Maria and Cloe—servants of Bros. Peek and Brown

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

Shiloh Baptist Church Minute Extracts 

Shiloh June 1st, 1850

The Church met in conference.

(1st) Invited visiting brethren to seats.

(2nd) Opened a door for the reception of members when Bro. William Foster and wife Sister Mary Foster, Sister Elizabeth Foster now Elizabeth Burke, and Sister Carolina Totty presented letters from the church at Smyrna and were received. Maria, Servant to Bro. Simon Peek and Cloe, Servt. to Bro. A. (?) Brown came forward and were received by experience. No other business. Called the roll and adjourned.

N. M. Crawford, Mod.

R. B. Edmonds, C. Clerk

Reference

Church records, 1839-1859, Greene County, Georgia, Shiloh Baptist Church Records, image 82 of 122; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C34J-3Q6T?i=81&cat=193117 (free registration required). 

Thelma L. Mapp

Thelma L. Mapp, daughter of Jessie Thomas Mapp and Sallie M. Bryant, was born on August 1, 1913 in Greene County, Georgia. Her parents had three children—Thelma L. Mapp, Legare Gunter Mapp, and James Thomas Mapp. Her mother Sallie was the daughter of Charles N. Bryant, subject of a recent sketch. Thelma is my 3rd cousin 2x removed with our nearest common relatives being Charles L. Lankford and Miss Moore, my 4th great grandparents. 

On January 30, 1920, seven-year-old Thelma lived with her parents and brother Legare in a rented home in Siloam, Greene County, Georgia. Her father worked as a farmer on a general farm. Neither Thelma or her brother were attending school. 

On April 8, 1930, the Mapp family lived in a rented farm in the 146th District of Oakland, Greene County, Georgia. Thelma’s widowed grandmother Sarah "Sallie" (Epps) Bryant lived in the home as well. Her parents had been married for 21 years. Her father continued to work as a farmer and her brother Legare now worked as a laborer on a farm. They did not have a radio in the home.

Sometime between 1930 and 1935, Thelma married James “Doc” Otis George, son of James England George and Gussie Annette McCarty. Two children were born to this union—James McCarty Mapp and Sara Ann Mapp. Thelma and James lived with his parents in Penfield, Greene County, Georgia in 1935.

Thelma’s father died from acute gastritis in Greene County on February 6, 1940. He was buried at Greensboro City Cemetery in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. The couple were still living with James’ parents on April 13, 1940. Thelma, who was unemployed, was pregnant at the time the census was taken. James drove an oil truck and her father-in-law was a mechanic, working out of his own shop. Their home was six houses from my 2nd great uncle and aunt, Brice and Jessica Corinne (Lankford) Barnhart. Jessie was the daughter of James C. Lankford and Mary Ann Wilson.

On April 10, 1950, Thelma, her husband James, son James, and daughter Sara lived in Penfield. The census enumerator noted they lived 3/10 miles to the right of the intersection of Penfield and Greensboro Roads. Thelma’s husband worked as a service station operator at a filling station. 

Thelma’s mother Sallie died in 1964. She was buried at Greensboro City Cemetery beside her husband, Thelma’s father.

Thelma (Mapp) George, Juanita Elizabeth (George) Brightwell, and Emily Arthur George

Thelma’s husband, age 80, died on October 26, 1986 at the Boswell Hospital in Greensboro following a long illness. He was apparently well liked by community members and was considered “one of the most popular men in Greene County.” James was buried on October 28 at Penfield Cemetery in Penfield. Thelma survived her husband by just under three years, dying in Clayton, Georgia on September 1, 1989. She was buried at Penfield Cemetery beside James.

 

References

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58262854/james-thomas-mapp: accessed 30 September 2023), memorial page for James Thomas Mapp (29 Apr 1921–9 May 1991), Find a Grave Memorial ID 58262854, citing Greenlawn Cemetery, Union Point, Greene County, Georgia, USA; maintained by: Find a Grave.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73597309/sallie-may-mapp: accessed 30 September 2023), memorial page for Sallie May Bryant Mapp (1892–1964), Find a Grave Memorial ID 73597309, citing Greensboro City Cemetery, Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, USA; maintained by Samuel Taylor Geer (contributor 46925792).
• Funeral Services Held in Penfield for Mr. James Otis George, The Herald Journal, Greensboro Georgia, October 31, 1986.
• Jessie Thomas Mapp Certificate of Death no. 4276, Georgia Department of Public Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1940.
• Personal visit to Penfield Cemetery, Penfield, Greene County, Georgia.
• Thelma L. George, U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935–2014.
• U.S. Federal Census, Oakland, Greene County, Georgia, 1930.
• U.S. Federal Census, Penfield, Greene County, Georgia, 1940, 1950.
• U.S. Federal Census, Siloam, Greene County, Georgia, 1920. 

