BARBOUR COUNTY, ALABAMA:
--Espy.
--Hales, Jonathan to Halesburg (1870)
--Stevenson, Council and Andrew
--Zorn, Capt. Dennis Harrison and wife, Nancy Caroline
Zorn (first cousins) to Zornville (1883)
Zorn, Nancy Caroline
Zorn and her husband, Capt. Dennis Harrison
Zorn (first cousins) (1883)
--Matt Griffin post-War Between the States to Camp Springs
BARNWELL COUNTY,
SOUTH CAROLINA--Parker from
Barnwell District,
SOUTH CAROLINA--Zorn from
Barnwell District,
SOUTH CAROLINA to Lodi,
Henry County and area was later in
BARBOUR COUNTY,
Alabama after
the latter's creation. After the WBTS, On branch to South
Henry County, one to Geneva County,
Alabama and the rest
remained at Lodi (Zornville),
Alabama in
BARBOUR COUNTY.
--James & Winefred Givens. James is found in
Barnwell District, SC in 1830 and Macon Co., GA in 1840.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY,
NORTH CAROLINA--Thomas Griffin and wife, Nancy Stewart, moved to
Henry County from
CUMBERLAND COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA abt. 1838. Their children Bryant, Duncan, Margaret, Alexander, James and Dempsey were born in
NORTH CAROLINA and were young children when Thomas and Nancy moved. --Thomas GRIFFIN and wife Nancy Stewart moved to Henry Co.AL about 1838. Their farm was located in north Henry Co. (very close to the Barbour Co. line). They settled near Lawrenceville. Thomas died in July of 1863, Nancy followed 2 years later on 2 Feb 1865, their burial place is unknown. Their children were:
--Bryant m: Elizabeth McLEANDON, 14 Nov 1854
--Duncan m: Mary Suzannah Wilson COOK/COOKE, 22 Nov 1849 (moved to LA, c: 1856-58, re-married)
--Margaret m: William WARD, 10 May 1854
--Alexander m: Ansley HOLMES, 2 Nov 1859 (died 1862, Richmond VA)
--James m: ? (died 1863, from wounds in the Civil War, leg amputation, blood poising)
--Dempsey m: Eliza Jane CLENNY 28 April 1859
--Thomas C. Jr. m: Mary Jane PHILLIPS, 25 Dec 1860
--Daniel m: Martha Ann WRIGHT 5 Jan 1872
--John m: Margaret SINGLETARY 27 Aug 1879
--Catherine m: Samuel TOLBIRD, 16 Dec 1879 (W. Monroe LA)
--Nancy m: Allen WALTERS, (W. Monroe LA)
--Sarah m: W.J. BROWN
--Mary m: George L. LEWIS, 12 Dec 1869
--Daniel G. Monroe and wife Sophia came to
Henry County in the early 1830's from
CUMBERLAND COUNTY,
NORTH CAROLINA.
--Michael DeVane King via Baker Co., Georgia m. Arrenia Wall (ca. 1835) In Baker County by 1830.
--Joseph King (ca. 1830) married Rebecca Harvey in
Henry County April, 1830. Joseph died soon after this marriage and Rebecca married Howell Chitty in January 1836. Harvey's in original politics in
Henry County, Benjamin Harvey first member of the
Alabama House of Representatives 1822-died in office cira 1824. Howell Chitty was a planter whose plantation house was one of the "grand ladies" of the South and stripped by the carpetbaggers during Reconstruction Era for taxes. Plantation was adjacent to Laymon's Store, the first post office in
Henry County on the Franklin to
Columbia Road or River Road. Ruins of Citty Plantation House stood until the 1970s near the old Hayes Store. He was a neighbor to the wealthy planter James Bennett.
--Sarah King McGriff (ca. 1834), wife of Richard McGriff of
Columbia November 1834, an innkeeper in that port city. Columbia was known as the "Gem City of the Chattahoochee, Fort Gaines-Queen City." The couple became one of if not the most wealthy and influential couple and family in Old Columbia-offspring the Oakley Family that literally owened
Columbia in the late 19th Century/early 20th Century.
