Migrations
To and From Wilkinson County, Ga
Migrations
Allen Hill Baker, Sr. & Jane Roquemore
Baker - Wilkinson County to Muscogee County in 1827 to Panola
County Texas in 1848.
Source: The Atlanta Constitution. pg 6 1/21/1899
Willis P. and Mary P Baker -
Parents of Allen L. Baker. Wilkinson County to Muscogee County in
1827. Mary P Baker migrated to Panola County Texas sometime after the death
of her husband in 1856 and was living with her son James L. Baker in 1860,
and son-in- law Joseph Carswell and daughter Priscilla G. Carswell in Panola
County Texas in 1880
Sources: The Atlanta Constitution. pg 6 1/21/1899.
1860, 1880 Federal Census Records. Georgia Marriage Records
Bryant Barlow - 1810, 1811 Mississippi
Valley area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
John Barlow - 1811, Mississippi Valley
area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
Hon.William Green Beck,son
of John (of Va.) and Mary Strong Beck (of S.C.), was born in Wilkinson
County in 1815. Family moved to Montgomery County, Alabama.
Source: Memorial record of Alabama : a concise account
of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress,
together with the personal memoirs of many of its people. 1893.
Augustus Raborn Bloodworth, son of Miles Morgan Bloodworth, Sr. and Susannah Raines settled in the Union Hill Community in southwestern section of Baldwin County after 1860. He married Susan Elizabeth Martin Jan. 19, 1871 in Baldwin County. Their children were Sarah Belle Bloodworth Ivey, Perry Franklin Bloodworth, and Grover Cleveland Bloodworth. Their home is still standing on County Line Church Road. See this website for photos.
Howard Elliot Coates, born Aug. 16,
1877 in Wilkinson Co., son of Edward John and Martha Hughes Coates,
to Macon to Hawkinsville, Ga.
Source:History of Pulaski County, Georgia : official
history Atlanta, Ga.: Press of W.W. Brown Pub. Co., c1935
Thomas Crawford - 1811, Mississippi
Valley area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
James Daffin - 1810, Mississippi Valley
area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
Henry Daniel - 1811, Mississippi Valley
area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
Bardin Dicks- 1810, Mississippi Valley
area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
Rev. John Dupree "emigrated with his
family to Texas in 1860, and purchased lands in Comanche county. He was
defrauded in the titles and lost the entire investment. He then moved to
Louisiana and settled in Nachitoches parish, where he lived until late
1880's when he returned to Georgia to pass the remainder of his days
among his kindred and friends in Wilkinson and Laurens counties."
.Source: The Atlanta Constitution : November 3,
1887
John Eady - 1810, Mississippi Valley
area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
Joseph Stillwell Etheridge and Francis Branan Etheridge, son of Merritt Etheridge and Hopie Mackey Etheridge,. family moved to south Baldwin County before 1860 and settled in the Mount Pleasant and Coopers communities. Their neighbors at Mount Pleasant were the Allens, Hubbards, Batsons, Breedloves, Criswells and the Iveys.
Jonathan Folk - 1806, Mississippi
Valley area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
Joel Iverson Fordham- son of Zenus
Fordham to Bulloch County late 1880's.
Source: Census Records
Robert Edward Hall, son of William
Oscar Hall and Mary Stuckey Hall moved with his friend J.J.
Golden to work in Turner County. April 1893
Source: History of Tift County, Ida Belle Williams;:
Macon, Ga. J.W. Burke Co. c1948
J. Richard Hawthorne, native of Robinson
County, NC, born March 8, 1805. Moved to Wilkinson County around 1815 with
family. Here family lived until 1817, when they moved to Conecuh County,
Alabama.
