and possibly witnesses the Invention of the Cotton Gin.
I am reading a book about American history. Now I am in a section about the Revolutionary War, Eli Whitney, and the
Cotton Gin. Which brings me to my Tyson ancestors.
My ancestor Job Tuspm (1760—1803) lived in South Carolina during
the Revolutionary War.
As a young Job played a practical joke against the British
soldiers and was caught, a hangable offence.
It appears the head British General Lord Cornelius pardoned
Job, saying something like “Boys will be boys.”
A pardon from the enemy was a fate worse than death. His friends shunned him. Job had to get a signed petition among his bothers
and close friends stating that Job Tyson was a loyal American.
Job Tyson married Deltha Stanton. They had 5 children.
The oldest was Delitha Winson Tyson (be 1778-abt 1865) Winston professionally was a school teacher. She never married. She died in a home for retired schoolteachers
in Augusta, Geogia.
Job and Delitha Tyson’s youngest was also named Job Tyson.
I don’t know why or how come but Winston Tyson, the unmarried school
teacher, adopted her youngest brother Job Tyson and changed his name to Eugne Hargraves
Tyson. I suspect she wanted for young
Job not to be connected by name to the one Lord Cornelius pardoned. I wondered why she chose “Hargraves” for a
middle name but after studying their
relatives and others close by the only Hargraves I found was in the nearby
militia her father was a member of.
General Nathan Greene , who fought gallantry for America, in
the Revolutionary War, was from another country. The United States gave him Cumberland Island
a Thank You.
It has been handed down that she applied for got a job as
a teacher on General Nathan Greene's plantation on Cumberland Island, near
Savannah. It has been handed down that
she had the job of teaching on the plantation when Eli Whitney came and applied
for the same job.
While there, he invented the Cotton Gin with the help of
Mrs. Greene and her comb.
Back to our ancestor Eugene Hargraves (Job) Tyson. His stepmother (sister) saw that he was well educated. Here is more notes on my g-g- grandfather:
Eugene's name was possibly changed from Job because the
name Job TYSON had a reputation of being a Tory.
E.H. Tyson is on the Matriculates list for 1815 UGA
Class,(A
Catalogue of the Alumni of UGA), listed residence as Augusta Ga in married to
Elizabeth Herring.
(note - his guardian D. Winston Tyson lived in Augusta -
her address was probably his last known address, as for UGA was concerned).
Eugene was a tax collector in Clarke County,
Georgia. A Mrs. Fleming has possession
of his tax collector's book. I have held
his tax collector's book. It was a small red book, inside ledger style columns
of numbers with a beautiful penmanship (Edwin 'Eddie' Tyson Hunter).
Prior to 1832, a strongly enforced treaty with the
Cherokee Indian Nation restricted the white man from the Cherokee Lands which
included most of North Georgia, north of the Chattahoochee River. Then, gold was discovered near Dahlonega,
Ga., and the treaty was quickly voided.
The Cherokee Nation carried the treaty to the Supreme Court and the
Court put out a ruling in favor of the Indians but President Andrew Jackson
said in essence: "Let the Supreme Court enforce their ruling". The white moved in. The Cherokee Indians were rounded up and sent
to Oklahoma in the infamous "Trail of Tears".
Georgia Military records 1808-1809, list E. H. TYSON as a
lieutenant . He also served April 8 1820 to January 22 1821 and Dec 22 1821 to
Jul 25 1822. W. G., son of William
Theodore Tyson stated that Eugene County and that he helped gather up the
Cherokee Indians and delivered them to "Old Smoke Ferry" to be
deported.
Eugene received a grant to Land Lottery number 210 of the
20th District of Early County, Ga., 16 Feb 1829 and to Land Lottery 899 of 3rd
District, 2d Section of Cherokee County, Georgia, 15 Jun 1835. It is doubtful if he ever claimed his land in
Early County.
In library search
from Records of Clarke, County, Ga. 1801-1892 In the
Georgia Dept of Archives & History...compiled
by: Robert Scott Davis pub. by
Southern Historical Press Inc.
I found that: Eugene H. Tyson was listed:
Lt. in Clarke Co. regiment 6 Oct.
1818, 1819,
Ensign in
" "
Apr 16, 1823, 1820
Militia Fines 1814-1833
Eugene (S) Tyson
1832
several "Court Case Files of the Inferior and County
Courts, 1805-1895
(Record Group 129-2-2)....This series contains original,
unbound papers which
formed portions of civil case files including but not
limited to: Debts,
summonses, Fi Fas, Complaints, Distress Warrants, Bail
Bonds, Attachments,
Promissory Notes, Affidavits, & Assumsits"
"Billiups, Robert R. vs Tyson, Eugene H.
1819...(also Billups vs. a
Capt. 1813) Robert Cabell 1812, Cyril Herring 1814,
Tyson, Eugene H.; Deane, John vs Billups, Robert R.
1820 (no date "A List of
men of 217th Dist., John Deane Capt. #8.
Wm. B. Herring and #46 Eugene H.
