Leigh Ann Searcy

Hazel Clements Searcy was my grandmother. She was one of the hardest working women I’ve ever know with some of the cutest little antics and songs she would sing. She taught me many of the old ways of doing things on the farm during the many summers I stayed with her and my sweet Granddaddy. We would rise early at 6 AM everyday. Chores included milking the cow, washing clothes on a wringer washing machine out by the smoke house, hanging them on the line, canning vegetables from the field that granddaddy brought in, shelling peas, creaming corn, cooking, making lye soap, setting milk to rise and churning butter. She was quite a cook and made delicious tea cakes and blackberry cobblers! She enjoyed her days working at the Inaha Road Stuckey’s behind the snack bar, too! Traveler’s on I 75 going to Florida for their vacations would stop by again and again just to see her and have a cup of coffee or a hamburger. She loved to talk to her customers. Often times I would have to go to work with her and sit behind the bar, but sometimes the store manager would let me cut up pieces of their delicious pecan clusters and I would serve samples to customers, too! She was a great seamstress and would sew while singing to the beat of her Singer treadle sewing machine. She was also a devoted Christian and Methodist. In my younger years she attended Prospect Methodist Church out in the country near her parents home, but in her later years she and Granddaddy went to Sycamore Methodist Church. She was quite a “sport model” and very much loved.

She was a beautiful, gentle and hard working farmer’s wife and mother to six children, William Grayer,(my grandfather) Julian, Annie, Ruby, Mamie, and Mattie Sue. She was very kind and soft spoken and would always offer the great grandkids a piece of hard candy from the candy jar she kept on the kitchen shelf.

Will Searcy was my great grandfather and was affectionately known as “Papa”. He was married to Etta Mae Royal of Turner County and lived on a farm near Inaha (Sycamore) Georgia. Searcy Road is named after him and winds around the countryside where the old homestead once stood. They had 2 sons, William Grayer Searcy (my grandfather) and Charles Julian Searcy, and 4 daughters, Annie, Ruby, Mamie and Mattie Sue. Farm life was all he ever new. Papa and Momma Searcy’s life was a simple one of kindness, devotion, love, and working together to raise their family. I remember the best of times going to their house every Sunday afternoon to visit and Momma Searcy walking to the shelf in their tiny kitchen to get us grand young ‘uns a piece of hard candy from the glass candy jar. 😊

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Leigh Ann (Searcy) Henry.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard (Dickey) Marion Thaggard.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Shelby Jean (Thaggard) Snow.

Julian Curtis Thaggard, Jr. was born in Doerun, Georgia United States, and died in Albany.

Katherine Verna (Sikes) Thaggard was born on February 14, and died in Moultrie, Georgia United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Katherine Verna (Sikes) Thaggard.

He was a loving grandfather. We called him Papa. He worked hard to provide for his family and farmed (tobacco) all of his life. He was a faithful member of First Baptist Church and Earlier in his life, Rose of Sharon Baptist church in Doerun.