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Sanders Howard, Jr., b. 1793, d. 1885, and Anne Thorne, b. 1804, d. 1858, mar. 1822.
William S. Howard was the son of John Howard, b. 1757, d. 1835 and wife Margaret (Peggy Fudge, mar. 1791.
John Howard was a soldier of the Revolution who served seven years under Capt. Drew Cade. He was taken prisoner at Petersburg and Savannah. He took part in the Seige of Augusta and Savannah and the Battle of Kettle Creek. For his services he received 30 dollars in Continential money and one grant of land. His grave on his old plantation has been marked by the DAR Chapter. His wife Margaret Fudge was of Dutch descent and her family lived in the District long before the Revolutionary War. Their chil. were : William S. Howard and Alfred Gratlau.
Sophie Howard mar. Stith P. Myrick of Haddock and their ch. are: Helen (Mrs. Charlie Brown) Marian, Howard and Stith P. Myrick, Jr. (died at ten) .
PITTS-MOORE (Bible Records)
John R. Moore, b. July 25, 1787, d. Mar. - , 1869. Nancy C. Moore, b. Oct. 13, 1787, d. July 31, 1845, married Jan. 10, 1805.
John R. Moore and Mary D. Foard (b. Aug. 11, 1801, d. July 27, 1860, married Dec. 25, 1845.
John R. Moore and Christine Blow, b. Jan. 19, 1819, d. Nov. 15, 1894, married Feb. 19, 1861, buried at Fortville Cem.
Children of John R. and Nancy Moore: Mary D. Moore Pitts, b. Feb. 14, 1808, d. Aug. 1840. Martha B. Moore, b. Aug. 6, 1808, d. . Anthony R. Moore, b. Jan. 12, 1811, d. Sept. 1821. Ann Maria Moore Pitts, b. Oct. 22, 1815, d. Oct. 1852. Thomas W. Moore, b. Sept. 29, 1822, d. July 1862. John H. Moore, b. Aug. 30th, 1825, d. May 6, 1858. Benjamin F. Moore, b. July 7, 1827, d. Oct. 1859. Rebecca E. Moore Pitts, b. April 30, 1819, d. Nov. 1835.
John R. Moore's dau., Mary D. married Jack Pitts, their son Dauphin L. Pitts, mar. Martha Goddard. Their son, John Au- gustus Pitts was mar. to Fannie Stewart, Nov. 21, 1876.
Noel C. Pitts, son of John A., and Fannie Stewart Pitts was b. Jan. 16, 1879. Noel C. Pitts mar. Frances Leone Speights.
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They had three sons and one daughter (died at 18 mos.). Sons are : Thomas Linton Pitts, mar. Margaret Blackmar of New York, Alfred Pitts, mar. Martha Jean Hicks of Atlanta. John Alfred Pitts mar. Martha Louise Graddy of Macon, their ch. are John Alfred Pitts, Jr. and Martha Carol Pitts. The ch. of son Thos. Linton and Margaret are: Thos. Linton Pitts, Jr., Polly and Gail. The second son Malcolm and wife Jean, ch. are David and Thomas Pitts.
Relatives of John R. Moore and 3rd wife Christiana Blow and her late husband D. P. Brown.
John Blow, son of Benjamin and Priscilla, b. Jan. 4, 1768, Miriam Overman daughter of Aaron Overman and Christiana b. Oct. 29, 1787. Sallie Blow, dau. b. July 11, 1794. Tentian Blow, b. April 12, 1796. Benjamin M. Blow, son of John and Miriam Blow, b. April 2, 1829. James A. Blow, b. May 8, 1830, Catherine M. Blow, b. June 30, 1894.
Deaths-John Blow son of Benjamin and Priscilla, d. Nov. 29, 1847. Myriam Blow, (his wife) d. Nov. 16, 1848. Benjamin M. Blow died Aug. 23, 1851, (son of John and Miriam). James A. Blow, d. Oct. 2, 1863. Tentian Blow, d. June 9, 1864, Wil- liam Blow, d. Oct. 9, 1868 David Brown, b. Aug. 22, 1813, d. June 17, 1875.
