Household #87: Lashley, Henry

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

Household Snapshot

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

Henry Lashley's listed occupation was Day Laborer Farm.

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 census shows a small Barney household consisting of Henry Lashley and his wife Kittie Lashley. Henry was born in Georgia in May 1845, was working as a day laborer on a farm, and was living in a rented house rather than on land he owned. Both Henry and Kittie were recorded in Brooks County in 1900 without children in the household, so the earlier version of this entry overstated the household structure and should not be followed.

The census trail now in hand points to a long marriage and a later move from south Georgia into north Florida. In 1850, Henry A. Lashly, age two, appears in Lee County, Georgia, in the household of Richmond Lashly and Atha Lashly. In 1860, Henry A. Lashly, age twelve, appears in Terrell County, Georgia, again in the household of Richard Lashly and Atha Lashly, along with siblings that closely match the 1850 household. That ten-year bridge makes the Richmond and Atha Lashly parentage for Henry much stronger than it was before. In 1870, Henry Laslie, age twenty-three, appears in Terrell County, Georgia, with Keziah Laslie, age twenty-four, and Mary Laslie, age eight. In 1900, Henry Lashley, age fifty-five, and Kittie Lashley, age fifty, were in Barney, Brooks County. A Brooks County court item printed in the Valdosta Daily Times on 15 November 1906 reports "State vs. H. A. Lashley, misdemeanor. Plea of guilty." The brief item does not state the underlying offense, but it does place H. A. Lashley in Brooks County court records between the 1900 Barney census and the later Florida records. By 1910, a strong later match appears in Hamilton County, Florida, where Harim A. Lashley, age sixty-two, born in Georgia, was the head of household in Smith District with wife Cisrah Lashley; he was working as a chair maker in his own shop and living on a rented farm. In 1920, H. A. Lashley, age seventy-two, born in Georgia, appears in Jasper, Hamilton County, Florida, with wife Kissiah Lashley, working as a laborer in a shoe shop and again living in rented quarters. A 1929 reunion booklet for the Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home lists "H. A. Lashley", age eighty-two, and says he enlisted in Atlanta on 15 April 1863 under Colonel G. W. Lee in L. L. Strozier's Company, Company F of Lee's Battalion, later being wounded in the foot during the Atlanta fighting. That item is a plausible late-life match for the same man because the initials and age fit the established census trail, but the military details should still be checked against formal service records before they are treated as settled biography. A Florida death index entry for Henry A. Lashley records a 1930 death in Jackson County, Florida. An earlier Jacksonville death notice published on 4 October 1930 reports that Henry A. Lashley, age eighty-two, died that day at the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home after a brief illness, states that he was born in Terrell County, Georgia, and says he had been in the home for five years. A Florida Times-Union notice published on 5 October 1930 reports the same death at the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home on Talleyrand Avenue, says he had been at the home for five years, and appears to identify survivors including a sister, Mrs. Glover of Cairo, and two nephews, J. R. Glover of Cairo and L. Glover of Woodville, Florida. Follow-up notices published on 6 October 1930 in both the Jacksonville Journal and the Florida Times-Union report funeral services for Henry A. Lashley and place his burial in the Confederate plot at Old City Cemetery. Taken together, those items make a strong case that the 1930 Jackson County death index belongs to the same H. A. Lashley who appears in the earlier Georgia and Florida census trail.

These records strongly suggest one man moving across records under Henry Lashley, Henry A. Lashly, Henry Laslie, Harim A. Lashley, and H. A. Lashley. The wife likewise appears under several forms that look like the same person: Keziah, Kittie, Cisrah, and Kissiah. The broad pattern is coherent, but the spelling shifts and the household differences mean the chain should still be treated as very strong but not finished.

