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Find a grave for georgia farley5/1/2024 ![]() The nine that lived were: James Pierce Self (my great-grandfather), Nancy Ellen Self, Luvenie Hazeltine Self, Martha Rachel “Mattie” Self, Levi Brantley Self, Cora Ioma Self, Yancy Sylvester Self, Milton Odus Self and Vada Estelle Self. John and Gemimia had eleven children, according to the 1910 Census. John was too young to serve in the Civil War when it began and too old to serve in World War I, so was never in the military. He married Gemimia Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Levi Hall and Emily Caroline Cooper, on Decemin Jefferson County, Alabama. John was the son of Jesse Ellis Self and Sarah Taylor. (I have not been able to find a death certificate for him.) ![]() According to census records, he was born in March of 1858, and his headstone has his date of death as 1916. John Wesley Self was my great-great grandfather. Another dead-end in my search for information on Josie & Mamie and their parentage, but definitely a memorable search. I walked back to my car just shaking my head. So, I thanked her for talking to me, told her I understood and to have a good day. I just wanted to talk to you about Josie and see if you could tell me anything about her.” Her reply was that she doesn’t know anything about Josie and that her son doesn’t want her opening the door for people she doesn’t know. She said, “Well, I don’t open my door for people I don’t know.” So, I said, “Okay, I understand. I told her my name and she said, “I don’t think I know you.” I said, “No ma’am, we’ve never met, but my great-great-grandmother and your grandmother were sisters.” She said, “Oh, I don’t know anything about that.” So I asked if I could talk to her for a few minutes (still talking through the door, because she hadn’t opened it). She came to the back door, where I had knocked, and asked who it was (through the door). I knocked again and I heard her get off the telephone. The lady was on the telephone when I first knocked…I could hear her talking through the wall. We found the house (finally) and I got out of the car and went to knock on the door by myself. (I had tried calling her phone number in the past, but never got an answer.) I looked up her address and my mother and I drove to Empire this afternoon looking for the woman. Through the information gleaned several years ago from another of Josie’s descendants, I was able to find a granddaughter of Josie’s who is still living. Her name was Josephine “Josie” Ellison (or Allison) Crawford. Mamie had one sister that I have been able to track a little. Sometimes you have to work on a collateral line to get to where you want to go. I had to make a trip “home” to Jefferson County today and after a conversation with my mother last night about Mamie, I decided to run down a lead while in the area. in the photo and I was told by my grandmother, Gladys, that Catherine died in Cedartown, Georgia. Supposedly, her mother’s name was Catherine Gallagher Ellison or Allison and she was Black Dutch. ![]() As I mentioned in a previous post, the parentage of my great-great-grandmother, Mamie Ellison (or Allison) Farley Key, has been a dead-end in my research efforts.
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