PITTS
1. Peyton T. Pitts, Sr., father of Mary E. Pitts Gibson, was the son of John Pitts I, and Caroline Taylor. John Pitts II, m. 3 times, 1st Mary D. Moore, ch. Ann Maria, m. Aurelius Gibson, Marietta, m. Col. Isaac Hardeman, Elizabeth Rebecca, m. Sam- uel Anderson; ch. Estelle, Eugene, Gussie Brown, Annie Blount, 4th ch. Martha Henrietta m. David Blount, Augustus John, Dau- phin Lewis, mar. Martha Godard, Ch. Mamie mar. Dr. Sam Pursley, Clinton, Augustus mar. Fanny Stewart, their Ch. Noel, mar. Leona Speights.
Wife Mamie Bethune Griswold of Dauphin Lewis.
2nd wife of John Pitts II was Mary Blount, widow of David E. Blount, (mother of James H. Blount, who was father of Mrs. Walter Lamar) Ora Peyton, 1842-1862, Archibald Noel, John Moore mar. Virginia Singleton. Ch. Eva M. Meeks (Miami)
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Viola m. Caracker (Milledgeville), May m. Hicks of Atlanta. Jack (drowned when 17), Noel.
3rd wife of John Pitts, II, a widow with two sons, Lucy Wil- liams. Another son of John Pitts I, and bro. of Peyton Taylor, Ichabod Pitts, mar. Emiline Winship, Ch. Cora, Will, Mamie (Mrs. Robert Hemphill) .
Caroline Eliz. Gibson, mar. R. H. Kingman, was mother of Miss Daisy Kingman, R. H. Kingman, Jr. (See Kingmans)
Peyton Taylor Pitts mar. 3 times, 1st Ann Moore, 2nd. Re- becca Moore, 3rd. Mary Buford Hill, ch. Abner, Peyton Tay- lor, Jr. 1837-1867, (mar. Mallie Choates, ch. Tom Pitts, Oda, Hattie Brown. Lizzie Pitts m. twice, 1st. Thos. Abner Stubbs, m. Lois Duffy, Geo. Moore, Mattie Pitts) .
PURSLEY
Dr. George Turnbull Pursley, who died in Clinton, Ga., the grandson of David Pursley, b. in S. C., 1762 and the son of Ephram Pursley, b. Nashville, Tenn. was born there on the Cum- berland river in 1819. He went to Lebanon College and was the room mate of Hon. Samuel Carethers, a jurist and statesman. George Pursley, after teaching two years went to the Kentucky Medical School at Louisville. He returned to Hartsville, Tenn., where he mar. Lucy Ann Stubblefield. Their son was named Sam- uel Carethers Pursley for his college friend, (who later became a doctor ) .
Dr. George Pursley served in the Confederate Army as Ass't Surgeon of Col. Rusk's Arkansas Reg. then in the same capacity with Dr. Albert Sidney Johnston of Miss. then he was with Gen. Bragg in Tenn. He was promoted to full surgeon and Chief Surgeon of Ford Hospital. He moved with the armies down through Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Dalton, Mari- etta and to Atlanta. While in service his wife died. One daugh- ter married Lark Stewart, of Jones Co., and Lillas he kept with him after the war. He mar. Mrs. Ardecia Stewart and lived in Clinton where he was a good doctor, as well as a Christian and a leader in the church.
David Pursley born in South Carolina, 1762.
Ephram Pursley born near Nashville, Tenn. 1775. Married Feb. 21, 1814. * Susan Turnbull born Franklin Co., Va. 1785,
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died Mar. 18, 1838. (her Father George Turnbull, born Frank- lin Co., Va., 1750) Dr. George Turnbull Pursley, born in Sum- ner Co., Tenn. 45 mi. from Nashville, Nov. 24, 1819, died Mar. 10, 1895. Bu. Clinton, Ga. Lucy Ann Stubblefield, born Dec. 6, 1823, died July 10, 1864, in Atlanta, Ga., bu. Oakland Ceme- tery. Married at Hartsville, Tenn., Mar. 4, 1841.
