WILKES - UPSON COUNTY, GA - BIOSS Nancy Todd Hamrick Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Sheila M. Schmutz, Ph.D. sheila.schmutz@usask.ca Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Nancy Todd's Story (Mrs. John Hamrick) Nancy Todd is believed to have been born about 1785 in North Carolina. Her descendants were later told that she was a full-blood Cherokee Indian but there is no evidence to support this. Her parents were John Todd and his wife Elizabeth. She had two sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret. Elizabeth married Joseph Horsley as his second wife and her step- daughter Malinda Hotsley married Nancy's son James P. Hamrick. Nancy also had 4 brothers: James, John Junior, William, and Joseph. Her widowed mother was granted land in the Revolutionary War lottery in 1805. All land awarded in this way at that time was in Ohio, so it was presumably sold. In 1813 her brother Joseph bought the rest of the family's shares of 268 acres of land they inherited on Clark's Creek of Long Creek in Wilkes County (NC or GA?). This may have been the family's home originally. Nancy Todd married John Hamrick, who was a Primitive Baptist preacher, as his second wife on April 26, 1811 in Wilkes County, Georgia. He was born about 1777 in Prince William County, Virginia. He was the son of Benjamin Hamrick, an overseer on a tobacco plantation, and his wife Fannie Burchett. John Hamrick married Martha "Patsy" Mozley in 1800 in Wilkes County but may have lived in Lincoln County and they had 4 children: Benjamin, Catherine, Eliza, and Simmedy, before they separated. The children apparently remained with him or at least were with his family in Jasper Co., GA in the 1820 census. Georgia was settled about 1733 and was admitted to the union in Jan. 2, 1788 so by the time John Hamrick moved to Georgia, it was already a state. John and Nancy Hamrick had a son James P. in 1812 and a son John Marshall in 1814 in Wilkes County, Georgia. John Hamrick sold 68 acres of property in Wilkes County to Soloman Stephens in 1814. They had a daughter Margaret (Peggy) Ann who married Thomas Laseter on Jan. 30, 1830. They had a son Jeremiah J. about 1815. Their daughter Elizabeth Emeline Hamrick was born on March 1, 1818 in Yatesville (east of Thomaston), Upson County. (a fire has destroyed most of the early records on this church which still exists) Their last child, a son William F., was born in 1820 in Jasper County, Georgia. Nancy's father-in-law, Benjamin Hamrick was living with them in 1830 in Upson County, Georgia according to the U.S. census records. His wife, Fannie, had died shortly before in Jasper County, Georgia. He had served in the Revolutionary War and in his penion application of Nov. 7, 1832, he recited counties of residence that suggest he lived near them since their marriage and moved when they did, living to 100. He says he resided in Wilkes County, North Carolina after the war and then moved to Wiles County, GA, then Jasper Co., GA and finally lived in Upson County, GA. Since John was born in 1777, we can suppose that Benjamin married Fannie Burchett about the time Independence was declared in 1776 in Virginia. In 1826 John Hamrick and Jacob King, another Baptist preacher, created the Fellowship Church in Upson County, according to the Upson County History. John Hamrick became the first preacher of the New Hope Primitive Baptist Church in Yatesville, Upson County Georgia in 1823. He attended the Flint River Baptist church association meeting in 1828, as a delegate from the New Hope Church. He married several couples in Bethlehem Church from its beginning on Feb. 6, 1824 until he died January 20, 1836, but was not chosen as their pastor until April 1835. This church was located on the west side of the creek in Pike County, Georgia, formerly Monroe County. His son John Marshall Hamrick married Edith M. Hamil in Pike County on Dec. 15, 1835 so it is likely they were married by his