Knight Sisters of Ray City

June 22, 2011 at 12:00 am (Knight Family, Sloan Family, Uncategorized)
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Laurie Inez Knight (left) and Ruby Texas Knight (right), of Ray City, GA.

Laurie Inez Knight (left) and Ruby Texas Knight (right), of Ray City, GA.

 Jimmie Gullette and Walter Howard Knight, subjects of previous posts, had four daughters: Julia Elizabeth Knight, Dollie Howard Knight, Ruby Texas Knight, and Laurie Inez Knight.

Grave of Julia Rigell Sloan, City Cemetery, Lakeland, Lanier County, GA

Grave of Julia Rigell Sloan, City Cemetery, Lakeland, Lanier County, GA

Julia Elizabeth Knight (1880 – 1955)
Julia Elizabeth Knight was born August 09, 1880 in Georgia.  She married twice.  Her first husband, David Jackson Rigell, was an early merchant of Ray’s Mill, GA (now Ray City, GA.)  They were married on March 19, 1901.   Sometime after Mr. Rigell’s death in 1911,  she married Dr. William David “Will” Sloan.  Julia Elizabeth Knight died September 10, 1955.

Grave of Dollie Howard Knight (1882 – 1956), Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, GA.

Grave of Dollie Howard Knight (1882 – 1956), Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, GA.

Dollie Howard Knight (1882 – 1956)
Dollie Howard Knight was born April 12, 1882. On October 28, 1900 she married “the boy next door,” Louis Malone Bullard , a son of Mary Ann and Green Bullard.  The Bullards lived on the east side of the Valdosta Road, in present day Lanier County. Dollie Knight Bullard died March 26, 1956, and was buried at Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, GA.

Grave of Ruby Knight Johnson (1891 - 1977), Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, GA.

Grave of Ruby Knight Johnson (1891 – 1977), Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, GA.

Ruby Texas Knight (1891 – 1977)
Ruby Texas Knight  entered this world on October 11, 1891.  She was married to James Randall Johnson on April 21, 1910 and the couple made their home next door to her father’s place on the Valdosta Road, Ray City, Georgia.  Ruby Knight Johnson died June 17, 1977 and was interred at Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, Berrien County, Georgia.

Grave of Laurie Knight Webb (1894 - 1974), Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, GA.

Grave of Laurie Knight Webb (1894 – 1974), Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, GA.

Laurie Inez Knight (1894 – 1974)
Laurie Inez Knight  was born April 9, 1894. She married Horace Webb in 1928.  They had a home on Charlton Street in Valdosta, GA where her husband worked as a furniture repair man. Laurie Knight Webb died April 1, 1974 and was buried next to her sister, Ruby, at Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, GA

Knight Sisters of Ray City, GA. (L to R) Dollie Howard Knight, Julia Elizabeth Knight, Laurie Inez Knight, and Ruby Texas Knight.

Knight Sisters of Ray City, GA. (L to R) Dollie Howard Knight, Julia Elizabeth Knight, Laurie Inez Knight, and Ruby Texas Knight.

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Ray’s Mill has Arrived

June 9, 2010 at 11:16 am (Georgia & Florida Railroad, Society and Leisure)
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In March, 1909, Eugene Ray filed a newspaper article with the date line ” Rays Mill, Ga., March 9. — (Special)”.

“To colonies of people, south Georgia offers special inducements. While it is true that there are in every county and in almost every district small tracts of land for sale, and while it is true that there are in every town men, enterprising and patriotic, who will divide up their real estate holdings to suit the purchaser, yet there are tracts of thousands of acres owned by the wealthy sawmill man, who, having cut the timber off his land, desires no to dispose of it to the farmer and dispose of it in a body. Selling it that way, he would sell it cheaper. I mention these facts in answer to inquiries received by mail.”

“But there is land suitable for every class…”

“Rays Mill, a very new town on the Georgia and Florida Railroad, ten miles south of Nashville, is in this section, and is proud of its location. Less than six months ago there was no town and no sign of it. Today there are at least a half a dozen new store houses completed or being built, and probably twenty-five new residence buildings completed or planned, to say nothing of a half a hundred new cabins for the colored laborer. A two story hotel building is near completion and will soon be occupied. M.E Studstill has a new sawmill here and J.H. Crenshaw has another. Charles H. Anderson and Dr. Guy Selman are putting up a drug store. Mr. Anderson is postmaster and Dr. Selman practices his profession here. A.L. Bridges is another young merchant who will soon move his store to town. Louis Bullard is completing a two story house. And so on — all in five months. The truth is, Rays Mill, the town, has just about ‘arrived,’ or will soon.”

 

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