Source: History of Conecuh County, Alabama : embracing
a detailed record of events from the earliest period to the present : biographical
sketches of those who have been most conspicuous in the annals of the county
: a complete list of the officials of Conecuh, besides much valuable information
relative to the internal resources of the county; B.F. Riley, Columbus,
Ga.; Publisher: T. Gilbert, steam printer and book-binder;
1881
James Jenkins - 1811, Mississippi
Valley area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
John Jenkins - 1811, Mississippi Valley
area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
William P. Johns & Elizabeth Hancock
Johns - after 1850 to Sevier County, Arkansas. Children born in
Ga. :Jane, Rebecca, Julia, Wanin, Georgeanna, Samantha L,
Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Paraclifta,
Sevier, Arkansas; Roll: M653_51; Page: 161; Image: 164.
Dr. John Richard Jones & Obediance Jones
Wilkinson
County, moved to Mariana, Florida in 1847, to
Denton Texas in 1875, died Feb 1915.
Source: Dallas Morning News 2/9/1915, pg 9
John Taliaferro Jones,Born Wilkinson
County 1845, moved to Mariana, Florida in 1847 with parents Dr. & Mrs.
John Richard Jones
Dallas Morning News 2/9/1915, pg 9
Moses Leak Patton, Born Wilkinson
County/now Twiggs, settled in Nacogdoches County Texas in 1835.
Source: The
Handbook of Texas Online
Dr. Henry Madison Peeples,Medical
doctor from South Carolina, moved to Irwinton after Civil War. Moved
to Texas in 1872.
Source: Roots in Virginia : an account of Captain Thomas
Hale, Virginia frontiersman, his descendants and related families : with
genealogies and sketches of the families of Hale, Saunders, Lucke, Claiborne,
Lacy, Tobin, and contributing ancestral lines; Nathaniel Claiborne Hale;
Philadelphia?: unknown, c1948,
William Poor- 1811, Mississippi Valley
area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
George W. Manderson, son of John H. Manderson, Sr. - 1840 in Tuscaloosa, AL
Joshua Manderson, son of John and
Elizabeth Carr Manderson, moved to southwestern part of Baldwin County,
Ga. after 1870 and settled in the Union Hill Community..
Source: Census Records
James McCardle, moved to Brooks County
Ga. in 1857
Source:The history of Brooks County, Georgia Author:
Huxford, Folks, 1948, c1949
Robert J. McCook, a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, born in Wilkinson Co, Jan. 5, 1817. Migrated
to Florida. Died in Key West, Nov. 22, 1870.
Source: Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theologial, and Ecclesiastical
Literature, published 1891
Jeremiah Pittman, born in Wilkinson
County in 1832, son of Jesse & Jincie Garrett Pittman.
His mother dying in Georgia, his father Jesse
Pittman moved to Mississippi. His father died about 1838 leaving
him in care of his relatives. At the age of 12 he moved to Pike County,
AK. Then living in Texas and Mississippi he settled in Navada County, AK
in 1874
Source: Ancestry.com. Southern Arkansas Biographical
and Historical Memoirs [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations
Network, Inc., 2003. Original data: Biographical and Historical Memoirs
of Southern Arkansas. Chicago, IL, USA: Goodspeed Publishing, 1890.
Seaborn D. Reese , born July 22, 1821,
son of Aaron and Charity Delk Reese. Left an ophan and an early age he
was adopted by his uncle Seaborn Delk. He moved to Arkansas in 1859, settled
in Grant County, Ak
Source:Ancestry.com. Central Arkansas Counties Biographical
and Historical Memoirs [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations
Network, Inc., 2003. Original data: Biographical and Historical Memoirs
of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland,
and Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas. Chicago, Nashville, and St. Louis, USA:
Goodspeed Publishing, 1889.
David Ridley and Dillie Stinson Ridley moved
to Worth County, Ga in 1852, coming from Thomas and Baker Counties respectively.
Source: History of Worth County, Georgia : for the first
eighty years, 1854-1934 Lillie Martin Grubbs, 1934
Jonathan Ridley and family moved to
Jackson County, Florida before 1860.
