Drucilla Wilson Huey

Drusilla Wilson Huey was born in 1825, in South Carolina, and died in Cherokee County, Georgia, 1905 at age 79. She married John T. Huey, also, born in South Carolina (near Abbeville) and died in 1891 in Cherokee County, Georgia, at age 64. They are my g-g-grandparents. They are both buried in Bascomb Methodist Church Cemetery, in South Cherokee County. which is land he donated in deed form to the church for a cemetery.

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John and Lizzy Hawkins Huey

John and Lizzy Hawkins Huey.  John is the son of my (and my Hunter 1st cousins) g-great grandparents John T. and Drucilla Wilson Huey.  The Hueys lived on and near Carmel-Bascomb Road in south Cherokee County, Georgia.

It looks like John and Lizzy just got caught smooching behind the barn doesn't it?

Who Do I Think I Am? Wow! Part 48

John T. and Drusilla Wilson Huey had a daughter named Minta Huey. Minta married Styles Medford. They had nine children, 5 girls and 4 boys. From the boys, which one(s) I am not sure, several local entrepreneurs or local businessmen were descended from Styles and Minta: To name a few: Norman Medford Funeral Home, The Book Store (Dempsey Medford, Medford Insurance Company, and Medford’s Grocery owned by Jake Medford. As teenagers we joked saying Jake Medford had high standards on selling beer to youth: You had to be high enough to scoot your money across the counter

WHO DO I THINK I AM? WOW! Part 47

My g-g- grandparents John T. and Drusilla Wilson Huey had 7 children. The 4th child was Monroe Huey. He died young. In the family bible this is the entry by his name:

Beaten to death by the Brawley boys.


And that was it. I wonder if John and Drusilla had the boys arrested for killing their son or what. Was there revenge?

On the 1860 Census there was a Brawley family living near by.

Another of their children was Greenberry Huey. Greenberry married Alice. They had two sons, Thomas Jeff and Ed.

Here is a notation about the two sons:

In Greenberry's old age Ed took care of him. When Greenberry died he left everything to Ed. This made his brother Jeff furious. Jeff went to Ed. Ed was sitting on his front porch with his two sons. Jeff shot and killed Ed in front of his sons. Jeff was sent to the Georgia Chain Gang for murder. His wife eventually got him out.

WHO DO I THINK I AM? WOW! Part 46

above- Drucilla Wilson Huey, wife of John T. Huey

My grandmother Minnie Victoria Tyson Hunter’s parents, or my great grandparents, were Obediah Hargraves Tyson (1852-1919) and Nancy Elizabeth Huey (1854-1938).

Nancy Parents were John T. Huey (1826-1891) and Drusilla Wilson (1825-1905).

John T. Huey was a large land owner and farmer. Those kind were exempted from fighting in the Confederate Army. That kind of people were the class that would gain the most but yet as far as fighting, not their problem – how fair is that?

But John went to war anyway. Money is money. And it was allowable for men obligated to fight to pay someone else to go to war for them.

John T. Huey enlisted in the CSA., as a substitute for John B. TIPPINS.

Here is his war timeline:

12 June 1862 - Confederacy, Co., B., 43rd Regiment, Reg Vol., Infrant Army of Tn.

April 1863 - Court marshaled in Vicksburg, Ms.

Jul 1863 - Federal captured his unit, signed an Oath of Allegiance to U.S.A.

Oct 1863 – Vicksburg - Back with Confederacy.

10 Dec 1863 – 13 Jan 1864 – AWOL.

I wish I could know what was not recorded. I’m sure it was interesting.


Another interesting fact:




1883 – John T. Huey donated 2.75 acres to Bascomb Methodist Church for their cemetery. John and a lot of his off spring is buried in the Bascomb Methodist Church Cemetery. Also his father James Buchannan Huey (1796-1862).

Notice James death year? 1862? 30 March 1862. That was just a couple of months before John enlisted into the Confederacy in the place of John B. Tippens. I wonder if the death of his father had any influence of John wanting to go to war.

Back to James B. Huey and the death year of 1862. He is buried at Bascomb, but the land for the cemetery was not there until 1883, about 21 years later after James’ death.

Is it feasible to say that the cemetery came to James?

