This page is an attempt to gather into one place all those people who migrated into Habersham Co., GA. To submit an entry, please e-mail me with the following information:
1. Name of ancestor (Surname all in caps, then given name)
2. Name of county/state or country where this person migrated
into Habersham County from and when. Approximate time is fine, if
that's all you have.
3. Your name and e-mail address.
Please do not send entire histories of families.
Name | Migrated From | Date | Submitter | Miscellaneous |
ADAMS, George Berry | Pendleton Dist., SC | ca 1824 | ||
AHEARNE, Martha | Pendleton Dist., SC | ca 1824 | ||
ALLISON, Benjamin | Was the forty first family who settled near Loudesville, GA. Benjamin And his wife Cassandra are buried at Lawrence Cemetery, (now White County, GA). The information was taken from Historical Records of Habersham County, GA by Herbert B. Kimzey | |||
ALLISON, Thomas | 1824 | Judy Allison Edwards |
Thomas Allison Son of Benjamin and Cassandra Allison
moved with his family to Habersham County, GA (now White County, GA).
Thomas spent the remainder of his live in White County.
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ANDERSON, David A. | Rutherford, NC | 1832 | David Ubbens |
David A. Anderson was born in Rutherford County, NC
25 Sep 1819 and moved with his family to Habersham in 1832. He married
Nancy McCollum who was born in Habersham County, on 24 Nov 1836. Their
son, Andrew Jackson Anderson was born in 1849. About 1852, David moved
his family to Sumter County, Florida |
ANDERSON, Samuel | Rutherford County, NC | 1832 | David Ubbens |
Samuel Anderson was born in Rutherford County, NC
about 1765. He drew land in Rabun County in 1823 lottery and then
received land in Habersham in 1832 Land Lottery. His children were
Margarett Anderson (b. 1813 NC); David A. Anderson b. 1819 NC, ) and
Samuel A. Anderson (b. 1821 NC) |
ANDERSON, William | SC | before 1830 | James Anderson | William ANDERSON, born 1795 in Virginia, Married Nancy Catherine BOWERS, born 1797 In South Carolina, is listed in the 1830 Census as living in the Deep Creek section of Habersham County. |
AYERS, Elizabeth
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by 1870 | b. 1853 in either SC or Georgia is in Habersham County, GA by 1870 Census, age 18 living in the Harrison household. Married Wm. Pinkston Nichols in 1875 in Habersham Co., GA., great-grandson of Solomon Nichols; Six children born in Habersham, Wm. A., James Hilliard, H. P., Solomon Turner, Cora L., Winston Roy. Three more children born after they moved to Polk County, TN. Parents of Elizabeth Ayers have not been found. | ||
BATES, Fleming | Franklin Co., GA | 1818 | Barbara Harrell | |
BERRY, Jesse | NC or SC | bef 1820 | Cat Tindell | b. 1776 |
BERRY, Little | SC | bef 1830 | Cat Tindell | b. 1770 VA |
BERRY, Philip | SC | bef 1830 | Cat Tindell | b. 1775 SC; presumed to have died there |
BLACK, Elisha Thomas and Callie Lucinda BLACK | White County via Oconee, SC | 1901 | David Stevens | |
BOYD, Thomas & wife Mary (nee Hunt) | Pendleton District, SC (current Dacusville, Pickens County, SC) | ca 1838 | Jimmy Hunt | |
BRUCE, James | Pendleton District, SC | 1819 | Bill Ramsaur | b. 1760 |
CARPENTER, Paul with wife Lavinia LAVENDER CARPENTER | Gaston County North Carolina | btw 1850 and 1854 | Rebecca Giles | Paul and Vinie are my great-great grandparents |
CHAFFIN, Elijah and wife Anna | Rutherford County, North Carolina | ca 1823 | Hugh Swift | |
CHURCH, Benjamin | migrated to Spartanburg Co., SC, then to Habersham Co., GA | btw 1810 & 1818 | Dorothy Hinkey | with wife and at least five children; b. 1763 in Rowan Co., NC, son of John Sr. Church and 1st wife |
