History of Jones County, Georgia, for one hundred years, specifically 1807-1907, Part 1

Author: Williams, Carolyn White, 1898-
Publication date: 1957
Publisher: Macon, Ga., J.W. Burke Co.
Number of Pages: 1142


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HISTORY OF JONES COUNTY GEORGIA


CAROLYN WHITE WILLIAMS (Mrs. Carlton Candler Williams )


HISTORY OF JONES COUNTY GEORGIA


FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS, SPECIFICALLY


1807 - 1907


By Carolyn White Williams ( Mrs. Carl C. Williams ) Round Oak, Georgia


The J. W. Burke Company Macon, Georgia 1957


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Copyright 1957 CAROLYN WHITE WILLIAMS


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COPYRIGHT OFFICE JUL - 8 1957 } LIBRARY OF CONG


DEDICATED TO OUR SON John Thomas Williams November 19, 1937 - June 16, 1949


"YOU - ALL"


Come all of you from other parts, Both city folks and rural, And listen while I tell you this ; The word "you-all" is plural.


When we say, "you-all come down, Or we-all shall be lonely." We mean, perhaps, a dozen folks, And not one person only.


If I should say to Hiram Jones, For instance, "you-all is lazy," Or, "will you-all lend me your knife ?" He'd think that I was crazy.


Now, if you'd be more sociable, And with us often mingle, You'd find that on the native tongue "You-all" is never single.


Don't think I mean to criticize, Or act as if I knew all, But when we speak of one alone, We-all say "you" like you-all.


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PREFACE


"All true civilization is ninety per cent heirlooms and mem- ories-an accumulation of small but precious deposits left by countless generations that have gone before us. Only very proud or very ignorant people imagine that our muddle-headed present can begin everything all over again every day-and invent a new alphabet, a new multiplication table, a new code of laws and a new religion."


Rev. R. I. Gannon, S.J., Pres. Fordham U.


These words have a meaning for all of us who want to help make the world a better place. They remind us that in every field -art, industry, science or religion-we have a legacy reaching back thousands of centuries. Each one of us is a trustee of the past, we have the important task of living up to our heritage- and adding something to it.


It is my hope that this book may save from oblivion some of the records of the past of Jones County, delved from musty papers that have reposed for one hundred and fifty years in the courthouses and the Department of Archives and History Time soon effaces what has gone before and the past cannot be remembered for long, unless there be a written record, which is called history.


Local history is very important, for the sum total of the local- ities make up the state. Jones County's past is completely fas- cinating, only one who is native to the soil, can rightfully record its virtues and smile at its mistakes. The life and the people of this region from the wilderness era until now is varied and too rich to be dealt with in one book. I hope that the young people will better understand the ways and days of Jones County's beginning. In compiling this book I found that people are showing a fresh interest in their forebears, and in rediscovering the past. Somehow it gives us a security that the uncertain present and the unpredictable future does not. The fact that we live in the Atomic Age has intensified this need for self-discovery and a reassurance of values from our forebears, their strength, courage and vision.


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As much as the men of mark did for our country, it could not be what it is today, without the stout hearts, brawn and muscles of the inconspicuous tens of thousands who make up the main body of our land and helped to found and to carry on this won- derful experiment of our great democracy. They are the warp and woof of the whole cloth.


We must not rest on the laurels of those who have gone be- fore, but make a determined effort that our contribution to our land shall be worthy of the past.


In the use of this material, credit may not always be given to the source, either by word, material or tradition. I make no claim to being a writer, but have only undertaken to compile the facts and stories from various sources, and I offer apologies for failure to mention anyone or any records which should justly be mentioned. I have done my best to secure information on the old citizens who shared in the upbuilding of Jones County. I know there is much left out but it is impossible to secure all of this information and so I heartily recommend that a second vol- ume be published where I leave off. Carlyle said: "If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and authorcraft are of small account to that."


There is much to be said of those who have settled in the county since the first one hundred years, on which I have only touched lightly, but to them I give a sincere tribute for having been leaders in their field of endeavor. No county can progress without new blood, and to these newcomers of the 1900's Jones County proudly claims you as her own, knowing that when a second volume is written your names will head the list of worthy sons and daughters.


