Mother of Transformation

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 Elizabeth Lizzy Searcy Wilson Smith Miles Huff
 B: May 1870 in Taylor County, Georgia
 D: 3 Nov 1957 in Marietta St. Cedartown, Polk, Georgia

 PARENTS
 John H Patillo Huff & Georgia O Ann Wilson Huff Thomas

 SPOUSE & CHILD
 James Jordan Searcy (1850-1898)
 ✿ Willie M Searcy, b. Sep 1884 in Georgia
 SPOUSE & CHILDREN
 Weston** Searcy (1871-1949) married 1892
 ✿ Fanny Lucile H Searcy, b. Apr 1892 in Georgia
 ✿ Willie Natt Searcy, b. Jul 1896 in Georgia
 SPOUSE & CHILDREN
 Charlie Charley Smith (1875-1910) married 1894
 ✿ Clarence Brooks Huff, b. Jun 1892 in South Carolina
 ✿ Annie Mae Bankston Smith, b. Nov 1894 in Georgia
 ✿ Eva Cornelius Simpson Tiller Smith, b. Jan 1897 in Georgia
 ✿ Charles Smith, b. Aug 1898 in Georgia
 SPOUSE & CHILD
 Joseph P Wilson (1871-????)
 ✿ Arty Elizabeth Wilson, b. Dec 1894 in Georgia
 SPOUSE & CHILD
 William Jim Miles (1869-????)
 ✿ Mary Lou Simpson Miles, b. 1903 in Georgia

 RECORDS attached to this profile
 ✿ 1880 U.S. Federal Census; Hootenville, Upson, Georgia
     Lizzie Sercy, Black, born abt 1856; wife of Jordan Sercy; children Mary, Sarah, John T.
 ✿ 1880 U.S. Federal Census; Griffin, Spalding, Georgia
     Elizabeth Huff, White, born abt 1876; daughter of John H. & Georgia Huff
 ✿ 1900 U.S. Federal Census; Blackankle, Upson, Georgia
     Lillie Searcey, Black, born Oct 1849; wife of Jordan Searcey; children Sarah J, John T, Henry, Luis, Willie, Jodie, Famie, Mattie, Carrie
 ✿ 1900 U.S. Federal Census; Cedartown, Polk, Georgia
     Lizzie Smith, Black, born Jul 1864; wife of Charley Smith; children Annie M, Eva, Charles
 ✿ 1900 U.S. Federal Census; Hazard, Bibb, Georgia
     Elizabeth Searcy, Black, born May 1876; wife of Weston Searcy; children Fanny, Willie
 ✿ 1900 U.S. Federal Census; Spalding, Georgia
     Lizzie Wilson, White, born Feb 1876; daughter of John H & Georgia Huff; child Elizabeth Wilson
 ✿ 1910 U.S. Federal Census; Blackankle, Upson, Georgia
     Lizzie Searcy, Black, born abt 1845; wife of Jorden Searcy; children Henry, Louis, Willie, Joe, Fannie, Mattie, Julia
 ✿ 1910 U.S. Federal Census; Cedartown, Polk, Georgia
     Lizzie Smith, Mulatto, born abt 1880; widow; children Annie Mae, Julia, Carry B, Elizabeth, Mabel
 ✿ 1910 U.S. Federal Census; Macon, Bibb, Georgia
     Lizzie Searcy, Black, born abt 1875; wife of Allen Searcy
 ✿ 1910 U.S. Federal Census; Cherokee, Georgia
     Elizabeth Wilson, White, born abt 1874; wife of Joseph J. Wilson; children David Jasper, William Calvin, Martha Maria, Arty Elizabeth, Joseph Henry, Sadie, Robert Lee, Glenn Harris, Agnes
 ✿ 1920 U.S. Federal Census; Cedartown, Polk, Georgia
     Lizzie Smith, Black, born abt 1880; widow
 ✿ 1930 U.S. Federal Census; Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
     Lizzie Smith, Black, born abt 1881; widow; mother of Lucile Hemphill
 ✿ 1930 U.S. Federal Census; Blackankle, Upson, Georgia
     Lizzie Searcy, Black, born abt 1855; widow; children Sarah J, Julia M
 ✿ 1940 U.S. Federal Census; Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
     Lizzie Smith, Black, born abt 1870; widow; mother of Lucile Hemphill
 ✿ Georgia Deaths, 1919-98
     Lizzie Smith, Black, died 3 Nov 1957, Polk County, 76 years old

Murder She Wrote: The Photos

Here are the photos you've been waiting for ;-)
Like the previous post names and dates have been changed.
All the photos are on the profile of John Doe, Jr * Murdered Victim, Wednesday's featured profile.
Five of the photos are also attached to specific events in his timeline.

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Image Title: john doe jr sleep image
Event Title: Death
Event Date: 1832 Sep 30
Event Note: Murdered John Doe, Jr, his son Robert and niece Catherine were brutally murdered in their sleep where they camped for the night.

John Doe Jr. died at the age of 42.

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Image Title: john doe jr money images
Event Title: [no event title]
Event Date: 1826
Event Note: Randolph sold Doe, Jr a slave named Ezekiel. Randolph must have been aware that Doe had literally thousands ($8,000.00) of dollars on his person & likely conceived a plane to persuade the slave to murder Doe, Jr & take his money.

