Early County GaArchives News.....Addie Tiner Sheffield Mock
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Submitted by Debra Pate  patemdm@direcway.com      debra_pate@yahoo.com 
Researching:  Sheffield, Jordan, Tiner, Rentz, Williams and connected families.
 
The following article was printed in the Early County News, Blakely, GA  April 9th, 1953 or 1954
 
 
NEIGHBORS' AID:  Early County farmers turned out this week to aid Mrs. Addie Mock, widow,
who lives in the Hentown community, 10 miles from Blakely, when sickness struck in her family
recently.  Her friends brought in eight mules and two tractors and broke and planted her land.
Neighboring women helped with cooking, washing and ironing.
 
NOTHING TOPS GOOD NEIGHBOR, 
SAYS WOMAN AIDED BY FRIENDS
by Amelia H. Barksdale
State News Correspondent
 
Blakely, April 9.
"There's nothing to equal a good neighbor," says Mrs. Addie Mock, widow who lives in the Hentown
Community, six miles below Blakely.
 
Mrs. Mock had been doing well for the last two years, farming her 35-acre farm with the help of her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Lindsey, but there has been sickness since the first
of February and none of the ground had been broken for Spring planting.
 
Mrs. Mock, who is 64 years old, has been in Blakely Hospital while her daughter, Wilda, has been in
a Donalsonville Hospital.
 
Sunday, at the Hentown Church of Christ, Morris Lindsey and Clarence Harper told the other men
who were gathered outside the church of Mrs. Mock's plight, and in a few minutes over a dozen had
pledged their help for Thursday afternoon.
 
Besides Mr. Lindsey and Mr. Harper, others helping were Hoke Jordan, F.H. Hollington,
S.H. Lindsey, Collie Houston, James Rabon, Luther Waller, J.T. Cannon, Idus Waller.
The brought eight mules and two tractors to beak land and plant cotton and corn.
 
Ladies helping in the house with the cooking, washing, and ironing were Mrs. Bradley Mock,
Mrs. John Ivy Cooper and Mrs. Morris Lindsey.
 
The farm is their only livelihood.  Mrs. Mock was at a loss to know how the crops could be planted
last week, but today the ground is ready and most of the seed is planted, due to the group of "real"
neighbors.
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Mrs. Addie Mock was born April 17, 1885 in Early County, Georgia.  She was the daughter of
Benjamin T. Tiner and Mary Lucretia Sheffield.  Addie's first marriage was to Webb Sheffield,
son of Dennis Judson Sheffield and Bethany P. Mock, in 1879.
Addie married second Luther Bryant Mock December 25, 1925 in Early Co., GA. 
Addie Rachel Tiner Sheffield Mock is buried in Flat Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.
 
Wilda Ozelma Sheffield was Addie's daughter by Addie's first marriage to Webb Sheffield.
Wilda was born October 27, 1920 in Early County, Georgia.  Wilda married Howard Vernon Lindsey.
Wilda and Howard are buried in the George Cemetery in Early County, GA.
 
Pictured in the article:  In the front with dark colored hat tilted back is Johnny William Jordan.
Johnny William Jordan was called "Hoke" by his family and friends.  This is my grandfather.
 
Submitted by:  Debra J Pate   patemdm@direcway.com       debra_pate@yahoo.com 
Researching:  Sheffield, Jordan, Tiner, Rentz, Williams and connected