*Susan Turnbull's first husband was Richard Bratton whom she married Feb. 12, 1904.
Children : Samuel Caruthers Pursley, M. D., born Mar. 7, 1843, died Sept. 11, 1914. Frances Susan Pursley, born Sept. 26, 1845, died Aug. 1, 1852, buried at New London, Morris Co., Arkansas. William Flemming Pursley, born Aug. 6, 1847, died Sept. 14, 1851, buried at Pursley's Clinton, Ky., the county seat of Hickman Co. Mildred Jane Pursley, known as Lilla, born Oct. 14, 1852, died Aug. 28, 1911, Macon, Ga., married Lark Stewart, Jones Co.
Mrs. Ardecia Godard Stewart, second wife of George Turn- bull Pursley, M. D., married Mar. 8, 1865.
Samuel Carethers Pursley (in one record spelling is Caruth- ers) born in Hartsville, Tenn., March 7, 1843, died September 11, 1914. Married Mary (Mamie) Pitts May 1, 1870, at Clint- on, Ga. Children of this union :
George Turnbull Pursley, b. Jan. 15, 1873, d. Oct. 26, 1943, m. Cosby Seale, Aug. 15, 1893. Claude Pitts Pursley, b. Oct. S, 1874, d. July 17, 1955, m. Louise Seay, Feb. 14, 1898. Samuel Caruthers Pursley, b. Nov. 11, 1876, m. Lila Congleton Price, Dec. 22, 1909. Lewis D. Pursley, b. Dec. 9, 1878, d. Nov. 22, 1879. Lucy ann Pursley, b. Apr. 29, 1883, d. Sept. 21, 1906, m. Ross Bragg, Dec. 28, 1902. Mary Pursley, b. Sept. 28, 1880, m. Edmund Thomas Dumas, May 7, 1902. William Flemming Pursley, b. Aug. 10, 1885, m. Julia Eubanks, Dec. 9, 1905. Mat- tie Sue Pursley, b. Jan. 3, 1888, m. Chas. P. Prothroe, Nov. 10, 1926. John Augustus Pursley, b. Dec. 28, 1889, m. Marie Rob- erts, June 4, 1919. Frank Stewart Pursley, b. Aug. 25, 1891, d. June 24, 1947, m. Willie Gibson Brundage, June 30, 1915. Annie Mildred Ardecia, b. Dec. 16, 1893, m. John William Gilbert, Dec. 9, 1917.
By Mrs. J. A. Pursley
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REESE
Isham Reese b. Aug. 1748, mar. Susan Reese b. Dec. 13, 1755. First moved to Hancock Co., Ga., later to Jones Co., Ga. Isham preached near the Judge Day Place, near Round Oak, and is buried there. Their children are: Wm. C. Reese, b. Dec. 15, 1775, Isham Reese, b. Oct. 18, 1776, Cuthbert, b. Nov. 29, 1781, Joseph, b. Dec. 8, 1783, John C., b. Mar. 9, 1785, Pris- cilla, b. May 21, 1788 Susan b. July 17, 1790, Sarah P., b. Apr. 9, 1793, Henry L. b. Dec. 18, 1795, Jordan b. Mar. 17, 1800.
Cuthbert, son of Isham and Susan Reese, mar. Tabitha Clark, Mar. 12, 1818, both are buried at old White cemetery north of Round Oak. He was a soldier of 1812. Their chil. Jas. W., b. Dec. 19, 1818, Joseph Thos. b. June 4, 1820, Augustus C., b. Feb. 1, 1822, Ann Eliza Frances, b. June 18, 1826,, Eliz. Sarah Clark, b. Feb. 22, 1826, Walton Pendleton, b. July 23, 1828, Lucien L., b. May 1, 1830, Williamson H., b. June 14, 1833, Louise Caroline, b. Mar. 26, 1830, Medora Ann Keene, dau. of Ann Eliza and B. F. Keene, b. Sept. 1, 1842, mar. Maj. J. D. Frederick, Jan. 9, 1877, chil. Jamie Dora, Jan. 19, 1879, Louise Caroline, Apr. 18, 1881.
