Morgan County

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 25, 2009 at 10:13pm

Contributed list of FEARS & DAVIS slave names from a family bible once belonging to Josephine Wingfield Henry nee DAVIS (1842-1899) of Morgan County, GA.

* The post link is here - http://tinyurl.com/mc62a8 {Note: includes additional referenced Slave Schedules}
* The original images of the transcribed documents are here - http://tinyurl.com/nkhaj3

Notes are included below.

Good luck!:-)

OGR
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The following information from a 19th Century family Bible, and from the 1850 and 1860 Census records, is posted here just in case it might be of assistance to anyone who might be searching for information about their African-American ancestors who might have some connection to the DAVIS and/or FEARS families from Morgan County, Georgia…

The following list of Negroes Births is from a transcription of the marriages, births and deaths of loved ones which were recorded on the pages of a family Bible presumed to have belonged to the family of > Josephine Wingfield Henry nee DAVIS < (1842-1899).

This list was prepared from photocopies of the tattered and torn original pages. I have never seen the original Bible or any pages from it, and as of May 2008 May 2009, the whereabouts of that family Bible (or the pages from it) is still unknown to me. It is believed that the family heirloom was in the possession of Miss Laura Hamilton (1898-1987) of Rockdale, Milam County, Texas at the time these photocopies were made, probably by Georgia Faye Kaseberg nee Henry (1925-2001).

Josephine was born and raised in Morgan County, Georgia. By the time of the 1860 census, she is living in Brazoria County, Texas with her widowed father, > Milton Grant DAVIS, Sr. < and her brothers.

Josephine marries > William Paschal Henry < in March of 1864 in Brazoria County. Both are buried in the Murray Cemetery in Milam County, Texas.

The following list is not in date order, but rather is in the exact order that these names and dates were entered on the Bible page.

Negroes Births.

* James born September 10th 1805
* Charles born 1815
* Celia born December 16th 1815
* Fanny born May 7th 1822
* Washington born February 15th 1824
* Winny born 1811
* Lucy born November 15 1832
* Eliza born May 17th 1823
* Mary Frances born November 10th 1834
* Mariah Jane born September 8th 1835
* Lewis born August 16th 1837
* Ephraim born December 26th 1837
* Mary Elizabeth born March 24th 1839
* William Terry born August 25th 1840
* Arthur born December 26th 1839
* Susan born February 11th 1841
* Green born March 3rd 1844
* Mahala born June 21st 1845
* Andrew born March 31st 1847
* Sarah Ann born August 31st 1847
* Frank born May 29th 1849
* Thomas Jasper born September 7th 1849
* Georgia born November 15th 1849
* Carline born 1832
* Ann born August 30th 1832
* Betsy Ann born June 1st 1836
* Charlotte Martha born February 22nd 1851
* Sarah June born April 1st 1851
* Columbus born April 23rd 1851
* Virginia born May 7th 1851
* Joseph born December 9th 1851
* Cornelia born May 10th 1852
* Richmond Harry born June 6th 1852
* Celia Ann born December 9th 1852
* Margaret born December 20th 1852
* Hilliard born December 26th 1853
* John Thomas born April 23rd 1854
* Mary born May 7th 1841
* Jonah born June 25th 1847
* Ryland born
* ? born March 28 1857
* ? born October 22nd 1858

Of particular note on the above list are these three entries towards the end of the list –

* Mary born May 7th 1841
* ? born March 28, 1857
* ? born Oct 22nd 1858

The ages of these three individuals correspond closely with the ages of three of the entries on the 1860 Slave Schedule for M. G. Davis in Brazoria County, Texas.

Source: Vickie Everhart

Permalink Reply by Kerry Dillard-Nelson on August 7, 2009 at 12:41pm

Morgan County marriages can be found here http://www.uncleremus.org/MMR/MMRsearch.html