Outside Georgia Queries
Welcome to the outside Georgia Query section of the Floyd County, Gerogia Home Page. This area is for queries by those who have ancestry from outside Georgia that settled inside Floyd County, Georgia only. If you have have a query for Floyd county only, please use the Floyd County area. If you have ancestry that settled in Floyd County from the counties that surround Floyd County, please use the surrounding counties queries.
Rosie Cantrell - 10/04/04 Trying to find offspring of John Burgess b. 1809 in TN and his wife Rachel Smith (they married in 1831) and were found on the 1850 Census for Floyd Co, GA. any help would be much appreciated. I am hoping he might be my gggranddad's father.
Doloros Britton Horne - 06/16/03 I am looking for descendants of Robert (Bob) Lance who lived near Rome Georgia in 1939. He moved from Buncombe Co., NC. Parents were Nancy and Thomas Lance. He had a twin sister named Mary.
Jacob L. Bateman III or Le - 12/23/02 I am seeking information on Charles F. SPORMAN Jr., who was the son of Dr. Mac Price SPORMAN and Ina HEARN of Headland, Alabama. Charles F. SPORMAN Jr. married a girl named Margaret, I do not know what her maiden name was. Their children were David and Alice SPORMAN. I believe that Charles Frederick SPORMAN may have moved to Floyd County Georgia from Henry County Alabama. That is how his children were in Rome Georgia. Also interested to know if there may have been a William ANDREWS SPORMAN or at least his children that also relocated to Rome Georgia.
Deborah Nation - 06/08/02 I am looking for information on Josiah Nations and family. Josiah was born approx 1812 in SC. He was married and in the Cass Co., GA 1850 census, it appears he is married to Leah and had the following children: Martha, Delpha, Nancy, Pamela or Penniza, Elizabeth, James, Barry, Rachel, George and Belzz. In the Floyd Cty 1870 census, it shows Fair Nation as head of the household of these same children. I'm not sure about the difference in names. Evidently Josiah had passed away. I believe there are records showing that Josiah served in the Civil War and may have been killed. I'm not sure. I want to know who James Nation married. I believe he may be the father of Adolphus Nation, my husband's grandfather. I would appreciate any help and information.
Fran Weatherby - 02/19/01 I would like to correspond with anyone researching the Hart family of Cherokee County, Al and Floyd County, Ga. Charles Henry Hart was born 20 Sep 1884 in Cherokee; married Eula Hardin in Cherokee 12 Jun 1912; and died 13 Nov 1968 in Floyd County. Known children are Ethel, Hugh Don, Pearl, Burley, Charles Fletcher, and a daughter who married Walter Garrison. Related families include Bishop, Whistenant, Couey, Cowart, and Garrison. Charles Henry Hart's sister, Mary Bell Hart Weatherby, was my grandmother.
RBrooks - 01/27/97 I am seeking parents and exact birth place of Frederick Thomas Griffin who married Amanda Swilling in Floyd County, GA on Dec. 28, 1858. They had two daughters, Olivia and Gertrude. Frederick served in the Civil War and died in 1865, in Floyd Co. of "Disease". On every record I find for him, he gives his birthplace as "SC". I know that his wife Amanda came from near Anderson, SC. I believe he may have been from the same area. Amanda's family (her father was James Swilling Jr.) moved to Floyd County approximately 1850. I am guessing Frederick was from the same area of South Carolina and may have followed Amanda to Georgia. I cannot find him as a member of any family in Floyd County on the 1850 Census, so I am guessing he came after 1850 but before 1858. We came to Rome last fall to research this family and the Morris family. We hope to return to Rome this spring for more research. My husband's mother, Ruth Morris Brooks, is buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery. She grew up in Rome and attended Shorter College.
Angela Markwalter - 04/14/97 I would like to contact anyone researching the Erasmus BEARDEN (b. 1800 SC) family who show up on the 1860 Floyd county census in dwelling #1048, Mathis (?) Dist. I am wondering if the William listed in this household, could be my gg grandfather, William BEARDEN (b. ca. 1838, d. during civil war) who was born in either GA, SC, or TN. After I started going through census stuff and old records, I found something to the effect that he met his wife, Passey Ann GOODE, in Atlanta (though her family was from B'ham).
Earl and Judith Anderson - 07/14/97 Seeking information on wife, children, birth of CAPT. JAMES BOGGS child: Lucrecia Eveline BOGGS b. 13 Oct 1847 Clarke Co, GA, probably died Floyd Co, near Rome GA Eveline m. William Henry BARNES, b. 27 Mar 1847, d. 5 May 1909, Floyd Co, near Rome GA W.H. was in 18th GA Confederate Civil War, POW, wounded Gettysburg, PA Any help would be so appreciated.
