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Judge Elijah Paulk was born in 1843 and married Rebecca Lott. His children: Thomas J. Paulk mar- ried Cora Ketron; Joel Paulk married Malissa New- bern; Henry Paulk died; Bessie Paulk married Leon- ard Tanner; Narcissus married Moses Griffin; Daniel Paulk married Minnie King; Lila Paulk married Archie Harper; Micajah Paulk married Mary Jane Harper; John Paulk married Mary McDonald; Jessie Paulk married Sula Dickerson; Aleph Paulk married Osie Harper ; W. H. Paulk married Bell Roe.
The Wilcox Family
The names of the pioneer Wilcoxes that came to Coffee County are as follows :
Tom Wilcox settled on the Ocmulgee River section. He married Miss McMillan. They had the following children : Jim, John, Tom, George, Mark, Frank, Cabb, Jasper, Jack, Elizabeth, (Peggy) or Margaret and
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Nancy. Only one of the girls married. Elizabeth married a Johnson and lived in Appling County.
John Wilcox married Elizabeth Simmons and they had the following children: J. M. Wilcox; Marjorie Wilcox, who married Int Cook; Winnie Wilcox, who married a Clements in Telfair County.
Jolm Wilcox, Jr., married Fannie Lott and they had the following children : Johnie, Dan and Betty. Betty married Major Blunt, Tom Wilcox, George Wil- cox married a Nash. She lives in Brunswick. Maggie married Ive Girtman. They had three children: Jack, Tiny and Aliff.
Tom Wilcox, son of Tom Wilcox, Sr., married a Frier and they had the following children: Eliza, who mar- ried Willie Byrd, Winnie who married Dan Newbern. Tom Wilcox No. 2 and his families moved to Missouri in 1851.
George Wilcox married a Hall and they had the fol- lowing children: Tom Wilcox, who married a Pick- ern, Mary Jane Wilcox married John Lott, Nancy (Puss) married Dan Lott, Mattie married Neal Curry, Rebecca married Dr. Lott, John Wilcox married Maniza Holten, Piety Wilcox married Lewis Yonn. John Wilcox and Maniza Holten had several sons and daughters.
George Wilcox or (Bud) married a Holten and had one child.
Mark Wilcox married a Lott and had the following children : Joe Wilcox, Lewis C. Wilcox, Fannie Wil- cox, who married John Denton, Ellen who married .J. R. Smith, Elmira, who married Joe Ellis.
Dr. Jeff Wilcox married Mary Anne Henson.
Tom Wilcox married a Dedge.
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John Wilcox, Sr., whose second wife was Fannie Lott, has the following children : Johnnie, who married Eliza Harper and had the following children: Joe Wilcox, Dan Wilcox, married a Currey and had the following children: Maud and Annie. The boy was Buddie.
J. M. Wilcox married Mary Wooten. They had the following children: Mary (Sweet), Virginia (Pet), Tiny, and "Shug," who married William Denton. Mar- vin Wilcox married Miss Heald.
The second wife of J. M. Wilcox was Emma Pickren. They had the following children : William, Monroe and Kate.
Tom Wilcox married Elizabeth Gaskin. They had the following children: Fannie, who married Jim Edenfield. Cora Bell, who married John Vickers. Catherine, who married Willie Fortune, and Georgia, who married Wilie Boyd.
Jack Wilcox married a Rodenberry. They had the following children : Robert Wilcox and several other boys.
Frank Wilcox, Sr., married a Simmons. They had the following children: Jack, Henry and Lewis.
DeKalb Wilcox married Elizabeth Tanner. They had the following children: Pate Wilcox, Colonel E. K. Wilcox and two girls. One married B. H. Cribb.
The Ward and Hargraves Families
About the year 1800 Priscilla Gibbs Ward Hargraves ("Mother Jones") and her six boys landed in what is now Coffee County, Georgia, and settled on the Seven- teen Mile Creek. "Mother Jones" was not the real
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name of this pioneer woman. Her maiden name was Priscilla Gibbs, of the State of Maryland, daughter of Abram Gibbs, who was a brother to the ancestor of Wil- liam G. McAdoo.
