Monday, September 28, 2009
SEPTEMBER RAIN
In an era when monthly rainfall totals are less than average, the remarkable happened in the month of September 2009. According to weather undground http://www.wunderground.com/, 8.76 inches of rain fell in Dublin during the month. According to the Southeastern Regional Climate Center, the September record of 13.39 inches was set during the month of September 2004. But that was a time when four tropical storms padded the rainfall totals. The 8.76 inches established a record for the month where no tropical storms or hurricanes were in the area since totals were kept beginning in 1912. The average monthly rainfall for the month is 3.72 inches.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
THREE ROUTS IN ONE DAY
True routs in baseball aren’t that common, especially when the winning team scores twenty one more runs than their opponent. The Dublin Irish baseball, ranked first in the state for the first time in history, were stinging from their first loss of the season to local rival, the Bleckley County Royals on the day before. The Irish took out their frustration of their lack of hitting when they faced Laney High School at Bush Perry Field. The Irish pushed across 10 and 13 runs in the first two innings. Coach Chuck Beale sent in three freshmen pitchers to finish the game. By the end of the fourth inning the Irish lead slipped to 30 to 6. The game ended one-half inning later under the 10 run rule. Across town the Trinity Crusaders were hosting Bulloch
Academy. In the 1st inning of the first game of the doubleheader, the Crusaders sent twenty two batters to the plate, scoring 17 runs. Trinity one the first game 24 to 1. The first inning of the second game was a little bit better for the Bulloch pitching staff. The Crusaders managed only 14 runs. The Crusaders took the night cap by the score of 21 to 0. In the two games, Trinity had 34 hits while over 30 batters were walked. Kevin Williams went 7 for 7 with a double and triple in the first inning of the first game. Trinity pitchers limited Bulloch Academy to only 2 hits and one runs in the double header. Dublin Courier Herald, March 17, 1999.
Academy. In the 1st inning of the first game of the doubleheader, the Crusaders sent twenty two batters to the plate, scoring 17 runs. Trinity one the first game 24 to 1. The first inning of the second game was a little bit better for the Bulloch pitching staff. The Crusaders managed only 14 runs. The Crusaders took the night cap by the score of 21 to 0. In the two games, Trinity had 34 hits while over 30 batters were walked. Kevin Williams went 7 for 7 with a double and triple in the first inning of the first game. Trinity pitchers limited Bulloch Academy to only 2 hits and one runs in the double header. Dublin Courier Herald, March 17, 1999.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
THE EARLY BENCH AND BAR OF LAURENS COUNTY, GEORGIA - 1807 -1957
AKERMAN, ALEX - Born in October, 1869 in Georgia; Married ca. 1890 to
Miriam ____; Attorney; Practiced law in Dublin in the early 1900's, Federal
District Attorney of Middle Circuit of Georgia, 1911; Prosecuted Senator Tom
Watson on obscenity charges, 1912; Federal Judge in the State of Florida.
ADAMS, JOHN SAMUEL - Born on Jan. 22, 1870 in Wilkinson Co., Ga., son
of William and Charity Barbara Ann Sheppard Adams. Married on Jan. 20, 1895
to Lucia Augusta Stanley. Admitted to the Dublin Bar in 1893 by examination in
open court. Served as Mayor of Dublin. Appointed Judge of the City Court of
Dublin in 1900. Worked as an attorney in the Treasury Department in
Washington D.C., from 1933 to 1935. Served as a Referee in Bankruptcy until his
death on March 29, 1938.
ADAMS, WILEY HORRY - Born on June 19, 1885, son of Abilene Horry and
Elsie Jane Fordham Adams, married Martha Frances Atwater on Dec. 20, 1911.
Served as Sheriff from 1929 to 1936, after a serious accident he served as Judge of
the Court of Ordinary from 1937 to 1969, ; Died March 1, 1973.
ALEXANDER, JOHN - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern Circuit,
1868 to 1871. Remained Judge of the circuit until 1873.
ANDERSON, YOUNG J. - Solicitor General of Eastern Circuit, Oct. 17, 1859 to
Nov. 10, 1859. Practiced in Dublin in the 1860s and 1870s.
ARMISTEAD, W.E. - Born in July 1868, in Montgomery, Alabama; Son of Rev.
T.S. Armistead; Graduate of Emory University; Married Miss Waugh of
Baltimore, Md. in 1899; City Attorney, Dublin, 1901-1902.
BAGGETT, CHARLES ERNEST - Born on August 6, 1892 in Laurens County;
Son of John Redding Baggett and Mattie E. Blankenship Married Alma Stuckey
on October 27, 1912; Married Birdie Lee Lanier on January 16, 1923; Died on
October 20, 1943; Attorney; Deacon of Jefferson Street Baptist Church; City
Councilman; Tax Collector; Worshipful master Laurens Lodge No. 75, F. and
A.M., 1934.
BAKER, SAMUEL B. - Born on October 5, 1877 in Wilkinson County, Georgia;
Son of Rev. W.S. Baker; Merchant in Cordele, Ga.; Graduate of Emory University;
Graduate of University of Georgia School of Law, 1898; City Attorney, 1899-1901.
BAKER, WASHINGTON - Judge of the Court of Ordinary, 1860 to 1870.
BALDWIN, EZEKIEL SMITH, JR. - Son of Ezekiel Smith Baldwin, Sr..
Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Jan. 2, 1932.
BALDWIN, EZEKIEL SMITH, SR. - Son of L.H. Baldwin; Admitted to bar in
Talbotton, Ga. in March, 1898, Clerk of Laurens County Superior Court, 1910-
1940, longest term of any Clerk of Superior Court.
BARRETT, U.C. - Attorney; Recorder of City Court.
BEALL, ROBERT AUGUSTUS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1824-1825.
BETHUNE, JAMES N. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, 1825.
BIDGOOD, GROVER CLEVELAND - Born on November 12, 1887; Married
Henrietta Turner; Died on March 21, 1935; Attorney, Graduate of Atlanta Law
School; Judge of City Court of Dublin, 1925-1933.
BLACKSHEAR, MARMADUKE HAMILTON, JR. - Son of Marmaduke
Hamilton Blackshear, Sr. and Annie Hardeman, admitted to the bar in Dublin on
Dec. 18, 1930. Moved to Atlanta.
BLACKSHEAR, MARMADUKE HAMILTON, SR. - Born on Sept. 16, 1878
in Laurens County, Ga., son of David Stout and Pauline Howard Blackshear,
married Annie Hardeman. Graduate of Emory College and the Lumpkin Law
School, University of Georgia. Admitted to the bar in Dublin in July, 1904.
Member of the Methodist Church. Attorney; Superintendent of First Methodist
Church Sunday School for many years; Noted orator on History and Politics; City
Attorney, 1932-1933; County Attorney, 1908-1920; President of Security Loan
and Realty Company; Incorporator of City Drug Store, 1913;
BRACEWELL, LAWTON - Practiced law in Dublin in the first third of the 20th
Century.
BRASWELL, JOSEPH DANIEL - Admitted to bar in Dublin on Dec. 23, 1928
and practiced less than a decade.
BRUNSON, WILLIAM - Born on Feb. 15, 1893 in Perry, Houston Co., Ga.,
member of the Baptist Church, attended Mercer University, served in the United
States Navy in World War I, Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Dec. 31, 1914, City
Attorney of Dublin, Ga., Solicitor of City Court of Dublin, 1922-1925. State
Representative, Laurens County 1931, 1933.
BURCH, ALEX AUSTIN - Born in Laurens County on Nov. 28, 1886, son of
Daniel W. and Sarah Elizabeth Burch Burch. Married in 1935 to Mary Durham.
Graduate of Mercer University. Admitted to the bar in June, 1909. Served as a
2nd Lt. in the Air Corps in World War I. Commissioned as a Captain in the Judge
Advocate General's Department.
BURCH, JOHN EDWIN - Born February 17, 1872; Son of John Burch and
Missouri Clemens; Married Pauline Daley; Admitted to the bar on in Sept., 1895,
by examination in open court, Died on December 30, 1938; Attorney; State
Representative, 1909-1910; Judge of City Court, 1904-1908; Knight of Pythias;
Member of Royal Arcanum; Member of Board of Sensors, 1913-.
BURCH, M.L. - First Judge of County Court in 1866.
CAMP, ROBERT EARL - Son of Josephus and Sophronia Palestine Brown
Camp. Married Augusta Smith. Studied law in the offices of R.J. and G.H.
Williams. Admitted to the bar in Swainsboro, Ga. at the age of 19 in 1903. He
was perhaps the youngest lawyer in the history of the county. City Attorney of
Dublin 1908-1912, Judge of the Superior Court of Laurens County, 1925-1933,
1940-1949, delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936, Presidential
Elector in 1940.
CARSWELL, M.J. - Practiced law in Dublin in the first quarter of the 20th
Century.
CHAPPELL, IRA STANLEY - Born on Nov. 28, 1859, son of James Thomas
Chappell and Harriet Athalia Stanley. Died on Aug. 8, 1931. Married Missouri
Baker, 1885; Married Cora Mathis, 1900; Died on August 8, 1931; Attorney;
Graduate of Mercer University; 1st Judge of City Court, 1895-1899; Practiced law
from 1888-1931; Editor of the Cochran Enterprise; Worshipful Master of Laurens
Lodge, F. & A.M., 1906; Senior Warden, Laurens Lodge, 1899; Farmer.
CHAPPELL, JOSEPH JOHN - Born March 5, 1907 in Dudley, Ga., son of Dr.
Roy James Chappell and Mary Warthen. Graduated Brewton Parker Institute,
1924, Mercer University Law School, 1928. Admitted to the bar in 1928. Member
of the Baptist Church. State Representative from Laurens County, 1933.
Appointed solicitor of City Court, 1937. Resigned to take a position as the
secretary to Sen. Richard B. Russell.
CLARKE, ELIJAH - Son of Gen. Elijah Clarke, First Solicitor General of
Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee Circuit, 1807-1810.
COCHRAN, JOHN R. - Practiced law in Dublin during the 1850s.
COLE, CARLETON B. - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern Circuit,
1836, 1837-1845.
CONNER, JAMES J. - Born at "The Dead River Settlement" in Montgomery
County, came to Dublin in 1867 to read law under the supervision of Jonathan
Rivers. He was admitted to the bar in 1871 and began his practice in Dublin.
Connor served as Solicitor General and as Mayor of Dublin from 1876 to 1877.
He moved to Cartersville in 1881 where he took up a second profession of
farming. State Representative from Bartow County from 1905-1907. Elected
Secretary of Agriculture of Georgia in 1912 and served until 1913.
COOK, JULIAN EUGENE - Born on April 12, 1905 in Wrightsville, Johnson
Co., Ga., son of James Monroe Cook and Ida Preston. Married on June 28, 1928
to Julia Adelaide McClatchey. Member of the Baptist Church. Trustee of
Brewton Parker Institute, Solicitor, City Court of Wrightsville, 1933-1937. Judge
of City Court of Wrightsville, 1937 to 1941. Solicitor General of Laurens Superior
Court, 1941-1943. Resigned April 8, 1943. Attorney General of Georgia, 1945-
1965.
CORKER, FRANK G. - Born in December of 1869; Married Alice _____, ca.
1890; Attorney; Solicitor of City Court, 1895-1897, 1899-1902; Mayor of Dublin,
1894-1895; President and Founder of First National Bank, 1902; Director of First
Chamber of Commerce, 1911; Member of Board of Education; Director of
Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad: President of Chamber of Commerce, 1914.
CROCKETT, CHARLES CAMPBELL - Born in Rural Retreat, Wythe County,
Virginia on Oct. 7, 1885, son of Henry Stuart and Minne Howe Campbell.
Graduate of Washington and Lee University in 1907. Began his practice in Dublin
in 1913. Member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a Mason and a Knight
Templar. Served in World War I. Married Louise Holleman on Dec. 16, 1926.
Judge of the City Court from 1961 to 1965.
CURRELL, HENRY - Born in Dublin, Son of George Currell and Mary Jane
Fuqua. Practiced in Dublin in the 1870s.
DALEY, RUSSELL M. - Admitted to the practice of law in Athens, Ga. on June
17, 1907, Graduate of the University of Georgia.
DAMPIER, WILLIAM ARTHUR - Born on May 2, 1883 in Society Hill,
Darlington Co., S.C., son of William Arthur Dampier a and Della A. Townsend,
married 2nd on April 24, 1908 to Myrtle Lee Panell, graduated from Oak Ridge
Institute, Mercer University Law School. Admitted to the bar in Dublin on May
21, 1911 with comity from Florida. Member of the Baptist Church. State
Representative from Laurens County, 1937.
DAVIS, GEORGE B. - Attorney; Solicitor of State Court, 1910-1914; State
Representative, 1915-1918; President and Charter Member of the Nest of Owls,
1911; Member of Royal Aracanum;
DAVIS, WILLIAM C. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1902.
