Florence Hayes 1890

A Pictorial History of the Ledbetter, Hayes and
Associated Families of Jackson County, Georgia

Including Austin, Bowman, Brewer, Doster, Edwards, Fuller, Grubbs, Manus, Nash, Phillips and Smith,  

 

Thomas Joseph (TJ) Ledbetter born c1800 in England*

Died c 1850 Madison County, Georgia; parentage unknown.

Married Mary Sue Nash b.1809 in South Carolina

Died after 1880 Madison County, Georgia; parentage unknown.

Possibly a second marriage for both.

Discouraged that he could not make a living sharecropping in America, TJ persuaded Mary Sue to return to England with him. He sold his animals and took their meager belongings on a wagon to Danielsville, where he sold everything for enough money to purchase ships tickets back to England. He said goodbye to several friends in Danielsville - but he never made it back home. The following day his horse, still hitched to his wagon, was found near a Madison County river bridge. The boulder-strewn river was searched twice, but his body was never found.

Mary Sue raised the three children alone. She is shown as a widow on Madison County censuses from 1850 through 1880.

Mary Ledbetter is included in Madison County widows having a son in the Service in 1863 and receiving 1/2 bushel of salt from Georgia Government. That son was Joseph William Ledbetter.

Almost certainly she is buried, unmarked, in the Ledbetter plot of Chapel Christian Church, Winder, Georgia - a plot procured when the church was instituted in 1859 - and certainly where their murdered son John T. would have been buried in 1879.

TJ and Mary Sue had three children:

Joseph William Ledbetter 1845-1920

John T. Ledbetter 1847-1879 murdered in Madison Co.1879

Mary J. Ledbetter 1849-1870 died of typhoid

*The above story was repeatedly told and attested to this writer by at least three of TJ’s grandchildren: Willie Ledbetter, Ruth Ledbetter Brewer and Modelle Ledbetter Manus. Written genealogy by Ruth Ledbetter Brewer states that TJ was from “Anglin” and that he married Mary Sue Nash. However, Nash may not be her maiden name.

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The survivor of that family was Joseph William Ledbetter, nicknamed Judebaker. While home on leave from the Civil War in 1864 he married Sarah Elizabeth (Sally) Smith** 1844-1914, daughter of Jackson Smith and Cynthia Edwards.

**Marriage certificate from Clarke County mistakenly shows Sarah Elizabeth Smith as Sarah E. Scott. Her father, Jackson Smith, had died when she was a child and her mother remarried to Patrick Scott. Likely neighbors simply referred to the Smith children as Scotts.

Both Joseph William and Sarah Elizabeth are buried at Chapel Christian Church, Winder, Georgia. Her grave marker misstates her name as “Sally”. His is a CSA marker.

They had four children:

Henry Harrison Ledbetter 1866 Clarke Co.-1938 Jackson Co. Ga.

J. S. Ledbetter 1869 - died young, buried at Chapel

Martha S. Jane (Mattie) Ledbetter 1870-1947 married Thos. McDonald

R. P. Ledbetter 1872- died young, buried at Chapel

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Contributed for use on this site by Jo Ledbetter Chastain [email protected]. 
These pictures belong to Jo but for the exceptions that are noted. 

 

Joseph William Ledbetter (1845-1920)

 

 

 

 

             Joseph was born in  Madison County Georgia, a son of Thomas Joseph  Ledbetter and Mary Sue Nash.  He was the husband of Sarah Elizabeth (Sally) Smith and the father of Henry Harrison Ledbetter and Martha S. Jane Ledbetter McDonald.  He died in Walton County, Georgia and is buried at Chapel Christian Church in Barrow County. 


Joseph Ledbetter served in Troup Artillery, CSA, and was
injured in 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John T. Ledbetter  (1847-1879)

 

John was a son of Thomas Joseph Ledbetter and Mary Sue Nash.  According to Madison County Court records, he was murdered on February 24, 1879, by Jordan Sheats, colored, with a muzzle-    loaded shotgun.   Mr. Sheats was captured 6 months later in
Danville, Virginia, and hanged in Madison, County, Georgia. 

