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A slave Jacob P. Hutchings born in Va. March 1831. In 1842 was brought to Jones County and sold to Alfred George, who later sold him to R. H. Hutchings. He was a skilled stone ma- son, doing much of the stone work in Jones County. He was a leader of the Negroes. Died June 6, 1909. (Rep. in 1866)-
Mr. F. S. Johnson, Sr. was the Confederate Gov. Agent for collecting tithes for Jones County. The Government passed a tax requiring one-tenth of all provisions raised for the support of the armies. He was under bond and responsible for delivering this tithe to the Confederacy.
The Ku Klux Klan was organized for protection, 1864, after all law and order had broken down and it was not safe for a person to leave his or her home, during Reconstruction, 1865- 1875.
Nov. 5, 1907, the railroad removed the water tank from Round Oak to Hillsboro, about 5 miles.
1864-Blair's command of the Federal troops camped near Fortville at Tom Hamilton's.
1865-Mr. and Mrs. Perry Finney and family in Clinton were poisoned by their colored cook whom they had had for years. One son died, the others were very ill, but recovered.
Dave Allen and Hannie Mitchell were known as two great "mischief makers," from Dames Ferry, along with them was Wick Christian on the opposite side of the river. Dave and Han- nie worked for Tom Beeland.
Josiah Jones Henderson a Confederate Vet. of Jones Co. was 100 yrs. old Dec. 19, 1943 (from Griswoldville) Co. F, 45 Ga. Reg. was wounded May 5, 1863. There were 500 Confederate Veterans from Jones Co.
Many mass meetings and barbecues with eloquent speakers were heard on secession. The question to secede or not was on every tongue. Lifelong friends and families were divided. Anti- secession delegates were elected and the county was almost equal- ly divided on the question.
Gold was reported to be buried around Clinton during the Civil War which has never been found-1870.
The County mourned the death of Gen. LaFayette in 1834 and all remembered his visit and speech at old Clinton in 1825.
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Edmond Talbot, a cousin of Hon. Matthew Talbot preached in Jones Co. in 1809-1830 and moved to Henry Co. Ala. where he died at 86 yrs. in 1853. Other notable preachers were John and Benjamin Milner at Blountsville and Isham Reese who preached at Judge Joe Day's place and is buried there, Henry Hooten, was a noted Baptist.
John M. Gray who mar. Nancy Hill Aug. 14, 1827 in Twiggs Co. Gray was ordained in Franklin Co., Ga. and died in Ala. in 1834. He preached in this county and was a prominent Baptist here. He left two children by the last marriage, Franklin and Elizabeth Gray.
John Maule Roulhac b. Feb. 13, 1816 at Blountsville, Jones Co. never married. He went to India where he worked for the East India Co., and amassed a fortune. He returned to the states, went into the Civil War, lost everything he had and died in Macon Oct. 20, 1890.
Thomas Hamilton, b. Nov. 27, 1819, Blountsville, Jones Co., married Sarah Ross Clarke. After her death he went to Aus- tralia, when the Civil War started he came back to the states, enlisted in the C.S.A. as a surgeon. After this he lived with his son James Hamilton at Clearwater Harbor, Fla.
First Bank in Jones County
"Since the organization of Jones County, in 1807, she had been dependent upon other counties for bank facilities. In the past few years several attempts have been made to organize a bank within our borders, but each met the same fate-nothing done.
On last Tuesday twenty-five or thirty of our people met Mr. Jno. D. Walker of Sparta, at Haddock and negotiations were entered into which resulted in an organization which means that a strong bank will be in operation at Haddock in less than three months.
The bank is to be capitalized at $25,000.00, the needful per cent of which is available at any moment.
The following officers were elected-President, John D. Walker; Vice-President, J. T. Finney; Cashier, T. R. Turner. Board of Directors-J. D. Walker, J. T. Finney, T. R. Turner,
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S. H. Haddock, C. W. Middlebrooks, T. S. Bush, J A. Pitts, F. M. Stewart, W. T. Bloodworth."
