Johnson-Warren-Hancock County GaArchives Biographies.....Brad Poole 1929 - 2003 ************************************************ 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: Inez Brett ibrett1042@aol.com July 24, 2003, 6:39 am Author: Brad Poole Brad's direct line of Pooles (Numbers preceding names indicates generations removed from Philip Pool) Philip Pool ( died-circa 1801 married Mary Tapley? 2. Ephraim Pool 2. Henry Pool, Sr. (born circa 1765-25 died Jun 1850)(85) Mr Susan Radcliff or (Ratchett)(Rachelle) 3. Henry Pool, Jr. or Henry Radcliff (23 Mar 1795-1852)(57) Mr Mary Ann Cason (20 Jun 1795-14 My 1881)(83) on 28 Jan 1817 4. Tilman Newton Pool (18 Aug 1821-6 Oct 1897)(76) Mr Mary Polly Johnson (29 Aug 1824-19 Sep 1879)(55) on 3 Oct 1841 5. William Bradford " Brad " Pool (22 Jan 1847-1 Jan 1929)(82) Mr Sara Elizabeth "Lizzie" English (18 Jun 1851-6 Sep 1BB9 (38) on 12 Jan 1869 6. Hubard nHerbert· Radcliff Pool (28 Feb 1885-20 May 1936)(51) Mr Maggie Louiee "Lou" Dermody (8 Nov 1887-29 Dec 1970) (83) on 17 Feb 1916. 7. William Bradford "Brad" Poole (12 May 1929- THIS IS BRAD NOTE: The "e' was added to my line about 1937 to dignify the name I suppose. Some of the other Pool lines added the "e' earlier and some later; however, the Pool Coat of Arms states that the name is spelled Pool and Poole. I haven't run across Poole earlier than around 1900. Now you seldom see Pool without the "e. There is no intent expressed or implied, that this work will go down in the annals of history as a classic. I merely want to get some facts (facts as nearly as I can ascertain or believe) and a few observations down while I still have a little mind left. Genealogy is the history and descent of a person, and like all history, must be taken with a grain of salt. History is the recording of events that took place in the past. WRONG!!! History is the recording of events that some author believes, or in many cases wants to believe, took place in the past. History is recorded from news media coverage or handed down from person to person and normally written down and many times with more than one version. Of the times that I've seen history in the making, and history is made every day, and later I would read the written version of it, I could not believe they were describing what I had seen. Five people see an event take place you get five different versions of what happened. It's enough to shake your faith in history and makes you wonder if there ever was a Napoleon at Waterloo or any other two-bit general who did what history gives him credit for. There are a lot of "WAGs' in history---------a "WAG" being a Wild Ass Guess. So in reading history do as the authors of history do-----believe the parts that you want to believe and discredit the rest. Your guess is probably as good as theirs. I realize that this compilation that I have gotten together is full of discrepancies. In cases where I caught discrepancies and/or contradiction I have listed what my research shows and commented on what I believe. You believe what you want to ( you are going to anyway ). Much of this information came from family bibles and courthouse records, but the people recording this information were humans and some of them were no smarter than I am. Deciphering beautiful, but hard to read script can easily become an error and it also takes it's toll on aging eyes. Who knows? Some of this information is what "they" said and it has always been known that "they" will lie to you at times I don't know but what there is more truth in fiction tllan history. The stories I tell here, some amusing, some not, were told to me as a boy over 50 years aga. Memory can fade and/or change in 50 years. I have repeated than as I remember hearing tilem. I have not intentionally changed anything. Some may be as they actuaIiy happened and some may not. They make for a good story and it seems the world is more interested in a good story than the truth of the matter. I have been called a realist all my life because I see things as they are, not as I would like them to be. I call a "spade" a "spade." Of my many faults, having "double standard syndrome" is not one of them. There are very few cases where it's right for one to do something and wrong for anyone else to do it. When I find evidence of something, I list it whether it be good, or bad or indifferent. Every family has skeletons in their closets. I have found far less than I expected in my family tree, and being the realist that I am, I know that my family didn't have less skeletons than other families, but perhaps they were better at keeping them hidden. Families will talk about other families' skeletons but fail to mention their own. Other families would know more about my family's skeletons than I could ever find out. I have gotten whiffs of skeletons (oh, they are there) but I couldn't get enough evidence to make a statement and I am sure my family has enough skeletons without me inventing any. One interesting observation that I have noted through my research is the spacing of births of children in the older families before the advent of the "pill" or