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Image Title: john doe jr image
Event Title: What he did for a living
Event Date: 1835
Event Note: John Jr was a slave trader & sold a number of slaves for his father, John Doe Sr in [State] during 1829-1830

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Image Title: john doe jr horse carriage images

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Image Title: john doe jr gambling images
Event Title: About Harris Randolph's character
Event Note: Randolph was a wealthy businessman, a gambler, fathered numerous illegitimate children by whores & slaves (as many as 100, by one estimate) & had a notoriously violent temper. He was frequently involved in assualt & battery cases - around the Doe murders.

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Image Title: john doe jr court image

I'm sure any court John Doe Jr. had dealings with in the early 19th century looked exactly like this. Yeah, still waiting on that sarcasm font.

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Image Title: john doe jr axe image
Event Title: The Murder:
Event Date: 1832 Sep 30
Event Note: Ezekiel took a small axe & best out the brains first John Jr, then Robert & then Catherine, he drag their bodies to a ditch & Ezekiel left in Doe, Jr's carriage with blood dripping along the dirt road.

BLOG NOTE: 

For the first time since I started this blog a year and a half ago I need to take some time off.
I'll be back on June 17th with more jaw dropping stupidity.
Thanks for reading!

Thanks to Janet for the heads up about this profile ;-)
If you have a photo to suggest please send a link to buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com.


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Murder She Wrote

ALL the names have been changed and locations redacted. I also altered the dates. They are not the point of the post and I do not want to encourage murder groupies.
More after the jump.

 John Doe Jr * Murdered Victim
 B: 1790 Jul 7 in [County], [State]
 D: 1832 Sep 30 in [Road], [County], [State] Murdered

 SOME EVENTS ON THIS PROFILE

 ✿ Marriage to Mary Smith
     1815 Oct 6 in [County], [State]
 ✿ Marriage to Jane Jones
     1827 Nov 18 in [County], [State]
     accusations that John Doe Jr, murdered his second wife!
 ✿ Other information:
     1829
     Accusations that John Doe Jr murdered his second wife
 ✿ Death
     1832 Sep 30
     [Road], [County], [State] Murdered
     John Doe, Jr, his son Robert and niece Catherine were brutally murdered in their sleep where they camped for the night.
 ✿ The Murder:
     1832 Sep 30 in [Road], [State]
     Ezekiel took a small axe & best out the brains first John Jr, then Robert & then Catherine, he drag their bodies to a ditch & Ezekiel left in Doe, Jr's carriage with blood dripping along the dirt road.
 ✿ [no title]
     1832 in [County], [State]
     Randolph sold Doe, Jr a slave named Ezekiel. Randolph must have been aware that Doe had literally thousands ($8,000.00) of dollars on his person & likely conceived a plane to persuade the slave to murder Doe, Jr & take his money.
 ✿ the Plan for murder
     1832
     The slave, Ezekiel was to murder his new master, taking his money, he was told by his previous master, Randolph, that he would have to share of the plunder & receive his freedom!
 ✿ Court Hearing:
     1832
     Ezekiel was brought to trial & admitted his guilt. He admitted that his former master, Harris Randolph, istigated the conditions of the reward provided to him for his commission.
 ✿ The so called laws at the time:
     1832
     At the time, a slaves evidence against a white man cannot be legally taken, so that the instigator (Randolph) escaped ALL punishment, while the slave (Ezekiel) was hunged for executing his former master's wishes!
 ✿ Possibly another person involved
     1832
     Another white man, Jim Thomas was also believed to have been involved in the conspiracy, though, like Randolph, he was NEVER brought to justice!
 ✿ for years
     1833
     Lawsuits over John Doe, Jr's will went on for years!
 ✿ Other information:
     1845
     That John Jr's brother, William Doe was murdered by an associate of Harris Randolph, who of course had his daughter Catherine murdered!
 ✿ About Harris Randolph's character
     Randolph was a wealthy businessman, a gambler, fathered numerous illegitimate children by whores & slaves (as many as 100, by one estimate) & had a notoriously violent temper. He was frequently involved in assualt & battery cases - around the Doe murders.

 SOURCE INFORMATION
 ✿ Ancestry Family Trees

Pet Peeves

Before we get to today's post...
The SCGS Jamboree will live-stream some of their sessions this weekend courtesy of Ancestry.com. Click HERE to see the list of available sessions and sign up for the ones you would like to attend.
Okay, on to the pet peeves...

Anytime someone uses the word loose instead of lose or uses the wrong their, they're or there I have to stop myself from deleting them from my friend list on Facebook. From the number of memes I've seen about spelling and grammatical pet peeves I am not alone. A lot of my genealogical pet peeves have been covered in previous posts about clickophile trees but after the jump are a few that haven't been mentioned yet.

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A photo gallery with 449 photos and 180 of them are some variation of this:

Here's a screen cap from the photo gallery:

Some of the incredibly original and informative titles are:

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And yes, some of them have been attached to other trees.

If you have a photo to suggest please send a link to buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com.


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