Pheribe and William, property of William Armor

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

The Temperance Banner, Penfield, Georgia, October 30, 1852

Executor’s Sale.

WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in December next, at the Court House door in Greenesboro’, Seven hundred acres of land, more or less, on the Oconee river, joining C. M. Park and J. N. Armor. Also, two Negroes, one a woman, named Pheribe, and a boy named William. Sold under the will of William Armor, deceased. Terms of the day.

JAS. N. ARMOR, Ex’tr

October 16th, 1852. 42—6t

Reference

Executor’s Sale, The Temperance Banner, Penfield, Georgia, October 30, 1852. 

Charles H. Hobbs of Hillcrest Cemetery

This sketch highlights Charles H. Hobbs who is buried at Hillcrest Cemetery in East Point, Fulton County, Georgia.

Charles H. Hobbs, the son of Samuel Thomas Hobbs and Margaret C. Mobley, was born October 22, 1856 in Graves County, Kentucky. Known siblings are Alex Hobbs, Henry R. Hobbs, Lenna F Hobbs, Alice Hobbs, Annie Hobbs, and Susan F. Hobbs. Like Charles, both of his parents and siblings were born in Kentucky.

On July 9, 1860, the Hobbs family lived in the Milburn District of Ballard County, Kentucky. Charles’ father worked as a farmer and had a personal estate valued at $200. His brother Alex (born 1855) was not enumerated so had most likely died.

On June 16, 1870, Charles and his family lived in the Fancy Farm community of Boswells Precinct, Graves County, Kentucky. His father, who worked as a farmer, had real estate valued at $1500 and a personal estate valued at $1350. His mother was keeping house, Charles and Henry worked on the farm, and Lenna was “at home.” Only Charles and Henry were attending school. There was an 11-year-old mulatto female named Ursala Hobbs living in the home who worked as a domestic servant. She was unable to read or write.

I am not related to Charles, and with no real family information, am unable to track his paper trail between the 1870 and 1930 census records where he appears on April 16 living as an inmate (patient) at the Little Sisters of the Poor facility in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. Sometime after this census was taken, Charles contracted carcinoma of the neck. The next record for Charles is his death certificate that shows he died at age 79 on May 16, 1939 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, a “free home for incurable cancer.” Their website shows they were established in 1939 as a “comfortable haven for the many who came to spend their last days in peace and security.” Charles, apparently one of their early patients, was treated by a doctor [name unreadable] from March 25, 1939 until his death. He was buried on May 17 at Hillcrest Cemetery in East Point following a graveside service officiated by Rev. Father Joseph Smith.

References

• C. H. Hobbs, Susan F. Hobbs, Alex Hobbs, Kentucky, U.S., Birth Records, 1847–1911.
• Charles Hobbs Certificate of Death no. 11229, Georgia Department of Public Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1939.
• Charles Hobbs obituary and funeral notice, The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Georgia, May 17, 1939.
• Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home; http://www.olphhome.com/home.html. 
• U.S. Federal Census, Boswells Precinct, Graves County, Kentucky, 1870.
• U.S. Federal Census, Milburn, Ballard County, Kentucky, 1860.
• U.S. Federal Census, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, 1930. 

Alex guarded the church from fire

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

Planters’ Weekly, Greensboro, Georgia, March 28, 1860

Fire in Greenesboro.

