Pioneer Families of Elim Baptist Church (Ludowici, Georgia)

This list was taken from the Elim Baptist Church (Ludowici--formerly Johnson Station, Long County--formerly Liberty County, GA) website: www.elimbc.com

Pioneer Families

Information was derived from Elim Cemetery records, census records, Liberty County Marriage Records and family histories. "Pioneer families" listed are families with at least one person born prior to 1860, who were members of the church, and/or families related or closely associated to known members of the early Elim Baptist Church living within the Elim, Rye Patch, Johnsons Station (Ludowici), Walthourville, and Jones Creek communities. This list may not be all inclusive of the pioneer families who were closely associated or related to members of the church.

Andrews,

Edward Quarterman (1800-1880) & Margaret Beasley (1805-1881) m. 2-29-1822

Andrews,

Heartwell S. (1832-1900’s) & Catharine Ashmore (1842-1919) m. 12-1-1859

** Atkinson,

William Dawkins (1818-1879) & Elizabeth Jane Loyall (1814-1864) m.

Baggs

, William (1794-1844) & Charity Hope (1798-1885), m. 4-10-1821

Baggs, Sr.

Archibald (1760-1840) & Hannah Esther Dennison (1773-1841) m. 1790

Baxter,

Redden Gentry (1847-1929) & Julia Ann Gany (1848-1910) m. 1867

Beasley,

Joshua Edward (1842-1892) & Sarah S. McGowan (1847-1900) m. 8-30-1869

** Blount

, Rev. George A. (1846-1925) & Emma Ingram (1846-1935), m. 2-9-1871

** Bennett,

Rev. William Braxton (1842-1932) & Lavinia C. Street (1844-1935) m. 5-6-1865

Brewer,

James (1793-1853) & Delilah Simmons (1800–1880’s) m. unk

Brewer

, James Hendley (1844- ) & Maryann Martha Anderson (1847- ) m. 9-16-1869

Brewer,

Jesse (1829-1907) & Georgia Ann (1830- ) m. unk

Brewer

, Jesse Cling (1854- ) & Mary L. Branson ( ) m. 1-11-1878

* Brewer,

William B. (1818-1890) & Catherine Parker (1821-1893) m. 5-7-1840

Brewer

, William Hampton (1850-1931) & Lelia Middleton (1863-1925) m. 1880

** Brinson,

Isaac J. (1827-1867) & Rebecca (1826-1876) m.

** Butler

, William T. E. (1837- ) & Sarah E. (1842- ) m.

Clark,

Nicholas J. (1812-1850’s) & Caroline Hodges (1827-1902) m. 12-17-1845

Clark,

William N. (1852-1916) & Catherine Brunetta Wheeler (1856-1901) m. 12-7-1876

** Daniell

, David Gornto (1808-1884) & Mary J. Bettison (about 1795-1881) m. 7-23-1829

Darsey

, William Baillee (1800-1866) & Naomi Smart (1779-1850) m. 10-13-1824

** Darsey,

William Oscar (1840-1913) & Ann America "Mackey" Miller (1846-1915) m. 1865

Delk,

John (1812-1896) & Jane Hodges (1814-1887) m. 3-6-1834

DeLoach, Jr.

Hardy (1758-1828) & Mary Elizabeth Ross (1762-1830) m. 1782

DeLoach, Sr.

Hardy (1735-1820) & Elizabeth Hart (1738-1800) m. 1757

Devereaux,

Karon (1815-1860’s) & Delilah Lily Johns (1844-1901) m. 1-1-1844

Devereaux,

John Z. (1849-1918) & Narcissa Adella (Andrews) Shaw (1847-1916) m. unk

Devereaux,

Patrick B. (1847-1920) & Amanda E. Gany (1850-1926) m. 1-12-1868

Devereaux,

James M. (1851-1909)

Devereaux,

Owen C. (1853-1923) & Laura A. Butler (1859-1935) m. 1883

Dreggors

, Daniel W. (1836-1878) & Laura C. McGowan (1844-1910)

