Died of flu. Died as young child. Remembered by Hattie.
Name: Carolee Owens
SSN: 267-16-4718
Last Residence: 32726 Eustis, Lake, Florida, United States of America
Born: 24 Aug 1902
Died: Apr 1987
State (Year) SSN issued: Florida (Before 1951 )
Will probated in Long County, Ga.
Misc: Long County created from portion of Liberty County approx. 1925
Francis Lloyd was born in Liberty (now Long), County, Georgia on November 13, 1894. He married Effie Ouida Harmon, my mother, on January 25, 1926. She was born in Washington County, Florida on July 30, 1901.
He lived all his life in Liberty/Long County. He graduated from Ludowici High School, served in the Army in WW1, was postmaster of the Ludowici Post Office for a while, and served as RFD Carrier for almost 30 years before retiring from that position in 1964.
He was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Ludowici, serving in many capacities during his long membership. He was active in the New Sunbury Association affairs and Area Mission work. In recognition of these efforts, the minutes of the 1977 Associational Meeting were dedicated to him.
His vocation may have been with the Post Office, but his avocation was his work in the church, his farm, and his hunting and fishing. He pursued all these with vigor. He gave up fishing in his beloved Wiggins Lake only after a fall in his boat shortly before his 90th birthday.
Following his wife's death, he married Wilma Loudermilk Chapman, Uncle Charles' widow. He was 83 years old at the time and they enjoyed almost 10 years of married life before his death on September 22, 1987.
Will probated in Long County. Birth Certificate recorded in Long County.
By Francis lloyd Chapman Jr.
Mother grew up with her family moving about in north Florida and south Georgia. She lived in Macon, Georgia during her teen years and stayed to work there when the family moved on. She came to Ludowici to visit her parents while her father was working in the town. There she met Daddy whom she eventually married. She lived in Ludowici with him until her death, December 10, 1976.
She was active in social and civic work in the community. She ran several small businesses during her life.
Shortly after her marriage, Mother joined the Bethlehem, now First Baptist Church. She was active in the work and mission of that church until her death. She was recognized and honored for her work in the Church and Association when the 1972 minutes of the New Sunbury Association Meeting was dedicated to her.
I took the photographs used in the Associational Minutes to honor Mother and Daddy. Those photographs are reproduced in the Ancestral Photographs section of this book.
Of all the accomplishments of all the ancestors which have been found in my study, the most outstanding to me is Mother's work in establishing a church.
While the very nature of a church is cooperative effort, and none can claim to have established a church alone, none can claim to have had greater impact on the establishment of a church that she. That church stands today, not as a memorial to her, but as a witness for her Savior to a people who had no witness.
When her call came she was uniquely qualified for the task. She had spent most of her adult life in preparation, without knowing how that preparation would ultimately be used.
I believe that I was with her when she accepted God's call to that work. She had finished a Vacation Bible School which she had held for children of a poor area of the community. This was the second or third year she had done this following her leading the Vacation Bible School in her church. She did this in order to reach children who could not attend the Vacation Bible School in her church for she felt a burden in her heart for them.
I was helping her move the materials and supplies from the dilapidated shack in which she held the School when she told me to leave certain of her things there. I asked her why and somewhat tentatively she said that she was coming back to teach the children on Sunday.
I probably have the dubious honor of becoming the first in a long line of critics when I complained about her plan. Her answer converted my criticism to support. Her accomplishment negated all other's.
She said, "Son, you don't understand. This morning, when I told the children that this was the last day and I would not be coming back, they rushed from their seats to me. They hugged me around my lags and waist and with tears in their eyes began begging me to come back and tell them more stories about Jesus. I looked down at those children gathered about me and I couldn't say no," She looked away, and with her voice trailing off, for her speech was no longer directed to me, she said, "I'll be starting a Sunday School next Sunday morning."
She devoted the remaining years of her life to that effort. When it was accomplished, when that Sunday School had become a church, and when it could stand, God called her home.
Information from tombstone and family.
