Roots: My Eady Genealogy Ireland/ Georgia/ Alabama

Anything marked with an * means that I have hard proof to back up the information. Everything else is hearsay.

John Eady, Sr. was born in 1750 in Ireland. He married Margaret Barfield (b. 1750 d. 1845) in 1809 in Wilkinson County, Georgia. He died in 1845 in Georgia. John's Grave
Per his tombstone, he was a veteran of the Revolutionary War.

1. Henry Eady b. 18 OCT 1786 d. 4 DEC 1847 m. Elizabeth Gay
2. Margaret Eady b. 1791
3. Susannah Eady b. 1801
4. John Eady, Jr. b. 1811
5. Elizabeth Eady b. 1832

Henry Eady was born on 18 OCT 1786 in Wilkinson County, Georgia. He married Elizabeth Gay (b. 28 JAN 1790 d. 7 SEP 1878 Grave) on 24 DEC 1807 in Wilkinson County, Georgia. He died on 4 DEC 1847 in Wilkinson County, Georgia.

1. Peggy Davis Eady b. 1799
2. Margaret Eady b. 1809
3. John Eady b. 1809
4. Temperance Eady b. 1813 d. 1841
5. Mary Eady b. 1815
6. Martha Eady b. 1817
7. Elizabeth Eady b. 1822
8. Allen H. Eady b. 1823 d. 10 APR 1865 m. Edny H. West Allen Eady's Grave
9. Harriett Eady b. 1825
10. Henry H. Eady b. 1826 d. ? m. Nancy Anne Caldwell

Henry H. Eady was born 1826 in Wilkinson County, Georgia. He married Nancy Anne Caldwell (b. 11 AUG 1828 d. 10 FEB 1875 Nancy's Grave) on 4 FEB 1850 in Fayette County, Georgia.*

1. Hiram Hamilton Eady b. 5 NOV 1850 d. 26 APR 1915 m. Sara Isbell Kinney
5. Martha Ann Eady m. M. T. Hulsy
6. Orrie Eady
7. Robert Eady
8. Frank Eady
9. Edward Eady


Hiram Hamilton Eady was born 5 NOV 1850 Villa Rica, Carroll County, Georgia. Married Sara Isbell Kinney (b. ABT 1856 d. ?) on 26 MAY 1873* in Carroll County, Georgia. Died 26 APR 1915 Crane Hill, Cullman County, Alabama. Buried in Bethany Baptist Cemetery. Hiram's grave

1. Isaac Henry Eady b. 11 MAY 1875 d. 16 SEP 1957 m. Ezel Perdue Isaac & Ezell's Grave
2. Robert Hamilton Eady b. 24 NOV 1877 d. FEB 1965 m. Rena Chandler Robert Eady's Grave
3. Iler Eady b. 22 NOV 1879 d. 11 AUG 1962 m. Jeff Moseley
4. Lula Katherine Eady b. 31 AUG 1881 d. (missing date) m. Andy Chandler
5. Annie Elizabeth Eady b. 22 MAY 1883 d. 16 NOV 1963 m. John Wesley Stricklin Annie's Grave
6. Obera Eady b. 4 SEP 1886 d. (missing date) m. Adam Campbell
7. Vassie Eady b. 9 AUG 1889 d. 17 FEB 1974 m. Arm Campbell Vassie's Grave

Annie Elizabeth Eady Born 22 MAY 1883 Cullman, Alabama. Married John Wesley Stricklin 4 SEP 1908 in Cullman County, Alabama.* Died 16 NOV 1963 Blackwell, Oklahoma.* Buried (need name of cemetery) *

1. Richard Lester Stricklin b. 27 SEP 1910 d. 22 JUL 1982 m. Goldie Mae Bare
2. James Sylvester Stricklin b. 16 NOV 1911 d. 1968 m. Mabel Choat
3. Chester Camillus Stricklin b. 15 SEP 1913 d. 15 JUL 1931
4. Van Stricklin b. 3 OCT 1915 d. 3 MAR 1993 m. Ruth Irene McCoin
5. Wheeler Grimmet (James) Stricklin b. 5 MAY 1918 d. 22 MAR 1999 m. Nadean LNU
6. Whalon Wesley Stricklin b. 8 JAN 1920 m. Daisy Ary

Richard Lester Stricklin Born 27 SEP 1910 in Cullman, Alabama. Married Goldie Mae Bare on 30 JUL 1932 in Risco, Missouri. He died 22 JUL 1982 Kalamazoo County, Michigan*. Buried in Riverview Cemetery*.