COLLINS, Thompson | Buncombe Co., SC | 1820's | J. B. Turner | |
DANIEL, William | Jefferson Co., AL | btw 1821-1825 | Cat Tindell | |
DAVISON, John | VA or SC | ca 1845 |
with wife Jane (Smith) |
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DODD, James A. Sr. | Virginia? to Rutherford Co., NC to Spartanburg Dist., SC | before 1850 | Pioneer Woman | |
DOVER, Francis John | Pendleton District, S.C. to Cherokee Territory | in 1812 | Patti Whitworth | |
EMERSON, Robert C. | Pickens, South Carolina, migrated to White County/Habersham County in the 1850's | in 1860 | Dennis Emerson | He married Nancy Ann Potts, who was born and raised in Habersham County. |
FERGUSON, Coleman | Wilkes County NC | 1811 | Tom Ferguson | married Polly Proffitt |
FRANKUM/FRANCUM | Burke County NC | 1840-1860 | [email protected] | |
GILSTRAP, Wiley R. | Pendleton District, SC | about 1833 | Gary Gilstrap | The area he settled is the Mossy Creek area of White County. |
GREEN, Jesse | Rutherford Co NC | about 1824 | Teresa Burks | |
GROVES, William H. & Jane Wallace | Rutherford Co NC | 1848-1850 | Blanche M. Wallace | Married Jan 9, 1839 in NC |
GUNN, John and Elizabeth | somewhere SC | ca 1820 | Bill Gunn | migrated into GA around 1820 and are listed in census records through 1910 |
HARRIS | Pendleton Old 76 District and Rabun Co. | in 1820 | Charles Harris | |
HASHAW, Moses | Burke County NC | btw 1815-1830 | Tim Hashaw | He is recorded in the 1830 census of Habersham |
HAYES, Elijah and wife Mary Weaver Hayes | Walton county, Georgia/North Carolina | 1820 | Richard Jones | |
HAYES, William W. and wife Mary Rebecca Holbrook HAYES | Baxter county, Arkansas | 1871 | Richard Jones | |
HAYNES, Cynthia McDowell | North Carolina | 1824 | Cathy Moore Casper | |
HAYNES, Edward | North Carolina | ca 1824 | Barbara Ray | |
HAYNES, Jonathan | North Carolina | 1824 | Cathy Moore Casper | |
HICKS, Arry | North Carolina | ca 1824 | Barbara Ray | |
HIGGINS, John J. and Mary Hall | Buncombe Co., NC | 1826 | Sherri Higgins Clark | |
HIGHTOWER, John Joseph | Pickens Co., SC | btw 1860 & 1870 | HEATHENS | He lived in Pickens Co in 1860 with his first wife Mary. By 1870 he is living with my grgrgrandmother Emily Chambers. It is uncertain whether she came with him or he married her in Ga. |
HUGHES, Elisha | Pickens County, S.C. | 1827 | Dallas Johnson | |
HUNT, John W. | NC or TN | ca 1830 | Beverly Hunt Bain | Was a blacksmith & his son C W Hunt was my grandfather born 1871-1966 was a blacksmith, gardener for J. F. Minis and Justice of the Peace in Clarkesville until his death. |
HUNT , Margaret Ann (nee Bowen) | Jimmy Hunt | b. 1795 Pendleton District, SC (current location Dacusville Pickens County, SC) January 1839 Widowed With young sons Harvey Cleveland Hunt b. 1822 & Waddy Thompson Hunt b. 1825 | ||
IVESTER, George and family: wife Anna Rucker, children: Isaac, Barbary, Peter, William, George Jr., Elizabeth | Rutherford County, NC | ca 1822 | Janice Ivester | In October of 1822 George purchased land in Habersham Co. After moving to Habersham, six more Ivester children were born: John, Jerusha Ann, unknown, Jesse, Jacob, Jaley Ann. |
JACKSON, Jose (Joseph) | Rutherford County, NC | 1823 | John Duckworth | |
JACKSON, William Marion | Rutherford County, NC | 1823 | John Duckworth | |
JONES, John Hunter 1810-1820 | Spartanburg Co, SC | Rhonda McAndrew | ||
KINNEY, Jesse | Rowan Co., NC | 1821 | Cathy Moore Casper | |
KINNEY, Sarah Cox | Rowan Co., NC | 1821 | Cathy Moore Casper | |
KINNEY, Susannah Ward | Rowan Co., NC | 1821 | Cathy Moore Casper | |
KINNEY, William | Rowan Co., NC | 1821 | Cathy Moore Casper | |