Tyson
"E. H. Tyson
is on the Matriculates list for 1815 UGA Class, (A
Catalogue of the Alumni of UGA), listed resident as
Augusta Ga and married to
Elizabeth Herring."
His gold mining claim in Cherokee County, Georgia, was
located along the banks of Kellog Creek.
Kellog Creek now runs from Alatoona Lake (Alattona Lake did not exist
then) to what was once TYSON property near Highway 92. Some beleive he mined did not redeem all his
gold and it was/is hidden on his farm.
The TYSON Family Cemetary is located about 200 feet off
Highway 92 (Old Alabama Road), near the intersection of Bells Ferry Road in the
Northwest corner (behind Downey's Auto Parts - 1999). The plot contains four marked graves and two
unnamed stones.
1850 Cherokee County, Ga. Census, 15th Division, Oct 23
1850:
Tyson, Eugene H. 53M miner $500
Ga.
Eliza 51F
Va
Richard
P. 22M miner Ga
Thomas
S. 20M Ga
Mary
Ann 18F Ga
John
G. 16M Ga
Howard 14M Ga
Olin
V. 11M Ga
Texas 10F Ga
Crawford 8M Ga
Frelinghuysen 4M Ga
1860 Cherokee County, Ga., Census, 15th Division:
Tyson, Eugene H. 62 Ga
Eliza 61
Va
C.
Texas Clifford 20 Ga
Free 15
Ga
ATHENS GAZETTE, VOL. i, No. XXIII, Thursday, July 21,
1814
Communicated. The
Athens Academy, superintended by the Pres. of the
University, is now under the immediate direction and
tuition of Mr. John N.
Scott, late of Fayetteville, NC. This young gentleman was for several years
a pupil of the Rev. W. L. Turner, and does great honor to
that excellent
instructor. A
semi-annual examination of the Students of this Seminary
closed this day.
The Examiners were the President, and Professor of
Languages of Franklin College, the Rev. John Hodge, and
Dr. Wm. Wright. The
first class, consisting of H. H. Tigner, Jesse Paulett,
Leroy Holt and
Thacker Howard, ere examined ... The second class
consisting of Robert
Carney, Crosby Dawson, Milton Holt, Homer Howard,
Benjamin Rutherford, Eugene
Tyson, were examined on Virgil's Georgies ... The third
class, consisting of
Thomas Baldwin, Robert Full wood, Robert Jones, George
King, Lucius Lamar,
Joseph and James Loving and John Stuart were examined on
... The fourth
class, consisting of John Billups, Pulaskie Holt, Samuel
Oliver, John Park,
Thomas and Alfred Scott and James Scott, were examined on
Caesar's
Commentaries & Selected Profanis... The fifth class, consisting of (9 men)
were examined on three books of Caesar's
Commentaries...The sixth class,
consisting of Thomas Baldwin, Charles Betton, Crosby
Dawson, Milton Holt,
Leroy Holt, Thacker Howard, Homer Howard, Samuel Oliver,
John Park, Jesse
Paulett, James Scott, Hope Tigner, Eug. Tyson, Turner
Willhite, and Robert
Wallice were examined on English Grammar ...
>show Thomas Moore was the Tax Collector - from a
newspaper on Sept. 7,
1815"Athens Gazette"
Athens Gazette, Apr. 6, 1815 - List of letters remaining
in the Post Office
at Athens the last day of March 1815 ... Job Tyson , Robt. J. Cabell, & Dr.
Gerdine...
Athens Gazette, Apr. 11, 1816 - List of letters remaining
in the Post Office
at Athens, first Apr. 1816 ... E. Job Tyson ...
Athens, Thursday, July 27. (1815). Order of Commencement (Univ. of Ga). On
Tues. evening, was presented the Tragedy of
"Abra-Mule, or Love and Empire".
Dramatis Personae - Briscoe, J. Lamar, Wm. H. Flournoy,
Watkins, Cooper,
Baxter, Langston, R. Flournoy, L. Brown, Goode.
On Wed., A Salutator Address in Latin ... by Henry
Hull. On the Peace - by
Miles C. Nesbit.
Phillip's Eulogy on Washington - by R. H. Randolph. An
Extract from an Oration delivered 4th July, 1812 - by E.
Langston. On
Eloquence - by O. H. Appling. On Patriotism - by Joseph W. Jackson. A
Comedy, called "Abroad and At Home" - L. Q. C.
Lamar, John King, James Lamar,
Dawson, Briscoe, Appling, Paulett, Newton, Charles
Mathews, Thomas Scott, R.
Banks. Women: Goode, Roberts, Tyson, Col. Elliott's Oration
on the benefits
of Science - by W. Briscoe. On the Character and Privileges of the Female
Sex by Jabez P. Marshall.
Degrees conferred by the Pres. A
Valedictory
Oration - by John M. Erwin.
Athens Gazette, Apr. 6, 1815 - List of letters remaining
in the Post Office
at Athens the last day of March 1815 ... Job Tyson ...
Athens Gazette, Apr. 11, 1816 - List of letters remaining
in the Post Office.
Edwin “Eddie” Tyson Hunter, Jr