On Tuesday morning between one and two o’clock the Store of Johnson & Porter was discovered to be on fire. Messrs. Jones and Johnson the clerks were not awakened till the fire had made considerable progress, and had barely time to remove the blotter for this year, with a few other articles. The store of Davis & Brother, towards which the wind was blowing, was soon blazing, but by this time sufficient assistance had assembled to get out a large portion of their goods. Both of the stores were completely consumed. The brick house of John Cunningham joining the first store on the west, tenanted by Messrs. Willis Powers and Price, had nothing standing in a few hours but its walls. We cannot estimate the loss of those in the house just mentioned; it was considerable for nearly everything in it was burnt. About fifteen thousand dollars worth of property of Johnson & Porter, and about nineteen of Davis & Brother, were destroyed. Cunningham’s house was worth we suppose thirty-five hundred or four thousand dollars. Johnson & Porter were insured seven thousand, Davis & Brother fifteen thousand, and this is the entire amount thus protected.

The fire has evidently been the work of some incendiary. There was no fire, when Johnson & Porter’s clerks were awakened, in the only fire place in which there had been fire that night in the store, and two persons who first took the alarm, assert that the store was burning on the outside, the weatherboarding having been evidently fired at the ground. The Iron Safe of Johnson & Porter (Herring’s patent) preserved its contents well, the books being only scorched a little. About one hundred dollars of bank bills in it received no injury.

The thanks and gratitude of the whole town are due some of our citizens who untiring energy arrested the spread of the flames. Nothing short of their miraculous efforts saved the store of Howell & Neary, which joined Johnson & Porter on the North. Among the most deserving we notice and commend Messrs. Bishoff, Nuenschuiender, Latimer, Grogan, Johnes, and Funk, and we do hope that others will not feel disparaged because we forgot to mention them. The Negroes worked faithfully and well. Thompson’s Grocery was mainly preserved by them. The Architect of the Presbyterian Church, now nearly finished, on his hasty arrival found his negro Alex, on the roof of the Church with a bucket of water guarding it as if it were his own.

How little did we foresee how close we were to such a terrible fire here. When we commented on the remarks of the “Clipper” this week.

Of course, it would help to determine the name of the clergyman who owned Alex so I searched the 1860 Greensboro census and found three men enumerated as Presbyterian clergymen. 

Clergyman #1

The 1860 Greene County, Georgia census enumerates a 64-year-old male named Henry Safford living in Greensboro with the occupation of Presbyterian clergyman. The only Henry Safford I find in the 1860 slave schedule was enumerated in Natchitoches, Louisiana. This Mr. Safford owned three slaves, all females. 

 

The 1870 Greene County, Georgia census enumerates a 74-year-old man named Henry Safford living in Greensboro who was a minister (religion not specified). Perhaps he owned land in Louisiana in 1860.

 

Henry was enumerated in the 1850 Greene County, Georgia as a 54-year-old minister so would be the same man. 

 

He was enumerated in the 1850 Greene County slave schedule as the owner of one female slave, so it does not appear he was the Architect of the Presbyterian Church in 1860.

 

Clergyman #2

The 1860 Greene County, Georgia census enumerates a 34-year-old male named R. A. Houston living in Greensboro with the occupation of Presbyterian clergyman. The 1860 slave schedule shows he owned two female slaves so he mostly likely was not the Architect of the Presbyterian Church in 1860.

 

Clergyman #3

The 1860 Greene County, Georgia census enumerates a 43-year-old male named Homer Hendee living in Greensboro with the occupation of Presbyterian clergyman. The 1860 slave schedule shows he owned three slaves. Unfortunately, the enumerator did not write a clear “M” or “F” in the sex column. If the 35-year-old was in fact male, he would be a good possibility to be slave Alex. But that is a big “if.”

Rev. Homer Hendee was the A.M. President and Professor at Greenesboro Female College in 1858 so there was a good possibility he owned slaves.

Note: Click on images to enlarge.

Reference

• Fire in Greenesboro, Planters’ Weekly, Greensboro, Georgia, March 28, 1860; https://gahistoricnewspapers-files.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053159/1860-03-28/ed-1/seq-2.pdf.  
• Greenesboro Female College, The Georgia Temperance Crusader, Penfield, Georgia, January 14, 1858.
• U.S. Federal Census Slave Schedules, Greene County, District 143, Georgia, 1850.
• U.S. Federal Census Slave Schedules, Greene County, Georgia, 1860.
• U.S. Federal Census Slave Schedules, Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1860.
• U.S. Federal Census, Greene County, Georgia, 1860.
• U.S. Federal Census, Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, 1870.

