This picture was taken when my great-grandparents were courting (according to my grandmother).  They are the young couple seated at the far left.

Memaw and Pepaw Ward

My great-grandparents, Newton Coleman Ward and Rachel Louisa Johnson.

Births

• Daniel K. Albright was born in 1874.
• Mary M. Johnson was born in 1889 in Fannin County, Georgia.
• Clara Josephine Butler was born in 1890 in Georgia.

Deaths

• Mary Emma Hemphill died in 1877.
• James M. Young died in 1899.

Births

• Mary (Boggs) Ellis was born in 1807 in Georgia.

Deaths

• Mary Louisa Brown died in 1898.
• Lucy Ann Tucker died in 1905 in Murray County, Georgia.
• Cynthia Caroline (Reed) Whitener died in 1915 in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
• Carrie (Bell) Johnson died in 1920.
• Charles Kilgore died in 1959 in Murray County, Georgia.

Marriages

• Isham Lawson and Sarah Randolph were married in 1803 in Greene County, Tennessee.
• Rachel Louisa Johnson and Newton Coleman Ward were married in 1909 in Fannin County, Georgia (my great-grandparents).

Births

• Martha Matilda Greenlee was born in 1820.
• John Headrick was born in 1872 in Murray County, Georgia.
• Junie Lawson Johnson was born in 1884 in Fannin County, Georgia.

Deaths

• William Hinton Lawson died in 1913 in Benton Station, Tennessee.

Marriages

• Adam Gross and Sarah Wilfong were married in 1793 in Lincoln County, North Carolina.

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Births

• Mary Howard (McEntire) Greenlee was born in 1795 in Burke County, North Carolina.
• Benjamin Burgin was born in 1798 in Burke County, North Carolina.
• Joel Elbert Searcy was born in 1827 in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
• Delia Magnori Johnson was born in 1896 in Fannin County, Georgia.

Marriages

• Rosa Edna Hemphill and Dewey Hobson Pendley were married in 1919 in Akron, Ohio.

Births

• Martha Jane (Garrett) Johnson was born in 1854 in Fannin County, Georgia (my 2nd great-grandmother).
• Florence B. Stroud was born in 1880.

Deaths

• Philip Burgin died in 1709 in Shrewsbury Parish, Maryland (my 8th great-grandfather).
• Mary (Poffh) Wilfong died in 1816 in Newton, North Carolina (my 6th great-grandmother).
• Merritt Burgin died in 1837 in Old Fort, North Carolina.
• Thomas Didamus German, Jr. died in 1921.

Births

• Malinda Josephine (Hemphill) Butler was born in 1860 in Murray County, Georgia (my 2nd great-grandmother).

Deaths

• John Stroud died in 1898 in Murray County, Georgia.
• Rachael E. (Lance) Johnson died in 1925 in Dial, Georgia.
• Kate Young (Hemphill) Greenlee died in 1949.

CHATSWORTH – Mrs. N. C. Ward of Sunset Drive off Charles Road works barefoot at her machine making quilts.  She will be observing her 83rd birthday tomorrow and would like to hear from all her friends for whom she has made quilts.  For over 40 years she has made quilts, but it was about 12 years ago that she turned the hobby into a money-making activity.  Often she starts on a quilt about daybreak, has it pieced by mid-afternoon and then does the quilting and hemming, and by nightfall the finished product is ready for the bed that night.  Mrs. Ward is especially lonely this week because her husband of many years died last week.

This article probably was published on August 10, 1974 in The Dalton Daily Citizen News or possibly in The Chatsworth Times.

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Births

• Mary Garrett was born in 1642 in England.
• Reuben E. Patton was born in 1827 in Burke County, North Carolina.
• Nancy Adelia Roberts died in 1863 in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
• Maria Fadoshia (Roberts) McBrayer died in 1876 in Murray County, Georgia.

Deaths

• Elias Powell died in 1832 in Powelltown, North Carolina (my 6th great-grandfather).
• Cora Lee (Fouts) Kendrick died in 1917.
• Richard Martin Hemphill died in 1941.
• Ruby Lee (Ward) Johnson died in 1989 in Hall County, Georgia.