African-Americans Wilkinson County, GA

Cannon Quarters Cemetery, Toomsboro
Wilkinson County, Ga.
AFRICAN-AMERICANS

**Wilkinson County Slaves/Freemen 1810-1860**
**Census Records, University of Virgina Library**
Year	Number of Slaves	Males Free	Females Free
1810	318	NA	NA
1820	1,463	6	7
1830	1,922	3	0
1840	1,866	7	12
1850	2,745	0	0
1860	3,887	7 6 are: John Dupriest 12 M Bob Smith 15 M Brester Herndon 70 B Bryant Taylor 18 M George Moss 30 B Walter Moss 20	10 9 are: Margaret Lewis 14 M Emma Lewis 15 M Mary Cea 12 M America Delk 9 M Vina Moss 68 B Emeline Moss 16 B Epsey Moss 14 B Jane Moss 25 Margaret Moss 25

Slaves for sale or missing
Sam - John Boyd 1810 Sam - Joseph Boone 1812 Lissa - Sampson Smith 1812 Peter, Lewis, Nanny 1815- Col Robert Jackson Sarah & Jin -John Moreland 1815 Two unnamed -John Ball 1817 Abram - John & Nevin M-Bride 1817 Unnamed - John Smith estate 1817	Nanny - Col. Robert Jackson 1817 Phillis - Duncan M'Nair 1817 Caleb - Dr. Nathan Barker, Adam Hunter 1817 Sam - Bennett Terrell 1818 3 unnamed - J. M. Hand 1823 Rachel - William Chambers 1837 Sam, Ben - Oren Davis 1841 Henry - James Granade 1846	4 Unnamed - William Barfield 1850 Isaac, Winney, Ambus, Penny, Hannah, Nusom, John - Lewis Etheridge 1850 Winney, Penny, Hannah - Jonah Etheredge 1852 Unnamed - John Lord Sr 1850 1 boy, Necy - James Johnson 1855 Levi & Asa - John M Ware 1852 Sam, Ben, Charles, Jef, Ann, Nanoe, Linda, Alice - Oren Davis 1857 45 unnamed - JHR Washington 1859
Unnamed - Joel Butler 1862 Sam - Polley Waters heirs 1862 Jim, Lucy & 3 children, Martha, Eliza, Tempy, Elizabeth - James H. Stanley 1863	Unnamed - James R. Lewis 1863 Green, Cinth'a, John, Risey, Lewis, Nathan, Aurelia, Phebe - Robert A. W. Rozar 1864	Bet, Wesley & Ed - W.O Beall 1864

Court Records Pertaining to Slaves & Free Persons
Slaves Membership Mt. Nebo - 1812-1855

SLAVES IN WILLS
Wilkinson County Will Book 1817-1860.

BIVINS, WILLIAM - 3/5/1828
Caroline, Susan, Simon, Peggy, Mary, Julia, Mercer, Lewis, small negroes of Martin Luther Bivins not named

BROWN, WILLIAM - 7/6/1845
Guy, Sue, Love

BROWN, WILLIAM F.M. - 5/5/1857
Hector, Caesar, Adam, Jack, Phoebe, Ellen, Hannah & 2 children Caesar & infant, John, Martha, Calvin. Washington Ingram, husband of sister Sara.

BUTLER, MALACHI - 1850
Mary.

CALHOUN, RACHAEL - 3/17/1831
Slaves: Tom, Isaac, Anaca,
Zilphia, Anthony, Sal, Will, Annie, Madison, Caroline, Jim, Frank, Clayborn, Diana & infant child, Violet, Sarah, Anna, Ellen, Jethrey, Moses, Berry

CHAMBERS, HENRY GREENFIELD - 7/5/1854 Slaves: Martha, Joseph, Dow.

CHAMBERS, WILLIAM - 10/27/1836
Nicey, Anna, Silva, Jack, Elizabeth, Mollie, Elijah, Moses

COLLINS, MAJER C. Sr. - 6/4/1846
Anthony, Harriett, Esther, Isabel, Zilphia, Grim, Stepna, Dick, Henry, Ellen, John.

DOMINEY, FREDERICK Sr. - 8/26/1829
Ford & her two children Sal & Peter

GAINEY, JOHN - 9/29/1855
Henry & wife Manda & 2 children not named

GLOVER, KELLY - 11/11/1852
Kelsan, Sarah, Charity

HALL, JOHN - 1850
Peter, Minnie Miley & her 2 youngest children Isaac & Ephraim, Simon & Charlotte (husband & wife), Ransom, Mariah, James, David, Caroline & children not named, Ben, Charlotte (old, & her family not named)

HATCHER, JAMES - 4/19/1842
Jack, Jiny

HOLLIMAN, DAVID - 11/16/1858
Elic, Tilda, Scott, Jerry, Jim

INGRAM, DAVID - 2/1/1828
John, Eliza, Gilbert, Mary, Isabel & child, Ned, Jess, Gabriel, Caty, Della, Nellie, Aggy, Dicey, Lewis, Nicholas, Hardy, Nancy, Landerick, Isaac, Dave, Lany

JACKSON, NATHAN - 4/23/1829
Joseph

JACKSON, WILLIAM - 9/26/1831
Henry, Mayo, Jack, Justice, Dick, Rachael, Ephraim, Mary, Justice, Elizabeth, Lucy, Mingo, Bill, Rachael, Lucy, Jack, Lucie, Dick.

