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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1. Mary Addie Patrick born Sep 1867 in Spalding County, Georgia and died on Oct 9, 1933 in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia.

PARENTS

2. Marion Jefferson Patrick as born on Apr 25, 1841 in Henry County, Georgia and died on April 27, 1907 in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia.

3. Hannah Elizabeth Heflin was born on July 16, 1840 in Spalding County, Georgia. We are not sure about her death date but know she died in Griffin, Spalding, Georgia.

GRANDPARENTS

4. Wiley Heflin Patrick was born on Oct 25, 1820 in Walton County, Georgia and died on June 18, 1890. He was a Mason and served in the Georgia House of Representatives.

5. Sarah Emaline Thomason was born on March 8, 1824 probably in Henry County, Georgia and died on August 1, 1848 in Spalding County, Georgia.

6. Wyatt Homer Heflin was born on Sep 30, 1811 in Henry County, Georgia and died on January 22, 1882 probably in Cabin, Georgia.

7. Lucinda McGinty was born on Nov 30, 1816 in Georgia and died on Sep 18, 1906 in Spalding County, Georgia.

GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

8. Luke Patrick was born on Dec 7, 1793 in Wilkes County, Georgia and died on Mar 22, 1837 in Henry County, Georgia. I can’t find a marriage date.

9. Elizabeth Abigail Heflin was born on Apr 1, 1803 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and died on Apr 5, 1882 in Spalding County, Georgia.

10. Littleton Thomason was born on Mar 3, 1792 probably in North Carolina and died on Jun 30, 1839 in Henry County, Georgia. We don’t know who his parents were. He married Nancy Driskell on Jun 27, 1821 in Jasper, Georgia.

11. Nancy we don’t know when she was born. She was probably born around 1785. I found on a website that said that Nancy was a Betts who first married John Driskell and then married Littleton Thomason. Accoring to the Georgia Marriage Records, a Nancy Betts married a John Driskell on Mar 16, 1806 in Hancock, Georgia. However, Nancy Betts might have been too old to have Martha or Simeon. Interestingly a John Driskell who was born in 1813 married a Susannah Heflin in 1833.

12. Wiley Heflin was born in May 1772 in Granville County, North Carolina and died on Apr 15, 1835 in Locust Grove, Henry County, Georgia. He is also the father of #9 Elizabeth Heflin so he is both a great grand father and GG grandfather to Mary Patrick. He married Hannah Boggus on Nov 3, 1800 in Granville, North Carolina.

13. Hannah Boggus or Boggess was born on Feb 9, 1783 in North Carolina (probably Granville County) and died on Feb 12, 1836 in Locust Grove, Henry, Georgia.

14. Isaac McGinty was born about 1775 in probably Wilkes County, Georgia and died after 1860 in Griffin, Spalding, Georgia. According to the census he lived next door to his daughter Lucinda #7. He married Sarah Samples in Baldwin County, Georgia on July 7, 1814 and later Mary Malone in 1832 in Pike County, Ga.

15. Sarah Sample was born around 1791 in Baldwin County, Georgia. I can’t find much about her family. She probably died between 1825 and 1829. The McGinty family were Quakers through their mother and the Sample family was an old Quaker family. Sample is a Scottish name. Isaac probably met Sarah through church. There are several Sample families who connect. I can’t find which ones are Sarah’s parents.

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This is one side of the family that I do not know much about. However, the little I have been finding out has been interesting and I would like to know more about the Patrick family of Georgia.

Mary Addie “Ada” Patrick was born in September 1867 in Georgia and died on October 9, 1933 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. She is the daughter of Marion Jefferson “Van” Patrick and Hannah Elizabeth Heflin.

Marion Jefferson Patrick was born on April 25, 1841 in Henry County, Georgia and died on April 27, 1907. I think they lived in Spalding County. His father was Wiley Heflin Patrick and his mother was Sarah Emaline Thomason. Marion J. Patrick fought in the Civil War as a calvary man for the Confederacy. He married Hannah Heflin in 1861. He didn’t have children until Mary Addie in 1867. Sometime near this time the Patrick family moved to Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia.

We don’t have a lot of information about his wife Hannah Heflin. In the 1910 census, Mary Addie Keith in living with her mother Mary J Patrick and her sister Kate Patrick. We don’t know if Marion J Patrick remarried or not. Marion Patrick was a shoe salesman in Griffin, Georgia.

Perhaps Mary met her husband, Charles Keith in school or church since they both grew up in Griffin, GA. I would like to see old school records of Griffin, GA. She married Charles Keith in 1888 when she was 21 in nearby Atlanta, GA. She had 4 children:

1.Norman Lesle Keith 1890-1919 married Sarah Berry

2. Laura Leone Keith 1894-1972 married Eugene Breedlove. She later moved to Jacksonville, FL

3. Julian McLin Keith 1897-?? married Ruth Fowler. She divorced him around 1930. He is my great-grandfather biologically. We do not know his death date. After 1930, he is a mystery.