DAVIS, WILLIS CANTEY - Born on December 11, 1863 in Perry, Ga.; Son of
W.M. Davis and Mary C. Richardson; Attended West Point Academy; Married
Sara Brunson; Died August 9, 1923; Captain in Spanish American War; Captain
and organizer of the Dublin Guards and Laurens Volunteers, forerunners of the
National Guard; Worshipful master, Laurens Lodge, F. & A.M., No. 75, 1905;
Senior Warden, 1902; Attorney; Solicitor of City Court, 1908-1910; City Attorney;
Exhalted Ruler of Elks Club;
DUNCAN, JOHN THOMAS - Born in Talieffero County, Ga. on Dec. 7, 1830,
son of James Duncan and Nancy Lancaster. Died in 1891. Married 1st on July 3,
1854 to Sarah Amelia Fuqua. Married 2nd on Aug. 21, 1861 to Sarah Elizabeth
Stokes. Married 3rd to Nov. 27, 1875 to Nancy Stokes. Studied law and was
admitted to the bar around the age of twenty. He was the youngest Sheriff ever
elected in Laurens County. Served as Sheriff from 1854 to 1856 and from 1856 to
1860. State Representative, 1873-74. Judge of the Court of Ordinary, 1877 to
1891. Led the movement to build the first permanent bridge over the Oconee
River which was completed in the year of his death.
DOUGLAS, DUBIGNION - Born on May 24, 1924 in Ocilla, Irwin Co., Ga., son
of Thomas Henry and Gladys Tucker Douglas. Married Mary Rachel Quarles on
Sept. 9, 1951. Attended Berry College and graduated from Mercer University Law
School in 1951. Member of the Baptist Church. Member of the Exchange Club.
Sergeant in the U.S. Army, 1945-1946. Admitted to the Bar on Aug 31, 1951.
State Representative 1967-1970. Judge of State Court, 1977 to 1980. Judge of
Superior Court, 1981 to 1994. Senior Judge, 1994 to present.
EARLY, PETER - Born in Virginia on June 20, 1773. Died on August 15, 1817.
Member of the 7-9th Congresses. Lived in Greensboro. First Judge of Laurens
County Superior Court, Ocmulgee Circuit, 1807-1813. Resigned Nov. 6, 1813.
Elected Governor of Georgia in 1813 and served until 1815.
State Senator, Greene County, 1816.
EASON, THOMAS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, 1875 to 1882.
Resigned in Nov., 1882. Served again from 1888-1890. Continued to serve as
Circuit Solicitor General until his resignation in Oct. 1898.
EUBANKS, N.B. - Practiced law in Dublin in the 1st Quarter of the 20th
Century.
EVANS, ROBERT A. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, 1834-1835.
Resigned Dec. 8, 1835.
FELDER, THOMAS BRAILSFORD, JR. - Born on Oct. 6, 1865 in Burke Co.,
Ga., son of Thomas Brailsford and Clara Lanier Corker Felder. Married 1st to
Charlotte Johnson. Married 2nd to Wilson Norfleet. Died on March 12, 1926.
Graduate of the University of Georgia Law School in 1883 and came to Dublin to
practice in the office of John M. Stubbs. Served as Mayor of Dublin from ..... to
......, Member of the Dublin Bar 1883-1890, Solicitor of City Court, 1884-1887,
Delegate to Democratic National Convention in 1912.
FELDER, THOMAS BRAILSFORD, SR. - Born on April 22, 1841; Died on
June 1, 1897, Practiced law in Dublin in 1880's. Married 1st to Clara Lanier
Corker, 2nd to Mary Elizabeth Jones. Private Co. A, 3rd Regiment Ga. Volunteer
Infantry, C.S.A..
FLYNT, ROGER D. - Attorney; Judge of City Court, 1917-1921; Married Nell
Johnson on October 10, 1912; Member of Library Board.
FRANKLIN, BEDNEY - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Ocmulgee Circuit, 1810 to 1816. Died in Dec. 1816.
FORDHAM, JOE M. - Judge of the Court of Ordinary, 1897 to 1901.
FORT, MOSES - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern Circuit, 1825-
1828.
FOSTER, FREDERICK COLBERT - Judge of Laurens Superior Court,
Ocmulgee Circuit, 1902-1903.
GILBERT, CORLISS E. - Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Aug. 26, 1949. Did
not engage in active practice here.
GIBSON, JOHN - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, 1840-1843. Resigned Sept., 1843.
GRAHAM, ELISHA DUNCAN - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Oconee Circuit, 1908-1911. Also served as Circuit Court Solicitor General from
1905 until 1913.
GREEN, JULE B. - City Recorder.
GRINER, T.L.
HANSELL, AUGUSTIN HARRIS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior
Court, Southern Circuit, 1847 to Nov. 13, 1849. Judge of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1849-1852, Resigned Nov. 1852, and again from 1859 to 1868.
Returned to the bench as Circuit Judge in 1873 and served until 1903.
HARRIS, STEPHEN WILLIS - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1813-1816.
HARRIS, THOMAS W. - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern Circuit,
1819-1824. Resigned Dec. 20, 1824.
HART, JOHN COLLIER - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee Circuit,
1895-1902. Resigned July 1, 1902.
HATCHER, AL - Admitted to the bar in Athens, Ga. in June, 1925, Graduate of
the University of Georgia.
HATTAWAY, GEORGE L. - Admitted to the Bar in Johnson Co., on Dec. 21,
1949. Practiced in Dublin several years in the early 1950s.
HAWKINS, KENDRICK J. - Born on July 12, 1870 in Glascock Co.; Died on
July 11, 1914; Mayor of Gibson, GA.; Came to Dublin in 1902; Attorney; Owner of
the Dublin Times, 1903-4; Judge of the City Court of Dublin, 1908-1912; Judge of
Laurens Superior Court, 1911 to 1914. First Judge of Dublin Circuit.
HAYES, BEVERLY BAYNE, JR. - Born on Jan. 19, 1921, in Wrightsville,
Johnson Co., Ga., son of Beverly Bayne Hayes and Louise Reynolds. Graduated
from Emory Law School in 1948. Admitted to the bar in Dekalb County on Jan.
30, 1948. Began his praice in Dublin in 1948. Member of the Presbyterian
Church. Member of the U.S. Army in World War II rising to the rank of Major.
Awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. City Attorney for Dublin,
1950-1952. 1964-1972. Judge of City Court, 1964-1972. District Attorney of the
Dublin Circuit from 1973 to 1988.
HAYNES, MERCER - Born on Feb. 21, 1845 in Chatam County, Georgia, son
of Zachariah Taylor and Maria Cooper Haynes. Began his study of the law in
Griffin in the office of Fred Dismuke. Served in Wheeler's Cavalry from 1862 to
1864. Taken prisoner and released in 1865. Married Rosamond Parmeter
Warren on April 9, 1867. Moved to Dublin in 1874 and admitted to the bar.
Member of the Baptist Church. Elected Mayor of Dublin in 1877 and served until
1880. Appointed postmaster of Dublin in 1880 and served until 1881. Judge of
County Court in 1885 appointed by Governor and former Confederate General,
John B. Gordon. Member of the Board of Education. He died on Sept. 11, 1901.
HICKS, JAMES EVERETT - Son of Willie P. and Jane Outler Hicks.
HICKS, JAMES B. - Born on February 28, 1870 in Johnson County, Georgia;
Son of Dr. Henry Hicks and Nancy Wright; Graduate of Mercer University, 1892;
Lawyer; Returned to Dublin in 1898; Mayor of Dublin, 1898-1901; State
Representative, 1902-1903; Judge of City Court, 1911-1917.
HICKS, PALMER WHITEHEAD - Born on Aug. 5, 1888 in Dublin, Ga., son of
Edward Everrett and Winnefred Anne Thomas Hicks. Married Margaret Leila
Wicker on Nov. 16, 1921. Member of the Baptist Church. Graduate of Mercer
University. Served in World War I. Admitted to the practice law on Feb. 1, 1915,
Justice of the Peace, 1935-1940. Judge of City Court, 1941-1961. Died April 28,
1973.
HICKS, ROWE GAINER - Son of Thomas Benjamin and Margaret Jane Rowe.
Married 1st to Jennie Grier. Married 2nd to Louise Burnley. Practiced in Dublin
in the early years of the 20th Century.
HIGHTOWER, J.E.
HIGHTOWER, THOMAS EVERETT - Son of Thomas (Cone) Marion
Hightower and Elizabeth Hicks. Married Lil Salter. City Solicitor, 1918-1921 and
Mayor of Dublin 1928 to 1929.
HOLT, THADDEUS GOODE - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1819-1824. Resigned on Dec. 22, 1824, Judge of Laurens
Superior Court, Southern Circuit, 1824-1825, 1828-1831.
HOWARD, HENRY PHIL - Practiced law in Dublin around the turn of the
20th century. State Representative, Laurens County, 1902-1904.
JENKINS, WILLIAM FRANKLIN - Judge of Laurens Superior Court,
Ocmulgee Circuit, 1890 to 1895. Served as Circuit Judge from 1887 to 1895.
JONES, PAUL JACKSON, JR. - Born on July 23, 1919, in Dudley, Ga., son of
Paul Jackson Jones, Sr. and Maroy Chappell. Graduate of Middle Georgia
College and Mercer University in 1951. Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Oct. 10,
1951. Married Virginia Corry on Feb. 14, 1923. Served in the U.S. Navy in World
War II and Korea. City Attorney and Recorder, East Dublin, 1954- . State
Representative, Laurens County, 1955-1958. Member of the Baptist Church.
Died on Oct. 21, 1983.
JONES, SEABORN - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1817-1819.
JORDAN, GEORGE WALKER - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1851.
KEA, MORRIS DAWSON - Admitted to the practice of law in Wrightsville,
Georgia on Dec. 20, 1933. State Representative, Laurens County, 194-1942. In
active practice longer than any attorney in Laurens County's history.
KEA, FREDERICK WILLIAM - State Senator, 16th Dist., 1913-1914, Solicitor
General of Laurens County Superior Court, Dublin Circuit, 1925-1933.
KENT, JOHN LUTHER - Born on March 27, 1868 in Johnson Co., Ga., son of
Thomas W. Kent and Martha Battle McWhorter, Began the practice of law in
1894. State Representative, 1902-1904, Solicitor City Court of Wrightsville, 1905-
1908, Judge City Court of Wrightsville, 1908-1915, Judge of Laurens Superior
Court, Dublin Circuit 1915-1925, 1933-1940. Resident of Wrightsville, Ga. and
married on Oct. 15, 1890 to Clara Virginia Trawick.
KIBBEE, CHARLES C. - State Representative, Pulaski County, 1865-1866,
State Senator, 14th Dist., 1871-1876, Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Oconee
Circuit, 1885-1889.
KING, GEORGE L. - Practiced in Dublin during the early 20th Century.
LARSEN, JOAN - Daughter of William Washington Larsen, Sr. and Hattie
Daffin Beacham, began her practice of law in Dublin on September 23, 1954.
LARSEN, WILLIAM WASHINGTON, JR. - Born on Aug. 8, 1930 in Dublin,
Ga., son of William Washington Larsen, Jr. and Hattie Daffin Beacham. Married
....., Martha Josey. Graduate of the University of Georgia in 1952. Admitted to
the Bar in on Sept. 22, 1951. Lieutenant, U.S. Army in Korea, 1952-54 where he
was awarded the Bronze Star. City Attorney of Dublin, 1957-1958, East Dublin,
1959, Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Dublin Circuit, 1960-1969.
State Representative from Laurens County 1971-1977. Member of the Methodist
Church.
LARSEN, WILLIAM WASHINGTON, SR. - Born Sept. 23, 1905 in Emanuel
Co., Ga., son of W.W. Larsen, Sr. and Dovie Edenfield Strange, died on May 1,
1963. Admitted to the bar on July 26, 1927, City Attorney of Dublin 1933-1937,
County Attorney, Laurens County, 1933. Senator, 16th Dist., 1935, State
Representative, Laurens County, 1937-1938. Solicitor General of Laurens
Superior Court, Dublin Circuit, 1945-1957.
LARSEN, WILLIAM WASHINGTON, SR. - Born in 1871; Died in 1938;
Married Dovie Edenfield Strange. Admitted to the bar in Swainsboro, Ga. on
April 7, 1897, Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Dublin Circuit, July 15, 1914 to
Jan. 1, 1915. Member of U.S. Congress, 12th Dist., Ga. 1917-1933.
LAWSON, THOMAS GRAVES - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1882-1884. Served as Circuit Judge from 1879 to 1887.
LEWIS, HUGH GRAHAM - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Ocmulgee Circuit, 1890-1902, Resigned Dec. 31, 1902, Judge of Laurens Superior
Court, Ocmulgee Circuit, 1903-1908. Remained as Circuit Judge until 1911.
LOVE, PETER EARLY - Born in Laurens County, Georgia, son of Amos Love.
Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Nov. 11, 1843 to Nov. 11, 1847,
Senator Thomas County, 1849-1850, Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, Nov. 27, 1852 to Oct. 4, 1859. Resigned on Feb. 7, 1858, Member of U.S.
Congress 1860-1861, resigned at the beginning of the Civil War. State
Reprsentative, Thomas County, 1861-1863.
MARTIN, J.H. - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Oconee Circuit, 1907-1911.
Served as Circuit Judge from 1905 to 1913.
MCNEEL, DANIEL - Perhaps Laurens County's earliest lawyers practicing here
in the first quarter of the 19th century.
MERRITT, JAMES ARTHUR - Born on April 5, 1894 in Ireland, Decatur Co.,
Ga., son of M.W. and Lucy Shannon Merritt, married 1st on Nov. 24, 1921 to
Elizabeth Mae Howard, 2nd on July 1, 1925 to Clyde Smith. Admitted to the bar
in Dublin on Jan. 26, 1916, Graduate of Emory University, Member of the Baptist
Church. W.O.W. Sergeant, World War I, Justice of the Peace, 1921-1924,
Solicitor of City Court, 1925-1932, Solicitor General, Dublin Circuit, 1933-1937.
