William John Way

Male 1826 - 1902  (76 years)

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  • Name William John Way 
    Birth 29 Oct 1826  , Liberty, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 19 Nov 1902  Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I28585  Clan Montgomery
    Last Modified 30 Oct 2004 

    Father John Norman Way,   b. 8 Mar 1795   d. 27 Feb 1827, , Liberty, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Q. Stacy,   b. 1800   d. 1868 (Age 68 years) 
    Marriage 1822 
    Family ID F10480  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jane A. Spivey,   b. 1832   d. 1885 (Age 53 years) 
    Marriage 1851 
    Children 
     1. John Fleming Spivey Way,   b. 1852   d. 1909 (Age 57 years)
     2. Edgar Bacon Way,   b. 1854
     3. William Bacon Way,   b. 1855   d. 1923 (Age 68 years)
     4. Aneas Stacy Way,   b. 1857
     5. Leland Buttolph Way,   b. 1859   d. 1899 (Age 40 years)
     6. Annie Quarterman Way,   b. 1861
     7. Albert Bristow Way,   b. 1865
     8. Eva Tallulah Way,   b. 1866   d. 1895 (Age 29 years)
     9. Lila Jane Way,   b. 1868
     10. Sallie Lou Way,   b. 1873
    Family ID F10479  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Dec 2015 

  • Notes 
    • !BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Children of Pride" & Midway church records
      He was for some years prior to the Civil War a rice planter in LibertyCounty.
      He also engaged in Daguerreotypy, and later operated a sawmill. During the
      Civil War he was a private in the Liberty Independent Troop (Company G,5th
      Regiment Georgia Cavalry). For some 25 years he was an elder of the
      Flemington Presbyterian Church. He died in Savannah on November 19th,1902,
      survived by eightr children, and was buried beside his wife, Jane Spivey
      (1832-1885), in Flemington Cemetery, Liberty County.
      GHS..information supplied to their files by Mrs. W.F. Way, 2332 5th St.N., St.
      Petersburg, FL in a letter sent to Mrs. Lillian Stacy

      Submitted by Caroline W.Chapman McGowan, CMS 894, and others. Updated Oct. 2000.