Household #120: Rountree, Andrew

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

Household Snapshot

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

Andrew Rountree's listed occupation was Farmer.

All listed household members were reported as born in Georgia.

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

Household in 1900

Andrew Rountree appears in Barney in 1900 as a Black farmer with the following profile: - Birth: February 1850, Georgia, USA - Occupation: farmer - Reported marriage year: 1878

His wife appears as Lucinda Rountree. - Birth: about 1852-1855, Georgia, USA

Children in the household: - Lacy Rountree, son, age 17, born about 1883 in Georgia - Elzy Rountree, son, age 16, born about 1884 in Georgia - Edward Rountree, son, age 12, born about 1888 in Georgia - Frank Rountree, son, age 4, born about 1896 in Georgia

Current findings

This household can be followed with confidence across a long Brooks County census chain. In 1880, Andrew Rountree appears in Morven, Brooks County, as a Black man age 28, born about 1852 in Georgia, with wife Lucinda, age 28, stepdaughter Kate Mincay, age 12, and sons Irvin, age 2, and Simeon, age two months. That household fits the later Barney family closely in age, place, and composition.

The 1900 Barney household continues forward in 1910, 1920, and 1930 with Andrew and Lucinda or Lucindy still in Brooks County. In 1910, son Frank remained at home. By 1940, Andrew and Lucinda appear in the Barney household of Lacy Rountree, where they are identified as father and mother. That 1940 record ties Lacy securely back to Andrew and Lucinda and confirms the family remained rooted in the same community for decades.

The marriage evidence is stronger than the earlier short entry suggested. A Brooks County marriage license dated 27 January 1877 and return dated 30 January 1877 records the marriage of Andrew Rountree and Sindy Mincy. The 1880 presence of Kate Mincay as Andrew's stepdaughter strongly supports the conclusion that the woman later recorded as Lucinda was the same spouse or belonged to the same Mincy line, though the exact resolution of the Sindy/Lucinda naming difference still needs cautious handling.

Frank Rountree can also be followed into adulthood. A Georgia World War I service card identifies Frank Rountree of Barney, born about 1896 in Barney, Georgia, inducted at Quitman on 2 October 1917 at age 21 years and 8 months, and discharged on demobilization in January 1919. That record fits the youngest son in the 1900 and 1910 Andrew Rountree household.

Connections to Other Barney Families

Andrew belongs to the same local Black Rountree cluster as HH#115, HH#119, and HH#122. The shared surname, close census geography, and long residence in Barney place these households in the same local network, but the exact kinship remains unproved.

Open Research Questions

• The available evidence strongly favors treating the 1877 Andrew Rountree-Sindy Mincy marriage as the marriage of this household, but the Sindy/Lucinda naming difference should still be described carefully until a direct bridging record is found.
• Death records, burial records, and probate or land records for Andrew and Lucinda would help close the household more fully.
• Later records for Irvin, Simeon, Elzy, and Edward remain to be assembled into the same degree of continuity now established for Lacy and Frank.

Research Status

WELL-RESEARCHED: The household is documented through the 1877 Brooks County marriage record, the 1880 Morven census, the 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 Barney-area censuses, the 1940 Lacy Rountree household, and Frank Rountree's World War I service card. The family continuity is strong. Remaining work centers on resolving the Sindy/Lucinda name issue with a direct bridge and locating fuller end-of-life records for Andrew, Lucinda, and several children.

Sources

• 1880 U.S. Census, Morven, Brooks County, Georgia, Andrew Rountree household
• 1900 U.S. Census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, Andrew Rountree household
• 1910 U.S. Census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, Andrew Rountree household
• 1920 U.S. Census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, Andrew Rountree household
• 1930 U.S. Census, Militia District 1571, Brooks County, Georgia, Andrew Rountree household
• 1940 U.S. Census, Barney area, Brooks County, Georgia, Lacy Rountree household
• Brooks County, Georgia, marriage license and return for Andrew Rountree and Sindy Mincy, 27 and 30 January 1877
• Georgia, U.S., World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919, Frank Rountree

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