaba District of Dallas County to Lawrence M. Brunson (husband of their daughter Kessiah) on May 24, 1834. On Jan.6, 1836, John George bought land in Sumter Co, AL, & the following year moved there to a little community known as Rosser. From "The Road to Why Not" - a collection of old records by William B. Booker, Anne Holberg Booker, and Mrs. Jere Gunn. | RAINER, John George (I9361)
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| 2021 | John Ingram, his wife Mary, and their children John, Jr., Richard, William, and David, all sailed to America from Belfast, Ireland on the ship Prince George. They landed in Savannah, Georgia in December of 1768. In 1766, the General Assembly of Jefferson County, Georgia passed an act which encouraged settlers to move into the area for a grant of 1,800 pounds sterling each. George Galphin and John Rae put advertisements in the newspapers around Ireland during 1766 telling people about the new country and the town which would be developed. Most Irish people refused to leave their homeland until their passage was to be paid and land laid out for them. Nearly one hundred immigrants arrived on the ship Prince George in December of 1768. They helped form the township of Queensboro. | INGRAM, John Sr. (I69)
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| 2022 | John W. Wassell, 88, of Corsicana and Dallas died in Dallas Sept. 24, 2003. Born Nov. 22, 1914 to Heverington Eugene Wassell and Lila Aurora McClellan Wassell. Preceded in death by his parents; his brother, James McClellan Wassell and the late Kathryn Anderson Wassell; his grandparents, Judge John Jacob McClellan and Lila Gertrude Kerr McClellan. He is survived by his wife, Dee Marsden Wassell of Dallas; son Thomas Eugene Wassell of Austin; grandchildren John Evan Wassell and Alexandra Wassell of Austin; his sister Patricia Wassell Kirby of San Antonio; his sister-in-law Mary Wassell, wife of the late James McClellan Wassell who resides in Plano; niece Patsy Derby Payne-Beggs, husband Jim of San Antonio; grandniece Kathy Payne Thomas, husband Sam; great-grandnieces Clara Lee and Grace McClellan Thomas; grandniece Mary Patricia Payne, all of Houston; grandnephew Thomas Julius Payne of Austin; also, nieces Lila Kay Wassell Jackson, husband Don, and grandniece Meredith Jackson Hallman, all of Arlington; Carol Ann Wassell Betty, husband John, of Richardson; and grandnephew Kerry Talbot, wife Jan, of McKinney; nephew J.M. (Bud) Wassell, wife Jeni of College Station; grandniece Krista Wassell Price, husband Mike, and great-grandnephews Christopher and Matthew Price and grandniece Amy Kathryn Price, all of Cleveland, Ohio. John received his degree in Architecture from the University of Texas-Austin. He also served in the U.S. Navy as a Lieutenant Commander. Services were held Sept. 26, 2003 at Restland's Wildwood Chapel. -Corsicana Daily Sun, Dec. 1, 2003 | WASSELL, John W. (I3106)
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| 2023 | John was a master mariner. He was killed at sea in the West Indies in 1773. | MILLETT, Capt. John (I11275)
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| 2024 | John was baptized on 19 Feb 1614 at Clifton, Gloucester, England according to a record in England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 about John Watkins; FHL Film Number: 1749584; Reference ID: p 34. | WATKINS, John (I12569)
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| 2025 | Jonathan and Avarella were living with her parents, William and Sarah Holland. | Family: LACY, Jonathan B / HOLLAND, Avarella (F1217)
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| 2026 | Jonathan was an overseer and Jeanette, a seamstress. | Family: DUDLEY, Jonathan K. / UNKNOWN, Jeannette (F2864)
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| 2027 | Joseph and Rosa had been married for 15 years. Of nine children born to her, only six were still living. This was his second marriage and her first. | Family: VALE, Joseph Hilary / SANCHEZ, Rosa (F3122)
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| 2028 | Joseph Bartlett, Lockhart and Taylor, were the first settlers [of Pin Oak, Madison County, Illinois] . The latter two made small improvements near the Pin Oak grove. Uncle Joe Bartlett, as he was familiarly called, located in section 21. They settled here in 1809. Bartlett became a permanent and prominent citizen. He was born in the state of Virginia, January 13, 1775, and emigrated to the vicinity of Knoxville, Tennessee, where he resided many years. From there he went to Kentucky and thence to the territory of Illinois in 1807. He first located near the old village of Milton, in the Wood River settlement, where he remained until 1809. He then settled as above stated. During the Indian troubles he served as a ranger, and took part in the building of Fort Russell. He also built a fort or block house on the west eighty of the northwest quarter, section 21. This block house stood about three hundred years west of where his daughter now resides, on the north side of the road. He was one of the party that gave chase to the Indians that committed the Wood River massacre. He was also in the Black Hawk war, accompanied by