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Biographies on-line Upson County Archives page.

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Physician Biographies

Family Biographies included in The Early History of Upson County. These sketches were submitted by family members at the time of original compilation in 1930. (pg 848 - 1025)

Physicians of Upson Co.

 
Contributed by:  "John R. Adams" 
Oscar F. Knox married Susan Kendall Harvey Nov. 30, 1848, a widow with two
children. Susan Kendall had married Michael A. Harvey April 13, 1842. Susan
Kendall is believed to be daughter of Dr. David Kendall.
Dr. Oscar F. Knox practiced in the Hootenville District. He had a student
reading medicine under him in the 1850 Census of Upson Co., Ga. by the name
of Benjamin Ivey Adams. Benjamin Ivey Adams was son of Benjamin and Emily
Ivey Adams of Upson Co., Ga. Dr. Oscar Knox moved to Alabama. Benjamin Ivey
Adams is believed to have moved to Northwestern Ga. and then to Alabama. He
died in Alabama.

Dr. J. C. Chatham practiced in the Hootenville District around 1860. A
married a sister of Benjamin Ivey Adams and relocated. He was wanted for
murder of Hillary H. Howell who married Louvina Webster February 6, 1846 in
Upson Co., Ga.
Dr. Joseph C. Chatham married Lillian Miranda Adams, daughter of Benjamin &
Emily Ivey Adams, February 19, 1860 in Upson Co.,Ga. Dr. J. C. Chatham & L.
Chatham were listed in household of Benjamin Adams in the 1860 Census of
Upson Co., Ga.
The following is from the book "Baldwin Co., Ga. Newspaper Clippings, Vol.
III, 1858-1862" by Tad Evans (1996) "Tuesday, 3 July 1860 Gov. Joseph E.
Brown offered reward of $100 to apprehend & deliver Dr. J. C. Chatham, who
murdered Hillary H. Howell in Upson Co., Ga. and fled from Justice."
Looking for information on Joseph & Lillian Adams Chatham.
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EVANS - COLLIER - NASH - WADDELL
From: "M. Daniels" 

Source:  "Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907" State of AL Dept
of Archives and History, compiled by Thomas M. Owen, L.L, D. Director, Brown
Publishing Co, Montgomery, AL, 1907

p. 48

Sketches of Circuit Court Judges

AURELIUS AUGUSTUS EVANS, of Clayton, Barbour county was born December 24,
1862, near Seale, Russell county and is the son of John Quincy and France
Elizabeth (Collier) Evans, and the grandson of John Evans and of Vines and
Sarah Collier.  The Collier family came to Upson county, GA from Virginia.
John Q. Evans was born in Edgefield District, SC, came to GA, and lived in
Greene and Monroe counties until the winter of 1859 when he moved to Russell
county, Ala., where he lived until his death in 1883.  Judge Evans was
educated in the common schools of Russell county, and at the University of
Alabama, from where he graduated in 1885, with the A.B. degree; received the
honorary degree of master of arts in 1888 from the same institution; taught
school for four years immediately following his graduation, reading law in
the meantime; was admitted to the bar on November 1, 1889, after an
examination in open court by Chancellor John A. Foster, and has since
practiced in Clayton for several years; mayor of the same place 1896-98;
elected judge of the third judicial circuit in 1898, and re-elected in 1904.
He is a Democrat, and has served as a member of hi county executive
committee, of the State conventions of his party, and of the Democratic
national convention of 1904.  He is a member of the Methodist church; and a
Mason.  On December 27, 1888 at Opelika. Ala, he was married to Celeste
Victoria, daughter of Judge George H. and Celeste Roberta Waddell of
Crawford, Russell county.  Judge Waddell was at on time Probate Judge of
Russell County and was killed at Columbus, Ga., while the Federal troops
were occupying that city in 1865.  Mrs. Evans is the
great-great-granddaughter of Gen. Francis Nash, a Revolutionary patriot from
North Carolina, and she is a cousin of the late James Iredell Waddell,
commander of the Shenandoah during the War of Secession.

