Thomas Alligood Rozier: online research dossier

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Research completed: August 17, 2026; updated October 11, 2026
Subject: Thomas Alligood Rozier (3 November 1855-27 October 1938), Robeson County, North Carolina; Ware and Brooks Counties, Georgia
Evidence standard: direct records and contemporary newspapers control; later books, memorials, trees, and local tradition are identified as derivative.

Bottom line

Thomas A. Rozier was Thomas Alligood Rozier, born in North Carolina about November 1855. A previously documented reading of his full Georgia death certificate gives 3 November 1855 at Lumberton, but the live Ancestry page available in this pass showed only an approximate 1856 birth year. He was a son of Simpson Rozier and a mother whose name appears as Manerva in the 1860 census index but as Maria in 1870 and Maria Carlyle in his Georgia death record. He married Sallie A. Hitch in Brooks County on 19 June 1892. Their three children were Hazel, Robert C., and Catherine or Katharine Rozier; later records identify them as Hazel Stanhope, Robert C. Rozier, and Catherine Lanneau.

Rozier was in Glenmore, Ware County, by 1886 and is the strong-probable Rozier partner in the Ware County naval-stores firm McNeil & Rozier by 1888. The grade stops short of verified because the decisive 1888 article gives neither partner's initials. From 1890 forward, the identification is direct. He signed Foster's post-office application, worked with McNeil in the Hahira-Folsom Bridge turpentine district, remained in the Foster concern after the Conoly brothers bought an interest, and signed the papers moving the post office from Foster to Barney in 1897.

His later record is broader than the turpentine story. He farmed, bred Poland China hogs, served two documented terms as Barney postmaster, offered the Edgewood tract for development, promoted Brooks County land nationally, helped organize a proposed regional railroad, served on the county board of education, and held church office. He died at Barney on 27 October 1938 and was buried at Camp Ground Cemetery at Mount Zion Church near Morven, Brooks County, Georgia.

The Foster title is verified by the original deed. On 9 October 1890, J. H. Croft conveyed McNiel & Rosier about 325 acres on the north side of Land Lot 227, 12th District, for $1,000. The instrument is recorded in Brooks County Deed Book K, page 116, and survives in a FamilySearch image.

This pass also located Thomas's original will, dated the day before his death. It proves a different landholding: his undivided one-half interest in 543 acres in Lowndes County Land Lots 139 and 50, owned by "J. T. McNeal and Company", a former firm composed of J. T. McNeal and T. A. Rozier. That Lowndes holding must not be conflated with the verified Croft deed in Brooks County.

Identity and North Carolina family

The record chain is consistent:

• The correct 1860 census entry is "T. A. Rozier", about age five, in North Division, Robeson County, in Simpson and Manerva Rozier's household. Ancestry collection 7667, record 41450029. The index should be checked against the original image before treating "Manerva" as a settled reading.
• In 1870, Thomas Rozier, age fourteen, lived in Howellsville, Robeson County, with Simpson and Maria Rozier. Ancestry collection 7163, record 34465433; NARA M593, roll 1157, p. 69A.
• No secure 1880 census entry was identified in the documented search. Same-name results in Louisiana and elsewhere were excluded.
• The 1900 through 1930 censuses consistently place Thomas in Barney, born in North Carolina about 1855-1856.
• Georgia death-record collection 2562, record 1031290, gives Thomas Alligood Rozier, age eighty-two, death at Barney on 27 October 1938, father Simpson Rozier, and mother Maria Carlyle.

The death record and census chain verify the full identity and parentage. The mother's given name remains unresolved between Manerva and Maria. Public trees expand the father to John Simpson Rozier and the mother to Mariah/Maria Carlisle, but those expansions are derivative unless an original record is cited. The exact 3 November date and Lumberton wording are strong probable pending renewed inspection of the full certificate image.

