Household #131: Reddick, Harris
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In the 1900 Barney census, Harris Reddick headed a 3-person household. The table below preserves the exact names, relationships, ages, birthplaces, and occupations recorded for the household.
Household Snapshot
Harris Reddick headed a 3-person household in the 1900 Barney census with 1 spouse or marital partner and 1 child.
Harris Reddick's listed occupation was Illegible Mill.
All listed household members were reported as born in Georgia.
1900 Census Household
| Name | Relation | Age | Birthplace | Occupation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harris Reddick | Head | 43 | Georgia | Illegible Mill |
| Mary Reddick | Wife | 27 | Georgia | — |
| Eulail Reddick | Daughter | 3/12 | Georgia | — |
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 Barney household contains Harris Reddick, wife Mary, and infant daughter Eulail.
- A Brooks County marriage record dated 25 December 1898 records H. J. Reddick and Mary M. Reddick.
- Cemetery evidence now shows that Mary M. Reddick and Eulaila Reddick were buried at Bethel Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery near Pavo within a few years of the census.
The 1900 census records Harris Reddick, born March 1857 in Georgia, as a farm laborer in Barney. His household included wife Mary, born November 1872 in Georgia, and daughter Eulail, age three months, born in Georgia in March 1900. The household was rented, and both adults were reported as Georgia-born.
The marriage record for H. J. Reddick and Mary M. Reddick in Brooks County on 25 December 1898 fits the 1900 household well, but it does not by itself prove what the initials H. J. stand for. The 1900 census names the husband Harris. That makes H. J. a plausible match, but not a settled one.
New burial evidence changes the earlier reading of this household. Mary M. Reddick is memorialized at Bethel Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery with dates 1872-1903, and Eulaila Reddick is memorialized there with dates 1899-1904. Those memorials align closely with the Mary and Eulail of the 1900 Barney household and make it unlikely that the family simply vanished from the record without trace. They suggest instead that Mary and the child died within a few years of the census.
The wider Reddick material supplied during this review is relevant, but it remains unresolved. Records from Webster and Randolph Counties show a related-looking line centered on H. J., Honace, or Horace Reddick, including the 26 December 1876 Randolph County marriage of Honace J. Reddick and Emma Harden, an 1880 Randolph County household headed by H. J. Reddick with wife Emma, and a 1900 Randolph County widow Emma Reddick household. A later death certificate for Dr. W. W. Reddick names parents Horace Reddick and Emma Hartten or Harden. Those records likely belong to the same broader Reddick cluster, and they may help explain the Brooks County H. J. groom, but the present evidence does not prove that HH#131's Harris Reddick was the same man as Honace or Horace Reddick of Randolph-Webster County.
The earlier ancestry discussion about eighteenth-century German immigrant Reddicks should not remain in the household entry. No direct record reviewed here bridges HH#131 to that older line.
Open Research Questions
- A direct bridge is still needed between Harris Reddick in the 1900 Barney census and H. J. Reddick in the 1898 Brooks County marriage record.
- Mary M. Reddick and Eulaila Reddick appear to match the 1900 household strongly, but their cemetery memorials are still secondary support until backed by burial, church, or death records.
- Harris Reddick has not been identified with confidence after the 1900 census.
- The Webster-Randolph H. J. / Honace / Horace Reddick material should be treated as a probable related cluster, not as a proved identity merge.
Research Status
Further research needed. The 1900 Barney household and the 1898 Brooks County marriage are secure, and the cemetery evidence strongly supports early deaths for Mary M. Reddick and Eulaila Reddick. Harris Reddick's pre-1900 identity and post-1900 fate remain unresolved.
Sources
- 1900 U.S. census, Barney Precinct, Brooks County, Georgia, ED 9, household 131, Harris Reddick household.
- Brooks County, Georgia, marriage record, 25 December 1898, H. J. Reddick and Mary M. Reddick.
- Find a Grave memorial for Mary M. Reddick, Bethel Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Pavo, Brooks County, Georgia, used as secondary support for burial and death-year context.
- Find a Grave memorial for Eulaila Reddick, Bethel Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Pavo, Brooks County, Georgia, used as secondary support for burial and death-year context.
- 1870 U.S. census, Webster County, Georgia, H. J. Reddick entry, treated as candidate background only.
- Randolph County, Georgia, marriage record, 25-26 December 1876, Honace J. Reddick and Emma Harden, treated as candidate background only.
- 1880 U.S. census, Randolph County, Georgia, H. J. Reddick household with wife Emma, treated as candidate background only.
- 1900 U.S. census, Militia District 777, Randolph County, Georgia, Emma Reddick household, treated as candidate background only.
- Death certificate for Dr. W. W. Reddick naming parents Horace Reddick and Emma Hartten or Harden, treated as candidate background only.
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