Agnes Durie

Agnes Durie, daughter of George Durie and Mary "Elisabeth" Taylor, was born about 1830 in Inveresk, Midlothian, Scotland. She was the second child of five—James Durie (born 1824), Agnes Durie, Elizabeth Durie (born 1834), John Durie (born 1836), and Robert Durie (born 1839). Agnes is the 3rd great-aunt of my husband with their nearest common relatives being her parents. 

I am unable to find her parents in the 1841 Scotland census but did find Agnes and her four siblings listed at the top of a census page, living on High Street in Inveresk and Musselburgh, Midlothian, Glasgow, Scotland. I found a George Durie living at Inveresk and Musselburgh, but he was at the top of the census page vs. the bottom and his wife Elisabeth was not with him.

1841 Scotland census (click to enlarge)

In 1851, Agnes and her family lived at 230 Holm Street in the Barony Parish of County Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Scotland. Agnes (21) worked as a milliner. Her father was enumerated with the occupation of “no business,” her brother John (15) worked as a junior clerk, and brother Robert (12) was a scholar. A 26-year-old male named James McEwing lived in the home as a lodger. He worked as a bookkeeper.

1851 Scotland census (click to enlarge)

Agnes’ father George died of apoplexy at 53 Cadogan Street in the Blythswood District of Glasgow, Scotland at the age of 70 on February 10, 1857. The death register shows that he had worked as a cotton storekeeper. George was buried at Southern Necropolis Cemetery in Glasgow.

Death register for George Durie (click to enlarge)

In 1861, Agnes was living with her widowed mother and brothers John and Robert on Cadogan Street in Blythswood. Agnes worked as a milliner, her mother Elizabeth as a housekeeper, brother John was a clerk, and Robert a muslin warehouseman.

1861 Scotland census (click to enlarge)

Agnes’ mother died at the same location as her father on July 13, 1865 at age 69. Her cause of death was recorded as old age.

Death register for Elizabeth Durie (click to enlarge)

In 1871, Agnes lived with her sister Elizabeth Durie Morris and nieces Elizabeth, Ann, and Susan in the Govan Parish of Glasgow, Scotland. Agnes worked as a dressmaker, Elizabeth a seamstress, and Anne was a scholar. 

1871 Scotland census (click to enlarge)

In 1881, Agnes lived with her sister Elizabeth and nieces Elizabeth “Lizzie” and Susan in the Barony Parish of St. Vincent, Glasgow, Scotland. Agnes, who worked as a dressmaker, was the head of the household. Her sister Elizabeth held the occupation of a “ladies cap maker.” Her niece Elizabeth was a mantle maker and Susan was responsible for household duties, however, it is not known if that meant in the home or elsewhere.

1881 Scotland census (click to enlarge)

The 1883 and 1884 electoral registers record Agnes living at 30 Breadalbane Street in Glasgow as a tenant and occupant. 

In 1891, Agnes still lived with her sister Elizabeth and nieces Elizabeth and Susan in the Barony Parish of St. Vincent, Glasgow, Scotland. The tables had turned and Agnes’ sister was now the head of the household. All four worked, probably together, making white muslin caps. 

1891 Scotland census (click to enlarge)

Agnes died at 11:30 a.m. of bronchial asthma and heart failure on August 22, 1900 at 30 West Clyde Street in Helensburgh, Row Parish, County of Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Her niece Elizabeth, daughter of her sister Elizabeth, was the informant on her death certificate. At the time of her death, Agnes lived with her niece at 30 Breadalbane Street in Glasgow. Agnes’ final resting place is unknown to me.

1891 Scotland census (click to enlarge)

References

• Agnes Durie, Census 622/87/2, National Records of Scotland, 1851. 
• Agnes Durie, Census 644/6 12/22, National Records of Scotland, 1861.
• Agnes Durie, Census 644/931/15, p. 15, National Records of Scotland, 1881.
• Agnes Durie, Statutory registers Deaths 503/109, National Records of Scotland, 1900.
• Elizabeth Durie, Statutory Registers Deaths 644/6 358, National Records of Scotland, 1865.
• Elizabeth Morris, Census 644/932/16, p. 16, National Records of Scotland, 1891.
• George Durie, Statutory Registers Deaths 644/6 86, National Records of Scotland, 1857.
• Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1857–1962 for Agnes Durie, List of Female Municipal Voters, Burgh of Glasgow, 1882–1883.
• James Durie, Census 689/12/7, National Records of Scotland, 1841.
• Robert Durie, Census 622/87/3, National Records of Scotland, 1851. 
• Susan Morris, Census 646/123/3, National Records of Scotland, 1871.

