A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922, Volume I, Part 53

Author: Battey, George Magruder, 1887-1965
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Atlanta, Webb and Vary Co.
Number of Pages: 656


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T. Rallinggourd Thos. Manning Smoke


Spirit


Fool


Standing


James Lowry


Chinaquayah


Housekeeper John Watie


Johnson Murphy


Wash Lowry


Turkey


Wat Liver


Doublehead


Chilhowie


Tom Gillespie


Two Heads


Withcalooski


Going Snake


Walter Ridge


By-him-self


Whirlwind


Noonday


Isaac


Ground Hog


Hawk


Tyger


John Ridge


In-the-field


Chinabi


Peacock


Matthew Moore


Oo-tata-ti


Manstriker


Buzzard


Harry Scott


Six-Killer


Gander


Otterlifter


Bear Meat


Turn Over


Shade


J. Ratlinggourd


Edward Adair


Major. Ridge


Chuiska


Three Killer


District of Etowah (Hightower).


Scrapeskin


Lewis Bark


Leach Goy-a-chesa


Goodmoney


Little Barrow


Take After


Crawfish


Mole


Turkeytoter


Red Bird


Jas. Brown


Peter


Jno. Baldridge


Ice


Boiled-down


Sitting Bear


Moses Campbell Ned Bark


Standing Crane


Singer Cold weather


Jas. Taylor


Cloud


Sleeping Rabbit


Swan


Robt. Benge


Sitting Bear


Speaker


Robin


Dick Foreman


Ta-chan-sie


Tanchichi


Canadawaski


Jas. Taylor Tracker


Osage


Hunter Langley


Chas. Manning Chuit


Black Fox


Drowning Bear


Ashhopper


Olisitunki


Fodder


Corntassle


Grog


Arch Lowry Rock


Key


Sparrowhawk


Scaffold


Rustybelly


Water Lizard


Littlemeat


W. Griffin


Osulanah


Dreadfulwater


Alanitah


Big Nose


Letusstop


Wallace Vann


Horns Lion


N. McDaniel


Blue Bird


Stud Horse


Sooksarah


C. McIntosh


Messenger


Peach Zallowska


Chichi Pelican


Nath. Hicks


Spring Frog Jno. Benge Sukatowie


Dick Taylor


Levi Timberlake


Bushyhead


Big Dollar Dick Benge Walegoolie Five Killer Rich. Taylor, Ja. District of Coosewattce.


Avery Vann Money Sealer


Collin McDaniel


Hang Foot


Terrapin Striker


Wmn. Lowry


Stump


Tailor


Huckleberry


Crying Wolf


Chu-no-lus-ka


Carnton Hicks


You-as-so-walta


Shutter


Armup


Moses


Saquah


Big Kittle


Watt


Owl


Eight Killer


GEO. M. BATTEY, JR., associate editor of The Rome News and author of "A History of Rome & Floyd County."


Beat-about J. Spencer Jno. Blackbird


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Peach Shooter


Lets-hunt-em


District of Tahquohee.


Cow-e-chur-kah


Bundle


Bunchlegs


Whip


Pumpkinpie


Little Decr


Hogfish


Spirit


Pound-it-over


White Path


Mistake Cat


Handshaker


Bran


Flaxbird


Getup


Let-it-fall


Humming Bird


Raincrow


John Rogers


John Wayne


Walking Stick


John Eliot


Bird Hunter


Ear


Buzzard


Walte Gutte


Big Burn


Seed


Catcher


Talassec


Nelson West


Chipple


Fog


Grapes


Chu-no-ha-ha


Big Tongue


Bone-carrier


Buffalo-fish


Smallwood


Pouch Laugher


Guts


Epaw-wessus


Gusty


Melter


Little Terrapin


Catch-him


Woman Killer


Standing Wolf


Knitts


Red Bird


Kick-up


Water Hunter


Wah-hatchie


Push-off


Bushy


Jack West


Pipe


Frozen Foot


Stee-kee


Eagle Setting


Corn Silk


Swinger


Hairy-Breast


Viper


Rib


Thos. Petit


Dirt-Thrower


Samuel Mayo


District of Hickory Log.


