Sarah Matilda Guerry wrote the "Family History of the Guerry's and Dunn's" completed on April 16, 1896. In it she writes that she was born March 14, 1832 in Houston County, Georgia. She references her father's Bible which began with her great grandparents, James Guerry (1717-1782) and Mary Rembert (1717-1786) who married in 1738 and had 8 sons. She writes of her ancestors fleeing from France during the Huguenot persecution when the "cruel Catholic King" forced them to leave their native land. Their ship landed in South Carolina settling in a colony on the banks of the old Santee River. The settlement was called Guerrytown. Sarah was born in Georgia to Peter Videau Guerry and his second wife, Rebecca Dunn. She was the youngest child. The family moved to Russell County, Alabama when Sarah was 2 years old. She had some memories of the Indian War which began May 1836. After it was over they bought a home in Barbour County, Alabama nine miles from Eufaula. In January of 1845 they moved to the new colony, Enon, which was just "springing up in the woods" and had started a school. She married a Methodist preacher, Rev. George W. Carter May 25, 1851. After the Civil War, they bought a home near Hurtsboro, Alabama but her husband's health failed during the war he had served in and he returned home. He died Oct 31, 1872. They had three daughters before his death, Winnifred (married William Dawkins), Laura V., (married Earle Brooks), and Georgia Bell (married J. A. Ellison). On Feb 8 1882, Sarah married Haywood Pipkin of Midway and were happily married until his death Oct 2, 1893 which is where she ended her history. Sarah lived with her daughter, Winifred Rebecca Dawkins and family in Coffee County, Alabama until her death.
Many thanks to contributor Judy Faye Snellgrove West for this synopsis.
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Sarah Matilda (Guerry) Carter requested that from her share of the rent of her home at Midway for another year, that half the amount be given to Mrs. Mealing Pruett [Haywood & Eliza's daughter Caroline "Carrie" Pipkin married Mealing E. Pruett.] and Mrs. John Brown of Midway to be sacredly applied by them to help purchase a monument for the graves of our dead at Fellowship... "and if any thing is left to put a simple stone at my grave". Source: The Geo. Washington Carter family, The Heritage of Bullock County, Ala, p. 193. (This suggests Haywood and 2nd wife Eliza Cameron Pipkin might both be buried at Fellowship Cemetery in the Pipkin Lot.)
Many thanks to contributor Eugenia Branscomb Hobday for this research.
Many thanks to contributor Judy Faye Snellgrove West for this synopsis.
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Sarah Matilda (Guerry) Carter requested that from her share of the rent of her home at Midway for another year, that half the amount be given to Mrs. Mealing Pruett [Haywood & Eliza's daughter Caroline "Carrie" Pipkin married Mealing E. Pruett.] and Mrs. John Brown of Midway to be sacredly applied by them to help purchase a monument for the graves of our dead at Fellowship... "and if any thing is left to put a simple stone at my grave". Source: The Geo. Washington Carter family, The Heritage of Bullock County, Ala, p. 193. (This suggests Haywood and 2nd wife Eliza Cameron Pipkin might both be buried at Fellowship Cemetery in the Pipkin Lot.)
Many thanks to contributor Eugenia Branscomb Hobday for this research.
Sarah Matilda Guerry wrote the "Family History of the Guerry's and Dunn's" completed on April 16, 1896. In it she writes that she was born March 14, 1832 in Houston County, Georgia. She references her father's Bible which began with her great grandparents, James Guerry (1717-1782) and Mary Rembert (1717-1786) who married in 1738 and had 8 sons. She writes of her ancestors fleeing from France during the Huguenot persecution when the "cruel Catholic King" forced them to leave their native land. Their ship landed in South Carolina settling in a colony on the banks of the old Santee River. The settlement was called Guerrytown. Sarah was born in Georgia to Peter Videau Guerry and his second wife, Rebecca Dunn. She was the youngest child. The family moved to Russell County, Alabama when Sarah was 2 years old. She had some memories of the Indian War which began May 1836. After it was over they bought a home in Barbour County, Alabama nine miles from Eufaula. In January of 1845 they moved to the new colony, Enon, which was just "springing up in the woods" and had started a school. She married a Methodist preacher, Rev. George W. Carter May 25, 1851. After the Civil War, they bought a home near Hurtsboro, Alabama but her husband's health failed during the war he had served in and he returned home. He died Oct 31, 1872. They had three daughters before his death, Winnifred (married William Dawkins), Laura V., (married Earle Brooks), and Georgia Bell (married J. A. Ellison). On Feb 8 1882, Sarah married Haywood Pipkin of Midway and were happily married until his death Oct 2, 1893 which is where she ended her history. Sarah lived with her daughter, Winifred Rebecca Dawkins and family in Coffee County, Alabama until her death.
Many thanks to contributor Judy Faye Snellgrove West for this synopsis.
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Sarah Matilda (Guerry) Carter requested that from her share of the rent of her home at Midway for another year, that half the amount be given to Mrs. Mealing Pruett [Haywood & Eliza's daughter Caroline "Carrie" Pipkin married Mealing E. Pruett.] and Mrs. John Brown of Midway to be sacredly applied by them to help purchase a monument for the graves of our dead at Fellowship... "and if any thing is left to put a simple stone at my grave". Source: The Geo. Washington Carter family, The Heritage of Bullock County, Ala, p. 193. (This suggests Haywood and 2nd wife Eliza Cameron Pipkin might both be buried at Fellowship Cemetery in the Pipkin Lot.)
Many thanks to contributor Eugenia Branscomb Hobday for this research.
Many thanks to contributor Judy Faye Snellgrove West for this synopsis.
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Sarah Matilda (Guerry) Carter requested that from her share of the rent of her home at Midway for another year, that half the amount be given to Mrs. Mealing Pruett [Haywood & Eliza's daughter Caroline "Carrie" Pipkin married Mealing E. Pruett.] and Mrs. John Brown of Midway to be sacredly applied by them to help purchase a monument for the graves of our dead at Fellowship... "and if any thing is left to put a simple stone at my grave". Source: The Geo. Washington Carter family, The Heritage of Bullock County, Ala, p. 193. (This suggests Haywood and 2nd wife Eliza Cameron Pipkin might both be buried at Fellowship Cemetery in the Pipkin Lot.)
Many thanks to contributor Eugenia Branscomb Hobday for this research.
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