My grandfather, Caulie Hendricks, was born June 29, 1890. Some references say in Lowndes Co, Georgia, others in Howell, which is in Echols County. His father's name was William Henry Clay (WHC)Hendrick. WHC Hendrick filed an application for a pension as a Confederate Veteran from the State of Florida in 1907 and an increase in pension in 1909. This notarized document, signed by him, gives some information about his early life and especially his military service. He was born in Nash County, North Carolina on October 13, 1843. I am so far unable to find him in the 1850 census, but in the 1860 census, I have found a 15 year old "Henry C. Hendricks" in Echols County, GA which I believe is him. He is living in the household of Mary E. McMullen.
   There are later documents which seem to intertwine the Hendrick's and McMullen's. I have also found him in Echols County in 1870 and 1880, so I believe that the earlier reference is him.
WHC's father was Nathan Hendricks (c1815-1882) who was sheriff in Echols County for two terms (see separate profile). It is unknown who his mother was. According to the pension application, WHC Hendrick joined the Confederate Army in Savannah, GA on July 11 or 13, 1862. In his words:
    We were first a company of heavy artilery (sic) then was put in the Sixth Regiment later into the Fifth Regiment owing to the thining out of our men. Then we had reserve troops placed with us but retained our same officers, company and Regiment (?word) we were spoken of a reserves but were Confederate Troops and in Confederate service all the time and were never state troops.
   He was initially in "Capt. RA Peoples Company" which I believe was also Co. E. His tombstone lists his unit as Co E, 5 Ga Inf, CSA. At the end of the war, he was in Co H., 5th Ga Reserves, his Captain was CW Haines and his Regiment Commander was Colonel William R Symons. Other information in the application states that he was "wounded in ankle but not disabled at Battle of Lynchburg, VA in 1863", "was captured in January or February in 1865 in South Carolina but made escape in about 5 hours". He was with Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston's Army at the end of the war and was paroled and honorably discharged at Goldsboro, NC on April 26, 1865.
   The next record of WHC Hendrick is the census of 1870 in Echols Co, GA. He married Levicia Ann Copeland, known as Vicey (with various spellings) in about 1866. She was born in what was later Echols County, Georgia on either October 27, 1841 (death certificate) or August 27, 1842 (tombstone). Census records put her born in 1844. Her father was named Lott Copeland and was from South Carolina. In the 1850 census, he is a 65 year old farmer from North Carolina with his 46 year old wife Susan (nee Guess). In the 1860 census, Lott is a "78" year old farmer from South Carolina living with his daughter, Christina (sp?), aged 46. She is 5 in 1850 and her siblings were Narcissa, 20, Erbin(sic) (or Irwin?), 15, Daniel, 10, Edward, 9, and David, 7. In the 1860 census, David and Edward are 10 years older and there are also 2 boys named Henry and Louis, last name Valentine, aged 14 and 15 respectively. The Valentines, Copelands and Hendricks were all very closely connected.
   I have been unable to find any early land, deed, marriage or other records on WHC Hendricks in Echols County in the late 1800's, probably because of the destruction of the courthouse. There is a tax record in the archives from the 1860's (listing "Henry Hendrix"). In 1885, WHC bought land in Lowndes County. The land is described as "Lot 428" in the 11th District of "originally Irwin, now Lowndes County" containing 490 acres "except the sawmill timber on the west side of Hunter Bay". This land was sold in 1891 and the family moved to Wellborn, Suwanee County, Florida.
WHC and Vicy Hendrick had at least 10 children, all born in Georgia:
1. Savillah, born about 1868. First husband was Ansel Shaw. Nothing more known. May have married a Summery second.
2. Rachel Emma, born July, 1869 or 70. In 1920, she is in the census as "Emma Hunt", 50 y/o, with a 10 year old son, Preston Hunt. WHC is living with them in Wellborn.
3. John L., born about 1871. He married Coreen Parnell or Layton, and had one daughter, Annie Maude (b. 12/6/1898 or 99, d. 4/16/1981). Annie Maude married Willie Mershon and had one daughter, Helen who married Manon Durrance and still lives in Live Oak, Fl. She provided some of this information. John Hendrick and Coreen Hendricks are buried at Mt. Zion cemetery on Lake Jeffery Rd, west of Lake City.
