Poston

If you know where either one was born, I’ll check. There may be a census listing for Dixie Poston or a vital records listing for Cecil L. Wiley, b. 1945, but I don’t hold out much hope on Cecil unless it would be a telephone database listing or a birth registry index that hasn’t been taken offline yet.

1930 Seminole Co., Ga Census; ED 6 Steam Mill District; Donalson & Dresser Road; 5 April; Sheet 2B; (this county is in extreme SW Georgia on the Florida line)

25, 27:

POSTON, Mason C; Head, m, W, 38, m’d@ 30, Ga, SC, GA.

………., Ernestine; Wife, f, W, 24, m’d@ 15, Ga, Ga, Fl.

………., Jeaneta; dau, 7, Ga.

………., Ovalstine (?); dau, 13, Ga. (The ‘O’ is questionable)

………., Buford; son, 4 +11/12, Ga

………., Geneva; dau, 2 + 9/12, Ga

………., Jack; son, 1 + 8/12, Ga

………., DIXIE; dau, 3 months, Ga *******

— , 27A:

FAIRCLOTH, Andrew; Head, m, W, 27; m’d@21, Ga, Fl, Fl

……………, Clara (?); wife, f, W, 19, m’d@ 14, Ga, Ga, Ga.

COLLINS, Willis; Head, m, W, 24, Ga, Fl, Ga.

……….., Sophia; Wife, f, W, 23, Latvia, Lativa, Lativa, “Russian”.

This is the County Chain Gang Camp. Mason Poston is the “Convict Warden, County” . Andrew Faircloth and Willis Collins are both “Convict Guard, County” . They were holding 16 prisoners.

Ernestine may be a Faircloth as there is one, 13 y/o, in Decatur, the parent county of Seminole which was created in 1920. However there are three other Ernestines there who are also 13/14 y/o, so that’s uncertain.

Mason Poston & Willis Collins will need more work and I’ll see what I can do to validate the couple of possibilities.

Bill