BARTOW COUNTY, GA - BIOS  Drummond Family

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My native born American Drummond roots began in
South Carolina with the birth of Joseph Berry
Drummond, my fourth great-grandfather. Joseph was
the son of Henry Drummond of Northern Ireland, who
was the son of Daniel Drummond, the original Scotch-
Irish Drummond immigrant of my family to come to
America and adopt this nation as his own. Joseph was
born in the Old Pendleton District of South Carolina
on September 17, 1819 when Republican James Monroe
was President, Daniel D. Tompkins was Vice-President
and the U.S. population was 9,638,453. A few years
after Joseph's birth his family moved through
Georgia to Alabama where they lived for the next 10
to 15 years. By the early 1840's Joseph, his family
and parents and siblings had settled in North
Georgia. On July 18, 1843 Joseph married Cassie
Elenor Melton in Cass County, Georgia ten years to
the day before the completion of Grand Trunk Line,
Americas first international railroad. Joseph and
his family lived in Cass County until the brink of
the Civil War when in 1861 the county name changed
to Bartow. Joseph and Cassie's youngest child was
named William Jasper Drummond. William was born in
Bartow County during the Civil War not far, in time
nor distance, from the burning of Atlanta in 1864.
William was my third great-grandfather and by his
16th birthday the family had moved to Cedartown,
Georgia in Polk County. William and his older
brother, Joseph Ely, along with Joseph's family
lived with their parents there until after 1880. A
few years after which, it is believed that Joseph
Berry and Cassie died in Cedartown.

On November 24, 1883, during the Chester Arthur
administration, William Jasper married Tabitha E.
Camp in Polk County where they lived for nearly 40
years. Tabitha gave birth to 11 children.
Unfortunately, only six survived to adulthood. The
oldest among those that did survive was my second
great-grandfather, James Ivey Drummond, who was born
on June 08, 1885 in Cedartown during Grover
Cleveland's first term as U.S. president. William
Jasper died in Atlanta where he had lived since 1938
on February 05, 1950 at a ripe old age.

Soon after the turn of the 20th Century, James Ivey
married Mary Rosa Lee Woodall. The couple began a
southbound trek first living in Macon, Georgia a
short time before finally settling in Jacksonville,
Florida around 1924. James Ivey worked as a car
inspector with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for
35 years before retiring in 1954. However, by 1930,
James Ivey and Rosa Lee had divorced and were both
remarried. Their three children, James W., Charles
Earl and Ivey Leon, were living with their mother
and her second husband. James Ivey and his second
wife, Stella Fender of Naylor, Georgia had a
daughter together named Marie Drummond.

A year later James Ivey and Rosa Lee's second son,
Charles Earl, married Bertha Florene Roberts. The
couple had three children together, all boys. Earl,
as he was known, joined the Merchant Marines as a
cabin boy in the late 1920s and served through the
mid 1930s. His sea travels took him to the many
ports and cities of South America. Upon leaving the
Merchant Marines Earl became a cab driver driving
for Thrifty Cabs, Yellow Cab and Safety Cabs. When
WWII began, Earl went to enlist to once again serve
his country. Unfortunately, due to a previous head
injury he was rejected for military service. In
1949, Earl was struck with tuberculosis. To make
things worse his mother died not long thereafter on
January 16, 1950. Earl beat tuberculosis but was
unable to work for a few years after his illness
forcing his wife Bertha to take a job with Pepsi-
Cola. Earl later took a job as a guard and then went
to work for McCray's Security. Always the
entrepreneur, Earl bought McCray's and renamed it
Drummond Detective Agency. Charles Earl Drummond,
Sr. died prematurely on July 13, 1967, a day after
his 54th birthday. He left behind three sons, two
brothers and a sister, several grandchildren and a
beloved wife. He is buried at Riverside Memorial
Park Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida next to his
wife, Bertha, who being widowed for 29 years, never
remarried. Two years later on January 19, 1969,
Earl's father, James Ivey, a good Christian man, was
leading the Sunday morning devotionals at Woodstock
Park Baptist in Jacksonville, Florida. After his
prayers James Ivey left this world for his eternal
home in the sky. He died at the age of 83. He too is
buried at Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery along
side his second wife of nearly 40 years, Mrs. Stella
Fender Drummond.

Earl and Bertha's second son was James "Jimmy"
Travis Drummond. He worked at Florida Glass and was
a union representative. He was also my grandfather
and he died on May 08, 2001 in Jacksonville after a
long battle with cancer.