tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73962794446026082252024-02-18T22:12:04.235-05:00The Middlebrooks Of Meriwether CountyMy Maternal Ancestors of Meriwether County Georgiasjtaliaferrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04485340969813958339noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396279444602608225.post-29618060185775424602012-11-18T16:51:00.000-05:002012-11-22T13:58:47.395-05:00Family Oral History – It's not always a pretty picture.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Blog Carnival – "The Ancestors Told; the Elders
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As stated on the LowCountry Africana website, <i>In honor of StoryCorps' National Day of
Listening, the Preservinators (Angela Walton-Raji, George Geder and LowCountry
Africana) have reunited to bring you "The Ancestors Told; the Elders
Listened; We Pass It On," a blog carnival that's all about oral history.</i>
I am extremely excited to participate in this event.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Senomia Middlebrooks (1898-1994) was my great aunt. Her mother
was Sudie Parks and her father was Alex Middlebrooks. Her grandmother was
Malinda Guise who I wrote about in Finding Malinda – Part 1 (<a href="http://middlebrooksofmeriwether.blogspot.com/2012/10/finding-malinda-part-1_18.html" target="_blank">click here</a> if you missed that post). I grew up knowing
my aunt Nomie, as we called her, and visited her many times. As a cousin said
"She was the matriarch of our family." Never once did I think to ask
her about our family history and what it was like growing up in Meriwether
County. It would be years after her death before the genealogy bug would bite
me and I would crave for knowledge of my family history. A missed opportunity for sure, and I can only
imagine the stories she had to tell. Little did I know Nomie had already added a
chapter to our Middlebrooks family oral history.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Last summer, a cousin shared with me notes from an interview
her brother had conducted with Nomie. The conversation took place on Friday, 29 June
1990. I don't know what questions he asked or what he expected to learn. Maybe he wasn't looking for answers to any specific questions and was just picking her brain for memories of what the old folk had told her. Some of
what my aunt shared sent chills down my spine and brought tears to my eyes. It
is only a page of notes – no long narratives, just simple statements of
"reality" as she knew it or as it had been told to her. It is family oral history in
its rawest form and it's not always a pretty picture.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Original Research Notes (scanned copy)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Cousin
Senomie Martin: Friday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> 6-29-90<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1- MeLinda said "she ain't none of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> mine,
you take her." Laura raised<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> by Eliza Hixon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2- The old marster was the Father<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> of Laura , and the master would<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> whip <s>her</s> Melinda until the
blood ran.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3- Alexander Middlebrook was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> slave on Powell <s>platn</s> plantation ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Large man. Middlebrooks lived<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> on land formerly a part of Dan Long<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4- People had very Little access to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> doctors; only alternative [?] was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Fess's father<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Eddie Lee Stinson killed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Jim "Sandy" Dixon over gambling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> after Grover was whipped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Grover Stinson killed J. C. Wright<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> John killed a man in Greenville<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <s>Bill</s><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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According
to the death certificate for my great grandfather, Alexander Middlebrooks, his
parents were Albert Middlebrooks and Malinda Guise.<a href="#1" name="top1"><sup>1</sup></a> </span>I found “A. Middlebrooks” and wife
“Malinda” in the 1880 census for Woodbury, Meriwether County, Georgia.<a href="#2" name="top2"><sup>2</sup></a> The death
certificate and census record were all the documentation I had for these
ancestors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is how the Middlebrooks family looked in the 1880
census.</div>
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I have
searched and searched, then searched some more, but cannot find them as a
family unit in the 1870 census. Actually, I have not found any of them in the
1870 census. I have a possible candidate for Albert in the 1870 census, but
that is a story for another time. This post is about finding Malinda.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over this
past year, thoughts of Malinda have consumed me, but I continued to push her to
the bottom of the list and focused my research efforts elsewhere. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Other than searching census records, I
really didn’t put much effort into finding Malinda. Then, FamilySearch.org
added Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1975. The same night that I discovered
these records were available online, I started looking for Malinda – and I
found her!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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A few
years ago, I made a copy of a will for Samuel Guise. Samuel Guise died in
Meriwether County, Georgia in 1842.<a href="#3" name="top3"><sup>3</sup></a> His will is dated 21 [?] 1841, and was
recorded on 7 [?] 1841 in Meriwether County, Georgia.<a href="#4" name="top4"><sup>4</sup></a> No enslaved persons were
mentioned in Samuel’s will so I filed it away for another time. This time
around, when browsing the records on FamilySearch, I checked for any
inventories, appraisements and/or returns for the Samuel Guise estate.<a href="#5" name="top5"><sup>5</sup></a> <o:p></o:p></div>
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On 13
September 1858, an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: #111111;">Inventory and Appraisement was made for the Estate of
Samuel Guise deceased.<a href="#6" name="top6"><sup>6</sup></a> Listed as property were:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;">Nancy a
Negro Woman </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;">valued at</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;">$450</span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;">Mary and
her child Melissa</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> valued
at </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; text-indent: 0.5in;">$1275</span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111;">Melinda and her
child</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #111111;"> </span><span style="color: #111111;">
</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #111111;"> </span><span style="color: #111111;">valued
at </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #111111;"> </span><span style="color: #111111;">$1200</span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111;">I FOUND
MALINDA!! Although her name is spelled with an “e” instead of an “a”
I’m pretty sure this is my Malinda Guise. Of course, I was elated. It is
such an incredible feeling to see that ancestor’s name, but it’s tempered with
mixed emotions; happiness for the discovery, sadness for the
circumstances. </span></div>
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Unfortunately, Melinda’s child is not listed by name. My great grandfather Alex
was born about 1862, so for now I’m going to eliminate him as this child. Malinda also had a daughter Laura,
born about 1854. This “child” could quite possibly be Laura who would have been
about four years old at the time. But, why is there no name? I thought it odd
that the name of Mary's child was given, but not Melinda's. Maybe this child
was a baby recently born and had not been given a name. There are so many
questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111;">In the
1880 census there is a “Malissa” in the Middlebrooks household enumerated as
the daughter to the head of household. This Malissa, who I always assumed was
Malinda’s daughter as well, was born about 1860. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>That’s only about two years after the inventory.