Some of the facts in this book were secured from our own courthouse which has wonderful and well kept records. To the Ordinary, Harris Morton and to the Clerk, F. M. Stewart, Jr. my appreciation for allowing me to use these records freely. The old copies of the Jones County News edited by Mark Greene, and the many articles by S. H. Griswald were invaluable. Re- search in the records of the Department of Archives and His- tory in Atlanta, the Washington Memorial Library in Macon


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and the library of Hon. J. B. Jackson of Gray were valuable aids. The clippings and scrapbook of Mrs. Sophie Howard My- rick of Haddock and her earnest desire for a history of Jones County gave me inspiration to do this work. The Bible records, old pictures, letters, cemetery records, traditions and mouth to mouth history by old citizens have been carefully garnered to give information. Col. Thomas Spencer and Wilbur Kurtz of Atlanta, Ga. gave facts of the War Between the States, and the battles fought here. Col. Spencer donated photostatic copies of prisoners taken, permits and several pictures. To these and many others my sincere appreciation.


Most of all my appreciation to my husband, for his coopera- tion and understanding without which, the book would have been impossible.


Jones County, in the heart of Georgia, makes her contribution to the ever-widening stream that is our own America. I present these records, incomplete and inadequate as they are, as a glance backwards that reaffirms and reassures and gives us a stimulus and inspiration to carry the old forward, to meet the new Atomic Era of which we are a part.


Carolyn White Williams


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OUR GEORGIA


Down in Georgia the sun shines just a little brighter, the moon rays are just a little softer, the breezes blow just a little gentler, the birds sing just a little sweeter, the flowers are just a little prettier and its climate just a little more salubrious. When trav- eling from North to South all of us have the idea that we know by instinct just when we cross the line into Georgia. Someone has so fittingly said:


Down where the sun's most always shining, Where poverty's clouds have a silver lining, Where there's chicken and cornbread with every dining, That's where the South begins.


"Down where Knighthood's still in flower, Where they marry for love without a dower, Where money is useful, but not a power, That's where the South begins.


"Down where the latchstring's outside the door, Where a friend's a friend, whether rich or poor, Where they trace their ancestry back to Noah, That's where the South begins."


Our Georgia was the last of the thirteen original colonies (1733) to be established. That noble English gentleman, Sir James Edward Oglethorpe, who had served 32 years in Parlia- ment and was an outstanding soldier, had set his heart on putting an end to the tyrannical denial of individual freedom. In early England the arbitrary imprisonment of debtors where no dis- tinction was apparently made between misfortune and dishon- esty caused Gen. Oglethorpe to undertake the Georgia experi- ment. He carefully selected a group on the basis of personal character and ability to get along in the wilderness, for there was a struggle for the possession of this region by Spain, France and England, and England won out. Georgia was established also as a buffer state against the expansion of the Spanish. The trustees and the charter were the basis of the government until 1752, at which time Georgia became a royal colony. The origi-


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nal Georgia as described in the charter was a great strip of America stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean (then called the South Seas). The colony was named for King George II of Britain.


Later Georgia extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mis- sissippi River, and two of our finest states, Alabama and Missis- sippi were formed from it. These same Georgia qualities that admitted the unfortunate, has shown her elements of kindness, understanding, belligerency, patriotism, reformist zeal, individ- ualism, and courage, all mixed in the character of Early Georgia and remain today. Georgia continues to be an individualist and is unpredictable, she has her virtues and her faults, but she is admirable. In the wars of 1776, 1812 and 1861 her soil was the ground of decisive movements, unrest, duels and personal struggles, in fact she never has a dull moment.


Many are the flags that have flown above our soil, from those of Spain, France and England to that of the famous pirate, "Blackbeard," which at one time was hoisted along our coast- line. It was not until after 1799 that an official Georgia flag came into being, a blue flag with the state seal with its motto, "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation." Today the flag of red, white and blue with the same seal and replica of the flag of the Con- federacy is the proud symbol of our history, ideals and aspira- tions.


"Georgia was given both plains and mountains and a great intervening space between the two called the Piedmont, in which Jones County is located. Embracing one-third of the state is this rolling Piedmont country of red hills. The diversity of the land formations make for a diversity of climate, in soil, in vegetation and in animal life."


"The tall pine and hardwood grows here. The Mound Build- ers and the Creeks lived here. The settlers pushed the Indians back and came in and after the Revolution, cotton began its steady march across the red hills of this Piedmont section. Cot- ton leaped from 1,000 bales in 1781 to 20,000 in 1800, five more years and Georgia produced 150,000 bales of cotton. Slavery was the foundation on which the plantation rested. There were the planter aristocracy, the mass of people who owned no slaves, and the dregs of any society."


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"Early Georgians got most of their education from New England teachers and preachers, but the temperament and achievements of Georgians are individualists, and they are as diverse as the land on which they live."


