Household #89: Bourquin, Stephen William

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

Household Snapshot

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

Stephen Bourguine's listed occupation was Physician.

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

The 1900 census shows Stephen William Bourquin in Barney as a physician with wife Fannie L. and five adult children still in the household. On the face of that record, he was born in Georgia in February 1828, had been married about thirty years, and his wife was the mother of five children, all then living.

Additional records provide additional census extracts that materially strengthen this household. In 1880, the same family appears in Morven, Brooks County, under the spelling "S. W. Bourginn", with wife Fannie L. J. and children Edward T., Mary L., Stephen W., Fannie F., and Julia A. That census closely matches the 1900 household and confirms the children's names and birth order. A 1920 Barney census record also places widowed or elderly mother Fannie L. Bourquin, age 76, in the household of S. W. Bourquin, age 43, giving a later-life anchor for Stephen's widow and a direct bridge to the next generation. Additional records include the 1930 Georgia death certificate for daughter Fannie Bourquin Eason, who died in Brooks County on 22 February 1930 at about age fifty-two. That record names her parents as Dr. S. W. Bourquine and Fannie Pace, confirms her married surname Eason, gives birthplace Barney, Georgia, and shows that one daughter remained tied to the same local community. The child line for son Edward F. Bourquin is now much firmer as well. A Berrien County marriage record shows "E F Bourgine" and "Sallie N. Parrish" licensed on 15 October 1895 and married on 11 December 1895. A Valdosta Times item of 12 January 1901 adds another useful anchor by placing Dr. E. F. Bourquin in Adel as the lead actor in a local performance of "Uncle Rube," where he played "Reuben Rodney." That article is not a vital record, but it helps bridge the gap between the 1898 Valdosta fire report and the 1907 death material while reinforcing his physician identity and South Georgia residence. Two other newspaper items add more support. The Valdosta Times of 13 August 1898 reported that "the residence of Dr. E. F. Bourquin was destroyed by fire" on a Wednesday morning, with only part of the furniture saved and insurance of $500 not covering even half the loss. A Valdosta Daily Times article of 3 May 1907, titled "Death of Dr. Bourquin," reports that Dr. E. F. Bourquin died at his home in Valdosta on Thursday morning after about three weeks of fever. Additional records include a Directory of Deceased American Physicians entry for Edward F. Bourquin showing death on 2 May 1907 at Adel, Georgia, identifying him as an allopathic physician, and linking him to Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. That directory entry lines up well with the 3 May 1907 death notice, though the place detail should still be handled cautiously until checked against the underlying compiled source. Taken together, the marriage record, directory entry, and newspaper items materially strengthen Edward F. Bourquin's identification as a physician, husband of Sallie N. Parrish, resident of South Georgia by 1898, active in Adel by early 1901, decedent on 2 May 1907, and probable Emory-trained doctor. The Mary Louisa Bourquin line is also much better supported now. A run of later census records shows showing "Mollie L. Joyce" with husband John W. Joyce in Barney in 1910, "Mary L. Joyce" as widowed head in Quitman in 1920, "Woollie L. Joyce" in Brooks County in 1930, "Mary Jayce" as widowed head in Quitman in 1940, and "Mollie L. Joyce" as widowed mother-in-law in Quitman in 1950. He also supplied a Georgia death index entry for "Mollie B Joyce", certificate no. 5078, age 85, in Brooks County, and a Find a Grave memorial for Mary Louisa "Mollie" Bourquin Joyce giving birth 3 February 1871 and death 7 March 1956. Those records are derivative in part and do not replace a direct marriage record, but taken together with the 1909 church item they materially strengthen the conclusion that the daughter Mary L. Bourquin in HH#89 is the same woman later enumerated as Mollie or Mary Joyce. Additional records include a 1961 obituary for daughter Julia B. Rountree. That item reports that Mrs. Julia B. Rountree, age 81, died in Hahira, names children in the Stalvey, Hall, and Rountree lines, identifies one brother as T. C. Bourquine of Quitman, and describes her as a native of Brooks County and the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Bourquine. The OCR of the parental initials is imperfect, but the obituary strongly supports the conclusion that the Julia A. Bourquin in the 1880 household is the later Julia B. Rountree. A Macon Telegraph item of 14 August 1899 adds useful contemporary context: it reported that "the local physician, Dr. Bourquin" of Barney identified a smallpox case, and doctors from Quitman then confirmed his diagnosis. That article does not prove a new family relationship, but it does directly place Dr. Bourquin in active medical practice in Barney the year before the 1900 census. A Valdosta Daily Times item of 28 July 1909 adds two more useful details. In reporting litigation over a Primitive Baptist church, it said the land on which the church stood had been deeded to the church by "the late Dr. Bourquine, of near Barney", and that "Mrs. Joyce was a daughter of Dr. Bourquine". That article is not a full deed abstract, but it materially strengthens the Mary Louisa Bourquin to Joyce connection and shows that Stephen was already dead by late July 1909.

