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King’s Chapel Football, 1905
King’s Chapel Football, 1905 1905 football. Image source: FDR foundation Valdosta Times December 23, 1905 The boys at King’s Chapel have bought a football. We are expecting to have some fun...
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James & Ida Lou Patten and the Cruise to Cuba
James Marcus Patten (1869-1944) was a lifelong resident of the Ray’s Mill area (now Ray City). He was a son of Jehu John Patten and Mary Ellen Lancaster. He married Ida Lou Hall, of Newton, GA about...
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Rossie O. Knight and the WWI Victory Medal
Rossie O. Knight (1892-1963) Rossie O. Knight was a son of Sovin J. Knight and Ann Eliza Allen, and grew up on his parents’ farm near Rays Mill (now Ray City), GA. He joined the Army in 1913 and was...
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King’s Chapel School
King’s Chapel School Portions reprinted from Shaw Family Newsletters courtesy of Bryan Shaw King’s Chapel School Ω King’s Chapel School Ω King’s Chapel School Several schools in lower Berrien county...
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Billy McDonald at the University of Arizona
Billie McDonald, of Ray City, GA at the University of Arizona, 1952 Billie McDonald, a son of Lacy Albert McDonald and Carrie Eugenia Langford, was born November 10, 1920 at Ray City, GA. He and his...
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Eliza Allen and Sovin Knight
Eliza Allen (1862-1945), wife of Sullivan J. “Sovin” Knight Eliza Allen Knight. Image courtesy of http://www.berriencountyga.com Bryan Shaw has written about the life and family of Eliza Allen in the...
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Notes on Sarah Malinda Clements
Sarah Malinda Clements (1862-1947) Sarah Malinda Clements was born March 12, 1862 in Berrien County, GA. She was the youngest of 13 children born to David G. Clements and Gincey Sirmans. She was a...
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How Preacher Shaw Got His Name
Preacher Shaw (1906-1972) Preacher Shaw was a son of Ray City, Georgia. He was a popular baseball player, sometimes politician, and salesman of Berrien County. Fondren Willie Mitchell Shaw, most...
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Rossie O. Knight and the Nixon Nitration Works
Rossie O. Knight (1892-1963) Born of the World’s mischance, Lair bade the newer toys of death, Mortar, grenade and poison breath- We smiths of Ordnance. And none may see the arms we forge, And laughing...
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James B. Griner Elected Nashville Police Chief, February 11, 1915
James B. Griner In the 1940s James Benjamin “Jim” Griner served as the Chief of Police in Ray City, GA (see also A Christmas Wedding for Mary Catherine Hill). But long before that he served as Deputy...
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Remember the Maine, Aaron Cook and the Spanish American War
Aaron Cook, of the Watson Grade community near Ray City, GA, was 30 years old when the USS Maine sank in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. Grave of Aaron Cook, veteran of the Spanish-American War,...
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Rossie O. Knight and Ehrenbreitstein Fortress
Rossie O. Knight. Image courtesy of Bryan Shaw and the Berrien Historical Foundation http://www.berriencountyga.com Rossie O. Knight Rossie O. Knight was a son of Sovin J. Knight and Ann Eliza Allen of...
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Preacher Shaw and Susie Ray
Preacher Shaw and Susie Ray Preacher Shaw, circa 1926. Image courtesy of Bryan Shaw. Preacher Shaw was a son of Ray City, Georgia. He was a popular baseball player, sometimes politician, and salesman...
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John A. Gaskins Thrown by a Mule
John A. Gaskins (1854-1926) John A. Gaskins, a son of Harmon Gaskins and Melissa Jones and grandson of Fisher Gaskins, was born September 8, 1854 in Old Lowndes, now Berrien County, GA. John A....
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Keith Clements and the Beauty Queens
Keith Clements was born in Ray City, GA, a son of James I. Clements and Annie Mae Carter and brother of J.I. Clements, Jr. and Mason Clements. His parents owned a home on the southeast corner of Ward...
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1914 Nashville Nine
At age 16 Dewey Knight was a coach and player for the Nashville High School baseball team of 1914. A son of Jonathan Perry Knight and Ada Parrish, he was born at Rays Mill, GA (now Ray City) on May 1,...
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Jim Griner ~ Lawman
Deputy Jim Griner, Berrien County Lawman James Benjamin “Jim” Griner , who was Ray City, GA Police Chief in the 1940s, also served as Deputy Sheriff of Berrien County from 1905 to 1915. (In 1915,...
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Elijah Cook
Elijah Cook Graves Elijah Cook and Arrinda Chandler Cook, Empire Cemetery, Lanier County, GA ELIJAH COOK (1816-1889) According to Folks Huxford, Elijah Cook was born in Wilkinson County, November 22,...
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Lawton Walker Johnson, WWII Sailor
Lawton Walker Johnson, son of JHP Johnson and Chloe Gardner Johnson, was born June 14, 1908 in Ray City, GA. During WWII, he joined in the US Navy , enlisting November 2, 1943. His younger brother,...
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Johnson Girls of Ray City
Bessie Johnson and Lillie Johnson were daughters of Richard Seward Johnson. The girls grew up on their father’s farm south of Ray’s Mill, GA (now Ray City). They attended school, Bessie completing 7th...
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