PITTS
Sondra Lee" 
To: "Crilley" 
Subject: Re: Fw: [GAUPSON-L] Poor School List
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 07:12:57 -0600
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Than you for the reply I have been researching on this Pitts line for a long
time and have made two trips to the Thomaston Archives and I am planing
another trip in a couple of months. I have searched the 1850 Census of Upson
County but I understand one district was missed by the census taker and it
was the 537 District where the Pitts lived. I have not found any record of
them in the 1870 census, in the 1880 Census two of the girls are living in
Upson County married and my Grandfather( Pink Pitts) is living in Upson
County  with a Hix Family as a servant.  John Pitts is living in Russell
County Alabama with his wife Lucy in the 1870 Census. Matthew is in Talbot
County living with his wife Francis(Fannie)and daughter in the 1880 Census
next door to Matthew is Stanmore Butler Pitts Jr and his Family. I have been
trying to tie them to this family which is one of Martin and Elizabeth's
grandchildren but no proof yet.Thank you for the information .
I live in Birmingham, Alabama about 4 hours to Thomaston.

Thanks again
Bill Lee

Biographies

Vickie Davis [email protected]

Jessie Lee Harrison

Jessie Lee Harrison
Father: William Washington Harrison
Born: 3 April, 1836, Georgia 
Died: 22 July, 1862, Barnesville, Upson Co. Georgia
Mother: Sylvia Angetine Childs born: abt 15 May, 1938 Georgia died aft. 1880
Married: 22 February, 1855 Pike Co. Georgia
Jessie was the fourth child of William and Sylvia. William enlisted in the Civil War in March 4, 1862 and died of disease on July 22, 1862 in Barnesville, Upson Co. Georgia. William was a member of the Company A-46th Regiment of Upson Co. Georgia. William was in the military only four months before becoming sick and passing away like so many of the soldiers in the Civil War. Jessie, my grandfather was two-years-old at the time of his fathers death. Sylvia was a young mother with three children to care for.

In the poor school records of Upson co. Georgia is listed: 

Child						Mother
Harrison, Fannie C.				Widow Harrison  	1864
Harrison, John					Sylvia Bailey }
Harrison, Fannie				Sylvia Bailey } 	1868

Sylvia remarried to George Tillman Bailey, more about Sylvia and George later.

William maybe buried in Barnesville, Upson Co. Georgia or he maybe buried close to his mother on Logtown Rd. near Yatesville, Upson Co. Georgia close to his mother Lucinda (Smith) Harrison on the land his father Isham Harrison owned.

William Washington Harrison Sylvia Angetine (Childs) Harrison

Children:
1. Frances H. Harrison b. 26 Sept. 1856 Pike co. Georgia
2. Lucinda C. Harrison b. 4 May 1857 Pike co. Georgia d. 21 Sept. 1858
3. John Thomas Jefferson Harrison b. 29 February 1859 Pike Co. Georgia d. aft. 1930
Married: Sarah E. F. Pilkinton, abt 1879 according to 1900 census of Flint co. Georgia
4. Jessie L. Harrison b. 30 June 1860 Pike Co. Georgia d. 9 Dec. 1934 Paducah, Cottle co. Texas (my great-grandfather)
5. William Daniel Harrison b.20 Dec. 1861 Pike Co. Georgia Sylvia and George Tillman Bailey married about 1865 and listed in 1880 census, District 505
Children:
1. Levisa Elizabeth Bailey b.20 Sept. 1867 Pike co. Georgia
2. William Columbus Bailey b. 7 March 1870 Pike co. Georgia
3. Drew "Drury" M. Bailey b.4 Apr. 1872 Pike co. Georgia
4. Janie C. Bailey b. 26 Jan 1874 Pike co. Georgia
5. Carrie Dicy Bailey b.30 Jan. 1876 Pike co. Georgia
No record of Sylvia after 1876.

In 1880 Jessie lived with the family of Jeff Cariker in Pike co. Georgia. On the 24th of Nov 1881 Jessie married Janie Lovice Moore.

Source: Copy of Marriage of Pike Co. Georgia page 390, Georgia Department of Archives Pike Co. Georgia census 1880 District 581 pages 151C-167D

Janie is the child of Merzilla Moore "widow" living in Pike co. Georgia in 1880. Merzilla came to Texas with Jessie and Janie about 1890. In the 1900 census it states that Janie was the mother of 9 children and 7 of these children were still alive, with Merzilla listed as mother.