Julia, property of William A. Colclough or P. J. Tuggle

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

Note: It is not clear to me who the slave owner was, so I have included both names in the title. If someone with legal knowledge can explain, I will make the correction to the title.

The Georgia Temperance Crusader, Penfield, Georgia, April 1, 1858

Greene Sheriff’s Sale.

WILL be sold before the Court-house door in the city of Greenesboro, on the 1st Tuesday in April next, between the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit:

The store-house and lot near Union Point: Levied on by virtue of a Justice’s Court fi. fa. issued from the 148th District, G. M. in favor in John F. Zimmerman vs. Robert Newsome. Levied on and returned to me by Hiram Rouzee, Constable.

Also, a negro girl about five years old, of black complexion, by name of Julia: Levied on by virtue of two Justice’s Court fi. fas. issued from the 140th District, G. M. in favor of William A. Colclough & Co. vs. P. J. Tuggle. Levied on by C. B. Mitchell, Constable.

One house and lot in the village of White Plains, containing one acre, more or less, adjoining lands of R. H. Jacks and others: levied on as the property of John K. Floyd, a free man of color, to satisfy a fi fa from the Inferior Court of Greene county, in favor of Thos. Hightower, survivor, vs. Elisha P. Jarrell, guardian for John K. Floyd. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney.

I. MORRISON, Sh’ff.

March 2, 1858.

Reference

Greene Sheriff’s Sale, The Georgia Temperance Crusader, Penfield, Georgia, April 1, 1858. 

James M. Lankford and partner must pay for transport of horses

This is another court case I found in the Family Search unindexed images. Once again, my 3rd great grandfather James Meriweather Lankford finds himself in court for failure to pay his debts. This one was interesting because it was related to the transport of horses across state lines. He was apparently arrested and, in the end, had to pay up.

