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Simpson Strickland

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Evidence assessment

Supplemental early settler, verified in Lowndes County by 1826; future-Brooks association strong. No exact arrival year is proved.

Evidence

An original deed copied into Brooks County Deed Book A records a June 16, 1826 conveyance from Miles or Milus Thigpen to John Hendry. Simpson Strickland and Simeon Strickland witnessed it. On July 23, 1837, Simpson swore that he saw Thigpen execute the deed and saw Simeon sign. This is direct proof that Simpson was in Lowndes County and personally associated with Simeon by 1826. The deed does not call them brothers.

The 1830 Lowndes census index and a later published transcription each identify a Simpson Strickland household. The transcription counts three males and three females, but the original schedule image was not reinspected in this cohort. An indexed 1850 Lowndes household and an indexed 1860 Brooks household identify a Simpson born about 1806–1807 in South Carolina. Those entries fit the same man, but the original schedules remain a follow-up target.

A later local-history account reports that Simpson served on the 1833 Lowndes grand jury, was commissioned captain of the 790th District in 1834, married Mary Wooten in 1829, and was a son of Archibald and Luander Strickland and brother of Simeon. The explicit kinship claim agrees with Archibald's 1820 Tattnall household and the 1826 deed association, but no inspected original names Simpson's parents or calls Simeon his brother. The family reconstruction remains secondary-supported.

A deed index places Simpson on 580 acres in District 12, Lots 233 and 274, which he conveyed in 1858. This is a reproducible land locator in territory that became Brooks County. The underlying deed text still needs inspection.

Family and identity controls

  • Simpson Strickland and Mary Wooten: secondary-supported; original marriage not inspected.
  • Simpson and Simeon Strickland: secondary-supported brothers; original-record association verified.
  • Simpson as son of Archibald and Luander: secondary-supported.
  • Later Simpson S. and Simpson J. Stricklands must remain separate unless a record supplies an identity bridge.

Barney relevance

Simpson's land and militia activity place him in the broader future-Brooks corridor. No record located in this cohort proves residence at the later Barney townsite or descent to a canonical Barney census household.

Remaining targets

Inspect the 1830, 1850, and 1860 schedules; the reported 1829 marriage; the 1834 commission; Brooks/Lowndes Deed Book A, pages 88–89; and any estate or cemetery record.

Sources

  1. Lowndes County deed, Miles/Milus Thigpen to John Hendry, executed June 16, 1826, proved by Simpson Strickland July 23, 1837; Brooks County Deed Book A copy, FamilySearch image: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BZ-3S7Z-K
  2. Ancestry census index searches, Simpson Strickland, 1850 Lowndes and 1860 Brooks, accessed October 4, 2026.
  3. Genealogy Trails, “1830 Lowndes County Georgia Census,” later transcription of a DAR county history.
  4. Ray City History Blog, “Lowndes Grand Jury of 1833,” June 9, 2018: https://raycityhistory.wordpress.com/2018/06/09/lowndes-grand-jury-of-1833/
  5. Wiregrass Region Digital History Project, Lowndes deed index extraction, Simpson Strickland to James R. Edmondson and Thomas M. Heath, July 15, 1858, Book A, pp. 88–89.