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NOTE 1./ THE LUCIUS CHILDERS FAMILY

Reproduced from Crisp County's History in Pictures and Stories published 1978 by Cordele-Crisp County Historical Society, Inc - pages 86-87.

Lucius Hoy Childers was born the fifth child of Michael and Mary Elizabeth (George) Childre on June 9, 1864, in Crawford County. Michael Childre was one of six children born to a plantation owner, Nathan Childre, and his wife, Patsy. Nathan and Patsy Childre settled in Crawford County in the early 1800's. When Nathan died, he left the majority of his estate to his eldest son. Michael remained and was the caretaker of the house and share left to his stepmother, Martha, Nathan's second wife. Michael fought for the Southern cause in the Civil War. He died at the age of 38 while on a wagon train headed for Texas while they were passing through Alabama. His wife and children returned to Crawford County, Georgia, with some of her family to make her home near her relatives. Lucius was forced to quit school to help his 15-year-old brother and mother operate the farm. Their maternal grandmother was widowed and lived with them, also. When Lucius was 32, he married Nancy Lewis in Crawford County on December 18, 1894. She was the daughter of Zackariah Lewis. When Zack was a very young man, he came to Georgia as a slave caretaker and stayed. He purchased land and became a wealthy man. He had a large 2-story house. Nancy's mother was Sarah Anne Moncrief, the daughter of David and Sarah (Pollard) Moncrief. David and Sarah had seven sons, all of whom served in the Confederate Army, three of them losing their lives. They also had four daughters. Zack Lewis was married to Mary Jane Moncrief, and later, to Sarah Anne, her younger sister. Zack and Sarah Anne had nine children: Soloman (Sol), Nancy Childers, Jackson (Jack), Rufus (Ruf), Edna Bagwell, Ella Mae (Dolly), Annie Posey, Isabelle (Issie) Stevens, and Bessie Eaves.
Lucius and Nancy lived on Zack Lewis's place and farmed from 1894 until they moved to Crisp County in December of 1912. They and their 7 children moved on a wagon with a cow and calf tied behind it. The trip took three days and 2 nights. Their children played along the way, walking part of the time to rest from riding in the jolting wagon which was loaded with all their possessions. The older boys rode along the side and helped drive the wagon. The nights were spent under and around the wagon with a camp fire providing warmth and protection. The second night, they stayed at Dooly County Camp Grounds. The third day, they arrived in Crisp County about sundown at Sol Lewis's Nancy's older brother's home. This farm is still intact today about 10 miles south of Cordele on Hwy. 33 and remains in the Lewis family. Sol and Ellen Lewis's daughter, Josie (Lewis) Sego, live there in the old home.
When the 1913 spring planting season arrived, Lucius, Nancy, and their family settled in one of Sol Lewis's sharecropper houses and planted a crop. They lived and farmed in Crisp County from that time until their deaths.

Lucius married Nancy L LEWIS on 19 Dec 1894 in Crawford County, Georgia. Nancy (daughter of Zachariah LEWIS and Sarah Ann Elizabeth MONCRIEF) was born on 02 Mar 1875 in Crawford County, Georgia; died on 05 Mar 1957 in Crisp County Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. WW1 Henry Michael CHILDERS was born on 13 Dec 1895 in Crawford County, Georgia; died on 20 Aug 1990 in Crisp County, Georgia.
2. Mary Lucy CHILDERS was born about 1897 in Crawford County, Georgia; died after 1930 in Turner County, Georgia.
3. Dovey CHILDERS was born on 19 Oct 1898 in Crawford County, Georgia; died on 23 Oct 1952 in Crisp County, Georgia.
4. Lucius E. CHILDERS was born on 22 Nov 1900 in Crawford County, Georgia; died on 18 Apr 1984 in Crisp County, Georgia.
5. Clara Mae CHILDERS was born on 21 Sep 1902 in Crawford County, Georgia; died on 27 Mar 1982 in Cordele, Crisp County Georgia; was buried in Zion Hope cemetery, Antioch Baptist Church, Cordele, Crisp County Georgia..
6. Living CHILDERS
7. Walter Joe CHILDERS was born in 1912 in Crawford County, Georgia; died on 01 Nov 1977 in Crisp County, Georgia.
8. Cornelius CHILDERS was born in Jul 1916 in MD 945 Crisp County, Georgia; died on 20 Aug 1926 in Crisp County, Georgia.

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NOTE 1./

Childres, Michael -Enlisted as a private in Co. F, 2d Regi- ment, 1st Brig ade, Ga. State Troops October 14, 1861. Granted leave of absence on account of illness in family January 23, 1862. Mustered out in 1862. Enlist ed as a private in Co. F, 57th Regiment Ga. Inf. May 3,1862. Captured at V icksburg, Miss. July 4,1863. Exchanged in 1863. Wounded at Atlanta, Ga. July 22, 1864. Pension records show he surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. Apr il 26, 1865. Died of typhoid fever near Montgomery, Ala. March 4, 187 5. (From roster of confederate soldiers, 57th GA Infantry, co F, Crawfo rd rifles)

CSA married Mary Elizabeth GEORGE on 02 Apr 1857 in Crawford County, Georgia. Mary (daughter of William H GEORGE and Elizabeth GRIMES) was born about 1839 in Georgia; died about 1912 in Crawford County, Georgia; was buried in Ebenezer United Methodist Church, Macon, Bibb Co, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From 1850 Crawford County Census image ( #29 of 105 ) William Childers family lives only one home away from Nathaniel Sr and his family. In the 1840 Crawford census, William and his wife and one female child at age < 5 years are enumerated. By 1850 William has added 8 more children in those 10 years. There is no record of William or his family in the 1860 Crawford census. There must almost certainly be a family connection between William b. cir 1819 and Nathaniel b. cir 1799, but non has been documented yet.