1. Joan Jocyline Stricklin b. 6 SEP 1934 d. 8 MAR 2013 m. Robert Stephenson
2. Living Female Stricklin b. 7 SEP 1936 m. Living Male Elzinga
3. Living Female Stricklin b. 28 FEB 1939 m. William Walz
4. Donald Eugene Stricklin b. 12 AUG 1940 d. 15 SEP 1943
5. Carol Lynn Stricklin b. 16 AUG 1944 d. 7 SEP 1993 m. Roger Johnson
6. Living Female Stricklin b. 7 DEC 1952 m. Living Male Noel

Living Female Stricklin was born 7 DEC 1952 Vicksburg, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. She married Living Male Noel on 20 MAR 1971 in Portage, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. *

1. Living Male Noel b. 8 JAN 1972
2. Living Female Noel b. 24 NOV 1973 m. Living Male Norman

My "Conclusion" for Hiram Hamilton Eady

I use "conclusion" between apostraphes because I cannot really conclude anything without hard evidence. For some reason while searching for Hiram's parents I always come up with Henry H. Eady and Nancy Caldwell. I cannot PROVE they are really his parents, or that the Hiram Hamilton that lived with them is my great-great grandfather. I may never be able to prove it.

However, lacking any other evidence, like a census record, for now I will go along with the assumption this information is correct. It may be that another researcher has found the evidence and I just don't have it yet.

This is an example of what I usually find when searching family trees for Hiram:

Going forward I will use this information to trace Hiram's ancestry. I HATE that I can't prove it, but I guess as long as I make it clear I don't have evidence then a future researcher can take this at face value.

The Search for Hiram in the 1860, 1870 & 1910 Censuses

I am unable to locate Hiram Hamilton Eady in the 1860, 1870, and 1910 censuses.

The 1860 census would have been the first that he would have appeared in.
In 1870 he would have been around 20 years old. I know from a marriage license that he married in 1873 and was living in Carroll County, Georgia at that time.
I located him in the 1880 census, living in Carroll.
The 1890 census does not exist because of a fire in the 20th century.
I located Hiram in the 1900 census, living in Cullman, Alabama.
I cannot find him in the 1910 census, which would have been the last one before his death in 1915.

I've been trying for some time now to locate Hiram Eady in the 1860 census. He would have been around 10 years old. I figure the 1860 census would solve exactly who his parents were!

This blog entry is so that I can keep track of all my research. It becomes really confusing.

I'm sort of working backward with the belief that the family trees listing Henry H. Eady and Nancy Caldwell being Hiram's parents are correct.

Here is a fact I discovered:

Henry & Nancy were married in 1850 in Fayette County, Georgia. This information was obtained from their marriage license.

I believe they were married in February and Hiram was born in November the same year. I don't believe births were recorded in a special way like they are today so I'm not expecting to find a certificate. The 1860 census should show Hiram listed in the household.

Clues

 

1. According to a family tree listed here: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/l/Odell-Williams-GA/BOOK-0001/0003-0006.html Henry Eady married Elizabeth Gay in 1807 in Wilkerson County, Georgia. Henry & Elizabeth would be the parents of Henry H. Eady. 12/2/14 NOTE: there is no 'Wilkerson' county in Georgia, only Wilkinson.
2. Downloaded a map of the counties in Georgia. I noticed that Fayette County is close to Carroll. I'm going to search surrounding counties to see if I can find the Eady's in the census.
3. 12/2/14: Just occurred to me that Eady may be misspelled as 'Edy.' Will double check all of the census records for this spelling.

Research Notes

• 12/2/14 continued searching through Fayette County's 1860 census. There are a total of 127 handwritten pages to look through. The handwriting is atrocious and the ink seems to have faded considerably with time. The census is located here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jmg12/Census/1860%20Fayette%20GA/

There are NO Eady's in Fayette County for the 1860 census. I feel the information available online was pretty complete.

• 12/2/14 Checking surrounding counties for census records. Coweta County doesn't seem to have an 1860 census available online. Fulton County doesn't have an 1860 census. Douglas County no census. Paulding County has no Eady's in the census. Cobb County, none. Polk County, no Eady's. Haralson County, no Eady's. Heard County, no Hiram. Bartow County (this isn't a surrounding county but it's rumored that Sara Kinney Eady is buried there. Nothing in Bartow. Carroll County, no Eady's.
• 12/2/14 Checked the Wilkinson County 1860 census but there are no Eady's listed. Because Hiram moved to Alabama later in life, I checked the census records for Blount County (now Cullman) but didn't find anything.
• 12/2/14 Checking for alternate spellings of Eady (Edy, Eadie, Edie) and also doing a general search for 'Hiram' in all of the counties I checked earlier. Checked these counties: Carroll, Paulding, Polk, Haralson,
• 12/4/14 Did a search for the entire US census of 1860 for "Hiram Eady," with no satisfactory results. Weird!!! Possible he appears on a census for a county that is not yet available online. Unlikely he was from another country at that time. It seems like there would have been a story passed down that "grandpa was from England" or something.