Migration Into Habersham County GA

This page is an attempt to gather into one place all those people who, at one point or another, migrated into Habersham Co., GA from somewhere else. To submit an entry, please e-mail me with the following information:

1. Name of ancestor (Surname all in caps, then given name)
2. Name of county/state or country where this person migrated into Habersham County and when. Approximate time is fine, if that's all you have.
3. Your name and e-mail address.

Please put "Migration In-Habersham" in the subject field of your e-mail. Please do not send entire histories of families.

ADAMS, George Berry, from Pendleton Dist., SC about 1824
AHEARNE, Martha, from Pendleton Dist., SC about 1824
BATES, Fleming, from Franklin Co., GA in 1818 (Barbara Harrell)
BERRY, Jesse b. 1776, from NC or SC bef 1820 (Cat Tindell)
BERRY, Little b. 1770 VA, from SC bef 1830 (Cat Tindell)
BERRY, Philip b. 1775 SC, from SC bef 1830(presumed to have died there) (Cat Tindell)
BLACK, Elisha Thomas and Callie Lucinda BLACK from White County in 1901 via Oconee, SC. (David Stevens)
BOYD, Thomas & wife Mary (nee Hunt) From Pendleton District, SC (current Dacusville, Pickens County, SC) approximate date 1838 (Jimmy Hunt ←)
BRUCE, James b1760, from Pendleton District, SC, 1819; (Bill Ramsaur)
CARPENTER, Paul with wife Lavinia LAVENDER CARPENTER migrated to Habersham County from Gaston County North Carolina between 1850 and 1854. Paul and Vinie are my great-great grandparents. (Rebecca Giles)
CHAFFIN, Elijah and wife Anna. From Rutherford County, North Carolina in approximately 1823 (Hugh Swift ←)
CHURCH, Benjamin, b. 1763 in Rowan Co., NC, son of John Sr. Church and 1st wife, migrated to Spartanburg Co., SC, then to Habersham Co., GA between 1810 and 1818, with wife and at least five children. (Dorothy Hinkey)
COLLINS, Thompson, Buncombe Co., SC, 1820's (J. B. Turner ←)
DANIEL, William, from Jefferson Co., AL between 1821-1825 (Cat Tindell)
DODD, James A. Sr., from Virginia from VA? to Rutherford Co., NC to Spartanburg Dist., SC to Habersham Co., GA before 1850 (Pioneer Woman ←)
DOVER, Francis John from Pendelton District, S.C. to Cherokee Terr. in 1812. (Patti Whitworth)
EMERSON, Robert C., from Pickens, South Carolina, migrated to White County/Habersham County in the 1850's. He married Nancy Ann Potts, who was born and raised in Habersham County, in 1860.
(Dennis Emerson ←)
FRANKUM/FRANCUM (1840-1860) from Burke County NC to Habersham County, GA. (teddy1066@yahoo.com)

GILSTRAP, Wiley R., from Pendleton District, SC, about 1833. The area he settled is the Mossy Creek
area of White County. (Gary Gilstrap)

GREEN, Jesse, from Rutherford Co NC about 1824 (Teresa Burks)