Marriage, household, and children

The Brooks County marriage record indexes the groom as "Mr Thos A Rozie" and the bride as Sallie A. Hitch. They married on 19 June 1892; the local license was issued ten days earlier. Ancestry collection 4766, record 282614. A 2 July 1892 Valdosta Times item independently identifies Thomas A. Rozier of Rozier, Conoly & Co. as the groom and Sallie as a daughter of the late Dr. R. M. Hitch of Morven. Newspapers.com image 889759299, clipping 193407281.

The household sequence is direct:

The children are verified through the census and later records. Some expanded middle names come from later or compiled material and should remain subordinate to the direct records:

• Hazel Hitch Rozier Stanhope, born about 1894. A 1924 announcement says Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Rozier announced her 17 December 1923 marriage to Harry Hurst Stanhope in Washington, D.C. Atlanta Journal, 13 January 1924.
• Robert Carlyle Rozier, born about 1896. He appears as Robert C. in 1910 and was named as R. C. Rozier in Thomas's 1935 profile and Sallie's 1958 obituary.
• Lois Catherine/Katharine Rozier Lanneau, born about 1900. She appears as Katharine in 1910 and later as Mrs. T. F. Lanneau.

The Valdosta Daily Times reported on 24 June 1937 that Thomas and Sallie had celebrated their forty-fifth wedding anniversary at their Barney home the preceding Sunday. That agrees with the June 1892 marriage. Newspapers.com image 890575843.

Ware County and the McNeil & Rozier firm

Thomas's Ware County presence is now direct. The Savannah Morning News hotel register of 2 December 1886 lists "T. A. Rozier, Glenmore, Ga." Newspapers.com image 830501568. An Ancestry tax-digest index also places Thomas A. Rozier in Glenmore District 1082 during a displayed 1881-1887 residence range, although the source citation says "Georgia Tax Digests 1890". Both labels must be retained. Ancestry collection 1729, record 6711405, linked Georgia Archives image 40881_1020705384_0416-00455.

On 31 March 1888, the Valdosta Times called McNeil & Rozier a Ware County turpentine firm. The article says McNeil and the firm's woodsman Connolly pursued and shot an unnamed Black laborer who had been recruited from South Carolina, bound for a year, and charged a debt. It is direct evidence of coercive and violent labor conditions, but it omits both partners' initials. Newspapers.com image 889632321; public reprint in the Savannah Morning News, 2 April 1888, p. 6.

A second notice says 62 barrels of T. P. Jordan's rosin at Argyle depot were levied under an execution in favor of McNeil & Rozier. Images 889632317 and 889632329. This proves a judgment debt and levy. It does not locate a McNeil & Rozier still at Argyle or make the rosin theirs before levy.

Newspapers then follow the surnames into the Hahira and Folsom Bridge district:

• 16 March 1889: "McNeil of Hahira" among naval-stores operators, image 889789051.
• 29 March 1890: McNeil and Rozier doing good turpentine business at Hahira; their hands worked the Folsom Bridge road, images 889794099 and 889794108.
• 12 April 1890: J. T. McNeil nearly completed opening the road, image 889794327.
• 24 February 1891: a reprint reports that John Clifton fatally shot Peter Armstrong at McNeil & Rozier's turpentine farm in Brooks County; the inquest returned involuntary manslaughter. Macon Telegraph, image 825352472.
• 29 August 1891: McNeill and Rozier again had the Hahira-Folsom Bridge road worked, image 889798850.

Thomas's direct 1886 Glenmore presence makes him the best-documented and strong-probable Rozier in the 1888 firm. It does not retroactively add his initials to the article. The Ware plant's exact site, partnership formation date, and transfer of labor, leases, equipment, or accounts into Brooks County remain unresolved.

Foster, the Conoly transaction, and firm succession

Thomas signed the proposed Foster/Rozier post-office location paper on 4 March 1890; the Post Office Department received it on 10 March. One proposed name was "Rozier", tied to the family, while Foster became the approved name. The postmaster appointment register records Thomas at Foster on 4 April 1890. Ancestry collection 1932, record 1630513; NARA M841, roll 22.

