Household #133: Hooker, George

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

Household Snapshot

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

George 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
George Hooker	Head	37	Georgia	Laborer saw mill
Lorena Hooker	Wife	28	Georgia	—
Mattie Hooker	Daughter	7	Georgia	—
Hattie Hooker	Daughter	6	Georgia	—
Cinthy Hooker	Daughter	3	Georgia	—
Willie 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 George W. Hooker, wife Lorena, and daughters Mattie, Hattie, Cinthy, and Willie.
A Colquitt County marriage record dated 27 September 1891 records the marriage of G. W. Hooker and Sarah Wooten.
Earlier census and postal records place George in the George and Cyntha Hooker household in 1870 and 1880 and identify him as the man appointed postmaster at Hempstead, Colquitt County, on 24 September 1884.
Later records carry three daughters beyond the 1900 household: Mattie Hooker to Mattie Rentz, Hattie Hooker to Hattie Burley, and Cinthy Hooker to Cynthia Noles.

The 1900 census places George W. Hooker in Barney as a sawmill laborer born in January 1863 in Georgia. His wife appears there as Lorena Hooker, born in July 1871 or 1872 in Georgia, and the household's four children are Mattie, Hattie, Cinthy, and Willie. Willie should be treated as a daughter because that is how the child appears in the census entry. The couple had been married about nine years, which fits the 1891 marriage record.

The marriage record anchors the household before the census. Colquitt County recorded the marriage of G. W. Hooker and Sarah Wooten on 27 September 1891. The wife's given name varies across the surviving material. She is Sarah Wooten in the marriage record, Lorena in the 1900 census, and later family material points to a Lorine or Lorena Wooten identity within the same family line. The records now support treating her as Sarah, Lorena, or Lorine Wooten Hooker, but they do not support the older claim that she came from a specific Cooper household.

George's pre-1900 identity is documented well enough to connect the Barney head to the earlier Hooker household. In 1870 he appears as a young child in the George and Cyntha Hooker household in Colquitt County. In 1880 he appears as George Hoaker in the George and Cynthia Hoaker household. A postal record then places George W. Hooker at Hempstead in Colquitt County on 24 September 1884, when he was appointed postmaster. By 1900 he was in Barney working as a sawmill laborer.

The household can be carried forward through three of the daughters. Mattie Hooker appears to be the same woman who married C. J. Ruetz or Rentz in Brooks County in 1907. She can be followed as Mattie Rentz in 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940, and the 1940 census places Cynthia Noles in Mattie's household as her sister. Hattie Hooker is strongly supported as the later Hattie Bell Burley seen in Colquitt County in 1920, 1930, and 1940, with Social Security claims material identifying spouse Frank Burley and child Lorene Reynolds. Cinthy Hooker is strongly supported as the later Cynthia or Cintha Noles, wife of Ernest P. Noles in Cook County in 1920 and 1930 and the widowed sister living with Mattie Rentz in 1940. Willie has not been traced with confidence after the 1900 census.

The wider Hooker family context is still useful, but it should be stated carefully. George and Silas Hooker appear side by side as separate households in Barney in 1900, and the earlier Hooker household places George in a family that also included a child recorded in 1880 as Silas C. Hoaker. That makes the link between HH#133 and HH#132 plausible within the same parental household. The present entry does not need a stronger claim than that to stand on its own.

Connections to Other Barney Families

HH#132 Silas 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

George Hooker's death and burial have not been documented directly.
Sarah, Lorena, or Lorine Wooten Hooker still needs a direct death or burial record.
Willie Hooker, listed as a daughter in 1900, has not been identified confidently in later records.
Hattie Hooker's marriage to the Burley husband should be anchored by a direct marriage or death record if available, since the husband's given names vary across the census chain.

Research Status

Well-researched. The household rests on direct census and marriage records, a postal appointment record for George W. Hooker, and later census and claims material that carry Mattie, Hattie, and Cinthy into adulthood. George and his wife remain without direct death records, and Willie remains unresolved after 1900.

Sources

1870 U.S. census, Colquitt County, Georgia, George and Cyntha Hooker household, including young George Hooker.
1880 U.S. census, George and Cynthia Hoaker household, including George Hoaker and Silas C. Hoaker.
U.S. Post Office Department appointment record, 24 September 1884, George W. Hooker appointed postmaster at Hempstead, Colquitt County, Georgia.
Colquitt County, Georgia, marriage record, 27 September 1891, G. W. Hooker and Sarah Wooten.
1900 U.S. census, Barney Precinct, Brooks County, Georgia, George W. Hooker household.
1870 U.S. census candidate record for Sarah Wooten in Brooks County, used as possible background only.
1880 U.S. census candidate record for Sarah L. Wootten in Dry Lake district, Colquitt County, used as possible background only.
Brooks County, Georgia, marriage record, 1907, Mattie Lew Hooker and C. J. Ruetz or Rentz.
1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940 U.S. census records for Mattie Rentz in Berrien or Cook County, Georgia.
Social Security claims material tying Lorine Wooten to spouse George Hooker and child Rentz, used as supporting family-context evidence.
1920, 1930, and 1940 U.S. census records for Hattie Bell Burley in Colquitt County, Georgia.
Social Security claims material for Hattie Bell Burley identifying spouse Frank Burley and child Lorene Reynolds.
1920 and 1930 U.S. census records for Cintha or Cynthia Noles in Cook County, Georgia.
1940 U.S. census, Lenox, Cook County, Georgia, Mattie Lon Rentz household, including widowed sister Cynthia Nales.
Social Security Death Index entry for Cynthia Noles, born 10 June 1896 and died February 1979, used as later-life support.
Cemetery memorial material for Mattie Lou Rentz and Charlie J. Rentz at Concord Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Cook County, Georgia, used as secondary support for burial and family-context details.

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