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Unknown Parish
1780 - 1870

Unknown Parish was born about 1780 somewhere in South Carolina and died about 1870 somewhere in Georgia. Dates for birth and death are estimated. He lived to be about 90 years old.

All we know at this time is that Thomas and Wiley were brothers. We do not know the names of their parents. The birth and death dates shown are only a guess. We would love to hear from anyone with additional information. We have been told that Wyatt Parish from SC could be the father of Wiley and Thomas. There is also a Wyatt Wesley Parish that married Sarah Wester in 1826 in Telfair Co, GA. and had a son. He could also be brother.

We have also been told this was a family of Catawba Indians originally from the South Carolina area. When their tribal lands were lost, they moved into GA.

Census

1/1/1820

GA (Telfair County)

40 yrs old

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The household of Wyatt Parish is listed as: 4 males under 10 years old, one male between 10-16, one male between 26-49 years old, one female under 10 and one female over 49. It is believed that his wife had died before 1820.

Additional information about Telfair County, GA around 1820: The initial Telfair area of GA belonged to Creek Indians, many of which remained in the area until it became more densely populated by white settlers. A large number of the earliest white settlers were Scots Highlanders from the Carolinas. Telfair County GA was created from Wilkinson County in 1807. It originally included the Oconee and Little Ocmulgee rivers which were split into Montgomery County in 1812. By 1819 it included a substantial area of land south of the Ocmulgee River. Boundary lines for the county continued to change until 1877.

Marriage

1/1/1826

GA (Telfair County)

46 yrs old

Wyatt Parish married Sara Wester in 1826 in Telfair Co, GA

Land Deed

12/31/1829

GA (Decatur County)

50 yrs old

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Wyatt Parish of Decatur County, GA, buys land from John Tomlinson of Lownes County, GA. The land is identified as track #366, consisting of 250 acres (more or less). The land was originally in Early County and is now in Decatur County.

Census

1/1/1830

GA (Decatur County)

50 yrs old

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On Page #13: The household of Wyett Parlee is listed as two males between 0-4 years old, one male between 10-14, two males between 15-19, one male between 20-29, one male between 40-49, one female between 5-9, one female between 10-14 and one female between 30-39.

Additional information about Decatur County, GA around 1830: Decatur County is officially created in 1823 from new lands and portions of Early County. Of interest, Hernando Desoto traveled through this area in 1540 following the Capachequi River (now called the Flint River). Later, this county is divided to form Grady, Seminole and Thomas counties. This map of Decatur County, GA was created around 1830. Click here to see a map from this timeperiod.