Buffalo Pouch


Blackhorse


Goodman


Cotton


C. S. Adair


Jack Winn


Takingout


Tobacco Purse


Teacher


Wm. Rogers


Take-out-beans


Sampson


Blanket


Bird Cutter


Eye


Tassle


Chin


Raining


B. F. Adair


Falling


Walkingstick Dirty-belly


Dirtpot


Nofire


Sparrow Hawk


Hawk


G. M. Walters


Guess


Crying Bear


Capsou


Swimmer


Prince


Humming Bird


Takeitout


Mixture


Santaga


Flying Fish


Geo. Still


John Proctor


Eel


Spaniard Spy


Bean


Fallingpot


Luck


Climbing


E. Towns


Jim Proctor


Naked


Walter Daniel


Stop


Goodgals


Beginning


Rattling Gourd


Mink


Big Boy


Doghead


Pushim


Pincheater


Mose Drowning


Trash Gatherer


Jas. Daniel


D. J. Hook, Turkey Town; J. Saun- ders, Talloney; A. Ratley, Teu River; Jno. Adair, Oothcalouga; Jos. Rogers, Sawana; Ezekiel Fields, Teu River; A. Adair, Oothcalouga; R. Rogers, Sa- wana; Jas. Vann, Talloha; Johnson Thompson, Pine Log; B. F. Thompson, Sala Coa; J. F. Adair, Two Run; Wastuwaha, Old Town; Jas. McNair, Connasauga ; D. Foreman, Candy Creek; Stephen Ray, Candy Creek; J. Rogers, Chattahoochee; Jack Sour- mush, Two Run; J. L. Mckay, Will's Valley; Elijah Hicks, New Echota; Black Fox, Oothcalouga; Henderson Harris, Forks of Coosa; D. McCoy, Red Clay; Willy Bigby, Candy's Creek; J. A.Thompson, Pine Log; Bird Har- ris, Sawana; Jno. Fields, Sr., Turnip Mountain ; John Williams, Rock Creek; Geo. Candy, Mouse Creek; G. W. Adair, Sala Coa; J. C. Towers, Oothcalouga; Jas. Vann, Connasauga ; Jno. Blythe, Long Savannah; C. Mc- Nair, Connasauga; Yese-taes-a, Tur- nip Mountain.


INDIAN TRAILS, ROADS AND STAGES .- Most of the Indian trails of Cherokee Georgia have been oblit- erated or swallowed up in the improved roadways of today. In the early part of the nineteenth century the so-called Federal Road was built from Tennes- sce through sections of Georgia. This is mentioned as part of the route of Gen. Sherman's army on its march from Resaca to Bartow County in 1864, and now and then there are other ref- erences to it, notably by the Indians. Quite possibly it passed near Dalton and generally followed the route of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.


Mrs. J. L. Walker, of Waycross, contributes the following on certain old trails and roads:


"There is rich romance linking Geor- gia's old roads and trails with the dim past, for many of them ran by the cu- riously-gabled villages that dotted the countryside, and the huts of priests and the wigwams of the Indians were seen along the way.


Ground Hog


Seen-them


Hogshooter


Kinkyhead


Biter


Knockmi


Flax Bird


Shell


Little Bone


Rising Fawn


Miscellaneous.


Drawer


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"The possessions of most of the early settlers consisted of a few acres of cleared ground, a log hut and a wife and children. The lives of the pioneers were filled with thrilling experiences, and the wives were quite as brave. The existence of the women was anything but peaceful, for while the men worked in the fields they guarded every inch of the ground close around the home. Tragedies were common; the trusty rifles were often taken down from above the door to bag a wild cat, al Indian or a bear. When the men went to town, the women and children usual- ly had to go too because of fear of wild beasts and Indians, and together they traveled the old trails.


"In the lives of stage coach trav- elers, stopping places were quite im- portant. Taverns and post houses were a necessity, because horses had to be changed and travelers rested and fed.


