Lynch, Bowden (Also earlier was Bowdoin, Baudoin--a French Huguenot name), Hickman, Thompson, Faulkner Family Information and Photographs

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This page is dedicated to photographs and information on the family of my mother, Gladys Lynch Dondes Armstrong through her parents, Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr. and Annie Elizabeth Bowden Lynch (Bowden was originally Bowdoin and Baudoin before that). Click the blue underlined words to view picture. The pictures are this way to avoid long loading times and crashing machines with limited memory. Pictures can be uploaded by going to ftp if you are familiar with the procedure, or you can email Donna to get a picture as an attachment via email, but do state your relationship and full email address. All photographs are in jpg format which is compatible with both Apple Macintoshes and PCs.

Much of the following information comes from the notes and writings of my mother, Gladys Buena Lynch Dondes Armstrong with the persons noted supplying the other information. Since she is not alive to help us, and much of the older generation has passed away, it is up to younger survivors to try to sort through all of the material, so corrections are greatly appreciated. A book that is helpful in gathering much of the information is History of Jasper County, Georgia, Compiled and Sponsored by the Jasper County, Historical Foundation, 1st ed., 1984. For information and to check into possibly obtaining this book, contact The Jasper County Historical Foundation, Inc., Monticello, GA 31064. My mother's and other writings in this book are enormously helpful. With so many descendants of my great-great-great-great grandfather, William Lynch, Sr., and the large numbers of children born to his descendants, there's no telling how many folks named Lynch, Linch, or married into families connected to them are related to me.

• My great-great-great-great grandfather was William Lynch, Sr., was a Revolutionary Patriot, who by an Act of the Virginia Assembly passed 9 Feb., 1827, was excused from paying all taxes as a useful and upright citizen. The Act reads as follows:
• "Whereas it is represented to the General Assembly, that William Lynch, senior, of the county of Brunswick, is the father of thirty-four legitimate children, of whom twenty-seven are now living; that he has been the husband of four wives, the last of whom is now young and healthy and gives him every assurance of an increaseof his numerous progeny; that he was a soldier in the war of the revolution, and has been through life, an upright and useful citizen, but that age and the support of his numerous family, have at length rendered him infirm and poor.
• "1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that William Lynch of the county of Brunswick, shall be hereafter exempt from the payment of any public or county tax, whatever; and it shall not be lawful for any court, or public officer within this Commonweath, to demand or receive of the said Lynch, any such tax...
• "This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof."
• No known picture of William Lynch, Sr. survives. William's will was made Jan. 1, 1833 and probated in the Aug. term of 1837. In the will he named a wife Eliza; heirs his children: Laxton, Clark, Jarrat, Grief, Gray, Molly H., Meredith, Edlar, Gilbert, Asbury, Syrach, Benjamin W., James H., Grandaughter Jancy A., H. Lynch, Lemuel Lynch, Joseph A., Rachel Lynch, Adin, Sion, Viney Wray, Chancy Lynch, Aggie B, Whitly, and Nancy C. Wright. Executors were Son, Adin and grandson, James C. Lynch. Witneses were Hicks Wray, George G. Lynch, Warren Lynch, and Thintchum Lynch.

• Click to view a photograph taken from a tin-type of Jarratt Lynch, born June 6, 1781, in Virginia, died June 26, 1864, in Jasper County, Georgia (this was during the hardships of the Civil War). He is believed to have traveled to Georgia with several of his brothers and other family members in the early 1800s. The Lynches and Linches show up first in Hancock County, Georgia, and then in Greene, Putnam, Morgan, and Jasper Counties. He married Sarah Thomas May 15, 1807. My mother's notes show that his mother's maiden name have been Eliza Grief, but this cannot be documented. They were my great-great-great grandparents and parents of Jarratt Grief Lynch (called Grief)> JLyn1781.JPG
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• Sarah Thomas, Jarratt's wife, was born was born Sept. 8, 1785 in Virginia and died June 8, 1861 in Jasper County, Georgia. Jarrett and Sarah lived for a while in Putnam County, but pruchased land in Jasper County, Georgia, in 1823, and were living in Jasper County, Georgia, at the time of the 1830 census. Jarratt and Sarah Thomas had 10 children: (1) Ephraim who became a Justice of the Peace in Jasper County, Georgia b. March 16, 1808-d. Sept. 16, 1857, m. Dec. 18, 1834 Elizabeth Ann Post; (2) Mary Lynch b. Sept. 27, 1809 married to a Mr. Hays; (3) Grief Lynch b. June 2, 1811 (see below); (4) Rinza Lynch b. Aug. 2, 1813-d. July 21, 1885, married Nov. 25, 1832 to David L. Waller; (5) Fleet Lynch, b. Sept. 18, 1815 (not mentioned in his father's will in 1863); (6) Zaccheus b. Feb. 6, 1817 (also not mentioned in his father's will); (7) Sackville b. July 19, 1819, married April 23, 1840 in Henry County, Ga. to Nancy M. Oxford; (8) Melvina Lynch b. Jan. 31, 1822, m. Mar. 21, 1840 in Henry County, Georgia, to Aaron M. Oxford; (9) Nancy Lynch b. June 26, 1826, m. Aug. 17, 1843 in Jasper County, Georgia, to Plesant M.Compton; and (10) Martha Lynch b. Mary 8, 1828, married Dec. 23, 1851 to Adam T. Bickers. Jarratt Lynch's will was made Feb. 2, 1863, and in it he named a second wife, Frances A. Brandon, as Sarah Thomas Lynch had died on June 8, 1861. He married Frances at the end of his life on Dec. 28, 1862 in Jasper County, Georgia.