The present evidence does not yet justify the stronger claims previously made about Henry's children in 1900 or about a proved brother relationship to George William Lashley of HH#85. The 1850 and 1860 Richmond and Atha Lashly households now give a solid case for Henry's parentage, but the separate step tying this Henry directly to George of HH#85 still needs its own proof. The 5 October 1930 Florida Times-Union survivor list also appears to help identify one collateral family connection: a sister "Mrs. Glover of Cairo" and nephews "J. R. Glover of Cairo" and "L. Glover of Woodville, Florida." Those names fit Julia Glover, born in Georgia about 1861-1863, who appears in Mitchell/Decatur/Grady County records and is indexed in some later derivative material as Julia Lashley Glover. The fit is strengthened by the 1930 Cairo household of J. R. Glover with widowed mother Julia Glover and by derivative memorial material that names Julia as a daughter of Richmond Hardy Lashley and Athea Harrell Lashley, but that identification should still be treated as highly probable rather than fully proved until supported by a stronger direct-record link.

Military Service

The military evidence for Henry A. Lashley is prominent but still cautionary. The 1929 Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home booklet lists H. A. Lashley, age eighty-two, and reports enlistment at Atlanta on 15 April 1863 under Colonel G. W. Lee in L. L. Strozier's Company, Company F of Lee's Battalion, with a wound during the Atlanta fighting. Later Jacksonville notices report his 1930 death at the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home and burial in the Confederate plot at Old City Cemetery. Because the entry has not yet tied those details to a compiled service file or pension record, the page should present this as a strong late-life service trail rather than fully source-exhausted military biography.

Connections to Other Barney Families

• HH#87 may connect to HH#85 through the Richmond Lashley family, but that relationship has not yet been proved to the standard needed for a firm encyclopedia claim.
• The 5 October 1930 Florida Times-Union survivor list makes Julia Glover of Cairo a highly probable sister or near collateral relative of Henry, with J. R. Glover of Cairo and L. Glover of Woodville, Florida as likely nephews.
• The 1910 and 1920 Hamilton County, Florida records strongly suggest that Henry and his wife later left Brooks County for Florida.

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.
• The 1850 Lee County and 1860 Terrell County households of Richmond and Atha Lashly now provide a strong parentage case for Henry, but a marriage record, death record, or other direct-record link would make that identification firmer still.
• The 1870 Terrell County household appears to show Henry with wife Keziah and a child Mary, but that child and the exact family structure need confirmation from the original image and later records.
• The 1900 census records Henry and Kittie as married for twenty-five years, but the apparent 1870 household suggests an earlier union or a more complicated family structure. That discrepancy needs direct review rather than harmonizing by guesswork.
• The wife's name varies widely across the record set: Keziah, Kittie, Cisrah, and Kissiah. Those forms likely refer to the same woman, but a marriage or death record is needed to settle her name more securely.
• The 15 November 1906 Valdosta Daily Times court item for "State vs. H. A. Lashley, misdemeanor. Plea of guilty." is useful as a locality anchor, but the clipping alone does not identify the offense or prove by itself that the defendant is the same Henry Lashley of HH#87.
• Henry's move from Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, to Hamilton County, Florida, is strongly suggested by the census chain but still needs corroboration from land, tax, vital, or cemetery records.
• The 1929 Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home reunion booklet entry for "H. A. Lashley", age 82, is a strong possible match, but the Confederate service statement should be verified against compiled service or pension records before being absorbed without caution.
• The Florida death index entry for Henry A. Lashley gives a 1930 death in Jackson County, Florida, and the Jacksonville and Times-Union death notices add age, apparent death date, birthplace, place-of-death, survivor clues, and burial context, but the underlying death certificate is still needed for the informant and strongest identity proof.
• Julia Glover of Mitchell/Decatur/Grady County, Georgia is now a strong candidate for the "Mrs. Glover of Cairo" named in Henry's 1930 death notice, but the exact direct-record proof tying Julia to Henry as sister rather than another collateral Lashley relative is still missing.
• The prior claim that HH#87 included adult and teenage children in 1900 should be treated as unverified unless a separate full household image or another census page supports it.
• The proposed brother relationship between Henry Lashley and George William Lashley of HH#85 remains unproved, even though the Richmond and Atha Lashly family framework now looks stronger for Henry himself.