 

 

 

 

 

Henry  Harrison Ledbetter
 

Born August 8, 1866 in Clarke County, Georgia, he was a son of Joseph
William Ledbetter and Sarah Elizabeth Smith. He was husband of Frances
Elizabeth Fuller. He was a farmer and a  notable horse trader;  more
legendary for his love of whiskey. He died in Jackson County on August
21, 1938 and is buried in  the Ledbetter Plot at Chapel  Christian  Church 
in Barrow County, Georgia. He and Frances Fuller were parents of eleven
:

Mollie Ledbetter  1891 -1892

Golden Francis Ledbetter 1893 -1961

Sunie Carolyn Ledbetter 1894-1982

Willie Henry Ledbetter 1896- 1975    

Sally Ruth Ledbetter 1898 -1985  

 Robert Ledbetter 1900 - 1901

Allen Jackson Curtis Ledbetter 1902-1959

 Harold Harrison Ledbetter 1904-1972

 Thomas Velt Ledbetter 1906 - 1963

 Julia Modelle Ledbetter 1908-1991

  James Dock Ledbetter 1910-1974

                                           

 


Mary Jane Martin and Golden Ledbetter

Golden was the son of  Henry Harrison Ledbetter and Frances E. Fuller
and husband of Mary Jane Martin (1896 - 1988). He was born in Oconee
County, Georgia May 29, 1893 and died in Paulding County, GA,  January
8, 1961.   He is buried at Riverview Cemetery , Cobb County, GA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Henry Grady Austin  (1893-1979) and
  Sunie Carolyn Ledbetter  (1894-1982)
 

 

 

Sunie  (pronounced Sooney)  was born in Oconee County, Georgia  July 26, 1894 and died May 21, 1982. She is buried in the Austin Family plot of Chapel Christian Church,  Barrow County, Georgia.


Sunie  was a daughter of Henry Harrison Ledbetter and Frances Elizabeth  Fuller. She was wife of Henry Grady Austin and mother of seven children.

 

 

 

 

                  

 

 

 

 

 

Willie Henry Ledbetter (1896 - 1975)

 

 

Willie was born in Walton County, GA April 11, 1896,
 a son of Henry Harrison  Ledbetter  and  Frances  E.
Fuller.  He  was the husband of Gussie Hayes.  He was a
farmer and a pulpwooder. He died  in Barrow County July
23, 1975 and is buried in  the Ledbetter Plot at Chapel 
Christian  Church  in Barrow County, Georgia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sally Ruth Ledbetter
(May 19, 1898 - 1985)

Daughter of Henry Harrison Ledbetter  and
Frances E. Fuller.  Wife of  William  Henry
( nicknamed Tom )  Brewer, career  police
officer of Winder. Mother of Ralph Brunell
Brewer. Both Ruth and Tom are buried in
Barrow  Memorial Gardens,  Barrow  Co.,
GA 

 

                                                           pictured 1953 or '54                          

                                                              William "Tom" Henry Brewer     

                                                  (1894-1960)

 

 

 

 

Willie H. Ledbetter (1896-1975)

Harold H. Ledbetter (1904-1972)

Photo taken 1918

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julia Modelle Ledbetter 
       (1908-1991)
           and
Grover Cleveland Manus
      (1902-1958)

 

Modelle was born  in Walton County, Georgia on January 13, 1908 and died November 6, 1991.
She was daughter of Henry Harrison Ledbetter and Frances E. Fuller. She was wife of Grover Cleveland Manus and mother of Grover Winfred Manus.
Modelle and Grover are buried at Barrow Memorial Gardens, Barrow County, Ga.

 

 

John G. (Jack) Fuller  
 (c.1825 - 1898)

 

             
               His parents were probably Ezekiel Fuller and Anne _____, both
               born about 1800 in South Carolina. Evidence is still being researched.
               He was the husband of  Nancy Maggie Ruth Bowman and the father
              of Frances E. (Fannie) Fuller. 

               He served in CSA Company G. 42nd Infantry, Georgia and is buried
               in the Ledbetter Plot at Chapel Christian Church in Barrow County,
               Georgia.

              Walton County, Muster roll of Co. G. 42 regiment, Ga. volunteer
               infantry, (Walton Blues) shows:
               Fuller, John G. - private March 4, 1862.  Private.  Wounded,
               necessitating amputation of three fingers on left hand.  Captured at
              Vicksburg, Miss., July 4, 1863 and paroled there July 6, 1863.  Roll
              dated December 11, 1863 last on file, shows him present.  No later
               record.  Born in Ga.

               Film Number M226 roll 22 of Nat. Park Service Civil War Soldiers.

 
      

 

 

Frances Elizabeth (Fannie) Fuller 
           April 1869 - April 26, 1911



Fannie was a daughter of John G. (Jack) Fuller and Nancy Maggie Ruth Bowman.  She was the wife of Henry Harrison Ledbetter and mother of the eleven listed with the picture of Henry Harrison Ledbetter. She was born and died in Walton County, Georgia and is buried  in the Ledbetter Plot of Chapel Christian Church in Barrow County, Georgia.

 

This is the portrait that is propped on the chair in the picture of the Ledbetter home in 1911.

 

 

                                                                                                        

Home of Henry Harrison Ledbetter
The Grieving Household, 1911 in Jackson County
 

Note the portrait propped in chair at right is of his late wife, Frances Elizabeth (Fanny) Fuller Ledbetter.