MILLER, ARETHA - Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Dec. 22, 1933. First
woman attorney in Laurens County's history.
MILLER, PAUL - Graduate of Atlanta Law School, admitted to the bar on June
2, 1921. Practiced law in Dublin in the 1930s.
MILLER, STEPHEN F. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1831-1834.
MITCHELL, THOMAS D. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1825-1826. Killed in a duel in March, 1826.
MOLONY, CHARLES - Practiced law in Dublin in the early 1900s.
MORGAN, ARTHUR A. - State Senator, Houston Co., 1834, Judge of Laurens
Superior Court, Southern Circuit, 1836.
MORGAN, WILLIAM LEWIS - Solicitor of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, 1843.
MORRIS, J. ROBERT - Admitted to the bar in Atlanta, Ga. on June 20, 1928,
Graduate of Lumpkin Law School.
NELSON, CARL KRATHER, JR., son of Carl Krather Nelson, Sr. and .......,
began his practice of law in Dublin on Dec. 30, 1954.
NELSON, CARL KRATHER, SR. - Admitted to the bar in Dublin in Oct. 1926,
Graduate of the University of Georgia. State Representative, Laurens County,
1931-1932.
NELSON, JAMES FREDERICK, SR. - Born on June 1, 1908, son of Alfred
Henry Nelson and Sarah Elizabeth Turner. Married Nina McQuaig on May 28,
1938. Died on March 1, 1979. Graduated from Richmond Junior College.
Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Feb. 22, 1935, Solicitor General, Laurens
Superior Court, Dublin Circuit, 1943-1945.
NEW, JACOB - Born on Nov. 20, 1920 in Dexter, Ga., son of James Ezra New
and Maude Brantley, Graduate of the University of Georgia. Served in the U.S.
Air Force in World War II. Admitted to the bar on Aug. 19, 1947, Graduate of the
University of Virginia. Practiced law in Dublin from 1948 to 1953. Owner of
Dublin Credit Bureau from 1954 to 1984. Active in the Rotary Club, Historical
Society, Fine Arts Association, Moose Club, Elks Club, American Cancer Society,
and Salvation Army. Member of the Presbyterian Church.
NEW, STEPHEN PARKER - Born on March 11, 1888; Married Ruth
Hightower; Died on March 11, 1974; Veteran of World War Il; Admitted to the bar
in Macon, Ga. in 1910. Solicitor of City Court, 1914-18; Senior Warden, Laurens
Lodge No. 75 F. A. & M., 1915-6; State Representative, Laurens County, 1923-
1931, Attorney for Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C.,
Father in law of big band leader, Tommy Dorsey.
OGBURN, JAMES O. - Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Aug. 5, 1935.
PEACOCK, JAMES MARION - Son of John Asa Peacock and Anne Boisfuelet,
married Ruth Broadhurst. Served in World War I. Admitted to the bar on June
24, 1924. Cotton broker with Dixie Cotton Company. Postmaster of Dublin.
Member of the Methodist Church. State Representative, Laurens County, 1925-
26.
POLHILL, JAMES - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern Circuit, 1834-
1836. Died on April 10, 1836.
PORTER, THOMAS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, 1828-1831.
POTTLE, JOSEPH E. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1903-1911. Remained as Solicitor General of Circuit until his resignation
on July 1, 1916.
REESE, STANLEY A. - Born on June 9, 1909 in Madison, Morgan Co., Ga., son
Walker Shields Reese and Mamie Lynne Stanley, Graduated from Mercer
University in 1930 and from Mercer Law School in 1932. Member of the Baptist
Church, Began his practice of law in Dublin May 31, 1932. Referee in Bankruptcy,
Dublin Division, 1933-1937, Solicitor of City Court, 1937 -1941.
REEVES, NORMAN GLISSON, JR. - Born on March 13, 1907 in Stillmore,
Emanuel County, Ga., son of Norman Gillsion Reeves, Sr. and Lillie Lee Heard,
married Helena Guillermina Joubert, Began his practice in LaGrange, Ga. in
1933. Moved to Soperton where he continued to practice until he moved to
Dubln where he served as Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, 1969 to
1973. Member of Soperton City Council. Solicitor of City Court of Soperton, 1937
to 1947. Judge of City Court of Soperton, 1947-1961.
RIVERS, JONATHAN - Born in Wilkinson Co. on Aug. 11, 1831, son of Joel
Rivers and Mary Pearson, married Catherine M. Gainey, died on March 31, 1875
in Hawkinsville, Ga., buried in Orange Grove Cemetery. Attorney, practiced law
in Irwinton before moving his practice to Dublin, where he practiced from from
1868 to 1873, when he moved to Hawkinsville. Justice of the Inferior Court of
Wilkinson County, 1857, 1859; Judge of the Court of Ordinary, Wilkinson
County, 1864-1866. Elected Jr. 2nd Lt. of Co. F., 3rd Ga. Inf. on April 26, 1861.
Resigned on Nov. 22, 1861. Enlisted as a private in Co. A, 49th Ga. Inf. on March
4, 1862. Captured in 1862. Exchanged at Fort Warren in 1862. Elected Major of
the 49th Ga. Inf. on March 22, 1862. Took the sword of Gen. Phillip Kearney
after his death at Ox Hill. Wounded in the leg at Chancellorsville, Va. on May 3,
1863, necessitating amputation. Resigned due to disability on June 9, 1863.
Hawkinsville Dispatch, April 1, 8; June 17, 1875, RCS 5 - 207, Davidson's History
of Wilkinson County, pp. 287, 290, 605-6.
ROBERTS, DAVID MONTGOMERY - State Senator, 14th District, 1886-
1887, Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Oconee Circuit, 1889-1890, remained
Circuit Judge until 1893 and again from 1901 to 1905.
ROWE, FREEMAN HUGH - Born in 1816 in Connecticut; Son of John Rowe;
Married Margaret J. Moore in 1837; Died in 1890; Sheriff of Laurens County,
1842-1846; First Judge of teh Court of Ordinary of Laurens County, 1852-60;
Merchant; Worshipful Master Laurens Lodge, F.& A.M., 1853-4; Manager of
Dublin Branch of the Bank of Savannah; Built steamboat "Gov. Troup" and
operated a freight line; Charter member of Masonic lodge;
ROWLAND, JAMES ROY - Born on Dec. 18, 1899 in Wrightsville, Johnson
Co., Ga., son of Joseph Henry Rowland and Nancy Jane Snell. Attended Warthen
College, graduated from Mercer University. arried on Feb. 24, 1925 to Jerradine
Marilyn Brinson. Member of the Methodist Church. Mason, Odd Fellow. Private
Co. H, 14th U.S. Army Infantry, World War I. City Attorney, Wrightsville, 1925.
Solicitor, City Court of Wrightsville, 1925-1933. Solicitor General of Laurens
Superior Court, Dublin, Circuit, 1937-1941, Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Jan.
1, 1949 to December 31, 1952.
Died on March 15, 1956. Buried in Westview Cemetery, Wrightsville, Ga.
SANDERS, JAMES BARNES - Born in July, 1861; Son of James R. and
Cordelia Jones Sanders; Married Alice Ramsay; Married 2nd to Julia Ramsay;
Graduate of University of Georgia; Teacher; Attorney; Admitted to Bar, 1886;
Judge of City Court; Mayor of Dublin, 1895-1896.
SANDERS, T.V. - Practiced in Dublin in the 1st quarter of the 20th Century.
SCARBOROUGH, JAMES JACKSON - Judge of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1845-1849.
SCARBOROUGH, PITT F.D. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1851-1854. Resigned Feb. 1, 1854.
SHEFTALL, EDWARD TATTNALL - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior
Court, Southern Circuit, 1855-1859. Resigned, Sept. or Oct., 1859. Practiced law
in Dublin during the 1850s.
SMITH, CHRISTOPHER C. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Oconee Circuit, 1884-1888. Also served from 1882 - 1884 before Laurens County
became a part of the Oconee Circuit.
SMITH, ERASTUS AUGUSTUS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior
Court, Southern Circuit, 1859.
SMITH, HARDY B. - Born on Oct. 24, 1841; Son of Hardy Smith, Jr. and Ann
Anderson; Married Ella Few Douglas, daughter of Dr. Tilman Douglas and
Phoebe W. Charlton; on November 21, 1867; Died on December 6, 1912; 1st Sgt.,
Co. H., 14th Ga. Inf., C.S.A., 1861; Jr. 2nd Lt., 1861; Lost right arm at
Mechanicsville, Va., June 1863; 1st Lt. 1863; Capt. 1863-1864; Enrolling Officer,
5th Cong. Dist., 1864-5; Clerk of Superior Court, 1866-1893; Judge of Court of
Ordinary, 1893-1897; Secretary/Treasurer and founder of the Macon, Dublin, and
Savannah Railroad; Donated land for First Methodist Church; Brigadier General
United Confederate Veterans; County Treasurer; Founder and organizer of Hardy
Smith Camp of United Confederate Veterans.
Judge of the Court of Ordinary, 1893 to 1897.
SPENCER, SAMUEL B. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1859-1867.
STANLEY, ROLLIN ADOLPHUS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior
Court, Oconee Circuit, 1872 to 1875. Judge of the Court of Ordinary, 1891 to
1893.
STANLEY, ROLLIN A., II - Graduate of Mercer University, admitted to the
bar in Macon, Georgia on Nov. 1, 1933. Worked as an agent for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
STEPHENS, ERNEST LACY, JR. - Born on Feb. 6, 1909 in Wrightsville,
Johnson Co., Ga., son of Ernest Lacy Stephens, Sr. and Ida Norris, married Jean
McFerrin on Nov. 24, 1945. Began the practice of law in Dublin on July 7, 1933.
Member of the Methodist Church. First Sergeant in the U.S. Army in World War
II. Solicitor of City Court of Dublin 1955-1956, Solicitor of State Court of Dublin
1961-1980.
STEPHENS, ERNEST LACY, SR. - Born on Oct. 24, 1875 in Washington Co.,
Ga., son of Wiley Stephens and Mary Frances Chester, married Ida Norris.
Admitted to the bar in McRae, Ga. in 1896. State Representative from Johnson
County, 1911- 1912, Solicitor General of Dublin Circuit, 1912-1924, Judge City
Court of Dublin, 1933-194...
STEPHENS, RUFUS I. - Born on July 24, 1890 in Johnson Co., Ga.. Died on
Nov. 9, 1970. Admitted to the bar in Wrightsville in Jan., 1916, by examination in
open court. County Attorney, Laurens County, 1937---, State Representative,
Laurens County, 1935, Solicitor of City Court, 1937, Judge of Superior Court 1953
to 1960, Judge Emeritus 1960-1972.
STRONG, CHRISTOPHER B. - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1816-1818. Served as Circuit Judge until 1822.
STUBBS, JOHN M. - Born in August, 1839 in Bibb Co., Ga; Son of Peter Stubbs
and Ann Hammond; Married Ella Tucker, daughter of Dr. Nathan Tucker and
Anna Horn, 1861; Married Gertrude Johnson, daughter of Gov. Herschel V.
Johnson, Georgia; Married Victorie Lowe, daughter of Gov. Louis Lowe,
Maryland; Died Sept. 6, 1907; Lt. Colonel, Quartermaster Corps, C.S.A.; Farmer;
Established Dublin's first newspaper, The Dublin Gazette, 1876; Organized the
Oconee River Navigation Improvement Company; Attorney; Orchard owner;
Established the first public grist mill; Founder and attorney for Macon, Dublin,
and Savannah Railroad;
STURGIS, S.W. - Admitted to the practice of law in Thompson, Georgia in 1887
by examination in open court. City Court Judge, 1921-1925, Moved to
Philadelphia in 1938.
STURGIS, THADDEUS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, 1849-
1851. Resigned May 17, 1851.
TAYLOR, HARRY L. - Admitted to the bar in Athens, Ga., on June 17, 1926,
graduated from the University of Georgia.
THOMAS, JAMES A., JR. - Born ca. 1848 in Laurens County, Georgia; Died in
1929; Private, Co. A, 1st Brigade, 2nd Ga. Regiment, Army of the Tennessee;
Admitted to the bar, ca. 1868. Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Oconee Circuit, 1871-1872. Returned to Dublin in 1902 to practice law;
Commander of Eastern District of Georgia, United Confederate Veterans;
Commander of District of Georgia, United Confederate Veterans, Commander of
the Army of the Tennessee, United Confederate Veterans, 1922; Commander of
the National United Confederate Veterans, 1925; Honorary Commander, 1925-
1929; Sunday School Superintendent and Senior Warden of Christ Episcopal
Church.
THOMPSON, HENRY DALE, SR. - Born on April 14, 1923 near Adrian,
Emanuel County, Georgia, son of Henry Thompson and Claudie Mae Braswell,
married Martha Jane Scott on Dec. 18, 1949, attended Georgia Teacher's College,
University of South Carolina, University of Iowa, and Mercer University.
Seaman, U.S. Navy, World War II, awarded Purple Heart, Graduated from
Mercer University, Law School, 1949. Admitted to the bar in Emanuel Co. on
Aug. 26, 1949, Began his practice in Dublin on September 1, 1949. City Attorney,
Dublin, City Attorney, East Dublin, County Attorney, Laurens County, Member
of the Methodist Church, Commander of American Legion, Post No. 17, Attorney
for Dublin-Laurens Development Authority 1962-1996. Died on July 5, 2001.
