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Archibald Strickland

Archibald Strickland's connection to the future Brooks County area rests on strong secondary evidence. Folks Huxford's account of Bethel Primitive Baptist Church names Archibald and Luander Strickland among the congregation's organizing members in 1826 and identifies Archibald as a deacon. The original minute book has not been inspected.

The original 1820 Tattnall County census records Archibald with three boys ages 10–15. Simpson and Simeon Strickland were each about fourteen and fit that household structure. A later Ray City History Blog account explicitly identifies Simpson as a son of Archibald and Luander and Simeon as Simpson's brother. An original 1826 Lowndes deed independently places Simpson and Simeon together as witnesses. Taken together, the evidence supports the father-and-sons reconstruction as secondary evidence, but no inspected original record states the relationships.

The 1850 Ware County census names Archibald, age 64, born in North Carolina, with $300 in real estate. A five-year-old Archibald appears in the same household and must remain a separate person. The elder Archibald's precise death and estate remain unresolved, and the surviving online Ware deed series begins too late to settle them.

No Strickland in the canonical Barney census pages is presently connected to Archibald through Simpson or Simeon. The identified Barney households belong to separate reconstructed branches.

Sources

  1. 1850 U.S. census, Ware County, Georgia, Division 89, household 518; Ancestry collection 8054, records 16037394 and 16037397, image 4191562_00254.
  2. Folks Huxford, History of Brooks County, Georgia (1948), Bethel Primitive Baptist Church account and pp. 29–33. Used as secondary evidence.
  3. Historical Mount Zion/Sharpe's Store reminiscence preserved in the Georgia Historic Newspapers corpus; original article image remains to be cited precisely before publication.
  4. Ray City History Blog, “Lowndes Grand Jury of 1833,” 9 June 2018, https://raycityhistory.wordpress.com/2018/06/09/lowndes-grand-jury-of-1833/.
  5. 1820 U.S. census, Tattnall County, Georgia, p. 116, NARA roll M33_9; Ancestry collection 7734, record 1483463.
  6. Lowndes County deed from Miles or Milus Thigpen to John Hendry, executed 16 June 1826 and proved by Simpson Strickland 23 July 1837; later copy in Brooks County Deed Book A, FamilySearch image https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BZ-3S7Z-K.