Rumor has it he was married to Mattie and Mary Frances at the same time.

Millard is listed on the 1870 Census of Cleburn Co, Al with his siblings and mother listed under his step-father Jasper Hicks. Missing from this census is Mary E. who would have been 14 years of age and James Alfred who would have been 10 years of age.

NOTES ON MILLIARD FILLMORE JACKSON

Census 1:   1870  Cleburne Co, AL with stepfather at age 9 years

Census 2:   1880 DeKalb Co, AL with wife and 2 children

Census 3:  1910 Choctaw Co, OK with wife and 4 children

Census 4: 1920 Montague Co, Texas with wife and 5 children

Notes for Mary Frances Williams

Mary Frances “Fannie” Williams, Jackson, Higgins is buried in the Jackson Plots of Walker Chapel Cemetery, Ft. Payne, AL as Fannit Higgings, indicating date of birth as May 20, 1863. However she was born in 1859 per US Federal Census of Carroll County, GA for 1879 and indicated she was 11 years old.

Further, The US Federal Census of DeKalb of DeKalb County, AL for 1880 indicated she was 19 years old. The census 1870 states she was employed along with her mother and sisters at the Carroll County Cotton Gin at age 9 years. This following the death of her father in Florida in February 1864 as a PVT in the Georgia Infantry of the Confedercy. By the time of the 1880 Census for DeKalb County, Alabama “Fannie” was married to Millard Fillmore Jackson with two daughters Julia , age 3 and Sarah age 6 months (Nov) 1879.

Milliard later went off to seek his fortune in Texas leaving “Fannie” and seven children. He was later reported by his mother to have been killed in Texas. As the story goes Fannie had a milk cow she was going to sell in order to have his body shipped back to Alabama. However his mother told Fannie NOT to sell the cow that she would need the milk for the small children and that she would take care of the arrangements in Texas and bury him there. He had in fact met and married another lady , Mattie Miller on July 15, 1892 of Montague County, Texas and his first child of this marriage was born in 1896. it is said by descendents who remarried in DeKalb County Alabama that Fannie waited the required seven years to have Millard declared dead before marrying Joseph D. Higgins and living with them were five of Fannies surviving children. Unaccounted for are Julia and Sara. Since Fannie never left the Ft. Payne, DeKalb area, it is logical to assume they are buried in one of the cemeteries in Ft. Payne. Joseph Higgins apparantly adored Fannie and though he was on 33 years old at her death he never remarried. He is buried in the Family plot with Fannie at Walker’s Chapel in Ft. Payne, AL on June 4, 1934

Born: 1887

Place: Alabama

Married: December 26, 1898 William Andrew Jack Kemp

Married Place: Calhoun County, AL

Buried: Pleasant Ridge Cemetery

Calhoun Country, AL

Father of Cynthia Jane “Dollie” Taylor

James F. “JimRoe” Taylor

Born: July 15, 1852

Place: Alabama

Married : 1879

Married Place: Unknown

Died: July 13, 1928

Buried: Pleasant Ridge Cemetery

Calhoun County, AL

Mother of Cynthia Jane “Dollie” Taylor

Susan Garmon

Born: March 5, 1849

Place: Atlanta, Georgia

Died: August 25, 1938

Buried: Pleasant Ridge Cemetery

Calhoun County, AL

Father of James F. “JimRoe” Taylor

David Thomas Taylor

Born: October 17 ,1830

Place: Georgia

Died: September 1895

Buried: Dearmanville Methodist Cemetery

Mother of James F. “JimRoe” Taylor

Harriet Finch

Birth place: Georgia

Father of David Thomas Taylor,

Joshua Taylor

Mother of David Thomas Taylor

Cynthia Thompson or Cynthia Thomason

Father of Susan Garmon

Adam Garmon

Born: 1823

Birth Place: South Carolina

Married: November 1849 Some records say Nov 10.

Married Place:Forsyth Co. Ga

Died: 1909

Death Place: Talledgea, AL

Mother of Susan Garmon

Jessie Caroline Simmons

Born: 1829

Birth Place: Georgia

Died 1880

Death Place: Oxford, Al

Father of Adam Garmon

Michael Garmon

Birth: 1790

Death: 1873

Mother of Adam Garmon

Mary Campbell

Mattie died 10 May 1945 in Centre, Al

She and James Young had a daughter Othelia Samantha Young who was born in 1905 and died 1990.  I am sorry I am just finding that out. I would have loved to have met her. This was my Grandfather Samuel Huey Epps niece. Othelia married William Hopkins and they had June Laurette Hopkins 1923-1976  Billie Doyle Hopkins who married Harold Laddie Akins. Billie was born April 29,1929 and died June 14, 1993.   Son William Michael Hopkins who was born August 19, 1943 and died 1972 in Germany.