Jones County News-1907.
Mrs. Jane Humphries Kilpatrick of Humphriesville, b. Feb. 22, 1836 dau. of Thomas and Nancy Humphries mar. Dec. 24, 1857, Wm. G. Fitzpatrick. Two children, Mrs. Leon Herndon, Walter Fitzpatrick.
Conf. Soldiers attending a Reunion were : J. A. Walker, G. C. Smith, J. A. Childs, V. B. Clark, Dan Mercer, A. A. Barfield, J. F. Childs, T. J. Bazemore, M. W. Kitchens, J. A. Jones- 1907.
Ocmulgee Circuit consisted of Wilkinson, Laurens, Telfair, Baldwin, Jones, Putnam, Greene, Morgan and Jasper Counties. The first Judge was Peter Early and first Solicitor Gen. Bedney Franklin.
The legislature-1883 passed an act appropriating $1,000,- 000 for building the State Capitol in Atlanta.
Congress on Sept. 9, 1776 ordered that the United States be officially recognized as the name of this country, instead of United Colonies.
Several from Jones Co. visited the Piedmont Exposition in Atlanta Sept. 19, 1887 and saw Pres. and Mrs. Grover Cleve- land.
One juror fined $10.00 in Clinton Court for swearing in the presence of this court. Attorney and jury fees were $5.00. A fine for assault and battery $10.00. There was no case for drunken- ness on record in that court, for the first time-1820.
Among the earliest of large dry goods establishments was that of John B. Ross, whose family was among the earliest settlers of what later became East Macon (1818). Mr. Juhan clerked for Jack Ross in Clinton. Timothy Furlow a student at Franklin College clerked there in the summer of 1835, met Charlotte Mary Lowther and married her in Nov. 1835.
Jesse Bunkley was the younger son of William D. Bunkley who died in 1812. Mrs. Bunkley married James Billingslea and had several children. In 1832 she mar. Samuel Lowther. It was in 1837-38 that Elijah Barber came to Clinton to claim his half of the estate. It was said that he had known Jesse Bunkley in the
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Crimean War, and after Bunkley's death tried to collect his property. Judge Lowther had died in 1837 and the widow Low- ther engaged some of the ablest lawyers in the state. Mrs. Low- ther was very wealthy, owning large plantations and many slaves.
Dr. William Little came from South Carolina, graduated from Medical College Augusta, 1850, married Mary Respess from Putnam Co. Ch., Elizabeth, Frances, Tom.
The first home lighting electric plant in Jones County was built by Col. S. G. Green while a student at Georgia Tech in 1911 and installed at his home. (William Jones house-first courthouse, in Finney's District. )
The first sewing machine in Jones County was brought back from New York by Richard Hutchings in 1856 to his wife. This was an early model of the Wheeler and Wilson machine and it was enclosed in a rosewood cabinet with two doors to swing open which disclosed the pedal. The doors were ornamented with bead moldings.
Samuel Gordon Green son of John Benjamin and Leila Nancy Gordon Green was the first Jones County graduate of Georgia Tech (in 1915), B.S. in E.E. and later a ScD. from U. of Ga. in 1929. He has the basic patent on Synchronizer for firing machine guns through the multiple blades of high speed aircraft engines and also has 80 other patents on small arms and other automatic weapons. (Patents show that Col. Green is from Gray, Ga.) (See Green genealogy.)
John Hanna Brooks was a Rev. Soldier, 1775-1783 and his grave near Clinton and two others are marked. William Stubly Shirley, Rev. Sol., Pvt. 2 Co. Ga. Bn. June 3, 1789, and Richard Charlie, Ga. Pvt. Blount's Co. Ga. Mil. War of 1812-Oct. 10, 1833.