(*Merton Coulter's, "History of Georgia," Chapter I)


"GEORGIA"


by Charles D. Jordan


"If all the cotton grown in Georgia was woven into one sheet it would cover the entire United States and one-half of Europe. If all the watermelons grown in Georgia were grown into one watermelon and the water in that watermelon compressed, and turned loose in any one of the big streams in the United States it would produce a freshet equal to the Johnstown flood. If all the tobacco grown in Georgia were rolled into one cigar, the smoker could stand on the Canadian front and ask his friend in Honolulu to hold the match. If all the cows grown in Georgia were grown into one cow, she could graze at the equator and give milk at the north pole. If all the hogs grown in Georgia, were grown into one hog, he could dig the Panama Canal with one root, and with one grunt could shake all of the coconuts off the trees in South America."


"If all the peaches grown in Georgia were grown into one peach the peeling would be 200,000 miles long, the seed a mile high, weighing 1,000,000 tons. If you wanted to make peach brandy of this peach, it would take all of the copper from Duck Town to produce the still, and you would have to put it on Mount Vesuvius to get fire enough to get it hot."


Census in 1950, Georgia's population was, 3,444,578.


Her motto : "Wisdom, Justice, Moderation."


State Flower : Cherokee Rose.


Bird: Brown Thrasher.


Tree : Live Oak.


Area : 58,876 sq. mi.


Institutions of higher learning, 51, with 16 colleges and uni- versities.


Warm Springs is nationally known for the treatment of suf-


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ferers of infantile paralysis. It was here Pres. F. D. Roosevelt overcame poliomyelitis. There are seven National parks and 25 State parks. Atlanta, the capital, had a population in her en- virons of 671,000 in 1950.


Principal products are : cotton (610,000 bales in 1950), to- bacco, peanuts, lupine, pecans, corn, oats, sweet potatoes, peach- es, watermelons. The state is a leader in production of broilers and baby chicks. Large pine forests produce resin, pulpwood, turpentine and naval stores. Georgia is the largest producer of kaolin and china clay; also produces marble, barite, granite, limestone, cement, talc, bauxite, mica, gold and phosphates. Ex- pansion of industry has been marked since 1942, in textiles, food processing, lumber products, chemicals and printing. The large H-bomb plant near Augusta is a city within itself.


Georgia, "The Empire State of the South," largest state east of the Mississippi river has prospered continuously with excep- tion of the fratricidal strife of the 1860's and the subsequent reconstruction. Georgia's Crawford Long gave to the world ether on March 30, 1842, and already his name is linked with that of Jenner, Pasteur and Lister in stories of man's humanity to man. Georgia has given "Uncle Remus" (Joel Chandler Harris), Henry W. Grady, Abraham Baldwin, Alexander Steph- ens, John B. Gordon, Robert Toombs, Martha Berry, Frank L. Stanton, Sidney Lanier, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Margaret Mitchell, General Clay, W. W. II, Gen. Courtney Hodges, W. W. I, Benjamin Harvey Hill and many others to posterity.


In 1922, "Georgia" was made the official state song by the General Assembly. The words by Robert Loveman and music by Leila Belle Wylie.


From the mountains to the sea, Where her rivers roll, There I ever long to be, Oh my heart; my soul ; By her meadows let me lie, In her vales remain, Underneath her rooftree sky, Watch the seasons wane, Georgia-land of our delight, Haven of the blest, Here by happy day and night, Peace enthrones the breast. Georgia, Georgia dearest earth, Underneath the blue, Clime that ever giveth birth, To the brave and true.


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FOREWORD


For years I have wanted some one who was deeply imbued with the love of the red old hills of Jones County, to compile its thrilling story in the manner that Mrs. Carolyn White Williams has done.


In her treatment of its Indian history, one can sense the power of the great Muscogean Nation whose capital was located at Macon's Ocmulgee Town and whose smaller towns extended up the river, can picture the war expeditions of the red men, throughout the centuries before the white man came, over the important old Indian trails that led through the county.


In her accounts of the War Between the States, especially, one can almost hear the sound of the hoofbeats of the galloping horsemen, the bugle blasts that sounded the cavalry charges on the battlefields of Jones, the roll of drums and the booming of artillery mingling with the rattle of small arms as Sherman's hosts spread carnage and laid waste throughout the whole county.


There are old cemetery records, histories of the churches, educational records, more than fifty pictures with the interesting stories of the old aristocratic homes, of the golden era of the county.