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Age	Date	Event
2	1782	The British evacuate Savannah on in July.
4	1784	Franklin and Washington Counties are formed.
5	1785	Burbon County formed.
6	1786	Greene County was created the same year Oglethorpe dies.
8	1788	Bourbon County Act rescinded.
9	1789	December 21 - Governor Telfair signs first Yazoo Act selling 20,000,000 acres of and for $207,000 or about one cent per acre to. The Yazoo Companies attempted to pay in worthless paper money and Georgia refuses to transfer the land. The Virginia Yazoo, headed by Patrick Henry, even had the unmitigated gall to attempt to pay in worthless Georgia paper money. The South Carolina Yazoo Company sues Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court to compel delivery but the suit fails when Georgia is able to obtain ratification of the eleventh amendment to the U.S. Constitution on February 7, 1795.
10	1790	Columbia and Elbert Counties are created.
10	1790	Alexander McGillivray, a mixed-blood of the Upper Creek Nation cedes the Altamaha lands to the Oconee. This treaty -- Treaty of New York -- is signed by President George Washington.
13	1793	Hancock, Bryan, McIntosh, Montgomery, Oglethorpe and Warren Counties formed. This same year, the Fugitive Slave Act is passed.
14	1794	General Clarke surrenders ending the Oconee War.
15	1795	Governor Mathews signs the Second Yazoo Act selling somewhere between 35,000,000 and 50,000,000 acres of land for $500,000.
21	1801	Clarke and Tatnall Counties formed.
22	1802	Georgia formally cedes western claims for its southern boundary at the 31st parallel -- which will become a border between,GA, FL and AL. GA's western border reaches to the Mississippi River.
23	1803	Between 1803 and 1811 a horse trail is established connecting Milledgeville, Georgia to Fort Stoddert, American outpost north of Mobile. This is expanded into a road and called The Federal Road by 1811.
27	1807	December 10 - Jasper, Jones, Laurens, Morgan, Putnam, and Telfair Counties formed.
28	1808	Pulaski County created.
29	1809	Twiggs County formed.
31	1811	Tecumseh visits the Creek Indians living in what will become Georgia and Alabama to try to persuade them to join his fight against the flood of white settlers. Some towns join forces with Tecumseh and become known as "Red Sticks".
31	1811	Madison County created.
32	1812	The Creek tribes in southern Alabama and Georgia find themselves under increasing pressure from white settlers. Led by Chief Weatherford, they accepted an alliance with Tecumseh and are nicknamed "Red Sticks".
32	1812	Emanual County formed.
33	1813	During 1813-14, Muskogee-speaking Creeks leave GA and move into areas in Northern FL in response to the Creek Civil War (also known as the Red-sticks War).
37	1817	First Seminole war begins as Georgia backwoodsmen attack Indians just north of the Florida border. !817-1818. General Andrew Jackson invades the area.
39	1819	Rabun County formed.
40	1820	December 20 - Campbell and Randolph Counties formed.
41	1821	May 15 - Dooly, Fayette, Henry, Houston, Monroe and Newton Counties formed.
42	1822	December 9 - Bibb, Dekalb and Pike Counties formed.
43	1823	December 8 - Decatur County formed.
44	1824	December 15 - Upson and Ware Counties formed.
45	1825	Baker, Lowndes, Thomas, Butts and Taliaferro Counties formed.
46	1826	January 24 - Treaty of Washington abrogates Treaty of Indian Springs. The Creeks cede a smaller area and are allowed to remain on their lands until January 1, 1826.
47	1827	December 14, - Harris, Marion, Meriwether and Talbot.
50	1830	Cherokee, Heard, and Stewrt Counties are formed.
51	1831	Sumter County is formed.
52	1832	December 3 - Bartow, Cobb, Crawford, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Murray, Paulding, and Union Counties formed.
53	1833	Walker County is formed.
56	1836	Seminoles massacre Major Francis L. Dade and his 103 man command. This starts the second Seminole War. February - Battle of Hitchity. March 27 - Colonel J.W. Fannin and his Georgian's executed by order of Santa Ana at Goliad on Palm Sunday. July - Battle of Brushy Creek. July 3 - Battle of Chickasawachee Swamp. July 27 - Battle of Echowanochaway Creek.
57	1837	Mcon and Dade Counties are formed.
58	1838	Chattooga County formed
67	1847	Atlanta, Georgia is incorporated. Formally Marthasville
70	1850	Gordon and Clinch Counties are formed.
71	1851	Clay, Howell, Polk, Spalding, and Whitfield Counties are formed.
72	1852	Taylor County formed.
73	1853	Catoosa, Pickens, Hart, Dougherty, Webster, Flton, and Worth Counties aare creaated.
74	1854	Fannin, Coffee, Chattahooche, Charlton, and Calhoun Counties formed.
76	1856	Haralson, Terrell, Berrien, Colquit, Miller, and Towns Counties formed.
77	1857	Dawson, Milton, Pierce, Glascock, Mitchell, Schley, White, and Wilcox Counties formed.
78	1858	Clayton, Quitman, Banks, Brooks, Johnson, and Echols Counties formed.
90	1870	Douglas, McDuffie, Rockdale, and Dodge Counties formed.

Age	Date	Event
3	1783	The hot air balloon is invented by Michel and Montgolfier and the first people in modern history fly at an altitude of 1800 m.
5	1785	The power loom was invented by Cartwright to produce cloth.
13	1793	The cotton gin was invented by Whitney.
19	1799	The Rosetta Stone was discovered
20	1800	The first battery was invented by Volta
27	1807	The first steamboat was invented by Fulton
34	1814	The first locomotive engine was created by Stephenson
50	1830	The first railroad is constructed between Liverpool and Manchester, England
59	1839	Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber, opening the door for tires and other rubber products.
64	1844	The first telegraph message is sent by Morse, who later invents the Mores Code
73	1853	The process of creating steel is invented by Besermer in Britain and Kelly in the U.S.
76	1856	The first Neanderthal fossils are found near Germany
79	1859	Charles Darwin publishes "Origin of Species" and begins the evolution theory.
85	1865	Mendel publishes his papers on genetics and introduces the concept to the public.
89	1869	Cro-magnon Man fossils are found in France

Age	Date	Event
20	1800	NEWS HEADLINES: Seat of U.S. government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC
31	1811	NEWS HEADLINES: Tecumseh's emerging Indian Confederacy is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Ohio. Afterwards, Tecumseh and his brother travel from their Shawnee homes in the north to recruit and unify the southern Indians.
32	1812	NEWS HEADLINES: War of 1812 begins and will continue for until 1814. Some call it the Second War of Independence because the US fights Great Britain to a stalemate, Americas independence was assured.
48	1828	God is discovered in Georgia.
54	1834	July 9 - The S.S. John Randolph, the first successful iron steamship, is launched in Savannah
81	1861	NEWS HEADLINES: American Civil war begins at Ft. Sumter, located in Charleston Harbor, VA.
82	1862	NEWS HEADLINES: May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West.

