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William Lastinger Family Reunions started at Cat Creek
William McDonald and Jane Lastinger McDonald, hosts of the first Lastinger Family Reunion, were the parents of Lacy McDonald. Lacy McDonald later moved to Ray City, GA where he served as the mailman....
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Berrien Minute Men on Sapelo Island: Part 4
Berrien County in the Civil War 29th Georgia Regiment on Sapelo Island Part 4: Berrien Minute Men and the Election of Officers Randolph Spalding, first Colonel of the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment,...
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Madge Sellers Guthrie as a Young Woman
Madge Sellers Guthrie Madge Sellers married Ray City musician John Guthrie. The couple opened a general store on Main Street in Ray City, on the lot now occupied by City Hall. young madge sellers? As...
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Albert Douglass, 26th Georgia Regiment and the Battle of Brawner’s Farm
Special thanks to Wm Lloyd Harris for contributions to this post. Albert Douglass, of Berrien County, GA served with the 26th Georgia Regiment after desertion from the Berrien Minute Men. On August 28,...
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Marsh’s Ferry, the Lopahaw Bridge and Tyson Ferry
One of the early roads in Berrien County described by William Green Avera was, “the road from Milltown northward to Tyson Ferry on the Alapaha River just east of the present site of Alapaha. This road...
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Leon Bradford, Ray City Barber
Leon Bradford (1905-1962) Leon Bradford and W. B. Parrish, February, 1951, at the diner in Nashville, GA. Leon Bradford owned a barbershop in Ray City. Leon Bradford was born December 5,1905 and raised...
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Berrien Minute Men on Sapelo Island: Part 5
Berrien County in the Civil War 29th Georgia Regiment on Sapelo Island Part 5: Tidewater Time During the Civil War, two companies of men that went forth from Berrien County, GA were known as the...
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Joshua Berrien Lastinger
Joshua Berrien Lastinger Joshua Berrien Lastinger. Image detail courtesy of http://www.berriencountyga.com Joshua Berrien Lastinger was born February 22, 1847 at the community then known as Allapaha,...
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Death of Mack Talley Bradford
Death of Mack Talley Bradford (1874-1919) Mack Talley Bradford was a son of Thomas Bradford and Martha Connell. His father was a native of Lowndes County, GA but as a young man had moved to Sumter...
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Otranto Survivor Describes Disaster
Otranto Survivor Describes Disaster When the troopship Otranto went down on October 6, 1918 near the end of World War I, Ray City and Berrien County, GA paid a heavy toll. Ralph Knight and Shellie...
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Otranto Doctor Writes of Ship’s Final Hours
Otranto Doctor Writes of Ship’s Final Hours In November, 1918, a few weeks after the Otranto disaster in the closing months of WWI, survivor Dr. Charles A. Dixon, a Captain of the U.S. Medical Corps...
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An Otranto Funeral in Belfast
An Otranto Funeral in Belfast Perhaps no county paid a greater toll in WWI than Berrien County, Georgia. Twenty-three of her young men perished in the sinking of the H.M. S. Otranto just weeks before...
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Berrien Minute Men On the Square
Before the Civil War, some 32 percent of the population of Lowndes and Berrien County, Georgia were enslaved African-Americans. In neighboring Thomas County, 51 percent of the people were enslaved....
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Berrien Minute Men on Sapelo Island: Part 6
Berrien County in the Civil War 29th Georgia Regiment on Sapelo Island Part 6: In Regular Service Berrien Minute Men on Sapelo Island Arrival On Sapelo Place of Encampment Camp Spalding Election of...
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Death of Ben Furlong ~ Was it Suicide?
Ben Furlong (circa 1854-1886), Desperado of Berrien County, GA As Halloween approaches we revisit the scene of Ben Furlong, who was perhaps most famous ghost ever to haunt Berrien County. After the...
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Ray City, GA ~ Town is Smaller Now
A sign on the tracks of the Georgia & Florida Railroad indicates the town of Ray City, GA to passing trains. The trains no longer stop at Ray City, although the town once had a bustling depot....
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Ray City Christmas 1959
Rossie Futch celebrates Christmas 1959 with his grand daughter Lee, and her new baby doll. Rossie Futch and his granddaughter on Christmas Day, 1959. Rossie Futch (1899-1968) was a native of Berrien...
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Harveys Supermarket Served Rural Residents with Rolling Stores
In the 1940s Aubrey Sizemore, of Nashville, GA, worked as a truck driver and salesman on a “rolling store” for Harveys Supermarket. Aubrey Sizemore (1910-1974) Census records show that Aubrey Sizemore...
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Lucious Norman Gillham
Lucious Norman Gillham was a veteran of World War II and came to Ray City, GA with his wife after the war. He was born in Jackson County, GA on January 5, 1908, a son of George Washington Gillham and...
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John Guthrie Tells Story of Berrien Tiger
John Guthrie, folk musician and merchant of Ray City, GA relates the story of the Berrien Tiger. John Elwood Guthrie (1911-1985) , folk musician and merchant of Ray City, GA. Image courtesy Library of...
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