"The Blue Pond road in Floyd Coun- ty followed the Coosa River into Ala- bama and on to Sand Mountain. This was named after Blue Pond, in Ala- bama, and probably corresponds to the Alabama road of today. Earlier it was known as the Creek path, after the Creek Indians of Alabama and Geor- gia.


"Oostanaula or Hightower Path ran eastward from Alabama along the northern boundary line between the Creeks and the Cherokees, as fixed by Gen. Coffee in 1830. It crossed Shallow Ford on a tributary of the Etowah in the upper northwest corner of Cobb County, near Acworth; passed through Marietta, the northern ends of Fulton and DeKalb Counties; through Dun- woody, Norcross, Cross Keys and into Gwinnett County and Bay Creek in Walton ; through Logansville and crossed into Oconee County via High Shoals; through Watkinsville; and thence over the Oconee River into Clarke County and Athens.


"Etowah Path led from the village of Two Runs, in the southern part of Gordon County, to Suwanee Old Town in Lumpkin County.


"The chief north-south stage route was from Milledgeville, then the capi- tal of Georgia, to Nickajack, Tenn., near the Ga .- Ala .- Tenn. "corner," and a branch connected with Rome. At Eatonton there was another branch to Athens, via Madison. If the traveler wished to go by Athens on the way from Milledgeville to Nickajuck he must travel 255 miles, striking Vann's Ferry (on the Chattahoochee River in Hall County), Blackburn's (on Etowah


River), Etowah and Coosawattee Town. Weekly stages were run from Milledgeville to Athens and reverse, and the fare was $6.25."


Sherwood's Gazetteer (1829) tabu- lates the Milledgeville-Nickajack route as follows:


Miles.


Milledgeville to Eatonton 211%


Eatonton to Madison 22


Madison to Athens 271%


Athens to Vann's Ferry 47


Vann's Ferry to Blackburn's


Ferry 20


Blackburn's to Harnage Ford


on Long Swamp Creek 15


Harnage's to Coosawattee Town 28


Coosawattee Town to Mrs.


Scott's 34


Mrs. Scott's to Daniel Ross' 18


Daniel Ross' to Willson's at Nick-


ajack 22


Total 255


The stage started from Milledge- ville on Tuesdays for Athens and re- turned on Saturdays. A few miles might be saved on the way to Nicka- jack by leaving Athens on the right and passing through Clarkesborough, Jackson County. The Gazetteer states


WM. SINCLAIR ROWELL, referee in bank- ruptcy, editor of The Tribune-Herald and Kiwanis Club member.


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FEDERAL AGENTS AND A "MOONSHINE" STILL, 1921.


that Vann's Ferry, 11 miles west of Gainesville, Hall County, was on the Federal road.


An old Rome newspaper stated that Mr. and Mrs. J. M. M. Caldwell put up at the McEntee House, Broad street, Rome, in February, 1845, hav- ing arrived by the Covington stage.


INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS .- Shortly after the Civil War a number of lodges of this organization, founded by James G. Thrower, of Atlanta, were estab- lished at Rome, and included many of the Hill City's leading men who were opposed to liquor. Among the local units were Sacred Promise Lodge No. 125, headed by C. G. Samuel; Forrest- ville Lodge No. 106, and Mothers' Hope Temple No. 14. Among the leaders were Judge Waller T. Turnbull, Rev. L. R. Gwaltney, Major Z. B. Hargrove, Judge J. W. H. Underwood, Judge Joel Branham, Dunlap Scott, Col. Thos. W. Alexander and Chas. H. Smith ("Bill Arp"). The Cold Water Temple w composed of young men, with W. R. Fenner as secretary. "Water only!" was its motto. The Grand Lodge of Georgia convention was held at Rome Oct. 9, 1872, and more than 200 lodges were represented.


On June 6, 1860, a local organiza- tion known as the Sons of Temperance held a meeting at Rome. Chas. H. Smith was president, and the other of- ficers were J. H. McClung, G. B. T. Moore, R. Ferdinand Hutchings, R. W. Echols, W. A. Barron and T. W. Swank.