--Elizabeth Ann King Cawthon (ca. 1835) married Andrew J. Cawthorn. Cawthorn and Dick Knight, believed to be the first settler of
Columbia, grazed cattle from south of Eufaula to the Gulf of Mexico with the Choctawhatchee and Chattahoochee Rivers. He first settled one mile north of Dothan giving that place its first name: "Cawthorn's Cowpen's", later Popular Head, then Dothen and in 1885 Dothan.
--Mary Ann King married William Armstrong and moved to
Henry County about 1832-33. The first child to be born in
Alabama was Andrew
Jackson Armstrong, a Captain in Company I, 46th
Alabama Infantry during the War for Southern Independence (1861-1865).
--Ezakial Moore King married Mary Ann Bucuchanan; Barbara King married Malcom James
Buie in
NORTH CAROLINA and remaind there. Henry James King married Francis Caroline Bryan in
NORTH CAROLINA and then moved to
SOUTH CAROLINA.
DEEP STEP,
GEORGIA--Hall, William Reuben (1845)
EARLY COUNTY,
GEORGIA--Brown Emma, wife of Seabron
Jackson Elliott-moved to Bascom, Smith County Texas
--Richard C. Spann after an active political and civic life in Early County moved to Franklin,
Henry County,
Alabama.
--Enoch William & Mary
Johnson Godfrey (ca. 1855) via Marlboro County,
SOUTH CAROLINA--Hannah Jane
Godfrey married John W. Whitehead in
Henry County February 4, 1858
--James H. Godfrey (ca. 1855) via Marlboro County,
SOUTH CAROLINA--Enoch Andrew
Godfrey married Alice King in
Henry County February 2, 1891
--Peter
Johnson Godfrey married Caroline M. King in
Henry County August 27, 1865
--John Burl
Godfrey married Ella J. Thompson in
Henry County September 23, 1874
--Anne Elizabeth
Godfrey (ca. 1855 via Marlboro County,
SOUTH CAROLINAEDGEFIELD DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA:
--Kirkland, Hugh and wife Mary Ann Circa 1835
--Spann
GADSDEN COUNTY,
FLORIDA--The Barber family and Lynn family came from Gadsden County,
FLORIDA and moved back and forth between
Henry County,
Alabama, Gadsden County,
FLORIDA and Decatur County,
GEORGIA.
--John William & Mary McKenzie
Buie (ca.1855)
--James Alexander
Buie--Caroline
Buie King
--William Wallis
Buie--Malcom Royal
Buie later moved to Smith County, Texas
--Mary Francis
Buie Day
--Daniel Calvin
Buie--Archibald & Ephema (Effie) Wiggins
BuieGEORGIA
--J. Otho Appling and wife Amanda Teague
HOUSTON COUNTY,
GEORGIAThe DARLING
Johnson family moved into
Henry County,
Alabama in late 1840.
