Now for the Mitchell side of family from Georgia I have run this past Uncle David and fortunately for us all he has added a lot. Additionally, David’s first cousin Joseph Mitchell son of Seth Mitchell also added a great deal Of information on the 1900-1960 Mitchell family years for those who remained in the Birmingham Alabama area. As had Millie’s writings to Antionen and most importantly two Sites http://www.simpsonhistory.com/joshuamitchell.html and http://www.storytellers.ws/JWMoon.html which enable us to go back ten generations !! Georgia legislature created Gwinnett County from Creek and Cherokee lands. The Creeks from northern Georgia had fought on the British side in the Revolutionary War where driven south to Alabama and after 3 treaties ceded 20 million acres And driven West to the Ozark plateau in the 1830’s. Jon Trumbell 1790 The state's 42 county was named for Britton Gwinett one of Georgia's three signers of the Declaration of Independence . It is named for George Walton, one of the three men from Georgia who signed the Declaration of Independence. Monroe is the County Seat with other towns being Loganville, Between, Social Circle, Jersey, Between, Good Hope and Walnut Grove. Loganville, incorporated as a town in 1887 and then as a city in 1914, was first called Buncombe bunkum, a term meaning "nonsense", derived from 19th century American politics until it was renamed in 1851 to honor an early settler, James Harvie Logan . In early 1800’s, this area‘s population only about 300-400 Jacks Creek near Monroe was the site of the massacre by whites of a large encampment of Creek Indians in 1787. Our ancestors can be traced to at least the early 1800’s in this area and may have even played a part in eradication of Native Americans and in their “trail of tears” West and Daniel Boone’s drive west earlier. According to Aunt Helen our ancestors played part in the establishment of Walton County so ancestors date back to before 1800 which was confirmed in The two genealogical sites mentioned previously. The Walton War was an 1810 boundary dispute between North Carolina and Georgia over a 12 mile strip of land in present day Transylvania County, North Carolina. There were two major clashes between the two state's militias, the Battle of McGaha Branch and the Battle of Selica Hill. Both of these battles resulted in victory for the North Carolina militia. A year later Georgia authorized a survey of the strip and found it to be out of its jurisdiction, and ceded it to North Carolina. Walton County was created on Dec 15,1818. probaly not geographically direct part of Walton Wars incident where 1 person died . The two names of significance for the family in the Walton county area of Georgia are The Mitchell and the Moon family. The larger Moon family in particular seemed to be the earliest settlers or connected from marriage to many of the earliest settlers in Georgia and Virginia going Back to 1700 and before. Through the Moons ,many distant relations could be claimed including Patrick Henry, Pres James Madison and Pres Jefferson Davis Moon’s were in America before the Pilgrims since there is mention of Nicholas Moon and Churchill Moon arriving in Jamestown in 1607 and later mention of Nicholas residing at Jamestown Virginia in 1621. The earliest Mitchell ancestor is Robert James Mitchell from Ireland born about 1700 in Ireland . He married Sarah Brady “Braddy” and their first son John Henry Mitchell Sr. 1748- 1804 had a son John Henry Mitchell Jr 1765 who then had a son Thomas Hardaway Mitchell 1793-1853. Thomas Hardaway Mitchell was our Joshua L Mitchell’s grandfather since his father was Wilson Lumpkin Mitchell 1820-1877. Before the war records show he owned one slave. Following end of the Civil War war, Wilson Lumpkin Mitchell married widow Rachel Catherine Moon and their children include our (Randall,Robert,Lacy and Antionen) great grandfather Joshua “Joshuaway” L Mitchell was born about 1866. When Joshua L. Mitchell married Nettie Long he married his uncle Richard A. Long b. 1831 d1879 and his aunt Josephine [Moon] Long ‘s daughter Nettie Long b1871 d.Aug 30,1952, his first cousin. “ Joshua, who married Nettie Long, daughter of R. A. and Josephine (Moon) Long, a first cousin, and to them were born six children. He was a carpenter and contractor and resided in Alabama at the time of his death.” > > http://www.storytellers.ws/JWMoon.htm Joshua L. Mitchell and the following brothers and sisters : James Robert b1869 , Mattie Bell Martin b1872 ,Susan B.Gill b1874 and Frederick Mitchell b.Feb 3 1972 who later married Candy Stephens and have two children. 