RIDLEY FAMILY IN JONES COUNTY
Dr. Charles Lewis Ridley, son of Dr. James B. Ridley, and Mary Lewis Ridley of Oxford, N. C., after graduating at the University of N. C., and Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, located at Hillsboro, Georgia, in Jasper County just over the Jones County line in 1820. He married Susan Bon- ner of Hancock County, and they had three sons. James Brom- field Ridley, Hamilton Bonner, and Robert Burton. Dr. Ridley practiced his profession in Jasper, Jones and Putnam counties. In 1836, he purchased a plantation in upper Northwest Jones County, where he continued to practice his profession and oper- ate a farm until the time of his death.
Dr. Ridley was a member of the Secession Convention at Mill- edgeville just prior to the Civil War. He was opposed to seces- sion and so voted, however, after Georgia seceeded he converted his money into Confederate bonds, and his two oldest sons went into the armed service of the Confederacy. Dr. James B. Ridley the eldest of the 3 sons was Surgeon Major of the 6th Georgia
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Regiment and died of typhoid fever while in service. Hamilton B. Ridley was a Captain and company commander in the same regiment. Robert B. Ridley because of physical handicap was not in the service and died during the war. He married a Miss Womble of Tolbert County, Georgia.
Dr. James B. Ridley married Louisa Stamper of Tolbert County. To this union 2 children were born, Charles Lewis Ridley, and a daughter who died in infancy. Louisa Ridley died when her son Charles was 4 years old, and he was reared by his grand-parents. Dr. James B. Ridley later married Mary Jane Ridley of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and to this union was born one one daughter, Roberta Hamilton Ridley who married Levi D. Ezell of Jasper County, and to this union was born 2 sons, and 1 daughter, James R. Ezell, Hamilton B. and Rosa Lee.
James R. Ezell married Carrie Goolsby, daughter of Frank and Carrie Goolsby. Mrs. Goolsby was Carrie White of Jones County. Frank Goolsby was Ordinary of Jasper Co. James Rid- ley Ezell was sheriff of Jasper County for several terms and died while in office. Three children were born to this union, Carrie Ezell who married Hugh Tucker of Monticello. Frank Ridley Ezell, Jr. who also served several terms as sheriff of Jasper County and holds this office at the present time. Another son died in infancy.
Rosa Lee Ezell married Mr. Marshall Elizer, of Tenn., a teacher and Co. School Com. of Jasper Co., and three children were born to this union : Lee Elizer, a chemist now living in the middle west, Marshall Elizer, Professor of Math at Oxford College, and Roberta Elizer, who married Judge Harris Mor- ton, Ordinary of Jones County.
Hamilton, B. Ezell married Lizzie Greer of Jasper County and 4 sons were born to this union: Gibson G. Ezell, merchant in Monticello and former county school commissioner. Lee Ezell a manufacturer in Miami, Florida. Hamilton B. Ezell, with the Belk-Mathews Company of Macon, and James R. Ezell with the Ford Motor Company of Macon.
Capt. Hamilton B. Ridley married Mary Eliza Speiller of North Carolina, and he settled in upper West Jones County and was much interested in good horses, fox dogs, and game chickens.
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Capt. Ridley at one time represented his district in the State Senate.
