Forsyth County GaArchives Biographies.....David Silas Hemrick  1866 - 1941
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	David Silas Hemrick was born on 9th February 1866 in Forsyth County, 
GA. He died on 30th November 1941 in Riverview, FL. He was buried in Hackney 
Cemetery, Tampa, FL. David was a Blacksmith and worked as a mechanic on ships 
and trains. David married (1) Eliza Antionette Stephens, daughter of Nathan D. 
Stephens and Elizabeth Alexander on 26th June 1885 in Cleburne County. He 
seperated from his first wife and child when the child, John Henry, was two 
years old.

The following is a letter he sent his wife, who was in Cleburne County, 
Alabama:

Holcomb, GA, December 6, 1890
Mrs. Antoinette Hemrick, I wrote to your father some time ago to send me my 
books and pictures, clothes and other personal property but have not heard 
from him since and I want you to pack my printing press, books and papers and 
so on in a box and send them to D. Hemrick c/o Capt. G.H. Williams #10, C.R.R. 
and write to me and let me know when you ship them you can ship them on the 
G.P.R.R. from Heflin. Please send them at once as I had all my things stolen a 
few days ago and I am going to Virginia in a few days you can send them to D. 
Hemrick #10 C.R.R. and direct your letter to D. Hemrick c/o Capt. G.H.
Williams, #10 C.R.R. Holcombe, GA.

Antionette was born on 9th October 1856 GA. She spent her last years living 
with her son, John Henry and his wife, Annie Ollie Daniel Hemrick, in Cullman 
County. She died on 16th June 1934 in Cullman County. She was buried in 
Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery, Joppa, Cullman County.  When Antoinette died, 
no one knew how to spell her name for the tombstone, so it was spelled it the 
way everyone had always heard it pronounced, AntNet.

David and Eliza had only one child, John Henry Hemrick , who was born on 10th 
June 1886 in Cleburne County, AL. John married Annie Ollie Daniel, daughter of 
George William Daniel and Martha Caroline Johnson on 9th October 1904 in 
Cullman County He died on 27th September 1965 in Cullman County. He was buried 
on 29th September 1965 in Mt. Herman Cemetery, Cullman Co, AL. Annie was born 
on 17th February 1885 in Cleburne County and died on 10th  January 1969 in 
Etowah County, AL. She was buried in Mt. Herman Cemetery.

The following show the family in the 1910 CULLMAN CO, AL CENSUS, Baileyton, 
Precinct. 20, p. 2606, household 465-468
John H. Hemrick head m w 23 m1 m5yrs. AL GA GA
Ollie A.        wife f w 24 m1 m5     AL GA GA
Dora E.         dau  f w  4 s         AL AL AL
Mattie N.       dau  f w  3 s         AL AL AL
Henry G.        son  m w 12/12 s      AL AL AL
Harvey J.       son  m w 0/12 s       AL AL AL
Eliza A.        mother f w 53 w 1 1   GA GA GA

David married (2) Elizabeth Ann Robinson on 2nd January 1906 in Ocala, Marion 
County, FL. Elizabeth was born on 11th February 1878 in Levy County, FL. She 
died on 22nd October 1967 in Riverview, FL. She was buried in Hackney 
Cemetery, Tampa, FL. 

		Marie Louise Hemrick was born on 27th September 1907 in Floral 
City, FL. She died in 1942 in Tampa, FL. Marie married William Gordon West 
about 1926 in Tampa, FL. 
		Dorothy Merrill Hemrick was born on 27th October 1914 in 
Bushnell, FL. Dorothy 
married Walter Strock . Walter was born in 1908 in Orangeburg, SC. He died in 
November 1965 
in Tampa, FL. He was buried in Hackney Cemetery, Tampa, FL. 


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