GUNN, John and Elizabeth, somewhere SC, migrated into GA around 1820 and are listed in census records through 1910. (Bill Gunn)
HARRIS, from Pendleton Old 76 District and Rabun Co. in 1820 (Charles Harris)
HASHAW, Moses from Burke County NC between 1815-1830. He is recorded in the 1830 census of Habersham (Tim Hashaw)
HAYES, Elijah and wife Mary Weaver, Hayes Walton county, Georgia/North Carolina, 1820 (Richard Jones ←)
HAYES, William W. and wife Mary Rebecca Holbrook, HAYES Baxter county, Arkansas, 1871 (Richard Jones ←)
HAYNES, Cynthia McDowell, from North Carolina in 1824 (Cathy Moore Casper)
HAYNES, Edward, from North Carolina, about 1824 (Barbara Ray )
HAYNES, Jonathan, from North Carolina in 1824 (Cathy Moore Casper)
HICKS, Arry, from North Carolina, about 1824 (Barbara Ray)
HIGGINS, John J. and Mary Hall from Buncombe Co., NC in 1826 (Sherri Higgins Clark)
HIGHTOWER, John Joseph (My Grgrgrandfather), moved to Habersham Co., Ga from Pickens Co., SC between 1860 and 1870. He lived in Pickens Co in 1860 with his first wife Mary. By 1870 he is living with my grgrgrandmother Emily Chambers. It is uncertain whether she came with him or he married her in Ga. (HEATHENS)
HUGHES, Elisha, from Pickens County, S.C., 1827,(Dallas Johnson)
HUNT, John W from NC or Tn. Was a blacksmith & his son C W Hunt was my grandfather born 1871-1966 was a blacksmith, gardener for J. F. Minis and Justice of the Peace in Clarkesville until his death. My g grandfather migrated to Habersham county around 1830. (Beverly Hunt Bain ←)
HUNT , Margaret Ann (nee Bowen) b. 1795 Pendleton District, SC (current location Dacusville Pickens County, SC) January 1839 Widowed With young sons Harvey Cleveland Hunt b. 1822 & Waddy Thompson Hunt b. 1825 (Jimmy Hunt ←)
IVESTER, George and family: wife Anna Rucker, children: Isaac, Barbary, Peter, William, George Jr., Elizabeth. From Rutherford County, NC. In October of 1822 George purchased land in Habersham Co. After moving to Habersham, six more Ivester children were born: John, Jerusha Ann, unknown, Jesse, Jacob, Jaley Ann. (Janice Ivester ←)
JACKSON, Jose (Joseph), Rutherford County, NC 1823 (John Duckworth)
JACKSON, William Marion, Rutherford County, NC 1823 (John Duckworth)
JONES, John Hunter 1810-1820 from Spartanburg Co, SC (Rhonda McAndrew ←)
KINNEY, Jesse, from Rowan Co., NC in 1821 (Cathy Moore Casper)
KINNEY, Sarah Cox, from Rowan Co., NC in 1821 (Cathy Moore Casper)
KINNEY, Susannah Ward, from Rowan Co., NC in 1821 (Cathy Moore Casper)
KINNEY, William, from Rowan Co., NC in 1821 (Cathy Moore Casper)
KUYKENDALL, James, from Buncombe Co., NC in 1828
KYTLE, Zachariah, b. 1784, from Pendleton District, SC, about 1830 Land Lottery. (Pat McMillan)
LONGSTREET, William, from Richmond County, Georgia before 1830. (He appears on the 1830 US census in Habersham County) (Clark Thornton ←)
McAFEE, Hugh, from Pendleton Dist., SC about 1827-1828 (Barbara Harrell)
McAFEE, Jordan, from Pendleton Dist., SC about 1827-1828 (Barbara Harrell)
^^MURDOCH, Dr. Joseph, from Scotland via the British Army about 1780 (Dr. Murdoch built his home on Cherokee lands, which then became part of Habersham Co., GA; I included the original date of his arrival, but please note that Habersham Co. wasn't formed until 1818) (Mary Murdoch Turney)
MCCOLLUM, Daniel, Pendleton District (now Pickens County) South Carolina February 1826

Note: Daniel was born in East Jersey (now New Jersey in 1760) and died in Habersham County between March and September 1850. He lived in the Blue Creek District, which became White County in 1857. He was listed in the 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses of Habersham County, first with his family, then in 1840 and 1850 with his son-in-law and daughter, John and Elizabeth McCollum Stovall. Filed his Revolutionary War pension papers from Habersham County between 1832 and 1840. Was assisted by agents Thomas Jefferson Rusk and Turner H. Trippe and Representative Richard W. Habersham, who wrote two letters on his behalf. A Revolutionary War marker is on his grave in the Old Blue Creek Baptist Church cemetery in White County commemorating his Revolutionary War service as a militiaman in Colonel Francis Locke's First Rowan Regiment, Rowan County, North Carolina. (William W. McCollum ←)
MCCOLLUM, John, Pendleton District (now Pickens County) South Carolina February 1826

John was Daniel McCollum's youngest son (1805-1883). He and his wife, Hannah Cantrell, were married about 1823 in the Pendleton District of South Carolina and moved to Habersham with his father. He moved his family to Cherokee County, Georgia about 1844. (William W. McCollum ←)
MCCOLLUM, William, Pendleton District (now Pickens County) South Carolina 1822

