Migration Out of Habersham County GA

This page is an attempt to gather together into one place all those people who left Habersham Co., GA for parts unknown (or, we hope, parts known). To submit an entry, please e-mail me with the following information:

1. Name of ancestor (Surname first all in caps, then given name)
2. Name of county/state or country to which your ancestor migrated from Habersham Co., GA and when. Approximate time is fine, if that's all you have.
3. Your name and e-mail address.

Please put "Migration Out-Habersham" in the subject field of the e-mail. Please do not send entire family histories.

• ALEXANDER, James and wife ALLEN, Emily Vaughn, Nancy and Polly, Walker Co., GA about 1836 (Joy W. Mahan)
• ALLEN, William G., to DeKalb Co., AL after 1850
• BATES, Fleming, to Cherokee Co., GA after 1820 (Barbara Harrell)
• BERRY, Jesse b. 1776, to Gilmer Co., GA bef 1840 (Cat Tindell)
• BERRY, Little b. 1770 VA, to Lumpkin Co., GA by 1850 (Cat Tindell)
• BLACK, Johnnie Albert left in 1939 to Trona, California (David Stevens)
• BLACK STEVENS, Zelia Cleo left in 1935 to Trona, California in San Bernardino County (David Stevens)
• BROCK, George, Sr to Gilmer Co., GA by 1840
• BROCK, George, Jr to Gilmer Co., GA by 1840
• BROCK, James to Gilmer Co., GA by 1840
• BRUCE, William, Coffee County, TN, prior to 1830. Additional info: Wife's given name is Joicy, but might not have been married at time of migration. (Dick Bruce)
• BRUCE, George Osburn to Cherokee Co., GA by 1845 (Bill Ramsaur)
• CASH, Jesse Martin, b. 7 April 1858 in Habersham Co., son of Jesse Thompson and Mary Ann (Perkins) CASH.....she the daughter of Logan Sr and Fanny (Carpenter) Perkins, gr-son of Jesse and Mary Patricia (Hailey) CASH. He left GA between 1876 and 21 Sep 1879 when he married Etta P Stone at White Rock P.O., Franklin Co AR. (she a native of Cass/Bartow Co GA) They had 10 children and settled in Paden, Okfuskee Co OK (then Indian Terr) in about 1904-1906.  He died in 1912 and she in 1925.  Both are buried in Paden cemetery. (Martin Cash Jr. ←)
• CANNON, Russell, to Cass/Bartowe Co., GA between 1830 and 1840 (Mary Murdoch Turney)
• CHAFFIN, Elijah and wife Anna left Habersham Co. approximately 1828 moving to Cherokee County GA (Hugh Swift ←)
• CHARLES, Melchezedeck and wife Mary (Jay) Charles to Gilmer County by 1840.  (Vince King)
• DANIEL, Josiah, to Lumpkin Co., GA by 1825-1834 (Cat Tindell)
• ERWIN, John Miller, Sidney Louis, & William Taylor  These 3 brothers left in 1866 (John Miller & Sidney Louis were former soldiers with Phillips Legion CSA).  They moved to Marshall County, MS
   (John Erwin ←)
• FRY(E), Turner from Habersham County to Hart County (Hartwell) Georgia about 1853. He was married to Martha Elizabeth Dodd. They had nine children. (Margaret Frye)
• GRANT, Wilburn C. grant & wife Mary A. Walker. Wilburn was born in Habersham Co, in 1843 s/o James M Grant & Elizabeth Walker. She was the d/o James Walker & Nancy Grant. He appears in the 1850 & 1860 census for Habersham co, GA. He reappears in the 1880  & 1900 census in Milton co, GA with his wife Mary and children. We know from there he went to FL and then to LA to sale his invention's one was the Grant Quick Ice Making Machine. In 1905 he was living in Cass Co, TX, by 1910 in was living in Taylor Co, TX. In 1916 he was in Red River Co, TX.  From there he came to Bexar Co. where he opened the Grant Hotel in down town San Antonio. He made this his home till his death in 1937. (Cindy Munson ←)