three of his sons. He built a double log-house on the state road on the tract that is well known as "the Bartlett Place." His block house remained standing until about 1834, when he tore it down, moved it near his residence and converted it into stables. Mr. Bartlett was married to Patience McCoy, April 5, 1798. She was born February 22, 1778. He raised a family of seven children, and died January 1, 1864. Martin settled a place on the southern line of Hamel township. Nicholas located a short distance north of his brothers. William settled the place where C.B. Gonterman now lives. Jesse, the youngest son, lived in the old homestead. Sarah married George Day, Who settled a place in the north-eastern part of section 9. Rachel, the youngest, became the wife of Daniel E. Adams. ... Source: Pioneer American Settlements, Page 444, 2nd Col., 6th Paragraph | BARTLETT, Joseph (I5509)
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| 2029 | Joseph Calloway Bartlett, son of Jesse Bartlett of Stephen F. Austin's Colony, was born on August 7, 1814, in Tennessee. On the 18th day of June, A. D. 1836, he enlisted as a private soldier and served in the Quartermaster Corps until his honorable discharge during the Revolution (war) which separated Texas from Mexico. After his honorable discharge, he returned to Chatfield and was elected Justice of Peace. He later moved to Rice and became the first Postmaster there in 1872. He is buried beside his wife in the Rice Cemetery. ----------------------- Source: Township of Rice, Texas Online at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txnavarr/towns/rice/township_of_rice.htm | BARTLETT, Joseph Callaway (I701)
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| 2030 | Joseph E. Brown: Businessman, Educator, and Politician by Carole E. Scott Georgia's Joseph Emerson Brown was a self-made man successful in both business and politics who became rich, in part, by adroitly using his political power to foster his extensive business interests. Being on the losing side of The War Between the States undoubtedly slowed down his acquisition of wealth, but it did not even temporarily impoverish him. It was what he said, and what he did; not charisma, that won elections for Joe Brown, as he was not very likable; neither a good speaker or good looking; and came from a humble background in a day when most of Georgia's political leaders came from the elite planter class. The only man to have four times been elected governor of Georgia, conceivably, if he had not been forced to resign as a result of the defeat of the Confederacy, he could have been reelected to a fifth term. He also served the State as a circuit judge, state senator, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, and U.S. Senator. (While in his day Georgia's governors were elected by popular vote, U.S. Senators were elected by the state legislature.) Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown He was the owner of iron and coal companies in Northwestern Georgia (mostly Dade County); the president of the firm that after the war leased the State-owned Western & Atlantic Railroad; and a large investor in real estate and stocks and bonds. Georgia's coal and iron deposits were largely undeveloped until after the Civil War, when Brown began mining operations. He realized the potential of railroads in general both in economic development and as a field of investment. Besides that, railroads fascinated Joe. Mixing business with pleasure, he often spent days riding up and down the Western & Atlantic's line connecting Atlanta with Chattanooga, Tennessee. Because the governor chose to say little about his investments and placed no value on them in his will, it is impossible to accurately measure how wealthy he became, but in 1881, while serving in the U.S. Senate, The New York Times reported that Brown was worth one to two million dollars. [July 2, 1881] At his death some estimated his wealth at up to $12 million. Brown's contribution to Education Called "The Ploughboy" before the war by planter enemies because he came from a non-slave owning family, he moved to North Georgia after his birth in the Upcountry of South Carolina in 1821. In this mountainous part of Georgia's Upcountry there where few educational opportunities; so when he was 19, clad in homespun clothes, he traveled to South Carolina, where he traded a yoke of oxen for room and board and arranged to attend the Calhoun Academy on credit. Upon his return from that school, Brown taught school in Canton, Georgia and studied law in his spare time. Without ever having read a day in a lawyer's office, he was admitted to the bar in Canton [Cherokee County]. He also worked as a tutor. Throughout his life he sought to prevent others from having to struggle as he had in order to get an education. As Georgia's governor in 1858, he advocated that schools be established so that every "free white child" would have the right to attend. "Let," he said, "the children of the richest and the poorest parents in the state meet in the school room on terms of perfect equality of right..." This was needed, he believed, because the State's lack of development was for want of education. While he