TOWSON, WILLIAM MALCOM - Born on May 31, 1923 in Montrose,
Laurens Co., Ga., son of William Franklin Towson and Bertha Neil Ashley,
married Dorothy Blanche Perkins on June 4, 1954. Graduate of the University of
Georgia. Graduated from the University of Georgia Law School in 1949.
Admitted to the Bar in Clarke Co., Ga. on March 5, 1949. Member of the
Methodist Church. Staff Sergeant, 8th Engineer Squadron, 1st Cav. Div., City
Attorney of Dublin, 1954-1956, Laurens County Attorney, 1965-1968, City
Attorney East Dublin, 1969-1974, Member of City Board of Education. State
Senator, 16th Dist., 1961-1962. State Representative from Laurens County 1963-
1964. Judge of State Court from 1969-1977. Judge of Laurens Superior Court
from 1977 to present. Longest serving Judge in Laurens County History.
TROUP, GEORGE MICHAEL - Born on September 7, 1780 in Alabama.
Graduated from Princeton University in 1797 and began his practice of law in
Savannah. Troup's legislative career began in 1801 at the age of twenty one
when he was elected to the Georgia Legislature to reprsent Chatham County. He
moved to Bryan County where he represented that county until 1806 when he
was elected to the Congress of the United States. During the War of 1812, Cong.
Troup served as Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee. After retiring from
Congress in 1815, Troup went back to Washington to serve in the Senate from
1816 to 1818. Elected Governor of Georgia in 1823 and 1825. Governor Troup
returned to the United States Senate in 1828. He declined another term due his
failing health. Gov. Troup, died on April 26, 1856. His body was interred at
Rosemont beside his brother, Robert. A granite monument, surrounded by a
handsome sandstone wall, marks his grave which is located west of Lothair in
Treutlen County.
TWITTY, PETER SIMMONS, JR. - Son of Rev. Peter S. Twitty, Sr. and
Rebecca ________; Secretary/Treasurer of Retail Merchants Association;
Secretary Treasurer of Young Men's Literary Society; Bookkeeper, Gilbert
Hardware, 1906; Knight of Pythias; Officer of Chautaugua Assoc., 1913; Secretary
of Stevens Hardware Co.; Admitted to Dublin Bar, Dec., 1914; Organizing Officer
of Moose Club, 1913; Field Clerk, United States Army, World War I; Charter
Member of Kiwanis Club; Commissioner of Game and Fish of Georgia, 1923-
1934, Attorney for Naval Department in Washington, D.C..
WADE, PEYTON L. Born in Jan. 1865; Son of Robert M. Wade; Married
Gussie _____ ca. 1895; Graduate of University of Georgia; Attorney, 1889-1914;
Owned first library in Dublin and donated many of his books to Carnagie Library,
1904; Organized Weekly Press Association, 1887; Judge of the Georgia Court of
Appeals, 1914-16; Chief Judge, Court of Appeals, 1916-1919; Attorney for Central
of Georgia Railroad.
WARD, HAROLD E. - Born on Nov. 9, 1921 in Macon, Bibb County, Ga., son of
.............., married Minnie Hayes on July 3, 1953. Died Nov. 9, 1970. Member of
the Methodist Church. Admitted to the bar in Athens, Ga. in March, 1949, Began
his practice of law in Dublin in Jan., 1950. Member of the Moose Club, Elk's
Cluv, American Legion (Post Commander), Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kiwanis
Club, Mason, Shriner. City Attorney East Dublin 1951-1953. County Attorney,
1955-1956. Pilot U.S.A.F., World War II. Solicitor General 1957 to 19.. Judge of
Superior Court, 1960-69.
WARE, DAVID, JR. - Practiced law in Dublin during the latter quarter of the
19th century. Mayor of Dublin, 188....
WARREN, ELI - Born in Laurens County, Georgia, son Josiah and Nancy Doty
Warren, State Representative, Laurens County, 1824, 1827-9, 1831-1833. State
Senator, Laurens County, 1834. Brigadier General in the Georgia Militia. Had
one of the largest practices in the state during the peak of his career. Member of
two Constitutional Conventions.
WARREN, LOTT - Born in Burke County, Georgia on Oct. 30, 1797. Served in
the Georgia Militia during the Indian Wars of 1818. . Lt. Warren returned home
and study law under Daniel McNeel before being admitted to the bar in 1821. In
1824 Col. Warren represented Laurens County in the Legislature. In 1826
Warren served as the Solicitor General of the Southern Circuit from 1826 to 1828.
Warren then moved to Twiggs County representing that county in the Senate in
1830. In 1831 Col. Warren began a three year term as Judge of the Southern
Circuit. Judge Warren then moved to Americus. In 1838 he was elected to the
United States Congress. After serving two terms in Congress, Lott Warren
returned to private practice. Judge Warren returned to the bench serving as
Judge of the Southwestern Circuit from 1844 until his resignation in August of
1852. Married Jane Desableux. Judge Warren fell dead while making a speech in
the courthouse at Albany on June 17, 1861.
WATSON, LESTER FRANKLIN - Born on June 5, 1880 in Wilkinson Co.,
Ga., son of William Newton and Mildred Green Watson. Married 1st to Mary
Jane Cook in 1900. Married 2nd to Mary Kenlaw in Jan. 1913. Served as Chief
Deputy Sheriff under his father from 1915 to 1920. Served as Sheriff from 1920 to
1929. Admitted to the Bar in 1928. Solicitor of City Court from 1932 to .... and
from 1953-195....
WEDDINGTON, CORNELIUS A. - Married Georgia Smith, daughter of J.D.
Smith; Came to Dublin in 1899; Attorney: Orator; Member of 1st Executive Board
of Young Men's Business League, 1900; City Attorney; Commander, George M.
Troup, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 1901; Capt. and 1st Lt., Dublin Guards,
1900-1901; Vice Grand Chancellor, Odd Fellows, 1904; Owner of Dublin Times,
1903-4; Member of Royal Arcanum; Mayor of Dublin; Secretary of Chautaugua
Assoc., 1913; Elk; Clerk of City Council.
WHITE, ERASMUS DOUGLAS, JR. - Born in Screven Co. on Nov. 24, 1865;
Married Sarah McGee, 1888; Moved to Dublin in 1896; Member of the firm of
Brigham-Jones Co. and Jones-Tyre Co.; Vice President and Incorporator of the
Commerical Bank, 1911; State Representative, 1911-12; Owner of White and
Knight Store; Ordinary of Laurens County, 1917-1937; Clerk of City of Dublin,
1902 -; Police Commissioner, 1914.
WHITE, WILLIAM HERSCHEL - Born on May 20, 1908 in Dublin, Ga., son
of Erasmus Douglas White and and Juanita McGee. Married on Feb. 7, 1953 to
Melrose Coleman. Attended Stetson University and Mercer University, 1926.
Member of the Methodist Church. Admitted to the Bar, Aug. 1930. Assistant
Solicitor, 1933-1940. Solictor, City Court of Dublin, 1957-1960, Judge State
Court of Laurens County, 1965-1969, Judge of Superior Court of Laurens County,
1969 to 1977. Senior Judge until his death on Oct. 20, 1984.
WHITEHURST, HERSCHEL SMITH - Admitted to the bar in Dublin, in
Feb., 1922, graduate of George Washington Law School.
WIGGINS, WILLIAM A. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1835-1840.
WINN, JOHN S. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, 1854-1855, Resigned in Nov., 1855.
WILLIAMS, BERNER - Practiced law in Dublin in the early 1900s.
WILLIAMS, GEORGE HERSCHEL - Born on March 5, 1870 in Bryan
County, Ga.; Married Nettie Moring, daughter of Stephen M. Williams and Carrie
Pughesly in 1896; Married Jessie Rice Alsup, daughter of W.B. Rice; 1922; Died
on May 2, 1962; Admitted to the bar in Swainsboro, Ga. on Oct. 16, 1892 by
examination in open court; State Representative, 1898-1899; Practiced law from
1900-1962; President of Board of Education; Local Republican leader; Organizer
of Chautaugua, 1901; .
WILLIAMS, GEORGE W. - Attorney, 1903 - ; Owner and Incorporator of the
Dublin Times, 1903; Sunday School Supt. 1st Baptist Church; State
Reprsentative, 1905-8; Director of Chautaugua Assoc., 1906;
WIMBERLY, HAL - Practiced law in Dublin in the 1st quarter of the 20th
Century.
WOLFE, JOHN BRYANT - Born on Sept. 7, 1838; Married Mary Frances
Douglas, 1861; Died on Jan. 25, 1907; 2nd Lt., Co. I, 57th Ga. Inf.; Captured at
Vicksburg, Miss., July, 1863; Merchant; Judge of Ordinary, 1870-1877; State
Representative, 1882-3; Graduate of the Univ. of Ga.; Lawyer; Farmer; Justice of
the Peace; Worshipful Master, Laurens Lodge F. & A.M., 1868-9; 1881; Mayor of
Dublin, City Councilman; Insurance Agent.
WOOD, WILEY ALEXANDER - Born on November 1, 1855; Son of Thomas
Wood and Mary Ann Smith; Married Sallie Smith; Married Rebecca Baker; Died
on May 16, 1927; Judge of Ordinary, 1901-1917; Worshipful Master, Laurens
Lodge F. & A.M., 1896, 1898; High Priest Royal Arch Masons, 1900; Secretary
and Member of Board of Education, 1903; Director of Citizens Bank; Building
Committee of Johnson St. School, 1905; President of Dublin Office of National
Union Life Association, 1905.
WYLLY, WILLIAM H. - Practiced law in Dublin in the last quarter of the 19th
Century. Served in the Confederate Army as Lt. Colonel of the 25th Georgia
Infantry.
Miriam ____; Attorney; Practiced law in Dublin in the early 1900's, Federal
District Attorney of Middle Circuit of Georgia, 1911; Prosecuted Senator Tom
Watson on obscenity charges, 1912; Federal Judge in the State of Florida.
ADAMS, JOHN SAMUEL - Born on Jan. 22, 1870 in Wilkinson Co., Ga., son
of William and Charity Barbara Ann Sheppard Adams. Married on Jan. 20, 1895
to Lucia Augusta Stanley. Admitted to the Dublin Bar in 1893 by examination in
open court. Served as Mayor of Dublin. Appointed Judge of the City Court of
Dublin in 1900. Worked as an attorney in the Treasury Department in
Washington D.C., from 1933 to 1935. Served as a Referee in Bankruptcy until his
death on March 29, 1938.
ADAMS, WILEY HORRY - Born on June 19, 1885, son of Abilene Horry and
Elsie Jane Fordham Adams, married Martha Frances Atwater on Dec. 20, 1911.
Served as Sheriff from 1929 to 1936, after a serious accident he served as Judge of
the Court of Ordinary from 1937 to 1969, ; Died March 1, 1973.
ALEXANDER, JOHN - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern Circuit,
1868 to 1871. Remained Judge of the circuit until 1873.
ANDERSON, YOUNG J. - Solicitor General of Eastern Circuit, Oct. 17, 1859 to
Nov. 10, 1859. Practiced in Dublin in the 1860s and 1870s.
ARMISTEAD, W.E. - Born in July 1868, in Montgomery, Alabama; Son of Rev.
T.S. Armistead; Graduate of Emory University; Married Miss Waugh of
Baltimore, Md. in 1899; City Attorney, Dublin, 1901-1902.
BAGGETT, CHARLES ERNEST - Born on August 6, 1892 in Laurens County;
Son of John Redding Baggett and Mattie E. Blankenship Married Alma Stuckey
on October 27, 1912; Married Birdie Lee Lanier on January 16, 1923; Died on
October 20, 1943; Attorney; Deacon of Jefferson Street Baptist Church; City
Councilman; Tax Collector; Worshipful master Laurens Lodge No. 75, F. and
A.M., 1934.
BAKER, SAMUEL B. - Born on October 5, 1877 in Wilkinson County, Georgia;
Son of Rev. W.S. Baker; Merchant in Cordele, Ga.; Graduate of Emory University;
Graduate of University of Georgia School of Law, 1898; City Attorney, 1899-1901.
BAKER, WASHINGTON - Judge of the Court of Ordinary, 1860 to 1870.
BALDWIN, EZEKIEL SMITH, JR. - Son of Ezekiel Smith Baldwin, Sr..
Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Jan. 2, 1932.
BALDWIN, EZEKIEL SMITH, SR. - Son of L.H. Baldwin; Admitted to bar in
Talbotton, Ga. in March, 1898, Clerk of Laurens County Superior Court, 1910-
1940, longest term of any Clerk of Superior Court.
BARRETT, U.C. - Attorney; Recorder of City Court.
BEALL, ROBERT AUGUSTUS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1824-1825.
BETHUNE, JAMES N. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, 1825.
BIDGOOD, GROVER CLEVELAND - Born on November 12, 1887; Married
Henrietta Turner; Died on March 21, 1935; Attorney, Graduate of Atlanta Law
School; Judge of City Court of Dublin, 1925-1933.
BLACKSHEAR, MARMADUKE HAMILTON, JR. - Son of Marmaduke
Hamilton Blackshear, Sr. and Annie Hardeman, admitted to the bar in Dublin on
Dec. 18, 1930. Moved to Atlanta.