• HANSON, John Wesley and wife Elizabeth Best Hanson to Pickens Co. AL about 1841 (Joe Stegall)
• HARRIS, Jessie B. with Sutton Family and Allison Family moved to Talking Rock GA in Pickens Co. GA in the 1850's (Charles Harris)
• HAWKINS, John M., to Dekalb Co., GA by 1857
• HAYGOOD, Asa and wife Sarah Barnes Haygood to Union County GA between 1840 and 1850 (Edie Brand)
• HAYNES, Edward, to Carroll County, GA in 1829 (Cathy Moore Casper)
• HAYNES, Henry, to Carroll County, GA in 1829 (Cathy Moore Casper)
• HAYNES, Jonathan, to Carroll County, GA in 1829 (Cathy Moore Casper)
• HEATH, Henry Griffin, to Rusk County, Tx. 1847.  (Sibyl Slavin, Choctaw, Ok.)
• HIGGINS, Rhoda to Gilmer Co., GA about 1842-1850 (Trish Henson)
• HOLCOMBE, William Russell to Gainesville Hall County, GA ca 1860
• HOWELL, Michael, to Montgomery Co., AR between 1840 and 1849 (Susan Lloyd)
• IVIE, Thomas Holbert, to Anderson County, Texas before 1915 and Smith County, Texas before 1953 (Cindy Turbeville)
• JACKSON Joseph, to Union County, GA 1832 (John Duckworth)
• JACKSON  William Marion, to Union County, GA 1832 (John Duckworth)
• JOHNSON, John Wesley, to Tallapoose Co. AL, about 1875
• KINNEY, William, to Carroll County, GA in 1829 (Cathy Moore Casper)
• KINSEY, William Jr., to Bartow County.
  I know he married in Gilmer County in 1844 and was in the 1850, 1870 and 1880 census of Bartow County.  His wife was Jane Worley Kinsey.  They came to Habersham around 1823 to best of our knowledge from Pendleton Dist. of S.C.  I believe my great, great, great grandfather is buried in Habersham but have not found out for sure.  He was William Kinsey Sr. He came to Habersham with his wife (Mary?) and 6 children.  He was in the 1830 census but not in the 1840. (Linda Barnes ←)
• KUYKENDALL, Abraham to Cherokee Co., GA by 1836  (Bill Ramsaur) wframsaur@aol.com
• LANDERS, Merida M. to Montgomery Co., AR about 1871 (Wanda McCurley)
• MAHAN, John & wife ALLEN, Elizabeth & son MAHAN, Robert Howard, to Walker Co., GA about 1836 (Joy W. Mahan)
• MATOY, William, to Cherokee County, NC before 1840 (Jo Stakely)
• McAFEE, Hugh, to Lumpkin Co., GA between 1830 and 1837 (Barbara Harrell)
• McAFEE, Jordan, to Rabun Co., GA after 1880 (Barbara Harrell)
• 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 (McCraking; McCrackin), David, (ca 1750 - 1812)and wife Elizabeth
  WILSON McCRACKEN moved to Lincoln Co TN approximately 1800 (Cole Owen)
• McCRACKEN (McCrackin), Joseph, (1776 - 1848), son of David McCRACKEN,
  relocated from Habersham to Haywood Co NC approximately 1800 to 1805 (Cole Owen)
• MCDOWELL, Daniel, to Carroll County, GA in 1829 (Cathy Moore Casper)
• MERRELL, Benjamin, to Carroll County, GA in 1829 (Cathy Moore Casper)
• MULLINAX, Holbert, to Lumpkin 1840, Cass 1850, Gordon 1860, Chattooga thereafter. (Sherman Gibbs) 
• MURDOCH, Joseph H., to Cobb Co., GA between 1830 and 1834 (Mary Murdoch Turney)
• NICHOLS, Augustine B.  (Gus) b. 1860 married Maryetter Church; Migrated to Polk County, Tennessee before 1890 and then to McMinn County, Tennessee. (RaNelle Parker ←)
• NICHOLS, Eliza Lucinda  b. 1864 m. William Rufus Reepe.  Migrated before 1910 to McMinn County, Tennessee.  (RaNelle Parker ←)