KUYKENDALL, James | Buncombe Co., NC | 1828 | ||
KYTLE, Zachariah | Pendleton District, SC | 1830 Land Lottery | Pat McMillan | b. 1784 |
LONGSTREET, William | Richmond County, Georgia | before 1830 | Clark Thornton | He appears on the 1830 US census in Habersham County |
McAFEE, Hugh | Pendleton Dist., SC | 1827-1828 | Barbara Harrell | |
McAFEE, Jordan | Pendleton Dist., SC | 1827-1828 | Barbara Harrell | |
MURDOCH, Dr. Joseph | from Scotland via the British Army | about 1780 | Mary Murdoch Turney | Dr. Murdoch built his home on Cherokee lands, which then became part of Habersham Co., GA; I included the original date of his arrival, but please note that Habersham Co. wasn't formed until 1818 |
MCCOLLUM, Daniel
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Pendleton District (now Pickens County) South Carolina | February 1826 | William W. McCollum | Note: Daniel was born in East Jersey (now New Jersey in 1760) and died in Habersham County between March and September 1850. He lived in the Blue Creek District, which became White County in 1857. He was listed in the 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses of Habersham County, first with his family, then in 1840 and 1850 with his son-in-law and daughter, John and Elizabeth McCollum Stovall. Filed his Revolutionary War pension papers from Habersham County between 1832 and 1840. Was assisted by agents Thomas Jefferson Rusk and Turner H. Trippe and Representative Richard W. Habersham, who wrote two letters on his behalf. A Revolutionary War marker is on his grave in the Old Blue Creek Baptist Church cemetery in White County commemorating his Revolutionary War service as a militiaman in Colonel Francis Locke's First Rowan Regiment, Rowan County, North Carolina. |
MCCOLLUM, John
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Pendleton District (now Pickens County)
South Carolina
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February 1826 | William W. McCollum | John was Daniel McCollum's youngest son (1805-1883). He and his wife, Hannah Cantrell, were married about 1823 in the Pendleton District of South Carolina and moved to Habersham with his father. He moved his family to Cherokee County, Georgia about 1844. |
MCCOLLUM, William
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Pendleton District (now Pickens County) South Carolina | 1822 | William W. McCollum | Daniel McCollum's eldest son (1789-1876). Served in Captain Benjamin Goss's Company of Austin's Regiment SC Militia during the War of 1812. Married Susannah Miller in June 1810 in South Carolina. Susannah died in 1824 and William married Esther Edwards in Habersham County in 1826. Lived on Brass Town Creek in 1830 and moved on to Walton County before 1840. Died in Cherokee County in 1876. |
MCCRACKEN, Joseph | from Scotland through Charleston | prior to 1825 | Cathy Moore Casper | |
MCDOWELL, Daniel | Haywood or Buncombe Co., NC | 1821 | ||
MERRELL, Benjamin | Buncombe Co., NC | 1821 | Cathy Moore Casper | |
MORRIS, Groves | Burke Co. NC | after 1824 | ||
NEAL/O'NEAL, Andrew | Rowan Co., NC | ca 1820 | Judie Eaves | |
NEAL/O'NEAL, James | Rowan Co., NC | ca 1820 | Judie Eaves | |