BLACKSHEAR, MARMADUKE HAMILTON, SR. - Born on Sept. 16, 1878
in Laurens County, Ga., son of David Stout and Pauline Howard Blackshear,
married Annie Hardeman. Graduate of Emory College and the Lumpkin Law
School, University of Georgia. Admitted to the bar in Dublin in July, 1904.
Member of the Methodist Church. Attorney; Superintendent of First Methodist
Church Sunday School for many years; Noted orator on History and Politics; City
Attorney, 1932-1933; County Attorney, 1908-1920; President of Security Loan
and Realty Company; Incorporator of City Drug Store, 1913;
BRACEWELL, LAWTON - Practiced law in Dublin in the first third of the 20th
Century.
BRASWELL, JOSEPH DANIEL - Admitted to bar in Dublin on Dec. 23, 1928
and practiced less than a decade.
BRUNSON, WILLIAM - Born on Feb. 15, 1893 in Perry, Houston Co., Ga.,
member of the Baptist Church, attended Mercer University, served in the United
States Navy in World War I, Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Dec. 31, 1914, City
Attorney of Dublin, Ga., Solicitor of City Court of Dublin, 1922-1925. State
Representative, Laurens County 1931, 1933.
BURCH, ALEX AUSTIN - Born in Laurens County on Nov. 28, 1886, son of
Daniel W. and Sarah Elizabeth Burch Burch. Married in 1935 to Mary Durham.
Graduate of Mercer University. Admitted to the bar in June, 1909. Served as a
2nd Lt. in the Air Corps in World War I. Commissioned as a Captain in the Judge
Advocate General's Department.
BURCH, JOHN EDWIN - Born February 17, 1872; Son of John Burch and
Missouri Clemens; Married Pauline Daley; Admitted to the bar on in Sept., 1895,
by examination in open court, Died on December 30, 1938; Attorney; State
Representative, 1909-1910; Judge of City Court, 1904-1908; Knight of Pythias;
Member of Royal Arcanum; Member of Board of Sensors, 1913-.
BURCH, M.L. - First Judge of County Court in 1866.
CAMP, ROBERT EARL - Son of Josephus and Sophronia Palestine Brown
Camp. Married Augusta Smith. Studied law in the offices of R.J. and G.H.
Williams. Admitted to the bar in Swainsboro, Ga. at the age of 19 in 1903. He
was perhaps the youngest lawyer in the history of the county. City Attorney of
Dublin 1908-1912, Judge of the Superior Court of Laurens County, 1925-1933,
1940-1949, delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936, Presidential
Elector in 1940.
CARSWELL, M.J. - Practiced law in Dublin in the first quarter of the 20th
Century.
CHAPPELL, IRA STANLEY - Born on Nov. 28, 1859, son of James Thomas
Chappell and Harriet Athalia Stanley. Died on Aug. 8, 1931. Married Missouri
Baker, 1885; Married Cora Mathis, 1900; Died on August 8, 1931; Attorney;
Graduate of Mercer University; 1st Judge of City Court, 1895-1899; Practiced law
from 1888-1931; Editor of the Cochran Enterprise; Worshipful Master of Laurens
Lodge, F. & A.M., 1906; Senior Warden, Laurens Lodge, 1899; Farmer.
CHAPPELL, JOSEPH JOHN - Born March 5, 1907 in Dudley, Ga., son of Dr.
Roy James Chappell and Mary Warthen. Graduated Brewton Parker Institute,
1924, Mercer University Law School, 1928. Admitted to the bar in 1928. Member
of the Baptist Church. State Representative from Laurens County, 1933.
Appointed solicitor of City Court, 1937. Resigned to take a position as the
secretary to Sen. Richard B. Russell.
CLARKE, ELIJAH - Son of Gen. Elijah Clarke, First Solicitor General of
Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee Circuit, 1807-1810.
COCHRAN, JOHN R. - Practiced law in Dublin during the 1850s.
COLE, CARLETON B. - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern Circuit,
1836, 1837-1845.
CONNER, JAMES J. - Born at "The Dead River Settlement" in Montgomery
County, came to Dublin in 1867 to read law under the supervision of Jonathan
Rivers. He was admitted to the bar in 1871 and began his practice in Dublin.
Connor served as Solicitor General and as Mayor of Dublin from 1876 to 1877.
He moved to Cartersville in 1881 where he took up a second profession of
farming. State Representative from Bartow County from 1905-1907. Elected
Secretary of Agriculture of Georgia in 1912 and served until 1913.
COOK, JULIAN EUGENE - Born on April 12, 1905 in Wrightsville, Johnson
Co., Ga., son of James Monroe Cook and Ida Preston. Married on June 28, 1928
to Julia Adelaide McClatchey. Member of the Baptist Church. Trustee of
Brewton Parker Institute, Solicitor, City Court of Wrightsville, 1933-1937. Judge
of City Court of Wrightsville, 1937 to 1941. Solicitor General of Laurens Superior
Court, 1941-1943. Resigned April 8, 1943. Attorney General of Georgia, 1945-
1965.
CORKER, FRANK G. - Born in December of 1869; Married Alice _____, ca.
1890; Attorney; Solicitor of City Court, 1895-1897, 1899-1902; Mayor of Dublin,
1894-1895; President and Founder of First National Bank, 1902; Director of First
Chamber of Commerce, 1911; Member of Board of Education; Director of
Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad: President of Chamber of Commerce, 1914.
CROCKETT, CHARLES CAMPBELL - Born in Rural Retreat, Wythe County,
Virginia on Oct. 7, 1885, son of Henry Stuart and Minne Howe Campbell.
Graduate of Washington and Lee University in 1907. Began his practice in Dublin
in 1913. Member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a Mason and a Knight
Templar. Served in World War I. Married Louise Holleman on Dec. 16, 1926.
Judge of the City Court from 1961 to 1965.
CURRELL, HENRY - Born in Dublin, Son of George Currell and Mary Jane
Fuqua. Practiced in Dublin in the 1870s.
DALEY, RUSSELL M. - Admitted to the practice of law in Athens, Ga. on June
17, 1907, Graduate of the University of Georgia.
DAMPIER, WILLIAM ARTHUR - Born on May 2, 1883 in Society Hill,
Darlington Co., S.C., son of William Arthur Dampier a and Della A. Townsend,
married 2nd on April 24, 1908 to Myrtle Lee Panell, graduated from Oak Ridge
Institute, Mercer University Law School. Admitted to the bar in Dublin on May
21, 1911 with comity from Florida. Member of the Baptist Church. State
Representative from Laurens County, 1937.
DAVIS, GEORGE B. - Attorney; Solicitor of State Court, 1910-1914; State
Representative, 1915-1918; President and Charter Member of the Nest of Owls,
1911; Member of Royal Aracanum;
DAVIS, WILLIAM C. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1902.
DAVIS, WILLIS CANTEY - Born on December 11, 1863 in Perry, Ga.; Son of
W.M. Davis and Mary C. Richardson; Attended West Point Academy; Married
Sara Brunson; Died August 9, 1923; Captain in Spanish American War; Captain
and organizer of the Dublin Guards and Laurens Volunteers, forerunners of the
National Guard; Worshipful master, Laurens Lodge, F. & A.M., No. 75, 1905;
Senior Warden, 1902; Attorney; Solicitor of City Court, 1908-1910; City Attorney;
Exhalted Ruler of Elks Club;
DUNCAN, JOHN THOMAS - Born in Talieffero County, Ga. on Dec. 7, 1830,
son of James Duncan and Nancy Lancaster. Died in 1891. Married 1st on July 3,
1854 to Sarah Amelia Fuqua. Married 2nd on Aug. 21, 1861 to Sarah Elizabeth
Stokes. Married 3rd to Nov. 27, 1875 to Nancy Stokes. Studied law and was
admitted to the bar around the age of twenty. He was the youngest Sheriff ever
elected in Laurens County. Served as Sheriff from 1854 to 1856 and from 1856 to
1860. State Representative, 1873-74. Judge of the Court of Ordinary, 1877 to
1891. Led the movement to build the first permanent bridge over the Oconee
River which was completed in the year of his death.
DOUGLAS, DUBIGNION - Born on May 24, 1924 in Ocilla, Irwin Co., Ga., son
of Thomas Henry and Gladys Tucker Douglas. Married Mary Rachel Quarles on
Sept. 9, 1951. Attended Berry College and graduated from Mercer University Law
School in 1951. Member of the Baptist Church. Member of the Exchange Club.
Sergeant in the U.S. Army, 1945-1946. Admitted to the Bar on Aug 31, 1951.
State Representative 1967-1970. Judge of State Court, 1977 to 1980. Judge of
Superior Court, 1981 to 1994. Senior Judge, 1994 to present.
EARLY, PETER - Born in Virginia on June 20, 1773. Died on August 15, 1817.
Member of the 7-9th Congresses. Lived in Greensboro. First Judge of Laurens
County Superior Court, Ocmulgee Circuit, 1807-1813. Resigned Nov. 6, 1813.
Elected Governor of Georgia in 1813 and served until 1815.
State Senator, Greene County, 1816.
EASON, THOMAS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, 1875 to 1882.
Resigned in Nov., 1882. Served again from 1888-1890. Continued to serve as
Circuit Solicitor General until his resignation in Oct. 1898.
EUBANKS, N.B. - Practiced law in Dublin in the 1st Quarter of the 20th
Century.
EVANS, ROBERT A. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, 1834-1835.
Resigned Dec. 8, 1835.
FELDER, THOMAS BRAILSFORD, JR. - Born on Oct. 6, 1865 in Burke Co.,
Ga., son of Thomas Brailsford and Clara Lanier Corker Felder. Married 1st to
Charlotte Johnson. Married 2nd to Wilson Norfleet. Died on March 12, 1926.
Graduate of the University of Georgia Law School in 1883 and came to Dublin to
practice in the office of John M. Stubbs. Served as Mayor of Dublin from ..... to
......, Member of the Dublin Bar 1883-1890, Solicitor of City Court, 1884-1887,
Delegate to Democratic National Convention in 1912.
FELDER, THOMAS BRAILSFORD, SR. - Born on April 22, 1841; Died on
June 1, 1897, Practiced law in Dublin in 1880's. Married 1st to Clara Lanier
Corker, 2nd to Mary Elizabeth Jones. Private Co. A, 3rd Regiment Ga. Volunteer
Infantry, C.S.A..
FLYNT, ROGER D. - Attorney; Judge of City Court, 1917-1921; Married Nell
Johnson on October 10, 1912; Member of Library Board.
FRANKLIN, BEDNEY - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Ocmulgee Circuit, 1810 to 1816. Died in Dec. 1816.
FORDHAM, JOE M. - Judge of the Court of Ordinary, 1897 to 1901.
FORT, MOSES - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern Circuit, 1825-
1828.
FOSTER, FREDERICK COLBERT - Judge of Laurens Superior Court,
Ocmulgee Circuit, 1902-1903.
GILBERT, CORLISS E. - Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Aug. 26, 1949. Did
not engage in active practice here.
GIBSON, JOHN - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, 1840-1843. Resigned Sept., 1843.
GRAHAM, ELISHA DUNCAN - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Oconee Circuit, 1908-1911. Also served as Circuit Court Solicitor General from
1905 until 1913.
GREEN, JULE B. - City Recorder.
GRINER, T.L.
HANSELL, AUGUSTIN HARRIS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior
Court, Southern Circuit, 1847 to Nov. 13, 1849. Judge of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1849-1852, Resigned Nov. 1852, and again from 1859 to 1868.
Returned to the bench as Circuit Judge in 1873 and served until 1903.
HARRIS, STEPHEN WILLIS - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1813-1816.
HARRIS, THOMAS W. - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern Circuit,
1819-1824. Resigned Dec. 20, 1824.
HART, JOHN COLLIER - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee Circuit,
1895-1902. Resigned July 1, 1902.
HATCHER, AL - Admitted to the bar in Athens, Ga. in June, 1925, Graduate of
the University of Georgia.
HATTAWAY, GEORGE L. - Admitted to the Bar in Johnson Co., on Dec. 21,
1949. Practiced in Dublin several years in the early 1950s.
HAWKINS, KENDRICK J. - Born on July 12, 1870 in Glascock Co.; Died on
July 11, 1914; Mayor of Gibson, GA.; Came to Dublin in 1902; Attorney; Owner of
the Dublin Times, 1903-4; Judge of the City Court of Dublin, 1908-1912; Judge of
Laurens Superior Court, 1911 to 1914. First Judge of Dublin Circuit.
HAYES, BEVERLY BAYNE, JR. - Born on Jan. 19, 1921, in Wrightsville,
Johnson Co., Ga., son of Beverly Bayne Hayes and Louise Reynolds. Graduated
from Emory Law School in 1948. Admitted to the bar in Dekalb County on Jan.
30, 1948. Began his praice in Dublin in 1948. Member of the Presbyterian
Church. Member of the U.S. Army in World War II rising to the rank of Major.
Awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. City Attorney for Dublin,
1950-1952. 1964-1972. Judge of City Court, 1964-1972. District Attorney of the
Dublin Circuit from 1973 to 1988.
HAYNES, MERCER - Born on Feb. 21, 1845 in Chatam County, Georgia, son
of Zachariah Taylor and Maria Cooper Haynes. Began his study of the law in
Griffin in the office of Fred Dismuke. Served in Wheeler's Cavalry from 1862 to
1864. Taken prisoner and released in 1865. Married Rosamond Parmeter
Warren on April 9, 1867. Moved to Dublin in 1874 and admitted to the bar.