You may have noticed that James Buchannan Huey and John T. Huey both had wives named Druscilla. Yep. I wondered about too, if there were some kind of cross-up but since they both have different living dates, I don’t think so.

Our Medford Cousins

Yesterday I told about buying beer from Mr. Medford, as a teenager, at Medford’s grocery.

I talked to my sister last night, she read my blog and told me something I was unaware of. Mr. Medford’s first name was Jake. Jake Medford is a relative through the Tysons. He is descended through the Huey family. The Hueys married into the Tyson family the same way the Hunters did. Jake is descended from Styles Medford and Amanda Huey. And Amanda is descended from John T. Huey, which I am too.

One time when Buna Walker ran for sheriff and his father ran as his chief deputy, I remember two financial backers they had: Jake Medford and Barney Nunn. Barney Nunn owned the Nun-Better Cabinet Company and was extremely religious. I don’t know about Jake, but I do remember sometime back then a cross was burned outside his store.

One time before car driving age several of us rode our bikes to across the street from Medford’ Grocery to the Kendrick’s Farm. The Kendricks had horses and could ride them on their extensive property for a few bucks. We did that several times. The trails we rode the horses is now a subdivision and the house and barn has been replaced by a CVS Pharmacy and a parking lot…. Tch tch.

Once when we rode our bikes there, one of us did not show. As planned we met him in front of Jake Medford’s house. His house has a historical marker in front. I don’t know if I ever read it or not, but it is fairly close to Kennesaw Mountain, it is probably related to that Civil War Battle. Now, occasionally, when I ride by that house and remember several of us sprawled out on his yard enjoying ourselves I wonder why Jake would allow that. We probably bought Cokes at his store… we were paying customers. Probably as far as he was concerned we could have danced with his wife if we bought a bag of peanuts to go with those Cokes.

I remember another time I was with my family on a Sunday ride and we pulled into Medford’s Store and saw my first cousin-in-law Frank walking into the store with long underwear on. Puzzled, then we saw his wife, my first cousin, Faye (a college professor) in the car next to ours laughing. Frank was paying off an election bet.

My sister also told me Dempsey Medford who owned The Bookstore in downtown Marietta were also part of the same Medford Family, which meant we were related to him too.

Dempsey Medford seemed to always have several old hens working for him, and more or less just stood around and looked at people. Dempsey had a thick stock of dark, but graying hair. His son, who also worked at The Bookstore was baldheaded. If one didn’t know better, it would have been easily assumed that Dempsey was son of his son.

Bascomb Methodist Church Cemetery

I put John T. Huey's grave as the lead in picture because he once owned much of the land the cemetery is on. He deeded it the land to Bascomb Methodist Church. John T,Huey is a progenitor.

This is Bascomb United Methodist Church near Woodstock. And a continuation of pictures I accumulated while tromping through cemeteries.

I have a lot of relatives buried here and so does Chris, who contributes comments to my blogs. His wife and I are related to the same Hueys in this cemetery. So, I am sort of walking on my tip-toes here – my information might not agree with his information.




This, I believe is our common ancestor. James was the father John T. Huey, who is the last in our line of common ancestors. He shares the marker with Druscilla 1792-1857. Their son John T.’s wife was also name Druscilla, Drucilla Wilson. Chris may have something to add about that.



I don’t have any information on Joyce Huey. She may have died young. It is an interesting marker.


This is Guyirne Hunter’s grave. She died at age 18. She was the daughter of John Rafas Hunter, who was the son of William Hunter/Trammell and Emaline Ray Hunter. According to the news clips it was a shock and sadness. She died of a rare disease.




Speaking of John Rafas - here he and his wife Lillie Hill lie. After John died Lilly moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to live with her daughter, whose husband worked in a steel mill.



Lois Hunter Carraway lived 102 years. For a short time she was married to a Mr. Carraway. As her nephew said, “She sent him packing.”

When I first got into family research I found out a person that could help me a lot was Lois. At the time, she lived in our ancestor’s house on Main Street in Woodstock. She had plenty of old pictures that I copied and verbally told me a lot of information about her first cousins and stuff – straight off her busy brain.

The house she had most of the rooms closed off I suppose to save on utility bills but she was happy to show me around and point out things of interest, pertaining William Hunter and his wife Emaline.