For four years the author has devoted her available time to the compiling of the records, alone doing most of the work. She has performed a monumental task and deserves the gratitude of not only the people of Jones County, but of every one who is in- terested in preserving the history of Georgia for future genera- tions. This work will place her in the front rank of the County Historians of Georgia.


She is a member of the Georgia Historical Society, a gradu- ate of the Georgia State College for Women and a former teacher in the Jones County schools. This book is another labor of love for her county.


Mrs. Williams was married on December 27, 1922, to Carlton Candler Williams. Their three children are Mary Anne Williams Hamrick, John Thomas Williams and Carolyn W. Williams.


VICTOR DAVIDSON Irwinton, Georgia


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Address of Victor Davidson at the Unveiling of a Marker Sunshine Battle Site 106


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A Letter by W. T. Mccullough 134


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Reports, Wife of a Confederate Warrior Nurses the Wounded Federals 149


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Battle of Griswoldville 158


Diary of E. P. Burton, Union Surgeon of the 7th Reg. Illinois 159


A Confederate Traitor and the Passing of the Federal Armies 162


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Clinton's Old Homes Old Homes


The Runaway Bride Comer House


Peyton Pitts House


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CHAPTER XVIII


Education


278


Jones County's Five Superintendents


297


Academies


283


Educational Funds


302


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CHAPTER XIX


Churches


304


Juliette 306, Elam 306, Sardis 309, New Hope 310, Mountain Springs 313, New Salem and Flat Shoals 316, Mt. Zion 319. St. Luke 323, Fortville and Haddock M. 324, Clinton M. 327, Bradley B. 331, Pitts Chapel 333, Sunshine II 334, Haddock B. 337, Bethlehem 338, Gray B. 340, Wayside Pres. 341, Pleasant Grove 343, Mt. Pleasant 345, Gray Methodist 346, Union Hill 347, Plentitude 348, Hardy's Chapel 349, Blountsville, 350. Colored Churches 350.


CHAPTER XX


Old Cemeteries, the 1800's


Baldwin


351


Hodge


368


Barron


352


Lamar


369


Blountsville


353


Lester


369


Bradley


353


McKay


369


Bullington


354


Milner


369


Clinton


354


Mt. Springs


370


Cabiness


361


New Salem


370


Comer


361


Ridley


372


Dame


362


New Hope


372


Finney


362


Roberts R.


375


Fortville


363


Roberts G.


375


Glawson


365


Round Oak


376


Gordon-Barron


366


Stewart


380


Goddard


366


Stiles


380


Gordon


366


Williams


381


Hunt


367


Wheeler


381


Holland


367


Whidby


382


James


367


White


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Jones


368


Wood


382


Hutchings


368


Woodall


384


CHAPTER XXI


Men and Women of Mark


384


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Comer 384, Bayne 388, Blount 388-390, Burden 390, Campbell 391, Day 392, Gray 398, Glover 396, Griswold 401, Hawkins 403, Hardeman 405-6-7, Hutchings 409, Iversons 409, Jones 412, Lamar 413, Massey 414, McDonald 415, Northern 416, Pratt 418, Pitts 419, Reynolds 420, Ross 421, Slade 423, Stewart 425, Ticknor 429, Thigpen 432.


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CHAPTER XXII


Life and Letters of S. H. Griswold 436


CHAPTER XXIII


A List of Professional Persons in Jones County, 1811-63


567


CHAPTER XXIV


Organizations


569


CHAPTER XXV


Genealogies


581


Anchors


582


Johnson, A.


645


Anderson


582


Kingman


647


Lamar


649


Barron


584


Lester


649


Billingsley


588


Lockett 652


Bonner


589


Milner 654


Bradley


593


Morgan


656


Bragg


595


McKay


657


Burkhalter


597


Miller


658


Brown


598


Moreland


660


Burden


599


Morris


660


Cabaniss


599


Morton


661


Childs


600


Moore


664


Clark


601


Moore-Juhan


665


Cox-Powell


.602


Moughon


665


Dame


604


Myrick


666


Dumas


606


Pitts


667


Farrar


607


Pursley


669


Finney


609


Reese


671


Garland


610


Ridley


671


Glawson


610


Roberts-Lowe


674


Gibson


614


Roberts


677


Godard


615


Roberts, E.


679


Gordon


615


Roberts, R.


680


Green 616


Roberts, M.


683


Greene


619


Singleton


687


Greaves 621


Sketoe


687


Haddock


621


Smith


688


Harrison


623


Stallings


689


Holland


623


Stewart


690


Hungerford


624


Stiles 690


Ticknor 692


693


Hutchings


628


Townsden


695


Hysler


631


Turner


697




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