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Sarah  Cravey 

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Owen Brown Cravey Jr.
1740 - 1760

Mary Frances Hines
1745 - 1798
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Sarah Cravey
1780 - 1860
Sarah Cravey was born about 1780 in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina and died about 1860 in Decatur County, Georgia. Dates for birth and death are estimated. She lived to be about 80 years old.

Married 1869 in GA. She had ten children with husband Joseph
Hugh Cravey (1802-1870)
Ann K. (1804-1880)
Elizabeth C. (1805-1850)
Thomas (1805-1870)
Jesse H. (1808-1840)
Jonas Beale (1-12-1809-1893)
L.C. (1812-1907)
Ell C. (6-4-1812-1907)
Martha Jane (1818-1880)
Sarah (3-15-1819-1880)

Some dates are estimated. She was baptized 7/31/1830. She is burred near Tired Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Cairo, GA. She may have been a Creek Indian.
Records
Census8/7/1820 GA (Screven County) 40 yrs old 
Page 5, line 10: Joseph Davis -one male - (Under 10), two males - (10 - 15), two Males - (16 -25), one male - (45 and over), one female - (Under 10), one female - (10 - 15), one female - (16 - 25), , one female - (45 and over) 
Census1/1/1830 GA (Decatur County) 50 yrs old 
page 6, line #11: Joseph Davis family consists of: one male (15-19), one male (20-29), one male (50-59); one female (10-14), one female (20-29), and one female (50-59).
son, Jesse H., is listed on the next census page.

page 12 , line 18 - Hugh Davis. 
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.  
Other7/15/1839 GA (Decatur County) 59 yrs old 
This information, while true, may NOT apply to our Sarah Cravey.  The estate of Joshua Cravey, deceased, is being administrated by James Hagan, Mathew Long, and Thomas B. Davis. James certifies that $3,000 will be paid. All three sign.  
Census9/15/1850 District 22 GA (Decatur County) 70 yrs old 
Listed in District #22 on page 83A: J. Davis age 75, born in GA, Farmer; Sarah age 70, born in GA; and Ann age 50, born in GA. 
Additional information about Decatur County, GA around 1850: Map of Decatur County, GA created around 1846 -- four years before the 1850 Census. Click here to see a map from this timeperiod.  
Census6/29/1860 District 19, Sofka Post Office GA (Decatur County) 80 yrs old 
Listed as family #565: Joseph Davis (age 86, born in NC), Sarah (age 85), Ann P. (age 56, born in GA). No other information is provided. 
Additional information about Decatur County, GA around 1860: Map of Decatur County, GA created around 1855 -- five years before the 1860 Census. Click here to see a map from this timeperiod.  
Graveyard/Tombstone7/1/1860 Cairo GA  80 yrs old 
Tired Creek Baptist Church Cemetery: Sarah Davis  

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AgeDateEvent
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 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.
10 1790 Columbia and Elbert Counties are created.
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 Emanual County formed.
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".
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.
AgeDateEvent
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.
AgeDateEvent
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 Gold is discovered in Georgia.
54 1834 July 9 - The S.S. John Randolph, the first successful iron steamship, is launched in Savannah
AgeDateEvent
9 1789 The capitol of North Carolina moves from New Bern to Raleigh and North Carolina becomes the 12th state of the United States of America.
50 1830 The U.S. Government begins forcing Cherokee Indians from their homes in what becomes known as the Trail of Tears. Many Cherokee hide in the mountains of North Carolina and surrounding states.
AgeDateEvent
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.
AgeDateEvent
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


Marriages
Joseph Davis
Born about 1775 and died on an unknown day in August 1869.
They were married 1/1/1800.

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The Children of Sarah Cravey

Hugh Cravey Davis
Born somewhere in Georgia about 1802 and died in Washington Co., Florida about 1870. He was about 68 years old.

He married Prudence Lewis on(2/10/1825). Her father was Abram Lewis

Their children were:
Ashley (1826-1897) who severed in the Civil War, CSA FL -1863.
John M. (1831)
Lewis (1832...
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Thomas Allen Davis
Born somewhere in Georgia about 1807 and died in Geneva County, Alabama on an unknown day in March 1880. He was about 73 years old.

He left Decatur Co. GA around 1838-1839 and purchased his brother Hugh's farm in Dale Co. AL when Hugh moved to FL. He also served as a Private in the Choctawhatchie Rangers (1/15/1863)....
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Jesse H. Davis
Born somewhere in Georgia about 1808 and died somewhere in Georgia about 1840. He was about 32 years old.

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Jonas Beale Davis
Born somewhere in Georgia on January 12, 1809 and died in Decatur County, Georgia on July 13, 1889. He was 80 years old.

Jonas served in Capt. J. Hawthorn's GA Militia 1836-1838.
He married Clarissa Prevatt (2/9/1822 -4/21/1911) Daughter of Thomas (1793) and Elizabeth Prevatt (1799).

Children:
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Ell C. Davis
Born in Screven County, Georgia on April 6, 1812 and died in Grady County, Georgia on November 9, 1907. He was 95 years old.

He was called "L.C."
Children:
Gracy(1831)
Mary (1833)
Martha (1837)
Jasper (1832)
John
Milessa
Sarah
Ascenith M."Acksy" (1850)
Ell C. Davis Jr.(1851)
Georg...
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Sarah Davis
Born somewhere in Georgia on March 15, 1819 and died in Whigham , Decatur Co, Georgia on July 3, 1888. She was 69 years old.

Sarah married William Sasser and they had nine children:
Clarissa (abt. 1837), Jane (abt. 1839),
Jasper (abt. 1839),
Sarah Ann (abt.1843),
William,
George W. (6/7/1849 - 11/16/19...
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