Fifth Generation

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

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Charles McLin Keith was born on February 13, 1866 in Georgia, probably in Spaulding County. He is my great great grandfather on my father’s side. Charles McLin Keith was born to William James Keith and Elizabeth McLin (or McLean). He is of mainly Scottish descent.

William James Keith was born in Tennessee around 1836 and was the son of a Presbyterian minister of Tennessee also named William J.Keith. William James Keith Sr. was highly educated and known as a great minister in the church. William Keith Jr.’s mother was Martha Shumate and his stepmother was Julia Winn the daughter of Minor Winn who was the nephew of General Richard Winn, a US Representative from South Carolina. Unfortunately, I do not know William Keith’s occupation or whether or not he served in the military. The Keith family moved to Georgia sometime in the 1840’s first to Monroe County and then to Pike County. Later they moved to Griffin, Georgia where William James Keith Sr. became the leader of the First Presbyterian Church.

Elizabeth McLin or McLean was also born in Tennessee around 1840. We don’t know her parent’s names or where exactly she was born. She married William James Keith on December 12,1856 in Atlanta, Fulton, GA. They had four children. Laura was born in 1859 in Tennessee. Nathaniel was born in 1864 in Georgia. Charles was born in 1866 and Elizabeth in 1869. Only Laura was born in Tennessee. The gap in Laura’s and Nathaniel’s ages suggests that William James was in the Civil War.

Charles was raised in Georgia and later lived in Griffin, Ga in Spaulding County where his grandfather was a minister.He went to school there.

The above picture is of the railroad depot in Griffin, GA. The railroad the the major source of economy in Griffin. This is where Charles Keith began his career. He was a clerk for the railroad. He transferred to Atlanta in the mid 1880’s to work for the railroad there. He married Mary Addie Patrick in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia in 1888.

According to the 1900 census he rented a home on 32 Slone Wall, Ward 1, Atlanta, Fulton, GA. Only Norman was going to school. Julian, Leone, and Charlotte were still very young and stayed at home. It says on the census that two other children had died by 1900. Charles Keith was still working as a clerk at the railroad. His neighbors were Francis Aiken a building inspector. An English doctor named Elizabeth Smith lived down the street.

Mary Addie Keith’s father died in 1907, the family moved back to Griffin, Georgia around this time. In the 1910 census the family was living on 203 N 6th St where they owned the house. Norman was married by then to Sarah Berry. They lived with her father, Thomas Berry at 306 N 6th St. Charles supported the family by working as a salesman. Charles’s mother-in-law was living with them. She was 69 years old. Mary Addie’s 36 year old younger sister Kate Patrick was also living with them. She was a bookkeeper for a Sewing Machine Retail Store. Norman was a printer for the newspaper.

 

 

 

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8. Irby Overton Lee was born on February 2, 1901 in Whitewater Township, Oconee County, South Carolina. His parents are John James Lee and Mattie Emaline Sheppard. He died on December 11, 1984 in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee. He married Ruth Hester Fowler in June 5, 1930 in Bolton, Fulton, Georgia. He later adopted Ruth’s son, Charles Henry Keith. He is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee. He had three brothers and two sisters.
He grew up in rural South Caroline but his family moved to close to a school for they felt education was important. I don’t know much else about his childhood. He went to college in South Carolina and later moved to the Atlanta, Georgia area. There he met Ruth Hester Fowler Keith. They married in the Atlanta area and soon moved because of the depression. They moved at one point to Texas and then to Chattanooga where he started Lee Furniture Company. He was given a key to the city, but I think the key was to East Ridge, TN. He traveled a lot because of his business and we still have the old postcards. They built a home in Chattanooga in the 1950’s and never moved. It was out in the country when they built it, but now it is down the street from Hamilton Place Mall. Irby Lee was active in a Presbetyrian Church for most of his life. He and Ruth had a beautiful and loving relationship and every picture of them together shows them having fun. I don’t remember much about him, as I was only 6 when he died. I remember him giving me candy from a ceramic bowl of strawberries and that he was bald. He seemed nice to me. He died at the age of 83.

9. Ruth Hester Fowler was born on July 30, 1901 in Mooresville, Iredell, North Carolina and is the daughter of William Henry Fowler and Theadora Mae Deaton. She has two brothers and three sisters.

Her father worked for the railroads and that is probably what brought them to Atlanta, GA. According to the census they were in Atlanta, Ward 5, Fulton County, Georgia by 1910. She was very fashionable and wore the best clothes and make-up. She met Julian Keith while she was in High School. She described him as very handsome and an extremely charming man. I can see that from the few photos I have found of him. She told me they would meet behind the school and kiss. She married him at the age of 17 and had her darling son, Charles Henry Keith in January of 1920. I have heard that there were complications and that is why she could have no more children, but right now that is rumor. She divorced him before my grandfather turned 10, I think he was 8. I have heard two reasons why. My grandfather said his grandmother told him that his father had an affair or tried to have an affair with the maid. Ruth Lee told me it was because he drank and gambled too much. She was senile when she told me this though. It could be a combination of the two. Long too long afterwards she married Irby Lee. She worked most of her life as a saleswoman and woked in the Personality Shop in Chattanooga, TN. She never liked her daugher-in-law Frances Tucker. I have seen then fight myself. We called her Meemaw. I lived with her the last year of her life. It was stressful because she was senile and in poor health, but sometimes Meemaw could be a lot of fun and I enjoyed talking to her. She would give me fashion advice and hated the way modern girls dressed. She once tried to fix my hair like a flapper girl. In her mind, it was still 1930. We never got to know her age because she always lied about it. Her house was like a museum from the 1950’s. She even kept the same make-up! When she passed away, I missed her a lot. She was definitely a woman ahead of her time.

They only had one child

Charles Henry (Keith) Lee 1920-2005

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