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Ward's History of Coffee ·County Ward's History of Coffee ·County A story dealing with the past and present of Coffee County. Beginning with the early settlers about the year 1800~-discussing the Creek Indians and the Pioneers. Leading up to the creation of Coffee County in 1854 -Old families, old schools and churches, showing the conditions dur­ ing the Civil War and ending up with the spirit of progress, which is evident in better schools, and a more intelli­ gent civHization. Showing that Coffee County, in _South Georgia, is G-od' s Country and a good place to live in the vear 1930. COPYRIGHT. 1930 BY WARREN P. WARD PRESS OF FOOTE & DAVIES CO •• ATLANTA WARREN P. WARD Dedication This book is dedicated to the memory of: The Creek Indians: who occupied this ·territory and preserved it till the coming of the early settlers; To the Pioneers: who cut the first logs and built the first houses, who split the first rails and fenced the first fields ; To the Old School · Teachers: ,vho wore cotton breeches and taught our children how to read and ,vrite in log huts; To the Old Preachers: who· preached the old· time Gospel and sang the old time songs ; .And to everyone, who has in any way helped to make Coffee County a good place in which to live. The Author. III Contents Page Dedication . III Preface . ' . XIII An Ideal Wedding . 144 Atkinson County Creation . 13 Automobiles . 244 Banking Business . 233 Big Court, October Term . 118 Big Four . 230 Billy Bow-Legs 34 Boll Weevil . 248 Boy Scout Movement . 239· Bright Leaf Tobacco . 241 Camp Meetings . 201 Carding Machine . 185 Catching Fish . 190 Coffee County, 1930 . 293 Coffee County In War . 135 Coffee County. Officers, 1854 . 343 Confederate Soldiers Who Went to War from Coffee County . 331 Constitution and the Flag . 147 Cotton Picking Time In Georgia . 246 Creek Indians . 24 Doctors-. 245 Doctors and Medicine . 93 Douglas Cemetery 277 Douglas, Dunk 90 Douglas, the Capital City of Coffee County . 297 Early I-Iistory of Coffee County· . ·20 Early Steamboat Navigation on the Ocmulgee . 255 Education . 320 V Contents Page English Gold . 137 Fifty Uses of Turpentine . 314 Fraternal Orders . 233 Gaskin, William . 324 Georgia Colonel· 16'4 Georgia Laws Creating Coffee County . 5 Georgia Militia Districts . 18 Georgia Normal Business College . 291 Grady's Tribute to Negro Slaves . 223 IIistory of N e,vspa pers of Coffee County . 326 Hour of Prayer in a Saw Mill . 162 Indians Rob Dr. Parker's Home . 100 Inferior Courts and Courts of Ordinary . 322 Jeff Davis County, Creation of . 11 Killing Deer . 195 Ku Klux Klan . 2-76 Ladies' Clubs . 235 Land Districts of Coffee County 15 Lang·uage of the Birds . 206 Lawyers . 245 Liquor Laws . 252 List of Some Old People of Coffee County Married More Than Fifty Years Ago . 78 Log Rolling, Quilting and a Frolic . 159 Map of Coffee County . 329 Member of Confederate Cabinet . 219 Meningitis· Epidemic . 228 Negro Race . 221 Negro Funeral . 225 Newspapers 155 .Ocmulgee River Section . 260 VI Contents Page Old Churches In Coffee County . 102 .Arnie . 104 Bethel . 115 Carver . 109 . Catholic . 115 Elam Primitive Baptist . 112 Elizabeth . 110 Gravel Hill . 110 lliebron . 102 Lone Hill Methodist . 108 Lott Memorial . 107 Midway Methodist . 110,115 Mormon . 105 Mount Pleasant . 114· Mount Zion Baptist . 114 l\Iount Zion Methodist . 111 New Hope . 114 Oak Grove . 115 Plea~ant Grove Baptist . 111 Rehoboth Primitive Baptist .. 111 Roberts Methodist . 113 Royals' Methodist . ~ 113 Sand Hill Baptist . 106 Old Families In Coffee County . 38 Burkett . 68 Carver 70 Davis . 40 Gaskin 52 Kirkland . "63 Lott .• . 47 Meeks . 59 VII Contents Old F·amilies in Coffee County-Cont 'cl. Page Ne,vbern . 41 Paulk . 52 Sapp 71 Tanner 66 Vickers 43 Ward and I-Iargraves . 55 Wilcox 53 Old Graveyards . 125 Lone Hill . 125 Mount Zion . 126 Ne,v Hope . 126 Sand Hill . 125 Old School Houses . 116 Kirkland School . 117 0 Id Time Singers . 121 Ordinary . 166 Pioneers of Coffee County . 84 Public Health Work . 237 Public Schools . 280 Railroads in Coffee County . 148 Brisbane Railroad . 148 Douglas and McDonald Railroad . 150 Georgia and Florida Railroad . 150 Railsplitters . 181 R.egulators . 141 Resolution of General Assembly . 1 Resolution of Grand Jury . 3 Sand Hill Church . 153 Saw Mills and Lumber . 171 Scab Timber . 316 VIII Contents l">ag-c Snakes in Coffee County . 186 South Georgia $tate College . 288 Spivey, Erwin . 87 Stills and Mills . 179 Storms . 250 Stormy Night on Seventeen-Mile Creek . 197 Strange Phenomenon . 254 Study in lluman Hands . 318 Teachers in Coffee County Public Schools . 284 Teachers in Douglas Public Schools . 287 The Pine Tree . 17 4 Towns in Coffee County . 302 Ambrose . 302 Broxton ·303 Nicholls . 306 West Green . 308 Tribute to Monroe Wilcox . 98 Tribute to the ,v omen of the South . 