BERRIEN COUNTY, GA - BIOS Hendley, Roxy Ann Smith ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dee Russell Roxy Ann Smith Hendley Roxy Ann Smith was born around around 1863 (based on 1870 Berrien Co Census). She was the daughter of Edward and Harriet SMITH are believed to be full blood Cherokees. Edward was born in NC in 1823 , Harriet born 1832 in GA. They had nine children and lived in BERRIEN COUNTY ,GA Roxy married my gt Grandfather L HENDLEY (date unknown)(this might be Elmore Hendley), and married 2nd) husband WILLIAM WEBB around 1915 Roxy was medicine woman and well known for her Healing gifts. She died in December 1927. (I have a bill here for her casket and robe dated January 1st 1928. John Sineath was the Undertaker. Her son, Thomas Hetheridge Hendley was born in 1888, (my grandfather) was murdered by a white man in 1942, he was shot through the heart. He was buried by McLean's Undertakers (which became John Sineath, Undertaker in later years) I have visited the HENDLEY family cemetery near Willacoochee, but still cannot locate where my great grandmother was buried. There is an Elmore Hendley buried there, and this might be the L. Hendley listed on Thomas's death certificate. Elmore was a white man but lived as a Cherokee with Roxy. The census records I do have a lovely lady in Statenville Ga took the time and trouble for me to locate what she could I have ROXYS PARENTS ON CENSUS 1860 COFFEE CO. 1870 BERRIEN CO 1880 BERRIEN DIST 1311 P588 ROXY ANN on census 1900 ROXY ANN aged 32 and son Thomas aged 10 1910 BERRIEN CO 518 MILITIA DIST HEAD OF FAMILY....ROXIA ANN HENDLEY AGED 49 SON THOMAS AGED 16 CENSUS 1920 Berrien co Roxia Webb aged 59 married to WILLIAM WEBB AGED 73 THOMAS AGED 24 ANNIE AGED 22