• Below is a photograph of of Jarratt Grief Lynch (called Grief)--my great-great grandfather, born June 2, 1811 and died December 26, 1890, and he is buried at the old Lynch Homeplace on Clay Road. Grief was the 3rd child and 2nd son of Jarratt and Sarah (Thomas) Lynch. Grief married Sarah Ann Thompson (nicknamed Money) in Jasper County, Georgia, on August 13, 1868. They were my great-great grandparents, and the parents of my great-grandfather, William Henry Lynch (born Nov. 29, 1869). Their 3 other sons were Seaborn Grief Lynch b. Jan. 19, 1873; Dixon Fleetwood Lynch b. Aug. 21, 1876; and Edwin Clifford Lynch b. May 14, 1880.> GLyn1811.JPG

• Click to view picture of William Balum Thompson (born Sept. 22, 1792 and died Feb. 13, 1874) He is my great-great-great grandfather. His father was Patrick Thompson of who came to America with his young wife (name unknown) both of Scotch-Irish ancestry with two of his brothers shortly after the American Revolution from Ireland. Patrick went first to South Carolina and then to Columbia County, Georgia, where he settled. He was killed fighting Indians in Virginia. William Balum fought in the War of 1812. He married first Vienna Martin, and had 5 children by her: (1) Alexander Thompson lost in the 1849 War of Mexico City; (2) Joseph B. Thompson (1820-1892) who moved to Kosciusko, Miss; (3) William Floyd Thompson m.Sarah Elizabeth Jones in 1839; (4) John Henry who died in 1865 in the Civil War; and (5) Sarah A. D. Thompson who married Zachariah Faulkner in Greene Co., Ga. and moved to Jasper County, Ga. William Balum's 2nd wife was Sarah Elizabeth Huff. He was the father of Sarah Ann Thompson who married Grief Lynch, who is pictured above. He was also the grandfather of Sarah A. D. Thompson who married Zachariah Faulkner, so there is a double relationship.
• Here is William Balum Thompson>WmBlThom.jpg - Thank you for this picture from my aunt and uncle, Joyce and Larry Elliott for sending it and supplying the information and to my cousin Darryl Elliott for scanning it.
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• Click to view picture of my Great-Great-Great Grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth Huff Thompson, the second wife of William Balaam Thompson. She was born Feb. 3, 1805, and she died Jan. 13, 1890. She was the mother of Sarah Ann "Money" (1839-1930) who married Grief Lynch--Besides Sarah Ann; their children were: Frances Elizabeth b. 1830; Edwin b. 1832; Henry Boles, b. 1833 and moved to Kosciusko, Miss; Artimacy Cato b. 1835; Georgia Washington (1836-1905) moved to Kosciusko, Miss; James Travis (1838-1850); Jesse Kimbro (1841-1857); Mickens Huff (1844-1920 moved to Kosciusko, Miss; Seaborn Lawrence (1846-1933); and Hamlin Thompson (1848-1926). William Balum and Sarah Huff Thompson lived near Smith's Mill on the Ocmulgee River. He was a farmer and woodworker until his death in 1876.They were members of the Concord Primitive Baptist Church and are buried in its church cemetary. Here is Sarah Elizabeth Huff's picture.> SEHThomp.jpg - Thank you for this picture from my aunt and uncle, Joyce and Larry Elliott for sending it and supplying the information and to my cousin Darryl Elliott for scanning it. I am checking into some wedding dates before posting them. See Florence Augusta Ellis, History of Jasper County, Georgia, compiled by Jasper County Historical Foundation, 1984, pp. 301-304 for information on Thompson family.