J. John -07/14/97 Nona Johnson 7/8/97 Am searching for info on Ralph SUIT, wife Eliza. They may have been born in Tenn. and they lived in Rome, GA. around 1880, as that was the approx. time my grandfather, their son, was born.
Paul Beauregard - 08/04/97 GUNTER, WILLIAMS families. I am researching for the records of the family listed in the 1850 GA census under the name LEMUEL GUNTER and his wife REBBECA (WILLIAMS) GUNTER. They were from NC and probably for awhile from SC. I am interested in Rachel Xxxxx, born GA and was married to the son JESSE GUNTER, alias LEMUEL GUNTER G.A.R., alias JESSE LEMUEL GUNTER (jr.) born ca 1843 NC. Badly need Rachel's maiden name and history. She lived in McComb TX in 1870 and died about 1870- 1874.
Lawrence (Larry) Roberts - 03/09/98 Can someone help me find information about Cooper Bennett Roberts who lived in Floyd County? He married Permelia Phillips in Walton Co. in 1828, but was in Floyd Co. in April 1835 when his name appeared as one of three Judges of Inferior Court signing an instrument accepting property for the citizens of Floyd Co. to move the county seat from Livingston to Rome. He is listed in the 1840 Census in Floyd Co., but is listed in Walker Co. in 1850.
Diane Bell - 03/16/98 I am seeking any relatives of James Fulton HATCHER, born in South Carolina. At the 1850 census he was 14 and living with the Dickerson family in Floyd Co. Georgia.
Hohman - 04/13/98 Enoch Eran BARKER born 28 May 1851 Gainsesville, GA on cenuses says his parents born in South Carolina - names unknown. Married Lutitia Griffing 11 Dec 1878 in Logan Co., Arkansas where Enoch died 14 Feb 1942. NEED parents names.
Deborah Mullins - 08/24/98 Debby Mullins: I am looking for the descendants of GEORGE WILLIAM FALKENER LAMKIN, JR. and FRANCES ROWENA THORPE. He was born in Warren County, NC. He followed his uncle, with the same name, to the Rome area in the late 1850's. GEROGE,Jr. served in the Confederate army. His children were JULIA, who married J.T. HUNT, CHARLES, FRANCIS, ROBERT, and WILLIAM.
Sandy Vaughan - 08/24/98 I am looking for information on my ggrandfather who is said to have been born in Rome Georgia, Union County Feb. 15, 1862. His name was William Noah Rhodes. His father was Wesley Rhodes and his mother Nancy Stewart Rhodes. He had brothers named Columbus L. and Buck Rhodes. Sisters Nancy and Sarah Elizabeth. In 1882 he went to Missouri to work on the railroad, married my ggrandmother and settled there. He lived until the age of 98 years.
Phyllis McReynolds - 03/22/99 I am looking for any information on Ernest GIBSON who was married to Amanda Paralee SMITH. They were originally from Sevier County, TN. They were married in 1904 and had one daughter, Lena May. The GIBSON'S were living in Rome, GA (Floyd County) at the time of Amanda's death in 1906. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Donald C. Westbrook - 06/21/99 Looking for information of the family or decendents of Henry Thomas Westbrook, Born 31, March 1862 in Cotton Plant, Tippah County, Mississippi and raised in Corinth, Alcorn County, Mississippi.. It is family lore that he eloped to Rome in Floyd County, Georgia and worked at a drug store In Rome. Time frame would be later 1800s to early 1900s.
Mark Dixon - 07/19/99 I am trying to find out information on John W. Sledge (3-3-1794) married Maria Davis (b 3-7-1804) They married 12-24-1822. My information lists Floyd Co. GA and Rome as where he lived or was born He or his family came from NC &/or Va -- probably his father was James Sledge from Warren Co., NC -- His son Willis Person Sledge ended up in Tipton Co. Tenn (I have Bible records from Willis to present)
Marshel Roy Cunningham - 09/13/99 Seeking researchers/desecendants of Attorney Charles B Samuels who was practicing law in 1870 in Rome. His father in law William L Prentice was elected Marshal of Rome in 1872. Both families came from Shelby County Alabama in the 1860s.
Imogene Tibbs - 11/15/99 I am researching Tibbs of Chattooga County. Any advice, links, etc., will be very helpful, as I have not located them past Horace Tibbs grandfather to Sidney Tibbs.
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