In spite of the refusal of this noble handful to drink, Rome's barrooms con-


tinued to multiply, until in 1900 there were thirteen on Broad Street, or an average of one for each block. Soon thereafter for a few years, due to the efforts of Seaborn Wright and others, the barrooms were voted out and a dispensary put in. "Package goods" were passed out from the east side of Broad Street midway between Third and Fourth Avenues.


The following additional general in- formation is furnished by one of the prohibitionists :


The prohibition bill was passed by the Georgia Senate July 14, 1907, by a vote of 34 to 7; in the House it pass July 31 by a vote of 139 to 39. Gov- Hoke Smith signed the bill on the 31st, declaring "This is the happiest day of my life!"


LAKES AND PONDS. - While there are no lakes of size in Floyd County, there are a number of bodies of water that furnish sport in sum- mer for boaters, bathers and fisher- men, among which may be mentioned :


DeSoto (Mobley Park) lake, which is to be enlarged for the boys of the Darlington school.


Updegrove lake, Armuchee Creek, near the Dalton road.


Wright & Powers' lake, Calhoun road, one mile north of the city limits of North Rome.


Young's mill pond, Kingston road, eight miles northeast of Rome.


Hackney's pond, half a mile north of Big Dry Creek, on the Summerville Road.


"Woodstock" lake, two miles south-


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4. 1


GEORGIA'S FIRST GOVERNOR AND A "POET LAUREATE."


At left, James Edward Oglethorpe, leader who established the colony, and Sidney Lanier, whose verse won him world-wide fame.


west of Cave Spring, on a place once owned by the parents of Col. Francis S. Bartow.


"Talalah" lake, between "Wood- stock" and Cave Spring, the property of Robt. Swain Perry, of Philadelphia.


Rotary lake, Horseleg Creek, Shor- ter College, the dam of which was do- nated by the Rotary Club of Rome.


Berry School lake, on the Berry cam- pus.


The Mountain Farm School lake, also on the Berry grounds at the foot of Lavender Mountain.


Sullivan pond, on the John M. Gra- ham place, "Hillcrest," East Rome, near Silver Creek.


Crystal Springs Mill pond, Armu- chee Creek.


The Tarvin pond, at Carlier Springs, two miles east of Rome.


Jas. P. Jones' lake, below Black's Bluff.


There is a natural fish pond three miles north of the court house on the Kingston road, owned by Mitchell Mo- ran (col.), 65 years of age and a great-grandfather, and a resident of Floyd County for 37 years. The pond is fringed with trees and is an acre and a half large. It is fed by two springs at the north end; there is no visible outlet, and it is supposed the water goes underground to the Etowah River. The pond is stocked with small fish-mainly bass - and Mitchell charges folks a quarter to catch all they can.


W. A. Smith has a pond at 1920 N. Broad Street.


A number of others might be men- tioned which are not much more than puddles. A few which are well re- membered to skaters in winter and fishermen in summer have dried up, notably a large pond in East Rome near Silver Creek, between the Anchor Duck Mill and the Etowah River, and a pond in North Rome drained in 1864 by the Northern army.


Dr. Jno. F. Lawrence is planning a pond at "Glen Alto," his country de- velopment at Radio Springs, Coosa River road, and several others expect to dam up their streams so as to make places for year-round pleasure on an adequate scale.


LANIER CIRCLE .- This literary and musical organization, like the Round Table Club of before the Civil War, was established on old Shorter College Hill. A newspaper clipping from The Rome Tribune of May 1, 1895, gives the officers as follows: Dr. A. J. Battle, president of Shorter Col- lege, president; Miss Mabel Hillyer, vice-president; Miss Martha Berry, treasurer, and Mrs. Christopher Row- ell, secretary.