other modern day birth control methods. Seems the first child was born nine to twelve months after marriage-a few, like now, were "premature" and born before nine months. It's odd that the first child seems more prone to be "premature." There is an old saying that the first child can be born anytime but all other children take nine months. The second and subsequent children were generally born at two to three year intervals. The explanation that I was given for this spacing is that all motIlers nursed their babies back then and generally weaned their babies at a year to eighteen months of age. Normally a mother didn't get pregnant as long as she was nursing a baby. It wasn't wise to bet on this, but as a rule that's the way it was. Where reference is made to individuals, the birth and deal dates me given, if known, to help identify them. This is done since identical family names me used over and over, sometimes skipping several generations and picking up again. Also, the same sequence of names is sometime used in different hnes. Some me listed as "Jr." in the bibles and some me not Maiden names of wives me given, when known, and their married narne given in parenthesis folldwing. Nicknames and names different from those entered in the bibles me given in quotation marks As can be seen from the context this work was done for and is directed toward our children: Wilham "Bill" Bradford Poole, Jr., Carol Denise Poole, Donald "Don" Dwain Poole, and Nora Melinda "Lindy" Poole. I have intentionally used redundant information in this work for the sake of continuity. It is irritating to me to be reading a document and every other line says to see page so and so. I have eliminated as much of this as I reasonably could. In a few instances where the information was very long and had been uses prior in die text with my apologies, I have said to see page so and so and I hope cited the correct page number. This compilation covers over thirty years of search, research, deciphering beautiful, but hard to read courthouse records, begging, pleading, prying, conniving, telephone calls, letter writing, traveling and riding 4-wheelers through woods and briars searching for information and graves --not to mention fighting gnats, mosquitoes, spiders, scorpions, snakes, sandpurs, rain, heat, cold, and a few irate landowners, and after those thirty years, I can put it all down on just a few pages. It was worth it. Genealogy is a never-ending thing and I shall continue to scarch and to wonder about things I can't find. CREDITS These notes of the Pool Clan go back to England in the 1700's, and are composed from information from the family bibles which I am custodian; memory; stories told to me by mother who had a vast knowledge of both sides of the family; conversations with Christine "Teenie" Foster, my first cousin whose knowledge and memory at age 92 are unreal; and the invaluable research on the Pool Clan for me in 1960 by Mrs. Texie Johnson of Warren County. My thanks also to the following people who aided in the research: Mr. James English, long-time sheriff of Glascock County who led us to the graves of Henry, Elender and Sara Pool and Mary Pool (Newsome); Rev. Henry Norris of Warren County who, as a mere boy, erected the monument of the grave of Henry Pool for the DAR in the early 1930s and who knew so much about Aunts Sara Pool, Mary Pool (Newsome), and Grandpa Bred Pool; Mr. Frank Wills, Federal Paper Board Area Manager of Thomson who helped us pinpoint the grave of Henry Pool on a map and gave us permission to cross Federal Paper Board land to reach it; Mr. C.F. Johnson of Warren County for permission to go on his land where Henry Pool is buried; Mr. L.M. Silas of Warren County who owns land adjoining the burial place of Henry Pool and aided in pinpointing the site; Mrs. Albert H. (Calene) Wren of Warren County; Mrs. Martha Cason Poole, Clerk of Superior Court, Warren County; Ms Carlene Jones of Tucker and Ms Call Elmore of Jonesboro, sisters from the Johnson County Line of Pooles who dug up some information on my own line; Ms Inez Brett of Niceville, FL who helped so much on the Johnson County Line of Pooles; Mr. Dan Crumpton of Warren County whose books Cemeteries & Genealogy - Warren County Georgia - And Immediate Vicinity - 1792- 1978 and Warren County Georgia - 1793-1900 - Genealogy II have been Godsends and to the many others, my thanks. Many years ago when I first became interested in genealogy, the only systern of documentation I had seen was ancestral charts. I tried this system and it worked fine for two or three generations and just the direct line. As I picked up more and more generations and began to spread outside my direct line with aunts, uncles and cousins, the charts began to get confusing and I ran out of floor space to spread them out I decided then that there had to be a better way to document my family roots, I devised, or so I though at the time, a system that was much simpler than charts. After using this system for a while and smiling in the mirror for my ingenuity, I discovered that this system had been in use for eons. Instead of feeling sorry