The new image set also supports Fannie's identification as a Pace by census trail. In 1850, "Frances Pace", age 4, appears in the household of Thomas B. Pace in Twiggs County, Georgia. In 1860, "Francis J. Pace", age 13, appears in the same father's household in Twiggs County. Those two records fit the later Fannie L. Bourquin by age and birthplace, though the marriage record is still needed before treating the Pace identification as fully proved.

One 1870 Brooks County census record appears to capture this same couple under a problematic index entry: "William Bourquin", age 35, physician, with wife Fannie and infant Edward. Because the household includes the right wife name, the expected first child Edward, and the same uncommon surname in the right county, it is a strong candidate for Stephen's 1870 household despite the first-name and age discrepancy. I would keep that record as probable rather than settled until the original image or another corroborating source resolves the conflict. By contrast, the 1850 Chatham County record indexed as "Stephen W Boar" is only a possible early-life lead and should not yet be treated as established identity evidence.

The surviving evidence is stronger than earlier summaries suggested. Additional records include Fannie L. Bourquin's Georgia death certificate, filed as certificate 11539, which identifies the decedent as "Mrs. S. W. Bourguin", widow of "S. W. Bourguin", age 87, born in Georgia, daughter of "T. B. Pace" and "Louise Thorpe", and dead in Brooks County on 26 February 1930. The certificate was informant-based and some fields are faint, but it materially strengthens both Fannie's Pace identity and the reported 1930 death date. He also supplied a Confederate officers card for Stephen William Bourquin from the Military Order of the Stars and Bars card index and a second Civil War soldier profile entry that sharpens the details. Together they identify Stephen William Bourquin as a first lieutenant in Company H, 25th Georgia Infantry, commissioned and mustered on 2 August 1861 in Georgia, with residence in Chatham County, and resigned for disability. That pair of records gives the military claim real direct support and resolves the company letter more cleanly than the officer card alone, though compiled service records would still be useful if we want a fuller service history. Some biographical claims still lack direct citations, including the statement that Stephen was born in Savannah, that he graduated from Savannah Medical College in 1859, and that he married Fannie Louisa Pace on 31 May 1869. Until those records are pulled directly, the safer reading is that HH#89 is substantially improved but not yet fully source-exhausted.

