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Almost every SELF researcher is in agreement on one thing:
Olde Robert Selfe
was the progenitor of the Self family in the United States. But very few researchers concur on two other points: what happened before he came to America--and then what happened after that. A documented figure in Virginia from the mid-seventeenth century, Robert Selfe is believed to have been born in Wiltshire, England. Research in that location has failed to find conclusive evidence of his birth or the names of his parents and or siblings, despite the fact that there were (and are today) many Selfs and Selfes in the United Kingdom. Moreover, though many Selfs in the United States can trace their line back several generations, there is usually a "missing link" somewhere that keeps them from making a definite connection to Olde Robert Selfe. The greatest obstacle to concrete proof is the lack of documentation--sometimes it just didn't exist, or it was lost, or it doesn't contain enough positive information, or it was destroyed in the inevitable courthouse fire.
ROBERT SELFE
(1st Generation)
Born about 1637 in Melksham, Wiltshire, England. Died 1716 in Westmoreland County, VA. Known as "Olde Robert Selfe." He was a wealthy man who paid the passage for six unrelated people from England to Virginia. He m. (1) Mary ---, b. probably in Wiltshire, England and d. after 1661 in Northumberland County, VA; (2) probably about 1667 in Westmoreland County, VA, JANE ---, b. about 1643 in England.
CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE, JANE:
1. Francis b. ABT 1668 d. 1734
2. John b. BEF 1671 d. ABT 1732
3. STEPHEN SELF b. 1673 d. 1731
4. Christian b. ABT 1674
5. William b. AFT 1677 d. 1760
6. Robert b. BEF 1688
STEPHEN SELF(2nd Generation)
Born before 1673 in Westmoreland County, VA. Died about 1731 in Westmoreland County, VA. He m. --- who may have died before him since she is not mentioned in his will.
CHILDREN:
1. Stephen b. BEF 1692 d. AFT 1747
2. Francis b. AFT 1692
3. Eliza b. Feb 23, 1699
4. Walter b. ABT 1700 d. ABT 1747
5. PHILLIP SELF b. ABT 1710
6. Benjamin b. ABT 1713
7. Job b. ABT 1715
PHILLIP SELF (3rd Generation)
Born about 1710 in VA. Went to North Carolina. He was in Mecklenburg, NC by 1790. He m. ---.
CHILDREN:
1. Willoughby b. ABT 1735
2. JACOB SELF b. BEF 1757
3. Job b. BEF 1760
JACOB SELF (4th Generation)
Born 1742, probably in Mecklenburg County (former Orange County) where he lived in 1781. Although he wasn not listed in the NC Census of 1790, he was in Cabarrus County, NC by 1800. He m. about 1770 Elizabeth ---.
CHILDREN:
1. JACOB E. SELF b. 1771
2. David b. 1773
3. Stephen b. 1775
4. Melchezedec b. 1777 d. Jan. 12, 1854
5. Aaron b. 1782
6. Elizabeth b. BEF 1798
JACOB ELIJAH SELF (5th Generation)
Born 1771. He lived in Twiggs County, GA., Cabarrus County, NC and in SC. He m. Elizabeth ---. Jacob E. Self was called name Elijah. Jacob Elijah and Elizabeth Self joined Stone Creek Baptist Church in Twiggs County in 1811.
CHILDREN:
1. CHAPPELL B. SELF b. ABT 1800 d. Mar 1850
2. Mirum Self b. Aug. 12, 1804 d. Oct. 1, 1875
3. Nancy Self b. 1805
CHAPPELL B. SELF (6th Generation)
Born about 1800. Died March, 1850. He married Elizabeth ____________, b. 1810 in SC., and they lived to Houston County, GA. They may be buried in the Centerville City Cemetery.
CHILDREN OF CHAPPELL B. SELF AND ELIZABETH ___________:
Note: Chappell is a last name in Houston and Twiggs County and pronounced Chap-el (as in church).
