Caroline Jones

Female, #9480, (28 Apr 1815 - 18 Nov 1885)

Parent*Henry Y. Jones (s 1785 - Sep 1867)
Parent*Nancy Stewart (s 1792 - Sep 1867)
Caroline Jones|b. 28 Apr 1815\nd. 18 Nov 1885|p9480.htm|Henry Y. Jones|b. say 1785\nd. Sep 1867|p37630.htm|Nancy Stewart|b. say 1792\nd. Sep 1867|p37631.htm|||||||||||||

Birth*28 Apr 1815 Caroline was born at Warren Co., Georgia, on 28 Apr 1815.1,2 
 She was the daughter of Henry Y. Jones and Nancy Stewart. 
1830 Census1 Jun 1830 Caroline and Ella was probably a free white female, age 15 and under 20, in Henry Y. Jones's household, on the 1830 Census at Warren Co., Georgia.3 
Marriage*31 Dec 1836 She married Gardner Culpepper of Thomas Co., GA at Warren Co., Georgia, on 31 Dec 1836.4,5 
Married Name31 Dec 1836  As of 31 Dec 1836, her married name was Culpepper.4 
Church membership21 Jul 1839 Caroline and Gardner were founding members at Long Creek Baptist Church, Warren Co., Georgia, on 21 Jul 1839 (Received a letter of dismissal on 25 Nov 1848). 
Relocationcirca Jan 1840 Caroline Jones and Nancy F. Culpepper was an accompanying familiy member in the relocation of Gardner Culpepper of Thomas Co., GA circa Jan 1840 at Talbot Co., Georgia.6 
1840 Census1 Jun 1840 Caroline was probably a free white female, age 20 and under 30, in Gardner Culpepper of Thomas Co., GA's household, on the 1840 Census on 1 Jun 1840 at Talbot Co., Georgia.7 
Relocationcirca 1847 Family member(s) Caroline Culpepper, Amanda E. Culpepper, John Gardner Culpepper and William Henry Culpepper, accompanying Gardner Culpepper of Thomas Co., GA, relocated circa 1847 at Lee Co., Georgia, (Historical background explaining the possible rationale for Gardner's move into and out of Lee County:
     In addition to fertile lands around Palmyra, the hammock lands northward along Kinchafooa and Muckalee Creeks were found to be rich. With increasing settlement and cultivation the pine high lands, on both sides of the territory drained by the Kinchafoona, Muckaloochee, and Muckalee Creeks, were found to be also almost equal to the hummocks in fertility. The soil of the county came to be considered as mostly fertile. Only the western part, having a reddish, thirsty, sandy soil, and a belt along the Flint River in the eastern part were found to be of inferior quality.
     Prospects of ready transportation by railroad through Macon and by steamboat from Albany to cotton markets throughout the world caused rapid transfer of the cotton-planting interests from the upper counties to Lee. Although the first steamboat reached Albany in 1837, the river was not used for much commercial navigation until after 1847 with the elimination of the worst shoal on the Flint River between Albany and Apalachicola. In 1848, the proposed railroad from Macon through Lee County to Albany had been legalized by sufficient subscriptions, including some from Lee County. The newspapers, the Southwestern Georgian (later the Albany Courier), founded in 1841, and the Albany Patriot, founded in 1845, also had some influence in publicizing the section for settlers." The June 30, 1847, issue of the Patriot had the following items:
     "We were shown on Monday last, two stalks of cotton from the plantation of Mr. Robert Thompson, of Lee County. One stalk was of the Grand Gulf Cotton... about six feet high, and had some eight or ten full grown bolls on it. We were assured that there were several bolls opened in the field from which this was taken. The other stalk was nearly six feet high, and had on it upwards of one hundred bolls and forms. It was not quite so forward on the other stalk. There is said to be two hundred acres of cotton on the same plantation as good as these specimens..."
     With such inducements large numbers of settlers came in from Liberty, Burk, Baldwin, and Putnam Counties. Rich plantations of hammock land grew up along the Kinchafoona and Muckalee Creeks. By 1849, the distribution of cultivated farming lands was shown by agricultural settlements to the north of Palmyra: Cotton Bluff (probably so named as a collection point for shipping cotton to Albany), Starkville with new settlers, Oceola and Chenuba, to the northwest, and Sumterville, to the northeast.
     Despite the transfer of a strip of this county's lands to Dooly County in 1842, population increased from 2,370 white and 2,706 black in 1840 to 3,025 white and 3,634 black, including 7 free black, in 1850. The white population was the largest the county has ever had. There were 387 farms, averaging seven whites with nine slaves to the farm, and 550 dwellings. Since the county contained 506 square miles or 323,841 acres, the landholdings in and adjacent to each farm average 837 acres. The major portion of the land was the unpeopled pine and swampy land surrounding the plantations. Real estate in the county had a tax valuation of $l,148,224, and an average sale value of $10 per acre. Personal estates, largely slaves, were valued at $2,207,702. Since there were 3,626 slaves, the average value per slave was about $600. The ordinary crop of a county planter was 100 to 2,000 bales of cotton. Average yield of the land per acre was 800 pounds of cotton, 20 bushels of corn, and 10 bushels of wheat. Little attention was paid to orchards.
