Household #132: Hooker, Silas

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In the 1900 Barney census, Silas Hooker headed a 5-person household. The table below preserves the exact names, relationships, ages, birthplaces, and occupations recorded for the household.

Household Snapshot

Silas Hooker headed a 5-person household in the 1900 Barney census with 1 spouse or marital partner and 3 children.

Silas Hooker's listed occupation was Laborer saw mill.

All listed household members were reported as born in Georgia.

1900 Census Household

Name	Relation	Age	Birthplace	Occupation
Silas Hooker	Head	31	Georgia	Laborer saw mill
Mamie Hooker	Wife	23	Georgia	—
Orbin Hooker	Child	8	Georgia	—
Nola Hooker	Child	4	Georgia	—
Zelley Hooker	Daughter	1	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 Silas Hooker, wife Mamie, and children Orbin, Nola, and Zelley.
A Brooks County marriage record dated 3 December 1891 records the marriage of Silas Hooker and Mamie L. Bailey.
Later census, draft, and death records place the same man under the names Silas C. Hooker, S. C. Hooker, and Babe Hooker.
A 1933 Georgia death certificate identifies S. C. Hooker as the son of G. W. Hooker and Cynthia Simmons.

The 1900 census places Silas Hooker in Barney as a sawmill laborer born in August 1868 in Georgia. His wife Mamie, born about 1876 or 1877 in Georgia, was married about nine years and was the mother of three living children. The household's three children were Orbin, Nola, and Zelley. This is the starting point for the family as it appears in Barney.

The marriage record anchors the couple before the census. Brooks County recorded the marriage of Silas Hooker and Mamie L. Bailey on 3 December 1891. Mamie fits well as the woman who appears in the 1880 Jasper J. Bailey household. The Hooker household can then be followed forward through 1910, 1920, and 1930. In 1910 Silas C. Hooker was in Lake Park, Lowndes County, with Mamie and children Olin, Nora, Zellie, Charley, and Hansel. In 1920 the family was in Cecil, Cook County, with Olin, Nora, Charlie, Hansel, Gladys, and Thelma in the home. In 1930 Babe Hooker was back in Lowndes County with Mamie, Hansel, and Thelma.

Later records help carry the children beyond the 1900 household. Orbin in 1900 fits the later Olin Hooker seen in the 1910 and 1920 censuses, the World War I draft card giving Olin Hooker's birth as 24 October 1894 at Barney, Georgia, and later Lowndes County records for Olin Cleo Hooker. Zella Hooker Sims, who died in 1928, is identified by her death certificate as a daughter of S. C. Hooker and Mamie Bailey. That record places her in the family, but it should not be used to identify her automatically with the one-year-old Zelley in the 1900 census because the death certificate gives Zella a birth date of 22 November 1900.

The pre-1900 identity chain points in the same direction. In 1870 a Clarence Hooker of the right age appears in the household of George and Cyntha Hooker in Colquitt County. In 1880 a Silas C. Hoaker of similar age appears in the George and Cynthia Hoaker household. The 1933 death certificate for S. C. Hooker names his parents as G. W. Hooker and Cynthia Simmons. Taken together, these records support treating the 1900 Barney head as the same man later recorded as Silas C., S. C., and Babe Hooker.

Connections to Other Barney Families

HH#133 George Hooker is strongly connected to this household. In 1880, George Hoaker and Silas C. Hoaker appear in the same George and Cynthia Hoaker household and are listed there as sons. By 1900, George and Silas appear as adjacent Hooker households in Barney.

Open Research Questions

Mamie Hooker's death and burial still need a direct record if the closing years of her life are to be stated more precisely.
Zella Hooker Sims belongs in the family, but her exact place in the birth order should remain cautious until a record directly aligns her with one of the census daughters.

Research Status

Complete research. The household rests on a direct marriage record, a census chain from 1900 through 1930, parental-context records from 1870 and 1880, a 1933 death certificate for Silas C. Hooker, and later records for adult children that fit the household.

Sources

1870 U.S. census, Colquitt County, Georgia, George and Cyntha Hooker household, including Clarence Hooker.
1880 U.S. census, George and Cynthia Hoaker household, including Silas C. Hoaker.
1880 U.S. census, Jasper J. Bailey household, including Mamie L. Bailey.
Brooks County, Georgia, marriage record, 3 December 1891, Silas Hooker and Mamie L. Bailey.
1900 U.S. census, Barney Precinct, Brooks County, Georgia, Silas Hooker household.
1910 U.S. census, Lake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia, Silas C. Hooker household.
1920 U.S. census, Cecil, Cook County, Georgia, Silas C. Hooker household.
1930 U.S. census, Ousley district, Lowndes County, Georgia, Babe Hooker household.
Georgia death certificate, 21 November 1933, S. C. Hooker, Valdosta, Lowndes County, naming parents G. W. Hooker and Cynthia Simmons.
World War I draft registration card for Olin Hooker, giving birth date 24 October 1894 and birthplace Barney, Georgia.
1928 Georgia death certificate for Zella Hooker Sims, naming parents S. C. Hooker and Mamie Bailey.
Social Security claims material for Gladys Hooker Pittman identifying parents Mamie L. Bailey and Silas C. Hooker, used as supporting family-context evidence.
Later records for Olin Cleo Hooker, including census, death-index, and cemetery material, used as supporting evidence for the Orbin-to-Olin identification.

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