Jones County GaArchives History - Schools .....Blountsville Academy Trustees 22d Dec. 1834 ************************************************ 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: Virginia Crilley varcsix@hot.rr.com October 5, 2003, 12:08 pm Source: Galileo Full Title: AN ACT to incorporate certain Academies therein named and to appoint Trustees for the same, and to confer certain powers, rights, and privileges upon the same. SEC. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Daniel Malone, Allen Green, John Drury, William D. Ethridge, Jeremiah W. Stokes, Francis Tufts, and John W. Gordon be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Blountsville Academy in the county of Jones: [see below for information on the above individuals] THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approval Date: Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. ============ Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the name of John W. G. Smith be inserted in the place of John W. Gordon, one of the Trustees of the Blountsville Academy, in the county of Jones, who declines to act as Trustee of said Academy. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1835 =========== NOTES: Shared by: "Robert R. Curlee" Information came from Cindy Peters I recognize two of the named trustees of Blountsville Academy, Allen GREEN(E) and William D. ETH(E)RIDGE. Allen GREENE (the family has always spelled it with the final "e" for the last 150 years or so, although even after that there were numerous mentions of family members that did not use that spelling) was my wife's 3rd ggfather, and William D. ETHERIDGE was Allen's son-in-law, the husband of Allen's oldest child, Eliizabeth Bass GREENE. As a boy in 1791, Allen, b abt 1782 Brunswick Co., VA, joined his father, James Williams GREENE, and many other family members in moving from Brunswick Co. to Hancock Co., GA. He was engaged with his father in a hattery in Milledgeville at the James W. d in late 1805. Allen eventually owned property in Hancock, Baldwin and Jasper counties, as well as his plantation in Jones Co. He was a lieutenant in the Georgia militia during the Indian wars and a captain during the War of 1812. In the company of his eldest son, James Lawrence, Allen GREENE in Dec 1839 officially changed his residence from Jones Co., GA, to Liberty Co., Republic of Texas, in order to be among the last to qualify for a section (640 acres) of free land provided by the government of Texas to attract immigrants, a provision set to expire on 1 Jan 1840. The move may have been in part a staged event (to appear to be a resident in order to get the free land) or, at least, a move made in stages, as other family members acting on Allen's behalf had immigrated as early as 1838 to procure land grants, while others moved on over in the early 1840s only after the free lands had been augmented with purchased properties. Allen GREENE himself was enumerated as a head of household in the 1840 Jones Co., GA, census, which would indicate he or at least his wife still domiciled there. But he apparently sold off most of his GA property, including the Jones Co. homeplace, in the next few years. Allen set himself up in TX not in Liberty Co., where his grant was, but just north of there in Montgomery Co., to the part that is now in Grimes Co., TX, near the community later named Plantersville by James L. GREENE's wife (and now site of the annual Texas Renaissance Festival). Among Allen's acquisitions in TX was a 2,400 acre tract in Montgomery Co. purchased for $3,600 in cash on July 22, 1844 from Leonard Groce, executor of the estate of his brother Jared Groce, part of the land that had been granted to Jared by the Mexican government. At his death in Dec 1844 Allen GREENE owned property in Brunswick Co., VA (inherited from his father almost 40 years earlier), Hancock Co., GA and in Montgomery and Liberty counties, TX. His estate was probated in both Montgomery Co., TX, and Hancock Co., GA. Meanwhile, William Duggan ETHERIDGE remained in GA, first in Jones Co. and later in Chatham Co., eventually purchasing on 13 Sep 1843 from his father-in-law Allen GREENE a 675-acre tract in Baldwin Co., "being the plantation purchased of Allen Greene known as his Baldwin Plantation." As a boy, William, b 7 Apr 1803 Martin Co., NC, had immigrated with his family from his native state to Jones Co., GA, where his father, Elijah, was found on the 1817 tax rolls of Jones Co., on the same page that also listed Allen GREENE. When William turned 21, Elijah gave him a large plantation in Jones Co., along with a number of slaves to work it. William built a fine house there, and later there was a post office nearby called "Etheridge." Elijah changed his residence to Monroe Co., where he had substantial holdings and eventually d in 1855. William D. ETHERIDGE m 21 Jul 1825 Jones Co., GA, Elizabeth Bass GREENE, the ceremony performed by the bride's great uncle (and not only her father's uncle but also his brother- in-law, both having married daughters of Judkins HUNT), the Rev. Myles GREENE, Methodist minister, planter and public servant (my database notes for him include this: "In 1791, Myles Greene, along with Asbury Hull, Lovick Pierce and others, was sent by the VA Methodist Conference as Presiding Elders over NC, SC and GA. For 20 years he was the clerk of the court in Baldwin Co., GA, living in Milledgeville. He afterwards rejoined the GA Methodist Conference and was a member of the organizing conference in Macon in 1836." An oil portrait of the Rev. Myles GREENE hangs in the GA Methodist Museum on St. Simon's Island.) Eventually, prob some time after Allen's death, William and Elizabeth moved to Savannah, Chatham Co., GA, whre Elizabeth d 27 Aug 1854. After her death, William continued to live with their daughter Martha Caroline in Savannah. In Aug 1866, he made a business trip by ship to New York. On the return journey, a case of cholera was discovered on board, and all nineteen passengers were landed at the quarantine station on Tybee Island. William succumbed to the disease and was buried on the island, where his body remained for five years, but was then disinterred and reburied beside his wife's grave in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah.