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Nellie Julia Jennings Freeman, 102, of Athens, died June 13, 2012. Relation: 1st cousin 1x removed of wife of 1st cousin of husband of mother-in-law of 1st cousin of wife of great grandfather Survivors include daughters, Dora Lumpkin, Mildred Billups; sons, Charles, David & Clifton Freeman; granddaughters raised in the home, Gail Freeman Bishop, Sarah Pass; sisters, Mozell Freeman, Annie Ruby Stroud, Geneva Forley, Lula Mae Madden; brothers, Jerry Jennings, Walter Raines; god-grandson, Gregory "Frog" Birks; 29 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren, 26 great-great-great grandchildren, 3 great-great-great-great grandchildren.  Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m., June 16, 2012 at the Springfield Baptist Church, Athens. Internment will follow at East Lawn Memorial Cemetery. Gardenview Funeral Chapel, Athens, has charge of arrangements.

This page gives links to the creations of information gathered to examine the process by which Virginian migrants to the frontiers of Georgia fashioned their particular identity as a planter elite in the post-revolutionary South. Study of this migrant community, is a point of access not only to the culture of the southern backcountry, but the difficult question of how elites mediated the upheavals of Virginian society during the latter half of the eighteenth-century. and  Some insight into the development of the lives of African Americans of this time and era. JamesTown Research Goosepond As my ‘armchair genealogy’ research continues, I find myself delving into the history of the  Jamestown Colony of 1607  and beyond which I hadn’t done since school days. Guess I should’ve known since I was aware that some of my ancestors had lived in Virginia like the Barnetts who migrated to Georgia early on. Yet it’s been quite surprising to discover links to the historical Jamestown s...

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USGenWeb Project AN OVERVIEW OF LOCAL HISTORY © BY Robert Willingham skeet@nu-z.net Robert M. Willingham, Jr. is a native of Washington, Georgia, a former educator and librarian. He has published numerous atricles on historical topics as well as several books on Southern history. Among them are "We Have This Heritage": the History of Wilkes County, GA Beginnings to 1860; "No Jubilee": the Story of Confederate Wilkes; "Confederate Imprints": a Bibliography; "Tigers": a Pictorial History of Washington Football; and others. He is currently completing a third work on Wilkes County history which documents the period from 1865 to 1945. This volume is planned for late 1998 publication. Since the earlier Wilkes County books are long out-of-print, reprinting of these works is also being considered. Mr. Willingham works with State Farm Insurance and continues a varity of research projects. He is an active member of Washington First United Methodist Church ...

Political Science Quarterly 1911 Link to PDF

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The Henry Bolton Project So every time I interact with a family member from Wilkes it seems as if they know "A" Henry Bolton from Wilkes or Oglethorpe county. Side Note: Wilkes and Oglethorpe county are counties in N.E. Georgia that are very close to each other. When I began my own research I noticed that none of the Henry Bolton(s) were the exact Henry Bolton I was thinking they were. Each and every time the Henry was a different one. So I am beginning a project that I hope will help with the confusion. There is a Henry Bolton born in Oglethorpe, Georgia born to Daniel and Rosa Bolton. He married Annie Stephens(on) and they had at least 3 children. MORE HENRY BOLTON(S) TO COME Excluded from this list are: Henry  L.  Bolton born in 1937 and died in Atlanta, Georgia in 2011. Henry  L.  Bolton born in 1938 in Statesboro, Georgia, deceased in  28 Nov 1998.

Question of the Day: What happened to..... UPDATE!!! Briney Dubose born : 1883 of Pento, Georgia?  Update - Briney, Kate, & great, great grandmother and Briney's family has been found & a treasure trove of more family and stories as well.  💥  When Brinnie E Dubose was born in April 1883 in Wilkes, Georgia, her father, Seaborn, was 50, and her mother, Rhodie, was 28. She had two sons and four daughters with OLLIE DRINKARD between 1913 and 1921. She died having lived for more than 100 years. She died in April 1992 in Arlington, Virginia, at the age of 109, and was buried in Alexandria, Virginia. 💥 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilkes, Georgia Love Dubose born: 1878 of Pento, Georgia? Rebecca Dubose, daughter of Lula Dubose/Lockhart of Wilkes,Georgia? Meriwether, Georgia Myrtis Favors/Jones (Amy)  born: Question ...

Good Family Folks! So finding my great grandfather Charlie Smith has been quite the journey. I found lots of Charlie Smith's in the Oglethorpe/Athens area of Georgia in 1930, but they were all marked single and with the name Charlie, I mean really G-whiz. Being that my paternal side is Jones/Smith, I have found I could literally be related to any and everyone. At first I was under the impression that he died in Athens. My Paternal side (My lovely and sweet aunts) remembers his children fondly and vividly and they knew His name and his living situation. Side step: This situation is different because our grandfather ran away and lived in a shed at the age of 13 after disagreements with his treatment by his stepmother. His mother was by some accounts deceased when he was a young child. (Although, I have theories on that I will share later)Therefore, as you can imagine the relationship had its challenges. Back on track.. During my routine search of death records I found...

Related Relevations Mississippi - Illinois - Michigan Alma Huddleston Viverette was not the mother of Golean Viverette. Unfortunately the death doesn't state this but Queen Esther's sister did. She was apparently the daughter of Cardelle McCurdy who was either a Brown or Boler and then became a Williams. New Cousins New Questions Why are there so many Henry Boltons in Oglethorpe and Wilkes, Georgia?