The Circle was named after Sidney Lanier, poetical song bird of the South, and Montgomery M. Folsom, the Rome poet, wrote a clever poem to Lanier and presented it to the club. Since Lanier had once said he considered music and warm fire, next to wife,


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children, a house and friends, essen- tial to home life, music was introduced under the drection of Mrs. W. S. Mc- Henry, and the rest of each evening's program was devoted to literary pa- pers and discussions. Mrs. Jno. H. Reynolds and other leading Rome wom- en used to belong to the Circle, and many pleasant and profitable sessions were held, until interest that had been devoted to it gradually diffused and flowed-alas !- into various enterprises less devoted to aestheticism. %


LEHARDY SPRINGS .- Some con- fusion arises between this term and the term "Carlier Springs." The place three miles east of Rome commonly known as "Carlier Springs," was own- ed by Gen. L. J. B. LeHardy and his son Camille LeHardy, but Louis Henry Carlier kept it during the Civil War. J. Paul Cooper offers the following explanation :


"Eugene LeHardy bought the planta- tion afterward owned by Dr. G. W. Holmes, consisting of three land lots, on part of which I now live. The spring itself was on another land lot, original- ly belonging to the plantation which the East Rome Town Company bought and developed. Before that purchase,


:


EUGENE LeHARDY de BEAULIEU, of Rome's Belgian colony, who went to Europe to buy supplies for the Confederate Army.


however, the owner of that plantation had exchanged a corner lot, amounting to five acres, containing the spring, giving it to LeHardy in return for about the same area lying in one of LeHardy's lots up toward Tubbs' Mountain. There is the small spring now owned by Dick Cothran. All this appears from the county records.


"Colonel LeHardy had at that time, so far as I know, only a log cabin, built on the hill almost exactly where my house is located, and not where Martin Grahame afterward built. There was a tenant house between LeHardy's set- tlement and the spring, in my boy- hood days, though whether it existed there in LeHardy's time I do not know. It was occupied by Pete Cato, and near that spot Martin Grahame built his house. The old cabin had burned and the place grown up in young timber before I bought the land on which I live. The scars of the burning, how- ever, were on the trees which stood near my first residence, one of them having closed over and been occupied by a swarm of wild bees. I found near the place where the old cabin stood a sweet briar rose, evidently planted there by LeHardy. A small root of it is still growing on the place."


Dr. Henry LeHardy, of Chattanoo- ga, writes:


"As well as I remember, my father, Gen. L. J. B. LeHardy, owned two lots of land, on the Spring Creek road, about three miles east of Rome. The spring was a large one, Aowing be- tween some big rocks, and was sit- uated in a fine grove of trees-oaks, hickories, sweet gums and cedars. Eu- gene LeHardy owned a farm some- where between Rome and my father's plantation. I never saw his farm and could not say what kind of a spring was there. My father's spring was known to us as LeHardy's and is the one that is often called the 'Carlier Spring.'" (See Carlier Springs) . *


LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS .- Col. loquial terms have been applied to a number of sections of Floyd County. Before the war there were regularly organized voting districts known as Wolf Skin and Dirt Town, which later bore more dignified titles.


Booger Hollow is about two miles south of Lindale.


Lick Skillet is a part of South Rome.


Pop Skull is on the Alabama road, west of Oak Park and Fairbanks.


Possum Trot is between the Berry School buildings and the foot of Lav-


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ender Mountain, on the Berry farm.


Tim-buck-too is on the Calhoun road adjoining the city limits in North Rome.


Blue Gizzard and Beef Tongue are neighborhoods in Texas Valley.


Chubbtown is a settlement of pros- perous and respectable negroes four miles southeast of Cave Spring, at the Polk County line.


Hell's Hollow (now sometimes called Reservoir Hollow) is a colored section 200 yards north of Ninth Avenue, three blocks above the old Seventh Ave- nue cemetery.


Beaver Slide is on the north bank of the Oostanaula River in the Fourth Ward, above the Fifth Avenue bridge; bounded on the west by Avenue A.


Goat Hill got its name from a herd of goats and is situated in East Rome, near Carlier Springs.


Blossom Hill is one of the principal colored residence sections of Rome. It is an eminence that affords a fine view of the surrounding country, and is in the path of real estate development to the north. It is several blocks north of Eighth Avenue.