• Click to view picture of Sarah A. D. Thompson, my great-great grandmother. She was born approximately 1841 in Green County, Georgia, and she died after 1888 in Jasper County, Georgia. She was a daughter of William Balaam Thompson and his first wife, Vienna Martin. She married Zachariah Faulkner. They moved to Jasper County, Georgia, where their children were born: (1) Elizabeth "Lola" Lou; (2) Melissa Ann (1870-1956) m. William Henry Lynch--my great grandparents; (3) Martha "Mattie Lou" (1871-1964)--never married--the great aunt whom my mother loved and visited when I was a girl; (4) Mamie who died young; (5) Hinson Thompson (1888-1929); (6) Martha Elizabeth Faulkner; (7) James Alexander; and (8) Almedia Thompson who married Mr. Davis. > SADThFau.jpg *Thank you for this picture from my aunt and uncle, Joyce and Larry Elliott for sending it and supplying the information and to my cousin Darryl Elliott for scanning it.

• Click to view picture of the Lynch Boys or Children of William Henry Lynch and Sarah Ann Thompson. The Lynch boys are in the front left to right Roy HowardLynch, hisbrother Frank Clifford Lynch (born Jan. 2, 1901), and Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr. (my grandfather). Behind them is their young uncle, Hinston Thompson Faulkner (brother of their mother, Lissie> LyncBoys.JPG
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• Click to view photograh taken in 1896 of the young family of my great-great grandparents,Cynthia Hickman Bowden standing and her husband, my great-great grandfather, Robert "Bob" Thomas Bowden who is holding their baby daughter (my grandmother), Annie Elizabeth Bowden. The little boy tanding in front of Cynthia is her little brother, Fred Hickman> RTBowFam.JPG
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• Click to view photograph of children of Robert Thomas Bowden and Cynthia Hickman Bowden: Annie Elizabeth Bowden in top right corner (later to marry Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr., of Monticello, GA), her younger sister Maggie Thomas Bowden (Tommie), and in the front Mamie Ollie Inez, and Harold Perry Bowden, younger children from a photo taken approximately 1903.>BowdenCh.JPG
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• Click to view photograph of family of William Henry Lynch and Melissa Ann Faulkner in front of their Jasper County, Georgia, home approximately 1910. From left to right are Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr., my grandfather on the bicycle, his younger brother Franklin Clifford Lynch (Frank), father William Henry Lynch (Willie), son Roy Howard Lynch (Howard), mother Melissa Ann Faulkner Lynch (Lissie), and little James Coile Lynch (Coil) on the tricycle--he was born July 23, 1906> LynchFam.JPG
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• Click to view a photograph of my Grandfather's younger brother, Roy Howard Lynch in his World War I uniform. He was born March, 1896, and he died August 17, 1927. He never married. He is buried beside his parents, Willie and Lissie Lynch, at the old Concord Baptist Church Cemetary, Jasper County, Georgia. Note the old car in the background> RHLynWWI.JPG

• Click to view photograph of Annie Elizabeth Bowden when she was approximately 20 years old in approximately 1916 or 1917> AEBLynch.JPG

• Click to view photograph taken in 1916 or 1917 from left to right of an unindentified man, Annie Elizabeth Bowden, Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Maggie Thomas Bowden (Annie's younger sister known at Tommie to my mother), and Charles Edwin Rooks (who would become Tommie's husband). This picture is assumed to have been taken on the wedding day of either Annie or Tommie who are both posing with the men they would marry> LyncRook.JPG

• Click to view photograph of William Robert Lynch, "Billy" born, November 1, 1919, and Nannette Grace Lynch, born September 6, 1918 (married Allen W. Hitchcock, Sr., and called Grace), the two oldest children of Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr., and Annie Elizabeth Bowden Lynch, taken in the mid 1920s> BGrLynch.JPG

• Click to view photograph of the 6 younger children of Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr., and Annie Elizabeth Bowden, taken in the Summer of 1937 when they were dressed up for Sunday School at the Monticello Methodist Church in Monticello, Georgia. They are left to right in back, Helen Elizabeth, Bernard, Jr. (Bo), Gladys Buena, Jewell Pittard, and on the front row, Betty Ann (called Ann), and Rebecca Joyce (called Joyce)> LynchCh6.JPG