The 14 November 1891 Valdosta Times correction says McNeil & Rozier sold brothers A. J. and H. McLean Conley/Conoly a collective one-half interest in the Foster naval-stores business and that McNeill retained one-fourth. Image 889756841; the initial report is image 889756744. This was a sale of a business interest, not a land deed. It does not divide the brothers' half, identify the owner of the remaining quarter, or state Thomas's retained share.

The operating name then appears as Rozier, Conoly & Co. or Rozier, Conoly Bros. & Co. in 1892-1893. The marriage item directly identifies Thomas with that concern. Foster columns describe continuing turpentine production and hauling to Hahira. Clipping IDs 193407281, 193407600, 193407422, and 193407548; related images include 889759299, 889761322, and 889763942.

A 1900 Savannah Morning News report lists T. A. Rozier among Savannah Naval Stores Company stockholders at its annual meeting. The initials, trade, date, and Brooks County land-and-credit trail make him a strong-probable match for the Barney man; the item gives no residence or full name. Image 852595717.

Savannah Naval Stores Company was a separate Savannah factor and cooperative marketing corporation, not another name for McNiel & Rozier or Rozier, Conoly & Company. Brooks County deeds place Rozier's local partnerships within its financial network. Henry G. Turner sold McNiel and Rozier all of LL320 and LL325—980 acres—for $2,500 in 1890. An 1891 index entry records a McNiel & Rozier mortgage to the company, although the original mortgage and its property schedule remain unlocated. In 1894, Rozier, Conoly & Company conveyed both lots to the company for $4,000. The company sold LL320 to Sallie A. Rozier in 1896 and conveyed its remaining LL325 interest with other Brooks County property to W. W. Oglesby in 1897.

The 1894 instrument is a warranty deed and contains no recital of default, foreclosure, bankruptcy, or debt satisfaction. A negotiated settlement is plausible because the company financed naval-stores operators, but the surviving deed does not prove that motive. The evidence supports three distinct roles for Thomas: local operator, customer or borrower within the factoring network, and strong-probable company stockholder by January 1900.

No partnership agreement, dissolution instrument, or final accounting was located. Thomas's exact entry and exit dates and the disposition of the last quarter interest remain unresolved.

His 26 October 1938 will supplies direct evidence of another or surviving partnership interest. It calls "J. T. McNeal and Company" a former firm composed of J. T. McNeal and T. A. Rozier and says the firm then owned 543 acres in parts of Land Lots 139 and 50, 12th District, Lowndes County. Thomas devised his undivided half to Sallie. The record uses "McNeal", not "McNeil" or "McNeill", and describes different land from the Foster tract. It is verified as written, but the partner's full identity and the legal connection, if any, to the 1888-1891 McNeil & Rozier concern remain unresolved.

Foster-to-Barney postal continuity

The postal chain is one of the best-documented parts of the dossier:

• Foster: appointed 4 April 1890, Ancestry 1932:1630513.
• Thomas signed the 12 February 1897 application moving the office from Foster in Land Lot 227 to Barney in Land Lot 320, three miles northwest, on the South Georgia Railroad.
• Barney: appointed 26 July 1897, Ancestry 1932:1630564.
• He signed a Topographer's Office questionnaire on 2 November 1897, placing the office about 175 yards west of the railroad.
• Tobe G. Robinson was appointed "vice Thomas A. Rozier, resigned" on 24 October 1903. Atlanta Journal, 26 October 1903, image 969531602.
• Thomas was reappointed 20 February 1906, Ancestry 1932:1630569.
• Paris Culpepper replaced him on 17 February 1916; Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal, 22 February 1916, image 887733697.

Thomas served two documented Barney terms, 1897-1903 and 1906-1916. Describing his service as uninterrupted would be wrong.