4. Levan A., born about 1873. Nothing more known.
5. Willie Cuevallia, born 1876 or 77. His first wife, Vallie McMullen died in 1918. On June 11, 1919 he remarried Viola Ellis in Suwanee Co.
6. Sally Aclin born Sept. 9, 1879. She married WC Rivers, who was murdered. They had a son, Roy, a daughter, Katie and also twins who died at birth, the twin girl was named Vicy Marie. She may have lived in Ocala at some point. She died June 4, 1918 and is buried at Mt. Beulah Baptist Church in Wellborn.
7. Riley Arthur, born November, 1881. In 1920, he is living in Bradford County, married to Nora Belle Brannon and has two children, Willie, 11 y/o and Vivian, 9 y/o. Paul M. Hendricks
8. George Nathan, born November 1984. He married to Bertie Williams in Lafayette County, FL.
9 and 10. Here is where it gets a little complicated. Family history and almost every record I have lists Haulie and Caulie (my grandfather and his twin brother) as the last children of WHC and Levicia Hendrick, born June 29, 1890. However, the 1900 census lists them as grandsons. This could be an assumption by the census taker (there are lots and lots of errors in the census) based on Vicey's somewhat advanced age for childbearing (she would have to have been anywhere from 45 to 48, depending on her true birth date). But, it might also be true.
Haulie married to Nellie Stansel. They had three children, Leonard, Claude and Elbert.
Leonard L. Hendricks, b. 1/26/1911, d. 9/15/1914 is buried at Mt. Beulah next to Haulie and Nellie.
Haulie died Dec. 20, 1962. His death certificate lists William and Vicy as his parents (as does Caulie's). Both of their social security applications also list William and Vicy Hendricks as parents.
    In 1910, Caulie is a 19 y/o living with WHC and Levicia, but listed as a boarder! There is also a 7 y/o grandson named Russell SUMMERY living with them. (Summery is the name on the census, but another descendant has documents stating that his name was SUMLER.) So, could Haulie and Caulie have really been grandsons of WHC and Vicey? Well, the only children old enough would be Savillah, Rachel Emma, John L., and Levan. We know from Helen Durrance that John L. had only one child, Annie Maude. This leaves Levan (who would have to have been around 16 or 17 when they were born) and the two girls. They could have been illegitimate, I guess and kept the family name. It is still unclear where the boy Summery comes in. I presume that he is either Savillah's or Rachel's boy (though Rachel was married to a Hunt) or Sallie's by a marriage prior to hers to WC Rivers. I believe that Russell Summery was Savillah's boy by a second marriage. All mysteries to pursue and hopefully solve. Part of what makes this so interesting.
    Levicia Ann Hendrick died December 20 or 21, 1915 and is buried at Mt. Beulah Baptist Church in Wellborn.
    Of WHC's later years, there are three separate dates covered in the pension application. The first application is July 6, 1907. He states that he is "over the age of sixy four year of age and am by reason of age incapable of earning a living by manual labor". He was awarded a pension of $100 per year.
He applied for an increase on July 15, 1909 when he stated "I have catarrh of the head which affects my eyes and am very hard of hearing and suffer from pain and kidney trouble". He was increased to $120 per year. At that time he records that his personal property amounted to $7.50 in "cattle, horses and other live stock" and $50 in personal property. There is also a note from July 6, 1915 signed by two doctors stating that he is "unable to make a living on account of age and infirmity". There is no recorded action from this note. He died in 1922 in Union County, Florida, probably while staying with his son, Riley.
    Caulie married Mary Alberta Ward on August 27, 1919. He had served in the US Army in France during WW I and worked for Jacksonville Motor Co., first as a trolley driver, then as a bus driver. He retired in 1955 and died on June 28, 1972. They had 5 children. Virginia Ward Hendricks was born about 1920 and died at about 18 months and is buried at Sasser's Landing Cemetery in Jennings, FL. Their next two children were twins, Wanda Maude and Warren Maxwell, born in 1923. On July 30, 1926, they had twins again, Frankie Jack Hendricks, my father and Farrell Jean who died at about 6 weeks.