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May 6th, 2009 Amber No comments

From Griffin Daily News

DEATH OF M. J. PATRICK

County Commissioner M. J. Patrick died at his home on 6th Street at 7
o’clock yesterday morning after a lingering illness of several months. His
death was the result of paralysis which rendered him unconscience several
weeks ago, but a decided rally was the occasion of hope for recovery. Last
Wednesday night consciousness again left him and the intelligence of his
impending death was a source of unanimous regret.Mr. Patrick was born in Spalding County 65 years ago the 25th of this month, and for 45 years was a prominant and influential citizen of Griffin.
Wife: Hannah Heflin. Four Children: Miss Kate Patrick Mrs. C. M. Keith, Dallas, Texas, Mrs Mae Cunningham,
P. H. Patrick of Atlanta
On December 28, 1907, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Patrick visited Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Patrick in Griffin, Georgia.

On January 4, 1908,  Miss Kathleen Cunningham and Lizzie McFadden went to Atlanta after visiting Mrs. M.J. Patrick. (Mr. M. J. Patrick had already passed away)

On February 1, 1908 Miss Kate Patrick went to Atlanta to a performance of Madam Caive at the Grande.

On January 6, 1908 Mrs. May Cunningham was the guest of her mother, Mrs. M.J. Patrick.

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Marion Jefferson “Van” Patrick

January 19th, 2009 Amber No comments

Hopefully I will have more to add:

27 Apr 1907 Dies in Griffin, Spalding, Georgia. Wife will live with daughter Addie and Kate.

1900 Census- Griffin, Spalding, Georgia Marion lives with wife Hannah and daughter Kate. They have a servant named Joe Smith. I heard that Marion Patrick was a sheriff and a Mason.

1880 Census, Griffin, Spalding, Georgia, Marion lives with wife Hannah daughter Jessie, son John, daughter Mary Addie, and Kate. He is a shoe merchant. Mary Addie is my grandfather’s grandmother. Addie is the name of her mother’s sister and her grandmother’s sister.

1870 Census Spalding County, Georgia

09 Jun 1861- marries Hannah Elizabeth Heflin daughter of Wyatt Heflin and Lucinda McGinty, his first cousin once removed. (is that right?)

Civil War- Marion J. Patrick is listed as part of 2 Georgia Calvary as a private. Do not know if this is him 100%.

1850 Census- Cabin, Spalding, Georgia. Marion is 19 living with his parents Wiley Patrick and his wife Martha (Thomason), brother John W, David L., Sarah, James, Charlie and Nanc. His father has a plantation in the Cabin District

1841- Cabin, Spalding, Georgia- Marion Jefferson Patrick is born on the 25 April, 1841 to Wiley Heflin Patrick and Sarah Emaline Thomason.

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ISAAC MCGINTY

January 19th, 2009 Amber No comments

1860 Census Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia (Cabin District) age 80 with wife Mary age 60. He lives next to his daughters Lucinda Heflin (Lucindy) and Adaline Ogletree (Addie?) He is listed as a pauper.

1850 District 42, Henry County, Georgia age 75 (?) with wife Mary age 60 and daughter E.S.R. McGinty age 13. He lives next door to daughter Adaline Ogletree

1841- Mentioned in father Robert McGinty’s will

1840-  District 576, Henry County, Georgi. He lives next door to Wyatt Heflin his son-in-law. He is listed with one son over 20 and one daughter 5-10 (E.S.R?) Daughter Adaline is probably living next door at Wyatt’s with Lucinda. She marries Abednego Ogletree not long after.

02 Feb. 1832- Isaac marries Mary Malone who is from South Carolina

1830 Census Monroe Count, Georgia, one son under 5,(unknown) 2 daughters 10-15, (Lucinda and Adaline) no wife or adult woman.