March Term 1868
Georgia Rail Road & Banking Company vs. Jones & Lankford: Assumpsits. 
State of Georgia, Greene County. To the Honorable Superior Court of said County. The Petition of the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company showeth unto said Court that James M. Lankford and William Jones both of said County, co-partners and horse drovers doing business under the firm name and style of Jones & Lankford have damaged your Petitioners in the sum of one thousand dollars. For that whereas heretofore to wit, on the second day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty the said William H. Jones and the said James M. Lankford co-partners as aforesaid arrived in the City of Atlanta, Georgia on board the cars of the Western & Atlantic Rail Road with three car loads of horses which said three car loads of horses had been shipped by Rail Road to the City of Atlanta in the State of Georgia. And your petitioners alledge that the amount of expenses due for the transportation and shipment of said three car loads of horses to the City of Atlanta in the State of Georgia is five hundred and six dollars. And your petitioners alledge that the said defendants immediately on their arrival and the arrival of the three car loads of horses in the City of Atlanta in the State of Georgia on the day and year aforesaid requested your petitions agent of transportation at the depot of your petitioners in the said City of Atlanta to ship for them the said defendants to Greensboro, Georgia on the Georgia Rail Road the same three car loads of horses which had been delivered in the said City of Atlanta by the Western & Atlantic Rail Road. And your petitioners alledge that they through their said agent in the City of Atlanta declined and refused to ship said three car loads of horses on the Georgia Railroad to Greensboro Georgia unless the said defendants would pay to them the expenses of transportation or shipment due on said three car loads of horses at the said City of Atlanta which expenses of transportation or shipment to the said City of Atlanta your petitioners alledge amount to the aforesaid sum of five hundred and six dollars. Whereupon the said defendants promised and agreed with the said agent of your petitioners at said City of Atlanta that if he would ship or transport the said three car loads of horses from the said City of Atlanta to the Greensboro Depot on the Georgia Rail Road, that they the said defendants would just as soon as the said three car loads of horses were delivered to them at the Greensboro Depot pay to the agent of your petitioners at the said Greensboro Depot the whole amount of expenses of transportation or shipment due on said three car loads of horses to wit, the expenses of transportation or shipment due on said three car loads of horses at the said City of Atlanta, to wit, the sum of five hundred and six dollars and the expenses of transportation or shipment that would be due on said three car loads of horses from the said City of Atlanta to the said Greensboro Depot, to wit, the sum of seventy five dollars making in all the sum of five hundred and eighty one dollars. And your petitioner avers that they would not have received three car loads of horses at the said City of Atlanta nor would they have shipped the same to their Rail Road to the said Greensboro Depot had it not been for the earnest solicitations of defendants and the frequent and repeated promises made by defendants to the agent for your petitioners at said City of Atlanta to wit, that they the said defendants would pay to the agent of your petitioners at the Greensboro Depot, the whole amount of expenses due for the transportation or shipment of said three car loads of horses, just as soon as the said three car loads of horses were delivered to said defendants at the said Greensboro Depot. And in consideration that your petitioners through their agent of said City of Atlanta at the special instance and request of the said defendants would receive and ship to the said Greensboro Depot the aid three car loads of horses they the said defendants undertook, and then and there faithfully promised to pay your petitioners the aforesaid sum of five hundred and eighty-one dollars. And your petitioners alledge that they delivered the said three car loads of horses at the said Greensboro Depot at the hour of one o’clock AM on the third day of June in the year aforesaid and your petitioners alledge that just as soon as the said three car loads of horses reached said Greensboro Depot, the agent of your petitioners at said last mentioned depot at the earnest request solicitations and at the special instance and request of the said defendants delivered to said defendants the said three car loads of horses upon the promise on the part of the said defendants, that they the said defendants would pay to the agent of your petitioners at the said Greensboro Depot upon the day and year last aforesaid the whole amount of expenses due for the transportation or shipment of said three car loads of horses to wit, the aforesaid sum of five hundred and eighty-one dollars. And your petitioners alledge that they through their conductor on the day and year last aforesaid delivered to the said defendants the original freight list upon the promise on the part of the said defendants, that they the said defendants would deliver the said original freight list to the agent of your petitioners at the Greensboro Depot, on the day and year last aforesaid. Yet the said defendants not regarding their several promises and undertakings but craftily and subtly intending to deceive and defraud your petitioners have not paid your petitioners said sum or sums of money nor any part thereof, nor have they according to the promise delivered said original freight list to the agent of your petitioners at the said sum or sums of money to pay have hitherto refused and still do refuse to the damage of your petitioners in the sum of one thousand dollars. Wherefore your petitioners pray that process may issue requiring the said William H. Jones, and the same James M. Lankford co-partners as aforesaid to be and appear at the next Superior Court, to be held in and for said County then and there to answer your petitioners complaint in action of assumpsit.

Philip B. Robinson, Atty. At Law for Georgia Rail Road & Bkg. Co.

And for that whereas heretofore, to wit, on the second day of June in the year eighteen hundred and sixty your petitioners paid, laid out and expended and paid to the Western & Atlantic Rail Road for the use and benefit of the said defendants and at the special instance and request of the said defendants the sum of five hundred and six dollars in payment of the expenses of transportation on the car loads of horses from Nashville, Tennessee to Atlanta, Georgia; and your petitioners alledge that they paid said sum of money, to wit, five hundred and six dollars to the Western & Atlantic Road for the use and benefit of said defendants at their special instance and request and upon the express promise on the part of the said defendants that they the said defendants would pay your petitioners said sum of money when they should be thereunto afterwards requested. And your petitioners alledge that the said defendants are indebted to them in the sum of five hundred and eighty-one dollars besides interest, to wit, the sum of five hundred and six dollars paid by our petitioners to the Western & Atlantic Rail Road for the use and benefit of the said defendant, and the sum of seventy-five dollars for transporting three car loads of horses from Atlanta to Greensboro on the Georgia Rail Road on the day and year first aforesaid all of which will more fully appear by reference to a Bill of Particulars hereto attached and made a part of this Declaration.

Yet the said defendants although so indebted and to pay your petitioners said sums of money after thereto requested have not paid the same nor any part thereof, but the same to pay have hitherto refused and still do refuse to the damage of your petitioners in the sum of money first aforesaid.

Philip B. Robinson, Atty. At Law for the Georgia Rail Road & Bkg. Company

Bill of Particulars
Jones & Lankford
1860 June 2nd
To Georgia Rail Road & Bkg. Company.

