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Sweet Mother
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was born in Smyrna GA. She had a natural music ability and played
piano beautifully....She worked in the film/theatre industry along with her sister designing costumes in New York.
Father was born in Acworth GA.
His mother died when he was only three years old. When he was thirteen he traveled alone by train to CA to stay with relatives and attend school. He soon returned home to continue his education at A&M in Powder Springs GA current location of McEachern High School. His father Jim was a pioneer photographer, some of his personal photos can be found in the Vanishing Georgia Collection/GALILEO Initiative Digital Library of Georgia.
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Terry 1788-1866 and wife Elizabeth 1793-1838 alongside other GGGGrandparents George Elliott
1862 and wife Susanna 1800-1874 were early settlers of (Atlanta) Marthasville. They had many children and resting in Atlanta Georgia. GGGrandparents Rebecka 1829-1905 and Marshall Elliott 1820-1888 are resting in Powder Springs ,Georgia .
GGrandparents Maggie 1864 -1904
and Bartow Lester 1862-1918 with baby Elizabeth (Lizzie)
Lester 1881-1958 were some of the earliest citizens of Smyrna, Georgia. €They had 5 children. ...Elizabeth( Fannie , Mary , Henry (Dee) and John ( Russ) . €
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Elliott Lester 1881-1958 1881-1958 grew
married.....
JJobe Carroll Dunton 1871-1943 They had 11 children... LouElla 1898-1978 , HJ 1900-1974 , Frank,1902-1983, Linda 1904-1971, Ralph 1906
Louise 1908-1956, Raymond 1911-1971, Marvin 1913-1965, Earl 1916-1971, Martha 1918-1994, and Doris 1977.
GGrandfather Hollis
Jewell 1835-1906 and GGrandmother Martha Ann Elizabeth Allen Dunton
1917 lived and farmed near the Nickajack Creek Covered Bridge and
...are resting in
Marietta, Georgia with
pioneers of the area. They had eight children including a daughter Dixie, that died during infancy. The other children were Mary Adella 1862-1949, Gould B 1864-1944, Sylvesta(Vesta) 1867-1960, Jobe Carroll 1871 Hollis H 1876-1968, Noah Webster 1879-1950 and J Macauley(Mac) 1884-1943. Grandpapa Jobe was injured as a baby and only had use of one leg. He learned to walk with a peg leg.
The oldest lady in the middle of the 1911 Family
photo is Great Grandmother Martha Ann
Elizabeth Allen Dunton. GrandPapa Jobe Is sitting to the left of his mother holding Ralph C (Uncle Rabbit) Front Row Left to right: Pauline (daughter of Noah Webster Dunton and Lillie E Dunton) Louella , Frank , Linda (children of Lizzie and Jobe Dunton) Grandmother Lizzie Dunton, Raymond . H. J. Louise (also children of Lizzie and Jobe) Grandfather Jobe Dunton, Ralph (another son of Lizzie and Jobe) Great Grandmother Martha Ann E A Dunton, Clive Dunton, Douglas Dunton (Children of Hollis and Ola Clay) Ola Clay Dunton holding baby Mary L. and Glenn Dunton another child of Hollis and Ola. Back Row Left to right: Virgil Robinson (Brother in law of Horace Robinson) Noah Webster Dunton, Lillie Dunton, Baby Boy 3 month old Emory Dunton, Gould Dunton, M Adella Dunton, J McCauley (Mac) Dunton, Hollis Dunton, Horace Robinson and wife Vesta Dunton Robinson.
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Grandparents J C
Stokely 1858-1951 and wife M H Watlington 1869-1911
are resting in Acworth, Georgia alongside GGrandparents David Stokely 1828-1907 and wife Sarah 1831 Grandpapa JC Stokely was a wise, generous and kind man who lived to be ninety-three. He had eyesight problems that eventually left him completely blind in his seventies. He and wife Mary Houston had three children.
(left
to right) Rachel (Harper) 1904-1992 Jimmye (Lemon)1897-1988 and son Crittenton 1907
They made their home in Acworth GA. The Historical Stokely House still stands on Carnes Street next to the Post Office.
Great Aunts
(left to right) Sarah 1870-1919 Jennie 1862-1950 Seated are Addie 1868-1907 and Lydia 1865-1910
Some of the family went after
the"General" train engine when it was stolen from Big Shanty (Kennesaw GA)
Cornelia Owen Stokely 1883-1952 is also resting in
Acworth with other pioneers of the area. "Miss Cornelia" as she was
called was the 2nd wife of JC Stokely. She was a loving, caring and kind woman who died peacefully in her sleep..
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