for myself for having my parade peed on, I took consultation in the fact that charts must confuse other people also. In this system numbers preceding names are the generations removed from the head of that particular clan. Number "1" is the head of the clan or as far back as I have been able to go. The "2s" are the children of the head of the clan, "3s" are the grandchildren of the head of the clan and "4s" are the great grandchildren of the head of the dan, etc. All "3s" listed under one particular "2" will be siblings and all "3d' in the document will be first cousins to that particular set of sibhngs. All "4s" will either be siblings or second cousins, "5s" will be siblings or their cousins and so on down the line. Some of the clans I have traced to the 12th generation so all "l2s" will either be siblings or if descended from another child of the head of the dan IOth cousins, Now that I have you thoroughly confused, I am really going to walk on your mind. I have heard first cousin, once or twice removed all my life and was fifty years old before I understood the system. "A" and "B" are first cousins and both have children. Children of first cousin "A" are second cousins to the children of first cousin "B" but are first cousinq once removed, to first cousin "B." Grandchildren of first cousin "A" are first cousins, twice removed, to first cousin "B" and are second cousins, once removed, to the children of first cousin"B." Technically, as far as you can trace descendants of first cousin "A=' they will be first cousins (another time removed for each generation)) to first cousin "B." FAMILY NAME AND COAT OF ARMs ge'-ne-al'-o-gy, n., pl. -gies. 1. A record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc. 2. The study of family ancestries and histories. 3. Descent from an original form or progenitor; linage; ancestry. Random House Dictionary of the English Language Our names, the principle form of personal and family identification, evolved from the time man first learned to make some specific vocative sound or call to identify and differentiate members of his family and community. During the Dark Ages (following the Fall of Rome) most Europeans were known by their given names only; such as John. In the eleventh century, populations increased dramatically and the event of beginning trade forced people into ever-growing town and cities. The need to differentiate between the many Johns arose. Hereditary surnames (last name given to each generation of children in the same family) began thus brothers John and Paul became John Pool and Paul Pool because they lived by a pool. As populations continued to grow the need to differentiate between the many John Pools and Paul Pools evolved into a middle name so John Pool became John Henry Pool and Paul Pool became Paul Rex Pool Somewhere along the line a few parents began giving their children a fourth name, John Henry Wesley Pool but this seems to have been more for a status symbol rather than for identification. The surnanle Poole is most abundant in the English counties of Somersetshire and Gloucestershire and is also found to a lesser extent in Cambridgeshire, Doresetshire, Essex, Sropshire, Staffordshire, and Wiltshire. By the time of the first census in America in 1790, many Poole families had settled in this country. The average Poole household had 5.5 members and census records indicate that there were more Poole heads-of-household living in Massachusetts and North Carolina than in any other part of America. Official United States records compiled in 1974 indicate that in that year Poole was the 525th most frequently occurring surname in the nation. Today there are approximately 53,300 adult Anlericans named Poole. Heraldry, or the study of amorial bearings is an adjunct to the study of family history. Coat armor was completely unknown in Europe before the twelfth century, and did not appear in England until about 1250. Its sudden rise has beal ascribed to several things, including the First Crusade (1007), the advent of body armor, and the growing use of seals on personal documents. The early development of the use of heraldic devices followed closely upon the need for better identification, and the trend became widespread. First embellished on shields and other pieces of armor; the designs were soon transferred to surcoats, horse trappings and even private possessions. These early insignia, including bends (diagonal stripes), fesses (horizontal stripes), chevrons, and crosses, were chosen because they were conspicuous, even in the chaos of bloody battle. For the same reason bright colors were used. Charges, or representations of animals and natural objects, did not become popular until the second half of the twelfth century. With the advent of gunpowder in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the need for armorial bearing waned. By then, though, coats of armor were cherished for the decorative effect, and family crests were handed down from proud sire to aspiring son. Burke's General Armory lists nineteen different coats of arms for the Pool family. Following see descriptions of three