Farming, livestock, land promotion, and Edgewood

Every census from 1900 through 1930 calls Thomas a farmer or places him on his own farm. His advertisements show a specialized livestock interest. In 1904 he sought purebred Poland China hogs. In November 1909 he offered six full-blood pigs from registered stock for $8 each or $15 per pair. Images 889652157, 889664910, and 889664935.

In August 1914, he placed a national homeseeker advertisement in the Des Moines Register: "BARNEY, BROOKS COUNTY, GA.-COME to Brooks county ... where lands are reasonable cheap. The good people here will give you a hearty welcome. T. A. Rozier." Images 129031594 and 129032073. This verifies his role as a Barney contact and land promoter, not ownership of every tract advertised.

The January 1911 Edgewood reports say Thomas offered about sixteen acres between his "commodious residence", the Methodist and Baptist churches, and the public school for a Cambridge Realty auction. Valdosta Daily Times, 19 January 1911, image 889696900; weekly reprint 889668494. Advertisements variously proposed fifty or sixty lots. No result article, buyer list, prices, deeds, or plat was found. The tract and planned auction are verified; the number of completed sales is unresolved.

Local tradition says Thomas built Barney's first house. His 1897 postal role and the documented prominent residence fit the tradition, but no located deed, tax-improvement record, construction notice, or contemporary article calls it the first house. Local identification places its approximate location at 31.006130, -83.519237. This locally identified location does not establish the construction date.

The Croft deed and Land Lot 227

The 1897 federal postal diagram directly places the existing Foster office in Land Lot 227, 12th District, and the proposed Barney office in Land Lot 320. It does not identify the owner of the Foster land or locate the still and commissary within the lot.

The original instrument verifies that J. H. Croft conveyed McNiel & Rosier 325 acres, more or less, on the north side of Land Lot 227 on 9 October 1890 for $1,000. It is recorded in Brooks County Deed Book K, page 116. The surviving image establishes the grantor, grantees, date, consideration, acreage, land lot, district, and north-side description.

Thomas's 1890 Morven District tax row lists no land. Ancestry collection 1729, record 716589, image 32306_1220705227_0017-00169. That weighs against calling him the individually assessed owner at that moment, but it does not exclude firm title, a lease, a separate assessment, or an acquisition later in the year.

The deed and its basic property description are verified from the original image. The tract's exact modern boundary remains unresolved because the deed gives an acreage-and-side description rather than a complete modern survey.

Town, church, school, and railroad activity

The public record shows a range of local roles:

• The Atlanta Journal listed Thomas A. Rozier of Barney as a Brooks County delegate in an agricultural listing on 19 April 1903, image 969502063.
• The Valdosta Times reported on 5 December 1903 that Barney's nominated slate placed S. L. Hall at its head and named John Berryhill, T. A. Rozier, F. B. Walker, “C. D. Parson,” and A. S. Humphreys for council. The intended man was very likely C. D. Paxson; the identification is graded strong probable because the article itself says Parson. Rozier's nomination is verified; his election and term are not. Image 889679697. See The first nominated slate.
• The 9 November 1935 Macon Telegraph birthday profile says he served on the board of education and was secretary-treasurer of the Baptist church. Image 826362749.
• Huxford says he was a Methodist Church trustee in 1899 and senior warden of Barney Masonic Lodge No. 609 in 1911. Those are strong secondary claims until supported by church or lodge records.

Thomas also helped organize the Georgia, Alabama & Western Railroad Company. Late-1911 notices name him among petitioners or promoters for a proposed 150-mile line through Hahira, Barney, Pavo, Meigs, Colquitt, and Blakely. Images 889588868, 889695710, and 969949004. The state granted the charter in January 1912; images 34095609 and 970010050. By June, reports called him a director and said surveys and cost estimates had been ordered. Image 859960351. Corporate organization is verified; construction of the proposed full line is not.

