Dougherty-Worth County GaArchives Biographies.....Johnnie Benjamin Daniel July 23 1882 - November 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Angie Collier gunner@totacc.com February 22, 2003, 10:21 pm Author: Angie Collier Johnnie Benjamin Daniel was born in Worth County, Georgia July 23, 1882. Johnnie Benjamin married Sallie Eliza Driskill February 8, 1905. Sallie was born January 13, 1888 to William H. Driskill. Johnnie and Sallie had six children: Lillian (Leon) Dewrell, Dec. 12, 1905; Goode Price, Aug. 8, 1908; Charlie James, Aug. 6, 1910; Lulu Mae, July 28, 1913;Johnnie Lee, April 28, 1916; and Myers Watson, Sept. 13, 1918. Johnnie Benjamin died November 1918; this left Sallie with six children. Myers would have only been 2 months old and the oldest, Leon, only thirteen. Johnnie died in Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia and was buried in Pavo, Georgia. Sallie later married James (Jim) Clay. Her children married the following: Leon married Bertie Beatrice Reddick and had four children (James Benjamin, Bobby Lee, Juanita, Patsy Joyce); Goode married Eva Myrtle Gordie and had two children (Julian and William Ernest); Charlie James married Mattie Cotton and had one child (James Lamar) Charlie divorced Mattie and married Mary Francis Burnett and they had five children (Charles Francis, Gary Banks, Franklin Benjamin, Roy David and Mary Diane); Lulu Mae married James Dwight Burnett and had one child (Sylvia Burnett); Johnnie Lee married Minnie Caldwell and had two children (Margie Ann and Margaret Elizabeth); Myres Watson married Sybil Inez Duncan and had six children (Beverly, Brenda Diane, Sheryl, Jack Allen, Pattie Ann, and Jill). Sallie died December 11, 1964 in Thomaston, Upson County, Georgia and was buried at Antioch Methodist Church Cemetery. Johnnie lived 36 years and lived in the same area all his life. Worth and Dougherty Counties are in the southern part of Georgia. The counties are next to each other. Sallie lived 76 years. She lived in Worth and Dougherty Counties in southern Georgia and Upson county in central Georgia This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb