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From: Carole Johnson <>
Subject: [BREWER-L] Joel Brewer
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:13:17 -0700

Hi all,

It has been a little while since I last posted a request for information
on our elusive Joel Brewer. My local cousins and I have made a few
connections and through this list have discovered a cousin with an
actual photograph of our Joel. We have also been given info from
a book called _Rollins & Clark with Allied Families_ by Lillie
Rollins Crawford that list a Benjamin Brewer who was enumerated in
the 1840 Campbell County, GA census. His children are believed
to be:
Nancy, b. ca 1818, m. David Griffin
William H. b. ca 1819
Joseph, b. Jan. 29, 1825
Joel, b. 1827
James, b. ca. 1829
Synthia C., b. ca. 1831

The above Joseph Brewer was mentioned as being in the 1850 Paulding Co., Ga.
census as were our Joel, his wife Nancy Peek Brewer and a widowed Susan
Brewer we believe was Joseph and Joel's mother.

Does anyone have any information on this Benjamin Brewer and possible proof
linking Benjamin with the above children and Susan?

Our Joel Brewer was the Ordinary of Polk County, Georgia for almost 30 years.
Unfortunately the county does not have much information regarding him. An
as luck would have it the Cedartown, Ga. paper is missing issues for any
important dates in Joel's life. There is much documentation; however, in
the paper to confirm that he was the Ordinary of the county. There was one
write up in which he witnessed a murder committed right on the county
courthouse
steps. One of his son's Elias Camp Brewer (named apparently for the minister
at the Bethlehem Baptist Church at Fish Creek in Polk County) became a
judge in Hall County, Georgia as did one of his children. One thing that is
very interesting is that Joel's son Robert was married to Louisa Jane Hicks
from Stone Mountain, Georgia. Her father was a widower during the Civil War
and we've speculated that Louisa and her siblings were farmed out to relatives
during his service, possibly even to Polk County. Her handwritten will
was written to apparently protect Joel's (her father in law) interest from
her children during the sale of a saw mill. We have heard that she suffered
from TB. She must have feared she would die before the sale of the saw mill
was consumated and was afraid her children would make claims upon it before
Joel claimed his fair share. Husband Robert was to be the executor. That
would have been quite something for a woman to own a sawmill with her father
in law during the Reconstruction of the south. As it turned out she out lived
Joel who died in 1898. Louisa Jane died in 1928.

It is obvious we are fascintated with this Brewer line and are interested in
antecdotes as well as dates and details. If you have ANY information you
would like to trade/share please let us know.

Your Brewer Cousins,
Claudette,
Wally
Sandra
and Carole

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