     The history of farming in Lee County was probably similar to that generally of the cotton belt in southwestern Georgia. There was an influx of small farmers interested in growing cotton. Some chanced upon rich lands, others upon poor; some were near navigation, others were far; some were expert, vigorous, frugal and farsighted, others were slack, spendthrift or merely perhaps unlucky. Profits from efficiency and good fortune enabled some to buy slaves and then to buy neighboring lands and attain eventually the scale and rank of planters. For their added lands they, raid prices acceptable to those who heard the loud call of the West; but they could force no man to sell who was not so minded. There were several farmers to every planter, throughout the best cotton zone, each producing cotton in sturdy competition with his neighbor, great or small. "Divergencies were of continuous gradation from the wealthy to paupers." In the last instance only does Lee County differ. There is little record of poverty among the white people in Lee County before the War.
     Lee County's comparative wealth was due to early climatic conditions. The swampy lands interspersed in the county and the drinking water produced fevers among white people. The blacks, however, were immune to the fevers and thrived in the semi-tropical climate. The large white population of 1850 dwindled. Many sold their lands to those who had the financial resources to consolidate the lands into large plantations and to buy slaves to work them. Many of the owners lived away from their plantations, in Starkville, Palmyra, and in cities outside the county, such as Albany, Americus, and Macon. Agriculture was the county's only source of income, and slaves did this work. There were no possible opportunities to induce poor people to remain. By 1860, the white poulation was only 2,242, but the black had increased to 4,954.).8 
1850 Census1 Jun 1850 Caroline, Nancy, Amanda, John, William and Mary was listed as a household member living with Gardner Culpepper of Thomas Co., GA on the 1850 Census at Lee Co., Georgia.9 
Relocationcirca 1853 Caroline Jones, Nancy F. Culpepper, Amanda E. Culpepper, John Gardner Culpepper, William Henry Culpepper, Mary A. M. Culpepper and Sterling Gardner Culpepper was an accompanying familiy member in the relocation of Gardner Culpepper of Thomas Co., GA circa 1853 at Boston, Thomas Co., Georgia.10 
Church membership1853 Caroline and Gardner were founding members at Summerhill Baptist Church, Boston, Thomas Co., Georgia, in 1853. 
1860 Census1 Jun 1860 Caroline, John, William, Mary, Sterling, James and Sterling was listed as a household member living with Gardner Culpepper of Thomas Co., GA in the 1860 Census at Thomas Co., Georgia.11 
1870 Census*1 Jun 1870 Caroline was listed as the head of a family on the 1870 Census at Boston, Thomas Co., Georgia.12 
Guardian*4 Jul 1870 She was appointed after the death of Gardner Culpepper of Thomas Co., GA, guardian of Sterling Gardner Culpepper and Dr. James Thomas Culpepper on 4 Jul 1870 at Thomas Co., Georgia.13 
1880 Census1 Jun 1880 Caroline was listed as a mother in Dr. James Thomas Culpepper's household on the 1880 Census at Boston, Thomas Co., Georgia.14 
Death*18 Nov 1885 She died at Boston, Thomas Co., Georgia, on 18 Nov 1885.2 
Burial*circa 19 Nov 1885 Her body was interred circa 19 Nov 1885 at Summerhill Baptist Church Cemetery, Boston, Thomas Co., Georgia. Tombstone is a five foot tall obelisk with Culpepper on the front, Gardner's name and dates on one side and Caroline's name and dates on the other side..15,2 
Biography* From "The Story of Georgia", page 122: "Caroline, a native of Ireland, came to New Jersey with her family as a small girl. The family later settled in Warrington [Warrenton, Warren Co.], GA where she was wed." [Warren Culpepper comment: Even though I've included this quotation, I don't believe it except for the Warrenton part. There is no suppporting evidence for the Ireland or New Jersey heritage, and she appears to have been born in GA and her father born in GA or VA]

On 19 Apr 1833, the estate of Nathan Culpepper, Caroline's father-in-law, was appraised by Elijah Jones, Seaborn Jones, Henry Harris and John Veasey. [Caroline had a brother named Seaborn Jones.]. 