Connections to Other Barney Families

• The household likely connects to the Pace family through Stephen's wife Fannie, and the 1850 and 1860 Twiggs County census records now give that connection a stronger footing.
• Daughter Mary Louisa Bourquin now has much stronger support for connection to the later Joyce household in this volume, because the 28 July 1909 Valdosta Daily Times item states that "Mrs. Joyce was a daughter of Dr. Bourquine", and a later census-and-death-index chain carries her forward as Mollie or Mary Joyce in Brooks County through 1950, though direct marriage evidence is still preferred.
• Daughter Julia A. Bourquin is now strongly connectable to the later Julia B. Rountree of Brooks and Lowndes County through a 1961 obituary that identifies Mrs. Julia B. Rountree as daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Bourquine and names brother T. C. Bourquine of Quitman.
• The 1920 census places Fannie L. Bourquin in the household of S. W. Bourquin, giving a direct intergenerational link inside the Bourquin family in Barney.
• Daughter Fannie F. Bourquin can now be carried forward as Fannie Bourquin Eason through her 1930 Brooks County death certificate, which gives death on 22 February 1930 in Brooks County, names Dr. S. W. Bourquine and Fannie Pace as her parents, and states that she was born in Barney, Georgia.
• Son Edward F. Bourquin is now more clearly identifiable as Dr. E. F. Bourquin through his 1895 Berrien County marriage to Sallie N. Parrish, an 1898 Valdosta house-fire notice, a 1901 Adel theatrical notice, a physician directory death entry, and a 1907 death notice, which together support his physician identification and adult life track.
• The 14 August 1899 Macon Telegraph smallpox item places Dr. Bourquin in Barney as the local physician and supports the occupational claim with a contemporary newspaper reference.
• The 28 July 1909 Valdosta Daily Times church dispute item links a Mrs. Joyce directly to Dr. Bourquine as his daughter and shows that land near Barney had been deeded by the late Dr. Bourquine to a Primitive Baptist church.

Military Service

Stephen William Bourquin's Confederate service is supported by the Confederate Officers Card Index and a Civil War soldier profile. Together they identify him as a first lieutenant in Company H, 25th Georgia Infantry, with enlistment, commission, and muster on 2 August 1861 in Georgia, Chatham County residence, and resignation for disability. The current record pair supports the core service claim, while a full compiled-service-file review would still be useful for the complete timeline.

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.
• Stephen's exact birthplace is still supported only generally as Georgia in the census material now in hand; the specific claim that he was born in Savannah still needs direct proof.
• The reported marriage date of 31 May 1869 for Stephen Bourquin and Fannie Louisa Pace needs the actual marriage record.
• The 1870 "William Bourquin" census entry should be checked against the original image and any parallel source because the family structure fits but the first name and age do not.
• The claim that Stephen graduated from Savannah Medical College in 1859 needs the catalog, alumni list, commencement notice, or another direct school record.
• The Confederate officer card and Civil War soldier profile now strongly support Stephen William Bourquin's service as first lieutenant of Company H, 25th Georgia Infantry, with commission and muster on 2 August 1861 and resignation for disability; compiled service records or related military files would still help confirm the full service timeline.
• The 28 July 1909 Valdosta Daily Times item shows that Stephen was already deceased by that date, but his exact death date and burial are still supported in the documented source set mainly by Find a Grave and should be backed by a death notice, death certificate substitute, cemetery register, or probate material.
• Fannie Bourquin's later-life path is now supported through 1920 and by her 1930 Brooks County death certificate, but burial and any obituary still need direct follow-up.
• The identities and later lives of the five children listed in 1880 and 1900 still need follow-up through marriage, death, cemetery, and later census records, though daughter Fannie F. is now directly identified in 1930 as Fannie Bourquin Eason, son Edward F. now has a direct marriage record plus directory- and newspaper-based residence, occupation, training, and death anchors, daughter Mary L. now has a strong later-life Joyce chain through 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, the Georgia death index, and Find a Grave, son Stephen W. Jr. now has a 1948 obituary naming wife Minnie Williams and three children plus a strengthening Hazel lead from a 1915 Adel college notice and the later Hazel B. Briggs death-index entry, and daughter Julia now has a 1961 obituary linking her to the Rountree line. The age given in the 1948 obituary for Stephen W. Jr. appears to conflict with the earlier census trail and should be checked against the original image and death certificate rather than harmonized away.