1870 Buncombe census The Buncombe census of 1870 show Wilson Lumpkin Mitchell (occupation carpenter)and his wife Rachel Catherine [Moon] Mitchell and Joshua L and James R age 4 and 1 respectively. Note also family name just below theirs on census is Moon, our relatives and a very large family indeed. Wilson Lumpkin Mitchell married widow Rachael Catherine Moon 1837-1907 on 12/06/1865 Her first husband Thomas L Moon had died in WBTS of smallpox in 1862 . The Moon family in Georgia The two Moon sisters Rachel Catherine and Josephine were daughters of the prolific Joseph P Moon 1796-1893 and his second wife Martha Jones and also sisters to 8 Moon brothers that served in the CSA 35th Georgia . The brothers names were Andrew Jackson , Steven LaFayette (2nd Lieu), William, DeKalb, Edom, George W, Augustus and Charles P Moon . Andrew Moon suffered fatal injuries near Spotsylvania courthouse and later died in Richmond. Steven LaFayette fought at Gettysburg and was later wounded. Steven LaFayette wrote home to his parents. "Lieut. STEPHEN L. MOON. "Camp Near Brandy Station, Va., October 20. "Dear Father and Mother: I again have the pleasure of dropping you a few lines. This leaves myself and all my brothers well and hearty. I have nothing that is good to write you all at this time, more than we have got this far back from another campaign We have been near Manassas and drove the Yankees from the Rappohanock river to Mannassas, and they did not stop to give any fight, only the cavalry, as we would push on them so close that they could not get away without making the attempt, till we were in two or three miles of Mannassas. Then we had ten brigades of infantry engaged. We then fell back across the Rappohanock river, burning the railroad bridge as we went. I think we will take up winter quarters some where near where we did last winter, if we don't go west. It is the chat here now that three divisions of this army will go west and General Lee will go also and leave Hill and Ewell here to defend Virginia "I think if Lee goes with his men he will show the western boys how to fight and would drive the last Yankee back on their own soil. I heard today that Bragg was still fighting them and they were still falling back. I also heard that the Yankees said that as soon as our men charged them they knew that some of the army from the Potomac was there for they did not fight like the troops they had been used to fighting. I don't think there will be any more fighting here this winter----think we can go into winter quarters and remain there unmolested this winter. "Mother, I would like for you to send me two pairs of socks and a coat, if you can make it. I have a short coat which is too cold for winter. I have pants and shirts aplenty. If you can get them ready, send them by A. J. Webb, or the first one that passes. 1 think that Edom and Augustus need the same. "The health of the army is very good. Father, I would like for you to send me the returns of the election in Walton. I hope that Lent Bass is elected, but I fear he is left. "I will close; give my best respects to all my friends. I hope that some of us will get to come home this winter. I suppose that George has not returned to his command yet. "I remain as ever, your loving son till death. "S. L. MOON." According to Millie”There is a book compiled about Dad’s complete ancestral line. It is simply titled the “Moon Family”. Here are some excerpts from that book which may contain an error regarding Addie Moon http://www.storytellers.ws/JWMoon.htm “Addie, daughter of Thomas L. and Catherine Moon, was born February 20th, 1861, and married J. J. Humphries on June 20th, 1885, and to them were bo rn eight children: Jessie Irene, Bessie Inez, Thomas Josiah, Annie Runie, Oliver Homer, Ernest Noble, Frederic and Hugh. Mr. Humphries and his family resides at Norcross, and owns large farming interests in Gwinnett County. Thomas L. Moon, the father of the above named children, was a son of Elijah Moon. He served the Confederacy during the Civil War as a private in Company G Thirty-fifth Regiment until his death November 13, 1862, of small pox. This fits in with the Good Hope Georgia story “we have good hope you’ll keep passing thru” ( on to Athens Georgia –University of Georgia 40 miles away) and the nearby town for gathering for drinking ,socializing and dancing known appropriately as Social Circle.