Household #54: Causey, Charley

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In the 1900 Barney census, Charley Causey headed a 6-person household. The table below preserves the exact names, relationships, ages, birthplaces, and occupations recorded for the household.

Household Snapshot

Charley Causey headed a 6-person household in the 1900 Barney census with 1 spouse or marital partner and 4 children.

Charley Causey's listed occupation was Farmer.

All listed household members were reported as born in Georgia.

Newspaper and Public-Record Trail

This section flags public-record leads separate from the census table. The detailed discussion stays in the family narrative, research status, and source citations below.

1900 Census Household

Children and Later Trails

This section is reserved for later-life child evidence. No later spouse, death, burial, obituary, probate, separate household, or descendant-line identification has been added here yet from direct records.

Family Narrative

Charley Causey appears in the 1900 census at Barney, Brooks County, as a Black farmer living with his wife Hattie and their children Mary, Joe, Pollie, and James. The census states that he owned his farm, but that the farm was mortgaged. That record anchors the household clearly and shows that the family had reached farm ownership by 1900, though not free of debt.

A Brooks County marriage record shows that Charles Causie and Hattie Roberts were licensed in September 1890 and were married on 18 September 1890. That record fits the 1900 census report that the couple had been married about nine years. The surname spelling in the marriage record differs from the later census spelling, but the timing, county, and spouse identification support the conclusion that this is the same couple.

The family can be followed forward in later censuses. In 1910, Charlie Causey remained in Barney, Brooks County, with Hattie and a larger group of children, and the household was renting rather than owning. In 1920, the family again appears in Barney, with the surname rendered as Cansey, and the household was still renting. By 1930, Charley Causey was widowed and living in Bibb County, Georgia, with younger family members in the household. In 1940, Charles Causey appears in Macon as a widowed roomer and laborer. Taken together, those records support a long continuity from the Barney household into Charley's later life, while also showing shifts in residence and economic position over time.

Two later death certificates strengthen the family identification. Joseph Jackson Causey's 1932 death certificate names Charlie Causey as his father and gives Joseph's birthplace as Barney, Georgia. Lessie Lee Webster's 1938 death certificate names her parents as Charlie Causey and Hattie Roberts. That certificate also states that Charlie was born in Crawford County, Georgia, and Hattie in Wilcox County, Georgia. Those later records help confirm that the Barney household, the 1890 marriage, and the later Causey family records belong to the same family.

An 1880 Crawford County household headed by John and Adaline Causey includes a sixteen-year-old Charles Causey of the right age to fit the later Barney man. That identification is plausible and is strengthened by the later death certificate evidence placing Charlie's birthplace in Crawford County, but the connection still rests on cumulative rather than single-record proof.

Open Research Questions

• Parentage audit: Keep head-of-household and spouse parentage as unresolved unless a cited direct record names the parents or the entry explains the census chain supporting the identification.
• Child census audit: Continue direct-record tracking for each child named in the 1900 household where later census, marriage, death, burial, obituary, or other parent-link proof is not already cited above.
• The 1880 Crawford County Charles Causey appears to be the later Barney householder, but the parent-child link to John and Adaline Causey remains probable rather than fully proved by one explicit record.
• Hattie's exact birth year varies slightly across records and should be stated cautiously.
• No land deed, tax digest, foreclosure, or probate record is yet in hand to explain the shift from ownership in 1900 to renting in 1910 and 1920.
• Charley's death record and Hattie's death record have not yet been added.
• Burial places for Charley and Hattie have not yet been confirmed.

Research Status

Well-documented household with a strong census chain and useful later death-certificate confirmation for multiple children. The basic family identification is solid, but land records, death records, and burial records would still improve the entry.

Sources

• 1880 U.S. census, District 497, Crawford County, Georgia, John and Adaline Causey household including Charles Causey.
• 1900 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, Charley Causey household, page 5, lines 39-44.
• 1910 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, Charlie Causey household.
• 1920 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, Charley Cansey household.
• 1930 U.S. census, Warrior district, Bibb County, Georgia, Charley Causey household.
• 1940 U.S. census, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, Charles Causey entry.
• Brooks County, Georgia, marriage record for Charles Causie and Hattie Roberts, license issued September 1890, married 18 September 1890.
• Georgia death certificate for Joseph Jackson Causey, died 4 November 1932, Dawson, Terrell County, Georgia.
• Georgia death certificate for Lessie Lee Webster, died 13 June 1938, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
• FindAGrave negative search in Brooks County cemeteries during this review.

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