Benjamin Franklin Ussery was born February 26, 1856 in Pulaski County, Georgia on a farm North of the Cochran Airport. He went by Frank Ussery. Cochran is now in Bleckly County after it was created from Pulaski County. He died June 21, 1939 in Hazlehurst, Jeff Davis County, Georgia and is buried next to his second wife, Martha Ellen Silas, in the Satilla Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery in Jeff Davis County, Georgia. This church sits on the Satilla River.
Frank's first wife was Allen Frances (Fanny) Graham. They were married April 26, 1874 Near Cadwell, Laurens County, Georgia. The marriage license was never recorded. She was born March 29, 1856, and died April 26, 1897 after the birth of her eleventh child, Francis Otha Ussery. He was born two months before her death on February 26, 1897. She is buried in the Snow Hill Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery near Cadwell, Georgia. Francis Otha Ussery was buried next to her in 1968. Fanny was an only child. Her parents died and she was adopted by her uncle. The story is Frank was working in a field and walked over to her and proposed marriage.
On December 25, 1898, Frank Ussery married Martha Ellen Silas. They lived in Reedy Springs, Georgia until 1921 when they moved to Hazelhurst, Georgia. This is in the area of Peter Ussery's descendents. She was born November 14, 1878, and died May 26, 1930 and was buried at The Satilla Freewill Baptist Church where she and Frank attended.
Frank's parents were Levi Ussery, born in North Carolina in 1790, and Mary Emma Sandiford, born in Georgia in 1822. Levi Ussery moved to Dykesboro, now Cochran, with his wife Rachael around 1853. He had lived in southern Wilkinson County, north of Dublin, Georgia, and was a member of the Big Sandy Missionary Baptist Church, which still holds services. Just after he purchased a 200 acre farm north of the now Cochran Airport, Rachael died in Spring of 1854. Levi then married Mary Emma Sandiford. Benjamin Franklin Ussery was born within the year and Levi died around 1855 or 1856.
Frank had one half sister that married in Wilkinson County, Georgia, the only surviving daughter of Levi and Rachael Ussery. Frank had three surviving half brothers, the oldest Peter Ussery, who moved to Appling County, now Lumber City, Georgia. Peter's descendents spell their name Ursrey. Jackson W. Ussery and Samuel Ussery were his other half brothers. Samuel got sick while in the Confederate Army and died in Tennessee. At Levi's death Jackson W. Ussery served as administrator of the Estate. Levi's second wife was allowed to live on seventy acres of the farm until she died, but after the Civil War she married Jesse Bryant, Senior.
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