did not get all he asked the legislature for, it did set aside money from earnings of the Western & Atlantic (W&A) to educate white children. Brown served on the University of Georgia's board of trustees from 1857 to 1889. He served, too, as president of the Atlanta Board of Education from 1869 until 1888. His contribution to education in Atlanta was recognized after his death by the naming of a now closed high school (originally a junior high school) in his honor. When he was in the U.S. Senate, Brown said that the federal government should finance the education of children of all classes and both races. He did not agree with those who said the education of the people was not a federal responsibility because "we do not live under the Constitution that we lived under" prior to the War Between the States. This was due to the fact that its powers had been greatly expanded since then. In 1845, after passing the bar, Brown enrolled at Yale's Law School, financing this with money borrowed from a Canton physician who he would later, as governor, appoint to head the State-owned railroad, the Western & Atlantic. After receiving a Bachelor of Law degree in 1846, he returned to Cherokee County, where he practiced law and married the daughter of a local Baptist preacher. His belief system Before 1865, Brown was a Jacksonian Democrat who shared Jackson's belief in the spoils system; his anti-bank philosophy; and his appeal to the common man. An adroit opportunist, he was so devoted to states' rights that many historians believe that as Georgia's governor he hindered the Confederacy's war effort. As governor, he replaced both the top management of the W&A and many minor officials with supporters. He instructed the Road's superintendent "to cut all unnecessary expenses, but keep the railroad in good repair; dismiss all employees who were supernumeraries or not absolutely necessary to the operation of the road. Where salaries were found to be higher than those paid for similar service on other railroads they were to be reduced. He was to require 'absolute subordination, and prompt obedience to orders.' All employees, regardless of position, who were known to use 'intoxicating liquors of any kind' as beverage or were engaged in 'gaming' or 'any other dissipation of immorality' were to be dismissed. Strict economy was to be required in even small transactions....'Prompt obedience to these orders will be required. That they may not be misunderstood by any, you will have them printed and a copy delivered to each officer and employee on the road.'" After the War, he became a Republican and moved to Atlanta, which the Republicans who then controlled the state government had made the State's new capital. Despite having allied himself in both politics and business with carpetbaggers and scalawags, after the State was "redeemed," he returned to the Democratic Party. He then became a member of a group of Atlanta politicians and their handlers called by various people at various times the Atlanta Ring or the Kirkwood Ring. (The chief handler was Henry Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution.) For many years, Brown and two other members of this group, called the Bourbon Triumvirate, dominated the State politically. As a Democrat, Brown was appointed to and subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate. Slavery In a December 7, 1860 public letter, Brown explained why people like those from whom he sprang would suffer if the slaves were freed, something he believed the capture of the White House by a Republican and the resulting Republican-appointed federal judiciary would bring about within a quarter of a century. If, he wrote, as had been true in Great Britain when its slaves were freed, slave owners were compensated for the loss of their slaves as he, who by then owned a few slaves, believed was fair, non-slave owners would have to pay high taxes to raise the necessary funds. This would be true even if, as was unlikely, Northerners agreed to bear part of the cost. Like many Southerners, he did not think whites and blacks could peacefully co-exist in the absence of slavery; so he thought sending them to Africa was a good idea. However, the cost of financing their transportation; the acquisition of land for them there; and supporting them until they could get established would significantly further increase the tax burden on non-slave owners. If they were not sent to Africa, they would remain in the South because some of the Northern States had already passed laws prohibiting free blacks from settling in them. Even if slave owners were not compensated for the loss of their slaves, and the slaves were not returned to Africa, non-slave owners would suffer economic harm. This was because money that still relatively wealthy Southerners would previously have invested in slaves would, instead, be used to buy land. They would soon buy all the lands in the South worth cultivating. Then poor whites would all become tenants like they were in England, the New England States, and in the other old countries where slavery did not exist. The freed slaves, too, would become tenants, and they would have to begin life as free men miserably