Family 4 and 6 Jasper County Georgia

Family Group 4A John Woodall and Lincy Harvey

Family Group 6 William m. Isabella and Judith Holmes

These families should have been acquainted with or at least heard of each other. Jasper County, Georgia and the surrounding area is where they seem to have co-existed for a period of time.

Connections to Jasper County, Georgia

Family 4A John Woodall and Lincy Harvey

Zephaniah Harvey Woodall (abt.1792-abt.1860) was born abt. 1792 and married Lavinia (Vest) Woodall (abt.1794-1872) on 21 Apr 1814 both in Jasper, Georgia.

Sarah Sally (Woodall) Vest (abt.1794-1860) & John Vest (1788-1839) married 11 Aug 1811 in Jasper County Georgia.

Family 6 William married Isabella and Judith

Alfred Cicero Spence Sr (1813-1904) was born Jasper County.

John Spence Sr (1772-1834) & Frances (Whatley) Spence (1774-abt.1848) were married in Greene County Georgia

Varches Delilah (Spence) Nally (1808-1890) was born in Greene Co Georgia and married Thomas Jefferson H. Woodall (1793-abt.1861) in Morgan County Georgia.

1808-1817: The Jasper County Years

1792 Zephania Woodall was born in Jasper County, Georgia

1804 Nov 17th, in Greene County, John Spence and Francis Whatley married

1808 October 20th: Purchased Land in Randolph County, Georgia

1808 December 9th: The Birth of Varchus Delila Spence

1809 (About): The Move to Randolph County, Georgia

1810 December 16th: The Birth of Lucinda Spence

1811 January 8th: Randolph County Bond

1811 August 1st: A Farewell to Richland Creek

John and Sarah Woodall Vest married 11 Aug 1811 in Jasper County, Georgia.

1811 August 24th: The Death of Nelly Spence

1812 February 23rd: The Marriage of Margaret “Peggy” Spence

1812 December 10th: Randolph County, Georgia Changes Name to Jasper

1812: Service in the War of 1812?

1813 October 30th: The Birth of Alfred Cicero Spence

Zephania marriage to Lavina Vest 21 Apr 1814

1815 April 13th: The Marriage of Elizabeth Spence

1816 July 6th: The Birth of Nancy Spence

1816-1817: The Death of Elizabeth Quinnelly

1817 December 25th: Purchased Land in Morgan County, Georgia

1817-1832: The Morgan County Years

1818: The Move from Jasper to Morgan

1818 July 7th: The Birth of John Milton Spence

1818 October 27th: Purchased More Land in Morgan County, Georgia

1820 January 28th: Marriage of George W. Spence

1820 July 1st: Morgan County, Georgia Land Transfer

1820: United States Federal Census

1824 December 27th: Death of Nancy Spence

1825 October 18th: Marriage of Mary “Polly” Spence

1827 January 18th: Marriage of James Spence

1827 November 14th: Purchased Land in Troup County, Georgia

1828 January 14th: Newspaper Article

1830: United States Federal Census

1831 About: The Marriage of Lucinda Spence

1830 February 25th: The Birth of James Marion Spence

1832 March 15th: First Marriage of Varchus Delila Spence

1832: Nathan and the 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery

1832 September 13th: Sold Land in Morgan County, Georgia

Located in central Georgia, Jasper County was created in 1807 as the state’s thirty-first county from part of Baldwin County on land formerly held by Creek Indians. It is one of the “antebellum trail” counties, which stretch from lower northeast Georgia to the center of the state. The 370-square-acre county was named for Revolutionary War (1775-83) sergeant William Jasper, a hero of the 1776 Battle of Sullivan’s Island (also known as the Battle of Fort Moultrie) who died during the Siege of Savannah in 1779. The county was first named for John Randolph of Virginia, whose opposition to the War of 1812 (1812-15) made him so unpopular with Georgians that the legislature renamed the county in 1812. (In 1828, another county was named for Randolph.)

The Creek Indians long maintained settlements on the shoals of the Ocmulgee River, and Carolina fur trappers traded with them at a location known as the “Seven Islands of the Ocmulgee” as far back as the 1670s. The first non-Indians to settle in what became Jasper County arrived in the late eighteenth century. The first known white settler was a deer hunter known only by the name Newby, who lived near present-day Hillsboro as early as 1790. A treaty with the Creek nation that year provided land for """a stagecoach route (the Seven Islands Stagecoach Road) from Augusta, Georgia, to Mobile, Alabama. Settlements grew up around the stagecoach stops""".

The Seven Island Stagecoach Road became a valuable route for cotton planters, who shipped their cotton down the Ocmulgee River to mills near “Seven Islands,” which grew into a thriving commercial center complete with cotton gins and grist-, saw-, and textile mills. The products of these industries were shipped out to seaports via the stagecoach road.

The counties of Jones, Putnam, Morgan, and Randolph (now Jasper) were created, being cut out of Baldwin. Before Baldwin County was organized in 1803, all of this area was Indian land and no white man could own land therein. This area was surveyed and laid out in land lots, each lot being forty-five chains square, containing 202 V2 acres. The lots were disposed of by lottery. RAPID GROWTH - The free land obtained by lottery, after clearing, was found to be well adapted to the growth of cotton and corn and the rural development of Jasper County was rapid. By the year 1810, the population had grown to be 7,573, and in 1820, it had increased to 14,614.