of them. Arms: Azure, sem'ee of fleur-de-lis or, a lion rampant argent. CREST: Out of a ducal coronet or, a griffin's head argent (Arms: On a blue field spotted with gold fleur-de-lis, a standing silver lion. Crest: A silver griffin's head (fictitious animal) rising out of a gold crown.) Arms: Gules, a chevron between three crescents arent. (Arms: On a red field a silver chevron between three silver crescents) Arms: Or, two bars azure. (Arms: on a gold field two blue bars.) Pool Coat of Arms From an article by the DAR on 24 may 1931 about Aunt Sara Poole and Aunt Mary Poole Newsome, daughters of Henry Poole, Sr., Revolutionary War Soldier: Pomroy's book. Passenger and lntmigration Lists shows that a Phillip Pool and a Philips Pool arrived in America via the Port of Philadelphia in 1753. Whether they arrived on the same ship or what relation they were is not known. There is a possibility that the "s" on one Philip was a misspelling and that they were father and son. In over thirty years of research I have not run across the name PhihPs again I have run across a Phillip Pool several times in Warren County records but believe that this person to have been Philip. The next I have been able to pick up on Philip Pool is that he married Mary Tapley, daughter of Joel and Mary Tapley. Joel Tapley was the son of Marc Tapley who was one of tllree Tapley brothers who came to America about the time of Philip Pool. Just when Philip Pool and Mary Tapley married is unknown but believed to be circa 1760 as their third child, Henry, was born circa 1765 in Dobbs County, NC. Current maps ofNorth Carolina do not show a Dobbs County. During the formative years of this country, counties were constantly being changed, added to, divided and renamed. Warren County, GA was changed 15 times between 1793 and 1856. The area that was once Dobbs County is currently all or Parts of Wayne, Green and Lenoir Counties. These three counties are located in a triangle formed by the now cities of Goldsboro, Greenville and Kinston in east central North Carolina. Philip and Mary had five children: Mary, who married Henry Graybill; Ephriam, of whom little in known; Henry, who married four times; James, of whom little is known; and Susannah, who married a Caps. North Carohna census shows that Henry Pool was born in North Carolina Circa 1765. Where the siblings of Henry were born is unknown. Some of his younger siblings may have been born in South Carohna as Philip and Mary migrated to South Carolina, Darlington District, sometime before the Revolutionary War. Whether the then Darlington District was the now city of Darlington is unknown but is very doubtful, as South Carolina Deed Abstracts show that in 1757 Philip Pool owned land in Saxe-Gothan Township along the Santee River. The Santee River is nearer Charleston than Darhngton. Obviously Philip did not live on this land until after 1765, as his son, Henry, was born in North Caroling in 1765. Phililp Pool and Henry Pool, who was quite young at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and possibly Ephriam and James fought throughout the War from the Darlington District. Henry fought inmany battles including Cowpens and witnessed the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the General George Washington at Yorktown. Some unverified accounts list Henry Pool as a "drummer boy." After the war was over, Henry was released frorn the Continental Army in Charleston, SC and returned to the Darlington District where he married Susan Raddiff (Ratchett or Rachelle) circa 1783. Some records indicate that they came to Georgia then and that all eight of their children were born in Warren County; however, Warren County census of 1850 indicates that Henry Radcliff or Henry, Jr., their youngest son, was born in South Carolina in 1795. Cason; and another son name and birth date unknown but who died young, possibly a baby. Where he fits in age-wise with his sibhngs in unknown. After the death of Susan, Henry married Mrs. Polly Wilson in Warren County. After she died, he married Mary Hutchinson and upon her death he married her sister, Elender. Henry had no children by his second and third wives but he and Elender, his fourth wife, had two daughter, Sara (1845) who never married and Mary (1850) who married Archibald Newsome in 1862 when she was 15 and he was 17. In her later years Aunt Sara was asked why she never married. Her reply. "The ones that I wanted, I couldn"t have and the ones that I could Have, the devil wouldn't have." After the Revolutionary War, the American Federal Government had no money to give war veterans bonuses so in lieu, the veterans or their widows were granted land. My great" grandfather on my mother's side died in the war so his widow from North Carolina was granted land in Hancock County, Georgia Records indicate that Phillip Poot was granted 15 acres in Wilkcs County in 1788 and 300 acres in 1788. Henry Pool was granted land in Warren County but just when is unknown. Waren County was such a big county at the time ofthese grants and subsequently divided that this land could have been in the now counties of