Member of the Baptist Church. Elected Mayor of Dublin in 1877 and served until
1880. Appointed postmaster of Dublin in 1880 and served until 1881. Judge of
County Court in 1885 appointed by Governor and former Confederate General,
John B. Gordon. Member of the Board of Education. He died on Sept. 11, 1901.
HICKS, JAMES EVERETT - Son of Willie P. and Jane Outler Hicks.
HICKS, JAMES B. - Born on February 28, 1870 in Johnson County, Georgia;
Son of Dr. Henry Hicks and Nancy Wright; Graduate of Mercer University, 1892;
Lawyer; Returned to Dublin in 1898; Mayor of Dublin, 1898-1901; State
Representative, 1902-1903; Judge of City Court, 1911-1917.
HICKS, PALMER WHITEHEAD - Born on Aug. 5, 1888 in Dublin, Ga., son of
Edward Everrett and Winnefred Anne Thomas Hicks. Married Margaret Leila
Wicker on Nov. 16, 1921. Member of the Baptist Church. Graduate of Mercer
University. Served in World War I. Admitted to the practice law on Feb. 1, 1915,
Justice of the Peace, 1935-1940. Judge of City Court, 1941-1961. Died April 28,
1973.
HICKS, ROWE GAINER - Son of Thomas Benjamin and Margaret Jane Rowe.
Married 1st to Jennie Grier. Married 2nd to Louise Burnley. Practiced in Dublin
in the early years of the 20th Century.
HIGHTOWER, J.E.
HIGHTOWER, THOMAS EVERETT - Son of Thomas (Cone) Marion
Hightower and Elizabeth Hicks. Married Lil Salter. City Solicitor, 1918-1921 and
Mayor of Dublin 1928 to 1929.
HOLT, THADDEUS GOODE - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1819-1824. Resigned on Dec. 22, 1824, Judge of Laurens
Superior Court, Southern Circuit, 1824-1825, 1828-1831.
HOWARD, HENRY PHIL - Practiced law in Dublin around the turn of the
20th century. State Representative, Laurens County, 1902-1904.
JENKINS, WILLIAM FRANKLIN - Judge of Laurens Superior Court,
Ocmulgee Circuit, 1890 to 1895. Served as Circuit Judge from 1887 to 1895.
JONES, PAUL JACKSON, JR. - Born on July 23, 1919, in Dudley, Ga., son of
Paul Jackson Jones, Sr. and Maroy Chappell. Graduate of Middle Georgia
College and Mercer University in 1951. Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Oct. 10,
1951. Married Virginia Corry on Feb. 14, 1923. Served in the U.S. Navy in World
War II and Korea. City Attorney and Recorder, East Dublin, 1954- . State
Representative, Laurens County, 1955-1958. Member of the Baptist Church.
Died on Oct. 21, 1983.
JONES, SEABORN - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1817-1819.
JORDAN, GEORGE WALKER - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1851.
KEA, MORRIS DAWSON - Admitted to the practice of law in Wrightsville,
Georgia on Dec. 20, 1933. State Representative, Laurens County, 194-1942. In
active practice longer than any attorney in Laurens County's history.
KEA, FREDERICK WILLIAM - State Senator, 16th Dist., 1913-1914, Solicitor
General of Laurens County Superior Court, Dublin Circuit, 1925-1933.
KENT, JOHN LUTHER - Born on March 27, 1868 in Johnson Co., Ga., son of
Thomas W. Kent and Martha Battle McWhorter, Began the practice of law in
1894. State Representative, 1902-1904, Solicitor City Court of Wrightsville, 1905-
1908, Judge City Court of Wrightsville, 1908-1915, Judge of Laurens Superior
Court, Dublin Circuit 1915-1925, 1933-1940. Resident of Wrightsville, Ga. and
married on Oct. 15, 1890 to Clara Virginia Trawick.
KIBBEE, CHARLES C. - State Representative, Pulaski County, 1865-1866,
State Senator, 14th Dist., 1871-1876, Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Oconee
Circuit, 1885-1889.
KING, GEORGE L. - Practiced in Dublin during the early 20th Century.
LARSEN, JOAN - Daughter of William Washington Larsen, Sr. and Hattie
Daffin Beacham, began her practice of law in Dublin on September 23, 1954.
LARSEN, WILLIAM WASHINGTON, JR. - Born on Aug. 8, 1930 in Dublin,
Ga., son of William Washington Larsen, Jr. and Hattie Daffin Beacham. Married
....., Martha Josey. Graduate of the University of Georgia in 1952. Admitted to
the Bar in on Sept. 22, 1951. Lieutenant, U.S. Army in Korea, 1952-54 where he
was awarded the Bronze Star. City Attorney of Dublin, 1957-1958, East Dublin,
1959, Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Dublin Circuit, 1960-1969.
State Representative from Laurens County 1971-1977. Member of the Methodist
Church.
LARSEN, WILLIAM WASHINGTON, SR. - Born Sept. 23, 1905 in Emanuel
Co., Ga., son of W.W. Larsen, Sr. and Dovie Edenfield Strange, died on May 1,
1963. Admitted to the bar on July 26, 1927, City Attorney of Dublin 1933-1937,
County Attorney, Laurens County, 1933. Senator, 16th Dist., 1935, State
Representative, Laurens County, 1937-1938. Solicitor General of Laurens
Superior Court, Dublin Circuit, 1945-1957.
LARSEN, WILLIAM WASHINGTON, SR. - Born in 1871; Died in 1938;
Married Dovie Edenfield Strange. Admitted to the bar in Swainsboro, Ga. on
April 7, 1897, Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Dublin Circuit, July 15, 1914 to
Jan. 1, 1915. Member of U.S. Congress, 12th Dist., Ga. 1917-1933.
LAWSON, THOMAS GRAVES - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1882-1884. Served as Circuit Judge from 1879 to 1887.
LEWIS, HUGH GRAHAM - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Ocmulgee Circuit, 1890-1902, Resigned Dec. 31, 1902, Judge of Laurens Superior
Court, Ocmulgee Circuit, 1903-1908. Remained as Circuit Judge until 1911.
LOVE, PETER EARLY - Born in Laurens County, Georgia, son of Amos Love.
Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Nov. 11, 1843 to Nov. 11, 1847,
Senator Thomas County, 1849-1850, Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, Nov. 27, 1852 to Oct. 4, 1859. Resigned on Feb. 7, 1858, Member of U.S.
Congress 1860-1861, resigned at the beginning of the Civil War. State
Reprsentative, Thomas County, 1861-1863.
MARTIN, J.H. - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Oconee Circuit, 1907-1911.
Served as Circuit Judge from 1905 to 1913.
MCNEEL, DANIEL - Perhaps Laurens County's earliest lawyers practicing here
in the first quarter of the 19th century.
MERRITT, JAMES ARTHUR - Born on April 5, 1894 in Ireland, Decatur Co.,
Ga., son of M.W. and Lucy Shannon Merritt, married 1st on Nov. 24, 1921 to
Elizabeth Mae Howard, 2nd on July 1, 1925 to Clyde Smith. Admitted to the bar
in Dublin on Jan. 26, 1916, Graduate of Emory University, Member of the Baptist
Church. W.O.W. Sergeant, World War I, Justice of the Peace, 1921-1924,
Solicitor of City Court, 1925-1932, Solicitor General, Dublin Circuit, 1933-1937.
MILLER, ARETHA - Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Dec. 22, 1933. First
woman attorney in Laurens County's history.
MILLER, PAUL - Graduate of Atlanta Law School, admitted to the bar on June
2, 1921. Practiced law in Dublin in the 1930s.
MILLER, STEPHEN F. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1831-1834.
MITCHELL, THOMAS D. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1825-1826. Killed in a duel in March, 1826.
MOLONY, CHARLES - Practiced law in Dublin in the early 1900s.
MORGAN, ARTHUR A. - State Senator, Houston Co., 1834, Judge of Laurens
Superior Court, Southern Circuit, 1836.
MORGAN, WILLIAM LEWIS - Solicitor of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, 1843.
MORRIS, J. ROBERT - Admitted to the bar in Atlanta, Ga. on June 20, 1928,
Graduate of Lumpkin Law School.
NELSON, CARL KRATHER, JR., son of Carl Krather Nelson, Sr. and .......,
began his practice of law in Dublin on Dec. 30, 1954.
NELSON, CARL KRATHER, SR. - Admitted to the bar in Dublin in Oct. 1926,
Graduate of the University of Georgia. State Representative, Laurens County,
1931-1932.
NELSON, JAMES FREDERICK, SR. - Born on June 1, 1908, son of Alfred
Henry Nelson and Sarah Elizabeth Turner. Married Nina McQuaig on May 28,
1938. Died on March 1, 1979. Graduated from Richmond Junior College.
Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Feb. 22, 1935, Solicitor General, Laurens
Superior Court, Dublin Circuit, 1943-1945.
NEW, JACOB - Born on Nov. 20, 1920 in Dexter, Ga., son of James Ezra New
and Maude Brantley, Graduate of the University of Georgia. Served in the U.S.
Air Force in World War II. Admitted to the bar on Aug. 19, 1947, Graduate of the
University of Virginia. Practiced law in Dublin from 1948 to 1953. Owner of
Dublin Credit Bureau from 1954 to 1984. Active in the Rotary Club, Historical
Society, Fine Arts Association, Moose Club, Elks Club, American Cancer Society,
and Salvation Army. Member of the Presbyterian Church.
NEW, STEPHEN PARKER - Born on March 11, 1888; Married Ruth
Hightower; Died on March 11, 1974; Veteran of World War Il; Admitted to the bar
in Macon, Ga. in 1910. Solicitor of City Court, 1914-18; Senior Warden, Laurens
Lodge No. 75 F. A. & M., 1915-6; State Representative, Laurens County, 1923-
1931, Attorney for Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C.,
Father in law of big band leader, Tommy Dorsey.
OGBURN, JAMES O. - Admitted to the bar in Dublin on Aug. 5, 1935.
PEACOCK, JAMES MARION - Son of John Asa Peacock and Anne Boisfuelet,
married Ruth Broadhurst. Served in World War I. Admitted to the bar on June
24, 1924. Cotton broker with Dixie Cotton Company. Postmaster of Dublin.
Member of the Methodist Church. State Representative, Laurens County, 1925-
26.
POLHILL, JAMES - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Southern Circuit, 1834-
1836. Died on April 10, 1836.
PORTER, THOMAS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, 1828-1831.
POTTLE, JOSEPH E. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1903-1911. Remained as Solicitor General of Circuit until his resignation
on July 1, 1916.
REESE, STANLEY A. - Born on June 9, 1909 in Madison, Morgan Co., Ga., son
Walker Shields Reese and Mamie Lynne Stanley, Graduated from Mercer
University in 1930 and from Mercer Law School in 1932. Member of the Baptist
Church, Began his practice of law in Dublin May 31, 1932. Referee in Bankruptcy,
Dublin Division, 1933-1937, Solicitor of City Court, 1937 -1941.
REEVES, NORMAN GLISSON, JR. - Born on March 13, 1907 in Stillmore,
Emanuel County, Ga., son of Norman Gillsion Reeves, Sr. and Lillie Lee Heard,
married Helena Guillermina Joubert, Began his practice in LaGrange, Ga. in
1933. Moved to Soperton where he continued to practice until he moved to
Dubln where he served as Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, 1969 to
1973. Member of Soperton City Council. Solicitor of City Court of Soperton, 1937
to 1947. Judge of City Court of Soperton, 1947-1961.
RIVERS, JONATHAN - Born in Wilkinson Co. on Aug. 11, 1831, son of Joel
Rivers and Mary Pearson, married Catherine M. Gainey, died on March 31, 1875
in Hawkinsville, Ga., buried in Orange Grove Cemetery. Attorney, practiced law
in Irwinton before moving his practice to Dublin, where he practiced from from
1868 to 1873, when he moved to Hawkinsville. Justice of the Inferior Court of
Wilkinson County, 1857, 1859; Judge of the Court of Ordinary, Wilkinson
County, 1864-1866. Elected Jr. 2nd Lt. of Co. F., 3rd Ga. Inf. on April 26, 1861.
Resigned on Nov. 22, 1861. Enlisted as a private in Co. A, 49th Ga. Inf. on March
4, 1862. Captured in 1862. Exchanged at Fort Warren in 1862. Elected Major of
the 49th Ga. Inf. on March 22, 1862. Took the sword of Gen. Phillip Kearney
after his death at Ox Hill. Wounded in the leg at Chancellorsville, Va. on May 3,
1863, necessitating amputation. Resigned due to disability on June 9, 1863.
Hawkinsville Dispatch, April 1, 8; June 17, 1875, RCS 5 - 207, Davidson's History
of Wilkinson County, pp. 287, 290, 605-6.
ROBERTS, DAVID MONTGOMERY - State Senator, 14th District, 1886-
1887, Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Oconee Circuit, 1889-1890, remained
Circuit Judge until 1893 and again from 1901 to 1905.
ROWE, FREEMAN HUGH - Born in 1816 in Connecticut; Son of John Rowe;
Married Margaret J. Moore in 1837; Died in 1890; Sheriff of Laurens County,
1842-1846; First Judge of teh Court of Ordinary of Laurens County, 1852-60;
Merchant; Worshipful Master Laurens Lodge, F.& A.M., 1853-4; Manager of
Dublin Branch of the Bank of Savannah; Built steamboat "Gov. Troup" and
operated a freight line; Charter member of Masonic lodge;
ROWLAND, JAMES ROY - Born on Dec. 18, 1899 in Wrightsville, Johnson
Co., Ga., son of Joseph Henry Rowland and Nancy Jane Snell. Attended Warthen
College, graduated from Mercer University. arried on Feb. 24, 1925 to Jerradine
Marilyn Brinson. Member of the Methodist Church. Mason, Odd Fellow. Private
Co. H, 14th U.S. Army Infantry, World War I. City Attorney, Wrightsville, 1925.
