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Note: FAMILY STORY: Her family called her Gussie. 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.) 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 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. 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. Description: This database is an index of more than 2.7 million deaths recorded by the State of Georgia, USA, from 1919 to 1998. The index includes the name of the deceased, the volume of the certificate number, the death date, the race of the deceased, the deceased's gender, the county of death, the death certificate number, the date the certificate was filed, and the deceased's age. <img src=" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cat1/georgiahatcher.jpg ">
Augusta Georgia Williams Hatcher
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