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Notes for Oliver EADY, SR

REVEREND OLIVER (EADDY) EADY, Sr.

Rev. Oliver Eady, Sr., was a Methodist Minister, about the end, or
shortly after the end of the Civil War. Rev. Eady was transferred by
his Church in South Carolina to Florida, at or near Eureka. The trip
required about 6 weeks by wagon. Rev. Eady later served at Adamsville
Church, east of Coleman, FL.

BURIAL: "The John Young Hicks' Families of Florida, Georgia, North
Carolina and possibly Virginia" compiled by Cyril J. Floyd in 1976
states: "Rev. Eady, his wife, Susanna and (some) children are buried at
Adamsville Cemetery, east of Coleman, Sumter Co., FL ..."

Source: Shirley May Parker DeLosie

Found in the Library of Virginia in Richmond:

Marriage and Death Notices from Upper SC Newspapers 1843-1865: "from
the Spartan" Pub. 2/27/1862

Married 2/2/1862 by Rev. Mr. Eaddy in McDowell Co. NC at the residence of
Mr. J. W. Patton, Mr. J. C. Moore of McDowell, to Miss A. Amanda Collins
of Spartanburg.
Note: this shows that the Eadys (Spelling different) were in SC at this
time.

Source: Edythe Parker Woodruff, grand daughter of Joanna Eady Parker.

NAME CHANGES FOR OLIVER EADDY, Sr.
by
Vanik S. Eaddy

Oliver Eaddy, Sr. was born in Williamsburg District, SC in 1833 and was
the son of Edward Drake Eaddy and Mary Bartell. The family of James
Eddy, II. had adopted the name of Eaddy between 1819 and 1848 from Eddy,
Edy, Eady, and other variant spellings.

"Oliver Eaddy married Susanna Carter, daughter of George and Catherine
Carter. He became a Methodist minister and with his wife and some 10
children migrated to Florida."

It is apparent that Oliver Eaddy chose the spelling of Eady for his
surname upon or before moving to Florida, before 1870*. His descendants
have used the Eady version of the name since this time. This name
spelling appears on birth certificates, obituaries, death certificates,
grave markers, and in the 1870 Census.

Ten children were indicated for this family in other sources, but no
names were given, except for five named by Lucy Eady in a letter written
to her cousin, R. J. Eaddy on May 12, 1884. This is presumed to have
been Robert James Eaddy, Jr. who was indeed her cousin. Birth dates
given with the abbreviation (abt.) were calculated from the information
provided by the letter written by Lucy Eady. The full names and dates
listed for this family and their descendents were provided by Shirley May
Parker DeLosie and their birth dates confirm the order given by Lucy
Eady, in which Mary Catherine Eady was listed as the second child and
Lucy Eady was the fifth. This was verified by the 1870 Census for
children born before 1870.

* The 1870 Census of Marion County FL was supposed to have been
conducted on June 1, 1870; but, was taken August 3, 1870. The following
were listed in the household:

Eady, Oliver Age 37, Male, White, Minister, Value of real estate: $200,
Value of Personal Property: $400, Place of birth SC, only voter in family
Susana, 35, F, W, Keeping house, SC
Edward, 14, M, W, SC attended school during year, can read and write
Mary, 12, F, W, SC, attended school during year, can read but can't write
Joana, 10, F, W, SC, attended school during year, but cannot read or write
Milton, 8, M, W, SC
Lucy, 6, F, W, SC
Bascom, 4, M, W, SC
Emma, 2, F, W, SC
Minda, 18, F, B, Domestic servant, SC, Cannot read or write, Listed as
last name Eady
Place of residence: Camp Izard, FL

Source: Edythe Parker Woodruff, grand daughter of Joanna Eady Parker.

LETTER FROM LUCY EADDY TO ROBERT JAMES EADDY, Jr.
May 12, 1884

"A letter from Lucy Eaddy to Robert James Eaddy, Jr. (father of Lucy
Eaddy and nephew of Oliver Eaddy), written from Wildwood, FL, May 12,
1884, mentions the following in the family: ...Eddie, age 28, and not
married yet; Mary and her husband Mr. Hicks; Joanna, living in Kentucky;
Emma, who is younger than myself, nearly 16, but is small; and Little
Oliver, the baby, six years old." See notes for Lucy Eady for the full
text of this letter.

REVEREND OLIVER EADY PREACHED THAT BLACKS HAD SOULS
by
Edythe Parker Woodruff, Ph. D.

In August , 1978, Gertrude Parker Slaton, known as Aunt Gertie who lived
with the family of Oliver Eady, Sr for her last years, told Edythe Parker
Woodruff the following story about Rev. Oliver Eady, Sr. The time was a
few years after the Civil War and the place was probably somewhere in
South Carolina. He had preached from the pulpit that the Negroes had
souls. Some in the congregation thought differently. A group of those
parishioners arrived after dark one night and informed Reverend Eady that
the family was in mortal danger and that right outside was transportation
to take them out of the state. They left in the carriage that night.

I recall my father, Thomas M. Parker, telling me a story about his
mother, Joanna Eady. She was born in 1860 and was a very young child at
the close of the Civil War. She could recall being in the portion of
Georgia that was burned out in "Sherman's March to the Sea". It is
possible that in 1864 they were moving from South Carolina to Florida and
crossed that part of Georgia where she experienced the great devastation
and famine.

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