Solicitor, City Court of Wrightsville, 1925-1933. Solicitor General of Laurens
Superior Court, Dublin, Circuit, 1937-1941, Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Jan.
1, 1949 to December 31, 1952.
Died on March 15, 1956. Buried in Westview Cemetery, Wrightsville, Ga.
SANDERS, JAMES BARNES - Born in July, 1861; Son of James R. and
Cordelia Jones Sanders; Married Alice Ramsay; Married 2nd to Julia Ramsay;
Graduate of University of Georgia; Teacher; Attorney; Admitted to Bar, 1886;
Judge of City Court; Mayor of Dublin, 1895-1896.
SANDERS, T.V. - Practiced in Dublin in the 1st quarter of the 20th Century.
SCARBOROUGH, JAMES JACKSON - Judge of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1845-1849.
SCARBOROUGH, PITT F.D. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1851-1854. Resigned Feb. 1, 1854.
SHEFTALL, EDWARD TATTNALL - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior
Court, Southern Circuit, 1855-1859. Resigned, Sept. or Oct., 1859. Practiced law
in Dublin during the 1850s.
SMITH, CHRISTOPHER C. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Oconee Circuit, 1884-1888. Also served from 1882 - 1884 before Laurens County
became a part of the Oconee Circuit.
SMITH, ERASTUS AUGUSTUS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior
Court, Southern Circuit, 1859.
SMITH, HARDY B. - Born on Oct. 24, 1841; Son of Hardy Smith, Jr. and Ann
Anderson; Married Ella Few Douglas, daughter of Dr. Tilman Douglas and
Phoebe W. Charlton; on November 21, 1867; Died on December 6, 1912; 1st Sgt.,
Co. H., 14th Ga. Inf., C.S.A., 1861; Jr. 2nd Lt., 1861; Lost right arm at
Mechanicsville, Va., June 1863; 1st Lt. 1863; Capt. 1863-1864; Enrolling Officer,
5th Cong. Dist., 1864-5; Clerk of Superior Court, 1866-1893; Judge of Court of
Ordinary, 1893-1897; Secretary/Treasurer and founder of the Macon, Dublin, and
Savannah Railroad; Donated land for First Methodist Church; Brigadier General
United Confederate Veterans; County Treasurer; Founder and organizer of Hardy
Smith Camp of United Confederate Veterans.
Judge of the Court of Ordinary, 1893 to 1897.
SPENCER, SAMUEL B. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1859-1867.
STANLEY, ROLLIN ADOLPHUS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior
Court, Oconee Circuit, 1872 to 1875. Judge of the Court of Ordinary, 1891 to
1893.
STANLEY, ROLLIN A., II - Graduate of Mercer University, admitted to the
bar in Macon, Georgia on Nov. 1, 1933. Worked as an agent for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
STEPHENS, ERNEST LACY, JR. - Born on Feb. 6, 1909 in Wrightsville,
Johnson Co., Ga., son of Ernest Lacy Stephens, Sr. and Ida Norris, married Jean
McFerrin on Nov. 24, 1945. Began the practice of law in Dublin on July 7, 1933.
Member of the Methodist Church. First Sergeant in the U.S. Army in World War
II. Solicitor of City Court of Dublin 1955-1956, Solicitor of State Court of Dublin
1961-1980.
STEPHENS, ERNEST LACY, SR. - Born on Oct. 24, 1875 in Washington Co.,
Ga., son of Wiley Stephens and Mary Frances Chester, married Ida Norris.
Admitted to the bar in McRae, Ga. in 1896. State Representative from Johnson
County, 1911- 1912, Solicitor General of Dublin Circuit, 1912-1924, Judge City
Court of Dublin, 1933-194...
STEPHENS, RUFUS I. - Born on July 24, 1890 in Johnson Co., Ga.. Died on
Nov. 9, 1970. Admitted to the bar in Wrightsville in Jan., 1916, by examination in
open court. County Attorney, Laurens County, 1937---, State Representative,
Laurens County, 1935, Solicitor of City Court, 1937, Judge of Superior Court 1953
to 1960, Judge Emeritus 1960-1972.
STRONG, CHRISTOPHER B. - Judge of Laurens Superior Court, Ocmulgee
Circuit, 1816-1818. Served as Circuit Judge until 1822.
STUBBS, JOHN M. - Born in August, 1839 in Bibb Co., Ga; Son of Peter Stubbs
and Ann Hammond; Married Ella Tucker, daughter of Dr. Nathan Tucker and
Anna Horn, 1861; Married Gertrude Johnson, daughter of Gov. Herschel V.
Johnson, Georgia; Married Victorie Lowe, daughter of Gov. Louis Lowe,
Maryland; Died Sept. 6, 1907; Lt. Colonel, Quartermaster Corps, C.S.A.; Farmer;
Established Dublin's first newspaper, The Dublin Gazette, 1876; Organized the
Oconee River Navigation Improvement Company; Attorney; Orchard owner;
Established the first public grist mill; Founder and attorney for Macon, Dublin,
and Savannah Railroad;
STURGIS, S.W. - Admitted to the practice of law in Thompson, Georgia in 1887
by examination in open court. City Court Judge, 1921-1925, Moved to
Philadelphia in 1938.
STURGIS, THADDEUS - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, 1849-
1851. Resigned May 17, 1851.
TAYLOR, HARRY L. - Admitted to the bar in Athens, Ga., on June 17, 1926,
graduated from the University of Georgia.
THOMAS, JAMES A., JR. - Born ca. 1848 in Laurens County, Georgia; Died in
1929; Private, Co. A, 1st Brigade, 2nd Ga. Regiment, Army of the Tennessee;
Admitted to the bar, ca. 1868. Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Oconee Circuit, 1871-1872. Returned to Dublin in 1902 to practice law;
Commander of Eastern District of Georgia, United Confederate Veterans;
Commander of District of Georgia, United Confederate Veterans, Commander of
the Army of the Tennessee, United Confederate Veterans, 1922; Commander of
the National United Confederate Veterans, 1925; Honorary Commander, 1925-
1929; Sunday School Superintendent and Senior Warden of Christ Episcopal
Church.
THOMPSON, HENRY DALE, SR. - Born on April 14, 1923 near Adrian,
Emanuel County, Georgia, son of Henry Thompson and Claudie Mae Braswell,
married Martha Jane Scott on Dec. 18, 1949, attended Georgia Teacher's College,
University of South Carolina, University of Iowa, and Mercer University.
Seaman, U.S. Navy, World War II, awarded Purple Heart, Graduated from
Mercer University, Law School, 1949. Admitted to the bar in Emanuel Co. on
Aug. 26, 1949, Began his practice in Dublin on September 1, 1949. City Attorney,
Dublin, City Attorney, East Dublin, County Attorney, Laurens County, Member
of the Methodist Church, Commander of American Legion, Post No. 17, Attorney
for Dublin-Laurens Development Authority 1962-1996. Died on July 5, 2001.
TOWSON, WILLIAM MALCOM - Born on May 31, 1923 in Montrose,
Laurens Co., Ga., son of William Franklin Towson and Bertha Neil Ashley,
married Dorothy Blanche Perkins on June 4, 1954. Graduate of the University of
Georgia. Graduated from the University of Georgia Law School in 1949.
Admitted to the Bar in Clarke Co., Ga. on March 5, 1949. Member of the
Methodist Church. Staff Sergeant, 8th Engineer Squadron, 1st Cav. Div., City
Attorney of Dublin, 1954-1956, Laurens County Attorney, 1965-1968, City
Attorney East Dublin, 1969-1974, Member of City Board of Education. State
Senator, 16th Dist., 1961-1962. State Representative from Laurens County 1963-
1964. Judge of State Court from 1969-1977. Judge of Laurens Superior Court
from 1977 to present. Longest serving Judge in Laurens County History.
TROUP, GEORGE MICHAEL - Born on September 7, 1780 in Alabama.
Graduated from Princeton University in 1797 and began his practice of law in
Savannah. Troup's legislative career began in 1801 at the age of twenty one
when he was elected to the Georgia Legislature to reprsent Chatham County. He
moved to Bryan County where he represented that county until 1806 when he
was elected to the Congress of the United States. During the War of 1812, Cong.
Troup served as Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee. After retiring from
Congress in 1815, Troup went back to Washington to serve in the Senate from
1816 to 1818. Elected Governor of Georgia in 1823 and 1825. Governor Troup
returned to the United States Senate in 1828. He declined another term due his
failing health. Gov. Troup, died on April 26, 1856. His body was interred at
Rosemont beside his brother, Robert. A granite monument, surrounded by a
handsome sandstone wall, marks his grave which is located west of Lothair in
Treutlen County.
TWITTY, PETER SIMMONS, JR. - Son of Rev. Peter S. Twitty, Sr. and
Rebecca ________; Secretary/Treasurer of Retail Merchants Association;
Secretary Treasurer of Young Men's Literary Society; Bookkeeper, Gilbert
Hardware, 1906; Knight of Pythias; Officer of Chautaugua Assoc., 1913; Secretary
of Stevens Hardware Co.; Admitted to Dublin Bar, Dec., 1914; Organizing Officer
of Moose Club, 1913; Field Clerk, United States Army, World War I; Charter
Member of Kiwanis Club; Commissioner of Game and Fish of Georgia, 1923-
1934, Attorney for Naval Department in Washington, D.C..
WADE, PEYTON L. Born in Jan. 1865; Son of Robert M. Wade; Married
Gussie _____ ca. 1895; Graduate of University of Georgia; Attorney, 1889-1914;
Owned first library in Dublin and donated many of his books to Carnagie Library,
1904; Organized Weekly Press Association, 1887; Judge of the Georgia Court of
Appeals, 1914-16; Chief Judge, Court of Appeals, 1916-1919; Attorney for Central
of Georgia Railroad.
WARD, HAROLD E. - Born on Nov. 9, 1921 in Macon, Bibb County, Ga., son of
.............., married Minnie Hayes on July 3, 1953. Died Nov. 9, 1970. Member of
the Methodist Church. Admitted to the bar in Athens, Ga. in March, 1949, Began
his practice of law in Dublin in Jan., 1950. Member of the Moose Club, Elk's
Cluv, American Legion (Post Commander), Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kiwanis
Club, Mason, Shriner. City Attorney East Dublin 1951-1953. County Attorney,
1955-1956. Pilot U.S.A.F., World War II. Solicitor General 1957 to 19.. Judge of
Superior Court, 1960-69.
WARE, DAVID, JR. - Practiced law in Dublin during the latter quarter of the
19th century. Mayor of Dublin, 188....
WARREN, ELI - Born in Laurens County, Georgia, son Josiah and Nancy Doty
Warren, State Representative, Laurens County, 1824, 1827-9, 1831-1833. State
Senator, Laurens County, 1834. Brigadier General in the Georgia Militia. Had
one of the largest practices in the state during the peak of his career. Member of
two Constitutional Conventions.
WARREN, LOTT - Born in Burke County, Georgia on Oct. 30, 1797. Served in
the Georgia Militia during the Indian Wars of 1818. . Lt. Warren returned home
and study law under Daniel McNeel before being admitted to the bar in 1821. In
1824 Col. Warren represented Laurens County in the Legislature. In 1826
Warren served as the Solicitor General of the Southern Circuit from 1826 to 1828.
Warren then moved to Twiggs County representing that county in the Senate in
1830. In 1831 Col. Warren began a three year term as Judge of the Southern
Circuit. Judge Warren then moved to Americus. In 1838 he was elected to the
United States Congress. After serving two terms in Congress, Lott Warren
returned to private practice. Judge Warren returned to the bench serving as
Judge of the Southwestern Circuit from 1844 until his resignation in August of
1852. Married Jane Desableux. Judge Warren fell dead while making a speech in
the courthouse at Albany on June 17, 1861.
WATSON, LESTER FRANKLIN - Born on June 5, 1880 in Wilkinson Co.,
Ga., son of William Newton and Mildred Green Watson. Married 1st to Mary
Jane Cook in 1900. Married 2nd to Mary Kenlaw in Jan. 1913. Served as Chief
Deputy Sheriff under his father from 1915 to 1920. Served as Sheriff from 1920 to
1929. Admitted to the Bar in 1928. Solicitor of City Court from 1932 to .... and
from 1953-195....
WEDDINGTON, CORNELIUS A. - Married Georgia Smith, daughter of J.D.
Smith; Came to Dublin in 1899; Attorney: Orator; Member of 1st Executive Board
of Young Men's Business League, 1900; City Attorney; Commander, George M.
Troup, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 1901; Capt. and 1st Lt., Dublin Guards,
1900-1901; Vice Grand Chancellor, Odd Fellows, 1904; Owner of Dublin Times,
1903-4; Member of Royal Arcanum; Mayor of Dublin; Secretary of Chautaugua
Assoc., 1913; Elk; Clerk of City Council.