Mr. Charles Lewis Ridley, II, son of Dr. James B. and Louisa Stamper Ridley and reared by his grand-parents, married Willie A. Thom of Columbus, Georgia and to this union were born three sons, Charles Lewis Ridley, III, William Thom Ridley, and Hamilton Bonner Ridley, II. This family in 1887 moved ov- er the Jones County line to Hillsboro, Georgia, there being no school facilities in Upper Jones County at the time. The eldest of these children, Charles Lewis Ridley, III chose the medical profession, and after graduating at the Medical College of Geor- gia, located and practiced his profession at Hillsboro, Georgia, until January 1, 1922, when he moved to Macon, Georgia, as Health Officer, and later became Medical Director of the Bankers Health and Life Insurance Company, Bibb County Physician, Supt. of the Macon Hospital and at the present time is Medical Director of the Macon Hospital, and Bibb County Physician. Having retired as Medical Director of the Bankers Health and Life Insurance Company, January 1, 1955.
While living in Jasper County, Dr. Charles Lewis Ridley, III, served on the Board of Education and the Democratic Executive Committee. Represented his District in the State Senate, was President of Bibb County and of the 6th District Medical So- cieties.
He served as Chairman of the Local Board of Health in Bibb Co. for 20 years, served on the State Board of Health for 18 years, and was Chairman of the State Board for two terms. He. helped organize the first non-profit Hospital Association in Bibb County and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for 15 years.
The second son, William, a farmer, died when about 33 years of age. He married Grace Robinson of Monticello, Georgia.
Hamilton Bonner also moved to Macon and was on the City Fire Department, retiring several years ago with the rank of Captain. He married Kate Taylor of Wigham, Georgia. Neither William Thom or Hamilton Bonner Ridley had any children.
Dr. Charles Lewis Ridley, III, married Anne Cate Cheatham, of Macon, whose mother's people were from Jones County, the
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Hutchings, Bonners and Lowes. To this union were born three children : Martha Drucilla, who married Paul Clark White, of Round Oak, Georgia. They had 2 sons, Paul Clark White, Jr., who entered the Medical College of Georgia in September, 1955, and Charles Lewis Ridley White, a senior medical student at Emory University.
Charles Lewis Ridley, IV, graduated at Mercer University, and at the Medical College of Georgia, served in World War II, and was discharged with the rank of Major after 4 years active service. He is a surgeon, on the Macon Hospital Staff, and is a member of the American College of Surgeons, and of the South- eastern Surgical Congress. He married Betty Burch of Lincoln- ton, Georgia, and they have two children, a daughter, Susan, 10 years old, a son Charles Lewis Ridley, V, age 6 years.
The youngest daughter of the above union, Catie, married Jack Alexander.
Four members of the Ridley family have practiced medicine in Jones County, and with two youngsters now in Medical School it is not impossible that six members of the family may have practiced medicine in Jones County.
C. L. R. '54
ROBERTS-LOWE
Reuben Roberts, born in Port Royal, Va., 1752, died Nov. 20, 1845. A Rev. Soldier, who came to Jones Co., Ga., in 1807. 1st wife was Peggy Hudson, born 1759, d. Feb. 25, 1836, mar. 1778. Ch. were: William, Luke, Reuben, Jim, Henry, Judy, Peggy, Carrie, Sallie, and Agnes.
Luke Roberts, b. 1779, d. Dec. 31, 1854, was the son of Reu- ben Roberts and Peggy Hudson Roberts. His 3rd wife was Eliz- abeth Wilder, b. 1779, d. May 22, 1849, mar. 1804. Ch. were: William ,Green, Jackson, Augustus, John, Fannie, Peggie, Johanna, and Elizabeth.
Green Roberts, son of Luke and Elizabeth Wilder Roberts was b. Apr. 8, 1822, d. Aug. 22, 1902. Mar. 2nd wife Mary Summers, b. Mar. 27, 1832, d. July 16, 1879, mar Nov. 30, 1848. Ch. were: Luke, Sallie, Nicholes, Mattie, Sabina Jane, Joseph, Eugene, Lawrence, Margaret (Peggy), Dawson and Charlie (Babe) .
