Educators, Ministers, Medical

DICKSON, Amanda, heiress

GRIGGS, Allen R., Baptist minister, Texas

HOLSEY - Lucius Henry Holsey,  Bishop -Colored Methodist Episcopal Church

HUNT-LOGAN, Adella, educator, administrator, Alabama

TOOMER, Nathaniel Jean, author, educator (stepson of Amanda America Dickson)

Giving a Voice to the Ancestors (Excellent historical book about Baldwin & Hancock Racial Mix Families: Ingram, Little, Fraley, Ellis, Allen, Butts, etc. )

   Emily Allen Garland

Adele Logan Alexander, Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991).

Kent Anderson Leslie, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995).

John Rozier, Black Boss: Political Revolution in a Georgia County  (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982).

The Rural Face of White Supremacy

African-American Cemeteries in Hancock County, Georgia through 1940

Hancock County Cemeteries

African-American Members of Bethel Baptist Church

Colored Members of Powelton Baptist Church 1862

Churches

COURT PETITIONS 1836 - 1867
 

FUNERAL HOMES

Ingram Brothers Funeral Home

736 Spring St, Sparta, Georgia 31087

Phone: (706) 444-6436

RESEARCH LINKS

Hancock County Records at Afrigeneas.com  (search)    Good source.

Georgia Archives- African-American Records

African American Research at national archives

Freedman's Bureau Records at national archives

SLAVE RECORDS
 

Georgia's Slave Population in Legal Records: Where and How to Look

1812 Slave Holders

1860 Slave Holders

LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES

and

SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS

Eileen B.McAdams copyright 2004