Miss Gibbs was a fine looking and well educated young woman. Eary in life she married James Ward of Roberson County, North Carolina. As the fruits of her marriage with Ward she had three sons, James Preston Ward, Joab Ward, and Abram Ward. While these boys were quite small their father, James Ward, died and in the common course of human events Mrs. Ward was married to an Englishman by the name of John Hargraves. She had three sons for Hargraves, Abram, Jack, and Tom; hence it will be seen that her real name was Priscilla Ward Hargraves, but she was always known as "Mother Jones" after she came to Georgia. She lived and died under that name.
The story in the change of her name is a romantic one. When the Revolutionary War closed and our trade relations with England were resumed Mr. Har- graves, her husband, wished to return to England, and make that his home. To this proposition his wife inter- posed serious objections ; but as the years went on, Mr. Hargraves was making his plans to return to England.
About the year 1800 his plans had matured and he was ready to take his wife and children to Charleston, South Carolina, and take passage for England. His wife refused point blank to go. Then he insisted that she let him take his three boys with him back to Eng- land. This she refused to do.
Mr. Hargraves, being fully determined to return to England and, if possible, to take his children with him, sought legal advice how he might get possession of the
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children, and take them with him. So he left on a trip of several weeks to Charleston, South Carolina, to per- fect his plans for returning to England.
About this time immigration had started toward South Georgia. People were coming from Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, down by way of Augusta, Georgia, settling Burke, Montgomery and Tattnall Counties as far south as the Ocmulgee River.
Mrs. Hargraves conceived the idea that she could take her six boys and fall in line with these settlers, for the south, and forever lose herself and her children, in the wilds of this new country in the Wiregrass.
At the time "Mother Jones" came to Georgia there were very few white people in what is now Coffee County. All this territory was owned and occupied by the Creek Indians. Only a few brave pioneers had dared to cross the Ocmulgee River and settle on the south side. There was a small settlement on the south side of the river, consisting of McRaes, Ashleys, and others; but "Mother Jones" not only crossed the Ocmulgee and came on the South side into the territory owned by the Creek Indians, but she passed on by the settlement named above, and came on thirty miles south, built a little log home on what is now lot of land 317 in the Sixth District of Coffee County, Georgia, being about five miles east of Douglas, and is now owned by Judge Levi O'Steen. When "Mother Jones" arrived she had six boys, two horses and a two-horse load of such stuff as pioneers usually took with them to make a start in a new country. "Mother Jones" and her boys went to work building a log house, set it on the dirt, and put clay floor in it. The roof was made with boards about four feet long, carefully laid on small poles for
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rafters and on top of the boards was laid a good size sapling pole with weight enough to hold all the boards in place. They got their water about two hundred yards west from the house, from a spring, and they obtained fire by the old flint and steel process. Cotton, or cotton rags, were singed and placed in a cow's horn,
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REPRESENTATIVES.
1. WILLIE VICKERS, 1886-1887.
2. C. E. STEWART, 1913-1914-1915-1916-17-18.
3. DANIEL LOTT, 1896-1897.
4. THOMAS L. PAULK, 1902-3-4.
5. DR. D. H. MEEKS, 1923-1924.
6. J. R. SMITH, 1859-1860-1868-1869-1870.
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to cut the air off, and then with flint and steel sparks of fire were knocked on the cotton, and thus fire was ob- tained, and thus "Mother Jones" and her six boys began life as pioneers in Wiregrass Georgia, now Coffee County.
The Meeks Family
About the year 1820 Charles C. Meeks, Hymrick Meeks and Miss Tempie Meeks moved from Emanuel County to Coffee County and settled on a farm and built a water mill about two miles north of Nicholls. Of course there was no Nicholls at that time. Before coming to Coffee County, Charles C. Meeks married Miss Lydia Ryner of Emanuel County. They had the folowing children : Willoughby Meeks, Hymrick Meeks, Merritt Meeks, Billy Meeks, Simpson Meeks and Charlie Meeks. The girls were Eliza Ann Meeks, and Mary Ann Meeks.
Hymrick Meeks married Martha Davis, a daughter of Stafford Davis, Sr. Their children were Merritt Meeks, Stafford Meeks, Martha Jane Meeks, Sarah Ann Meeks, Lydia Meeks, Hymrick Meeks, Bryant Meeks and Elijah Meeks.
Merritt Meeks married Mary Ann Morrison, a sister of Rev. Daniel Morrison and had the following chil- dren : Malcolm Meeks, John Meeks, Mary Jane Meeks, Rev. Hymrick Meeks, Mary Ann Meeks, Merritt (Bud) Meeks, Frank Meeks, and Daniel Meeks.