Allen Holt and sister Ella Holt lived in the Blountsville neighborhood. Dave Norris married Ella Holt and had a daugh- ter, Nanneline Holt who mar. 1st Samuel Inman of Atlanta, they had a son Samuel, Jr., and when Samuel Sr. died Nanneline In- man mar. Duke of North Carolina and had a daughter Doris Duke of New York. Allen Holt mar. Emily J. Moughon of Jones County.
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(Copied from the Jones Co. News, issue Nov. 18, 1909- Andersonville Prison, written by J. L. Dance of Putnam Co.)
"I am the only man living who was at Andersonville through- out the life of the prison, I was at the prison before any prison- ers arrived and was commissioned as hospital steward. I wit- nessed the first arrival and the last arrival there and was there throughout the time it was used as a prison. I was with Capt. Wirtz, commander of the prison a great deal and had confidence in him as a man and an officer. The only other man to stay at the prison throughout the time was Capt. Bowers of Baltimore, Md. who was in charge of the baking house. I remember the death of "Poll Parrott," and many incidents of the prison life. There was but one birth at the prison. Captain Hunt, a splendid gentleman was captured on a boat on the Carolina coast and with him was his wife. During their stay at the prison, they were given special privileges and when the daughter was born she was named, "Andersonville Hunt," by the prisoners. The Confederates there suffered as well as the Federals for lack of medicines, food and in many other necessities which all fared alike. I visited the prison recently when the Wirtz monument was unveiled and I realize now that had the Federals, such as Staunton exchanged prisoners as we asked, the over-crowded and sanitary conditions could have been improved for I do not feel that the conditions were actuated by hatred or by a desire for vengeance. (J. L. Dance-69 yrs. old.)
(Copied from the Jones Co. News, 1909, by S. H. Griswold. )
Old Joshua Sims was a large, fat, black Negro preacher in Jones County. He could yell the loudest and get up the biggest hallelujah chorus of any preacher in the county. Joshua had be- longed to Capt. Sims of Covington before the war, and was his body servant. The crowd of Young's Guard of which Capt. Sims was in charge was at the depot in Covington waiting for the train to leave for the front in Virginia and many people were there. I was at school over at Emory Oxford and I joined the throng. The slave, Joshua Sims got up and made a fine Con- federate speech and received much applause. After the war he settled in Jones County and preached in Clinton and at his church on Swift Creek near the Bibb line near Col. Lane's place. He
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drew large crowds by playing on his fiddle before the service. Harry Stillwell Edwards came to see and hear Joshua and so well did he appreciate this character that he made him the prin- cipal character in one of his stories."
A tornado hit Jones County Feb. 19, 1874 which traveled the route of the Garrison Road to some extent and went by Brown's Crossing doing much damage and about destroyed Dick Brown's home. A drawn shingle was driven through a pole. An account of this was in Gordon, Ga. Dispatch and this news was printed in Boston, Mass. The paper criticized the Dispatch for printing such a falsehood and when this news got to Jones County a del- egation was paid to go to Boston and take the proof with them. The old clipping says that the pole and the shingle were put on display for everyone to see and later was seen in a Museum in Washington, D. C.
Pitt's Chapel over on the Garrison Road was used as a hos- pital by Sherman's forces while he was in Jones County in 1864. At this crossroads was a tavern and there the stagecoaches changed horses. This was run by a man named Phelps.
The Bank of Gray was chartered in August 1909. The Pres. was F. S. Johnson; Vice-Pres., T. S. Bush; Cashier, J. W. Bon- ner; Asst. Cashier, Bernard Johnson; Financial Agent, John D. Walker; Directors were : J. W. Bonner, S. B. Hungerford, F. S. Johnson, Richard Johnson, W: W. Moore, B. F. Winters, W. E. Morgan, F. M. Stewart, J. D. Walker, W. W. Barron D. V. Childs, T. G. Smith, R. H. Kingman, T. S. Bush.