father. John Hamrick's will was probated on July 25, 1836 with his estate appraised at $1200.12. Nancy bought some of the property and the black servant Vina after John's death. She became legal guardian of their childen Jeremiah J., Elizabeth E. and William F on January 8, 1838. In 1838 she paid out their father's inheritance to some of his children and in 1843 she paid the three youngest ones. Vina or Viney was given to her sons on Dec. 17, 1845. Jeremiah and Elizabeth are likely living with her according to the 1840 census in Upson County. William married Nancy Cook on July 24, 1840 in Upson County. In the 1840 census he was still single but had 47 slaves living with him in District 589 of Upson County. He was likely a plantation overseer therefore. He died on Jan. 14, 1864. Elizabeth married Augustus Oliver on Dec. 24, 1840 in Upson County but they moved to Monroe County by the time their first child, John Henry Oliver was born on Oct. 6, 1841. Jeremiah probably continued to live with his mother until he married Hannah Jane Childs on Jan. 6, 1842 in Thomaston, Upson County. Nancy Todd Hamrick died on Jan. 17, 1867 in Upson County, GA. I have not found the burial site of either John or Nancy Hamrick. The cemeteries of the New Hope and Bethlehem churches do not have tombstones as far back as 1836. They may have had only wooden crosses. It is believed that both John Hamrick and his father, Benjamin Hamrick, as buried in unmarked graves in the Bethlehem Church cemetery in Upson County, GA. References Upson County History citings sent by Virginia Crilley "The Augustus Oliver Family" by Lucille Rucker Chessmore, 1994, #04-070830 http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/monroe/ churches/flint1828.t xt STATE OF THE CHURCHES FLINT RIVER ASSOCIATION 1828 CHURCHES & COUNTIES DELEGATES DIED TOTAL MEMBERSHIP 48. New Hope, Upson JOHN HAMBRICK, Creed Caldwell 2 65 (Names in caps are for those who were ordained preachers) Wilkes County Georgia Deed book EEE p. 95-98 (sale of Todd land by heirs) "The Hamrick and Other Families - Indian Lore by Mayme H. Hamrick, Mennonite Publishing House, Scottsdale, PA. 1939. Joyce Hamrick Moody of California, published her findings on the Hamricks of Upson County, Georgia. In Volume 2 of her work she states that John Hamrick died January 20, 1836. Census Records online: 1800 Census. Lincoln Co., Georgia; Charles Hamrick 100 Acres, Benjamin Hamrick 100 Acres, Elder John Hamrick 1 poll. A 1800 Census for Lincoln Co., Georgia; compiled by Frank Parker Hudson, R.J. Taylor Foundation; Atlanta, Georgia, 1979, Page 98 & 100. 1820 Jasper Co., GA 232 1086 Hamrick John pg0216.txt 3 males under 10, 1 male 16-25, 1 male 25-44, 2 females under 10, 1 female 10-15, 2 females 16-25, 1 female 25-44; 2 persons in Agriculture, no slaves This suggests that children from both wives were living together with them at this time. 1830 U.S. Census o Georgia o Upson o Unknown Townships image 49 pg 236 & 237, 119 pg 119, Wm P Yonge, UPPER COUNTY John Hambick 0112000100100-00100010000000 1840 Census, Upson County p. 22a HAMMOCK, Nancy 1 male 15-20, Females: 1 age 20-30 &1 age 50-60 Slaves: 1 male age 10, 1 female 10-24. 1 person in agriculture 1840 Census, Upson Co. GA District #589 p. 33A HAMRICK, Wm. F. 1 male 20-30 & no Females Slaves: males =8 under age 10, 8 age 10-24, 4 age 24-36, 4 age 36-55 & Females=11 under age 10, 8 age 10-24, 3 age 24-36, 1 age 55-100. 30 persons in agriculture (this may suggest that he was an overseer on a plantation, as was his grandfather) Note that Hamrick was sometimes spelled Hambrick by some branches of the family. Compiled by Sheila M. Schmutz, Canada sheila.schmutz@usask.ca in September, 2003 with the help of Lucille Chessmore and Virginia Crilley. (Sheila and Lucille are descendants through Elizabeth Emaline Hamrick) All mistakes are attributable to Sheila who has not been able to verify all of these statements in original sources but is using secondary sources