Freeman Arlvin Mann

Other Events and Attributes:

• SSN issued: Florida, USA
• Social Security Number: 265-44-5836

Freeman married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Jeanie Wealthy Dicks on 1 Sep 1917 in Lake Butler, Union, Florida, USA. Jeanie (daughter of Thomas Dicks and Lula Mary Brown) was born on 5 Dec 1897 in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA; died on 9 Mar 1977 in Winter Haven, Polk, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• SSN issued: Florida, USA
• Name: Jeanie Welthy Mann
• Social Security Number: 265-36-0642
• Residence: 1900, Precinct 8, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1910, Mason, Columbia, Florida, USA

Living + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1870, Columbia, Florida, USA; Not Stated
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 10, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1900, Precinct 8, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1910, Mason, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1920, Lake Butler, Bradford, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1930, MacClenny, Baker, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1935, Precinct 3, Baker, Florida, USA

Notes:

Cincinnati Dicks Mobley
AUGUST 1994
Cincinnati Dicks Mobley is the authentic model of an extinct class of southern women. She represents a bygone era of uniqueness that defies description and challenges the writer to the limit of characterization. Wealth and fortune, prosperity and affluence were her fate, yet they are concealed in a remote area of her thoughts. Her glory lies in the homage she feels for her husband, children, friends, faith and family heritage, not necessarily in that order, because somehow this distinctive lady has woven them all into one majestic tapestry that embraces her heart and symbolizes her nature.
Charlton Mobley brought his bride to a newly constructed home after their marriage on April 3, 1935. Today, very little change is detectable at 222 West Macclenny Avenue, although 60 momentous years have passed into oblivion. It's what you can't see that has lasted, like the legendary memories and tangible character of the special people who lived in her past, and experienced together the tears, the laughter, the triumphs and tragedies. This is their story because they are Cincinnati's life.

Cincinnati Dicks was born February 3, 1914 to Thomas and Georgia Satilla Johns Dicks of Columbia County and she is often asked to explain the unusual family names.

"My mother, who was the daughter of John Marshall and Mary Mills Johns of Columbia County, was named Georgia for the state, and Satilla for the river," she said. "When she and daddy started naming their children, they had a little trouble deciding on a name. My father sat down on the trunk in their room with a magazine after mama gave birth and said, 'I'll find the baby a name in this magazine'. It just so happened it was published in a place called Augusta, Maine, so daddy asked mama how she liked Maine and she said that it was all right, so that's how my brother Maine got his name," she said.
"They named me before I was born because they agreed the first girl would be Cincinnati," she continued. "Then one day after I was born, daddy carried mama into Lake City from the farm in a horsedrawn buggy, and they stopped somewhere along the way to show a neighbor named Mrs. Hancock their new baby. Mrs. Hancock said,'Mrs. Dicks, if you ever have another little girl, name her Alabama'. So, Mama named my sister Alabama."

Thomas and Georgia were parents of seven children. The five who lived to adulthood were Maine, who died at age 12 of Hodgkin's Disease; Cincinnati; Spain; Thomas, who died at age two of burns after he fell in hot water., Alabama; Denver and Boston.

Looking back, she tells the story of how her grandfather, Joseph Dicks, left his native land in Liverpool, England: "in those days, boys were taught a trade and my grandfather didn't like the one he was taught, which was making brushes," she began. "It's really a sad story because he was young, in his teens. The last time he visited his home for a weekend, his mother walked with him as far as she could. He said later that he kept turning around, looking back at her because he felt it might be the last time he would ever see her and sure enough it was."

The fourteen-year-old lad apparently hid out as a stowaway on a boat heading for Canada. Upon arrival in Ottawa, Cincinnati said he obtained employment working in a quarry. Joseph's wandering spirit eventually took him to New York where he enlisted in the U.S. Army.

Although he was too young to serve, the persistent youth was accepted when he persuaded them he was older than he was. He was sent to fight throughout South Georgia and North Florida in the ferocious Second Seminole Indian War. Joseph fought in Columbia, Baker, Alachua and Pinellas counties before his term was up. Two days after he was honorably discharged, his Army unit was almost completely destroyed in the dreadful Indian Massacre at Bushnell. For his tour of duty he received a land grant.

Joseph married Sarah Taylor on January 18, 1846 and settled in the Hopeful Community, south of Lake City. The couple had seven sons and one daughter.

" My father, Thomas, was their son," said Cincinnati. "He married his childhood sweetheart, Ellen (Ella) Douglas. They had two children, Bessie and Reid. Ellen died about three months after Reid was born.

While his in-laws cared for his young son, Thomas continued to work and care for his other child. Then, before he married my mother, he married Singer Brown's sister, Lulu. The town of Lulu is named after her.

Their children were Wealthy, Eva, Josephine, Earnest [who died as an infant] and Freeman. Lulu died in childbirth two years after Freeman was born. After that, my father married my mother, Georgia," she said.

For a while the couple lived in Columbia County, then later moved to nearby Union County, where Thomas farmed and raised cattle and sheep on 360 acres of land. His health began to decline, so they sold the farm and moved to Macclenny with their family.