Source: Original data: Ridlon, G. T.. History of the
ancient Ryedales and their descendants : in Normandy, Great Britain, Ireland,
and America, from 860 to 1884, comprising the genealogy and biography ...
of the families of Riddell, Riddle, Ridlon, Ridley, etc. .... Manchester,
N.H.: Ridlon, 1884.
Robert Ridley and Mary Jane Manning Ridley
moved
to Alabama and settled near Schackelville, Butler County.
Source: Original data: Ridlon, G. T.. History of
the ancient Ryedales and their descendants : in Normandy, Great Britain,
Ireland, and America, from 860 to 1884, comprising the genealogy and biography
... of the families of Riddell, Riddle, Ridlon, Ridley, etc. .... Manchester,
N.H.: Ridlon, 1884.
Van Robertson- 1810, Mississippi Valley
area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
Charles M. Rozar to Dodge County,
Georgia. 1835-1840
Source: History of Dodge County; Addie Davis Cobb;
Atlanta; Foote & Davies Co.; 1932
William Flewellyn Samford, son of
Rev. Thomas Samford, was born in Wilkinson County in 1818. In the 1840's
he migrated to Alabama.
Source: Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Record,
and Public Men: From 1540 to 1872
James Sherer - Revolutionary Soldier. South Carolina, Wilkinson County Ga, Henry County Ga dying there in 1833.
Jeremiah Smith - 1810, Mississippi
Valley area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
Thomas Stubbs, Washington County to
Wilkinson County. First wife Miss Jones,. After death of first wife moved
to Harris county Georgia. Second wife Widow Betsy Wadsworth nee Tate.
Source: :The descendants of John Stubbs of Cappahosic,
Gloucester County, Virginia, 1652. William Carter Stubbs, New Orleans;
American Print. Co. 1902
Robert H. Taylor and Sarah Valentine Taylor,
to
Henry County, Alabama in 1846 to Franklin County, Arkansas in 1869
Source: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison,
Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago, IL, USA:
Goodspeed Publishing, 1889.
John Thompson - 1810, Mississippi
Valley area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
Charles Greenbury Tipton, son of John
Tipton born Jan. 5, 1846. Migrated with family to Worth County, Georgia
when a child.
Source: History of Worth County, Georgia : for the first
eighty years, 1854-1934. Lillie Martin Grubbs; Macon, Ga.;
J.W. Burke Co.; 1934
Jesse Touchstone - 1810, Mississippi
Valley area
Source: Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823.
Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina by Dorothy Williams
Potter. 1982, reprinted 2006
Thomas Underwood, born in Wilkinson
County, April 16, 1810 - Died March 2, 1856. Buried in Old Confederate
Cemetery, Bullock County, Ala. 1850 Census he and family were living in
Macon Co. Ala.
Source: Bullock Co., AL, Old Confederate Cemetery
John N. Valentine/Volentine, born
Wilkinson County, moved to Clark County, Ala. in 1856. Moved to Carroll
County, Arkansas in 1867.
Source: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll,
Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago,
IL, USA: Goodspeed Publishing, 1889.
Levi Valentine/Volentine and Jane Johnson
Valentine/Volentine , born Wilkinson County
1822, son of Thomas and Rebecca Leslie Valentine, moved to Arkansas
in 1871 and settled in Franklin County. In 1888 moved to Hempstead County.
Source: Ancestry.com. Southern Arkansas Biographical
and Historical Memoirs [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations
Network, Inc., 2003. Original data: Biographical and Historical Memoirs
of Southern Arkansas. Chicago, IL, USA: Goodspeed Publishing, 1890.
Seaborn Walters, son of William & Mary Fountain Walters, born 1843, moved to Berrian County, GA, then settled in Hot Spring County Arkansas in Dec. 1875.
William Henry Warren, son of Jesse
Mason and Mary Breedlove (of Baldwin Co.) Warren, was born in Wilkinson
County Oct. 17, 1844 moved to Coffee County, Ala.
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama,
published 1921.
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