Chattahoochee-Muscogee-Hancock County GaArchives Biographies.....Broadnax, Samuel Irvin 1897 - 1918
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Author: N. K. Rogers
BROADNAX

Data Furnished by Mrs. Collye E. Broadnax Porter and Mrs. A. A. Phelts

    The only member of Chattahoochee's quota engaged in the World War giving his
life in that great conflict was Samuel Irvin Broadnax, who enlisted in Americus,
Ga.,in 1917. He was sent to Camp Wheeler and went overseas with the Rainbow
Division; was later transferred to 91st Division, 316 Engineers.

  He was wounded at the Battle of the Argonne Sept. 26th, and died Oct. 4, 1918
in the hospital at Anjiers, France. In July 1921, his body was brought back to
Columbus, Ga., and interred with military honors in the family cemetery at
Providence Church six miles from Columbus.

    His grandfather, Rev. James Edward Broadnax, with his brothers settled near
Columbus and was pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church where the Broadnax
family have their burial plot. One of these brothers, John M. Broadnax, died
from accidental wounds received during the War Between the States and is buried,
at Providence with Irvin near him.

    The crest of the Braodnax family is in possession of. members of the family
living in Atlanta, Ga.

    (Rev.) James Edward Broadnax m. Martha Watkins, 7 ch.; Ann, Bettie, Lenora,
Martha, Mary, Travis, and Lula. Mary m. Alfred Asa Phelts and is now living in
Columbus, Ga., with her daughter, Mrs. John Albrecht.

    James Samuel Travis b. March 13, 1860; d. Apr. 17, 1922; m. Dec. 23, 1883.
Charlotte Isabel Hoopaugh, b. March 4, 1866. whose father had come from
Aberdeen, Scotland. Ch. of J. S. Travis and Charlotte I. Hoopaugh Broadnax: (1)
Charles Edward b. Oct. 8 ,1884; m. Roxy Felton; two ch. Joseph and Ferol; (2)
Minnie laVerna b. Aug. 27, 1886; m. Samuel Hill Cooksey; four ch. Verna (dec'd),
William, Samuel and James Cooksey; (3) Collye Elizabeth b. Sept. 11, 1888; m.
Otis Wilmer Porter; (4) James Edward b. Feb. 8, 1891; m. Susie Wooley, one ch.
Margaret; (5) William Travis b. Aug. 22, 1894, m. Mary Lou Smith; four ch. viz:
William Travis III, Harold, Edwin and Carlton; (6) Samuel Irvin b. Dec. 1, 1897;
d. Oct. 4, 1918; (7) Ransome Lester b. Dec. 25, 1900, m. Bessie Smith, two ch.
Helen and Dorothy (8) Martha Melissa b. Sept. 20, 1905; m. Rudolph Preston, five
ch. viz: Charlotte, Elizabeth. Jeanette, Rudolph and Tom Preston.

    (Rev.) Jas. Edward Broadnax, whose descendants have been given, was son of
John Travis Broadnax whose other children were Ruth, Frances, Georgia, Martha,
Sarah, Adelia, Samuel, Ellen, John, and Vanarah.

    John Travis Broadnax, a veteran of War of 1812. was living in Hancock, Co.,
Ga., in 1827, where he drew in that land lottery. Mrs. A. A. Phelts says her
father. Jas. E. Broadnax was born in Hancock County, Ga. Her sister, Mrs. Lula
McBride, is only other member of the family living. The goodness and
faithfulness of Rev. Jas. E. Broadnax was appreciated by the whole neighborhood
where he preached for 35 years.


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From:

HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
By N. K. Rogers

Dedicated to

KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C.

and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers.

Copyright 1933

by N. K. ROGERS

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COLUMBUS  OFFICE  SUPPLY CO. COLUMBUS, GA.

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