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New Lois School Reunion, 1997
aa New Lois consolidated school, 4th, 5th, 6th Grades, 1933-34 the first year the school was opened. Identified front row left to right: Lucian Parrish, William Forehand, Elby Ray, Buckholt,...
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Campfires of the Berrien Minute Men
Berrien Minute Men Berrien County, Georgia sent forth in the Civil War two companies of men known as the Berrien Minute Men. The first company, organized in the summer of 1861 by Captain Levi J....
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Reverend Robert H. Howren ~ Methodist Circuit Rider
Reverend Robert H. Howren ~ Methodist Circuit Rider Reverend Howren brought his family to old Lowndes County in 1836 as conflicts with Native Americans were rising in Florida and Georgia. The Howren’s...
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Albert Douglass: Soldier Grey and Sailor Blue
Special thanks to Wm Lloyd Harris for sharing research and contributing portions of this post. Albert Benjamin Douglass In 1862, Albert Benjamin Douglass appeared as one of the deserters from the...
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Richard Ault, Blacksmith for the Berrien Minute Men
Richard H. Ault born in New York in 1820. He came to Lowndes County, GA some time before 1860 to make his home in the 1200 Georgia Militia District. In the 1860 census, R. H. Ault was single, living...
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Riders of the Troupville Circuit: Tillman Dixon Peurifoy
In 1840, Reverend Tillman Dixon Peurifoy was a circuit-riding Methodist preacher on the Troupville Circuit in Lowndes County, GA, which then also encompassed Berrien, Cook, Tift, Lanier and Echols...
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Judge Johnson of Jasper, FL had Troupville Connections
David B. “DB” Johnson was born in Lowndes County in 1833. As a young man he completed preparatory work at Troupville Academy before beginning an education in law at Benton Academy and Business...
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Indian War Service of the Douglass Family
Special thanks to Wm Lloyd Harris for sharing research and contributing portions of this post. In 1862, Albert Benjamin Douglass appeared as one of the deserters from the Berrien Minute Men, 29th...
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Geunie Griner’s Tap & Dance Show
Geunie Griner, circa 1960, musician, comedian, newspaper publisher of Berrien County, GA. Image courtesy of www.berriencountyga.com Geunie Griner A former Ray City School student tells us that in the...
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Fred Manning Cersey
Fred Manning Cersey Fred Manning Cersey. Image source: Parkjoann1 Fred Manning Cersey was a son of Manning Andrew Cersey and Lula M. Goodin, of Ray City, GA. He was born November 27, 1923, just three...
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Grand Rally at Milltown
Grand Military Rally at Milltown, May 1861 Special thanks to Jim Griffin for sharing contributions and illustration for this post. Grand Military Rally at Milltown, GA, May, 1861 in honor of the...
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William C. Zeigler
William Charles Zeigler, a resident of Berrien County, GA, was among the victims of the Otranto tragedy in the closing days of World War I. William Charles Zeigler of Berrien County, GA was a victim of...
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Virdie Futch and the National Elastic Shortage
A World War II Story During the war, there was a critical need for rubber as a war materiél. On the home front in Ray City and everywhere in the country, the national shortage of rubber meant people...
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Obituary of Algerine D. “Al” Garner
Al Garner was a son of Asa Duggan Garner and Bessie Yopp Garner. In 1940 the Garners lived on Old Valdosta Road west of Ray City, but later moved closer to town on what is now known as Garner Road....
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Mary Ann Knight and William A. Jones
Mary Ann Knight was born July 1, 1838 near Beaverdam Creek, the present day site of Ray City, GA Her parents, John Knight and Sarah Sally Moore were pioneer settlers of the area, then situated in...
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Ray City Band Celebrates 4th of July
In 1917, the Nashville Herald noted that Ray City observed Independence Day with a musical celebration. The Nashville Herald Neighborhood News Items July 6, 1917 Ray City celebrated the Fourth of July...
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Berrien Minute Men at Brunswick ~ July, 1861
Berrien County in the Civil War Berrien Minute Men at Brunswick, July, 1861 Civil War letter of Robert Hamilton Harris, 29th Georgia Regiment, while encamped at Brunswick, GA. Even before the secession...
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Berrien Minute Men on Sapelo Island: Part 1
Berrien County in the Civil War 29th Georgia Regiment on Sapelo Island Part 1: Arrival on Sapelo 1863 Sketch of Civil War Earthwork on Sapelo Island. near Sapelo Lighthouse,Doboy Sound, Georgia. Fron a...
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Berrien Minute Men on Sapelo Island: Part 2
Berrien County in the Civil War 29th Georgia Regiment on Sapelo Island Part 2: Place of Encampment Berrien Minute Men on Sapelo Island Arrival On Sapelo Place of Encampment Camp Spalding Election of...
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Berrien Minute Men on Sapelo Island: Part 3
Berrien County in the Civil War 29th Georgia Regiment on Sapelo Island Part 3: Berrien Minute Men on Island Time During the Civil War, two companies of men that went forth from Berrien County, GA were...
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