| SARAH "SALLIE" TOMLINSON
(Pages 235-238) John Tomlinson and Rebecca Hardeman's daughter Sarah "Sallie", born in 1774, married John Roberts on October 29, 1802. John was born in 1762 in South Carolina, the son of John Roberts; Sr. John grew up in what is now Burke County after his family moved to Georgia in 1765. John was a private during the
Revolutionary War serving in the Georgia Line. John was commissioned a lieutenant in the Echols County Militia on June 12, 1802. Sallie was John's second wife. By his first wife John had two daughters, Betsy and Jane who both married gentlemen by the name of Moore. Sallie Tomlinson and John Roberts were parents to Tharp, born in 1805; Isham, born in 1808; and John T., born in 1810. Sallie Tomlinson and John Roberts' son John T. married Candacy Tomlinson, his first cousin and daughter of
William Tomlinson and Nancy Register. John Roberts died in December of 1812. About 1816 his widow, Sallie Tomlinson married William Moore and they became parents to Elias and Matthew. The family moved to Lowndes County where about 1830 William Moore died. Sallie Tomlinson died in 1856. John Tomlinson and Rebecca Hardeman's son Moses, born in 1790, married Charlotte "Lottie" Monk in 1814. Lottie, born in 1794, was the daughter of William Monk and Jerushia Parrish.
William Monk was born in 1763 in Edgefield District, South Carolina. He was a Revolutionary War soldier and served as a private in the Georgia Line. Jerushia Parrish was born in 1773. William died on November 10, 1808, in Bulloch County, Georgia, where the family made their home. William and Jerushia Monk were parents to thirteen children with Charlotte being the fourth. Some years after William Monk died, the family moved from Bullock County to Lowndes County where Jerushia Parrish died
about 1857. Moses Tomlinson and Lottie Monk, while living in Bullock County, became parents to Lucretia, born in 1815; Elizabeth, born in 1816; and Aaron, born in 1817. John Tomlinson and Rebecca Hardeman's son, William, born in 1781, married Nancy Register on April 9, 1804. Nancy was born in 1782, in Sampson County, North Carolina, daughter of John Register. John Register was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Nancy had two brothers, Samuel born in 1786 and William born
in 1777. A short time after the turn of the century, John Register moved his family to Bullock County, Georgia. William Tomlinson and Nancy Register were parents to John, born on December 17, 1804; Rebecca, born in 1805; Harris, born on December 8, 1808; Candacy, born on December 14, 1810; Levin, born on April 11, 1813; and Sebastian Mark, born in 1815. In 1819, John Tomlinson and Rebecca Hardeman's son John and the Families of their sons William and Moses moved
from Bulloch County to Appling County. While in Appling County son Moses Tomlinson and his wife, Lottie Monk, added to their family with the birth of a daughter Martha, born in 1821. In 1821, John Tomlinson and Rebecca Hardeman's son William, was unfaithful to his wife Nancy Register and had an affair with Elizabeth "Bettie" Sirmans, born in 1795, daughter of Josiah Sirmans and Harty Hardeman. Harty Hardeman was the sister of Rebecca Hardeman. William
Tomlinson and Bettie Sirmans became parents to an illegitimate son, William Sirmans, born on July 5, 1822. Bettie Sirmans married Dryden Newbern in 1826 and made a home for William Sirmans until his adulthood. In 1822, John and Rebecca Tomlinson's son John and the families of their sons William and Moses, along with a few others, formed the first contingent to settle in the wilderness area south of what is now Appling County. They established their homes on the eastern
side of the Alapaha River in the part of lrwin County that in 1825 became Lowndes County. Later, in 1850, this area of Lowndes County was designated Clinch County. In 1825, John and Rebecca Tomlinson's son William and his wife Nancy Register moved from where they had settled in Lowndes County to about a mile from the present village of Stockton in Clinch County. About 1830, widow Rebecca Hardeman Tomlinson, and her daughter Sallie Moore, the sister of
John, William and Moses, and her family, with whom Rebecca made her home, moved to Lowndes County. Rebecca Hardeman Tomlinson sisters' families had moved to this area earlier. As a widow of a Revolutionary Soldier, Rebecca Hardeman Tomlinson was al lowed to participate in the Cherokee Land Lottery of 1838. The lottery land had been wrestled from the Cherokee Indians as a result of the Cherokee and the Creek Indians being driven from their homeland in Georgia to Oklahoma in an 1838 exodus that
became known as the Trail of Tears. Rebecca drew a parcel of land located in what is now Murray County. Rebecca Lucretia Hardeman Tomlinson died in 1845. This Chapter: |
