Morgan Strickland

Land Ownership Summary

Land Lot: 1012, 1st District, 2nd Section, except 25 yards across the north side, extending from the original line to the other1
Acreage: 37.5 acres
Date of Purchase: May 14, 19102
What Happened to the Land: By 1919, the land was under the ownership of Willis O. Harris. No deed has been located documenting a legal sale or transfer from Morgan Strickland, and the means of transfer remain unclear3.

Location Today

Modern Location: The land once owned by Morgan Strickland is located in the southeastern part of Forsyth County, along Settles Road, near the entrance to the Grand Cascades subdivision. The small subdivision known as Cascade Run has been developed on a portion of the property and occupies roughly one-third of the original 37.5 acres. 4

Genealogy Snapshot

Parents: Perry Strickland (b. ~1825) and Jenny (Jane) Strickland, maiden name possibly Terry, based on information from Morgan’s death certificate. 5

Spouse: Harriett Rogers, married September 1, 1893, in Forsyth County. 6

Children: No known biological children.

Other Household Members:

Toney Howell, Morgan’s nephew9, lived with him in 1910 and later served in WWI. He lived next to Morgan in Duluth, Georgia, as of the 1920 Census. 7

After 1912: Morgan no longer appears in Forsyth County records. By 1920, he, Harriett, and other relatives are found in Duluth, Gwinnett County. It is likely the family fled during the expulsion and resettled there.
He died on October 11, 1939, at Grady Hospital in Atlanta and was buried in Shakerag, Duluth, Georgia. 8

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Sources

1 Forsyth County Tax Digest (1912), “Colored Digest,” Big Creek Militia District. Georgia State Archives, Morrow, GA. ↩︎

2 Forsyth County Deed Book Z, p. 498. Forsyth County Clerk of Court, Cumming, GA. ↩︎

3 Forsyth County Deed Book 5, p. 139. Forsyth County Clerk of Court, Cumming, GA. (Harris ownership appears by this date.) ↩︎

4 Forsyth County GIS Viewer. Accessed April 2025. https://www.forsythco.com/DepartmentsOffices/GeographicInformationServices/GISViewer ↩︎

5 United States Census Bureau. Ninth Census of the United States, 1870 (Milton County, Georgia) and Tenth Census of the United States, 1880 (Forsyth County, Georgia). Accessed via Ancestry.com. Mother’s maiden name listed as Terry on Morgan Strickland’s death certificate: Georgia Department of Public Health, 1939. ↩︎

6 Forsyth County marriage record, September 1, 1893. Georgia Archives; County Marriage Records, 1828–1978. Accessed via Ancestry.com: Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828–1978 [database on-line]. ↩︎

7 United States Census Bureau. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (Forsyth County, Georgia) and Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920 (Gwinnett County, Georgia). Accessed via Ancestry.com. ↩︎

8 Georgia Department of Public Health. Death Certificate for Morgan Strickland, October 11, 1939. Burial listed as Shakerag, Duluth, Georgia. Accessed via Ancestry.com. ↩︎

9 Patrick Phillips. Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. See p. 4 for reference to Toney Howell as Morgan Strickland’s nephew. ↩︎