Is this home tied to our family?

Several pieces of information in my mother's papers may help me know more about Cyprian Bulloch.

Tradition says after Stephen Bulloch's wife Winnie Robinson died, he brought his two sons, Cyprian and Henry, to live with their grandmother Robinson in Greenville, GA.  Now Meriwether County was founded in 1827; so this would have been Troup County.

These items may point my efforts to dig a little deeper
1) a newpaper article my mother saved
2) a note she added to the side of the article
3) marriage records

These items may indicate that the Robinson family Cyprian & Henry Bulloch came to live with may be the Robertson's family.  The spelling of names was very fluid during this time period. 

So I am sharing the information without final conclusions.

1) The article

"Built by Slave before 1860…

Greenville’s Winsor Hall is feature of Historical Tour

 

One of the highlights of the Meriwether Historical Tour will be Winsor Hall. It will be opened to the public on Dec 12 from 10:00 until 5:00 and Dec 13 from 1:00 until 5:00. This house, one of the first completed private houses in Greenville, faces the old Greenville-Newton highway. Through the years all visitors to Greenville, have no doubt wanted to tour the house. Winsor Hall will be recognized as the tour trademark on tickets, posters and brochures.

This house was purchased in May of this year by Mr and Mrs Paul Rogers of La Grange. Mrs Rogers is an antique dealer and has furnished the house with many exquisite pieces. The Tour Committee is very grateful to her, as well as to the owners of the other six houses, for allowing the house to be opened.

Winsor Hall was built by a slave named Lovejoy before 1850 for J.M.C.Robertson, great-grandfather of Mrs. Idas Robertson, Sr of Manchester. One of Greenville’s most famous tales is how this slave worked out the specifications so exactly that there was scarcely enough lumber left to build a chicken house."

(The newspaper article was clipped without a reference to the date printed or the newspaper that printed it. ) 

Twin Oaks, also known as Winsor Hall, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1980.

 

Mother added the note below. My guess is she either knew or believed this was the Robinson family that Stephen brought Cyprian and his brother to after their mother died.  However, that is uncertain.  This house would have been built by a cousin if they are related. It would not have been a home he grew up in.

2. Her note

" Stephen Bulloch  brought Henry and Cyprian, his two sons, to Greenville from Edgecombe Co, NC after his wife Winnie Robinson died. Cyprian was overseer for Render’s plantation near Greenville before moving to Warm Springs and Manchester."

 I found this photo of The "Render homeplace" in Greenville.  It is also on the National Registry.

 

 *Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

 

 

I am not sure exactly when the Render home was built.  Cyprian Sr. would not have lived in this home as an overseer. It probably meant he had a good or better than average education. The lithograph of him shows him to be a well dressed man.

 



The term "overseer" brings too many images to mind to make it a pleasant reference.

Yet it tells me he would have been able to manage a variety of tasks and responsibilities.  His sons, Cyprian Jr, Benjamin, Jesse Hood would have grown up aware of all the variety of endeavors needed to maintain a large property, which would have prepared them to work together establishing their own businesses. Cyprian Jr. was the first man in the county to have all eight of his children obtain a college education.

 

4. Marriage Records

MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA -  MARRIAGES   1828-1844

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        MARRIAGES 1828 – 1844

      BULLOCH, Cypion                 GRAY, Licinda               1 Feb 1833 

      BULLOCH, John                   WILLIAMS, Jane              11 Mar 1832 

      BULLOCK, Henry                  BUSSEY, Cinderilla          26 Oct 1831 

      BULLOCK, John                   ERTZ, Frances               11 Sept1842 

    

      ROBINSON, Edward M.             HALL, Susan                 20 Dec 1832

      ROBINSON, James H. C.           RANDAL, Mary                27 Oct 1842

      ROBINSON, William               MATHIS, Sarah               18 Apr 1839

      ROBINSON, William               NEWSOM, Elizabeth           1 Feb 1840

 

Notice the spelling of all the names above.  Cyprian's name is spelled "Cypion", Lucinda, his wife, has her name spelled Licinda, his brother's surname is spelled with a "k"rather than an "h".

My question...did the Robinson's begin to spell their name as Robertson?