Schley County GaArchives Photo Person.....Etheridge, William Thomas 
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Name:               William Thomas Etheridge
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William Thomas Ethridge
1852 - 1907

	William Thomas Ethridge, a Schley County, Georgia, farmer and Patton 
Hill constable, was born December 28, 1852, in Macon County, Georgia, and died 
of pneumonia on February 25, 1907, at his home in Schley County.  He was the 
son of Confederate soldier Green Thomas Ethridge and Sarah E. Pace who married 
January 18, 1846, in Marion County, Georgia.  Green was born about 1820 in 
Wilkinson County, Georgia, died about 1902 in Schley County, Georgia, and was 
buried at the Concord United Methodist Church.   Sarah, who was born about 
1823 in Georgia, was the daughter of William Pace and Martha Hixon.  Her date 
of death is unknown, but she died before 1880.  
	William married Martha Elizabeth “Mattie” Murray, the eldest daughter 
of farmer and Justice of the Peace Stephen Murray and Harriet Lightner, on 
January 3, 1877.  Martha was born April 3, 1958, in Schley County and died 
August 22, 1897.  Both she and William were buried at Concord United Methodist 
Church.  They raised their family in the 946th militia district known as 
Patton Hill or Nubbin Hill.  He and Martha had a large family of ten 
children:  Aeolia Virginia (Sept. 1878 – 1958), Cora (1881 – 1911), Stephen 
Murray “Tebe” (April 30, 1882 – June 4, 1957), Donie Bell (Jan. 8, 1884 – July 
6, 1885), Mariwyl (March 1886 – May 1976), Seaborn Jackson “Sebe”(March 21, 
1888 – 1963), Howard Walker (April 1890 – 1951), Thomas Watson “Watts” (April 
1892 – Unknown), Joe Mattie (April 17, 1894 – Aug. 29, 1897), Rupert Merlee 
(May 21, 1896 – March 31, 1979).  Eight of the ten children lived to 
adulthood.  Two of the sisters were married to Fred D. Lawhorn.  His first 
wife was Cora.  After Cora’s death, Mariwyl married Fred. 

	 Stephen Murray “Tebe” Etheredge was the only son who stayed to farm 
in Schley County.  He purchased the family farm.  He and brother-in-law Rufe 
Murray were executors for the William T. Ethridge estate.  After his father’s 
death, he applied to be his sister Merlee’s guardian.  Tebe was on the 
county’s board of commissioners for years.
(The spelling of the family named changed, but the reason for the change is 
unknown.)  

	Aeolia, the oldest daughter, helped to raise her younger siblings 
after their mother died.  Aeolia married David Rufus “Rufe” Murray who was a 
farmer in Patton Hill and who served as the Patton Hill Justice of the Peace 
for 35 years.	


Additional Comments:
Biography submitted by great grand-daughter, Kay New.

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