poor, with neither land, money nor provisions. They must, therefore, become day laborers for their old masters and come into competition with poor white laborers. This competition between blacks and whites would, he believed, reduce whites' wages. Because abolitionism was an attack on property rights, he warned Georgia's non-slave owners that they should not sit idly by and allow other people's slave property to be taken from them. According to some historians, Brown's forecast of a non-slave future was pretty accurate. Economic historian Gavin Wright, for example, observes that, while before the War the South was not a low wage region, afterwards, for the unskilled, it was, and unskilled whites' wages were depressed almost to the level of those paid blacks. Slave owners who, he says, before the War sought to maximize the value of the output of their slave workers, and, therefore, their value, after the War became landlords desiring to maximize the value of the output of their land. Fortunately for Brown, it was not known until long after his death that in order to obtain his release after the War, he agreed to induce Georgians to be loyal to the U.S. However, it appears that there was no dishonesty involved in his making this promise, as it seems that, ever the realist, he believed what he preached. He explained joining the Republican Party after the War by observing that "We may offer resistance, or refuse to act, for years to come, and live under military government, or in a state of anarchy, and we will still be compelled, in the end to come to the terms dictated by the conqueror. Then why delay longer? "To continue to pay taxes and be dominated by a government in which you had no representation was," he believed, "unthinkable. His Later Years During the last decades of his life Brown was one of Georgia's three most powerful politicians. The other members of the Bourbon Triumvirate were fellow Atlantans Alfred H. Colquitt and John B. Gordon. Though from a more prosperous family than Joe Brown, John Brown Gordon (no relation) was also a lawyer; from the same part of the State; and owned coal mines there that by 1860 had made him financially secure. Unlike Brown, this fearless General was handsome, a fine orator; and a natural-born leader of men; yet he was much less successful as a businessman. After the War, Gordon was elected governor and to the U.S. Senate. (Today there is a Gordon County in Georgia, but there is no Brown County.) How Brown solved some of his political problems is revealed by the advice he gave his carpetbagger partner Hannibal Kimball regarding how he might get the State of Georgia to honor the "Bullock bonds," bonds issued during the administration of carpetbagger governor Rufus Bullock, a one-time ally of Brown. Kimball should, Brown said, obtain funds sufficient to control the important newspapers, conciliate the politicians most popular with the people, and hire lobbyists. While Brown often resorted to such use of the "carrot," he sometimes resorted to the stick. To silence one newspaper editor he forced the liquidation of the newspaper by having a bank in which he was a major stockholder foreclose on a loan to the editor. Brown gained the seat in the U.S. Senate earlier denied him by the voters of Georgia when General John B. Gordon gave up his seat in order to accept a $14,000 a year position with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) Governor Alfred Colquitt appointed Brown to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by General Gordon, and both Brown and Gordon agreed to support Colquitt for reelection. Because many believed Brown had paid off Gordon in order to get his seat, they were subject to an avalanche of criticism. Brown made money through trading before he became governor, while he was governor, and thereafter. He made money during the war trading in bonds, especially railroad bonds, and lending the State money. He was the president of and owned stock in the company that leased the State-owned railroad, the Western and Atlantic (W&A). This business fit like a hand in a glove with his extensive interests in coal and iron mining in the Northwestern Georgia served by the W&A because he used it to transport his iron and coal, and it used his coal. He also owned stock in a sleeping car company, the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, the East Tennessee Railroad, the Virginia Railroad, and the Texas and Pacific Railroad. He was also a major stockholder in Georgia's Citizens Bank. He began practicing law in Atlanta in 1866, and his services were soon in greater demand than any other lawyer in the State. None charged higher fees than he did. In 1866, he was retained as counsel for four Augusta banks for a fee of $5,000, and he and the president of a Macon bank agreed to be informers for the U.S. Treasury in exchange for 25 percent of any money it recovered. In 1867, he contracted to defend a bank for $9,000. As of April 1, 1866, he owned 6,818 acres of land in plots scattered around the State. To this he soon began adding Atlanta real estate. At that time most of his investments were in farm land and Atlanta real estate. Tax returns for 1872 reveal that he