The first telegraph lines in Tones County were erected along the old Garrison Road in 1848. Some called this old road the "Old Wire Road," for a while.
Col. Telemon Cuyler's parents were : Henry Hunt Smith and Mrs. Frances H. Hood Cuyler. His G. Uncle Lt. Col. A. S. Hamilton was in the Confederate Army. Dr. Thos. Hamilton also an uncle and the pioneer; Peter Clower has great-great- grandfather. Before the Civil War this was one of the wealthiest families in Clinton.
Stephen Jarrell owned an automobile in Jones County bought in 1907. It was powered by a single cylinder motor located
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under the seat and was steered with a tiller, made by Olds Motor Co. Stephen Jarrell b. Oct. 5, 1877 and d. Aug. 10, 1908.
Dr. Joseph D. Maynard a physician and surgeon of Abbeville, Wilcox County was born in Jones County Dec. 26, 1856, son of Sanford B. Maynard from Edgefield Dist. S. C., died in Jones.
In the Gazeteer of Georgia by Adiel Sherwood, 4th edition he states that the first depot in Jones County was at "Woolen Fac- tory" in the southeast corner of Jones on the Central railroad near Wallace which was also a post office.
In 1936 James Lockett was the leader and main contributor in building the Baptist church at Clinton which was located about 300 yards south of Will Johnson's home. The church has been gone for a long time, at one time was very active Rev. Jesse Mercer conducted many revivals there and Rev. Jesse Campbell was the minister for years.
George Stallings, "the Miracle Man" of baseball, who lived in Jones County on a large farm and had fine cattle was also the gifted manager of the Boston Braves and in 1914 carried them from the bottom to the top and won the pennant. He played ball as a boy in Augusta. He married Bell White in April 1889 had two sons Lawrence and White. Later he married Bert Thorpe Sharpe and had a son, George Stallings, Jr.
In 1809 it took two months to go from Clinton to New York by stage, however by relays of horses and messengers, urgent messages went in much less time.
William McIntosh, half Scot and half Indian and a first cousin of Gov. George M. Troup traveled the Indian trails across Jones County many times from Indian Springs to Fort Hawkins. Many of the people in Jones knew him and regarded him highly. He was cruelly murdered by the Indians for ceding their lands in 1825.
Miss Jane Thigpen of Clinton, Ga. wrote a book of poems, "The Lover's Revenge," and other poems. The book was dedi- cated to her father and mother and Mrs. James Ross of Clinton has an autographed copy she gave to "Capt. Roland T. Ross" with compliments of the author-1876.
The first frame-house in Clinton was built where the old Ma- sonic Hall, a three-story building, stood later.
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The first steamboat that came up the Ocmulgee to Macon was owned by John T. Lamar, a resident of Jones County.
On Nov. 10, 1910 the Ocmulgee Association was constituted of 24 churches at Rooty Creek, Putnam County. The churches included those of Jones, Jasper and Morgan County, Baptist.
Horatio Bowen was an outstanding doctor, with a mind well rounded in cultural subjects and another, Dr. Hamilton, under whom he studied and with whom he helped to work out problems were : Crawford W. Long, H. V. Miller and others. Judge A. B. Longstreet came to him for help and suggestions in his book, "Georgia Scenes."
Jane Thigpen, poetess of Clinton wrote a Poem, "Memories," which was published in the 1850's. I quote :
"The memories of the spirits pure, Who throng the path of life, Sustain the soul and nerve the heart
To bear its constant strife : For though we may not, hand in hand,
With them our way pursue, We know that we shall meet at last
The faithful and the true."