1. Jefferson Self CSA b. 1822 d. BEF 1865
2. Marion Self CSA b. 1824 CSA
3. Ann Zelda Self b. 1825 d. Jan.12, 1908
4. Elizabeth Self b. 1826 d. Jan. 12, 1908 (married _____ Busby)
5. Bertha Self b. 1827 d. May 03, 1902
6. Nancy Self b.
7. David Self CSA b. 1836
8. SPENCER SELF CSA b. 1837 [1834] d. Aug. 23, 1908 CSA
9. Lot Self CSA b. 1840
Christopher Columbus Self
CSA b. 1842 married Fannie Mae Watson
Spencer Self is buried in Georgia in the Centerville Cemetery.Click on this Cemetery link and look for the note at the bottom of the page written by Eddie Self.
SPENCER DALE SELF
(Note: His toombstone says Spencer S. Self) born 1834 died 1908 (7th Generation)
Married Polly __________ born 1840.
CHILDREN OF SPENCER SELF and Polly ____________
(Polly's name may have been Polly Henson).
1. ELIJAH "Lije" SELF AKA E. L. Self born 1865 died 1941
2. Jackson Self ?
ELIJAH "Lije" SELF 1865-1941 (8th Generation)(Lije died from a cancer in his ear, buried in Jeffersonville,Twiggs County, Georgia)
born in Houston County, Georgia, moved to Twiggs County, Ga. married first wife MARY LOU ROOKS.
2nd wife: Nancy Jane Sheffield born 1879 died 1958.
Elijah was a policeman in Jeffesonville, Georgia. AKA E. L. Self.
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ROOKS FAMILY CONNECTION
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SILAS ROOKS, b. 1802, born in N. C.
Married JANE WILLOUGHLY b. 1815 in Georgia.
They were married in 1831.
CHILDREN OF SILAS ROOKS, Sr. AND JANE WILLOUGHLY :
1. James Rooks b. 1839
2. John Rooks b. 1842
3. Ellander b. 1844
4. GREEN RANDOLPH ROOKSb. 1845
5. Silas Rooks, Jr. b. 1848
1850 Census - Silas Rooks Family
GREEN RANDOLPH ROOKS AKA G. R. ROOKS buried in Jeffersonville City Cemetery. He was a Confederate Soldier.
Married SARAH JANE LAW born 1842 died 1910.
They got married in 1831. During their marriage they lived in Houston County, Georgia.
Green Randolph Rooks was a Civil War Veteran.
In 1861 he was in
Company K.
They were called the Houston Volunteers, Company K of the 11th Georgia Regiment of Confederate Volunteers.
Houston Volunteers Link - Look for G. Rooks among the Recruits.
G. R. Rooks was 16 years old when the war began and 20 when it ended.
Green was a POW - captured at The Battle of Chicamauga in North Georgia and taken to prison in Ohio. When the war was over he was released, and he walked all the way back home to Houston County, Georgia.
Green Ranolph Rooks and his wife, Sarah Jane Law Rooks separated and she moved to Vidalia, Georgia, to live with her daughter, Anna Rooks Causey, and her family.
When Sarah Jane Law Rooks died she was buried Woodlawn Cemetery in Eastman, Dodge County, Georgia, with her daughter's family.
Green Randolph Rooks moved to Jeffersonville to live with his son, Charley Rooks and his family. He is buried in Jeffersonville City Cemetery.
CHILDREN OF G. R. ROOKS AND SARAH JANE LAW:
1. Charley Green Rooks
b. 1871 married Annie Brown
.... children: Leamon Clark Rooks (L. C. Sr.), Ruth Rooks, Charley Tom Rooks, Mary O. Rooks, Bessie Rooks.
.... Leamon married a Parker, one son, L. C., Jr. lives in Warner Robins.
.... Ruth married a Jones, two sons, Forest and Walter
.... living in ALABAMA and N. C.
.... Tom married a Lanier - no children
.... Mary married a Johnson - no children
2. Anna Lou "Annie" Rooks Causey, b. 1880 d. 1941
....married Carl Lee Causey
....lived in Vidalia and had several children:
.... Mary and Sara, ETC.
3. MARY LOU "Mary" ROOKS b. 1868
....married Elijah Self
....Children: 2 sons, Charles Clinton "Clint Self
....and Lonnie Oscar "Dick" Self.
4. Charlton Rooks, b. 1877
REMEMBRANCE: (Charley Rooks told this story to his grandson, L. C.)
One day Charley Rooks and his brother, Carlton Rooks, Mary Rooks Self's brothers) were plowing a field. They got to the end of the row and Carlton told his older brother, "I have plowed my %&@@ last round." He then tied the plow line to the plow and jumped the rail fence and left. Carlton was about 13 years old at this time. Carlton ran away from home, and they did not see him again.