Family

Gardner Culpepper of Thomas Co., GA (11 Dec 1810 - 22 May 1868)
Children

Charts Warren Culpepper's Ancestry Chart
Last Edited 5 Oct 2007

Citations

  1. Whitehead of Isle of Wight, Southern Genealogies, CD-ROM Volume CD191, Whitehead family.
  2. Joe E. Craigmiles III, The Cemeteries of Thomas County, Georgia, Thomasville, GA: Craigmiles Historical Publications, 1990, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Book 975.8984 V3c.
    Summerhill Baptist Church, Boston, Thomas Co., GA
    + Gardner Culpepper, 11 Dec 1811 – 22 May 1868
    + Caroline Culpepper, 23 Apr 1815 – 18 Nov 1885.

  3. 1830 Federal Census, United States.
    Unk Twp, Warren Co., GA, page 227, Ancestry.com image 71 transcribed by Warren Culpepper
    Henry Jones, 1M5-9, 2M15-19, 1M40-49, 2F0-4, 1F5-9, 2F10-14, 2F15-19, 1F30-39.
  4. Daniel Nathan Crumpton, compiler, Cemeteries and Genealogy: Waren County, Georgia and immediate vicinity, 1792-1987, Volume II, Roswell, Georgia: WH Wolfe Associates, 1987, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. 975.8625 V3c v. 1.
    Page 212 from cited work, which credits p. 53 of the original registry of Warren Co. Marriages 1833-1848.
  5. Ancestry.com, compiler, Georgia Marriages to 1850, Online database at Ancestry.com, 1997.
    http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/2085a.htm
    Gardner Culpepper and Caroline Jones on 31 Dec 1836 in Warren Co., GA.
  6. Estimated date of reloaction is based on the facts that Gardner and Caroline were founding members of Long Creek Baptist Church in Warren Co in July 1839 but then appeared in the census in Lee County in Jun 1840.
  7. 1840 Federal Census, United States.
    Page 219, Unk Twp, Talbot Co., GA
    Gardner Culpepper, 1 M15-20, 1 M20-30, 2 F0-5, 1 F20-30.
  8. Gardner appeared in the 1840 census inTalbot County and in the 1850 census in Lee County. He is presumed to have relocated coincident with the Lee County boom.
  9. 1850 Federal Census, United States.
    Page 282, Family 175, District 50, Lee Co., GA
    Gardner Culpepper, 38, M, Manager, RE=$200, GA
    Caroline Culpepper, 34, F, GA
    Nancy F. Culpepper, 12, F, GA
    Amanda Culpepper, 9, F, GA
    John G. Culpepper, 7, M, GA
    Wm H Culpepper, 5, M, GA
    Mary A. M. Culpepper, 2, F, GA.
  10. 1853 relocation is based on the fact that in that year, Gardner and Caroline had only moved to Lee County in 1848, were still there at the time of the 1850 census, and then in 1853 they became founding members of a church in Thomas Co.
  11. 1860 Federal Census, United States.
    Page 24, Boston, Thomas Co., GA
    Gardner Culpepper, 49, M, GA, Farmer, $4,000/$11,000
    Caroline Culpepper, 45, F, GA
    J. G. Culpepper, 17, M, GA
    W. H. Culpepper, 15, M, GA
    M. N. Culpepper, 13, F, GA
    S. G. Culpepper, 9, M, GA
    J. S. Culpepper, 4, M, GA.
    S. Brinkley, 12, M, GA.
  12. 1870 Federal Census, United States.
    Page 100, Boston, Thomas Co., GA
    Caroline Culpepper, 54, F, GA, $2,000/$1,069
    Sterling G. Culpepper, 19, M, GA
    James T. Culpepper, 15, M, GA.
  13. Thomas Co., GA Letters of Guardianship, Book I-24.
  14. 1880 Federal Census, United States.
    Page 461A, Boston, Thomas Co., GA
    Jas. T. Culpepper, Self, S, Male, W, 25, GA/GA/GA, Physician
    Caroline Culpepper, Mother, W, Female, W, 65, GA, ---, ---, Housekeeper
    Ednie Walton, Other, S, Female, MU, 22, GA/GA/GA, Servant
    Louis Watson, Other, S, Male, B, 25, GA/---/---, Farm Hand.
  15. Cemetery marker inspected and photographed by Warren Culpepper in November 2003.