Billy Meeks married Narcissus Lott and had the fol- lowing children: Charlie Meeks, Mary Jane Meeks, Gray Meeks, Jesse Meeks, Billie Meeks, Laura Meeks, and Sarah Meeks.
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Simpson Meeks married Mary Roberts and had the following children: Charles Meeks, Sarah Meeks, Gray Meeks, Jesse Meeks, Lydia Meeks and Laura Meeks.
Charles W. Meeks, the youngest son, married Lucy Moore, a daughter of Elias Moore, who lived in the extreme western part of the county. This family con- sisted of three sons and six daughters. It is worthy of note that Lucy, the widow of Charles W. Meeks, is the only surviving one of the second generation living, now well past eighty and the mother of Dr. D. H. Meeks. Lydia married A. F. Thomas, Mattie married a Mr. Lee, her second marriage.
Mary A. Meeks, a daughter, was married first to Gray Roberts. Her second marriage was to T. N. Cady, who was at that time Sheriff of Coffee County. To them were born two sons and three daughters.
Eliza Ann Meeks married C. W. Dedge and lived near the old home. To them were born three sons and four daughters.
Rev. Malcolm Meeks, a son of Merritt Meeks and Mary Ann Morrison, married Elizabeth Tanner and they have the following children : Melvin Meeks, Elisha Meeks, Charlie Meeks, Albert Meeks, Malcolm Meeks, George Meeks, Gray Meeks. The daughters are Abbie Meeks, who married Phillip Newbern, Laura Meeks, who married Leonard Burkett, Mae Meeks, who married Screven Cole, and Maggie, who married Joe Starling. Elizabeth Meeks married J. R. Gardner.
John Meeks, a son of Merritt Meeks and Mary Ann Morrison, married Rebecca Douglas, a daughter of Dunk Douglas. Their children are : Willie Meeks, Elisha Meeks, Lonnie Meeks and Jesse Meeks. His daughters
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are Mary Jane Meeks, Maggie Meeks, Tempie Meeks and Minnie Meeks.
Merritt (Bud) Meeks married Elmira Waters and have the following children: Gilbert Meeks, Marvin Meeks, Julian Meeks, Loyd Meeks, and Cora Meeks, Effie Meeks, and Fleeta Meeks.
Rev. H. M. Meeks married Mattie Hall and they have the following children : Dan Meeks, Frank Meeks, Burton Meeks, Leon Meeks, Spurgeon Meeks, Irsa Meeks, Albert Meeks, Lucy Meeks, Ethel Meeks and Frances Meeks.
Daniel Meeks married Carrie Gaskin. They have the following children: Wesley Meeks, Earley Meeks, Lula Meeks. Dorcus Meeks and Joe Meeks.
Frank Meeks married Linnie Duren and they have the following children : Mary Ann Meeks, Aleph Meeks, Annie Meeks, Bessie Meeks, Pearl Meeks, Ruby Meeks, Malcom Meeks and Shafter Meeks.
Rev. Hymrick Meeks, son of old Hymrick Meeks, mar- ried Bettie Kirkland and had the following children : Elisha Meeks, Oliver Meeks, Mintie Meeks, Penney Meeks, Mae Meeks and Fannie Meeks.
Mary Ann Meeks, daughter of Merritt Meeks and Mary Ann Morrison, married Joshua A. Dent. They have the following children: Walter Dent, who mar- ried Elda Lewis, Neila Dent, who married M. King and Ira Dent, who married Sarah Thrasher. Lula Dent died young.
Stafford Meeks, son of Hymrick Meeks married a Miss Waters. They have the following children : Frank Meeks, Andrew J. Meeks and Archie Meeks. Lila Meeks, who married Mose Kirkland. Viola, who married Jake Foreman. Mattie married Henry Davis.
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Willoughby Meeks married Lizzie Taylor. They have the following children : Willoughby (Willie) who married Eliza Taylor. Redding married Eliza Tanner. Will married Nancy Taylor. Mack never mar- ried. Burrell never married. Angel married Ben Tes- ton. Eliza Jane married Tal Taylor. Lydia married Zeck Teston. Delphia Ann married John Lassiter.
Warren G. Meeks is a son of Merritt Meeks and Emily Tanner. His brothers and sisters are Martha Jane, who married Bill Minchew ; Mattie, who married Mich Lewis; Hymrick died young in life. Warren G. Meeks married Emma Newbern.