NICHOLS, David | by 1830 | Janice Cronan | appears on the 1830 Clarksville, Habersham Co, GA census and reports 3 male children and 2 female and wife. Other researchers believe this is the brother of Solomon Nichols because of a Habersham Co., Court record dated 12/1827 where David was appointed guardian of Solomon's (decd) Children. These researchers have traced Solomon back to Thomas (NC), William (1725)Wake Co., NC.; William (1700)VA. David appears on the 1840 and 1850 Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co., GA census. From the dates on the census reports he was born before 1800 in NC. David lists on the 1850 census that he is from North Carolina, but believed to have lived in South Carolina before moving to Habersham Co., GA. His son James Nichol is living close to him in Lumpkin Co. GA on the 1850 census. James dies in Lumpkin Co. after 1870 and his son David M. lives there until the 1900 census where he moved to Alpharetta, Milton Co., GA where his son William and his son William continued to live until the 1970's. | |
NICHOLS, Solomon | Pendleton Co., SC | bef 1827 | Ranelle Nichols Parker | b. 1785-1788 in NC (probably Wake Co.); moved to Pendleton Co. SC before 1810; Solomon and children, James, Sarah J, Andrew J., Thomas, William, Martha A. all born in SC and all moved to Habersham Co., GA before 1827 by which time Solomon had died and on that date David Nichols was appointed guardian of estate of the children who were all minors. |
NIX (O'NIX), Andrew Jackson | from South Carolina | btw 1825 & 1844 | Mellanie Pierce | |
O'BANION, Green Hamilton | Edgefield Co., SC | 1820 | ||
O'NEAL--see NEAL | ||||
PALMER, Catherine Owens | North Carolina | 1822 | Cathy Moore Casper | |
PALMER, George | North Carolina | 1822 | Cathy Moore Casper | |
QUARLES, John | SC | 1840 | Trish Henson | |
REAVIS, James | Rutherford Co., NC | by 1824 | Ben Reavis | |
ROACH, James | Pendleton Dist., SC | ca 1815 | Marsha Roach | |
ROE, Anselm/Ansalem | Pendleton Dist., SC | about 1827-1828 | Barbara Harrell | |
SAMPSON, Thomas | Buncombe Co., NC. | ca 1836 | W. Robert Sampson | b. 1787, with wife Catherine |
SCALF, William | bef 1825 | Lana Floyd | (b. 1780 in NC) md Susannah Cash abt 1810 (b. abt 1786, NC) in NC and moved before 1825 into Habersham Co., GA. He had several daughters and a son who md while living in Habersham Co. | |
SHELTON, Stephen | North Carolina | after 1832 | Marc E. Shelton | |
SHIRLEY, Moses | Liberty area, Laurens Co. S.C. | about 1790 | Penny Shirley | |
SHORE, John | North Carolina | btw 1825 & 1827 | Linda McDaniel Smith | |
SHORE, Mahalia Suddeth | North Carolina | btw 1825 &1827 | Linda McDaniel Smith | |
SINARD, Johnson | South Carolina | before 1820 | Barbara Harrell | |
SOSEBEE, Elizabeth (Polly) | Spartanburg, SC | 1822 | Jackie Dietrich | |
STARK, Abner & Alsey | 1825-1832 | Henry E. Penrod | Lived there between 1825-1832 | |
STOVER, Jacob | Rutherford Co., NC | before 1820 | ||
THEDFORD, William | Pendleton Dist., SC | before 1830 | Marvin Thedford | |
TENCH, Greenville | Snowy Creek Chesterfield County Va. | around 1865 | Rhonda Beck | |
TODD, William Lathan | Oconee Co. SC | btw 1890 & 1910 | David Lee Todd, Jr. | |
TOMLIN, Isaac | South Carolina | before 1830 | Lisa Tomlin | born in 1800 |
TURNER, Hiram | ca 1832 | Mary Clegg | Born 1811, South
Carolina.
Arrived in Habersham, GA about 1832, he was a recipient in the Cherokee
Land Lottery.
Married Mary Rich, Lumpkin Co. GA
1835. They are shown on the 1840, Habersham, GA. census with family.
Between 1844-47 they moved on to Fulton County, AR.
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TURNER, Jarrett | SC | 1820's | J. B. Turner | |
TURNER, Micajah | VA to SC | 1820's | J. B. Turner | |
WALKER, Samuel | Greenville Co., SC | about 1852 | Barbara Harrell | |
WATKINS, Hesket (Hess) | Pickens Co., SC | about 1830 | ||
WHITE, Joabert and Sally [Mouser] | Lincoln Co. N.C. | abt 1830 | Todd White | |
WHITE, Joseph P. G. | by 1830 | Doris A. W. Oakes | ||
WHITFIELD, William Gray | Nash County, N. C. | abt 1834 | ||
WHITWORTH, Joseph Southerland | Lincoln Co., N.C | abt. 1823 | Patti Whitworth |
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