Twin sister, Louisa. Moved from Texas in covered wagon. Louisa lostfrom camp during trip. Child never found according to Aunt Myrtle,August 3, 1991.
Above information and RIN data from grandmother herself, tombstone, andfamily sources.
Information from Aunt Myrtle.
Will probated in Long County, Ga.
Misc: Long County created from portion of Liberty County approx. 1925
Francis Lloyd was born in Liberty (now Long), County, Georgia on November 13, 1894. He married Effie Ouida Harmon, my mother, on January 25, 1926. She was born in Washington County, Florida on July 30, 1901.
He lived all his life in Liberty/Long County. He graduated from Ludowici High School, served in the Army in WW1, was postmaster of the Ludowici Post Office for a while, and served as RFD Carrier for almost 30 years before retiring from that position in 1964.
He was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Ludowici, serving in many capacities during his long membership. He was active in the New Sunbury Association affairs and Area Mission work. In recognition of these efforts, the minutes of the 1977 Associational Meeting were dedicated to him.
His vocation may have been with the Post Office, but his avocation was his work in the church, his farm, and his hunting and fishing. He pursued all these with vigor. He gave up fishing in his beloved Wiggins Lake only after a fall in his boat shortly before his 90th birthday.
Following his wife's death, he married Wilma Loudermilk Chapman, Uncle Charles' widow. He was 83 years old at the time and they enjoyed almost 10 years of married life before his death on September 22, 1987.
Ludowici - Wilma L. Chapman, age 88, died Saturday, December 10, 2005 at Memorial Health of Savannah after injuries received in an automobile accident. She was a native of Habersham County living most of her life in Ludowici. She was a retired school teacher and a member of Ludowici First Baptist Church. She is survived by one daughter, Charlene Love and husband, Allen of Marietta; one sister, Lillian Carroll and husband, Bill of Ludowici; two grandchildren, Bryan Love of Smyrma and Karen Campbell of Acworth; one nephew, James Kirten of Savannah and one niece, Sue Hixson of Salt Lake City, Utah. The family will receive friends Tuesday, December 13, 2005 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home Chapel. Funeral service will be held Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. from the Carter Funeral Home, Gordon-Harrison Chapel with the Reverend Bill Barnett officiating. Interment will follow at Jesup City Cemetery. Carter Funeral Home, Gordon-Harrison Chapel
Sara Britton Elizabeth CHAPMAN
Adopted daughter. Source, Sara Britton Chapman
Had two other marriages. Source, Blue eyed cousin.
In summer of 1912 Aunt Mae returned to her home in S. C. to visit. While there she visited a doctor for whom she had worked. During the visit the doctor told her about a baby which was dying while being cared for by a grandparent. The baby's mother had died in childbirth and the father had abandoned the baby. The grandparent was trying, but the baby was losing weight and growing weaker each week. The doctor pressed Aunt Mae, then a young woman, married less than a year, to take the child and try to save its life. Overwhelmed by the child's plight, Aunt Mae contacted Uncle Dave, her husband, and asked him for advice. His reply was that she was to do whatever she thought right. She came home with the baby, Sara. Sara was called Saddie by the family and changed her name recently on finding that her given name was Sara.
Source: Blue Eyed Cousin (Hattie).
Sara Britton Elizabeth CHAPMAN
Adopted daughter. Source, Sara Britton Chapman
Had two other marriages. Source, Blue eyed cousin.
In summer of 1912 Aunt Mae returned to her home in S. C. to visit. While there she visited a doctor for whom she had worked. During the visit the doctor told her about a baby which was dying while being cared for by a grandparent. The baby's mother had died in childbirth and the father had abandoned the baby. The grandparent was trying, but the baby was losing weight and growing weaker each week. The doctor pressed Aunt Mae, then a young woman, married less than a year, to take the child and try to save its life. Overwhelmed by the child's plight, Aunt Mae contacted Uncle Dave, her husband, and asked him for advice. His reply was that she was to do whatever she thought right. She came home with the baby, Sara. Sara was called Saddie by the family and changed her name recently on finding that her given name was Sara.
Source: Blue Eyed Cousin (Hattie).