Carlton's brother, Charley Rooks told this story to his grandson, L. C. Rooks who passed it on to me.
MARY LOU ROOKS "Mary" born 1868. (occupation: Laborer) of Houston County, Georgia.
Married ELIJAH "Lije" SELF
Mary died about 1900 when she was about 32 years old.
Note: My cousin, L.C.'s grandfather, Charley was my great grandmother's (Mary) brother. Cousin L.C.'s father, Leamon Charley Rooks, Sr., died at the age of 86, Jan. 1981, Leamon's wife, Clifford, died at age 92, March 1992. They are buried in the Jeffersonville City Cemetery. L. C's grandfather, Charley, (Leamon's father) died in 1938 - he is buried at Ebernezee Methodist Church Cemetery, Macon, Ga., his daughters, Bessie and Ruth are also buried there. Charley's wife, Annie Brown Rooks died in 1922 and is buried in Griffin, Ga., with the Brown family.
(There is a photo of Annie Brown Rooks and her son, Leamon Rooks, Sr., in the photo album.) Self/Rooks Family Photos
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This is a photo of Green Randolph Rooks and Sarah Law Rooks sitting the center. On their left is Anna Rooks Causey, their daughter. On the right is Charley Rooks, their son. The boys holding the horses reigns are their grandsons. The children of their daughter, Mary and Elijah Self. The older boy on the left is Lonnie Oscar "Dick" Self and on the right is Charles Clinton "Clint" Self.
When Elijah Self's wife, Mary Rooks Self, died, they had two young sons, Dick and Clint. It appears from the census that the boys lived with their grandparents (Green and Sarah Rooks) for a while. Elijah "Lije" married his second wife, Nancy Jane "Aunt Nancy" Sheffield and they had one son together, Lee Self.
CHILDREN OF ELIJAH SELF AND MARY ROOKS :
1. CHARLES CLINTON "Clint" SELF born 1890 DOD 1961
2. Lonnie Oscar "Dick" Self, born 1889 died 1960 (never married). Dick was a WWI Veteran
CHILDREN by second wife, Nancy Sheffield Self, DOD 1958:
3. Lee Jerome Self (Lee)b. 1919 died 1942 (never married)Lee was a WWII Veteran - Lost At Sea
When Mary Rooks Self died, she was sick and lying in bed next to her son, Clint. Her husband, Elijah, was in the next room playing poker with some friends. He found her dead lying next to her son.
Note: Mary Rooks Self died and was buried in Houston County. The family moved from Sandfur Road, Bonaire, Houston County, Ga., (there was no Warner Robins at that time)to Jeffersonville, Twiggs County, Ga., in 1900. Lije and his sons, Clint and Dick who were about 10 and 12 years old. Lige's brother-in-law, Charley Rooks and his family also moved. Lije Self married Nancy Jane Sheffield and their son was born in 1919 in Jeffersonville.
Mary Rooks Self's brother, Charley Rooks and his wife, Anna are buried in the Jeffersonville City Cemetery, along with E. L. (Elijah), Nancy Self, Lee and Dick Self.
Note: Lee Self joined the Navy before World War II started. He was in the 1942 Battle of Midway and went down with the ship. Lee died while making trips back into the ship to save others. The ship sank while he was inside. A memorial service was held for him at the Baptist church in Jeffersonville, Ga., and he has a slab in the family plot which reads: Lost At Sea.
Lee's mother, Nancy Sheffield Self was a widow at that time and she got $10,000 in insurance money and bought a house (Dr. Rogers' Home). Nancy Self and her step-son, Dick Self lived there together.
Aunt Nancy (as she was called by her step children made one of the rooms a shrine to her son, Lee, with his pictures, all of the metals, telegrams and other correspondence. She kept this room closed, but she would go in it every day. She never got over his death. She talked about him all the time.
After "Aunt Nancy" died, her stepson, Dick Self inherited the house and furnishings. Dick died in 1960 and the house went to Clint Self. Clint who was living in Dodge County with his family sold the house in Jeffersonville. Clint Self died in 1961.
