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Farm Home of Matthew Hodge Albritton
Farm Home of Matthew Hodge Albritton Reprinted from Shaw Family Newsletters courtesy of Bryan Shaw Farm Home of Matthew Hodge Albritton, Lois, GA near Ray City “The old farm home is located just south...
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Claudie Belle Hester and the Easter Egg Hunt
Claudey Belle Hester was a student at the Ray City School in 1920. She was born about 1906, a daughter of Annie L. Jolly and Luther Hester. Her father died about 1909 and she, her brother and mother...
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Preacher Shaw and the Berrien Blue Jays
Preacher Shaw in uniform of the Berrien Blue Jays, 1948. Image courtesy of http://www.berriencountyga.com From at least the 1880s, baseball was popular among the small towns of Berrien County, GA. Ray...
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Perry Thomas Knight (1877-1955)
Perry Thomas Knight (March 7, 1877 – September 16, 1955) Perry Thomas Knight. Image courtesy of http://berriencountyga.com/ Perry Thomas Knight was born March 7, 1877 at Rays Mill (now Ray City)...
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Magnum Post Office Briefly Served Pioneers of Old Berrien
Lowndes County, GA, 1839 After south Georgia was first opened to settlers in the 1820s, the federal government established post offices to serve the pioneers. But for many years, the Post Offices of...
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Portrait of Rossie O. Knight
Rossie O. Knight as a young Soldier. Born August 28, 1892, Rossie O. Knight grew up in Ray City, GA. Image courtesy of Bryan Shaw and the Berrien Historical Foundation http://www.berriencountyga.com...
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Clements Brothers at Georgia Teachers College
Mason and Keith Clements of Ray City, GA, were sons of James Irwin Clements and Annie Mae Carter Clements. Mason and Keith Clements attended Georgia Teachers College, now Georgia Southern University,...
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Portrait of Jimmy Grissett, Jr.
James Arthur Grissett, Jr. (1932-2010) Jimmy Grissett, 1949 Class President, Ray City School Jimmy Grissett, 1948 Ray City School photo. Jimmy Grissett, born December 1, 1932, was one of five...
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Ray City Girls and Boys at Camp Wilkins
Ray City School students were among the girls and boys who attended 1931 summer courses at Camp Wilkins in Athens, GA. Camp Wilkins was built in 1924 as the first state 4-H camp in the nation....
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Rema Lee died of Blood Poisoning
Rema Lee (1893-1901) Rema Lee was born May 1, 1893, a son of Amanda Clements and Moses Lee who lived east of Ray City, GA. His father was a prominent farmer of Berrien County. His older brother was...
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Strange Story from Sharpe’s Store
Sharpe’s Store In 1852, a strange medical story from Sharpe’s Store, GA was circulated in state newspapers. Sharpes’ Store was at a center of commerce located on the Coffee Road about two miles above...
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J.B. Mitchell Sirmans and the Wheaton Victory
During WWII, J.B. Mitchell Sirmans, of Ray City,GA. served as a crewman on the American armed merchantman SS Wheaton Victory. J.B. Mitchell Sirmans was a son of Jay Sirmans and Rachel Allifar Smith. SS...
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Ray City Remembers WWII
Click to view slideshow. Related Posts Max Maurice Johnson Ag Teachers go to War Billy Clements was a Combat Engineer Memorial Day Remembrance of the Service and Sacrifice of Hubert Felton Comer...
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Berrien Readied for Civil War, May, 1861
In May of 1861, Wiregrass Georgia prepared for the coming Civil War. In Berrien County,GA General Levi J. Knight drilled his company of Berrien Minute Men. The Brooks County Rifles assembled under...
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Ora Kathleen Knight Swindle
Ora Kathleen Knight Swindle, of Ray City, GA. She was a daughter of Eliza Allen and Sullivan Jordan Knight, and wife of Henry Alexander Swindle. Image courtesy of Bryan Shaw. Ora Kathleen Knight was...
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Grand Jurors of 1845, Lowndes County, GA
In June of 1845, The Grand Jury of Lowndes County, Georgia convened at Troupville, GA. The reader will bear in mind that in 1845, Lowndes encompassed all of present day Berrien, Cook, Brooks, Lanier,...
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Grand Jury Presentments of 1845, Old Lowndes County, GA
In June of 1845, The Grand Jury of Lowndes County, Georgia convened for its 20th year. Judge Carlton B. Cole presided, with Peter E. Love as Solicitor General, and Duncan Smith served as clerk of the...
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Walter G. Altman
Walter G Altman (1895 -1943) Walter G. Altman was born 15 May 1895 in Cordele, GA. The 1900 census shows that at age five he was living with his parents, James & Louisa Altman, and family in a...
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Reverend W. Harvey Wages
Reverend W. Harvey Wages In the 1920s Reverend W. Harvey Wages served as pastor of the Ray City Baptist Church. He was tall and slender with blue eyes, an enthusiastic and talented young minister....
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Tommie Guthrie and the Korean War
Perry Thomas “Tommy” Guthrie, Jr (1932-2010) The Korean War began at 4:40am on June 25, 1950. Perry Thomas “Tommie” Guthrie, Jr., standing in front of a Chinese dugout where he had captured two...
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