Dunham

, William B. (1852- ) & Sarah Jane Hodges (1849-1916) m. 1875

Easterling

, Joel (1823- ) & Sarah A. Shaw (1823- ) m. 2-10-1853

* Foster

, Doctrine Hampton (1831- ) & Sarah Smith (1832-1912) m. 9-20-1854

Foster

, John H. (1795- ) & Margaret A. Reddish (1820- ) m. 12-29-1840

Foster

, John R. (1850- ) & Sarah J. Lang (1849-) m. 1880

Gaskin

, Manly J. (1855-1894) & Lilava W. Lee (1868-1941) m. unk

Gordon

, Artemus (1830-1895) & Nancy Brewer (1833-after 1900) m. 6-9-1853

Groover,

Charles A. (1829-1873) & Rebecca Robinson (1835-1887) m. 8-13-1851

Herbert

, Richard Michael (1817- ) & Jane Brewer (1827- ), m. 19 Jan 1843

*** Herbert

, George Richard (1857-1922) & Mary L. C. Gordon (1854-1916) m. 12-27-1876

*

+ Hodges, Elias Robert (1820-1901) & Eleanor Smith (1825-1889) m. 1-12-1843

+ Hodges

, William Elias (1852-1873) & Nicey Elinor Stewart (1848-1912) m. 1-2-1873

Hodges

, James Luther (1856-1926) & Martha Corrine Wheeler (1857-1926) m. 7-8-1875

Hodges

, John Gideon (1854-1923) & Sarah Eugenia Wheeler (1859-1951) m. 2-10-1876

Holland,

James ( ) & Laura Frances Brewer (1858- ) m. unk

Hope

, William (1770-1850) & 1^{st wife Sealia Wright (1770-1820) m. 1793}

& 2nd wife Bathsheba Davis (1803- ) m. 5-22-1822

Hope,

Jeff ( ) & Louise Delilah Brewer (1842-1919) m. unk

Horne

, Hendley Foxworth (1814-1899) & Susan Parker (1816-1844) m. 10-2-1832

*

Howard, John Hall (1824-1878) & Sarah Ann Brewer (1835-1909) m. 4-7-1853

Howard

, James Richard (1854-1922) & Rebecca Jane Wheeler (1861-1918) m. 4-6-1881

Howard

, James Solomon (1857-1911) & Emmaline Smart (1852-1909) m. 11-3-1878

Howard

, John Archibald (1858-1939) & Miriam E. Zorn (1859-1939) m. 1-10-1874

Howard,

John (1798- ) & Rachel DeLoach (1795-1855) m. unk

Howard

, William Henry (1856-1936) & Susan Jane Baggs (1864-1953) m. 1-21-1885

Keaton

, Kader Lawson (1826-1902) & Julia Anna Shaw (1827-1897/98) m. 1-9-1847

Keaton

, Henry Clay (1849-1913) & Martha Jane Flowers (1851-1915) m. 1873

Lee

, Thomas Benjamin (1833-1913) & Caroline (Hodges) Clark(1827-1902) m.5-27-1860

Maulden

, Andrew Fraser (1822-1913) & Mary Jane Dreggors (1833-1917) m.10-15-1857

Maulden,

William Washington (1858-1925) & Julia Ester Gordon (1859- ) m. 2-7-1878

McGowan

, Gideon Alonzo (1814-1856) & *Nancy Smith (1818-1894) m. unk

McGowan

, John (1802- ) & Sarah Middleton (1805- ) m. 1-4-1819

McGowan

, Joseph Edward (1851-1907) & C. Pauline Parker (1848-1902) m.12-13-1871

McVeigh,

James ( ) & Mary Brewer (1825-1854) m. 4-2-1844

Middleton

, Richard Benjamin (1830-1897) & Mary Emily McGowan (1841-1905) m.10-20-1857

Middleton

, William (1801-1871) & Elizabeth Ryals (1808-1889) m. 1821

Miller,

Elbert (1833-1863) & Susan Catherine Floyd (1837-1901) m. 4-3-1859

Miller,

Edward Payson (1840-1910) & Melissa Edwards (1846- ) m. unk

Mobley

, Hendley Washington (1854-1929) & Harriet Elizabeth Foster (1861-1927) m. unk

Mobley

, Albert (1830-1864) & Cynthia Scott (1835-1905) m. 8-22-1850

Murray, Jr.