Nathan married Martha (Patsy) WELLS. Martha was born on 17 Jan 1800 in Georgia; died between 1870 and 1880 in Crawford County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth GRIMES on 10 Oct 1821 in Greene County, Georgia. Elizabeth was born about 1805 in Georgia; died after 1880 in Crawford County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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NOTE 1./ Historical reference: The Year Was 1780

The year was 1780 and the American Revolution wasn't going well for the Americans in the South. British forces captured Charleston and 5,400 American troops garrisoned there. During the siege, South Carolina Governor John Rutledge managed to escape and when word reached the British General Cornwallis, he sent Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton to chase Rutledge and troops under Colonel Abraham Buford who were escorting him to North Carolina. Tarleton's men caught up with Buford's troops near the Waxhaws District six miles south of the North Carolina state line, as Governor Rutledge continued north. Buford's men put up a brief fight during which Tarleton's horse was shot from under him. As the American troops began to surrender, Tarleton's men, thinking he had been killed began renewed their attack on the surrendering Americans. More than one hundred men were killed outright and perhaps another hundred died of their wounds shortly after.

Up to that point, most thought that the South was going to remain loyal to Britain, but the Waxhaws Massacre became a rallying point for the rebels, with "Tarleton's Quarter" becoming synonymous with "no mercy."

The divisions in the South were apparent in the Battle of King's Mountain, which was fought between two American forces--Tories under the command of Major Patrick Ferguson, and the "Overmountain Men," American frontiersmen from what is now Tennessee and parts of Virginia. The Americans surrounded the Tories and this time it was they who gave "no quarter" to the surrendering Tory troops. Eventually American officers were able to reign in the troops and the battle was over. The defeat was a turning point in the Revolution in the South and forced General Cornwallis to retreat further south.

To the north, a British spy was captured with correspondence revealing that Benedict Arnold, who had recently been given command of West Point, planned to surrender it to the British. When news that the spy had been caught reached Arnold, he fled to the safety of a British ship and became a brigadier-general for the British, siding with them for the remainder of the war.

There was trouble in England as well. In 1778 a Catholic Relief Act had been passed, which reversed some of the Penal Laws of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It allowed Roman Catholics to join the armed forces with an oath amenable to Catholics and gave them the ability to hold longer leases on land. It also ended the requirement that a Catholic distribute his lands evenly among his sons upon his death. The Catholic Relief Acts weren't popular with some Protestants though and in 1780 Lord George Gordon established the Protestant Association in 1780. In June of that year an estimated 60,000 people marched on the House of Commons demanding the Relief Acts be repealed. The huge crowd turned violent and a week of rioting left two hundred and ninety people dead, and devasted Roman Catholic churches and related buildings, as well as the homes of prominent Catholics and supporters of the legislation. Troops had to be called in to end the rioting. Twenty-five of the leaders of the riot were hanged, but Gordon was found "not guilty" of treason.

May 19th was a dark day in New England--literally. A low-lying dark cloud that at times had a yellow and at times reddish hue descended on New England and was noted from Maine to as far south as New Jersey. It was darkest around northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire and Maine, where it became so dark that candles needed to be lit to see. The cause is thought to have been a combination of low clouds that mixed with smoke and ash from a forest fire, but at the time it wasn't known and the event caused panic for many.

New England's dark day was a minor event though in comparison to the hurricane season of 1780. Eight storms struck in various parts of America and the Caribbean. British fleets off American shores took heavy hits during several storms. (Hurricanes in the 1780s were the cause of more British Naval losses than battle.) The worst storm struck on October 10th devastating Barbados and the Windward Islands, and claiming an estimated 22,000 lives.

NOTE 2./ Historical Note: The Year Was 1789

The year was 1789 and in the U.S. a young government was beginning to take shape. In its first nationwide election, the popular Revolutionary War general, George Washington, became the country's first president and was sworn in at the first capitol of the United States, Federal Hall in New York City.

In France, a rebellion was underway and with the storming of the Bastille prison, the French Revolution began. In its reporting on the subject, The Times of London, England had the following to say of the conflict:

The spirit of liberty which so long lay in a state of death, oppressed by the hand of power, received its first spark of returning animation, by the incautious and impolitic assistance afforded to America. The French soldier on his return from that emancipated continent, told a glorious tale to his countrymen--"That the arms of France had given freedome to thirteen United States, and planted the standard of liberty on the battlements of New York and Philadelphia." The idea of such a noble deed became a general object of admiration, the [facets?] of a similar state were eagerly longed for by all ranks of people, and the vox populi had this force of argument--"If France gave freedom to America, why should she not unchain the arbitrary fetters which bind her own people.

Later that year, the Marquis de Lafayette, with the advice of Thomas Jefferson who was at the time the American ambassador to France, drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. It was adopted by France's National Assembly in August and ratified by Louis XVI in October.

There was unrest in other parts of the world as well. Sweden and Russia were at war, and briefly, Norway had joined the conflict, although a peace treaty was signed in July 1789.

In a smaller, but well-known conflict, the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty was also in the year 1789. On April 28, part of the crew of the Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, mutinied and set Captain William Bligh and eighteen crewmembers adrift. Bligh managed to get the boat some 3,600 miles to Timor. Some of the mutineers were captured and prosecuted--three were hanged, while others, including Fletcher Christian ended up on Pitcairn Island, where some of their descendants live to this day.

In 1789, there was an epidemic of influenza in New England, New York, and Nova Scotia, which resulted in many deaths due to secondary cases of pneumonia. The new president was among those who fell ill. He caught a cold while visiting Boston, and later, was affected more seriously with influenza, which was dubbed Washington Influenza.