4. Charlotte M Keith 1900-???? She is also a mystery.

It seems that after Julian’s parents died, my great grandmother no longer kept in contact with Julian Keith. I would like to see pictures of the Patrick family and learn more about Marion Patrick’s military experience.

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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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4. Charles Henry Lee Sr. was born in 1920 in Atlanta, Fulton, GA and died on the 12th of June 2005. He is the son of Julian McLin Keith and Ruth Hester Fowler and the stepson of Irby Overton Lee. On March 31, 1941 he married Frances Tucker. He is buried at the National Cemetery in Chattanooga, TN because he was a veteran on WWII and was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army.

He was born Charles Henry Keith. He was named after his grandfathers, Charles Keith and William Henry Fowler. He was a serious child and was the only child. He loved military stuff. His neighbors fought in WWI along with an uncle. His mother, Ruth Fowler spoiled him and dressed him in fancy clothes. His father Julian Keith was a handsome charming man according to the few pictures I have seen. They divorced when Charles Henry KEith was a child. Ruth married Irby Lee. During the depression they moved around a lot. They lived in Texas for a while and then to Chatttanooga, TN where his step father owned a furniture store. He never saw his biological father again. Irby Lee adopted Charles Keith and his name was changed to Charles Henry Lee. He grew up Presbetyrian in Chattanooga and went to High School there. He was good with math and science and loved foreign language and boxing. He went to University at the University of Tennessee Knoxville Campus and studied Engineering. He was handsome, but was kind of a nerd and dressed in clothes his mother picked out for him. He met his wife, Frances Tucker, a sorority girl. SHe dated him on a dare but discovered she loved him. They found out they shared a passion in tennis. They eloped to be married after a two month courtship. WWII had begun and my grandfather volunteered to be a pilot, his long dream. He became a pilot and in 1944 flew on a mission to Romania, on the way back he was shot down in Italy and became missing in action for a few months until early 1945. We still have the letters. He came home soon after he was found and moved to Ripley, TN where his wife’s fmaily lived and his father-in-law was mayor. In Ripley, he had his 4 children. He went active duty again and was stationed at Fort Knox, KY. His wife hated it and his son learned how to say curse words there. He then was an architect in Jackson, TN and then moved to Memphis where he worked at the Housing and Urban development. After his childre grew up, he took a job with HUD in Florida where he then retired. Then his parents in Chattanooga became ill and his father Irby Lee died. They moved to Chattanooga to take care of the elderly Ruth Lee. They would still take trips to Florida and Las Vegas with friends and enjoyed life until they became too old. My grandfather has several strokes and bowl problems and lived in pain for many years. He finally passed away when he was 85 years old.

5. Frances Tucker was born in 1920 and is still alive. She was born in Ripley, Lauderdale, TN and is the daughter of Joseph Magruder Tucker and Ida Pope Majors. She had five older brothers and she was the youngest.

Her mother died when she was 5. She loved growing up in Ripley. She was best friends with Betty Berg whose parents owned Berf and Schaeffer. Frances’ father also owned a couple of businesses in Ripley. He worked hard in his community and later became mayor of the town. My grandmother was pretty as a princess, but growing up with all boys, she loved tennis and basketball. She was sent to an all girl’s school along with her good friend Betty. Then she went to college at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and was a sorority girl. She became scandalous when she began dating the nerdy non frat boy Charles Lee. She and her friends would make fun of Charles as he sat alone in the cafeteria wearing the ugliest sweaters. Her friends dared her to ask him out on a date. They did and she fell in love. Under that ugly sweater was a tall, handsome, intelligent man. In 1942, they eloped to be married. Her husband soon joined the army to become a pilot. She followed him whereever he went to train and even went to Idaho. After he had to leave to go to EUrope, my grandmother drove all the way from Idaho to Tennessee by herself. She stopped in Utah and said she saw the Salt Lake Temple. Her husband was shot down in Europe and was missing in action. This was a scary time for her. She spent the time playing Bridge to get her mind off of her troubles. She was happy when he was found and told him in a letter she would try to lose all of the weight she gained eating while she was worried about him. They lived in Ripley, where her husband worked for her father. She had four children there. She hired a baby nurse even though at first she thought it was a bad idea to do so. She always played bridge and would join social clubs. She loved that sort of thing. She hated it when her husband went to Fort KNox and thought Kentucky was “too Yankee”. She lieved in JAckson where she played bridge and then to Memphis where she did a lot of community type work and was active in church. She always believed in having fun and would regularly play tennis and go to the beaches in Florida to swim. Whereever she lived she would do work in her communities and join social clubs. She loved FLorida and had many friends, but she moved to Chattanooga to care for her mother-in-law. She still kept in touch with Betty Berg who now was married to a man named Herbert. (I can’t remember his last name) THey went to LAs Vegas together. Finally, she got too old. Her husband died in 2005. She is one of the last of her generation alive. She is now living near Knoxville.

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