Land Ownership Summary

Land Lot: 1206, 2nd District, 1st Section¹
Acreage: 40 acres
Date of Purchase: Unknown. No deed found for purchase but on tax rolls in 1911 and 1912.
What Happened to the Land: Sold on March 6, 1915 to John E Lowe of Gwinnett County for $200.² Corrected deed recorded July 6, 1918.³

Location Today

Modern Location: Hillside Trace subdivision, Old Atlanta Road in south Forsyth.⁴

Genealogy Snapshot

Born: May 25, 1862^{5 6}

Died: December 25, 1940, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia¹²

Parents: Father unknown; mother listed as Martha (surname unclear) on death certificate⁶

Spouse: Lula (possible maiden names: Clond or Hawkins); married April 13, 1896, Forsyth County, Georgia⁷

Children:⁸

• Cora Strickland (b. c. 1890s)
• Howard Strickland (b. c. 1895)
• Annie E. Strickland (b. c. 1917)
• Amos Simpson (relationship from obituary)
• Herbert Kendall (relationship from obituary)^{12 13}

Migration: Relocated from Forsyth County to Atlanta between 1912 and 1920. In Atlanta, the family first lived on Magnolia Street and later at 85B Walnut Street NW.^{6 8 9 10}

Burial: South-View Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia^{6 12}

Notes:

• His household in 1910 included cousin Isiah Pirkle, who was later jailed in connection with the Ellen Grice case.¹¹
• He was likely related to Jasper Strickland, a younger neighbor in 1910, who also relocated to Atlanta after the expulsion.¹¹
• In Atlanta, Thomas worked as a cab driver and hackman.¹⁰
• Lula died just weeks before Thomas, on November 27, 1940. Her parents were listed as Tom Hawkins and Anna Motta.^{12 13}

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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 3, p. 599. Forsyth County Clerk of Court, Cumming, GA. ↩︎

³ Forsyth County Deed Book 3, p. 604. 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. Census of the United States, 1930 (Fulton County, Georgia). Accessed via Ancestry.com. ↩︎

⁶ Georgia Department of Public Health. Death Certificate for Thos Strickland, December 25, 1940. Accessed via Ancestry.com. ↩︎

⁷ Forsyth County marriage record, April 13, 1896. Georgia Archives; County Marriage Records, 1828–1978. Accessed via Ancestry.com: Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828–1978. Maiden name as Clond.↩︎

⁸ United States Census Bureau. Census of the United States, 1900 (Forsyth County, Georgia) and Census of the United States, 1930 (Fulton County, Georgia). Accessed via Ancestry.com. ↩︎

⁹ United States Census Bureau. Census of the United States, 1920 (Fulton County, Georgia). Accessed via Ancestry.com.

¹⁰ Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995.

¹¹ United States Census Bureau. Census of the United States, 1910 (Forsyth County, Georgia). Accessed via Ancestry.com. Isiah Pirkle living in the Thomas Strickland household. Jasper Strickland is the next household recorded.

¹² Obituary, Mr Thomas (Billy) Strickland, The Atlanta Constitution; Publication Date: 29 December 1940.

¹³ Obituary, Mrs. Lula Strickland, The Atlanta Constitution; Publication Date: 1 December 1940.