Death, burial, and probate

The Georgia death certificate establishes that Thomas died at Barney on 27 October 1938 and records his intended burial place as Morven. Find a Grave memorial 111534073 identifies the burial ground more precisely as Camp Ground Cemetery at Mount Zion Church, Morven, Brooks County, Georgia. The memorial gives his birth as 3 November 1855, his death as 27 October 1938, and links Sallie and their three children.

No clean obituary or funeral notice was found after exact and variant searches across 1935-1940. The Quitman Free Press remains an important coverage gap for October-November 1938.

Ancestry collection 8635, record 1205180, is Thomas's will, not a stray mention. The index points to Brooks County Record of Wills, 1918-1964, p. 230. The original was inspected at media image 005782588_00313.

The will is headed "Last Will and Testament of Thomas A. Rozier" and dated 26 October 1938, one day before his death. It:

1. left burial details to Sallie;
2. directed payment of debts;
3. devised to Sallie his undivided one-half interest in 543 acres owned by "J. T. McNeal and Company", described as a former firm composed of J. T. McNeal and T. A. Rozier, in parts of Land Lots 139 and 50, 12th District, Lowndes County;
4. gave Sallie all other real and personal property; and
5. appointed Sallie executrix without inventory, appraisal, bond, or returns.

The witnesses were T. F. Lanneau, P. Culpepper, and S. M. Blease. These terms are verified from the original image. The will does not identify the full name of J. T. McNeal or explain whether this former firm was legally continuous with the earlier McNeil & Rozier partnership.

Claims and confidence grades

Namesake and record exclusions

• Thomas A. Rozier of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, was a different man.
• T. A. Rozier of Bonne Terre, Missouri, was unrelated.
• P. J. Strozier of Barney was a distinct local person; "Strozier" must not be normalized to Rozier.
• A Louisiana-born Thomas Rozier in the 1880 census was not the subject.
• The 1860 Pennsylvania "Thomas Roser", Ancestry 7667:4920131, was a wrong result and was excluded. The correct target is 7667:41450029.
• "Rosier", "Rozie", and similar forms may be source spellings or OCR variants. They were accepted only when place, relatives, or record continuity established the match.

Search coverage and limits

Newspapers.com searches covered 1870-1940 using Rozier's full name, initials, surname variants, associated places, relatives, occupations, and public offices.

Meaningful gaps:

• Brooks County deed and plat indexes were not available as a fully searchable online image set. The Croft deed has now been inspected; the Edgewood deeds remain uninspected.
• The original will was inspected, but the loose probate packet, probate order, land deed, and later estate conveyances remain uninspected.
• No dedicated Barney city directory was found.
• The Quitman Free Press issue runs needed for February 1900 and October-November 1938 were not located online.
• No clean Thomas obituary was found in the documented search.
• The exact Ware still site, partnership agreements, final Foster shares, and partnership dissolution remain unresolved.

Priority record requests

1. Brooks County grantor and grantee indexes and deed books, 1888-1905: trace the verified Deed Book K, page 116 tract forward under Croft/Craft, McNeil/McNeill/McNiel, Rozier/Rosier, Conley/Conoly/Connolly, and firm forms.
2. Brooks deed and plat books, January-March 1911: Thomas and Sallie Rozier, Edgewood, and Cambridge Realty; obtain the plat, buyers, lot numbers, prices, and covenants.
3. Brooks Court of Ordinary: obtain the loose probate packet, probate order, and any estate or year's-support papers corresponding to will-book p. 230. The will waives inventory, appraisal, bond, and returns, so some usual documents may not exist.
4. Lowndes County grantor/grantee, deed, mortgage, and tax records: trace "J. T. McNeal and Company", J. T. McNeal/McNeil/McNeill, and T. A. Rozier in Land Lots 139 and 50, 12th District, and identify the acquisition and later conveyance of the 543 acres.
5. Quitman Free Press: manually browse February 1900 for the reported store/post-office building item and October-November 1938 for death coverage.
6. Georgia death certificate image: preserve the state certificate number and full informant, cause, burial, and undertaker fields.
7. Georgia, Alabama & Western corporate file: charter packet, subscriptions, surveys, and any construction or abandonment record.