Mary Ann Meeks married Gray Roberts and later married T. N. Cady.
Her Roberts children are as follows: Georgia Ann, who married Staff Davis. Eliza Ann, who married Sam Lee. Sarah Ann, who married Rube Taylor. John married Barbara Denton. Jesse died young. Her Cady children are as follows: Mark married Minnie Cole, Tom married Christian Vining, Lilah married a Mr. Henson, and Zona married.
Eliza Ann who married C. W. Dedge had the follow- ing children: Mary Ann married Wesley Ricketson, Ellen married Asbury Boyd, Lydia married Tom Wil- cox, Lula married a Mr. Mobley, Dr. James Dedge married Martha Wells and Joe was killed early in life.
Lydia Meeks married A. F. Thomas. They have the following children : Henry M. Thomas, Nellie Thomas, Ben Thomas, Andrew Thomas, Harley Thomas, W. J. Thomas, Ella Thomas.
Charles W. Meeks, who married Lucy Moore, had following children: Tennessee married Jeff Bennett, Mattie married a Mr. Lee, Eliza Ann married Tom Lee
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and she died soon after. Elias married Priscilla Denton, Roan married Cassey Bennett, Elisha died before he married, Dr. Dan Meeks married Rila Bagley.
Penney Meeks married Bunk Tanner and they have the following children: Walter Tanner, George W. Tanner, Marshall Tanner, William, Mattie and Idell, married Duddley Bunn; and Dora who married A. C. Blalock and Mamie who married Dave Gillis.
Charles F. Meeks, who married Dorcas Douglas, had the following children : Jeff Meeks, Amos Meeks and Mattie, who married Eland Brooker. His second wife was Mrs. Baker. They have the following children : Emmett, Clarence, Lois, Legrand, Dorsey, Truit and Kenneth Meeks.
Bryant Meeks, son of Hymrick Meeks and Martha Davis, married a Williams and they have the following children : George, Mattie and Aleph.
Elisha A. Meeks, son of H. Meeks, who has been effi- cient postmaster of Nicholls for sixteen years. Through his faithfulness to duty he has attained to prominence in his line of service and now fills the office of President of The National League of Postmasters of America, which office he fills with honor and distinction.
The Kirkland Family
The Kirklands are of Scotch descent and came to Coffee County from South Carolina about the year 1810. There were three brothers, a half brother and one sister. Mose Kirkland married Peggy Carver, settled on the east side of the Seventeen Mile Creek about seven miles from Douglas. Timothy Kirkland married a Holiday and settled in the southwest part of
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Coffee County. Josh Kirkland married a Fender and settled on the east side of Seventeen Mile Creek about six miles from Douglas. The sister, Zylphia, married James Preston Ward and settled on a pine ridge about eight miles east of Douglas, between Otter and Tiger Creeks. The half brother was Archie Miller.
Mose Kirkland had the following named children : Mose Kirkland, Jr., Zenus Kirkland, Joshua Kirkland, Tim Kirkland, who was killed in the Civil War. Man- ning Kirkland, who was killed by the deserters about the close of the war. The girls were Roxie Ann, who married Joe Davis, Elizabeth married Elijah Tanner, Sr.
Josh Kirkland had the following named children : Josh Kirkland, Jr., J. C. (Kyler) Kirkland, and David Kirkland. The girls were Mrs. Duren, Alice, who mar- ried Kyler Kirkland, Creasy who married Doc. Smith, Josh Kirkland, Jr., married Margaret Fales, and Mose Kirkland married Eliza Tanner, Zenus Kirkland mar- ried Penny Gaskin, Tim Kirkland married Rebecca Thomas, Manning Kirkland never married.
Timothy Kirkland had the following children: Mack Kirkland, who married a Bailey, William Kirkland, who married Susan Hilliard, Joe Kirkland, who mar- ried a Pearsons, Ben Kirkland.
Zylphia Kirkland married James Preston Ward and had the following named children: Jackson Ward, who married Sallie Davis, C. A. Ward, Sr., who mar- ried Zylphia Ward, W. W. Ward married Sarah Ann Spikes. The girls, Sallie, Nancy, Amanda, Arminta, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Hester, and Desdemona. Sallie married Sam Thomas and moved to Florida before the Civil War. Nancy married a Mr. Yates and moved
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away and was lost sight of. She probably went to Florida. Amanda married Zeke Thomas and moved to Florida. Arminta married Mark Lott. Priscilla married Sam Denton, she was the mother of Jim Den- ton, John Denton, and Bill Denton, and died early in life. Elizabeth married James Graham. She is the mother of Mrs. Doctor W. F. Sibbett. Hester married Hamp Tanner. Desdemona never married.