Talifaro, Wilkes, McDuffie, Jefferson, Glasscock or Warren. The land that Henry Pool was granted is believed to have been in what is now eastern Warren County as his burial place is on land that is said to have been his old home place and is located south of the present Warrenton-Wrens Highway, behind Stamps Branch Church. It is not known just when the Pools came to Warren County. Warren County courthouse records indicate that Philip and Ephraim Poo1 were landowners in Warren County in 1793, but they may not have been Iiving in Warren County at the time. Philip Pool deeded a hone to his son, Henry, in Warren County on 6 September 1810, Warren County census of 1850 indicates that Henry Raddiff Pool son of Henry, was born in South Carolina in 1795. The senior Henry must have come to Warren County between 1795 and 1810. According to his obituary printed in 7he Chrisricrn Index he was a native of Carolina and removed to Georgia, Warren County, in 1799. The Pools were mainly farmers and remained so until after World War 11 when agriulture began to wane in Warren County. The senior Henry, sometimes listed as Henry Sol, was a farmer and a Baptist preacher. l-Ie preaclhed at Little Briar Creek Church, Mill Creek Church and other churches in Warren and Glasscock Counties. Henry SoI's son, Henry Radcliff, like his father, was a farmer and Baptist Preacher and was killed in a robbery in the fall of 1852. He had sold some cotton in Warrenton and was on his way home when was killed in a robbery in the area where Courthouse Square Restaurant is now (1975 ) located The killer apparently thought that Henry Radcliff was carrying the money for the cotton on him. it was ironic that he only had fifty cents in his pockets at the time. His killer was never known. Descendants of the Warren County Pools have scattered to the four winds. During my years spent in the military and kicking around all over the world, I ran into many Pooles from many different states and most of them that I talked to who knew much about their lineage said their anestory came from either North Carolina or Eastern Georgia (Warren County.) Many Warren County Pooles are buried in Johnson Church Cemetery between Warrenton and Gibson. Some are buried in Mill Creek Cenletery and some are buried in the Long Creek Cemetery. Henry Pool is buried in the Pool/Rhodes Cemetery on his old home place about 1/2 mile behind Stamps Branch Church on the Warrenton-Wrens Highway. His grave was marked by the DAR in the early 1930s and is the only marked grave there. There are numerous unmarked graves and sinks there and it is believed that Philip and his wife, Mary Tapley, their sons, Ephriam and James and their wives; Henry's first three wives; Henry's sons; Henry Radeliff; James and their wives; an 18 month child of Freeman Reynolds Pool; and possibly some of Hemy pool's daughters and their families. Obviously there are Rhodes buried there for the name of the cemetery. Just what connection between the Pools and Rhodes is unknown but probably there were marriages between the two families. Although there are many Poole descendants still living in Warren and Hancock Counties, the Poole name itself is rapidly dying out after flourishing for 200 years. The Poole name will die out completely in Hancock County with the demise of my brother, Joe and me but a spark of the Hancock County Pooles springs up in Indiana in the two grandsons of my brother, Bob, (Matthew "Matt" Derrel Poole, 18 September 1977 and Mark Daniel Poole, 22 June 1980). That Poole spark will probably develop and flourish for a couple hundred years, die out there and spring up somewhere else. I don't guess the world will ever be completely rid of the Poole name-hope not anyway. NOTE: Philip Pool my great" grandfather, arrived in America from England through the Port of Philadelphia in 1753, month and day not known Wilhelm Gonder, my great' grarldfather on my motller's side, arrived in America from Rotterdam, Holland via Plymouth, England on the ship "Peggy" on 24 September 17753 and entered the Port of Philadelphia also. Because both grandfathers arrived in America in 1753 and both entered through the Port of Philadelphia and since the ship out of Holland that Wilhelm Gonder was on stopped in Plymouth, England, there is a possibility that they both arrived on the same ship One hundred and sixty- three years later on 17 Frbruary 1 9 16, the two elans were united in the marriage of my parents, Hubard "Hubert" Radcliff Pool 1(1885-1936) and Maggie Louise "Lou: Dermody (1887-1 970). Additional Comments: The following material was given to me by Brad Poole in Sparta, Georgia. He has been doing this Poole genealogy for over 40 years probably, and has done a wonderful job on his line, which is Henry Poole, second son of Philip and Mary Tapley. He is a handy cousin to have and a wonderful person and friend. He has such a sharp witty personality and he writes just like he speaks. You are in for some laughs. This work contains no copyright material. Please feel free to reproduce it in part or its entirety, per Brad. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 26.4 Kb