Babb and King Family, Baldwin County, Georgia

Babb and King Family

The Babbs, Kings and Chandlers were neigbors who lived in the Black Springs/Sandtown community of East Baldwin County, Georgia for generations.

Two daughters of James Bernard and Emily Chandler King were married to Babb Cousins and the oldest daughter, Alta Emily King was engaged to Homer Babb's brother, Lonnie Babb, son of Lawrence B. and Josephine Franklin Babb, in 1907 but she died before the marriage took place.

Willie and Mary

Mary King, married William Crawford "Willie" Babb, the youngest son of Tillman and Louise Osborne Babb, November 22, 1908 in Baldwin County. Willie Babb was born December 22, 1888 in Baldwin County.

They had 5 children:

Bernard A. born 1911 in Baldwin County.

Marquerite born 1913 in Baldwin County or Jacksonville, Florida.

Clyde Babb born in Feb 1919 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Irene ??born 1922

      Willie Babb was a watchman at the Georgia State Prison in 1910. He may have worked there when the famous train robber Bill Miner was first a prisoner there in 1911. If he was there in 1915, he would have witnessed the abduction of Leo Frank by the mob from Marietta.
    Much greener pastures called Willie and his family to Jacksonville, Florida where Willie worked as an engineer in a shipyard. by 1917. Little Marquerite died at the age of five in 1918 in Jacksonville, Florida perhaps of the flu since the flu epidemic was in Jacksonville during 1918. Her body was brought to Milledgeville and is buried in the Black Springs Baptist Church graveyard.
     Willie was working for a railroad in Jacksonville as a machinist in the early 1930's when his wife Mary King Babb died in 1931. Her body was returned to Baldwin County and is buried in the Black Springs Baptist Church graveyard. Five years later, in 1936, her son Bernard A. Babb joined her in rest at the age of 25 in Florida and is buried in the Black Springs Baptist Church graveyard.

Homer and Alice

Alice King married Homer Hamilton Babb, Sr., son of Lawrence B. and Josephine Franklin Babb, on June 19, 1907 in Baldwin County.

They had 3 children:

Alton King "Boots" Babb was born in 1908 in Baldwin County

Homer Hamilton Babb, Jr. was born in 1917

Herbert Chandler Babb was born in 1924. He was named after his uncle Chandler King.

In 1910 the family was living on a farm in the western part of Baldwin county.
Homer, Sr went into the life insurance business working for the Mutual Benefit Insurance Company by 1917 and the family, included James Bernard King was living in Griffin, Ga in 1920. According to the Atlanta Constitution's society news for Griffin, in 1919 Alton and his neighbor Ira Powell entertained 50 friends on at lawn party. James Bernard King died in Atlanta January 1921.
The baby Herbert Chandler Babb, born in 1924, died in 1925.
Alice and the children were living in Macon in 1930. Alice worked in a department store as a fitter and Alton worked as a clerk for the railroad. They were living in Milledgeville in 1936 when Homer's father died. The family moved to Charlotte N. C. in the 1940's which Homer, Jr made his home.
Alton King "Boots" Babb died at the age of 45 in 1944 in Macon Ga. Homer Sr died in 1963 in Macon, Ga. and Alice King Babb died the following year in 1964. Homer Hamilton Babb, Jr. died, unmarried, in 1966 in Charlotte N.C.
Homer Sr., Homer Jr and Herbert Chandler Babb are buried in the Black Springs Baptist Church graveyard.