Jeremiah Walton Folsom
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Identity grade: Verified
Rev. J. W. Folsom of the Barney reports is identified as Jeremiah Walton Folsom, born about September 1855 in Georgia.
Barney connection
A Brooks County voter registration dated May 11, 1898, and contemporary reports of his Barney picnic and former Barney-district notary service connect him to the district.
Census and civil record
The 1860 Brooks census records Jeremiah W. Folsom. The 1880 Quitman census records J. Walton Folsom in the B. J. and Sarah E. Folsom household. In 1900 J. W. Folsom was a minister in Valdosta with wife M. C. and their children.
Family and settler connections
Jeremiah belonged to the Randal Folsom branch of the early Lowndes and Brooks County Folsom family. The reported line is:
Lawrence Folsom → Randal Folsom → Berry Jones Folsom and Sarah Ellen Wilson → Jeremiah Walton Folsom.
The 1860 and 1880 censuses directly place Jeremiah in Berry J. and Sarah E. Folsom's household. The earlier Berry-to-Randal-to-Lawrence line comes from the 1938 Genealogy of the Folsom Family. Local land, tax, church, and newspaper records independently establish Lawrence, Randal, and Berry in the region, but no reviewed original probate or deed names every parent-child step. The line above is therefore census-verified for Jeremiah and Berry and secondary-supported for the two earlier generations.
William Folsom, associated with the old Folsom plantation north of Barney, was reported as Randal's brother. On that evidence, William was Jeremiah's great-uncle, and William's daughter Edith Folsom Rountree was Jeremiah's first cousin once removed. These collateral relationships carry the same compiled-genealogy limitation.
Berry Jones Folsom was one of the trustees named in the 1856 Salem Methodist Church conveyance. Jeremiah's appearances in Barney records continued a family connection with Salem Church, Mount Zion, Little River, and the Folsom Bridge settlement neighborhood.
Military review
Born in 1855, Folsom was a child during the Civil War. No military service was proved.
Evidence limits
The FamilySearch Family Tree profile supplies expanded dates and names but has no attached sources. The census and voter records control this identification.