MAYORS OF ROME.


Explanatory Note .- Rome was in- corporated Dec. 21, 1847, by act of the Georgia Legislature at Milledgeville, and it is certain that the city govern- ment was not set up much before 1849. Prior to this time-from and after 1835, when the town was established- the "intendant" (superintendent) and the town marshal held undisputed sway. There is some question as to who certain of the mayors were before the Civil War, since various records were destroyed by fire and the names were never replaced. However, the fol- lowing roster, perfected by various "old settlers," is believed to be the nearest approach to a complete list in existence. According to Virgil A. Stewart, one of Rome's oldest citizens, the first mayor was Dr. J. D. Dicker- son, a druggist, who came from New Orleans, La., and who returned there later. Others have made the same statement, and their version is accept- ed in preference to that of an individ- ual who claims the distinction for Wm. Cook Gautier Johnstone (better known as Wm. Johnstone), a merchant and banker. Henry A. Gartrell was mayor in 1860. He ran against Geo. P. Bur- nett in 1859 and it is believed was elected. At 33 years of age Thos. W. Lipscomb became Rome's youngest


mayor, in 1908. Ben C. Yancey was second youngest at 35 in 1912, and he is said to have been the only native- born mayor Rome has ever had. Sam and Jack King, however, were natives of Floyd County. The commission form of government was instituted in 1915 and the late W. M. Gammon be- came the first head of the City Com- mission. During part of 1863 Capt. Jacob H. Hoss served as military "gov- ernor" for the Confederacy.


Dr. J. D. Dickerson, 1849-50; Jas. P. Perkins, 1851; Nathan Yarbrough, 1852; 1853(?); Wm. C. G. Johnstone, 1854 (?); 1855 (?) ; 1856 (?); Robt. D. Harvey, 1857; J. M. Sumter, 1858 (?) ; Henry A. Gartrell, 1859 (?) ; Henry A. Gartrell, 1860; Dr. Thos. Jefferson Word, 1861-2; Dr. Jno. M. Gregory and Capt. Jacob H. Hoss, C. S. A., 1863; Geo. P. Burnett, 1864; Jas. No- ble, Jr., 1865; Daniel S. Printup, 1866; Chas. H. Smith, 1867-8; Zachariah B. Hargrove, 1869; Henry A. Smith, 1870-1; Hugh Dickson Cothran, Sr., 1872; W. F. Ayer, 1873-4; Judge Jas. M. Spullock, 1875; Thos. W. Alexan- der, 1876-7; Mitchell A. Nevin, 1878- 79-80; Samuel Morgan, 1881; Jas. G. Dailey, 1882; Daniel S. Printup, 1883; Jack King, 1884-5; Samuel M. Knox, 1886-7; W. F. Ayer, 1888-89; Almeron W. Walton, 1890-1; Samuel S. King. 1892-3; Jno. D. Moore, 1894-5; Samuel S. King, 1896-7; Jno. J. Seay, 1898-9; Thompson Hiles, 1900-1; J.


Dave Hanks, 1902-3; Chas. H. Lavender, 1904-5; Judge Jno. W. Maddox, 1906- 7; Thos. W. Lipscomb, 1908-10; J. W. Hancock, 1911.12; Benj. C. Yancey, 1912-13; J. Dave Hanks, 1914.


The "First Commissoners." - W. M. Gammon, 1915; Chas. S. Pru- den, 1916; D. W. Simmons, 1917-18.


Chairmen of Commissions-Jno. M. Vandiver, 1919; Isaac May, 1920; Er- nest E. Lindsey, 1921-2 (incumbent) .


Mayors and Councilmen, 1866-1894. (From Tribune clipping of 1894.)- The first mayor after the war was James Noble, Jr., who served in that capacity in 1865.


In 1866, Daniel S. Printup was mayor, and the following were his councilmen: Jesse Lamberth, T. J. Perry, Samuel Gibbons, J. H. Cooper, Sam Noble and John M. Quinn; H. A. Smith was clerk.


