MACON COUNTY, GA -  HISTORY Lumpkin Academy

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Oglethorpe

...only recently been torn down (ca 1935) was Old Lumpkin Academy, a school for Negroes, stared in 1886 by Horace Lumpkin, which was probably one of the first of its kind in this part of the country.

Uncle Horace, who died two years ago ( ca 1935) was from an old family of Lumpkin negroes, who have lived around Oglethorpe for years, deriving their name from the Lumpkin family.  They have always held themselves as negro aristocrats, belonging to Gen Phil Cook's mother-in-law, Mrs. Lumpkin.

Mrs. Peel, Gen Cook's daughter of Atlanta keeping up the standard of old years by being faithful to the slaves, helped in many ways to finance this school.


pg 183
Source: The History of Macon County Mrs. Louise Frederick Hays (1935)

Note:
1880 Census 
District 1070, Macon, Georgia
Lumpkin,  Robert b m 32
  Ellen b f 29
  Robert b m 9
  Jessie b m 7
  Horace b m 4
  Alberta b f 1/12 May Daug