1827-Isaac gives son Shadrach L. born 07 May 1815 to brother Thomas on 15 sep 1827 in Monroe County Book E #241 Monroe Record of Deeds

1820s- appears in he History of Upson County

1820- Census Putnam County, Captain Bustins District,   1 son (Shadrach L.) and three daughters. (Lucinda, Adaline, and unknown)

1817-1818- private First Seminole War Wimberly’s First Regiment

07 Jul 1814- marries Sarah Sample in Baldwin County

Jan 1814- creditor estate settlement, William Millendon, Baldwin County

1814- private in War of 1812, Newman’s Command and 2nd Regiment Jenkin’s Command

Abt 1775 (date unknown) Isaac is born in probably Milledgeville, Georgia. His parents are Robert McGinty, a Baptist minister and Deborah Jackson a former Quaker. Both families came from Ireland though originally from Scotland and England. Isaac is a common name in the Jackson family.

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Information from Wiley Heflin’s Will

January 18th, 2009 Amber No comments

Henry County Georgia, Will Book A, 1834-1867 p.10-11

17th Oct 1832

1. Wife (Hannah) Feather Bed furniture and stead slave Morgan which after her death will be given to Wiley J.

2. Elizabeth Patrick (wife of Luke Patrick) North Half of land No. 107 in Second District of Henry County, stock of hogs and cattle, household furniture and kitchen supplies

3. Johnson Heflin- one lot of land No. 69 Second District of Henry County, one half of the mill and millseat

4. Gilley Heflin- Lot No. 64 17th district of Henry County now in Dekalb County. Money for the schooling of her three children

5. Wiley J. Heflin- One Lot of Land No. 17 in Second District of Henry County, slave named Peter

6. Wyatt Heflin- one lot of land No. Seventy in second district of Henry County, $25, and the slave Albert. Albert is later found in 1870 as a freeman. Albert Heflin was born in 1815 in Georgia. He marries a woman named Harriet who was born in 1834 in North Carolina. Albert’s children- Texas (1851), Mariah (1853), Sam (1861), John (1864), Arthur (1865), Wiley (1868), and Tempsey (1870) all born in Spalding County, Georgia. So when he was given to Wyatt he was 19 years old.

7. Temperence Henley- one lot of land No. 92 in the Second District of Henry County, with mill and millseaton lot No. 69 and one slave named Philles

8. Susanah- lt of land No. 58 in Second District of Henry County, one patent clock, $25, feather bed and furniture,and slave named Mary.

9. Sarah- one lot of land No. 15 in Second District, slave named Wilson and $25, one feather bed, bedstead and cord.

Slave Arthur would be sold. Albert Heflin names one of his sons Arthur. I wonder if Arthur is somehow related to Albert.

Wiley J. and Wyatt executors

Thomas Fincher, John Parham, Moses Boggess (brother-in-law), Jason Mackey witnesses

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Mary Addie Patrick 5th Generation and Beyond

May 27th, 2008 Amber 2 comments

This is the fifth generation of Mary Addie Patrick and beyond.

16. Alexander Patrick was born in Edgecombe County, NC around 1765 and died around 1830 in Georgia

17. Elizabeth Thompson was  born in 1768 maybe in Oglethorpe, Georgia and died in 1807 somewhere in Georgia.

18. Same as 12

19. same as 13

20. Unknown Thomason father of Littleton Thomason

22. Abraham Betts of Georgia

23. Sarah? died in Georgia

24. John Heflin 1750 Nansemond County, Virginia died 1797 in Orange County, North Carolina

25. Possibly Mary Davis who was born in 1753 in NAnsemond County, Virginia and died 1790 in Orange County, North Carolina.

26.  Rev. Robert Earl McGinty was born around 1750 possibly in Pennsylvania and died around 1841 in Monroe County, Georgia.

27.  Deborah Jackson was a Quaker born in Orange County, North Carolina and died possibly in Monroe County, Georgia.

28. Unknown Sample

29. Unknown

30. Jeremiah Boggus Mar 22, 1753 in Prince William County, Virginia and died in 1845 in Newton County, Georgia.

31. Hannah last name unknown

32. Paul Patrick 1730 Bristol Parish, Surry, Virginia

33. Agnes Milliken  1734 Edgecombe County, NC Died 1793 in Wilkes County, Georgia

34. Archibald Thompson

44. SAmuel Betts of Ireland 1730 died in 1809

45. Bridget died in 1813

50. David Davis

51. Sarah Jones

54. Thomas Jackson

55. Mary

More to come

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