Mr. Cukor Visits Jones County
A clipping from the Jones County News tells of the time when Margaret Mitchell's, "Gone With the Wind," had been published and the first year had sold over two million copies. The older folks of Jones County knew Margaret Mitchell's (Mrs. John R. Marsh) father the late Eugene Mitchell, a learn- ed lawyer. The Selznick Co. assistants and Mr. George Cukor had been visiting scenes of Atlanta prior to the filming of the popular book, and came to Macon, Savannah, Milledgeville and Clinton in search of houses, interiors and gardens to reproduce in Hollywood scenes of the story. They visited the home of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Jones, Lowther Hall, the Barron home and the old Johnson home, the old post office, and Peter Clower's house across from the Johnson's. While none of the scenes of this great novel were laid in Jones County, the stone enclosed cem- etery of the Bunkleys, the Clowers and others in the old Clinton
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cemetery along with Alfred Iverson house were pictured and drawn by Wilmur G. Kurtz and perhaps will be used in the film. Telemon Smith Cuyler was with Mr. Cukor and showed him the Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville. Mr. Eberhardt made pic- tures of Col. Cuyler clad in the gray Confederate uniform of his grand-uncle, Lt. Col. Algernon S. Hamilton, C.S.A. 42nd Ga. Regt. commanded by Brig. Gen. George Doles and Phillip Cook. This was the famous fighting Brigade in which so many of Jones County's men went to war. This uniform, sash and sword, belt and canteen will be used in the picture. Many of the old photographs of Col. Cuyler's were selected by Mr. Cukor to be used as models from which the elaborate costumes of the Sixties will be designed.
(From Jones County News, 1943.)
F. H. Houser of Fort Valley, Ga. built the Gray Hotel in 1910, which burned a few years ago. He was with Wallace and Houser a peach commission house, and bought 175 cars of peaches from Jones County in 1909.
The first money order written in Jones County and the first telegraph instrument used was at James, Ga.
Caroline Paul, born in 1812, married Isaac Scott May 27, 1830 in Jones County. Isaac Scott was Pres. of Macon and Western R. R. later the Central of Ga. in 1855. His trading firm was Scott, Carhart and Co. He had a bank in Macon and one in Columbus. In 1865 he moved to New York with his wife and eight children, he died there, Dec. 12, 1867 and she died in 1882. He was founder of Christ's Episcopal Church in Macon and contributed $10,000 to the building fund. Isaac Scott was born in Jasper County on Jan. 20, 1810 (son of Wm. Scott and Jane Thos. Scott) .
Governor William Northern, born and reared in Jones Coun- ty, served in the Civil War and yet forgot the bitterness of Re- construction in 1894 when the drought struck the Middle West. Gov. Northern organized a Relief Committee and shipped large quantities of foodstuffs for free distribution to the suffering States. So impressed were the former Union soldiers by this friendly gesture from a one-time enemy state that they decided to move to Georgia and in 1895 the veterans formed a stock
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Company and bought 50,000 acres of land and settled in South Georgia from which the town of Fitzgerald came.
In 1816 Dr. William Wyatt Bibb was made Alabama's first Territorial Governor, and when the state was admitted to the Union he was made Governor. He was a Georgian.
In 1846 when the Supreme Court of Georgia was put into operation, Hiram Warner, who at one time taught in the Blounts- ville Academy in Jones County, was one of the State's three first Supreme Court Judges. The other two were Joseph H. Lumpkin and Eugenius Nesbit.
The second Pres. of Texas was a Georgian and related to the large family of Lamars of Jones County, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. He was Pres. in 1838. It seems that the background of Texas is tied up with that of Georgia in many ways.
The settlers from the older American Colonies such as Vir- ginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Connecticut, etc. that migrated to the first counties in Georgia, Hancock, Greene, Wilkes, Washington and Baldwin settled Jones County. Some came directly from the States here also.
CHAPTER XVI. Old Homes
Few of the ante-bellum houses in Jones County are left and many of these are in ruins, but these are a mute reminder of the South's romantic era immortalized by Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind." It was then when cotton was king and the hospitality of the Southerners required a house big enough to accommodate the many friends and relatives, who often lin- gered for a month, a year or a lifetime. But whether the house was large or small the welcome was just as sincere and big.