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Sabina Jane Roberts b. Aug. 31, 1859, d. Nov. 27, 1943, was dau. of Green and Mary Summers Roberts, mar. William Hern- don Lowe, Dec. 1, 1881, b. Jan. 5, 1855, d. Nov. 9, 1917. Their ch. are :
I. Ellis Herndon, b. Apr. 10, 1883, d. Dec. 23, 1915, mar. Allie Malone Aug. 16, 1902, b. Sept. 12, 1883. Their ch. are :
(1) 1st son, Ellis Herbert, b. Aug. 8, 1906. Their ch. are : El- lis Herbert, Jr. served in the Navy from 1947 til 1955. Was on Destroyer Escort in Pacific, Honolulu, b. Mar. 7, 1927, mar. Betty Bragg, July 20, 1952, b. July 11, 1933. Their ch. is : John Ellis, b. Jan. 21, 1955. Raymond, 2nd son of Ellis Herbert and Tommie Green Lowe, b. July 29, 1943.
(2) Willard, b. Sept. 22, 1905.
(3) Alton (Toby) b. Feb. 27, 1907, mar. Sara Bragg, June 9, 1934, b. Jan. 2, 1916. Their ch. are: Sandra Fay, 1st dau. b. June 9, 1938 ; Lydia, 2nd dau. b. June 29, 1953.
(4) Thelma b. Aug. 22, 1908, mar. Louis W. Gunnels, July 7, 1932, b. July 16, 1904. Their ch. are : Peyton ,son, b. Apr. 6, 1938, and Mary Jane, dau. b. May 23, 1945.
(5) Marion, b. Sept. 2, 1910, mar. Guy M. Hays, Dec. 4, 1931, b. May 30, 1904. Their ch. are : Peggy, 1st dau. b. Apr. 9, 1937; Guy M. Jr., 1st son b. Mar. 9, 1938; and Betty, 2nd dau. b. Sept. 3, 1940.
II. Eula, b. Nov. 14, 1884, mar. C. W. Holsenbeck, Dec. 4, 1907, b. Dec. 3, 1884. Their ch. are :
(1) 1st dau. Helen b. May 5, 1910, mar. Horace Cathy, Nov. 1936, b. Jan. 21, 1908, d. July 16, 1949. Their ch. are : 8, Morgan, 1st son, b. Feb. 21, 1940, and Lilla Gene, 1st dau., b. Aug. 7, 1946.
(2) Margaret, b. Oct. 1, 1915, mar. Herman Goodman, June 1, 1947, b. Dec. 27, 1917.
(3) Dorothy, B. Apr. 20, 1923, mar. Bill H. Walter, Oct. 6, 1946, b. May 18, 1921. Bill H. Walter entered U. S. Army Jan. 27, 1941. Served with 151st Eng. Combat Reg. in Alaska from Aug. 1941 thru Apr. 1943. Com. 2nd Lt. in Sept. 1945. Com. 1st Lt. July 1947. Com. Capt. in Aug. 1952. Served in U. S., Austria, from Dec. 1949 until May 1953.
III. Vera Vinion, b. Dec. 25, 1885, d. Jan. 24, 1887.
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IV. Mary Elizabeth b. Apr. 23, 1847.
V. Lawrence, b. Jan. 10, 1889, mar. Eva Brown, Nov. 26, 1913, b. June 2, 1892, d. Jan. 1, 1922. Their ch. are :
(1) Evelyn b. June 14, 1916, mar. Harold Hawkins, Sept. 3, 1932, b. Dec. 23, 1915. Their ch. are: Mary Frances, dau. of Evelyn and Harold Hawkins, b. Nov. 17, 1933 ; Bonner, son of Evelyn and Harold Hawkins, b. Jan. 30, 1937. Evelyn mar. F. H. Linder, May 21, 1949, b. Apr. 19, 1914. Their ch. is : Larry, b. Sept. 18, 1950.
(2) Doris b. Sept. 17, 1917, mar. Phil Stine, Nov. 12 1944, b. Nov. 21, 1919, d. Dec. 28, 1954. Phil Stine enlisted in Navy July 1937. Served on USS ANTARES, USS RANGER, USS BOXER. Engaged in battles at sea. Casablanca-ship reported lost. Philippines-wounded by beam of ship struck by shell. Temp. retired from Navy for physical disability Feb. 1951. Died Dec. 28, 1954-Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland. Their ch. are : Veronica, 1st dau. b. May 16, 1946; Beth, 2nd dau. b. Nov. 28, 1948.
