Household #60: Withers, Jefferson

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In the 1900 Barney census, Jefferson Withers headed a 2-person household. The table below preserves the exact names, relationships, ages, birthplaces, and occupations recorded for the household.

Household Snapshot

Jefferson Withers headed a 2-person household in the 1900 Barney census with 1 spouse or marital partner.

Jefferson Withers's listed occupation was Farm Laborer.

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

No child-tracking items are open for this page because the 1900 table lists no children in the household.

Family Narrative

The 1900 Barney census records Jefferson Withers and his wife Amie with zero completed years of marriage and no children listed in the household. This duration does not establish the year of their wedding. Jefferson was working as a farm laborer, and the census reports that he had been unemployed for four months during the year.

This record also gives a compact but useful profile of the household. Jefferson reported that he was born in April 1859 in Georgia, and that both of his parents were born in Georgia. Amie, age 22, was also born in Georgia. Both were marked as able to read, write, and speak English.

At present, this census entry is the only documented record in hand for the household. It supports a careful description of the couple's status in Barney in 1900, but it does not yet support a broader identification, a later life narrative, or conclusions about parentage, migration, or death.

The bracketed database alias sometimes shown for Jefferson should not be treated as proven from this record alone. Likewise, the present evidence does not justify distinguishing him from similarly named men elsewhere without direct supporting records.

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.
• Other household member audit: Verify every non-nuclear household member, including in-laws, boarders, servants, laborers, uncles, grandchildren, and collateral relatives, before treating the stated relationship as part of the proved family structure.
• A marriage record for Jefferson Withers and Amie should be located to confirm the couple's names and establish their marriage date.
• A 1910 census match is needed before extending this household into a later family reconstruction.
• No direct evidence has yet been assembled for Jefferson's parentage, later residence, death, or burial.
• The expanded name form sometimes attached to Jefferson in database indexes should be treated as unverified until it appears in a record.

Research Status

1900 census documented household. The evidence clearly establishes the couple's presence in Barney in 1900, but no additional records are presently in hand to extend the entry beyond that census.

Sources

• 1900 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, sheet 3, dwelling 60, family 60, Jefferson Withers household.
• Census image/database detail view for Jefferson Withers in 1900, confirming age 41, birth month Apr 1859, occupation farm laborer, wife Amie, and zero completed years of marriage.

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