Daniel McCollum's eldest son (1789-1876). Served in Captain Benjamin Goss's Company of Austin's Regiment SC Militia during the War of 1812. Married Susannah Miller in June 1810 in South Carolina. Susannah died in 1824 and William married Esther Edwards in Habersham County in 1826. Lived on Brass Town Creek in 1830 and moved on to Walton County before 1840. Died in Cherokee County in 1876. (William W. McCollum ←)
MCCRACKEN, Joseph, from Scotland through Charleston prior to 1825
MCDOWELL, Daniel, from Haywood or Buncombe Co., NC in 1821 (Cathy Moore Casper)
MERRELL, Benjamin, from Buncombe Co., NC in 1821 (Cathy Moore Casper)
MORRIS, Groves , from Burke Co. NC after 1824
NEAL/O'NEAL, Andrew, from Rowan Co., NC about 1820 (Judie Eaves)
NEAL/O'NEAL, James, from Rowan Co., NC about 1820 (Judie Eaves)
O'BANION, Green Hamilton, from Edgefield Co., SC in 1820
O'NEAL--see NEAL
PALMER, Catherine Owens, from North Carolina in 1822 (Cathy Moore Casper)
PALMER, George, from North Carolina in 1822 (Cathy Moore Casper)
QUARLES, John, from SC about 1840 (Trish Henson)
REAVIS, James, from Rutherford Co., NC by 1824 (Ben Reavis ←)
ROACH, James, from Pendleton Dist., SC about 1815 (Marsha Roach ←)
ROE, Anselm/Ansalem, from Pendleton Dist., SC about 1827-1828 (Barbara Harrell)
SCALF, William (b. 1780 in NC) md Susannah Cash abt 1810 (b. abt 1786, NC) in NC and moved before 1825 into Habersham Co., GA. He had several daughters and a son who md while living in Habersham Co. (Lana Floyd)
SHELTON, Stephen, from North Carolina after 1832 (Marc E. Shelton)
SHIRLEY, Moses, from Liberty area, Laurens Co. S.C. about 1790 (Penny Shirley ←)
SHORE, John, from North Carolina between 1825 and 1827 (Linda McDaniel Smith)
SHORE, Mahalia Suddeth, from North Carolina between 1825 and 1827 (Linda McDaniel Smith)
SINARD, Johnson, from South Carolina before 1820 (Barbara Harrell)
SOSEBEE, Elizabeth (Polly), Spartanburg, SC, 1822, (Jackie Dietrich)
STOVER, Jacob, from Rutherford Co., NC before 1820
THEDFORD, William from Pendleton Dist., SC before 1830 (Marvin Thedford ←)
TENCH, GREENVILLE migration from Snowy Creek Chesterfield County Va. around 1865 (Rhonda Beck)
TODD, William Lathan, Migrated from Oconee Co. SC, between 1890 and 1910 (David Lee Todd, Jr. ←)
TOMLIN, Isaac born in 1800, migrated from South Carolina before 1830 (Lisa Tomlin ←)
TURNER, Hiram, Born 1811, South Carolina.
Arrived in Habersham, GA about 1832, he was a recipient in the Cherokee Land Lottery.

Married Mary Rich, Lumpkin Co. GA 1835. They are shown on the 1840, Habersham, GA. census with family. Between 1844-47 they moved on to Fulton County, AR. (Mary Clegg ←)
TURNER, Jarrett, SC, 1820's (J. B. Turner ←)
TURNER, Micajah, VA to SC to GA, 1820's (J. B. Turner ←)
WALKER, Samuel, from Greenville Co., SC about 1852 (Barbara Harrell)
WATKINS, Hesket (Hess), from Pickens Co., SC about 1830
WHITE, Joabert and Sally [Mouser] from Lincoln Co. N.C. abt 1830 (Todd White ←)
WHITE, Joseph P. G., by 1830 (Doris A. W. Oakes ←)
WHITFIELD, William Gray from Nash County, N. C. abt 1834
WHITWORTH, Joseph Southerland from Lincoln Co., N.C abt. 1823 (Patti Whitworth)

** Denotes that this family lived in the part of Franklin Co., GA which later became Habersham Co., GA.

^^ Denotes that this family lived on Cherokee lands which later became Habersham Co., GA

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 08:41 AM

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