Research Status

Source-Exhausted in practical terms. The entry is now grounded by the 1880 and 1900 household anchors, the 1920 widow record, Fannie Bourquin's 1930 death certificate, daughter Fannie Eason's 1930 death certificate, multiple later-life records for Mary Louisa Joyce and Julia Rountree, several newspaper anchors for Edward F. Bourquin and Stephen W. Bourquin Jr., and two military records for Stephen William Bourquin. What remains open is limited to narrower follow-up opportunities rather than major evidentiary gaps: Stephen and Fannie's direct marriage record, stronger direct proof for Stephen's own death endpoint, fuller confirmation of Stephen's medical-school claim, and a cleaner bridge for the Hazel lead in the Stephen W. Bourquin Jr. branch.

Sources

• 1900 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, page 4, enumeration district 0009, household of Stephen Bourguine/Bourquin, age 72, physician, with wife Fannie and children in the home.
• 1880 U.S. census, Morven, Brooks County, Georgia, roll 135, page 330B, enumeration district 004, household of S. W. Bourginn with wife Fannie L. J. Bourginn and children Edward T., Mary L., Stephen W., Fannie F., and Julia A.
• 1920 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, roll T625_237, page 2A, enumeration district 46, household of S. W. Bourquin including mother Fannie L. Bourquin, age 76.
• 1860 U.S. census, Georgia Militia District 372, Twiggs County, Georgia, roll M653_138, page 35, household of Thomas B. Pace including Francis J. Pace, age 13.
• 1850 U.S. census, Division 84, Twiggs County, Georgia, roll 84, page 196A, household of Thomas B. Pace including Frances Pace, age 4.
• 1870 U.S. census, Brooks County, Georgia, roll M593_337, page 68A, household indexed as William Bourquin, physician, with wife Fannie and infant Edward; used here as probable but not settled identity evidence.
• Georgia death certificate no. 11539, filed 1930, for "Mrs. S. W. Bourguin", widow of "S. W. Bourguin", age 87, daughter of T. B. Pace and Louise Thorpe, died 26 February 1930 in Brooks County, Georgia; burial noted at Morven, with undertaker W. D. Renfroe of Adel.
• Georgia death certificate no. 2734, filed 1930, for Fannie Bourquin Eason, married woman, died 22 February 1930 in Brooks County, Georgia, about age 52; born in Barney, Georgia; parents listed as Dr. S. W. Bourquine and Fannie Pace; husband Walter M. Eason; burial at Camp Ground on 23 February 1930.
• U.S., Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865, entry for Stephen William Bourquin; accompanying handwritten card identifies him in Georgia service as a first lieutenant in the 25th Georgia Infantry, with service from 2 August 1861 and resignation for disability on 30 July 1863.
• U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, entry for Stephen William Bourquin, showing enlistment and muster on 2 August 1861, first lieutenant, Company H, 25th Infantry, Georgia residence in Chatham County, Confederate service, and muster-out by resignation for disability.
• Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978, Berrien County marriage record for "E F Bourgine" and "Sallie N. Parrish"; license dated 15 October 1895 and minister's return showing marriage on 11 December 1895.
• Valdosta Times (Valdosta, Georgia), 13 August 1898, page 3, report that the residence of "Dr. E. F. Bourquin" was destroyed by fire on a Wednesday morning, with only part of the furniture saved and $500 insurance insufficient to cover even half the loss; used here as contextual evidence for son Edward F. Bourquin's residence and physician identity in Valdosta.
• Valdosta Times (Valdosta, Georgia), 12 January 1901, page 3, "Adel Amateur Theatrical" item reporting that Dr. E. F. Bourquin of Adel played the lead role of "Uncle Rube" in a local performance; used here as contextual evidence placing Edward F. Bourquin in Adel by early 1901.
• Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929, entry for Edward F. Bourquin, giving death date 2 May 1907, death place Adel, Georgia, type of practice allopath, and medical school Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta.
