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  1. RUBY COLUMBUS MAYO: Birth: 2 SEP 1902 in Cypress, Jackson County, Florida. Death: 30 NOV 1982 in Ketchikan, Gateway Borough, Alaska

  2. Carolyn Lenora Mayo: Birth: 3 DEC 1903 in Cypress, Jackson County, Florida. Death: 14 OCT 1981 in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia


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a. Note:   Gussie as she was called by her family was the baby of the family, as the only child left at home she and her father shared a special closeness and many family stories however he never revealed even to her the reason he left Burke County and his home with his aunt Ann Griffin and his grandmother Elizabeth Brown with whom he spent a great deal of time. He took those reasons to his grave. Georgia owned a dress shop in Aiken, South Carolina on Pendleton Street. She was a talented and expert seamstress and could design and make an outfit just by looking at a picture. As a loving grandmother each outfit she made was accompanied by identical doll size clothing. She met Joel Mayo when he came to her shop to have his "britches" repaired. They married and returned to Florida. The family of Georgia Hatcher was against the marriage, "she married beneath herself" as they put it. I believe the phrase "Make your own bed you lie in it" was heard many times. She left Joel Mayo in 1904 for unknown reasons, and returned to Aiken with her two babies. She reopened her shop and also worked in the Mill at one point so that she could support her family. She was very bitter about her marriage to Joel, her two children were not allowed to ask about him and they grew up thinking their father was dead. Her death certificate lists her as a widow. In looking back I believe she did not know of the first marriage of Joel Mayo to Leila Reeder and when she found out it devastated her to think she had married a man who had left a pregnant wife and seven children. All we know for certain is she left in a hurry and was so upset she tore his portrait in half and never spoke of him again. He was a railroad man and he and my grandmother lived in Cypress, Jackson County, Florida while his other family Leila and her children lived in Holmes County, Florida, he may have thought he had it all however he ended up losing two families; at least he appears to have remained with the third family. She made a home for her mother and her two children as shown by the 1910 Aiken County Census. She is buried at Old Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, New Ellenton, South Carolina. (.8 miles from Hway 276 on Graymere Rd., on the right.) South Carolina was the only one of the 13 original states that never required a marriage bond or license until July 1912 nor allowed divorce until July 1948. Catholic, Lutheran, Quaker, and Episcopal Churches kept marriage records but other churches seldom kept marriage records. CHANCERY ORDER BOOK 2 page 46 In Circuit Court of Holmes County, First Judicial Circuit of Florida, In Chancery. J. C. Mayo vs Georgia Mayo Divorce. Now on motion of solicitor for complainant for a decree pro-confesso, and it appearing from the papers on file in this office that there was due and legal service in said case upon the said respondent in person, and no plea answer or demurrer being on file in this office on this the second rule day after service was had upon the respondent: It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the matters and things set forth in said. bill of complaint be taken as confessed, and this case proceed expartee to a final hearing. Done and ordered on this the 1st, day of October A.D.1906. W. H. Brett Jr., Clerk of said Court, By L H. Carnhuff Dep. Clerk. Book 21 page 64 IN CIRCUIT COURT OF HOLMES COUNTY JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA. IN CHANCERY' J. C. Mayo Vs Georgia Mayo This cause coming on upon application of Complainant's solicitor for a decree pro-confesso, and it appearing from the papers on file in this office that there was due and legal service in said case upon the respondent Georgia Mayo by publication in the Holmes County Advertiser a weekly newspaper published and partly printed in Bonifay, HoImes County, Florida, and by posting a copy of the order for publication made in said case, at the court house door in said Holmes County, on the same day that the order for publication was made in said case, and by sending a copy of said order for publication to the said respondent Georgia Mayo at Granitville, South Carolina and there being no plea, appearance, answer or demurrer or other pleading by said respondent on file in this office on this the 3rd, day of February 1908, and the second rule day, after service upon the said respondent had been perfected: It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the matters and things as set forth in the bill of complaint in this case be taken as confessed, and that this case proceed expartee to a final hearing. Done and ordered in Bonifay Holmes County, Florida on this the 3rd, day of February 1908- W. H. Brett Jr, Clerk of said Court By W. V. Mayfield Deputy Clerk. ******************************************* 1925: The Journal and Review, Aiken, S.C. December 23, 1925 Master's Sale State of South Carolina County of Aiken In the Court of Common Pleas Mrs. Mary E. Eubanks et al Plaintiffs, Vs. Richard H. Hatcher, Alonzo Hatcher, Mrs. Georgia Mayo, and Farmers and Merchants Bank, Defendants. Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an order of the Court of Common Pleas in the above titled action I will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder, in front of the Court House at Aiken, S.C. on sales day, Monday, January 4th, 1926, during the legal hours for public sales, the following described real estate, situate, lying and being in the County of Aiken and State of South Carolina and described as follows, to-wit: 1. Tract containing 92 acres, more or less and bounded on the north by lands of George Drake; on the east by estate of Jesse Bradley; on the south by Tract No. 2, below described, and on the west by Tract No. 4, below described, excepting one-fourth acre for cemetery on said tract and including about three acres lying to the east of the Augusta road. 2. Tract containing 106 acres, more or less, and bounded on the north by Tract No. 1, above described; on the east by estate of Jesse Bradley; on the south by lands of Thomas J. Foreman and on the west by Tract No. 3, below described. This does not include about three acres on the west side of the public road, adjoining this tract which was conveyed to Jesse Bradley. 3. Tract containing 92 1/2 acres, more or less, bounded on the north by Tract No. 4, below described; on the east by Tract No. 1 above described; on the south by lands of Thomas J. Foreman and on the west by lands of C.C. Johnson. 4. Tract containing 111 acres, more or less, and bounded on the north by estate of Jasper Craig; on the east by Tract No. 1, above described; on the south by Tract No. 3, above described and on the west by land of C.C. Johnson. The four tracts of land above described compose the real estate of the late Joseph A. Hatcher and Mrs. Caroline Hatcher, deceased, and are more fully shown on plat of John N. Hankinson, surveyor, dated October 7th, 1917. The said four tracts will first be sold separately and then as a whole. If the sale brings more when sold as a whole, than when sold in separate tracts, the bid for it as a whole will be accepted and the separate bids disregarded. If it brings more when sold in separate tracts, the separate bids will be accepted and the bid as a whole will be disregarded. The purchasers, if sold in separate tracts, well be required to deposit the sum of $100.00 for each tract so purchased immediately upon such bid or bids being accepted, and if sold as a whole, the purchaser well be required to deposit the sum of $200.00 immediately upon his bid being accepted, as evidence of good faith. Terms of sale cash, purchasers to pay for deeds and revenue stamps. EDWARD S. CROFT, Master for Aiken County, S.C. *************************************** United States Of America | South Carolina | Aiken | Aiken Journal and Review January 19, 1927 Mrs. Gerorgia Mayo, of Atlanta, Ga., left on Friday for Augusta, after a two weeks visit to her sister, Mrs. Allie C. Holly. ***************************************** United States Of America | South Carolina | Aiken | Aiken Standard and Review May 17, 1939 Mrs. Georgia Mayo, of Oregon who has been visiting her sister Mrs. Allie Holley left yesterday for Augusta to spend sometime with her daughter, Mrs. Henry Eubanks. ******************************************** The information given in the death report of Georgia Mayo concerning the name of her husband is incorrect. She told her children the name of their father was John and that she was a widow, this information was given in the death report by Caroline Mayo Eubanks. After the death of Georgia Mayo her son Ruby C. Mayo found the identity of his father and half siblings; he shared what he had found with his sister Caroline, she made him promise not to tell anyone in her family, Caroline went to her grave without letting her family know the story. ******************************************* AUGUSTA CHRONICLE 13 May 1965 p. 65 Mrs. Georgia Mayo Mrs. Georgia Hatcher Mayo, 91, of 2001 Hampton Ave., died at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at a local nursing home following an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Friday from the graveside in Old Springs Methodist Church cemetery near New Ellenton, S.C., with the Rev. Robert L. Taylor officiating. A native of Aiken County, S.C., she was the daughter of the late Joseph A. and Caroline Green Hatcher and had lived in Augusta 45 years. She was a member of St. James Methodist Church. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Henry S. Eubanks, Augusta; a son, R. C. Mayo, Ketchikan, Alaska; six grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the home of her daughter, 2001 Hampton Ave., or at the Poteet Funeral Home. POTEET Mayo - Died at a local Convalescent Home May 12th, 1965 Mrs. Georgia Hatcher Mayo 91, wife of the late Mr. John Mayo. Funeral services will be conducted from the Graveside Old Springs Methodist Church Cemetery near New Ellenton, S. C. Friday afternoon at 4:o'clock Rev. Robert L. Taylor officiating, the funeral cortege will leave the funeral home at 3:30 p.m. Poteet Funeral Home ***************************************** Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 Name: Georgia H Mayo Death Date: 12 May 1965 County of Death: Richmond Gender: F (Female) Race: White Age: 91 Years County of Residence: Richmond Certificate: 016152 Source Citation: Certificate Number: 016152. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. Original data: State of Georgia. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998. Georgia, USA: Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, 1998. *************************************** <img src=" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cat1/georgiahatcher.jpg ">
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