• Click to view photograph of my mother, Gladys Lynch, and her cousin, Harriet Bowden, in 1937 or 1938 as they have a good time practicing the jitterbug when Harriet was visiting. My mother told me that was what they were doing. Harriet was the younger sister (or half-sister) of Annie Bowden Lynch, and she was only a little bit older than my mother, Gladys> GLynHBow.JPG

• Click to view photograph of Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr., and his wife, Annie Elizabeth Bowden Lynch, in their work clothes in 1937 in the yard of their Monticello, Ga. home> ABLync37.JPG

• Click to view a photograph of Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr., and Annie Elizabeth Bowden Lynch in Spring, 1937 in Monticello, Ga. This picture is closer and more detailed than the above one> ABLyn37S.JPG
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• Click to view photograph of the family of Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr., and Annie Bowden Lynch on Oct. 10, 1943. It was a happy time. The family are left to right in the rear: William Robert Lynch, Jr. (safely home on leave from the Navy on the far left--he survived the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941), Helen Elizabeth Lynch (to marry Clem Self), Gladys Buena Lynch Dondes, Annie Bowden Lynch, Jewell Pittard Lynch (to marry Milton Mason), and Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Jr. (Bo). In front are Betty Ann Lynch (to marry Thomas C. Nipper) , Rebecca Joyce Lynch (to marry Larry Elliot), and Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr. The only child missing is Grace Lynch who had married Allen Wilson Hitchcock on Jan. 13, 1940> Lynch43.JPG

• Click to view photograph of Melissa Ann Faulkner ("Lissie") in her later years. She was the mother of Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr., and she was born July 22, 1870 and died August 30, 1956 (she is my great grandmother)> MLyn1870.JPG

• Click to view photograph of William Henry Lynch in his later years. He was the father of Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr., and huband of Melissa Ann Faulkner (pictured above). He was born Nov. 29, 1869, and he died Aug. 11, 1955> WHLynch.JPG

• The following contribution is from Rebecca Joyce Lynch Elliott, the youngest daughter of Wilfred Bernard Lynch, Sr., and Annie Bowden Lynch. This information was added on Dec. 20, 1998, when it is up-to-date. - <<I am the youngest daughter of Wilfred Bernard Lynch and Annie Elizabeth Bowden Lynch. Also the sister of Gladys Buena Lynch Dondes Armstrong. I was born on Oct. 17, 1934 in Monticello, Ga. On July 1, 1956 I married William Lawrence (Larry) Elliott who was born Jan. 9, 1933 in Almon, Newtown County, Ga. He is the son of Bryan (Buck) Elliott and Susie Ruth Ray Elliott. Larry and I live in Conyers, Ga. We have three children:

  1) Lori Elizabeth Elliott Pattillo was born in the old St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta on Aug. 9, 1958. On April 16, 1977 she married Terrell (Terry) Evans Pattillo. They are divorced. Lori Lives in Cartersville, Ga. and is employed by IBM as a customer service coordinator. She and Terry have 2 children:

  • a) Patrick Bryan Pattillo, born on June 19, 1978.

    b) Rebecca (Becky) Ann Pattillo, born on Oct. 12, 1983.

  2) Darryl Lawrence Elliott, our second child, was also born in the old St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. on Oct. 31, 1961. On Nov. 22, 1984 he married Kathryn (Kit) Tara O'Connor, who was born on Sept. 23, 1962 in Memphis, Tenn. Kit is the daughter of John (Jack) Charles O'Connor and Patricia Diane White O'Connor. Darryl is a science fiction illustrator and he and Kit are house parents to eight boys in the Christian City Complex in Union City, Ga. They presently have 3 children of their own and another one is expected in early 1999. Their children are:

  • a) Tegan Lyndsey Elliott, born Feb. 20, 1988.

    b) Tara Quinea Elliott, born Sept. 13, 1991.

    c) Maxwell (Max) Sterling Elliott, born on March 22, 1994.

  3) Mitchell (Mitch) Vincent Elliott was born on June 24, 1967 in the old Rockdale County Hospital in Conyers, Ga. On June 6, 1992 he married Mathea Margaret Payne, born on Nov. 2, 1970 in Kinsgport, Tenn. Mathea is the daughter of Kylene Jenkins Sharpe and James (Jim) T. Sharpe, III. Mitch is employed as an inside sales engineer with Hill Phoenix, a manufacturer of refrigeration systems and display merchandising. Mathea is employed by Lithonia Lighting as a Human Resources Assistant. They make their home in Conyers, Ga.

  Rebecca Joyce Lynch Elliott>>

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