Interesting old houses in Jones were and are now Colonial, post-Revolutionary, Greek Revival, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. It seems that Doric was most popular here. Many mantels were carved by hand, either locally or imported from England. The
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marble mantels usually came from Italy and Italian artisans made the ornamental plaster medallions and moldings.
As we read about these old houses and see the pictures of some of them, let your imagination take you back to those days of magnolias, a pink paradise of peach blossoms, cherry and apple trees in bloom, the glossy leaved boxwood, gardenias and towering elm and oak trees. A part of the picture would be the hoop-skirted belles and the beaux with sideburns, ruffled shirts and tight fitting broadcloth suits. The silver-mounted carriages with the dusky driver of the high-stepping horses comes into the picture as well as the old-fashioned roses in little walled gardens and little lanes in a quiet community of easy-going charm. Oh, it was a pleasant county of white houses, red up-turned land and
Blair house in Clinton built between 1810-20 by John Mitchell, later owned by James Smith, Bowen and Barrons, known as "The Old Clinton Hotel." (Now standing.)
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cotton fields stretching out to meet the virgin forests of tall pine and oak where game abounded and the dark cool shade cradled the springs and brooks. The pastures of green grass fenced in with split-rail fences where horses, mules and cows grazed peace- fully and the good smell of freshly plowed land and the soft spring breezes were accepted casually not thinking that this would all be changed in the 1860's.
I find always the old avenue of gnarled cedars leading up to the house on a rise of land and then on back of the house of the planter the low sturdy cabins of the slaves, with many children playing in the yards. There was the big square garden plot and the scuppernong vine and the fruit orchard. The stables, the carriage house, the grain house and not too far away the rock walled family cemetery.
The interior of most of these ante-bellum homes were domi- nated by huge halls with an impressive stairway. On the first floor were the parlors and diningroom and library; on the second floor were the bedrooms for family and guests. High ceilings and heavily shaded porches and drafty passageways gave comfort in summer, but no protection in the sharp southern winters although fireplaces were large and wood and slaves were plentiful. Floors were rather sparsely covered with thin carpets, and the furniture plain but with massive elegance. A tall clock in the hall was the pride of the family even though its warnings did not disturb the casual tempo of plantation life. There were family portraits on the walls and steel engravings. The kitchen was set apart so that the odors of cooking, heat and clatter might not contaminate the main house. A porch usually con- nected the kitchen with the house. There was certainly a lack of domestic conveniences, yet the hospitality of the master and the industry of the mistress and the slave culminated in the glory of the Southern table. When the visitor entered the diningroom, he found the table already crowded with a variety of meats, vegetables, pickles, preserves and jellies ; to it were added relays of breads hot enough to melt butter. The chicken was served fried, roasted and in dumplings, the pork appeared as ham, bacon, sausage. From wheat flour was made the biscuits and the waffles; white corn yielded frits, muffins, spoonbread, hoecake
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and pone. Sweet potatoes were roasted, fried, and candied. The dessert was usually peach, blackberry, or sweet potato pie or apple dumplings.
The genius of the Old South was rural. Virginia was their model, on which they patterned their houses and manner of life, the plantation of simple home life and courteous squires.
Clinton's Old Homes
According to data furnished to the Jones County News by Mrs. Mary Callaway Jones in 1940 the following tells an in- teresting story of the old homes in Clinton. Since this was writ- ten, Lowther Hall has burned.
1. Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Will Johnson was built by Dr. Thomas Hamilton in 1824, then it became the home of the Flewellen family, and later was bought by the Johnsons, in whose possession it has been for one hundred years.
2. Hadaway House built in 1816- or 1819 by Peter Clower and Lurany Mitchell Clower : the home of Hamilton's and later known as the Andrews house.
Hamilton house at Clinton built by James and Rebecca Barron Lockett in 1830. Later owned by: Blounts, Ross, Jewetts, etc.
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