In 1867-68, Chas. H. Smith (Bill Arp) was mayor and Messrs. Lan- berth, Perry, Jas. Noble, Sr., D. M. Hood, J. W. Hooper, Jr., and J. C. Pemberton were councilmen.


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Major Z. B. Hargrove was mayor in 1869. In that year T. J. Perry, C. H. Smith, J. C. Rawlins, Jas. Noble, J. M. Gregory and J. J. Cohen were the councilmen.


Henry A. Smith was mayor in 1870- 1871, and Hugh Dickson Cothran, Sr., in 1872.


In 1873, Major W. F. Ayer was mayor and G. W. Holmes, T. McGuire, R. V. Mitchell, W. L. Whitely and A. T. Hardin were councilmen; Henry Norton was clerk.


Major Ayer was also mayor in 1874 and had with him the following coun- cilmen : T. McGuire, R. V. Mitchell, C. H. Smith, C. G. Samuel, J. E. Veal and R. J. Gwaltney; J. F. Shanklin was clerk.


J. M. Spullock was mayor in 1875. Jesse Lamberth, J. G. Dailey, W. M. Shropshire, Geo. Bowen, J. L. Camp and Wm. West were councilmen. J. W. Meakin was elected councilman during this year to fill an unexpired terni.


In 1876 the council was composed of T. W. Alexander, mayor; R. S. Norton, J. G. Dailey, Win. West, J. C. Raw- lins, J. W. Bones and J. W. Meakin. J. F. Shanklin was clerk. This was the council that issued the bonds which are soon to be redeemed.


In 1877, T. W. Alexander remained as mayor, with the same council except that Messrs. Frank Woodruff and W. F. Ayer succeeded Messrs. Dailey and Meakin.


City Clerk M. A. Nevin was elected mayor in 1878 with the following strong council: J. G. Dailey, C. T. Clements, Jas. Noble, Halstead Smith. John J. Seay and T. J. Williamson. W. W. Seay was the clerk.


This council served until 1880, when Mayor Nevin was again re-elected with the following council: T. J. William- son, Jas. Noble, P. H. Hardin, E. H. West, Jack King and W. L. Whitely.


In 1881 Major Sam Morgan was elected mayor and Messrs. Jas. Noble, E. H. West, T. J. Williamson, M. M. Pepper, W. M. Towers and J. W. Wil- liams were elected councilmen. This council elected Col. Nevin clerk, and he has served in that capacity down to the present day.


J. G. Dailey was the mayor in 1882, and with Judge Dailey were James Wyatt, R. A. Denny, R. T. Hargrove, Joe Printup, R. H. West and F. Wood- riff as councilmen.


Col. D. S. Printup was mayor in 1883, and J. F. Shanklin, Jack King,


R. A. Denny, R. T. Hargrove, Sam Knox and A. W. Walton were the councilmen.


Jack King was mayor in 1884. Mr. King had as his council W. H. Ward- law, W. H. Adkins, M. C. Mathis, S. M. Knox, C. T. Clements and R. T. Hargrove. Mr. Hargrove resigned and W. T. McWilliams was elected to fill his unexpired term.


In 1884 the charter was so changed that councilmen and mayors were to serve two years and could not succeed themselves. The following year Mayor King and Councilmen Adkins, Knox and McWilliams retained their posi- tions and Messrs. T. J. Williamson, W. M. Towers and H. S. Lansdell were elected to succeed Messrs. Wardlaw, Mathis and Clements.


Sam. Knox was elected mayor in 1886. J. C. Printup, S. S. King and J. T. Vandiver were elected council- men. Shortly before this election, the Fourth Ward was admitted into the city and at this time J. W. Mitchell and W. A. Wright were elected to rep- resent her.


The charter was again changed so councilmen were to be elected every year, one from each ward to serve two years, and in 1887 W. H. Adkins, A. W. Walton, W. T. Smith and J. I. Wright were elected to succeed Messrs. Williamson, Towers, Lansdell and Mitchell.




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