	Sources: 1900 census of Panola Co. Texas, J-Pct 2, Series T623, Roll 1663, Page 92
		  1910 census of Quinlan, Hunt Co. Texas
		  1920 census of Van Zandt Co. Texas J-Pct 3
		  1930 census of Collinsworth Co. Texas

By 1910 Jessie and Janie had two more children, Robert and Ocie, at this time Jessie and Janie had 9 living children. Jessie and Janie moved from Panola co. to Van Zandt co. between 1900 and 1920. Janie died in 1924 in Van Zandt co. and is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Kaufman co. Cedar Grove was a small town close to the Van Zandt and Kaufman county line. This town in no longer there but the cemetery is. My grandmother Tommie A. (Phelps) Harrison said the first time she met Jessie he was wearing Six Shooters with Pearl handles.

Jessie moved to Ranger Texas and brought a farm and had a store there. He sold the land and store before moving to Collinsworth co. Texas. It appears Jessie may have married a second time in Collinsworth Co. Texas, according to the 1930 census in Collinsworth Co. Texas; Jessie L. Harrison married to a Lilla with stepchildren living with them by the last name of Scapher. I believe this is our Jessie L. Harrison and the birth year and age or the same. Jessie Cleve Harrison, Jessie's son was living in Collinsworth Co. Texas in 1930 as well. It is rumored that Jessie did remarry about this time but the family could not remember the name of his wife. They were not together very long, as Jessie moved to Paducah in 1933 with only his children.

My grandmother stated the Jessie would come to visit them and stay for a few hours or a day or two, and then leave without saying good-bye. The children of Jessie found this to be the way he was and accepted his ways.

Jessie left Collinsworth Co. in around 1933 and moved to Paducah, Cottle Co. Texas along with daughters Daisy and Letty Mae and son William Herman "Bill". In Paducah, Bill brought land and this land is still owned by his family today in 2004.The Harrison family has owned land in Cottle County for seventy one years. It is believed that Jessie died of a heart attack he died in Dec 1934 and is buried in Paducah, Cottle Co. Texas along with some of his children and grandchildren.

Children:
1. Daisy Harrison b. 30 may 1886 Georgia d. 24 June1970 Lodi California Married: Thomas J. Truelock (1881-1964) 9 Dec 1902 Carthage, Panola Co. Texas
2. Letty Mae Harrison b. Dec 1887 Georgia d. 24 Apr 1975 Paducah , Cottle Co. Texas Married: Sidney Truelock (1881-1968) 28 July 1902 Panola Co. Texas
3. Carrie Elizabeth Harrison b. 29 Nov. 1888 Georgia d. 30 April 1932 Kaufman Co. Texas Married: Landa Jenavia "Land" Ashby (1886-1959) in Texas
4. Lerma "Lamar" Harrison b. Apr 1891 Georgia? Place of birth based on 1900 census Panola Co. Texas
5. Jessie Cleave "Cleveland" Harrison 19 Nov. 1892 Texas d. 28 Feb 1960 Farwell, New Mexico, buried Morton, Cochran cemetery, Cochran co. Texas Married: Hattie Eva Lucas (1899-1994) 11 Aug. 1913 Wills Point, Van Zandt co. Texas
6. William Herman "Bill" Harrison b. 20 March 1895 Wills Point, Van Zandt Co.Texas d. 1 March 1968 Paducah, Cottle Co. Texas Married: Mildred Vernon "Mollie" Williams b. 22 Jan. 1904, Oklahoma 25 Jan. 1924, Wills Point, Van Zandt co. Texas
7. Claud Jefferson "Claudie" Harrison b. 12 April, 1898 Texas d. 1 Jan 1954 Phoenix AR. Married: Beulah Moore ( - ) 1 Feb. 1919 Van Zandt Co. Texas
8. Robert Lee Harrison b. 1904 Panola Co. Texas d. 18 June 1979 Morton, Cochran Co. Texas Mary Louise Jamison ( - ) 31 Oct. 1924 Van Zandt Co. Texas
9. Ocie Lee Harrison b. 21 Jan 1905 Carthage, Panola Co. Texas d. 30 Dec 1980 Lubbock, Lubbock co. Texas buried in Quitaque, Briscoe Co. Texas Married: Tommie Addie Phelps (1910-1999) 6 Aug.1925 Ninnekah, Grady Co. Oklahoma
Ocie Lee Harrison named after his father Jessie Lee Harrison, is my grandfather. Ocie and Tommie (Phelps) Harrison were married in Oklahoma. The day after they were married, they left Ninnekah and went to Van Zandt co. to pick cotton.

Ocie and Tommie had eleven children, five of these children died as infants.


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