L-R:  Standing in Wagon:  Sons Golden and Willie H. Ledbetter,  Woman in black is Mary Jane Martin,
wife of Golden. Little girl in white is daughter, Modelle Ledbetter,   women in carriage are neighbor Knox
Austin and daughter Sunie Ledbetter, woman standing right of carriage is mother of Mary Jane Martin, 
behind portrait is the widowed Henry Harrison Ledbetter,  two small  boys in front are sons Harold and
Velt Ledbetter. Absent children are Ruth, 13, Jack,10, and infant J.D.

 

 

Baptism of Henry Harrison Ledbetter 
Jackson County, Georgia 1923

Mr. Ledbetter is in the center, in the pool, in overalls holding a bouquet of flowers.   Preacher Harold
Barber is the man with raised arm. Many family members are present, but only one son, Velt, is identifiable.
     
Story:  Mr. Ledbetter had been  called "the meanest man in the county".  The church hired a photographer for his baptism.

 

 

 

E. Tandy Doster

Nov. 7, 1842 -May 9 1918

Tandy was born in South Carolina, a son of William
James Doster and Sarah M. Roberts.  He  was  the
husband of Elizabeth Jane Phillips and the father of
  Nealia Elizabeth Doster. He died in Jackson County,
GA and is buried there at Doster Family Cemetery. 

 CSA Co. H. 43 Ga. Inf. Regiment Volunteers  

 

This photo was supplied  by Marie Parks and used here with her permission.

 

 

 

Elizabeth Jane (Sis) Phillips 

Jan 19, 1845 - Dec 27, 1919

 
      Elizabeth was born and died in Jackson County, GA.  She was
a daughter of  Robert Thomas Phillips and Nancy Ann Langley, the
wife  of  E. Tandy  Doster  and  the  mother  of  Nealia  Elizabeth
Doster.  She is buried at Doster  Family Cemetery, Jackson Co.,
GA.    
 
 
Birth date discrepancy:    Her grave marker shows her birth date
1840.   Census of 1850 Jackson Co. shows her as 5,  or born in 1845.
Also  death certificate says she was 75., putting her birth  1845.   
She was often a midwife.

 

This photo was supplied by Marie Parks and used here with her permission

 

 

 

 

      

 

                    Nealia Elizabeth Doster 
                   May 2, 1870 - October 25, 1906
                          with 4 year old Gussie

 

 

 

 

      Nealia was a daughter of Elitiah Tandy Doster and Elizabeth Jane
      Phillips.  She was the wife of Thomas Bluford Hayes and the mother
      of Gussie M. Hayes.  She was born and died in Jackson County, GA.
      She is buried in the Doster Cemetery in Jackson County.
 

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

Rebecca Grubbs 
      (1830 - November 13, 1903)          

 

 

Rebecca was a daughter of Thomas and Anne
Grubbs, Cherokees  of  South  Carolina.  She was the third of
five wives of Aaron Hayes and the mother of Thomas Bluford
Hayes. She was born in South Carolina and died Jackson Co. GA. 
Her burial place is unknown but is likely an unmarked grave in
Doster Cemetery, Jackson County, GA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Bluford Hayes
(August 15, 1865 - August 13, 1925)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            

             Tom was the only child of Aaron Hayes and Rebecca Grubbs. Born in Jackson Co., GA and died in Cleveland Co., NC, he was
             a hunter and trapper. He married first Nealia Elizabeth Doster and had children  Emory, Florence, Hoyt and Gussie Hayes. His
             second wife was Lucy Wallace with whom he had children Tomas Jr, Johnny, Lela, Ernest Fred and Beulah Hayes. He is buried in
             the Doster Cemetery in Jackson County. 

 

 

 

 

Gussie M. Hayes  
(November 15, 1901 - March 9, 1967)
 

 

 

 

Gussie was a daughter of Thomas Bluford Hayes and
Nealia Elizabeth Doster.  She was the wife of Willie H.
Ledbetter. She was mother of nine. She was born in Jackson Co., GA and died in Richmond Co., GA. .She is buried  in the Ledbetter Plot at Chapel Christian Church in Barrow County, Georgia    .                              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Florence Hayes  (1890-1955)

 

 

 

 

Florie was a daughter of Thomas Bluford  Hayes and Nealia Elizabeth Doster. She was the wife of William David Roberts. She was born and died in Jackson Co., GA.  She is buried  at  White Plains Baptist Church cemetery in Jackson County.

 

 

 

 

 

                  Hoyt Brogrey Hayes
              (September 10, 1892 - October 29, 1975)

 

Known  as H.  O. Hayes, he  was a  son  of Thomas
Bluford   Hayes  and   Nealia  E.  Doster  and  the
husband  of  Minnie  Lorene  Fields. He  was  born
in Jackson Co., GA and died in Cleveland Co.,  NC. 
He is buried in Cleveland County, North Carolina.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

08/25/2006