LAMBERT, JOHN - 3/2/1819
Slaves not named

LASSETER, ABRAHAM - 3/2/1842
Doll & 3 children Hester, Liz & William Ambrose, George, Eda & child Mariah, Jack, Abraham, Jude (f)

MANSON, JAMES -10/18/1829
Shade, Seynes, Jack, Bill, Lewis, Peggy, Pat, Sam, Nancy, Jinney, Martha, Lewis, Isham, Phoebe, Milly, Sallie, Fannie, Mariah, Cate, Hannah, Cate.

McLENDON, MASON - 9/25/1826
Isaac, Nina, Hall, Dilcey & children Elizabeth and Daniel, York, Martin

O' BANNON, JOHN - 11/18/1853
Jim, Manda & children Susan and Tom, Bryant (yellow), Isabel.

ROZAR, ROBERT Sr. - 1/13/1834
Cain, Rachel, Elizabeth, Robin, Sarah, Easter

SEARS, WINNIE - 2/7/1859
John A., Jim, Cummings, Rose, Daniel, Ed, Jack, Crawford, Watt, Lewis, Victoria

SMITH, WILLIAM - 6/1/1835
Doxie, Marshall, Sara

TALIAFERRO, JOHN 4/ /1817 - / /1818
Jack & Avy family, Polly & children

THOMAS, JAMES - 8/6/1825
Peggy, Charlotte, Ben, Minta

VALENTINE, LEVI - 6/16/1823
Suka, Bill, Dick

VAUGHN, JESSE - 9/10/1825
Hannah, Fannie, Filly, Bernard, Betty, Riney, Tom, Sam

WHITAKER, RICHARD - 9/27/1842
Clayborn, Grigg, Randel, Leaman, Leah, Nathan, Nan, Joseph

WHITEHURST, CHARLES Sr. - / /1840
Phoebe, Moses, Mary, Cynthia, Scilla, Jupiter, Ellick, Gin

WILCOX, JAMES - 10/10/1827
Solomon, Amos, Jude & children, Joshua

BIOGRAPHIES William Merida Hubbard was an educator born July 19. 1872 in Irwinton. He was the son of Edinburgh and Elizabeth Hubbard, farmers who lived near Irwinton. In 1893 in Monroe County, he married to Mollie Helena Worthy, daughter of Taylor and Bashie Worthy of Monroe County. Ga.
      There were six children born to this union: Leola, born Feb. 25, 1894; Maceo William, born December 14, 1899; Ruth A, born June 12, 1902; Samuel E. born March 29, 1905; Louise E, born Feburary 8, 1908; Clifton, born November 10, 1911.
       Mr. Hubbard was educated in the public school in Irwinton, Ballard Normal School in Macon, Cornell University in Itaca, N.Y. Hampton Institute in Hampton, Va; Fisk University 1892-1896. He was the founder and superintendent of the A & M State School in Forsyth, Ga. in 1900 which was incorporated in 1902. Beginning as a private school with seven pupils it becamae a public school, a county training school and subsquently an Agricultural and Mechanical State School with an enrollment of over seven hundred students Later becoming the State Teachers and Agricultural College. After it closed in 1939 and was reopened as the Hubbard Training School, Monroe County's first black high school.
       He died in Monroe County March 22, 1941 at the age of 71.

Sources: Who's Who in Black America, Federal Census Records, Georgia marriage records and death records at ancestry.com.

Iverson Fluker Kemp

CEMETERIES
Mary's Grave

New Bethel Baptist Church, Irwinton, established 1870

CHURCHES
Balls Church
Brundage Mount First Baptist
Calvary Hill
Fountain Grove AME
Friendship Baptist
Green Grove

Holliman Grove Pentecostal Church, McIntyre
Mt. Cilla Springs
Mt. Tilla, near Nicklesville
Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist
New Bethel Baptist established 1870
New Corinth Green Grove Baptist
New Hope CME
New St. Paul CME
Omega Faith Chapel
Parker Hill Baptist
Parker Springs Baptist
Peeler Chapel
Philadelphia
Providence
Scared Heart
Shiloh First Baptist
Smith Chapel
Spring Hill CME
St. Phillips AME, Railroad St, Toombsboro. Church building built in 1900.
Union Hill Baptist Church

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RESEARCH

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FIRST STOP!

Georgia's Slave Population in Legal Records by David E. Paterson

Excellent and very, very thorough intro to Courthouse Records by David Paterson.
He gives many examples including names of slaves so you just might be lucky!!

ARCHIVES-Georgia
Georgia Slave Research Checklist

ARCHIVES-National
African American Research at national archives
Freedman's Bureau Records at national archives

FAMILY HISTORY CENTER RECORDS

LINKS
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Published Research Resource

The revised edition of "The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy" (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1997) includes a very useful chapter entitled "Tracking African American Family History." Includes types of records and what information you might find there and where to locate them. The Bibliography is also excellent.
"African-American Family Research" Part 1
by Roseanne Hogan, Ph.D.
(Ancestry Magazine, Mar/Apr 1996, Vol. 14, No. 2)
http://www.ancestry.com/magazine/articles/afamres1.htm

"African-American Family Research" Part 2
by Roseanne Hogan, Ph.D.
(Ancestry Magazine, Jul/Aug 1996, Vol. 14, No. 4)
http://www.ancestry.com/magazine/articles/afamres2.htm
"The Challenge of African American Research" (above)
by Curt B. Witcher, FUGA
(Ancestry Magazine, Sep/Oct 1997, Vol. 15, No. 5)
http://www.ancestry.com/magazine/articles/enjafam.htm

"The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company and African American Genealogical
Research" By Reginald Washington (Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives
and Records Administration Summer 1997, vol. 29, no. 2)
http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/freedman.html