Jehu Jackson Styles (1831-1882) & Amanda Fullwood (1835-1869) m.7-1-1853

Murray

, Francis M. (1859-1941) & Lee Hampton Foster (1865-1935) m. 1880

** Norris

, John Gordon (1842- ) & Sarah "Sallie" E. (1850- ) m. 1876

** Parker, Jr.

William Hall (1811-1887) & Sarah Jane Carter (1814-1900) m. about 1833

Parker

, George Washington (1814-1869) & Arsenath Sena Baxter (1825-1864) m.12-15-1840

Pinholster,

David E. (1797-1852) & Lubedia Maulden (1812- ) m. 4-29-1829

Pinholster,

John E. (1834-1862) & Amanda Maulden (1839-1870) m. unk

** Price, Jr.

Reverend Lewis (1828-1894) & Susan F. Geiger (1840-1890) m. 12-23-1858

Ray

, Elias Still (1832-1906) & 3rd wife Eliza Gertrude Sanders (1853-1882) m. unk

*

+ Shaw, John (1796-1860’s) & Sarah Ann Harnage (1809-1883) m. unk

Shaw

, George Washington (1838-1874/5) & Narcissa Adella Andrews (1847-1916) m.1-7- 1868

Shaw

, Jeremiah Landrum/Lamar (1832-1898) & Mary Abelle Smart (1845-1911)

Sheppard

, Edmond Jackson (1815-before 1870) & Mary Martin-Dreggors (1822-1890) m. 4-9-1844

Simmons,

Isaiah (1849-1925) & Elenor Florilla Wheeler (1847-1929) m. 12-17-1869

Sloan

, John R, (1843- ) & Nancy Elizabeth Sophronia Hodges (1845-1919) m. unk

Smith

, James Madison (1823-1893) & Mary Louisa Baggs (1822-1897) m. 12-16-1847

Smith

, William Baxter (1815-1856) & Mary Ann Hodges (1818- ), m. 12-21-1837

Smith, Jr.

William (1789-1867) & Mary Ann Baxter (1790-1856) m. 8-10-1810

Stewart

, William Frederick (1848-1935) & Martha Ann Hodges (1843-1918) m. unk

Tidwell

, John J. (1839-1898) & Jane L. Devereaux (1846-1925) m. unk

++ Way

, John E. (1832-1922) & Margaret Robinson Fennel (1834-1913) m. 6-11-1852

Way, Jr.

John (1790-1850’s) & *Sarah Ann DeLoach (1806-1880’s) m. 8-19-1828

Way

, William Fleming (1844-1924) & MaryAnn Holland Zorn (1853-1940) m. 1870

Way,

William Byron (1858-1934) & Alice Theodora Devereaux (1860-1955) m. 5-16-1880

Wells

, Evan (1827-1902) & Georgia Ann Price (1834- ) m. 3-13-1851

Wells,

William S. (1855-1904) & Mary D. Devereaux (1856-1934) m. 1856

Wheeler

, Capers B. (1855-1890) & Alice C. McGowan (1854-1900’s) m. 7-19-1877

Wheeler

, Henry John Ripley (1822-1881) & *Zilpha Brewer (1822-1896) m. 9-12-1844

Wheeler,

Rev. Jacob (1808-bef 1870) & Mary (1816- ) m. unk

Wheeler

, James Ferman (1836- ) & Harriet Amanda Hodges (1848-1882) m. unk

*

Wheeler, Robert John (1780-1874) & Catherine P. Bacon (1781-1879) m. 6-12-1806

Wheeler

, Thomas B. (1816-1893) & Sarah A. (1829-1896) m. unk

Wheeler

, Edmond Bacon (1854-1943) & Emily Elizabeth Flowers (1861-1941) m. 2-17-1881

Yarbrough

, Elijah (1853-1935) & Mary C. (1853-1927) m. 1872

Yarbrough

, Needom M. (1812-1895) & Rebecca (1822-1904) m. unk

Zorn

, Daniel W. (1856-1929) & Sara Ursula Long (1867-1945) m. 11-27-1884

++ Zorn

, James Daniel (1835- ) & Mary Jane Surrency (1838-1913) m. 2-27-1859

Zorn

, William Thomas (1826-1906) & Nancy Dubberly (1830-1910) m. 10-28-1852

++ Zorn

, William Washington (1824-1900) & Emiline A. Shaw (1834-1870’s) m. 8-10-1865

2nd wife Mary Elizabeth Darsey (1854-1898) m. 12-24-1872

* Charter Members of Elim Baptist Church organized in 1857

** Pastors of Elim Baptist Church

*** Clerks of Elim Baptist Church

+ Deacons of Elim Baptist Church

++ Served both as Clerk and Deacon of Elim Baptist Church

 

