Worley Chapel Community near Coal City

Worley Chapel (a.k.a. or near Coal City)

Dade Co., GA

Residents mentioned, or inferred as residents: 

William G. Harris - LRKH-F2J - 1905

S.A. Bryant - 1905

        (?Standifer A. Bryant? - ref. LVCW-MST on Family Search)

W.A. 'Bud' Boatner -  - 1905 

       (sold land to S.A. Bryant & moved 

         to Hot Springs, Arkansas; might

         be same person as James A. 'Bud' 

         Boatner - KH4Q-JVS)

Nathan Gass - LHDZ-YJ4 - 1904 

        (father of Mrs. John Wilson 

          of St. Elmo)

[Note: From persons mentioned in relation to Worley Chapel, , Georgia, or in the Worley Chapel column, this place seems to be near, or a local name for, Coal City, Dade, Georgia, where the people are usually found in census.]

[Source]: Wilson and Gass (personal item) in 'Personal and Local,' /Dade County Sentinel/ (Trenton, Dade, Georgia) 1901-1908, 19 August 1904, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers,  Digital Library of Georgia (Gallileo). https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053748/1904-08-19/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_668x817_from_1008,6447_to_1963,7615/ (accessed 08 February 2020).

Miss Livermore - - sister of Mr. Crocker

       Another obit says she was aged 70, a school teacher living in Jackson Co., Ala.--had lived there 10 years. Lived w/Mary Smith.

Dade County sentinel. (Trenton, Ga.) 1901-1908, August 19, 1904, Image 3

Marriage 

Family Search ref. KH1D-BP2

Eliz. Livermore

'Mr. Crocker arrived this week from Illinois to attend the bedside of his sister, Miss Livermore, who lives on Sand Mountain west of Trenton. The illness of Miss Livermore terminated fatally Tuesday, and the remains, in charge of Mr. Crocker, will be taken to Illinois for interrment.'

Mr. Crocker attends bedside/death of sister, Miss Livermore, 

/Dade County sentinel/  (Trenton, Dade, Georgia) 1901-1908, Friday, 17 February 1905, page 2 (digital image 2), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (Gallileo).

Mention of C. J. Gass and Hattie Wilson (nearly illegible) of Alton Park [neighborhood in Chattanooga] as son and daughter of Mrs. Nathan Gass.

Gass, social item in 'Worley Chapel, Ga.' (column), /Dade County Sentinel (Trenton, Dade, Georgia) 1901-1908, 31 March 1905, page 2 (digital image 2), Georgia Historic Newspapers,  Digital Library of Georgia (Gallileo). 

https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053748/1905-03-31/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_652x817_from_3333,4114_to_4283,5304/ (accessed 8 Feb. 2020).

Gass: Selected Items from Dade County, Georgia

United States Census, 1900, Militia Districts 960, Trenton, Mountain Trenton town, Dade, Georgia, sheet 7 A (archival stamp 244), dwelling 2, family 2, line 11:  Effie E Gass, aged 25, married female, daughter of James T. Woolbright. Birth: Feb 1875, Georgia. Father born in Georgia. Mother born in Alabama. Her husband (son-in-law of head) is James L Gass. Married 2 years (est. 1898). Effie is the mother of 1 child, 1 living.

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[Quote from Dade County Sentinel]: 'James Gass, of York, Ala., visited the family of J. T. Woolbright Sunday.'

[Source]: James Gass (untitled social item) in 'Worley Chapel, Ga. (community column), /Dade County Sentinel/  (Trenton, Dade, Georgia) 1901-1908, 17  October 1902, page 2 (digital image 2). https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053748/1902-10-17/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_590x817_from_830,2786_to_2012,4422/ (clipping ; from full page accessed 10 Feb. 2020).

Garrett L. Gass

This goes w/Garrett L. Gass, son of Nathan Gass--important--sawmill, etc. Need to write a summary and post it.

[Source]: G. L. Gass (personal mentions) in Worley Chapel, Ga. (column), 

Dade County sentinel/  (Trenton, Dade, Georgia) 1901-1908, 14 July 1905, page 2 (digital image 2), Georgia Historic Newspapers,  Digital Library of Georgia (Gallileo). https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053748/1905-07-14/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_652x817_from_2232,3197_to_3469,4747/ (clipping ; full page accessed 11 Feb. 2020).

Also: July 24, 1903, page 2

He is mentioned as the Road Commissioner of the 1222nd District, Dade, in a July 20 meeting of the Board of Roads and Revenues and Road Commissioners. 

Lyemanc and Gass (Marriage)

 

[Quote from Dade County Sentinel]: 'Married at the residence of Nathan Gass, four miles west of Trenton Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock with Rev. J. A. Cureton officiating, Miss Mattie Lyemanc of Trenton to Chester Gass of Alton Park.' 

[Note: Date not specified; inferred as Nov. 12, but could be one week previous.]

'Lyemanc-Gass' (Marriage Announcement), 

/Dade County Sentinel/  (Trenton, Dade, Georgia) 1901-1908, Friday, 14 November 1902, page 2 (digital image 2), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (Gallileo).