Hello!
Socrates was my great uncle. I was pleased to find your posts about him. The way I understand it, his father wound up taking bankruptcy due to his partnership in a restaurant in Manchester called The Great Britain Restaurant in the late 1880s. His mother, father, and siblings came to America, and located in Albany, Georgia. Many of them later moved to Central Illinois due to his sister's marrying a man from here. One brother, Cyril, located in New York City and apparently died there. His sister, Cleo, was the one who married Alvin Hays and moved to Decatur, Illinois, bringing the rest of the family with her.