         

James Lawrence McVEIGH (1858-1924) Pension Applications 1895 and 1897

James Lawrence McVeigh's 1895 Pension Application 1895
Transcribed by Teresa McVeigh

May 6, 1895: Power of Attorney signed, Hinesville, Liberty Co., GA, assigning POA to W.A. Wright of Atlanta, GA to receive pension and remit it to James McVeigh by Registered Letter in Hinesville, Liberty, Co, GA. Wit. Lewis Ashmore and J. Soleman Ashmore.
Questions for Applicant:

Resides in Liberty Co, P.O. Hinesville, GA and resided there Jan. 1, 1884. Resident of GA about 59 years. [Since c. 1836]. Born in Ireland in 1819./

Volunteered for the Confederate forces. Enlisted 1861 in Savannah in Co. I, 25th VA Regiment and remained in it about 16 months then "discharged in onsequence of physical disability." Was discharged "Dec 1862 on the Altamah River on account of physical disability to wit: rupture."

Present occupation: nothing with no income.

Occupation: teaching school.

Pension sum necessary for year: "about 100 dollars."

Condition: " I am physically unable to perform any labor, and have been partially so for several years." Base application upon "age, infirmity and poverty." Unable to earn living several years. No property or income. "I had a home in 1893. Sold it and used the proceeds."

Resided in Liberty Co. 1893-4 and no taxes except the home. Supported by his sons 1893-4, it cost about 100 dollars per year, and he contributed nothing, was not employed and had no pay. His wife is dead and he has 6 children (1 female and 5 males) "aged respectively 15, 17, 20, 23, 40, and 45. Their means of support is by their own Labor."
Wit.: J. Sloeman Ashmore, Ordinary/

Questions for Witness:

Jesse Brewer, resides near Hinesville in Liberty Co., GA, and has known James McVeigh over 50 years. James "resides near Jesup, GA part of the time, but perhaps no regular home. He served in the Confederate Army, in the same Regiment with myself, but not in the same Company. He enlisted in August, 1861 in the Altamaha Scout. Afterwards connected with the 25th GA Regiment....He served probably over twelve monhts, and was discharged on account of physical disability. I do not know of him having any property, effects, or income. [In 1893-4 he probably had] a horse, which he probably disposed of because he now travels on foot. His occupation has been teaching school, but he is physically and mentally incapacitated for any business, being probably about seventy-seven years of age." He is unable to support himself "on account of age and infirmity." He was supported in 1893-4 "I suppose by living among his friends & relatives" and is "unable to earn his support by labor of any kind." 6 May 1895 (Witness cut off bottom)

Affidavit of Physicians:
Alfred S. Hendry and T.S. Layton, physicians in Liberty Co, examined James McVeigh and found:

"He is suffering from [irreversible?] inguinal hernia and is physically unable from extreme old age and disease to perform any manual labor whatsoever" to support himself.

2 May 1985 Wit: J. Sloeman Ashmore.

Ordinary's Certificate:

[J. Soleman?] Johnson of Liberty Co. certifies James McVeigh is a resident of Liberty Co., Jesse Brewer and he are of good character, and oaths were sworn on the affidavits. Also there was nothing in the tax digests for Liberty Co./ 6 May 1995. Wit: J. Sloeman Ashmore
                                                                                                         
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1897 Pension Application, abstracted by Teresa McVeigh

Power of Attorney:

Wayne Co, GA, A.J. McVeigh, Guardian, authorizes Hon. J.M. Terrell of Atlanta, GA to receive the pension check and remit it to John Massey, Ordinary, Jesup, GA. 16 Feb, 1897.

Wit. John E. Bennett (?) and John Massey
Affidavit:

Wayne Co., GA, A.J. McVeigh, guardian for James McVeigh, resident of Wayne Co., has resided in GA since 1 April, 1844 and is 78 years old, by occupation school teacher, and enlisted in military service during the war between the states , served three years in Co. I, 25th Regiment of Georgia Volunteers. Old age and body diseased: 1st ruptured very badly, 2nd Rheumatism. Owns nothing in the world except this pension which was allowed in Liberty Co. in 1896.

16 Feb. 1897, Wit: John Massey, Ordinary, who attests to his validity.