Ellis County Texas Archives News.....Brewer, Ruffin, Grizzard, Hobbs, Parker  visit Georgia 1912
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The Butler Herald - Taylor Co. GA 1912
May 7-9, 1912 was the 22nd United Confederacy Veteran's Reunion in Georgia. 
These Ellis County Residents returned to Taylor County to visit family.

The Butler Herald
Tuesday, May 14, 1912

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

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
thirty years or more.  They were reared in Marion County but have long resided
in Texas, where Mr. Cody is successfully engaged in farming.

Many former Taylor County folks, 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: Mrs. and Mrs. J.W. Hobbs,  Mrs.
Walker Brewer, Mrs. Maude Brewer Grizzard and Mr. Allen Cody, Mrs. Young,Mr.
William Draughon, Mr. John Parker, Mr. Henry Ruffin and son [Claude], Mr. Mat
Carr, Mr. T.J. Paxon and probably other 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.

Notes: 
These families lived around the old community of Leland in Ellis County.

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. GA
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.  I'm really not that familar with the
Brewer family, so maybe someone can correct this if I
am wrong)  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 Jonathan
W. Hobbs (Seaborn R. and Elizabeth D. Hobbs) who
married Virginia Brewer who was a sister to Mary
Brewer Jinks)  She would have been  58 at the time of
the trip. )

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)

Mr. John Parker married Sarah Jane Ruffin, sister to Henry Ruffin



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