Heard County  Georgia Historical Letter Dilbeck re: Arrington-Pearce families

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The following is from a letter written by Marvis
(Pearce) Dilbeck (1909 - 2000) of Jasper, Ga [Pickens
Co.].to Betty [Goolsby] Gross of LaFayette, Ga.,
[Walker Co.] in Feb. 1981



"I am a descendant of Charles J. Arrington and
Frances Davis.  Charles and John Arrington were
brothers who lived about 1/2 mile apart near Ridgeway
United Methodist Church in Heard Co.  I am next to
youngest in the Mary Elizabeth (oldest dau. of
Charles) and William Oliver Pearce.   We lived at
Ridgeway until 1918 when we moved to Bowdon, Ga.  I
spent a week with Grandma and kin at Ridgeway each
summer until 1928 when Grandma died.  They didn't
have a sale of personal things - just put them in
equal piles and had "Aunt Mary" drop a number on the
piles and then draw numbers.


I remember Aunt Mary [Prestridge] as small (about 90
lbs.) - many wrinkles and very sweet.  Everyone loved
her.  When she went to church she always wore a black
bonnet, a black dress and apron.  I don't remember a
thing about Uncle John, so he must have died early.
I remember Jeff who married Verna Burgess and had a
housefull of children.  Lizzie and Charlie Cox lived
in Bowdon when we were there and Billy and Lizzie
(Davis) lived not far away in the county.   - I knew
Molly [Mary Mollie Arrington], who married Dock
Yarborough.  Their daughter Norma comes to the
reunion.  I didn't know Isham [Arrington], who
married Lucy Walls.


Aunt Mary had a brother, Jim Prestridge,(we said
"Prestige") who married John Arrington's sister Sarah
(Sallie) - also, a brother William (Bill) married
John and Charles Arrington's sister, Elizabeth
(Betty).


Uncle Jim and Aunt Sallie, Uncle Bill and Aunt Betty
lived near Great-Grandpa Isham [Arrington] about 3
miles south of Grandpa Charles [Arrington]- in
Randolph Co., Ala.  Isham's home was on the Ga. side
of the line.  My Uncle Lewis lived at Isham's
homeplace until his death.  One of my earliest
Recollection's was walking to Uncle Lewis' and
picking cotton for him. We had fun playing on the
cotton on the porch of Isham's old log house. I wish
I had a picture of it.


The name Noah Freeman is familiar, but when my cousin
gave me Sallie's [Arrington] marriage, I couldn't
remember them, nor do I remember anything about Nancy
and "Bub" Davis.  My Dad's older sister, Mollie
Pearce married Jim Freeman and I believe they were
brothers [yes they were]

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