Is it possible the Malissa in the 1880 census is Mary’s child Melissa? Or, did
Malinda also have a daughter Malissa and named her after Mary's daughter? The
next obvious question, of course – is Mary related to Melinda? Are they
sisters? Finally, but just as important, who is Nancy? Could Nancy be the
mother of Mary and/or Melinda? </span><span style="color: #111111;">There are so many questions.</span></div>
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Stay tuned for Part 2 of Finding Malinda. There are more unexpected findings.<o:p></o:p><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/362/8BFC2098EC4136AC455CD3E4588E4F34.png" alt="" /></a>
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<a name="1"><b>1 </b></a>A. L. Middlebrooks, Certificate No. 25008, 14 Oct 1927; Death Certificates, Vital records, Public Health, RG 26-5-95, Georgia Archives, digital images, Georgia’s Virtual Vault (http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/index.php : assessed 10 Oct 2012)<a href="#top1"><sup>↩</sup></a><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> <a name="2"><b>2 </b></a>1880 U.S. Census, District 669, Meriwether, Georgia, population schedule, Woodbury, enumeration district (ED) 83, p. 4 (penned), dwelling 28, family 28; Middlebrooks, Malinda; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 October 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 157.<a href="#top2"><sup>↩</sup></a><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> <a name="3"><b>3</b></a>“Pedigree Resource File,” database, FamilySearch (hhtp://www.familysearch.org/pal : assessed 13 Oct 2012), entry for Samuel Guise.<a href="#top3"><sup>↩</sup></a><br>
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<a name="4"><b>4 </b></a>Meriwether County, Georgia, Wills, Book A, (1831-1859), Samuel Guise, pp. 63-64; Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1975, Meriwether County Wills, 1831-1903, digital images, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 7 Oct 2012); the Guise will, images 46 and 47.<a href="#top4"><sup>↩</sup></a><br>
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<a name="6"><b>6 </b></a>Meriwether County, Georgia, Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of Samuel Guise deceased, pp. 574-575, 13 Sep 1858; “Inventories-Appraisements-Returns-Sales, Book F, 1856-1859,” digital images, Probate Records, 1742-1975, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 7 Oct 2012); the Guise inventory and appraisement is image 320.<a href="#top6"><sup>↩</sup></a>
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sjtaliaferrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04485340969813958339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396279444602608225.post-41229717413816605782012-10-07T17:33:00.000-04:002012-10-07T17:33:11.022-04:00Answering The CallIt amazes me how once you start to research and explore your family history, the ancestors seem to come to life. They keep you up late at night as you research trying to find another piece of the puzzle. They linger on your mind like the melody of your favorite song, and whisper clues in your ear at the oddest times. They want you to find them; they want their story told, and they have chosen you to tell it. I have come to know that feeling very well - someone has something to say. <br />
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Lately, my Middlebrooks ancestors have been the focus of my research efforts. The major players in this ancestor story represent my most difficult research challenge to date. There are only a few clues to go on with no hint of a light at the end of the tunnel; it seems the only thing I can look forward to is another brick wall. <br />
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My great, great grandmother, Malinda is at the center of the Middlebrooks mystery, along with her daughters Laura, Melissa and Matilda. There is also Malinda's son, and my great grandfather, Alexander Middlebrooks and my great, great grandfather Albert Middlebrooks. But, Malinda is the one nagging at me. I think she is the key to solving this family mystery. <br />
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I started this blog as a place to document my research journey as I attempt to solve the mystery of – <em>The Middlebrooks Of Meriwether County</em>.<br />
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