To cash paid for the use and benefit of Jones & Lankford to the Western & Atlantic Rail Road for expenses of transportation on three car loads of horses from Nashville, Tennessee to Atlanta, Georgia - $506.00

To expenses of transportation on three car loads of horses from Atlanta, Georgia to Greensboro, Georgia - $75.00

Total $581.00

State of Georgia, Greene County. Before me the undersigned personally came Philip B. Robinson, Attorney at Law for the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company who on oath says that he claims to be due the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company from William H. Jones and James M. Lankford both of said county co-partners doing business under the firm name and style of Jones & Lankford, the amount of five hundred and eighty-one dollars and that he has reason to apprehend the loss of said sum or some part thereof if the said James M. Lankford and William H. Jones are not held to Bail. 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this August 21st, 1860.
W. G. Johnson, J.I.C.
Philip B. Robinson, Atty. At Law for the Georgia Rail Road & Bkg. Company

Georgia … To the Sheriff of Greene County … Greeting
Georgia Rail Road & Banking Company vs. Jones & Lankford
The defendants are hereby required personally or by attorney to appear at the Superior Court to be held in and for the County of Greene on the second Monday in September next, then and there to answer the plaintiffs demand in an action of an Assumpsit as in default thereof the said Court will proceed as to justice shall appertain.

Witness the Honorable Iverson L. Harris, Judge of said Court this 21st day of August 1860.
Isaac R. Hall, Clerk

Served William H. Jones with a copy of the within writ leaving it at the most notorious place of doing business of said Jones & Lankford August 27, 1860.
C. C. Norton, Shff.

Arrested and personally served James M. Lankford on this writ and he gave bond for his appearance at Court. August 22nd, 1860.
C. C. Norton, Shff.

And now at this term of the Court comes the defendants by their attorney’s A. H. Stephens, Geo. O. Dawson, & A. Reese & for plea & answer say they never assumed promised in manner & form as set forth in plaintiffs declaration and of this they put themselves upon the County H.

And for further plea in this behalf these defendants say the consideration for said promising and undertaking alledged in plaintiffs declaration has entirely failed in this that plaintiffs undertook and promised to deliver all of said horses to these defendants in Greensboro, without delay and uninjured when in truth and in fact there never have delivered one said horses to writ, a certain bay mare worth the sum of three hundred dollars & delivered two others bruised up & damaged to the sum of two hundred and kept the same on their said road principally and in violation of the contract, without feed or drink for the space of twenty-seven hours to the injury of the said defendants the sum of two hundred dollars & of this they put themselves upon the County H. 

And for further plea these defendants say said plaintiffs are not entitled to recover of these defendants for services rendered by any other Rail Road company in carrying said horses except & for such services as may have by themselves & of this he puts himself upon the County H.

And for further plea these defendants say that said plaintiffs at the time of filing said writ were indebted to them in the sum of eight hundred dollars upon account (a Bill of Particulars is hereto attached & made a part thereof) which said account they plead as an offset to the claim set up in plaintiffs declaration, and of this they put themselves upon the County H.

And for further plea in this behalf these defendants say the consideration for said promise & undertaking is said declaration mentioned has partially failed in this that said plaintiffs have never delivered one of said horses or taken to be transported from Nashville to Greensboro to wit, a certain bay mare worth the sum of three hundred dollars and in this that the other horses to be transported by plaintiffs from Nashville to Greensboro were bruised up and crippled in the transportation to the amount of two hundred dollars depreciation in value, and in this that the said 3 car loads of horses were delayed on the road was necessarily 27 hours by reason of which said defendants were put to great truth & expense & damage to wit the sum of fifty dollars & of this they put themselves upon the County H.

A. H. Stephens, Geo. O. Dawson, A. Reese, Dfts. Atty.

The Georgia Rail Road & Banking Company
1860
To Jones & Lankford
June 3. 
To value of mare killed by them in transporting same from Nashville to Greensboro - $300.00

To damage done to 3 car loads of horses transported from Nashville to Greensboro by skinning up, bruising & crippling up same - $300.00

To damage done by defendants in delaying the delivery of 3 car loads of horses 27 hours in transporting said horses from Nashville to Greensboro without food & drink - $200.00

Total $800.00

Georgia, Greene County. Know all men by these presents, that we James M. Lankford & R. S. Williams security, are held and firmly bound unto the Georgia Rail Road & Banking Company, in the sum of eleven hundred & sixty-two dollars for the true payment of which we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by thee presents: sealed with our seals and dated this 22nd day of August eighteen hundred and sixty.

