Wife of John F. Pool(e)...
There's really very little I can share about Ann Poole. A cousin, Lisa Nelson Windham worked on family history for a number of years and lists her as Calloway Ann Johnson. I have no idea what source she used for this information. She also listed her marriage date at 1849. I do not believe this is correct but again I do not know what Lisa's citations were for this information.
For my part, research turns up no known family. I have no clue of father nor mother's name. There were Johnsons in the Monroe County, Georgia area as well as Calloways. I do not know Ann's date of birth. It is believed, based on census record ages that she was born about 1820. She stated on census that she was born in the state of Georgia. This is about the sum of the information we have for her as far as vital statistics are concerned.
There are no records to indicate that any type of naming pattern was in use in the children of this marriage. All the boys appear to have been named for well to do citizens of Culloden. I do not know for whom the girls might have been named but their names were popular enough in this time period.
I found a marriage record in Henry Co., Georgia for a John F. Pool and Ann Galloway. It is dated 31st May, 1839. I believe this to be my John F. and Ann Pool.
The next record I have is an 1850 census for Cullodenville, Monroe County, listing John F. 39, Ann 29 and Lovett (should have been Lovick) age 2. This census record would indicate that she was born about 1820.
1867 Reformation records state John F. saying he'd been in Monroe County and in the Culloden district for 23 years, and in the state of Georgia for 27 years. I know that dates seem to have been very approximate and 1840 is relatively near 1839.
I do not know why there would be a long lapse of time between their marriage and the birth of their child Lovick Pierce Pool. I can only make assumptions. Births appeared to have recurred at regular intervals following Lovick's birth in 1848. Elizabeth was born about 1850, John B about 1852. Harriett J. Windham's records states her date of birth as 1852, but census indicates it would have been around 1854. Wesley G. was likely born in 1856, Orrin Woodard in 1858 and Edmond (Edmund) Jackson was born in 1860.
In April 1862, both the Macon Telegraph and The Columbus Enquirer reprinted a notice from the Monroe County, Georgia paper stating that the women of Culloden had taken up a collection for the outfitting of a boat, CSS Georgia, to be used in the Confederate Civil War effort. Ann is listed as Mrs. John F. Pool, giving $1.
This is my last physical record of Ann. I have not found mention of an obituary. I cannot find a gravestone.
The only other 'fact' I know about her comes from a published History of Culloden, a speech by Senator Thomas M. Norwood about 1909, who grew up in Culloden. His father employed John F. Poole, Ann's husband. He states in his memoir of Culloden: "Turning this corner now and going by the church we come to the house of John F. Pool...he married a woman who did not know one letter from another. In character and spirit she was more like Xantippe, Socrates' wife, than any woman we had in this community..." For those of you who are unaware of Xantippe, she is described as a shrewish woman. That might explain why Thomas Norwood also said that '(John) Pool was a man of peace; he was, in fact, the peacemaker of this village."
So we are left with the knowledge that she was both illiterate and unpleasant in personality, apparently to the community at large as well as at home. It's not much to go on but it's all we have.