VI. Son b. Apr. 22, 1890, d. same date.
VII. Frances Cordelia, b. Oct. 2, 1891.
VIII. Jerry Green Lowe served in WW I from June 29, 1916, until May 1919. Was in battles of Lorraine, Champagne, Chat- teau Thiery, St. Miheil, Argonne Forrest. Hon. discharge as 2nd Lt., was born Jan. 10, 1894. 1st wife Cassie Green, b. Sept. 10, 1897, mar. July 10, 1919, d. Jan 27, 1922. Their ch. is Annelle, b. July 10, 1920, mar. Marion McMillan, May 16, 1941, b. May 23, 1914. Their ch. are : Sara Anne, 1st dau. b. April 14, 1944; Penny, 2nd dau. b. Mar. 20, 1948. Artie Belle Carter, 2nd wife of Jerry Green Lowe, b. July 17, 1895, mar. Aug. 28, 1924. Their ch. Sarah Jane b. Jan. 22, 1927, d. Sept. 20, 1939.
IX. Chester, b. Dec. 1895. 1st wife Josephine Houston, b. July 26, 1900, mar. May 29, 1919. Their ch. are :
(1) Gene, 1st dau. b. Apr. 4, 1921, mar. Frank Adams, Sept. 7, 1941, b. Jan. 2, 1921.
(2) Ann, 2nd dau., b. Jan. 31, 1932, mar. E. W. Buress, May 3, 1946, b. Sept. 19, 1918. Their ch. are : Eddie, son, b. Sept. 2, 1947, and Jennie, dau. b. July 26, 1950.
Chester Lowe's 2nd wife Helen Austin, mar. Nov. 29, 1934,
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b. Jan. 30, 1913. Their ch. is : Chester, Jr., b. Sept. 28, 1938. X. Mattie Virginia, b. Dec. 1, 1897, mar. Earl Moore, Dec. 24, 1919, b. Aug. 7, 1896. Their ch. are :
(1) Jane, b. Mar. 24, 1921, mar. Samuel Marion McDowell, Oct. 9, 1939, b. Sept. 27, 1912. Their ch. are : Marion, dau. b. Dec. 22, 1940 ; Michael (Mickey) 1st son, b. Apr. 2, 1942, and William (Billy), 2nd son, b. Sept. 9, 1943. Jane Moore's 2nd husband, Wallace Rivers, b. Apr. 8, 1921.
(2) Durward Earl Moore, Jr., b. Aug. 11, 1929. Served 6 years in Navy as Radio Technician in S. Pacific. Now stationed at Gylnnco Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Ga. Mar. Delores Goins, Jan. 16, 1953, b. Oct. 12, 1925. Their ch. is Wallace Earl, b. Aug. 8, 1955.
XI. Bertha Sabina, b. Mar. 8, 1899.
XII. Ethel, b. Nov. 18, 1900, mar. Emmett Jackson, May 14, 1927, b. Aug. 8, 1895, d. Jan. 24, 1948. Their ch. are :
(1) Ralph, b. June 21, 1932, mar. Mickey Hainey, Aug. 18, 1953, b. July 18, 1933. Their ch. is Jennifer Ann, dau. b. Sept. 15, 1955.
(2) Joseph Emmett, b. Aug. 27, 1936.
XIII. Ralph Lowe, b. Jan. 15, 1904, mar. Vivian Achord, Jan. 13, 1934, b. Mar. 29, 1912.
By Mary Lowe
ROBERTS
Reuben Roberts, Sr., the founder of the family in Ga., was b. near Port Royal, Va., 1752, d. Nov. 20, 1845. He was Pvt. in the Rev. War., serving as a guide for Gen. Morgan and Col. Washington. He moved to Jones Co. after the war to what is known as Roberts Station.