Lois’s had a sister. When they were very young their father died. William and Emaline took them and their mother in and they lived there – well, in Lois’s case, I don’t she ever left until she went to a rest home in her late 90s. William was the only father she knew.

Lois told me William was adopted by his mother’s people, and that was the end of that. Well, she was right about that, but she didn’t mention that William was a bastard child – his father Jason already had a family when he had an affair with William’s mother Rebecca Trammell. And, after the Civil War when he returned home he and his uncle Van Trammell were “involved in killing a man over a horse” – they were wanted for murder. They left the state.

I was so proud of my discovery I typed it up and sent copies to uncles and cousins that I thought would be interested. I sent Lois a copy. That was a mistake. Lois called me up and chewed me out. She was like a hot sparkle of coal that lands on your flesh and won’t let go. She said she knew everything I knew, and she was hoping to take that secret to the grave with her and I ruined everything. She was proud of her grandfather and that was the only father she knew and he deserved more respect that I gave him… which, I still have him respect, I just said Rebecca had to sue Jason H. Hunter for bastardy. And the murder he was accused of being involved in… I didn’t say he committed murder.

When I took this picture I almost expected her hand to reach out of the grave and drag me in.


Clarence Poore. William’s grandchildren intermarried with the Poore family on two or three occasions, and so did Anna’s family on at least one occasion. This is just one of the Poores that I thought was an item of interest.



Michael Lamar Tyson is a sad story. He was with his siblings and first cousins playing one day and the kids started throwing rocks at each other. A rock hit him and killed him.
He was Billy Tyson’s son.



My ancestors Obediah Hargraves Tyson and his wife, Nancy Elizabeth Huey, daughter of John T. Huey.


Robert Edward Tyson "Uncle Ed" was my grandmother’s brother.


So was “Uncle Will” aka William Obediah Tyson. When I was doing my research of talking to the oldest family members I went to Uncle Will with a tape recorder. He was in his 90s and stayed in his home in an unpainted shack (in the daytime) alone, although he was worth plenty. On one of my visits I tried to get him to talk about his siblings and his parents but that day he wanted to talk about his mule. He told all about his mule and how they had a game they played… sometimes he would trick her into pulling the plow when she didn’t want to, and sometimes she would trick him go get to guild the plow when he wasn’t up to it. He told me who he bought her from and years later when he got too old to work the fields, who he sold her to, and who they her to. I wish I had their picture together – I bet they made quiet a couple

There are many other Hueys and Tysons in this cemetery, but I don't have much information or details so I am passing over them for now.

Drucilla Wilson Huey (1825-1905)

Drucilla was/is my great great grandmother. She was born in South Carolina and died in Woodstock, Ga. She was married to John T. Huey. They had seven children. Her husband was a big land owner of the area. As far as I know, no one yet have figured out who her parents were.

John & Lizzy Hawkins Huey

John Huey is/was a relative of mine who lived in the nearby Woodstock community.
John was born in 1861. His father was my ancestor John T. Huey. I have not found his grave yet to know when he died, or for that matter the living dates of his wife Lizzy. But, just standing there posing for a picture is proof they lived - it is just the details I would like to know more about.

Those Hueys Don't Play

One of the markers above is of Thomas Jeff Huey. Thomas killed his brother Ed.

In their father’s old age Ed took care of their father. And in return, their father left everything to Ed. Which made Thomas mad. Then one day they were arguing over some cedar wood and in anger Thomas shot Ed on his (Ed’s) front steps in front of his children.

I have yet identified Ed’s grave but I think it could possibly be the one identified as Dozier E. Huey. I cannot match Dozier up to any body else, and the initial E. and also the time is about right.
Counter-Point: Dozier E. was apparently in WWII, and died just a couple of days after D-Day. Did he die from wounds in the War or at the end of Thomas's gun?

Thomas went to prison, served his sentence and got out.

This is in the Bascomb Methodist Cemetery, Woodstock, Ga. Also buried here in an unmarked grave is Ed & Thomas’s uncle Monroe Huey.

According to the family bible Monroe, when Monroe was a youngster he was beaten to death by the “Brawley Boys” . Based on the 1870 census, The Brougley family lived in the next household from the Huey’s.

Also, another Huey grave marker that looks interesting, of Joyce Huey. I have no idea what her relationship is.