133 rrrees . 208 ' Turpentine Industry . 311 T,vo Boys from Clinch . 168 Ward, Old Man Billy . 95 Ward, Priscilla (Jones) and Her Ward Boys . 72 War Times and Hard Times . 127 Wheat and Flour Mill . 184 Where Uncle Jim Lives . 157 Wilcox, Capt. Jefferson . 88 Wild Turkeys . 192 Women of the South . 134 W orId War Veterans . 333 IX Illustrations Page Warr en P. Ward . Frontispiece J. H. Peterson, M. D. Dickerson, Warren P. Ward 3 Senators . .. 6 Riley Wright . 12 Judges Superior Court 16 Senators 22 Jim Boy, a Creek Indian 24 Daddy Ward's . Mill . 27 Billy Bow-Legs 34 Representatives 46 Representatives 58 Solicitors Superior Court 86 Erwin Spivey . 87 Jeff Wilcox 88 Dunk Douglas . 90 Dr. Staff Davis . 93 Billy Ward 95 Dr. Calvin Parker . 100 Superior ~ourt Clerks . 124 Spinning Wheel . 129 James K. Hilliard . 136 Abraham Hargraves and Wife . 140 Parker, William . ·155 J. M. Freeman . 157 M. D. Dickerson-W. C. Lankford . 168 The Pine Tree . 174 Ordinaries . 182 Stormy Night on Seventeen-Mile Creek . .. 197 Rev. Green Tavlor., . 201 Sheriffs . • .. 214 XI Illustrations Page Big Four-Dan Gaskin, R. S. Smith, Dan Newbern, Elias Lott . 230 J. M. Ashley . .• .. 233 Archie Bagwell . 239 Tanner, Melvin . 280 Douglas Public Schools . 287 South Georgia State College . 288 Georgia Normal Business College . 291 Courthouse, . Douglas, Georgia . 297 Broxton High School . 303 Nicholls Public School . 306 William Gaskin . 324 Map of Coffee County, Georgia . 329 Arthur· Lott . 259 Major John M. Spence . 259 XII Preface I have been selected by the grand jury of Coffee County, to prepare a complete history of the county and its people, covering the formation, development and progre.ss of the county from its creation in 1854 to the present date, 1930. The result of my labor is now before you. No country is greater than its people. I have tried to give a history of many of the old families who have helped to make Coffee County what it is. No book could contain the names of all the worthy people of Coffee County; consequently I have been compelled to omit the names of many families. I regret this, but have done the best that I could with the space at my disposal. Inasmuch as the Creek Indians occupied this terri­ tory before the Pioneers came, I have given much space to the story of the Indians. I note with pleasure that the Indians destroyed nothing while they lived here, and when we came we found plenty of game, birds, and fish. The country was in a primitive condition when the Indians left it, and they gave us but little trouble while they were here. I am giving you a special write-up of Billy Bow­ Legs, celebrated Indian chief, ,vho ,vas the most talked­ about lndia:r;i in South qeorgia. I am proud to be able XIII to give you his picture. It is the first time his history has been printed. I am giving you biographies, stories and incidents tending to illustrate the social and economical life of our people. I have spent much time and have done a lot of work in giving you the early history of Coffee County, cover­ ing old schools, old churches and old methods of life. To those of you who read this history, you will now be able to see what wonderful progress has been made in Coffee County within recent years. WARREN P. WARD, Historian for Coffee County. .XIV WARD 's H1sTOR.Y OF Co1rffEE CouNTY 1 A Resolution of General Assembly WI-IEI~EAS, the founding· of the colony of Georgia by General James Oglethorpe occurred in 1733 and the two hundredth anniversary of that venturesome, politi­ cal and philanthropic event will occur in 1933 and should be marked in some way proper to its historic character, so as to perpetuate for our posterity and the records of the State and Nation the facts of the evolutio1:1 and progress of the commonwealth that be­ came a constituent State of the Federated republic of the United States; and WHEREAS, no provision has been made by the State Government to celebrate and memorialize the mo­ mentous est~blishment of the colony and subsequent sovereign State, and WHEREAS, there is not in existence today a com­ prehensive and contemporaneous history of the State, therefore, be it RESOLVED, by the General Assembly of Georgia, both houses thereof concurring herein, that the Judges of the Superior Courts of the State are hereby earne·stly requested to give in charge to the grand jury of each county in their several circuits, at the next term of the court herein, the urgent consent of some competent person in their county to prepare between now and February 12th, 1933, being Georgia Day, as nearly a complete history of the formation, development and progress of said county from its creation up to that date, together with accounts of such persons, families and public events as have given character and fame to the County, the State, and the Nation.
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