The condition of the above obligation is such that whereof, a civil process, requiring bail, at the suit of Georgia Rail Road & Banking Company, against said James M. Lankford one of the firm of Jones & Lankford in an action of Assumpsit returnable to the Superior Court for said County on the second Monday in September next, hath been served upon the said James M. Lankford now, if the said James M. Lankford in case he is cast in the said suit, shall will and truly pay and satisfy the condemnation of the Court, or render his body to prison in execution of the same in terms of the law, in such case made and provided and upon failure thereof the said R. S. Williams will wait for him, then the above obligation to be void; else to remain in full force.

James M. Lankford, R. S. Williams
Tested and approved by W. A. Colclough, J.P.

Georgia Rail Road & Banking Co. vs. Jones & Lankford
Assempsit in Greene Superior Courts
The above case being sounded upon the Common Law Docket by consent of Counsel it is agreed that the same be transferred to the Appeal Docket.

George O. Dawson, Defs. Atty., Philip B. Robinson, Defs. Atty., March Term 1861.

Georgia Rail Road & Bkg. Company vs. Jones & Lankford
Assumpsit in Greene Superior Court on Appeal.
It appearing to the Court that Richard S. Williams is and was at the time of the commencement of the above stated suit, a partner and member of the firm of Jones & Lankford, which partnership is composed of William H. Jones, James M. Lankford, & Richard S. Williams doing business under the firm name and stlye of Jones and Lankford, and notice of this motion having been given to the said Richard S. Williams.

It is therefore ordered that the said Richard S. Williams be and he is hereby made a party defendant in the above stated case.
March Term 1863.

Georgia Rail Road & Bkg. Company vs. Jones & Lankford & Richard S. Williams made a Party Dept. at March Term 1863.

The death of deft. Richard S. Williams being suggested, it is ordered that the same be entered upon the Record.
This September Term 1863.
Georgia R. Road & Bkg. Co. vs. Jones & Lankford & Richard S. Williams

The death of Richard S. Williams one of the defendants in the above stated case having been suggested and Scire facias having been duly and legally served upon Joseph M. Williams, Escts. of Richard S. Williams, within the time prescribed by law, it is ordered that Joseph M. Williams be, and is hereby made party defendant, in the above stated case.

This March Term 1868. Greene Superior Court.
P. B. & T. W. Robinson, Plff. Attys.

We the jury find for the plaintiff five hundred eighty-one dollars, principal, and three hundred fifteen dollars & 18/100 interest, also costs of suit.
James B. Hart, Foreman

Whereupon it is considered and adjudged by the Court that the plaintiffs do recover against the defendants James M. Lankford, William H. Jones and Joseph M. Williams, executor of Richard S. Williams the sum of five hundred and eighty-one dollars for their principle debt the sum of three hundred and fifteen dollars and eighteen cents for their interest and the sum of dollars for their costs of suit, on this behalf laid out and expended.

Judgement signed this March 13, 1868.
Philip B. Robinson, Plfs. Atty.
Recorded this 30th day of March 1868.
Isaac R. Hall, Clerk

Reference

Greene County, Georgia, Special Proceedings Records 1860–1866, 1866–1870, pp. 183–188; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3M5-L3JH-W?view=explore&groupId=TH-909-81741-95149-73 (free account required to view). 

Fereby, servant of T. West and Cheney, servant of Prof. Sanford

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

 Penfield, July 1st 1849

The African Church met in conference. Brother Everett, presiding. The door of the church was opened. Fereby, a servant girl of T. West, who was formerly excluded, expressed a desire to unite with the church again and after making satisfactory acknowledgements and exhibiting to the church signs of a sincere repentance for her misconduct, was restored to full fellowship. Sister Cheney, a maid servant of Prof. Sanford’s, applied for a letter of dismission, which was not granted, in consequence of some misdemeanor or difficulty in which she was involved. A committee was appointed consisting of Breth. P. Jackson, A. Cox, G. D. Hubbard to investigate the matter and if possible adjust the difficulty. No further business, the conference adj. 

H. F. Lipford, Clk. pro. tem.

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Reference

Penfield Baptist Church Minutes: 1839 – 1885, Penfield, Greene County, Georgia, p. 129.