When dark-complected, dark-eyed Thomas Dicks and his redhaired, blue-eyed wife, Georgia Satilla, moved their family to Baker County on December 29, 1929, a rickety, narrow wooden bridge separated Macclenny from Glen St. Mary. The couple purchased a frame house and five acres of land on west Highway 90 from Mr. Rufus Louder and that's where Cincinnati lived until she married Charlton. He worked at a sawmill on the opposite side of the highway, and only a little distance from her home.

Source: Once Upon A Lifetime Vol No. 3 In Baker County, Florida

Life of Thomas Dicks
spengale8 added this on 5 Oct 2009
lanedicksdekle originally submitted this to Dekle Family Tree on 22 Feb 2009

Thomas Dicks was born on Sept 12, 1868. He was the youngest child of Joseph (1819-1899) and Sarah Taylor Dicks (1822-1896). When he was sixteen years old, in January, 1884, his father deeded him one hundred sixty and forty-three hundredths acres of land in southeast Columbia county, off the Price Creek Road. Thomas always called this land the "Brow" for reasons unknown. It is today part of Rodney Dicks' farm. Joseph and Sarah are considered early pioneers of Columbia county and Sarah was one of the initial members of Hopeful Baptist Church.

Thomas Dicks married Ella Arkansas Douglass (1872-1891) in 1886. He was eighteen years old and she was fourteen. They lived at the Brow and had Bessie, Josephine,and Reid. Reid was about six weeks old when they rode the wagon to visit Ella's parents. A light rain came and Ella became sick and died within a few days. Ella's mother took Reid and Thomas kept Bessie who was two years old. He fashioned a seat on his plow for Bessie when he went to the field. (Josephine had died young).

Thomas married his second wife, Lula Brown(1868-1908), in 1901 or 02. They were still living at the Brow for the births of Weatthy, Eva, Earnest Thomas (died young), and Freeman. Lula died while trying to give birth to a fifth child in 1908. Lula was thirty three when they married and forty at the time of her death. This left Thomas a widow again at the age of forty years with five children still living at home.

Thomas married his third wife, Georgia Satilla Johns9(1884-1976), my paternal grandmother on April 30, 1911. Georgia was twenty six years old. They married on the front porch of her mother's (Mary Ann Mills Johns 1855-1936) home on Possum Trot Road in Olustee, Florida. They started out their family at the Brow with the birth of Maine and Cincinati. Each child was named for a city or place out of a geography book. In 1915, they sold their land, and moved to Union county where Thomas had bought 640 acres of land called the Dan Knight Place. At that time, the dirt road from Lake Butler to Lake City ran right in front of the house. Spain, Thomas Jr., Alabama, Denver (my father), and Boston were born here. They raised cows, sheep, and goats which all had free range on the area.

Thomas (Tom) loved to joke and kid. He was once in Lake City with his young wife Georgia in a dry goods store. One of the local men asked Tom who the young woman (Georgia) was. Tom told him she was his daughter. Then the man went over to Georgia and asked if he could come a courting. Georgia replied, "I don't know, you'll have to ask my father". Thomas quickly told the man that he was the biggest liar in the county, that Georgia was his wife!

In 1917 in the pandemic flu epidemic, Thomas got very sick, lost forty pounds, and nearly died. He never again was a healthy man for running the farm. In the late twenties, a terrible tick infected all cows. The government required all farmers to round up their stock and take them to Olustee for dipping. This was the final straw for Thomas. With his oldest boy Freeman just leaving home, he had no help to get the job done. In 1929, he sold the property for $2500 after selling off the stock earlier.

On Dec 27, 1929, he moved the family to Macclenny, Florida. Cincinati was fifteen, Spain twelve, Alabama eight, Denver three, and Boston one and a half. This is where his family lived til his death of stroke on Feb 20, 1941. Georgia lived to be ninty one years old and died on May 10, 1976 in the home of her daughter, Alabama Lyons.

Thomas married Lula Mary Brown on 2 Feb 1893 in Baker, Florida, USA. Lula was born on 1 Jun 1869 in Florida, USA; died on 18 May 1910 in Columbia, Florida, USA; was buried in Hopeful Baptist Church Cemetery, Columbia, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Lulu Dicks
• Residence: 1900, Precinct 8, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1910, Mason, Columbia, Florida, USA

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• Height: 5 ft. 4 in.
• Medical Condition: Hazel eyes, brown hair, dark complexion
• Military: 24 Sep 1838, Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA
• Residence: Apr 1842, Florida, USA
• Military: 20 Apr 1842, Fort Shannon, East Florida
• Residence: 1850, District 81, Thomas, Georgia, USA
• Civil: 1 Apr 1859, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1860, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1870, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Civil: 3 Jan 1874, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 10, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Military: 1892, Florida, USA; Indian Wars Pension Files
• Military: 1900, Florida, USA; Indian Wars Widows Pension Files

Joseph married Sarah Taylor on 18 Jan 1846 in Ocala, Marion, Florida, USA. Sarah (daughter of Joseph Taylor and Margaret Peggy Cooper) was born on 3 Jul 1822 in Thomasville, Thomas, Georgia, USA; died on 29 Oct 1896 in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA; was buried in Hopeful Baptist Church Cemetery, Columbia, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Sarah Dicks
• Residence: 1850, District 81, Thomas, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Columbia, Florida, USA; Not Stated
• Residence: 1870, Columbia, Florida, USA; Not Stated
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 10, Columbia, Florida, USA