JOHNSON COUNTY,
GEORGIA--Barnes, Clyde Rebecca, widow of John or Johsua Dukes (1879)
--Barnes, Joshua Franklin, Sr. and wife Pernellia "Penny" Penuel (1879)
--Barnes, Kate, Aunt Katie, sister to J. F. Barnes, Sr. (1879)
--Penuel, Penny, wife of Jousua Franklin Barnes (1879)
KERSHAW COUNTY,
SOUTH CAROLINA--Tiller, William, Jr. (son of William Tiller and Chasity Kirkland) with wife, Ann Alexander (sister of James Alexander) moved
from Tillerville/Tiller's,
SOUTH CAROLINA settled in Center Community,
Henry County. Descendants in Hartford,
Alabama and
Washington County,
FLORIDAMACON COUNTY,
GEORGIA--James & Winefred Givens. James is found in
Barnwell District, SC in 1830 and Macon Co., GA in 1840.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
FLORIDA--Levi Whitehurst who lived in
Henry County,
Alabama and died 1853 in
BARBOUR COUNTY, Alabama:came from Jackson County,
FLORIDA and before that from Montgomery County,
GEORGIANORTH CAROLINA--Thomas C. Griffin and wife Nancy Stewart (13 children)
RANDOLPH/CLAY COUNTY, GEORGIA:
--Beard, Francis B. (Franklin) Beard married Mary Ann --Strongman 1860-Stewart County
--Carter
--Davis, Albert Simon, and wife, Elizabeth Hobbs (Circa 1855)
--Davis, Permelia, daughter of
Toliver Davis (circa 1855)
--Davis, Sarah Melvinia Daughter
Toliver Davis (Circa 1855)
--Davis, Thomas Henry, son of
Toliver Davis (Circa 1855)
--Davis,
Toliver and wife, Elizabeth Hobbs (Circa 1855)
--Day, Henry and Bethany (Circa 1855)
--Christopher Dyess
--Elliott, Elbert and wife Elizabeth Stanford and family-1855
--Elliott, Ira and wife Nancy and family--1855
--Elliott, James and wife, Mahala Coker and family -1855
--Elliott,
Davis Andrew
Jackson and wife Mary Ann Jones and family--1859
--Glover, John Pinkston
--Brockman W. Henderson, Justice of the Peace
--Hobbs, Elizabeth, wife of A. S. Davis and daughter of (Circa 1855)
--William Jones
--Jones, Mary Ann, wife of
Davis Andrew
Jackson Elliott (1859)
--Pearce, Theopolious, Minister of the Gospel, returned to
Stewart County, Ga.
--Zachariah Renfroe
--Stanton, Elizabeth, wife of Elbert
Elliott (circa 1855)
--Watson
--The Hasty family worked their way down to
Henry County like this:
Scotland, Virginia,
SOUTH CAROLINA,
GEORGIA and into
Henry County,
AlabamaROBERTSON COUNTY,
NORTH CAROLINA--Sion Alford and wife, Clarkly McTyer
SAMPSON COUNTY,
SOUTH CAROLINA--John D. Faircloth and wife Catherine Hair (Hare) moved with 6 children from Sampson Count,
NORTH CAROLINA through Sumpter County,
SOUTH CAROLINA to
Henry County,
Alabama between 1816-1820.
Stewart County,
GEORGIA--Lomineck from
Stewart County,
GEORGIA (originally from Dutch Fork area of SC)
--Worrell from
Stewart County,
GEORGIA--Lee Reeves Miller and wife Martha Smith came from Washington County,
GEORGIA by way of
Stewart County,
GEORGIA--Thomas Jefferson Miller and wife Patience E. Smith came from Washington County,
GEORGIA--James
Elliott married Mahala Coker in
Stewart County,
GEORGIA in 1823, lived in Randolph County,
GEORGIA before moving to Camp Springs Community,
Henry County,
AlabamaSUMTER COUNTY,
SOUTH CAROLINA--James Alexanderand wife Elizabeth Jane Stokes, daughter of Henry Stokes and Elizabeth Tiller
--John D. Faircloth and wife Catherine Hair (Hare) moved with 6 children from Sampson Count,
NORTH CAROLINA through Sumpter County,
SOUTH CAROLINA to
Henry County,
Alabama between 1816-1820.
--Henry E. Stokes settled in Pleasant Grove Community
--Allen Tiller settled in Pleasant Grove Community
TATNALL COUNTY,
GEORGIA--Colson
Adams and wife, Rachel Cason (my G. grandparents) left Tatnall County, Ga. and moved to
Henry County, Al. in1819. It was the part of
Henry County that was to become part of Pike County in 1821. Information furnished by Robin
Adams.
THOMAS COUNTY,
GEORGIA--Harmon
Adams, 6-5-1812---6-6-1885. He married Martha Everett 1-8-183