Pickens, Pickens Co., South Carolina and died: 18 MAY 1908 Edgewood, Van Zandt Co., Tx. and buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Van Zandt County). An 1847 deed for the Auraria Episcopal Methodist Church, Auraria, Lumpkin Co., Ga. (where this church is today) shows Joseph Berry Wade was one of three trustees buying Lot #663 for the church. She was 1 of 9 children, the others being Emily Adaline Wade 1841–1895, William Asbery Wade 1842–1864 (died in Confederate service, Company D, First Regiment, Ga. State Regiment, "Blue Ridge Rangers" in the defense of Atlanta by Sherman's troops), Elizabeth Agnew Wade 1845–1860, Whitfield Anthony Wade 1847–1928 (served in Civil War Lumpkin Co. Georgia Guard Militia), John Wesley Moody Wade 1849–1882, Laurence Q P Wade 1851–1922, Susan Ann Amancy Wade 1854–1950, and Adelia Josephene Wade 1857–1936. During the Civil War her father Joseph Berry Wade, who had a asthma still served in the 1st Georgia Volunteer Infantry (Ramsey) 821 Georgia Militia & Confederate Army "Home Guard" for Lumpkin Co., Ga. guarding the northern Georgia state line. After the Civil War the entire family, accompanied by the Joseph Henry Bell family and others from Lumpkin County, moved by ox-drawn wagon train, down through Alabama to Mobile and across the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi River by flat-bottomed boat arriving at Jefferson Texas. They finally settled in Upshur County, Texas where most of the family settled and many family members remain as of 2008.
Biography by Ron Wade
Pickens, Pickens Co., South Carolina and died: 18 MAY 1908 Edgewood, Van Zandt Co., Tx. and buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Van Zandt County). An 1847 deed for the Auraria Episcopal Methodist Church, Auraria, Lumpkin Co., Ga. (where this church is today) shows Joseph Berry Wade was one of three trustees buying Lot #663 for the church. She was 1 of 9 children, the others being Emily Adaline Wade 1841–1895, William Asbery Wade 1842–1864 (died in Confederate service, Company D, First Regiment, Ga. State Regiment, "Blue Ridge Rangers" in the defense of Atlanta by Sherman's troops), Elizabeth Agnew Wade 1845–1860, Whitfield Anthony Wade 1847–1928 (served in Civil War Lumpkin Co. Georgia Guard Militia), John Wesley Moody Wade 1849–1882, Laurence Q P Wade 1851–1922, Susan Ann Amancy Wade 1854–1950, and Adelia Josephene Wade 1857–1936. During the Civil War her father Joseph Berry Wade, who had a asthma still served in the 1st Georgia Volunteer Infantry (Ramsey) 821 Georgia Militia & Confederate Army "Home Guard" for Lumpkin Co., Ga. guarding the northern Georgia state line. After the Civil War the entire family, accompanied by the Joseph Henry Bell family and others from Lumpkin County, moved by ox-drawn wagon train, down through Alabama to Mobile and across the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi River by flat-bottomed boat arriving at Jefferson Texas. They finally settled in Upshur County, Texas where most of the family settled and many family members remain as of 2008.
Biography by Ron Wade
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