In 1905, Paul Abbott was teaching in Auraria, Lumpkin County, Georgia. One of his pupils was Belle Christian, who later became his bride. V.Z. Higgins, M.G. joined them in marriage June 4, 1905.
After they married, Paul and Belle moved to Ball Ground, Cherokee County, where Paul taught at Flat Bottom School. While living there they lost their first child, Albert, sixteen days before his sister, Pauline, was born. Albert died the fifth day of the fifth month and was five hundred and fifty-five days old. Later the family moved to Marble City, in Pickens County, where Paul taught school and their third child, Edna Belle was born. Hugh, their fourth child, was born in Tate.
Paul and Belle were members of Cool Springs Baptist Church in Tate, Georgia for many years.
Paul and Belle lived in several different sections of Tate with the unique names of Mud Head and Double Branches. While living across from the depot their house burned, along with the drug store, in 1939. With the help of friends, neighbors and family they moved up the road north of the depot and lived there until Paul's death at the age of 72. Belle moved to Oconee County and lived there for several years before returning to Tate to live with her daughter, Edna Belle. Belle lived in Tate until her death in 1973.
--excerpt from article "PAUL LESTER AND BELLE CHRISTIAN ABBOTT", page 69, Pickens County Georgia Heritage 1853-1998, Walsworth Publishing Company, 2007. Article compiled by Mrs. Sara E. Sperin, Tate, Georgia, and submitted by Michael Winslow Abbott, Cleveland, Georgia.
In 1905, Paul Abbott was teaching in Auraria, Lumpkin County, Georgia. One of his pupils was Belle Christian, who later became his bride. V.Z. Higgins, M.G. joined them in marriage June 4, 1905.
After they married, Paul and Belle moved to Ball Ground, Cherokee County, where Paul taught at Flat Bottom School. While living there they lost their first child, Albert, sixteen days before his sister, Pauline, was born. Albert died the fifth day of the fifth month and was five hundred and fifty-five days old. Later the family moved to Marble City, in Pickens County, where Paul taught school and their third child, Edna Belle was born. Hugh, their fourth child, was born in Tate.
Paul and Belle were members of Cool Springs Baptist Church in Tate, Georgia for many years.
Paul and Belle lived in several different sections of Tate with the unique names of Mud Head and Double Branches. While living across from the depot their house burned, along with the drug store, in 1939. With the help of friends, neighbors and family they moved up the road north of the depot and lived there until Paul's death at the age of 72. Belle moved to Oconee County and lived there for several years before returning to Tate to live with her daughter, Edna Belle. Belle lived in Tate until her death in 1973.
--excerpt from article "PAUL LESTER AND BELLE CHRISTIAN ABBOTT", page 69, Pickens County Georgia Heritage 1853-1998, Walsworth Publishing Company, 2007. Article compiled by Mrs. Sara E. Sperin, Tate, Georgia, and submitted by Michael Winslow Abbott, Cleveland, Georgia.
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