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James Franklin Willoughby (1856 - 1913)

James Franklin (Frank) Willoughby
Born in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, USAmap
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Husband of — married 25 Nov 1877 in , Chambers County, Alabama, USAmap
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Died at age 56 in Lanett, Chambers County, Alabama, USAmap
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Biography

James Franklin Willoughby was third son of James Willoughby and Sarah Chapman. James was born June 8, 1856 In Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia. In the 1860 U. S. Census [1] the family was still in Newnan. James' father was a farmer, age 34, with an personal estate valued at $360. His mother was 33 years old. The children included William age 9, John age 7, James F. age 4 and Lowella age 8 months.

In 1866, the family appears in the Randolph County, Alabama. [2] The record seems to show one too few sons and an extra daughter. I assume it is probably an error with the census takers.

In the 1870 U. S. Census taken on June 22, 1870 [3] the family was in Bellville, Austin, Texas. Both James M, the father, and James F., age 14, were listed as farm laborers. The family also included Sarah Ann, and two children, Lewellen age 11, and a son McKnight, age 3.

William, who would have been a teen when the family left for Texas, reportedly left the train and returned to Chambers County. He reportedly stayed with family friends - Taylors and Sorrells during that period of time. In the 1870 census he was nineteen and living with the family of West Goodrich Smith working as a farm hand.[4] He married Josephine Parra Lee Smith in 1875.

Sarah Ann Chapman Willoughby and daughter and youngest son reportedly died in Bellville about 1876. James M. and James Franklin returned to Alabama. On December 26, 1876, James M. married Elizabeth Tucker in Chambers County, Alabama. I don't know if she was a member of the same family that William reportedly lived with when the family was in Texas. James Franklin married seventeen year old Emma Elizabeth Sorrell on November 22, 1877 in Chambers County. [5] Emma's family is another family that William Willoughby reportedly stayed with in the absence of his family.

In the 1880 U. S. Census taken July 3, 1880 [6] the James Franklin Willoughby family lived in Ripville, Chambers County. James Franklin is listed as Wm but the remainder of the information in the listing was correct for the family of James Franklin so I believe it was recorded incorrectly. James was farming. Their next door neighbor's were Emma's parents, Greenberry and Minerva Sorrell. They had a one year old son, Walter.

In the U. S. Census of 1900 taken on June 22, 1900 [7] the family was in Milltown, Chambers County. The home was owned and James was still farming. They had three daughters: Lilian (Lillian), Ota (Otie) and Louisa (Laisie). Walter was living in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County with Green Jefferson Sorrell - his uncle, the brother of Emma Elizabeth Sorrell Willoughby.

Their daughter Lillian was married on September 18, 1904 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. The family must have moved to Lanett, Chambers County, Alabama about that time. James operated a grocery store that is mentioned in a book about Lanett. "On South 8th Street, the Willoughby Grocery was in business from 1904-1912."[8] l had been told by a cousin that James had a store on the street behind the Baptist Church and this would confirm that location. He also said the family lived next to the store.

In the U. S. Census of 1910 taken on April 23, 1910 [9] the family was in Lanett, Chambers County, AL. Otie, age 23, and Laisie, age 20, still lived at home. Lillian had moved to Greenwood County, South Carolina with her new husband.

James Franklin Willoughby died at 56 years of age in Lanett on May 9, 1913. [10] He was buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, Lanett. [11]

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Research Notes

This is a transcription the information about early 1900 grocery stores. [8] No Modern Conveniences

  • Remember that these early businesses of Lanett were without "modern" conveniences, such as running water, electric lights, mdern refrigeration, gas heat, or sanitary features commonplace today.
  • The stores were heated by large wood or coal burning stoves, during the winter, and cooled, after a fashion, with overhead fans during the summertime.
  • There were no screens, at windows or doors, so flies were controlled with sticky sheets of "fly paper" paced here and there on counters and shelves, or curls of it hanging from the ceiling.
  • Spittoons, or cuspidors, a receptacle for spit, were placed strategically for the tobacco chewing customer of stores. A game able was kept in some stores for the domino and checker players. Keeping a hospitable place for social gatherings was good for business!
  • In the grocery stores, cheese came in giant "hoops" and was sliced by the grocer or his clerk on order of the customer. Pickles were available from open barrels containing the pickles in a brine solution, water saturated or strongly impregnated with common salt.
  • Soda crackers were rarely boxed, as they are today. Sometimes they were in a big tin box, loose, or in bulk. The box might or might not have a lid, and they were not greatly protected from dust and contamination. A customer would often reach for one or two to eat while placing order for other items!


Sources

  1. Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [1]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Newnan, Coweta, Georgia; Roll: M653_118; Page: 833; Image: 285; Family History Library Film: 803118: JAMES WILLOUGHBY
  2. Ancestry.com. Alabama State Census, 1820-1866 [2]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry.com World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Alabama State Census, 1820, 1850, 1855 and 1866. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Archives & History. Rolls M2004.0008-M2004.0012, M2004.0036-M2004.0050, and M2008.0124. Randolph County AL; Schedule 1, p 18; JAMES M WILLOUGHBY FAMILY
  3. "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXGN-5F8 : 17 October 2014), James Willowby, Texas, United States; citing p. 18, family 119, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,073. Bellville, Austin, TX; Lines 32-38 JAMES WILLOUGHBY
  4. Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [3]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Milltown, Chambers, Alabama; Roll: M593_6; Page: 46B; Image: 136683; Family History Library Film: 545505; Line 10; W T Willoughby with family of West Smith.
  5. Ancestry.com. Alabama, Select Marriages, 1816-1957 [4]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014. Original data: Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Accessed July 2016; JAMES FRANKLIN WILLOUGHBY EMMA ELIZABETH SORRELL MARRIAGE
  6. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [5]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Ripville, Chambers, Alabama; Roll: 5; Family History Film: 1254005; Page: 226B; Enumeration District: 165; Image: 0662: Dwelling 151, Family 151, Lines 3-5: WM (JAMES) WILLOUGHBY FAMILY
  7. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [6]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Accessed July 2016 Milltown, Chambers, Alabama; Roll: 6; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 0004; FHL microfilm: 1240006; JAMES FRANKLIN WILLOUGHBY FAMILY
  8. 8.0 8.1 Cobb Archives; Valley, AL: Book: The Story of Bluffton-Lanett, Alabama; by Chattahoochee Historical Society, Paragon Press, 1971; Paragon Press, Montgomery, Al; Library of Congress 73-183573; Page 40: 1904-1912 Willoughby Grocery
  9. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [7]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Census Place: Lanett, Chambers, Alabama; Roll: T624_5; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 0026; FHL microfilm: 1374018, Dwelling, 317, Family 332; J F WILLSBY (WILLOUGHBY) FAMILY
  10. Ancestry.com. Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974 [8]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. FHL Film Number: 1894095; Accessed July 2016: 7 May 1913, Lanett, Chambers County, AL; DEATH J FRANK WILLOUGHBY
  11. FindAGrave.com: DUVE Cherry: [9]; Record added: Mar 11, 2013; accessed July 2016; Find A Grave Memorial# 106532951, Oakwood Cemetery, Lanett Chambers County, Alabama, USA: JAMES FRANKLIN WILLOUGHBY






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