• NICHOLS, Jefferson Davis b. 1860 m. Elizabeth Prince.  Migrated to McMinn County, Tennessee befdore 1900. (RaNelle Parker ←)
• NICHOLS, William Pickney b. 1821 in Pendleton Dist of SC m. Mary Valentine Anderson; Migrated to Jefferson County Tennessee before 1870. (RaNelle Parker ←)
• NICHOLS, William Pinkston b. 1853 married Elizabeth Ayers.  Migrated to Polk County, Tennessee before 1890; then to New Mexico and by 1920 to Clarendon, Donley County, Texas. (RaNelle Parker ←)
• NIX, John Sr., migrated to Monroe Ms. from Habersham Co. earlier part of Franklin Co. He left in or about 1820 with his older daughters and younger sons.  (Dorothy P. Nix)                                            
• O'BANION, Green Hamilton, to Benton Co., AL in 1837
• PALMER, George, to Carroll County, GA in 1829 (Cathy Moore Casper)
• PERKINS, Valero/Valeria Ann, to Dekalb Co., GA by 1857
• PRINCE, Oliver Cromwell left Habersham Co and arrived in Greenville, Greenville County, SC, Jan 1 1921 (at midnight). With him he brought his wife Rosa Mae (Hopkins) Prince and daughters Pearl, Rebecca, and Annie Bell (HEATHENS)
• QUARLES, Frances to Gilmer Co., GA about 1850 (Trish Henson)
• QUARLES, John to Gilmer Co., GA about 1842-1850 (Trish Henson)
• RITCH, Jerimiah E. (Jerry), Captain CSA   born 1829   Moved to Athens, Clarke Co., Georgia  about 1850 (Ann Brackett ←)
• RITCH, Paul to Canada in 1900
• ROACH, James, to Rabun Co., GA about 1820 (Marsha Roach ←)
• ROE, Anselm/Ansalem, to Lumpkin Co., GA before 1837 (Barbara Harrell)
• RUSSELL, George & Elizabeth, to Floyd Co. GA. 1822 - 1830, daughter Susan born in 1822 in Habersham/Rabun Co. GA. (Frederica Mathis Fox ←)
• SHORE, Edith Matilda Wade, to Floyd Co., GA between 1850 and 1860 (Linda McDaniel Smith)
• **SHORE, John, to Banks Co., GA in 1858 (Linda McDaniel Smith)
• SHORE, John Ingram, to Floyd Co., GA between 1850 and 1860 (Linda McDaniel Smith)
• **SHORE, Mahalia Suddeth, to Banks Co., GA in 1858 (Linda McDaniel Smith)
• SINARD, Johnson, to Paulding Co., GA after 1830 (Barbara Harrell) SOSEBEE, LECROY & other families came with them.
• STATON, William Allen or STRIBLING, Theresa, they were married in Hall County in 1836 but children born of Captain Smith, Habersham, Georgia.  They migrated in 1846/47 to Hot Spring County, Arkansas.  I am trying to locate name of William's parents.
• MAHAN, Archibald came to Walker Co., GA about 1840 (Joy W. Mahan)
• TAYLOR, Bird & Florence to Oconee Co., S.C. ca. 1901
• THEDFORD, William to Walker Co GA about 1833 (Gold Lottery) (Marvin Thedford ←)
• TURNER, Hiram, to Izard Co. AR before 1850 (Mary Clegg ←)
• TURNER, Jarret, to Union County GA before 1834 (Kathy Taylor ←)
• WEBB, Archibald and wife HIGGINS, Mary with Elias, Aden, Nancy & William. Left bet. 1830 & 1840 to Hall County, Georgia (Jerry Webb ←)
• WESTMORELAND, Andrew Jackson 1853 to Buncombe County, North Carolina.  His wife WARD, Cynthia Melissa also migrated with him.  (Teresa Adcock ←)
• WHEELER, Colby, through Catoosa Co GA then Walker Co GA about 1830 (Anne Renshaw ←)
• WHITE, Joseph P. W., through Walker County GA after 1840 and onto Franklin County AL by 1870 (Doris A. W. Oakes ←)
• WOOD, Enoch to Pope County, Arkansas, 1830-1840

** Denotes those families who were living in the part of Habersham Co. that became Banks Co., GA in 1858.

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