Reproducibility files

• relevant-newspaper-hits.tsv

Sources

1. 1860 U.S. census, North Division, Robeson County, North Carolina, Simpson Rozier household, Ancestry collection 7667, record 41450029: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7667/records/41450029
2. 1870 U.S. census, Howellsville, Robeson County, North Carolina, Simpson Rozier household, Ancestry collection 7163, record 34465433; NARA M593, roll 1157, p. 69A: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7163/records/34465433
3. 1900 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, Thomas A. Rozier household, Ancestry collection 7602, record 52872998: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7602/records/52872998
4. 1910 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, Thomas A. Rozier household, Ancestry collection 7884, record 3199159: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7884/records/3199159
5. 1920 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, T. A. Rozier household, Ancestry collection 6061, record 7327106: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6061/records/7327106
6. 1930 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, Thomas A. Rozier household, Ancestry collection 6224, record 19963401: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6224/records/19963401
7. Brooks County Deed Book K, page 116, J. H. Croft to McNiel & Rosier, October 9, 1890, about 325 acres on the north side of Land Lot 227 for $1,000: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BC-V3DG-R
8. Georgia death record, Thomas Alligood Rozier, October 27, 1938, Ancestry collection 2562, record 1031290: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2562/records/1031290
9. Brooks County marriage record, Thomas A. Rozier and Sallie A. Hitch, June 19, 1892, Ancestry collection 4766, record 282614: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4766/records/282614
10. Rozier-Hitch marriage report, Valdosta Times, July 2, 1892, Newspapers.com image 889759299, clipping 193407281: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889759299/ and https://www.newspapers.com/article/193407281/
11. Forty-fifth wedding-anniversary report, Valdosta Daily Times, June 24, 1937, Newspapers.com image 890575843: https://www.newspapers.com/image/890575843/
12. T. A. Rozier at Glenmore hotel-register item, Savannah Morning News, December 2, 1886, Newspapers.com image 830501568: https://www.newspapers.com/image/830501568/
13. Ware County property-tax digest index, Thomas A. Rozier, Ancestry collection 1729, record 6711405: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1729/records/6711405
14. McNeil & Rozier Ware County labor-violence report, Valdosta Times, March 31, 1888, Newspapers.com image 889632321: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889632321/
15. McNeil & Rozier judgment and Argyle rosin levy notice, Valdosta Times, 1888, Newspapers.com images 889632317 and 889632329: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889632317/ and https://www.newspapers.com/image/889632329/
16. McNeil and Rozier Hahira business and Folsom Bridge road reports, Valdosta Times, March 29, 1890, Newspapers.com images 889794099 and 889794108: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889794099/ and https://www.newspapers.com/image/889794108/
17. J. T. McNeil and the Hahira-to-Folsom Bridge road, Valdosta Times, April 12, 1890, Newspapers.com image 889794327: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889794327/
18. Clifton-Armstrong shooting report at McNeil & Rozier's Brooks County turpentine farm, Macon Telegraph, February 1891, Newspapers.com image 825352472: https://www.newspapers.com/image/825352472/
19. McNeill and Rozier Hahira-Folsom Bridge road report, Valdosta Times, August 29, 1891, Newspapers.com image 889798850: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889798850/
20. Foster postmaster appointment register, Thomas A. Rozier, April 4, 1890, Ancestry collection 1932, record 1630513; NARA M841, roll 22: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1932/records/1630513
21. Initial Foster business report, Valdosta Times, November 7, 1891, Newspapers.com image 889756744: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889756744/
22. Corrected Foster business-interest report, Valdosta Times, November 14, 1891, Newspapers.com image 889756841: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889756841/