Abram Ward, the brother of James Preston Ward, moved to Florida early in life where many of his generation now live.
James Preston Ward reared a grandson, John F. Ward. He married Sarah Hilliard. They had three boys: James Franklin Ward, Warren Preston Ward and John Ward.
Timothy Kirkland had the following children: Mac Kirkland married a Bailey, William Kirkland married Susan Hilliard, Joe Kirkland, who married a Pearson, Ben Kirkland, who married an Adams, Jim Kirkland married a Solomons, Harrison Kirkland and Ive Kirk- land.
Joe Kirkland, who married a Pearson, had the fol- lowing children: Kyler Kirkland, Benajah Kirkland, Jeff Kirkland, Lock Kirkland, Jud Kirkland and Doll Kirkland. The girls were Janie, Laura, "Dub" Dory- ann, Lucy and Elmer.
Ive Kirkland married Sarah Lott and has the follow- ing children: Lizzie Kirkland, who married Wiley Byrd, Jr., and Dora Ann Kirkland, who married Rus- sell B. Leggett. William Kirkland married Susan Hilliard and has the following children: Mattie, who married Ben Summerlin, Doctor T. J. Kirkland, who married a Sears, Pate, who married E. B. Wilden,
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Estell, who married Joe Gaskins, Leila, who married Decocrat Wynn, and Ella, who married John Surmans.
The Tanner Family
Green Tanner, Elijah Tanner and Hampton Tanner. These three brothers had two sisters; Betty Tanner, who married Jesse Carter and lived in Appling County. Elizabeth Tanner married Jim Taylor and also lived in Appling County.
Elijah Tanner, the oldest brother, married Emily Mimms and they had the following children: Melvin Tanner, Sr., Fred Tanner, Monroe Tanner and three girls ; Lydia Ann Tanner, who married Warren Taylor, Betty Tanner, who married DeKalb Wilcox and Eliza Tanner, who married Redding Meeks. Betty Tanner, who married DeKalb Wilcox, has the following chil- dren : Pate Wilcox, who married Tempie Ward, E. K. Wilcox, who married Minnie Reliham; Fred Tanner married Margaret Davis, and they had the following children : Melvin Tanner (Supt. County Schools), Clif- ton Tanner, Elmore and Leon Tanner, Mattie Tanner, who married Josh Dubose and Minnie, who married K. K. Bledsoe.
B. II. Tanner, first sheriff of Coffee County, married Eliza Taylor and they had the following children : Elijah Tanner, John Tanner, Bunk and Lydia. Lydia married Mose Kirkland, Emily married Joe Trowel. Elijah Tanner, Jr., son of Hamp Tanner (who went to the Georgia Legislature), had the following chil- dren : Warren Tanner, (Bud married a Davis, Eliz- abeth married Malcolm Meeks, John Tanner (Mudge) married Hester Ward and the last time he mar-
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ried Bessie Paulk. Tom (Booge) Tanner married Miss Wall, B. H. Tanner married Rose Sears and had the following children : E. L. Tanner, Elie Tanner, Carl Tanner, Rilze Tanner, Hiram Tanner and Julian Tanner. John Tanner, son of Hamp Tanner, married Sarah Gaskin, and they had the following children : Berry H. Tanner, John Tanner, Staten Tanner, Elijah Tanner, Dan Tanner and Mary Tanner, who married John Youngblood. Bunk Tanner, son of Hamp Tanner, married Penny Meeks and they had the following children : (Babe) J. H. Tanner, who married Mary Denton, George, Walter, Marshall and Mattie Tanner, who married Nas Young.
Green Tanner married Elminie Hall and they had these children: Emily, married Merritt Meeks, Mary married William Gill, Lucyndia married John Burkett, Delilah Tanner, married Moses Kirkland, (Cylia) Mose, Rhuban (Coot) married Susie Nettles. Syndia Tanner married Martha Taylor, sister of Rev. Green Taylor. Manning Tanner married Zelphia Ellis. Barney Tan- ner married Mary Ann Davis, Thad Tanner married Vicey Girtman.
