TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - NEWS  Texas Visitors (Brewer family)

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The Butler Herald 
Tuesday, May 14, 1912 

Mr. Henry Ruffin and son of Texas, are visiting his brother, G.T. Ruffin and family.{Note: Claude J. Ruffin]

Mr. Charles McDaniel of Leary visited his sister, Mrs. G.T. Ruffin and family a few days ago. 

Mr. Allen Cody and sister, Mrs. J.C. Young of Texas after
attending the reunion are visiting their sister, Mrs. Amos
Byrd, this being their first visit in 30 years. They were
reared in Marion county buthave long resided in Texas, where
Mr. Cody is successfully engaged in farming. 
Mr. Allen Cody and sister, Mrs. J.C. Young of Texas after
attending the reunion are visiting their sister, Mrs. Amos
Byrd, this being their first visit in 30 years. They were
reared in Marion county buthave long resided in Texas, where
Mr. Cody is successfully engaged in farming.

Many former Taylor county folkds, now residents of Texas are
indeed welcome visitors to friends in Reynolds and Butler
and vicinities after an absence of quarter of a century or
more. Prominent among them and will be fondly remembered by
the older inhabitants of the county are: Mr. and Mrs. J.W.
Hobbs, Mrs. Walker Brewer, Mrs. Maud Brewer Grizzard and Mr.
Allen Cody, Mrs. Young, Mr. William Draughon, Mr. John
Parker, Mr. Henry Ruffin and son, Mr. Mat Carr, Mr. T.J.
Paxon and probably others whose names we have been unable to
learn. These came to the reunion and say it was the best
yet.

The Butler Herald 
Tuesday, June 4, 1912 
Page Three
Local Paragraphs
After a visit of several weeks to Taylor County
relatives and friends, resulting in many happy family
reunions after years of absence, the following former
Taylor County people now residing in Texas returned
home Friday: Mrs. J.W. Brewer and little daughter,
Jessie, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Hobbs, Mrs. Maude Grizzard,
little daughter Mary Belle and Mrs. Mary Jinks. Before
making their departure they called at this office and
requested that we in their behalf thank the people of
Taylor County for the many acts of kindness shown them
during their visit. Their appreciation seemed to be of
the most genuine kind.

Noted: Virginia Crilley varcsix@hot.rr.com 
This really did interest me, as it pertains to
families that migrated to Navarro Co TX....and are
connected to my Ruffin-Jinks grandparents who moved
here as well.

Most of these families are buried in Rice Cemetery -
Navarro Co. TX

 The main connecting links seems to be
the Brewer family.

Mrs. Mary Jinks is the daughter of Septimus L. Brewer.
She married William Henry Jinks (son of Willis and
Nicey Martin Jinks).  She was 63 at the time of this
visit. Her husband had died in 1872.  She eventually
returned to Taylor County and is buried in Taylor Co. 
Her Jinks husband is buried in the Navarro Co (Rice
Community) cemetery.  Wm Henry Jinks is the brother to
my grandmother, Winnie Virginia Jinks Ruffin who died
in 1915.

Mrs. J.W. Brewer and little daughter, Jessie (I
believe this is Mattie Johnson who married John W.
Brewer (who would have been a brother to Mary Brewer
Jinks)   Based on her age in 1880 Census, she would
have been 52.   They Tarried in Taylor says she died in
Ennis (which is  near Rice where the cemetery is.
Many of these families lived in Alma which is very
close to Ennis)

Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Hobbs ( I believe this to be Johnathan
W. Hobbs (son of Willis & Drucilla Peacock Hobbs) who
married Virginia Brewer who was a sister to Mary
Brewer Jinks)  She would have been  58 at the time of
the trip.  I'm going to check to see if they are
buried in Rice)

Mrs. Maude Grizzard and Mary Belle
Eva Maude (Jinks) Grizzard
Mother
(Oct) 1875-1926
(d/o William Henry and Mary A. Brewer Jinks)
(wife of Joe E. Grizzard)
(Both Maude and her daughter Mary Belle who married ?
Day are buried in the Rice Cemetery plot next to my
grandparents (H.J. and W.V. Jinks Ruffin)