23. Rozier, Conoly & Co. and Foster operations reports, 1892-1893, Newspapers.com clippings 193407600, 193407422, and 193407548: https://www.newspapers.com/article/193407600/, https://www.newspapers.com/article/193407422/, and https://www.newspapers.com/article/193407548/
24. Savannah Naval Stores Company stockholder report, Savannah Morning News, 1900, Newspapers.com image 852595717: https://www.newspapers.com/image/852595717/
25. Barney postmaster appointment register, Thomas A. Rozier, July 26, 1897, Ancestry collection 1932, record 1630564: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1932/records/1630564
26. Tobe G. Robinson appointment "vice Thomas A. Rozier, resigned", Atlanta Journal, October 26, 1903, Newspapers.com image 969531602: https://www.newspapers.com/image/969531602/
27. Barney postmaster reappointment register, Thomas A. Rozier, February 20, 1906, Ancestry collection 1932, record 1630569: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1932/records/1630569
28. Paris Culpepper postmaster appointment notice, Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal, February 22, 1916, Newspapers.com image 887733697: https://www.newspapers.com/image/887733697/
29. Poland China hog advertisements, Valdosta Times, 1904 and 1909, Newspapers.com images 889652157, 889664910, and 889664935: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889652157/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/889664910/, and https://www.newspapers.com/image/889664935/
30. Brooks County homeseeker advertisement, Des Moines Register, August 1914, Newspapers.com images 129031594 and 129032073: https://www.newspapers.com/image/129031594/ and https://www.newspapers.com/image/129032073/
31. Edgewood tract auction report, Valdosta Daily Times, January 19, 1911, Newspapers.com image 889696900: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889696900/
32. Edgewood tract auction weekly reprint, Newspapers.com image 889668494: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889668494/
33. 1890 Brooks County property-tax digest, Thomas A. Rozier, Morven District, Ancestry collection 1729, record 716589: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1729/records/716589
34. Brooks County agricultural-delegate listing, Atlanta Journal, April 19, 1903, Newspapers.com image 969502063: https://www.newspapers.com/image/969502063/
35. Barney council nomination report, Valdosta Times, December 5, 1903, Newspapers.com image 889679697: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889679697/
36. Thomas A. Rozier birthday profile, Macon Telegraph, November 9, 1935, Newspapers.com image 826362749: https://www.newspapers.com/image/826362749/
37. Georgia, Alabama & Western Railroad promotion notices, 1911, Newspapers.com images 889588868, 889695710, and 969949004: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889588868/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/889695710/, and https://www.newspapers.com/image/969949004/
38. Georgia, Alabama & Western Railroad charter reports, January 1912, Newspapers.com images 34095609 and 970010050: https://www.newspapers.com/image/34095609/ and https://www.newspapers.com/image/970010050/
39. Georgia, Alabama & Western Railroad director and survey report, 1912, Newspapers.com image 859960351: https://www.newspapers.com/image/859960351/
40. Thomas A. Rozier, Find a Grave memorial 111534073: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111534073/thomas-alligood-rozier
41. Thomas A. Rozier will, Brooks County Record of Wills, 1918-1964, p. 230, Ancestry collection 8635, record 1205180, media image 005782588_00313: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8635/records/1205180
42. National Archives, Post Office Department site-location reports, M1126, roll 102, Foster/Barney packet, NAID 68271694, including Foster images M1126-102-0061 and M1126-102-0062 and the 1897 Foster-to-Barney packet at images M1126-102-0028 through M1126-102-0031: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/68271694
43. The Heritage of Brooks County, Georgia, 1858-2006, post-office, church, and Masonic chronology attributed to Folks Huxford; used as a derivative source where identified in the dossier. No public direct URL was located; print-volume citation retained.

Citation audit note

The list distinguishes direct and contemporary evidence from indexes, memorials, local tradition, and later historical summaries. It does not turn newspaper reports into court findings or treat uninspected deeds and plats as established records.