valued his Fulton County investments at $114,000 ($70,000 in Atlanta real estate and $25,000 in stocks and bonds). He owned 1,696 acres of land in Cherokee County; 1,520 in Gordon County, and 1,708 acres in eight other counties. In addition, he owned coal- and iron-bearing land in Bartow, Cherokee, and Dade counties. He also owned 28,000 acres of land in Texas that he had traded his stock in the Texas and Pacific Railroad for. When he was governor, Brown said he would be willing to lease the State owned and operated Western and Atlantic Railroad for $25,000 a month. By late 1870 the public outcry against graft in the Western & Atlantic was so loud and insistent that the idea of leasing the road received support from both major parties. The Democrat who introduced in the General Assembly a bill to lease the W&A asked Brown, who was then Chief Justice of Georgia's Supreme Court, to put the finishing touches to the bill. A group headed by Brown and Kimball submitted a bid, and although their bid of $25,000, the minimum allowed, was not the low bid, they got the lease. Their group merged with one of the two other bidding groups, one of whose members got a large payment from Brown for unspecified services. ("I have made it a rule as a lawyer," Brown wrote, "to law for other people who desired it and compromise for myself." Like Gordon, at his mines Brown worked convict labor leased from the State. Public protest against the lease system resulted in four investigations of convict camps. Investigating committees consistently gave Brown the best report. Presumably, Brown did not hurt his cause by giving investigators free transportation on the W&A and hosting a dinner for them In 1887, in a debate about a proposed amendment to the Constitution he opposed that would prevent a state from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex, he denied that suffrage would raise women's pay because wages are determined by supply and demand, and being able to vote would not supply women with more strength and ability. In a speech he made on the floor of the Senate on March 27, 1882 on a tariff bill, Brown revealed that he was opposed to direct (internal) taxes because, unlike a tariff, they were not progressive. Tariffs on imports are progressive in nature, he said, because the wealthy consume a disproportionate share of imports; while the burden of that day's direct taxes levied a more equal burden on the public. He advocated the elimination of direct taxes because they were not progressive. Only in time of war did he think it was right to levy them. Although he said in this speech that the federal government should spend less, in the Senate he fought hard to direct federal funds to Georgia; disproportionately in the case of education because Georgia, like the other Southern States, lagged behind the rest of the nation. Even though the intent in levying a tariff is to raise revenue, he pointed out, it will serve to protect domestic producers of the product the tariff is levied on; so there is no such thing as a purely revenue tariff. "I am," he declared, "neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money. But if I had it in my power I would raise all the money necessary to support the Government by tariff, and I would so adjust the tariff which we have to raise to meet the necessary expenses of the Government as to afford as far as possible an incidental protection to home industry...." He was also a supporter of a return to a bimetallic (gold and silver) monetary standard. Brown retired from the Senate before his death in 1894. By then most Georgians had forgiven him for turning Republican after the War. According to the author of a history of Cherokee County, "It was Brown's gift for expediency that caused him to fall into popular disfavor when the war and his last term as governor were over. Foreseeing the era of the carpetbaggers, he aligned himself with the Republican party and advocated submission to the victorious North. That he was able by this policy to make reconstruction easier for Georgia is now undisputed, but his about-face won him much contemporary bitterness." | BROWN, Joseph Emerson Sr. (I3611)
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| 2031 | JOSEPH ERNEST BROYLES JR., 34, of Española died Monday. He was born in La Jara and raised in Fox Creek, Colo. He attended Antonito High School, then moved to Española where he graduated from McCurdy School. He was raised by his grandfather, Joseph Ernest Broyles and grandmother, Daisy Mae Broyles. He loved the San Luis Valley and enjoyed hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, go-carts and camping with his wife, sons and friends. He was newly enrolled in college and was looking forward to a future in computer-aided drafting. He is survived by his children, Jerome Anthony, Jeremy Tommy, and Jessie Joseph Broyles and wife Jeanette Garcia; niece whom he and his wife helped raise as their own daughter, Steffanie Sanchez; mother, Linda Johansen of Antonito, Colo.; brother, Jonathan Johansen of Fox Creek, Colo.; sisters, Janet Martinez of Denver and Donna Salazar of Los Lunas; and many other relatives and friends. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. today at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Ojo Caliente with burial to follow at Fox Creek Cemetery | BROYLES, Joseph Ernest Jr. (I7718)
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| 2032 | Joseph Lucian, 71, of 7627 Santa Clara, died Sunday at a local hospital. Survived by four daughters, Mrs. L. V. Shaw, Mrs. Alan Snyder, Mrs. Benton Ramsey, Mrs. Leon Armstrong, all of Dallas; a sister, Mrs. Lee Langham, Rice, Navarro County, and three grandchildren. Funeral services at First Methodist Church at Rice at 2:30 p.m. Monday. Interment at Rice Cemetery. His death certificate says that he was divorced and was bookkeeper for the Night Patrol Company. | BARTLETT, Joseph Lucien (I1089)
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| 2033 | Joseph M. Brown (1851-1932) Joseph M. Brown served as Georgia's governor for two terms, from 1909 to 1911 and from 1912 to 1913. Born on December 28, 1851, in Canton, Joseph Mackey Brown was the son of Elizabeth Grisham and Joseph E. Brown, who was the governor of Georgia during the Civil War (1861-65). The young Brown was often called "Little Joe Brown" by his family. After graduating from Oglethorpe University in 1872, Brown studied law at both Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his brother's law practice in Georgia. He passed the bar in 1873 but because of his deteriorating eyesight did not practice law. Instead, Brown attended a business college in Atlanta and, upon graduation, entered the field of transportation administration as a clerk with the Western and Atlantic Railroad. By 1889 Brown had risen to the position of traffic manager for the entire Western and Atlantic Railroad system; that same year he married Cora Annie McCord. Brown wrote two books during his time with the railroad. The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia (1886) is a short illustrated Civil War military history of events along the Western and Atlantic tracks. His second book, Astyanax (1907), is an ambitious work of fiction set in pre-Columbian America.This epic tale chronicles the life of fictional warrior Astyanax, who travels among Native American empires in Central America fighting battles; losing and regaining his beloved sweetheart, Columbia; and eventually becoming king of an empire. Georgia governor Joseph M. Terrell gave Brown his first major political post when he appointed him to the Georgia State Railroad Commission in 1904. Brown lost his position on the commission in August 1907, however, after a sharp disagreement with Terrell's successor, Governor Hoke Smith. Smith sought to lower passenger fares to alleviate the economic pressure on his constituents, but Brown voted against the measure. Brown entered the next gubernatorial election, in 1908, and won against Smith, despite having made no public speeches. Smith's unpopular economic policies and the loss of his political support from the Populist leader Thomas E. Watson helped Brown become Georgia's sixty-second governor. Brown's successful campaign slogan was "Hoke and Hunger, Brown and Bread." Smith, however, did not relent in his criticism of Brown. In 1910 Smith narrowly defeated Brown in the Democratic primary election for governor. Brown refused to give up, however, and ran as an independent in the general election. Nonetheless, he lost to Smith. Shortly after taking office, Smith left the governorship to fill the U.S. Senate seat of Alexander S. Clay, who had died. Subsequently, Brown decided to run again for the governorship and was unopposed; he became Georgia's sixty-fifth governor in January 1912, filling out the term Smith had vacated. The political feud between Smith and Brown continued. Brown ran against Smith in 1914 for the U.S. Senate; Smith defeated Brown in that election, and Brown never again returned to elected office. During his two terms as governor, Brown advocated the prohibition of alcohol and a reduction in the state tax rate, and supported the formation of a state department of labor. He signed into law Georgia's first automobile registration, licensing, and regulation law, which included a prohibition on driving while intoxicated. He staunchly supported legislation that would have curtailed lobbying among government officials and signed into law a bill requiring the registration of all revolvers carried privately in the state. During the period before and after the U.S. Senate race against Smith, Brown wrote several newspaper articles critical of the Leo Frank case and the judicial system in Georgia. Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, was convicted of raping and murdering Mary Phagan, a young female employee. Brown, a lifelong Baptist, fanned the flames of anti-Semitism with his commentary. After Frank's death sentence was commuted by Governor John M. Slaton, Brown asked rhetorically in the December 27, 1914, issue of the Augusta Chronicle whether Georgians should accept that "anybody except a Jew can be punished for a crime." Less than a year later, Brown revisited the Frank case in the Macon Telegraph and encouraged "the people to form mobs" to ensure that justice was carried out in the case. On August 17, 1915, a mob of white men indeed seized Frank from his prison cell in Milledgeville and lynched him in Marietta. After leaving politics, Brown spent his final years in Marietta. There he became a banker for a decade, holding the office of director and vice president of the First National Bank of Marietta. He also became the owner and operator of Cherokee Mills in Marietta. Brown died on March 3, 1932, and is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. Suggested Reading Joseph M. Brown, The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia: Or, War Scenes on the W. and A. ([Buffalo, N.Y.]: Art-printing Works of Matthews, Northrup & Co., 1886). James F. Cook, The Governors of Georgia, 1754-2004, 3d. ed. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005). William Montgomery Gabard, "Joseph Mackey Brown: A Study in Conservatism," (master's thesis, Tulane University, 1963). Barton Myers, University of Georgia Published 2/3/2006 | BROWN, Joseph Mackey (I3615)
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| 2034 | Joshua Anderson served in Col. Benjamin Roebuck's regiment before and after the fall of Charleston, S.C. which took place 5/12/1780. | ANDERSON, Joshua (I300)
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| 2035 | Josiah and his family were living with his parents. | Family: HILL, Josiah / UNKNOWN, Elender (F1622)
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| 2036 | Just put here until correct marriage date found | Family: HUDGINS, Iverson D / SIMPSON, Anna Jeanette (F4110)
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| 2037 | Kaufman County Gen. Soc'y, P.O. Box 337, Terrell, Tex. 75160 | Source (S31)
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| 2038 | Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1963, say that Aron [sic] and Nancy Broyles both died in Whitley, Kentucky. | BROYLES, Aaron (I11650)
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| 2039 | Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1963, say that Aron [sic] and Nancy Broyles both died in Whitley, Kentucky. | DAVIS, Nancy (I11651)
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| 2040 | Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1963, say that George Broles [sic] died of "palpitation of the blood." | BROYLES, George (I11652)
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| 2041 | KERENS, Aug. 9.- (Spl.) - Funeral services for Lee Floyd, 73, of Kerens will be held at the First Methodist church here at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Long Prairie cemetery. Floyd, a native of Kerens, died in a Galveston hospital at 4:30 p.m. Sunday after a short illness. He was a retired farmer. Survivors include the widow, a foster daughter, Climmie Paul of Galveston, and several nieces and nephews. | FLOYD, Leander Calvin (I10153)
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| 2042 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | WEAR, Kevin Len (I1533)
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| 2043 | Killed by the Indians in Knox County, Tennessee (now Blount County, TN) | SHARP, Robert (I8221)
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| 2044 | Killed in a hunting accident | BURKE, George Franklin (I8952)
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| 2045 | Killed in action during Revolutionary War. | ANDERSON, Scarlet (I298)
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| 2046 | Killed in action during the Revolutionary War | ANDERSON, Joshua (I300)
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| 2047 | Killed when he fell from a moving train | RICHARDSON, William Allen Sr. (I11140)
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| 2048 | Kitty Ball is a mystery. She was an orphan and lived with Uncle Doc and Aunt Lizzie Hanks. She was 18 years old when she married James Albert Pickle. No amount of searching seems to be able to find who her parents were. It appears that she lived with the James M. Parmer family in Henderson county at an early age. The Sheriff of Henderson county in 1860 was James Ball. He had no family of his own. There were several Ball families in Henderson county. Some of them had Ball children, not their own living with them. | BALL, Kezziah (I1029)
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| 2049 | KOVERMAN, Duane C. Age 82, of Beavercreek, passed away Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at his residence surrounded by his loving family. He was born July 22, 1933 in Dayton, Ohio. He was a member of the Knollwood Masonic Lodge and Antioch Shrine of Dayton. He was preceded in death by his parents, Stanley and Louella Koverman; daughter, Cheryl Huist and son-in-law, Raymond Huist. Duane is survived by his loving wife of 52 years, Connie; daughters, Annette Payne and Pamela Koverman. He is also survived by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. . --Published in Dayton Daily News on June 16, 2016 | KOVERMAN, Duane (I13299)
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| 2050 | Land conveyed to "Hattie Moore Burgoon, Ethel, Cleveland, Earl and Forest Moore." Read about this here! | STORM, Amanda (I9735)
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