Research Status

Partly documented, but materially stronger than before. The 1850 and 1860 Richmond/Atha Lashly households now give Henry a credible childhood-to-adolescence placement, the later census trail from 1870 through 1920 is strong, the 1930 Florida death notices now provide a probable end-of-life placement with death on 4 October 1930 at the Confederate Home and burial in Jacksonville's Old City Cemetery, and the Glover survivor notices now open a plausible sister link through Julia Glover of Cairo. What is still missing is the direct proof needed to settle his marriage, child list, full death-certificate details, and any firm connection to HH#85.

Sources

• 1850 U.S. census, District 50, Lee County, Georgia, dwelling 393, family 393, household of Richmond Lashly and Atha Lashly, including Henry A. Lashly, age 2.
• 1860 U.S. census, Georgia Militia Districts 909, 1150, and 1154, Terrell County, Georgia, dwelling 164, family 161, household of Richard Lashly and Atha Lashly, including Henry A. Lashly, age 12.
• 1870 U.S. census, Terrell County, Georgia, post office Dawson, dwelling 1675, household of Henry Laslie, including Keziah Laslie and Mary Laslie.
• 1900 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, roll T623_185, sheet 4, dwelling 87, family 87, household of Henry Lashley and Kittie Lashley.
• The Valdosta Daily Times (Valdosta, Georgia), 15 November 1906, p. 3, Brooks Superior Court item reporting "State vs. H. A. Lashley, misdemeanor. Plea of guilty."
• 1910 U.S. census, Smith District, Hamilton County, Florida, roll T624_161, sheet 1A, household of Harim A. Lashley and Cisrah Lashley.
• 1920 U.S. census, Jasper, Hamilton County, Florida, roll T625_221, sheet 1B, household of H. A. Lashley and Kissiah Lashley.
• Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home Program Booklet for Reunion, 22-24 October 1929, Lake City, Columbia County, Florida, entry for "H. A. Lashley", age 82.
• Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, entry for Henry A. Lashley, male, white, death year 1930, death place Jackson County, Florida.
• Jacksonville Journal (Jacksonville, Florida), 4 October 1930, p. 2, death notice for Henry A. Lashley stating that he died that day at the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home after a brief illness, was born in Terrell County, Georgia, and had been in the home for five years.
• The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Florida), 5 October 1930, p. 2, death notice for Henry A. Lashley reporting death at the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home on Talleyrand Avenue, five years' residence there, and an apparent survivor list including Mrs. Glover of Cairo and nephews J. R. Glover of Cairo and L. Glover of Woodville, Florida.
• 1880 U.S. census, District 1033, Mitchell County, Georgia, household of Y. F. Glover and wife Julia Glover.
• 1910 U.S. census, Belcher, Decatur County, Georgia, household of Jack R. Glover and Julia Glover, including sons John R. Glover and Hammond L. Glover.
• 1920 U.S. census, Belcher, Decatur County, Georgia, household of S. T. Glover and Julia Glover.
• 1930 U.S. census, Cairo, Grady County, Georgia, household of J. R. Glover, including mother Julia Glover.
• Find a Grave memorial for Julia Ann "Juley" Lashley Glover, Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery, Vada, Decatur County, Georgia; used as derivative clue material rather than primary proof.
• Jacksonville Journal (Jacksonville, Florida), 6 October 1930, p. 5, death notice for Henry A. Lashley stating that he died at the Confederate Home on Talleyrand and was buried in the Confederate plot at Old City Cemetery.
• The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Florida), 6 October 1930, p. 2, funeral notice for Henry A. Lashley corroborating the funeral service and burial in the Confederate plot at Old City Cemetery.
• Negative Find a Grave search for Henry Lashley or close variants in Brooks County, Georgia cemeteries, checked May 2026.

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