The following is a list of the sons of John Tanner, Sr., with their wives.
Berry Tanner married Nine Davis. John Tanner, Jr., married a Miss Youngblood. Dave Tanner married Mattie McClelland. Joe Tanner married Ida McClel- land. Dan Tanner married Renna Thompson Godbold. Elijah Tanner married Betty Davis. Staten Tanner married Jimmie Belle Smith. John Tanner had two girls : Liza Tanner married Abe Owens and they live in Texas. Sarah Tanner married Archie Meeks.
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Sheriff W. M. Tanner married Melian Thomas and they have the following children: B. W. Tanner mar- ried Ursula Dent, Lucy Tanner married Tom Wilcox, J. M. Tanner married Addie Cole, D. W. Tanner mar- ried Emma Ellis, W. M. Tanner, Jr., married Martha Jane Meeks, A. F. Tanner married Lou Baker, Maggie Tanner married June Baker; Mary Jane Tanner mar- ried Jeff Lewis, Eula Tanner married S. S. Baker.
Old man Russell Tanner married a Miss Taylor and they had the following children: Vicey Tanner, who married Jesse Taylor, Nancy Tanner, who married Henry Jordon. Dacy and Jinsey Tanner never married. Chappel Tanner married a Thomas, Russell Tanner married Maria Hand, William (Sheriff Bill) Tanner married Melian Thomas.
The Burkett Family
Billie Burkett and his wife came from South Carolina and settled on the Ocmulgee River, now known as Burkett's Ferry, about 1800. They have the following children : Two sons by his first wife; Bartillery Burk- ett and Robert Burkett. His second wife was a Miss Dyal. They have the following children: William Burkett, Enos Burkett, Texas Burkett, Dock Burkett and one girl, Missouri, who married a Mr. Wright. William Burkett married Sarah Powers, Enos Burkett married a Ryals. His second wife was Betty Grantham and they have the following children: Carleen, Wilma, Quincey, Lura, Marine, E. H. Mozell, Coolege and Betty Dean.
Texas Burkett married a Davis; Dock Burkett mar- ried a Miss Johnson. All these Burketts lived in Coffee County on the Ocmulgee River Section.
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Bartillery Burkett married Viney Taylor and they had the following children: Bartillery Burkett, who married Tom Denton, Emily Burkett married Bill Tay- lor and they had the following children: Rev. Sebe Taylor and Nancy Taylor and she married Boss Burkett. Mary Jane Burkett married Joe Hays and they had the following children: Lyman Hays, Angel Burkett who married Joe Ward and they have the fol- lowing children : Emma Jane Ward, who married Tim Kirkland, Jack Ward who married Percy Ward, who was a Peterson; Vinney Ward married Johnie Denton, Tom Ward married a Newbern, Calvin Ward married a Miss Carter, Sarah Ward married Will Martin, Gay Ward married Bud Young. Angel Burkett also had these children: Tom R. Burkett, who married Martha Ward, Leonard Burkett, who married Laura Meeks, and Mary J. Burkett. Penny Ward is not married.
John Burkett, son of Bartillery Burkett, married Lucinda Tanner and they have the following children : Bartillery Burkett, who married Carrie Woods, Lucinda married "Jug" Douglas, Johnie Burkett married a Martin, Lige married an Ellis, Linnie married Jule Wilcox, Emmie married Mark Hall, Minnie married Lyman Hays, and Mintie Burkett married George Prid- gen.
Ellen Burkett, daughter of Bartillery Burkett, mar- ried John Thomas, and they had the following chil- dren : Bartow, Wesley, Tom and Mary who were twins, Tom Thomas married a Ridgon, Dave Thomas married a Lassiter.
Bartillery (Bud) Burkett married Mary Jane Meeks and they have the following children: Eliza married Matthew Towns; Sophronia married Jack Ellis, Ida
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married Joe (Bud) Ellis, Noah Burkett married Clif- ford Fortune, Elisha Burkett is not married, Preston Burkett married Annie Gillis; Nealey married Dewey Ellis, Naomi married Robert Hale, Gray Burkett mar- ried Ruby Cashwell.
Angel married a Lewis, Jack married a Courson and they have the following children: Maggie, Mary and John. Maggie Burkett married E. A. Meeks, Mary Burkett married Charlie Moore and John Burkett is not married.
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