Nellie Thompson was the oldest daughter of Silas Thompson and his wife Florida Sweat.
By the time she was nearly seven, she was placed, along with four younger sisters, in different foster homes by the State of GA. Nellie was enumerated in her parents' household as infant in the 1910 Federal Census of Nassau Co, FL. Since Nellie and her four little sisters were removed from their parents' home in 1916, they were not documented in their parents' household in the other censuses. Being the oldest, Nellie remembered clearly her parents and siblings that were left behind when the sisters were forcefully taken by the State of GA. In 1920, Nellie was enumerated as "Nellie Whitlock age 9" a paying boarder in a household in the Federal Census in Clarkston in DeKalb Co, GA. She was very unhappy living with the Louella Whitlock, an unemployed divorcee, and left at a vert early age to marry a man, who was several years her senior, named Fred...."Just to get out of that house". By 1927, Nellie was married for a second time to Early Mack Hunt and starting her own family. Nellie had a goal of finding her sisters and parents and became the driving force for her troubled life. Her husband supported her efforts. As a young adult, she interviewed everyone she could remember that had anything to do with her and her sisters while they were in the state home. One by one, three of her sisters were located living in various counties in GA. The baby Anita, who was reportedly taken to California by adopted parents, was never located. It is not clear if all of these sisters were actually legally adopted or put in foster homes taking that family's surname for a short time. In 1933, after a long car trip to St Augustine, FL, the sisters reunited them with her widowed mother.
Nellie and Mack had three sons: Jr., Joe, and Gerald. They made their home on Arcadia Ave in Decatur, GA. She worked for a doll factory in downtown Atlanta. Like her mother, she had cancer of the mouth as she dipped.
By the time she was nearly seven, she was placed, along with four younger sisters, in different foster homes by the State of GA. Nellie was enumerated in her parents' household as infant in the 1910 Federal Census of Nassau Co, FL. Since Nellie and her four little sisters were removed from their parents' home in 1916, they were not documented in their parents' household in the other censuses. Being the oldest, Nellie remembered clearly her parents and siblings that were left behind when the sisters were forcefully taken by the State of GA. In 1920, Nellie was enumerated as "Nellie Whitlock age 9" a paying boarder in a household in the Federal Census in Clarkston in DeKalb Co, GA. She was very unhappy living with the Louella Whitlock, an unemployed divorcee, and left at a vert early age to marry a man, who was several years her senior, named Fred...."Just to get out of that house". By 1927, Nellie was married for a second time to Early Mack Hunt and starting her own family. Nellie had a goal of finding her sisters and parents and became the driving force for her troubled life. Her husband supported her efforts. As a young adult, she interviewed everyone she could remember that had anything to do with her and her sisters while they were in the state home. One by one, three of her sisters were located living in various counties in GA. The baby Anita, who was reportedly taken to California by adopted parents, was never located. It is not clear if all of these sisters were actually legally adopted or put in foster homes taking that family's surname for a short time. In 1933, after a long car trip to St Augustine, FL, the sisters reunited them with her widowed mother.
Nellie and Mack had three sons: Jr., Joe, and Gerald. They made their home on Arcadia Ave in Decatur, GA. She worked for a doll factory in downtown Atlanta. Like her mother, she had cancer of the mouth as she dipped.
Nellie Thompson was the oldest daughter of Silas Thompson and his wife Florida Sweat.
By the time she was nearly seven, she was placed, along with four younger sisters, in different foster homes by the State of GA. Nellie was enumerated in her parents' household as infant in the 1910 Federal Census of Nassau Co, FL. Since Nellie and her four little sisters were removed from their parents' home in 1916, they were not documented in their parents' household in the other censuses. Being the oldest, Nellie remembered clearly her parents and siblings that were left behind when the sisters were forcefully taken by the State of GA. In 1920, Nellie was enumerated as "Nellie Whitlock age 9" a paying boarder in a household in the Federal Census in Clarkston in DeKalb Co, GA. She was very unhappy living with the Louella Whitlock, an unemployed divorcee, and left at a vert early age to marry a man, who was several years her senior, named Fred...."Just to get out of that house". By 1927, Nellie was married for a second time to Early Mack Hunt and starting her own family. Nellie had a goal of finding her sisters and parents and became the driving force for her troubled life. Her husband supported her efforts. As a young adult, she interviewed everyone she could remember that had anything to do with her and her sisters while they were in the state home. One by one, three of her sisters were located living in various counties in GA. The baby Anita, who was reportedly taken to California by adopted parents, was never located. It is not clear if all of these sisters were actually legally adopted or put in foster homes taking that family's surname for a short time. In 1933, after a long car trip to St Augustine, FL, the sisters reunited them with her widowed mother.
Nellie and Mack had three sons: Jr., Joe, and Gerald. They made their home on Arcadia Ave in Decatur, GA. She worked for a doll factory in downtown Atlanta. Like her mother, she had cancer of the mouth as she dipped.
By the time she was nearly seven, she was placed, along with four younger sisters, in different foster homes by the State of GA. Nellie was enumerated in her parents' household as infant in the 1910 Federal Census of Nassau Co, FL. Since Nellie and her four little sisters were removed from their parents' home in 1916, they were not documented in their parents' household in the other censuses. Being the oldest, Nellie remembered clearly her parents and siblings that were left behind when the sisters were forcefully taken by the State of GA. In 1920, Nellie was enumerated as "Nellie Whitlock age 9" a paying boarder in a household in the Federal Census in Clarkston in DeKalb Co, GA. She was very unhappy living with the Louella Whitlock, an unemployed divorcee, and left at a vert early age to marry a man, who was several years her senior, named Fred...."Just to get out of that house". By 1927, Nellie was married for a second time to Early Mack Hunt and starting her own family. Nellie had a goal of finding her sisters and parents and became the driving force for her troubled life. Her husband supported her efforts. As a young adult, she interviewed everyone she could remember that had anything to do with her and her sisters while they were in the state home. One by one, three of her sisters were located living in various counties in GA. The baby Anita, who was reportedly taken to California by adopted parents, was never located. It is not clear if all of these sisters were actually legally adopted or put in foster homes taking that family's surname for a short time. In 1933, after a long car trip to St Augustine, FL, the sisters reunited them with her widowed mother.
Nellie and Mack had three sons: Jr., Joe, and Gerald. They made their home on Arcadia Ave in Decatur, GA. She worked for a doll factory in downtown Atlanta. Like her mother, she had cancer of the mouth as she dipped.
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Source of burial was Mrs. Joe Hunt, daughter-in-law
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