Age	Date	Event
2	1782	During 1782-1783, land to the south and west of the Tugaloo and Savannah Rivers are ceded by the Cherokee and Creek.
3	1783	Charles Town is officially renamed Charleston, SC.
8	1788	South Carolina joins the United States of America. State government is moved from Charleston to Columbia two years later.
50	1830	South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union, setting the stage for the creation of the Confederacy.
80	1860	About 63,000 men from South Carolina served in the Confederate armed forces.
88	1868	South Carolina was readmitted to the Union.

Age	Date	Event
7	1787	Constitution of the United States is signed
13	1793	Alexander McGillivray, the head of the Creek Indian Nation, dies. A restlessness begins to grow among the Indians in what is now Georgia, Alabama and Northern Florida as town chiefs via for the vacant leadership role.
14	1794	The United States establishes the Navy
18	1798	Mississippi Territory organized from Georgia's western land claims. It includes what will later become portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida,
23	1803	Louisiana Purchase from France (who secured it from Spain) gives the US a huge new territory and the port of New Orleans.
24	1804	The Seminole warrior later known as Osceola is born near Tuskegee, AL.
25	1805	Federal Road project begins after the Creek Indians give the U.S. permission to develop a �horse path� through their nation that will provide better mail delivery between Washington City (DC) and New Orleans. Soon settlers are traveling and settling along this path to settle the southern frontier.
26	1806	Lewis and Clark Expedition, which began in 1804, ends. News of the rich lands to the west begins to spread.
31	1811	By 1811 the new "Federal Road" (which started as a horse path) is filled with a steady flow of white settlers into Creek Indian Territories. The Spanish begin to fan hostile sentiments among the Indians.
40	1820	The Act of April 24, 1820 abolished the land purchase credit system, fixed the price of public lands at $1.25 per acre, and set the minimum purchase at 80 acres. After a person purchased land, a final certificate was issued by the land office and sent to Washington DC to be verified and signed by the President -- a time consuming process. Public lands were most typically available through US treaties with Indians who agreed to be removed from their homelands.
50	1830	Indian Removal Act signed and the moving of eastern Indians west of the Mississippi begins.
55	1835	Second Seminole Indian War begins.
57	1837	The trickery used to capture Seminole Indian Chief Osceola (Assi Yohola) creates a public uproar and U.S. General Jesup is publicly condemned.
60	1840	Oregon Trail is established
62	1842	Second Seminole Indian War ends and thousands of Seminole Indians are forced to move west of the Mississippi.
75	1855	Third Seminole Indian War begins. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida.
80	1860	Presidential election puts Abraham Lincoln in office. The campaign has heated the issues regarding slavery in the south.
82	1862	May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West.
83	1863	Abraham Lincoln issues the "Emancipation Proclamation" freeing slaves.
85	1865	American Civil war ends with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. Reconstruction begins in the "old South"
88	1868	An eight-hour work day is established for federal employees.

Age	Date	Event
3	1783	Peace established at Versailles between France, England, Spain and United States; Britain cedes all lands west to the Mississippi River
7	1787	Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey
8	1788	Russia begins war with Sweden
9	1789	French feudal system is abolished with the Declaration of Rights of Man. Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille on July 14; Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declares independence as Belgium
12	1792	French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year
13	1793	Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland.
15	1795	White Terror and bread riots in Paris
16	1796	Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais
17	1797	Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa
53	1833	Santa Anna is elected President of Mexico

The Children of Unknown Parish

Wyatt Parish
Born in an unknown place about 1808 and died in an unknown location about 1908. Actual dates are unknown and those shown are estimated.

He married Sarah Wester on September 12, 1826 in Telfair Co, Ga. They had one son William James or Wyatt William Jr. (1828). Wyatt W. died in the mid 1830s in Decatur county GA and is supposedly bur...

Wiley James Parish
Born somewhere in Georgia about 1810 and died somewhere in Florida about 1860. He was about 50 years old.

Wiley, his wife and his oldest child were born somewhere in Georgia. Around 1839 they moved to Northern Florida. Tax records indicate they lived in Gadsden County Florida between 1840 and 1856. They...

Thomas Marshall Parish
Born somewhere in Georgia on August 8, 1812 and died in Blountstown, Florida on June 16, 1895. He was 82 years old.

He was a minister at Antioch Baptist Church (now Nettle Ridge Baptist in Blountstown, FL) in 1867.
He had eleven children with Wife Mary E. Parker:

Julia Ann(1/1/1846 - 8...

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