Reuben and Margaret Hudson Roberts had a large family of children, one of these was Luke, who died Dec. 31, 1854. His 3rd wife, Elizabeth Wilder, b. 1803, d. May 22, 1849 had 9 ch. including Jackson Roberts, b. Apr. 4, 1825, d. Sept. 14, 1899. He m. Mary Maker, Sept. 4, 1945, she was b. Feb.7, 1830, d. Feb. 20, 1901.
Four generations of this family lived in the original home of Reuben Roberts, Sr. and it has been owned by the family for
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147 years. Mrs. Lilah Roberts Staples was the last survivor there.
Jackson and Mary Baker Robert's ch. were: Jack, Mary Lena, Elizabeth, John, Saul, Lula, J. Davis, Charles Yancy (Shem) Oscar L., and Lilah.
Charles Yancey (Shem) b. Aug. 15, 1859, d. July 29, 1938, m. Blanche Wimberly Sawyer on Jan. 19, 1888 in Macon, Ga. She was b. Feb. 28, 1868, d. Mar. 11, 1930. They had 4. ch. (I) Mary Norine Roberts, b. Nov. 3, 1888, m. Otis Lowe Blanks, Nov. 25, 1908, there are 8 ch. : 1. Louis Roberts, Blanks, b. Sept. 11, 1914, m. Jane Esther Johnson, Sept. 23, 1944, ch. (a) Ramsey Roberts Blanks, b. June 23, 1947, (b) Barbara Jane, b. Mar. 8, 1951. 2. Wm. Francis, b. Dec. 1, 1915, m. 1st Mary Tillery Gaffney, divorced; ch. Dorothy Maula, b. Dec. 21, 1946. He m. 2nd. Louise Searcy Robinson, ch. W. F., Jr., b. June 20, 1952. 3. Phillip Sawyer Blanks, b. Feb. 15, 1917, m. Mary Johnson Griffin, Feb. 25, 1950, she d. Sept. 27, 1954. Ch. (a) Nora Norine, b. Jan. 25, 1951. (b) Blanche Eliz., b. June 11, 1954. 4. Blanche Cordelia, b. Sept. 14, 1918, m. Wm. Thur- mond Massengill, ch. (a) Mary Anne, b. Nov. 9, 1943, (b) An- gelyn D., b. May 14, 1949. 5. Jeanette A., b. Jan. 16, 1920, m. Carson Landrum Hilton, Jr., Jan 6, 1940, ch. (a) C. L. Hilton IIII, Oct. 8, 1945, (b) Crinne L., b. Feb. 7, 1951. 6. Jerry Jack- son B., b. Nov. 9, 1921. 7. John Randolph, b. June 8, 1923, m. Eliz. Lamar Williams, June 27, 1940 ch. (a) J. R., Jr., b. Nov. 19, 1942. (b) Virginia L., b. July 25, 1946. (c) Jerry Phillip, b. Feb. 28, 1948. (d) Oscar W. Lowe B., b. Oct. 10, -950. 8. Davis Oscar B., b. July 28, 1928, m. Eloise D. Nixon, ch. Julie Duva, b. June 6, 1954.
(II) Sara Maria Roberts b, Aug. 16, 1894, m. John Augustus Pursley, June 4, 1919, their ch. 1. J. A. Pursley, b. Sept. 5, 1923, m. Louise Freeman Foster, May 20, 1951. ch. (a) Celia Irene, b. Mar. 5, 1953. 2. s. Charles Roberts Pursley, b. Nov. 26, 1925.
(III) Lula Inez Roberts, b. Feb. 17, 1901, m. Daniel Jette Roberts, Mar. 11, 1926, ch. 1. Barbara Inez, b. Mar. 29, 1928, m. Dallis Freeman Frazier, b. Dec. 18, 1953. their ch. Barbara Inez. b. Dec. 18, 1953. 2. Harriett Norine, b. Jan. 23, 1934.
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