James Henry Cribbs

Birth: 7 Mar 1870
Bryan County, Georgia, USA
Death: 6 Jul 1936 (aged 66)
Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, USA
Burial: Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery

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Memorial ID: 11490508 View Source

There were no markers on any of James' family graves until after Oct 1958 when his daughter Minnie died. I now, I was there! James, Sarah & Susie's markers appeared sometime after his daughter Ola Mae died in 1976 and before 1979, when I was there last. ALL THE OTHERS WERE PLACED AFTER 1978. The DOB's are wrong on both James & his 1st wife Sarah's markers. James was born in APRIL 1866. The dates in the Tattnall Co GA 1900 census are correct. His DOB changed in the 1910 census to 1870 after he married Susie and remained 1870 thereafter, because Susie answered the questions for the census and did not know James was born 1866 instead of 1870. He was 6 yrs older than Sarah and almost 24 yrs older than Susie. The dates on both markers are not my great-grandparents James & Sarah DOB's.

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Son of Elder Henry Jordan Cribbs & Talitha Ann Williams Cribbs

Grandson of Henry Rhederic [Reddick] Cribbs & Susannah 'Susan' Wise and James & Ellen Williams
Great-grandson of Covington Branick Cribbs & Sarah B. Cannon
Husband of Sara Ann Laura 'Analara' Dukes Cribbs and Susie Elizabeth Glisson Cribbs.

James married Analara on 21 Aug 1891 and they had the following 9 children:
William Jordan Cribbs (1892-1971)
John Daniel Cribbs (1894-1898)
John's Twin Stillborn unnamed (1894-1894)
Talitha Ann Eliza Cribbs Sanders (1896-1970)
Ola Mae Cribbs Sykes-Hodges (1897-1976)
Mary Melissa Cribbs (1900-1910)
Minnie Lee Cribbs Roberts-Gibson (1901-1958)
Alice Alzada Cribbs Eason-Sikes (1903-1964)
Ethel Ophelia Cribbs Geiger (1904-1982)

James married Susie in 1908 and they had the following 8 children:
Alberta Lourina Cribbs (1909-1935)
James Leroy Cribbs (1913-1920)
Katie Leonora Cribbs Kite-Lewis (1914-2009)
Rufus Henry Cribbs(1915-1946)
Infant Cribbs (1917-1917)
Rebecca Leona Cribbs Kersey (1918-2007)
John Henry Cribbs (1920-1944)
Eunice Elizabeth Cribbs Anderson-Spencer (1921-1993)

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Photo's of James with both his families are included above.
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Bio added by Joyce Summerville - 1st grand-daughter of Minnie Lee Cribbs.
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Special note: The row of markers/slabs for the James Henry Cribbs family have been placed there by unknowing persons/family. In 1978, when my mother (James Henry Cribbs' granddaughter) and I were visiting, she told me, as we were facing the graves, that the grave closest to the road/church was James Williams(1893), James Henry Cribbs' maternal grandfather. Next were James' twin son's by his 1st wife(Analara), one still born(1894), the other three yr old John Daniel Cribbs(1898) named after his maternal grandfather. Next was 'Analara' Dukes Cribbs(1906), James' 1st wife; beside her was James Henry Cribbs(1936). The next space was a sunken area where 10 yr old Mary Melissa Cribbs (1910), James & Analara's daughter was buried. Beside her was a very small sunken area where the still born infant(1917) of James' 2nd wife was buried. Beside the infant was a bare space we assumed was James' 2nd wife Susie who was buried 4 yrs earlier, no slab-no marker. Beside that space was Alberta Lourina Cribbs (1935), Susie's 1st born with James marked with a wide slab. Beside Alberta was another small sunken area where her 7 yr old brother James Leroy Cribbs(1920) was buried. We assumed Susie had been buried between her still born & her daughter Alberta. Beside James Leroy was Susie & James' son John Henry Cribbs (1944). Between John Henry and the fence was John Henry's older brother Rufus Henry Cribbs(1947) no slab-no marker.

In 1958 there were only slabs on John Henry, Alberta, James Henry, Analara's graves. There were no markers on any of the graves. When we visited in 1978 there were markers on James Henry, Analara and John Henry's graves. and a new slab next to James Henry, but no marker. We assumed the new slab next to James Henry was Mary Melissa's because there was no marker and we knew that was where she was buried.

Seeing the new photos of the Cribbs burial row it seems Alberta's slab has been moved to the left and know covers both her and her brother James Leroy. It appears whoever placed the marker for Susie next to James did not know it was Mary's grave not Susie's. Or, when Susie was buried Mary was moved between Alberta and the infant and Susie was buried next to James and the slab was replaced over Susie, leaving Mary's grave unmarked. It is unlikely that Rebecca's family knew about the unmarked graves so Rebecca was buried in the same area as her mother's still born child. Such a small grave would not have been noticed by a grave digger. So Susie & Rebecca are buried in Mary & the infants graves. I do not know if Susie's grandson Thurman W. Williams Jr(2007), is buried between John Henry & Rufus Henry or if Thurman is buried in Rufus' grave. It is a shame Little Flock has not kept records of the early burials. There are many graves that are miss-located and miss-marked.

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Last updated 28 Aug 2020