Anyone of these families please contact me at SadieMaesAttic@aol.com

Looking for any information on my Gr Gr Grandfather

Thomas Cohen  Age 48  Place of Birth, Ireland, parents place of birth, Ireland

Catherine  Wife  Age 44  Place of Birth Ireland, parents place of birth, Ireland

Children of this union and they all were born in Pennsylvania

William T.  Age 23

Lizzie    Age 21

James  Age 19

Robert  Age 16

John  Age 13

Henry  Age 10

Maggie 8  She was my great grandmother and she was Margaret Jane

Noble  Age 6

Alfred  Age 2

ANYBODY WITH ANY CONNECTIONS ON THE ABOVE.

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Any one have any information on this bunch?

Tennison Chesser born 1780 in Wilkes, NC, died 1850 in Liberty, Georgia. Married Mary Gray 1800.

Tennison’s father was Tennison Chesser born 1734 in St. Mary’s, Maryland and he died 1804 in Darlington, SC

Mary Gray born 19 September 1774 in Surry, Wilkes Co, NC, died 18 Mar 1847 in Lincoln County, Tennessee

Her father was Samuel Gray and her mother was Rachel Sales

Children of this union was

Rachel Chesser born 12 August 1803 in NC

Smauel George Chesser born 12 August 1803 in NC,  died 1850 in Tennessee

Leroy Chesser born 1808 in Liberty, GA, died 1892 in Alachua, FL

Margie Malinda Chesser born 18 April 1811

William Thomas Chesser born 5 October 1812 in Liberty, GA and died 1886 in Chesser Island, Charlton, GA

Harriet Emaline Chesser born 16 November 1819 in Liberty, Georgia and died 1893 Camden, GA

James S. Chesser born 1821 in Liberty, GA

Lavina Chesser born 1825 in Liberty, GA

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I found this today. It is a very clear newspaper article. Not blurry like most.

Happy Birthday Sadie Mae Taylor Fitzpatrick. You would be 103!

Happy Birthday Granny. I love you so much and we all miss you.

Granny was a character, she was a very loving person but then on the opposite hand she would grab up a fly swatter and get you or pinch a plug out of you if you did not act right. She did not play.

If Granny were alive she would be here living in my home today and we would be getting ready to celebrate her 103 birthday. No doubt in my mind she would be cantankerous but I would not care. I would love her anyway. I was with her from birth until I was 13 and she left going to her new home. Heaven. I do not know if they celebrate in Heaven birthday’s but I bet she is having a better time than she would be here on earth.

I love you and miss you and here are some pictures in your honor.

Happy Birthday Granny!!!

Sadie was 6 months old here. I have this picture and it is printed on cardboard. I keep it put up in a closet because I do not want it to fade. I need to get someone to do a drawing of this picture or portrait so I can keep it forever.

Here is where I inherited my love for the beach, especially Panama City Beach, FL and the water minus the bathing cap! Do they make those anymore? She has her Brownie camera in her hand ready to snap.

She and Pop always participated in fun things. Our town Piedmont, AL had a Bicentennial in the 60?s and we all had these neat dresses to wear. Granny made ours. I still have her sewing machine.

She did not mind being in photo’s. This one was with her daughter Aunt Marion of course me.

She loved being in her “bed clothes” as much as I do now. Those are my favorite things to wear daily.

She knew about kids. I did not inherit that from her. All I know how to do is look at them.

She was very stylish! This is one of my favorite pictures. Granny holding her baby..me with Pop and Mother. She even had her nails painted. She was something else.

It did not do a bit of good to say “Say Cheese and DONT BLINK!” Granny would blink everytime!

Here she is with Pop, me, and her son Uncle Joke. Someone must have slipped up on her and took this because this time she did not blink.

She loved to travel. Notice the Brownie camera . I wish I had that camera today. Pop worked at Goodyear in Gadsden, AL sometimes on the second shift. He would call home collect and tell Granny he had a weeks vacation to be ready when he got home at Midnight that we , notice I said WE were leaving out at midnight headed to Panama City Beach FL for a week. There have been many a nights I have slept in the back seat of the car headed to the beach. We usually went two or three times a year. She never fussed about having to get up and get ready. She would put the newspaper down or book she was reading and go pack and be ready to head out when he got home. Back there there were no interstates. You would either go down Highway 231 or 331. I would wake up and say “Are we there yet?” They would laugh and Pop would say “No but we are in Opp, Alabama.. That is POP spelled wrong.” I would laugh and go back to sleep. I had a great time with them.

