Family of Reason/Rezin Mobley
Are these photos of Reason and Lucretia (Dunkin) Mobley?
Comparisons made to photos of Reason's sons Hezekiah and Joseph
lead us to speculate that they are. A study of the photos indicates they
were
taken in the early to mid-1860s. The originals are tintypes, which were
also typical of the period. They are placed side by side in an old
photo album owned by Mary Caroline (Morgan) Mobley, immediately
following a page containing the photos of her own parents, leading us
to believe that she had put her parents and her husband's parents in the
first two pages of her album.
(Album currently in possession of Lucinda Wilcoxen, recently acquired from
the holdings of the late Fayth Hodge Branton.)
Reason (or Rezin) Mobley
b. December 19,
1818, in South Carolina (tombstone shows 1809)
m. (1) February 23, 1832, to Lucretia Duncan, Coweta
County, Georgia
See marriage record here.
m. (2) July 25, 1875, to Martha Ann Cates, Coweta County,
Georgia
d. March 22, 1882, in Coweta County, Georgia, buried in
Macedonia Baptist Cemetery, Coweta County, Georgia
See obituary here.
See will here.
Lucretia "Creasy" Duncan
b. 1804 in South Carolina
d. January 18, 1874, in Coweta County, Georgia (per
Macedonia Church Records)
Her father was Peter Duncan, from Edgefield, South
Carolina.
Her mother was Margaret (?), born in 1770 in South
Carolina.
Martha Ann Cates
b. July 13, 1823
d. July 19, 1897, buried Tranquil Cemetery, Coweta
County, Georgia
CHILDREN
of Reason Mobley & Lucretia Duncan:
1.
Hezekiah Madison "Mac" Mobley
b. November 26, 1832, in Coweta County, Georgia
m. November 9, 1854 to Sarah Jane Jones, Coweta County,
Georgia
d. May 20, 1924
2.
Mary Ann Mobley
b. 1835 in Coweta County, Georgia
d. in her teens?
3.
Stephen Mobley
b. 1837, Coweta County, Georgia
m. December 20, 1859, to Frances Jane "Fanny"
Smith, Coweta County, Georgia
d. April 30, 1862, in Civil War, at Atlanta, Georgia.
On March 4, 1862, was a private. Appointed artificer.
4.
Joseph Sheppard Mobley
b. March 4, 1839, in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia
m. July 15, 1866, to Mary Caroline Morgan
d. January 28, 1914, buried McDade, Texas
5.
Andrew G. Mobley
b. 1841, Coweta County, Georgia
d. in Civil War
Probable match on Andrew J. Mobley, private, enlisted May
1, 1862, Newnan,
d. June 9, 1863, in hospital at Savannah.
6.
William P. Mobley
b. 1842
d. November 1, 1863, in Civil War, in a Newnan, Georgia,
hospital.
On July 27, 1862, was a private (CSA).