L. C. Rooks remember's Clint. He said Clint looks a lot like his son, Donald. He said Clint talked long & low.
My cousin, Barbara Thompson Thomas (Scooter) said Clint left home at age 15 and came to Eastman. He moved from farm to farm and worked for his meals and a place to sleep as a farm hand.
CHARLES CLINTON "Clint" SELF married
MOLLIE LEE MULLIS
of Dodge County, Georgia.
Note: My cousin, L. C. Rooks, says there is a mysterious link between the family in Jeffersonville to the family in Eastman, Georgia.
1. The Self and Rooks families started out in Houston County and Jeffersonville, Twiggs County, Ga., but Mary Rooks Self's mother, Sarah Jane Rooks, was buried in Eastman.
2. After Mary Rooks Self's death, her husband, Elijah Self, remarried. He chose a bride from Eastman, Georgia, Nancy Sheffield.
3. When Elijah Self's son Charles Clinton "Clint" Self married, he chose a bride from Eastman too, Mollie Lee Mullis. Clint and Mollie Lee lived at Route 6, Eastman, and raised ten children.
4. Also a healer (an old black man) from Eastman used to come see Elijah Self when he had a cancer on his face. His face got better, but the cancer moved into his ear and that is how he died.
CHARLES CLINTON "Clint" SELF (9th Generation) (Clint died in his sleep) b. 1890 d.1961 moved from Houston County to Twiggs County when he was about ten years old. He moved to Dodge County, Georgia, when he
Married Mollie Lee Mullis b. 1897 d. 1981 (Died at age 84, both were buried in Dodge County, Georgia, at the Giddens-Harrell Cemetery)
Mollie Lee Mullis Self's parents were Mollie Dillard and Joel Mullis.
Clint was a farmer.
CHILDREN:
1. Laura Varone "Lar" Self born 12/20/1914(her middle name could have been Jerome or Jane) married Oal Garrett -(One Son: Max) No grandchildren
2. Mary Louise Self b. 12/21/1916 married Bud Woodard - (One Son: David Wayne Woodard) No grandchildren
3. CLINTON JUNIOR "BUCK" SELF b. 2/29/1920 d. 1/19/1975 married Evelyn Garnto - (One Daughter: MARCIA) 1 grandchild: Carlie Collins
4. Donald Self b. 2/25/1922 married Anna Ruth Giddens - (2 Children: Madgelyn and Barney) 1 grandchild: Shonda Haley Blair
5. Dorothy Self b. 5/20/1925 married James Stephens - (2 Sons: Tim and Tony) 2 grandchildren: Matthew & Miranda Stephens
6. Mattie Joe Self b. 1/22/1927 married Arthur Thompson - (2 Children: Charles Monroe "Pete" and Barbara "Scooter") Grandchildren: Kim, Kenny, Karen Giddens; Pam, Cindy, Clint Thompson
7. Maime Ruth Self (called Ruth)b. 8/1/1928 married Fletcher Swearingen; married B. J. Kirkpatrick --
(3 Children: Gail, Linda, Glenn Swearingen) grandchildren: Lori, LeAnn, Al Dominy; Elaine & Nancy Bryan
8. John Dewitte Self (John D.) b. 4/11/1931 (never married)
9. Bobby Gene Self (Bob)b. 4/22/34 (never married)
10. Betty Ann Self (Chapman Holtzclaw Malone Thomas) (Betty Ann) b. 3/15/37 Joe Chapman was the father of her two children,
----(2 Children: Regina and Larry Chapman) 1 grandson: Brian Etheridge
Note: In 1928, the property tax on Mollie Lee and Clint Self's farm was only $5.20.
In 1940, Laura was 21 years old, 5'5" tall and 115 pounds.
Grandpa Clint Self's social security card has his name as: Charlie Clinton Self, 256-60-0239.
Note: Mollie Lee Self had a pond that was half on her land and half on the neighbors land. The Self-fish pond was across the road and down the lane from her house. Back in civil war days there was a house down the lane near the pond. The man who lived there went off to war, got tired of the war and came home. He was seen from the road and was reported to the authorities. When they came for him - He would hide in his secret hiding place. He had a hollowed-out place down in the wall of the well where would hide.
My cousin, Charles (Pete) Thompson, told this story to his sister, Barbara (Scooter)Thompson, Thomas, who told me.
Marcia
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