Happy 103 Sadie Mae Taylor Fitzpatrick, a country woman from Piedmont, Alabama. There is never a day that has gone by in my life that I have not thought about you. You had to be the greatest Grandmother on earth. I sure wish you were still here today sitting here on my couch being cantankerous. I’d bake you a cake, make you homemade vanilla icecream and let you eat it with your saltine crackers until your head hurt and you had to tie a rag around it!

Granny would make homemade vanilla ice cream in one of those freezers you had to turn. She loved to eat it with saltine crackers and we’d look and she would have a rag tied around her head. She would be eating it so fast her temperature would drop and she’d get a “cream” freeze as she called it.

Gosh I love that woman!

In the top left you will see my Grandmother Mother and Grandfather known as Pop and Granny. Sadie Mae Taylor Fitzpatrick and Lee Roy Fitzpatrick on their wedding day June 29, 1929. I am not sure where they were married but I would say Alabama. I will have to ask their daughter, Aunt Janice.

No one on the face of the earth but me will know what they meant to me. They basically raised me from birth until I was 13 and Granny passed away and then two years later Pop lost his life in a car wreck in Florida.

I am so thankful for their wedding day. If it had not been for that I would not be here today.

Happy Anniversary Pop and Granny, I love you and know you are happy in your new home together! There is never a day that passes that I do not think about you both.

I carry on all kinds of things here and on Facebook, and a lot is fun and some is serious. This story about what I am going to tell you is the truth.

My brother David was stationed in the Coast Guard in Florida. Chatahoochee, FL to be exact. He met his wife and married. He saw these clocks and started them . I wanted one really bad. I was doing ceramics at that time and we agreed to swap a clock for some Masonic coffee cups. That was ok by me.

David made me this clock I want to say in the early 80?s to middle 80?s. He then with his wife moved to Nags Head, NC and then on to Hawaii with his wife and two little girls where he passed away on a ship January 1990.

DAVID IS KEEPING THIS CLOCK RUNNING. We forget about the batteries in the clock. Reason being they rarely run down. Now if you have a clock running on batteries don’t you think at least once a year you will have to change it? I think it is two AA batteries that it requires. I won’t dare touch it until I have to. Gary and I can’t remember the last time we have changed them. It is heavy and difficult to hang back up on the wall so I know both would remember because it takes both of us to do it.

I would say since I have had the clock in the middle 80?s I may have changed the batteries three times. I don’t care if the hands get bent, scuffed up or what I am not making one change to David’s clock. He is taking care of it for me.

I have said the next time I have to change them out I am going to record it somewhere just to see how many years before we do it again. I know it has to have been at least 6 years since we changed it or maybe longer.

Thank you David for being the keeper of my clock and keeping it running. It is one of the favorite things I have in our home. Knowing you made it and taking care of it means everything.

NOW tomorrow if the clock quits working. NO ONE WILL EVER BELIEVE IT when I post it.

David Patrick Epps. Your brother Tommy, Sisters, Chris and Karen have a heavy place in our hearts for you. We sure miss you “Egg”!!! I know Guilda and the girls do also.

Services for Violet White Fitzpatrick, 83, of Piedmont will be 6 p.m. today at Hughes Street Congregational Holiness Church with Rev. Haywardf Clark officiating. Burial will be Wednesday in Goshen Cemetery with Thompson Funeral Home in Charge. The Family will receive friends at the church 10 a.m. until service time.

Mrs. Fitzpatrick died Sunday at her home. June 13, 2004.

Survivors include her husband, Rufus C. Fitzpatrick; two daughters, Sandra Ford and Ginger Blythe and her husband Ricky, all of Piedmont, two sons and their wives, Ronald and Sue Fitzpatrick of Albuquerque, New Mexico and Carlton and Theresa Fitzpatrick of Brunswick, GA ; a brother and his wife J.D. and Eloise White of Piedmont, 10 grandchildren Mike Fitzpatrick and his wife, Valorie, Karen Mattox and her husband, Ron, Tony Ford, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Rachel Fitzpatrick, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Carissa Lloyd and her husband, Bob, Melanie Troxell and her husband, Mike,Marion Blythe and Brandy Barber, nine great-grandchildren and her caregivers, Pat Morrison and Frances Murphy.

Pallbearers will be Mike Fitzpatrick, Tony Ford, Matt Ford, Derek McFry, Art Ingram and Hank Douthit. Honorary pallbearers will be granddaughters.

Mrs. Fitzpatrick, a Piedmont native and lifelong resident, was a member of Hughes Street Congregational Holiness Church where she played the mandolin for 69 years. She was a homemaker and seamstress. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Frances Duncan and Helen White, a granddaughter, Rhonda Ford McFry and her parents, Dewey and Grace White.