This article I found one afternoon was the most important that I have found to date of my direct family lineage. I had been working (in vain it seemed) with a copy of my family tree from my Grandpa K L Partain’s Bible to try and find my line. I came across this and about passed out in the asile of the state archives at the Salt Lake City Family History Library. (Apparently this sort of thing is common at the library, as not a soul blinked an eye as I slid to the ground clutching the book). The John E. Partain listed in the first paragraph turned out to be my fourth great grandfather, and after 15 years of research I am fairly certain that Robert Partin was indeed my 9th great grandfather.
WALKER COUNTY GEORGIA HERITAGE 1833-1983
Published by Walker County History Committee and Walker County Historical Society, LaFayette, GA., Taylor Printing Co., Dallas, TX., 1984, page 317.
PARTAIN FAMILY (no.980)
The first Partains came to Walker County in 1833 From Tattnall County. John E. Partain died in 1855. George A. Partain died in 1862. Both were buried In Pleasant Valley Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery near Ringgold, Georgia.
James S. Partain, born 1805; buried in Duncan Cemetery south of LaFayette, Georgia; married Isabel Edmondson, born 1807. Their children: John, Elizabeth, James Franklin and Alfred Web.
John, born 1840, died 1896; buried in Duncan Cemetery; married Mary Jane Baker, daughter of Joshua and Sarah D. Barnswell Baker from Cass County later Gordon County. John was in the Muster Roll of Walker County Independents. Their children: Alice Isabel, born 1867, died 1887; married Patrick Littlejohn. Sioda Estell, born 1868; married a Pickard, one child, Leona. James Monroe, born 1870, died 1935 married Callie Williams. Children: Eddie Lee married Fletcher Hollis and Addie Mae, Robert Deforest, born 1873,died 1921. George Alexander (Washington), born 1877, died 1937; married Allie Bryant Strickland, born 1885, died 1922. Children: Vennie Lee, born December 24, 1906, married Dillmus Edgtar Wilson, born 1906, died April 4, 1955, buried in Westview Cemetery, Moultrie, Georgia. George Emory, born August 15, 1908, died November 19, 1981. Glenna Beatrice, born August 26, 1910, married Paul S. Wilson, died 1953. John Ivan, born January 22, 1913, died September 1971; married first wife, Myrtle Debord, born December 14, 1914; second wife, Narine Cornett. Dennis Preston, born September 26, 1915; married Edna Henry of Blue Ridge, Georgia. Annie Ruth, born January 9, 1917; married Hugh Gordon Duncan, died April 1971; buried Howell Cemetery. Marguerieta, born January 21, 1922, married first husband, Barnard Strickland, born in Birmingham, Alabama, died January 1983; buried in Summerville, Georgia; second husband, Jeff L. Morgan of Rockmart, Georgia. 5
John’s second marriage, Larrinda Cawhorn, children: Margie Elen, born 1886, died, 1912, married William Nash Underwood. Mary Jane, born 1888 married Rowland Lowery. Willliam Everett, born 1890, died 1892. Myrtle, born 1893, married William Carl Wilson.
Elizabeth, born 1843, only known daughter of James S and Isabel Edmondson Partain.
James Franklin, born 1847, died 1887/1890; buried probably Mapleton, KA, Bourbon County Cemetery; married Nancy Jane Wilson, born 1844, died, 1934 buried Thomas, Oklahoma from Bible records and gravestone.
Alfred Web, born 1849, died, 1924, buried Garland, KA; married Laura M. Wilson, born 1847, buried in Clarksburg Cemetery.
Nancy Jane and Laura M. were daughters of Thomas B. Wilson, born 1810, died 1855. Thomas was a lifetime resident of Walker County. He is probably buried in the John F. Wilson family cemetery located north of Walnut Grove Baptist Church at Wesley Chapel Methodist Church near Cane Creek, Walker County.
~Submitted by Vennie Lee Partain Wilson
HOLLIS FAMILY (no.609)
Jesse Fletcher Hollis was born in Walker County, Georgia on May 29, 1897 and died in Catoosa County, Georgia, on February 10, 1980. He married Eddie Lee Partain born in Walker County, Georgia on November 6, 1899 and died in Catoosa County, Georgia on April 14, 1977. Five children were born to them. They were Eleanor, Einora, Richard, Charlotte Ann and Sara Elizabeth. Eleanor and Einora were twins born on September 27, 1931. Einora died September 28, 1931 and is buried at Howell Cemetery, Chattooga County, Georgia. Richard was born November 7, 1934 and died November 8, 1934 and is buried at Howell Cemetery. Charlotte Ann was born November 13, 1936 and Sara Elizabeth was born January 23,1940. Eddie Lee Partain and Jesse Fletcher Hollis were, married on September 29, 1929 by Rev. W.L, Mavity. Jesse Fletcher was the oldest son of Mary Clementine Hall Hollis and James Virgil Hollis. He was the grandson of Harriet Howell Hall and James E. Hall and Loizia Lively Hollis and J. Turner Hollis. His great-grandparents were Middleton and Ellen Hollis, who were born in South Carolina and moved to Chattooga County, Georgia, 6 about 1843, and William Lively and Nancy F. Lively. He had two brothers, Charlie and an infant brother who died. He had three sisters Dovie, Mary Sudie and Emma Mae. Jesse Fletcher was raised on a farm in Walker Oounty, Georgia. He was a farmer and textile worker. Eddie Lee Partain Hollis was the older daughter of Allena Caldonia (Callie) Williams Partain and James Monroe Partain. She was the granddaughter of Sarah A.E. Williams and Jesse Williams and Mary Jane Baker Partain and John Partain. Her great-grandparents were James S. Partain and Isabel Edmondson Partain and Sallie B. Baker and Henry and Sarah Williams. She had one sister, Addie Mae Partain who was born on December 2, 1901 and died on May 9, 1944. Eddie Lee was raised on a farm. She was a school teacher and housewife. Eleanor Hollis married Thomas Leon Padgett of East Point, Georgia, on December 3, 1954, by Rev. B.C. dark. They have one son Thomas Leon Padgett, Jr., born on August 15, 1962. Sara Elizabeth Hollis married William A. Aldridge of High Point, North Carolina on July 26, 1969. Eddie Lee Partain Hollis and Jesse Fletcher Hollis are buried at Howell Cemetery, Chattooga County, Georgia. The cemetery is in the Halls Valley Community. Mary Clementine Hall Hollis, James Virgil Hollis, Dovie Hollis Kirklin Campbell are buried at Howell Cemetery, Chattooga County, Georgia. Allena Caldonia (Callie) Williams Partain, James Monroe Partain and Addie Mae Partain are buried at the Trinity Cemetery at Center Post in Walker County, Georgia.
~Submitted by Vennie Lee Partain Wilson