• Valdosta Daily Times (Valdosta, Georgia), 3 May 1907, page 4, "Death of Dr. Bourquin" notice reporting that Dr. E. F. Bourquin died at his home in Valdosta on Thursday morning after about three weeks of fever; OCR also suggests he was about thirty-four and had been reared in Brooks County, but those details should be checked against the original image before quoting more firmly.
• Macon Telegraph (Macon, Georgia), 14 August 1899, page 5, smallpox report from Barney, Brooks County, stating that "the local physician, Dr. Bourquin" identified a case later confirmed by doctors from Quitman; used here as contemporary contextual evidence of Stephen Bourquin's medical practice in Barney.
• Valdosta Daily Times (Valdosta, Georgia), 28 July 1909, page 4, church-property dispute item stating that the land had been deeded to the church by "the late Dr. Bourquine, of near Barney" and that "Mrs. Joyce was a daughter of Dr. Bourquine"; used here as contextual evidence of Stephen's death before that date and of the Bourquin-to-Joyce family connection.
• 1910 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, roll T624_174, page 8A, enumeration district 0021, household of John W. Joyce including wife "Mollie L. Joyce", age 38, born in Georgia, married about 18 years.
• 1920 U.S. census, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, roll T625_237, page 15A, enumeration district 40, household of "Mary L. Joyce", widowed head, age 46, born in Georgia.
• 1930 U.S. census, Militia District 1199, Brooks County, Georgia, roll 234, page 11A, household including "Woollie L. Joyce", age 52, mother-in-law, born in Georgia.
• 1940 U.S. census, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, roll m-t0627-00643, page 4B, household of "Mary Jayce", widowed head, age 68, born in Georgia, with son John Wesley Jayce.
• 1950 U.S. census, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, roll 2318, page 25, enumeration district 14-12, household including "Mollie L. Joyce", age 78, widowed mother-in-law.
• Georgia, U.S., Death Index, 1919-1998, entry for "Mollie B Joyce", age 85, Brooks County, Georgia, certificate no. 5078.
• Find a Grave memorial #53434501 for Mary Louisa "Mollie" Bourquin Joyce, Camp Ground Cemetery Mount Zion Church, Morven, Brooks County, Georgia, giving birth 3 February 1871 and death 7 March 1956; used as derivative later-life and burial evidence.
• Valdosta Daily Times (Valdosta, Georgia), 23 April 1948, page 5, obituary "S. W. Bourquin Is Laid To Rest," reporting funeral services for S. W. Bourquin of Barney at Camp Ground Church near Morven, stating that he died Sunday in the home where he was born, and naming surviving wife Minnie Williams Bourquin, daughters Mrs. J. D. Edmondson and Miss Martha Sue Bourquin, and son H. F. Bourquin, all of Barney; OCR reads the age as 66, but that point should be checked against the original image and death certificate because it appears inconsistent with the earlier census trail.
• Valdosta Daily Times (Valdosta, Georgia), 10 September 1915, page 8, Adel News item listing "Hazel Bourquine" among Adel students attending South Georgia Normal College at Valdosta; used here as contextual evidence for a Hazel Bourquine in the Adel branch and as a strengthening lead when read alongside the later Hazel B. Briggs death-index entry.
• Georgia, U.S., Death Index, 1919-1998, entry for Hazel B. Briggs, age 65, residence and death place Lowndes County, Georgia, certificate no. 018798; used here as a possible later-life lead for a daughter in the Stephen W. Bourquin Jr. branch pending stronger direct linkage.
• Valdosta Daily Times (Valdosta, Georgia), 18 May 1961, page 3, obituary for Mrs. Julia B. Rountree of Hahira, age 81, naming daughters Mrs. Bryant Stalvey, Mrs. W. D. Stalvey, and Mrs. S. L. Hall, sons Roy, Ed, and W. L. Rountree, brother T. C. Bourquine of Quitman, and describing her as a native of Brooks County and daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Bourquine; used here as strong later-life evidence for daughter Julia A. Bourquin, though the OCR of the parents' initials is imperfect.
• Find a Grave memorial #111611401 for Dr. Stephen William Bourquin, Camp Ground Cemetery, Morven, Brooks County, Georgia, giving dates 20 February 1828 and 12 April 1902; used as derivative burial and death-date evidence pending direct confirmation.

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