Robert Strickland - 1867-1868 Georgia Registration Oaths
Robert Strickland is indexed at 112:20 and 199:3 in John David Brandenburg's Index to Georgia's 1867-1868 Returns of Qualified Voters and Registration Oath Books (supposed to reflect only Caucasian entries).112 and 199 refer to Gwinnett County, and due to the proximity of these entries to the Bolton family entries in Pinckneyville, it would appear that Robert Strickland was at or near this place in 1867-1868 when he pledged his oath to the USA and stated he did not participate in the Confederate insurgency.He does not appear in Gwinnett County in the 1860 or 1870 census.Does anyone know this man's family?
I am seeking the identity of the Mr. Strickland who married Mary Emmeline Bolton, daughter of Joseph and Priscilla South Bolton, in about 1848.I have not been able to locate a marriage record, and some from this period were lost due to a fire at the courthouse in the 1870's.I have not been able to locate Unknown Mr. Strickland and Mary Emmeline Bolton Strickland in 1850 or 1860.She returned home without her husband to reside with her parents in 1870.They had two children, Eliza B. and J. Henry Strickland.See Joseph Bolton household, 1870, Pinckneyville, Gwinnett County, Georgia.Also see 1880 census there.Also see "Mathew Bolton Family," Gwinnett County, Georgia Families 1818-1968, edited by Alice Smythe McCabe and compiled by Gwinnett Historical Society.
I descend from Eliza, who married Charles Colquitt Hall in 1887.I found their marriage record in a book of marriages of "persons of color" in the Gwinnett County Probate Office.These were the parents of my grandmother, Ruby Elizabeth Hall.I am 2% Native American and 7% Sub-Saharan by DNA test, and family folklore recites that Ruby was a Cherokee descendant.
Thank you for any and all information.
Pat Gresham
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