WHITE, ERASMUS DOUGLAS, JR. - Born in Screven Co. on Nov. 24, 1865;
Married Sarah McGee, 1888; Moved to Dublin in 1896; Member of the firm of
Brigham-Jones Co. and Jones-Tyre Co.; Vice President and Incorporator of the
Commerical Bank, 1911; State Representative, 1911-12; Owner of White and
Knight Store; Ordinary of Laurens County, 1917-1937; Clerk of City of Dublin,
1902 -; Police Commissioner, 1914.
WHITE, WILLIAM HERSCHEL - Born on May 20, 1908 in Dublin, Ga., son
of Erasmus Douglas White and and Juanita McGee. Married on Feb. 7, 1953 to
Melrose Coleman. Attended Stetson University and Mercer University, 1926.
Member of the Methodist Church. Admitted to the Bar, Aug. 1930. Assistant
Solicitor, 1933-1940. Solictor, City Court of Dublin, 1957-1960, Judge State
Court of Laurens County, 1965-1969, Judge of Superior Court of Laurens County,
1969 to 1977. Senior Judge until his death on Oct. 20, 1984.
WHITEHURST, HERSCHEL SMITH - Admitted to the bar in Dublin, in
Feb., 1922, graduate of George Washington Law School.
WIGGINS, WILLIAM A. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court,
Southern Circuit, 1835-1840.
WINN, JOHN S. - Solicitor General of Laurens Superior Court, Southern
Circuit, 1854-1855, Resigned in Nov., 1855.
WILLIAMS, BERNER - Practiced law in Dublin in the early 1900s.
WILLIAMS, GEORGE HERSCHEL - Born on March 5, 1870 in Bryan
County, Ga.; Married Nettie Moring, daughter of Stephen M. Williams and Carrie
Pughesly in 1896; Married Jessie Rice Alsup, daughter of W.B. Rice; 1922; Died
on May 2, 1962; Admitted to the bar in Swainsboro, Ga. on Oct. 16, 1892 by
examination in open court; State Representative, 1898-1899; Practiced law from
1900-1962; President of Board of Education; Local Republican leader; Organizer
of Chautaugua, 1901; .
WILLIAMS, GEORGE W. - Attorney, 1903 - ; Owner and Incorporator of the
Dublin Times, 1903; Sunday School Supt. 1st Baptist Church; State
Reprsentative, 1905-8; Director of Chautaugua Assoc., 1906;
WIMBERLY, HAL - Practiced law in Dublin in the 1st quarter of the 20th
Century.
WOLFE, JOHN BRYANT - Born on Sept. 7, 1838; Married Mary Frances
Douglas, 1861; Died on Jan. 25, 1907; 2nd Lt., Co. I, 57th Ga. Inf.; Captured at
Vicksburg, Miss., July, 1863; Merchant; Judge of Ordinary, 1870-1877; State
Representative, 1882-3; Graduate of the Univ. of Ga.; Lawyer; Farmer; Justice of
the Peace; Worshipful Master, Laurens Lodge F. & A.M., 1868-9; 1881; Mayor of
Dublin, City Councilman; Insurance Agent.
WOOD, WILEY ALEXANDER - Born on November 1, 1855; Son of Thomas
Wood and Mary Ann Smith; Married Sallie Smith; Married Rebecca Baker; Died
on May 16, 1927; Judge of Ordinary, 1901-1917; Worshipful Master, Laurens
Lodge F. & A.M., 1896, 1898; High Priest Royal Arch Masons, 1900; Secretary
and Member of Board of Education, 1903; Director of Citizens Bank; Building
Committee of Johnson St. School, 1905; President of Dublin Office of National
Union Life Association, 1905.
WYLLY, WILLIAM H. - Practiced law in Dublin in the last quarter of the 19th
Century. Served in the Confederate Army as Lt. Colonel of the 25th Georgia
Infantry.
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POST OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS OF LAURENS COUNTY, GEORGIA
POST OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS OF LAURENS COUNTY, GEORGIA
ARTHUR - Established on June 29, 1880. Discontinued on April 30,
1908. Mail was ordered sent to Depue, Dodge County.
Postmasters:
Daniel H. Burch, June 29, 1880
D. Cabie, Jan. 3, 1884
Arthur L. Burch, jan. 21, 1884
John Burch, April 9, 1884
C.M. Clark, Sept. 22, 1900
BATSON - Established on September 27, 1905. Discontinued on Oct. 30,
1909. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Benjamin F. Duggan, Sept. 27, 1905
John F. Ridley, May 21, 1907
Joseph E. Rogers, Feb. 21, 1908
BAY CREEK - Established on Nov. 17, 1851. Discontinued on Feb. 18,
1854.
Michael Livingston, Nov. 17, 1851
William Clark, Feb. 2, 1852
BENDER - Established on Nov. 18, 1891. Discontinued on Aug. 31,
1905. Mail was ordered sent to Dudley.
Postmasters:
William Gilbert, Nov. 18, 1891
Jonathan Gilbert, Dec. 14, 1901
BEULAH - Established on Jan. 24, 1884. Discontinued on Oct. 31,
1904. Mail was ordered sent to Mt. Vernon, Montgomery Co.
Postmasters:
John F. Currie, Jan. 24, 1884
Rollin E. Currie, Feb. 2, 1903
Washington L. Currie, Nov. 19, 1903
BLACKSHEAR'S MILL - Established on July 5, 1878. Discontinued on
Dec. 17, 1879.
Postmasters:
Josiah Horn, July 5, 1878
David S. Blackshear, April 28, 1879
BRANCHVILLE - Established on Feb. 15, 1882. Discontinued on July
26, 1889. Mail was ordered sent to Condor.
Postmasters:
Lofton M. Smith, Feb. 15, 1882
W.B. ?, 1888
BREWTON - Originally named Dodo. Name changed to Brewton June
25, 1894. Discontinued on May 31, 1958.
Postmasters:
James H. Pullen, June 25, 1894
Edna C. Crump, July 31, 1897
Edna C. Lanier, April 8, 1899
William C. Sessions, Oct. 18, 1903
Callie O. McCarty, June 10, 1910
James N. Garette, Feb. 12, 1915
Ila N. Pope, Oct. 27, 1915
John B. Keen, May 23, 1917 (declined)
Thusia Wynne, Aug. 25, 1917
Chloe R. Maddox, Nov. 12, 1943
Irene Jordan, May 23, 1956
BRUTUS - Established on Feb. 18, 1889. Discontinued on Sept. 30,
1890. Mail was ordered sent to Regnant, Johnson County.
Postmasters:
James A. Beatty, Feb. 18, 1889
BUCKEYE - Established on January 15, 1833. Discontinued on June 12,
1867.
Postmasters:
Alex Meriwether, Jan. 10, 1833
John S. Martin, Jan. 4, 1836
Joshua E. Hightower, Jan. 23, 1839
James Bush, March 5, 1839
Nathan Tucker, Aug. 16, 1852
BUCKHORN - Established on May 1, 1879. Discontinued on September
14, 1903. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Andrew J. Thompson, May 1, 1879
H.A.? Thompson, Jan. 16, 1882
Wm. B.C. Fowler, July 24, 1889
Daniel S. Pope, Jan. 3, 1890
John E. Lord, Dec. 23, 1895
CADWELL - Established on Aug. 17, 1908 (Changed from Mullis)
Postmasters:
Arthur W. Mullis, Aug. 17, 1908
Bennett J. Bedingfield, Sept. 21, 1910
Joseph A. Warren, April 17, 1912
Homer Mullis, Oct. 29, 1914
Hiram Mullis, July 24, 1918
John B. Bedingfield, Sept. 7, 1935
Belie B. Hicks, Jan. 24, 1936
Katherine F. Underwood, May 31, 1943
CATLIN - Established on May 23, 1902. Discontinued on May 30, 1907.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Julius A. Dunn, May 23, 1902
W. Bartey snow, Jan. 30, 1905
John B. Keen, Feb. 2, 1907
CONDOR - Established on September 17, 1878. Discontinued on June
15, 1917. Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Dennis Kea, Sept. 17, 1878
Charles L. Holmes, Feb. 12, 1882
Columbus W. Brack, Oct. 30, 1888
Fred D. Beall, July 18, 1890
Henry F. Maund, Nov. 15, 1892
Fred D. Beall, Oct. 21, 1896
Mamie Bell, Jan. 30, 1904
Alfred Mimbs, July 2, 1908
Lewis C. Pope, Oct. 27, 1910
DEXTER - Established on Jan. 31, 1890.
Postmasters:
James H. Witherington, Jan. 31, 1890
John White, March 20, 1894
John A. Clark, Nov. 25, 1895
William C. Crubbs, April 12, 1898
Henry F. Maund, April 1, 1899
Herbert King, March 3, 1904
John A. Clark, March 17, 1922
William C. Crubbs, May 20, 1926
Herbert King, May 10, 1926.
James E. New, April 24, 1934
Durrell W. Knight, Augl 31, 1934
Doris S. Flanders, Oct. 31, 1959
Roy C. Knight, June 15, 1962
DODO - Established on July 1, 1884. Name changed to Brewton on June
25, 1894.
Postmasters:
Henry T. Jones, July 1, 1884.
Washington Wells, Dec. 18, 1884
George T. Mason, April 7, 1886
James H. Pullen, June 29, 1892
DONALDSON - Established on Feb. 7, 1887. Discontinued on Jan. 15,
1895. Mail was ordered sent to Lovett.
Postmasters:
John S. Keen, Feb. 7, 1887
DUBLIN - Established on July 1, 1811.
Jonathan Sawyer, July 1, 1811
William W. Talbot, April 24, 1817
Wright H. Coleman, April 8, 1818
Thomas Moore, July 19, 1822
Henry B. Hathaway, Jan. 31, 1829
Marcus Gilbert, Jan. 31, 1836
Charles B. Guyton, Dec. 13, 1836
Francis Thomas, July 10, 1840
Joel E. Perry, Jan. 30, 1860
John J. Keen, Oct. 8, 1866
Henry Herman, July 6, 1869
Maggie Hester, Oct. 17, 1870
Isaac T. Keen, Feb. 27, 1872
Josiah S. Horn, Feb. 19, 1875
Isaac T. Keen, Dec. 31, 1877
Mercer Haynes, May 26, 1880
Bryant A. Herndon, Jan. 3, 1881
Thomas M. Hightower, Aug. 31, 1881
William P. Hicks, Jan. 25, 1887
Clark Grier, June 2, 1892
Vivian L. Stanley, Dec. 10, 1893
Erwin E. Stone, July 12 1898
Clark Grier, June 2, 1892
Mrs. George B. Grier, Sept. 8, 1908
Vivian L. Stanley, Aug. 15, 1913
Edwin R. Orr, May 23, 1922
Moses Josiah Guyton, June 9, 1934
Hartley Hobbs, Dec. 30, 1966
Dave Walker
DUDLEY - Established on Oct. 9, 1891. Name changed from Dudly to
Dudley on Feb. 12, 1907.
Postmasters:
Elsie Walker, Oct. 9, 1891
Benjamin F. Walker, Aug. 3, 1895
Thomas H. Hooks, July 24, 1897
Jerry W. Duggan, Oct. 29, 1914
Allen P. Whipple, July 31, 1918
Pearl E. Pierce Duke, May 10, 1923
Worthen T. Chappell, May 23, 1936
Jerry W. Duggan, Oct. 14, 1936
William B. Haskins, July 8, 1954
ELLISTON - Established on November 15, 1902. Discontinued on July
30, 1904. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Ellis W. Bullock, November 15, 1902
Wiley K. Stuckey, Oct. 22, 1903
ELMWOOD - Established on Sept. 7, 1893. Discontinued on July 15,
1899. Re-established on Feb. 15, 1900. Discontinued on Sept. 29,
1900. Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Robert D. Dixon, Sept. 7, 1893
Floyd Nelson, May 5, 1897
Lemuel H. Kitchens, Dec. 27, 1897
V. Dixon, Dec. 5, 1898
James B. Duggan, Feb. 15, 1900
GARBUTT - Established on Sept. 28, 1892. Discontinued on Sept. 29,
1900. Mail was ordered sent to Spann. Re-established on Feb. 15,
1901. Discontinued on Oct. 15, 1902. Mail was ordered sent to
Meeks, Johnson County.
Postmasters:
Thomas W. Garbutt, Sept. 28, 1892
Jefferson T. Flanders, Feb. 15, 1901
GRIMSLEY - Established on August 4, 1891. Discontinued on December
14, 1901. Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Edwin O. Powell, August 4, 1891
Robert G. Yates, April 6, 1892
Robert R. McLendon, Dec. 19, 1894
John M. Williams, Apr. 22, 1895
Leander A. Harden. Feb. 15, 1898
Sallie Hattaway, Feb. 8, 1901
HARLOW - Established in March, 1895. Discontinued on Feb. 28,
1902.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Columbia Lee, March, 1895
HATOFF - Established on June 6, 1883. Discontinued on July 30, 1904.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Eugene Thornburg, June 6, 1883
Jasper McCray, Oct. 11, 1892
Jerry M. Lowery, Dec. 15, 1897
John J. Barton, May 2, 1900
INEZ - Established on May 7, 1883. Discontinued on April 21, 1884.
Mail was ordered sent to Reedy Springs.
Postmasters:
James R. Shepard, May 7, 1883
ITVILLE - Established on July 14, 1897. Discontinued on Dec. 31,
1897. Mail was ordered sent to Lovett.
Postmasters:
William L. Pridgen, July 14, 1897
KEMPER - Established on Oct. 6, 1902. Discontinued on April 30,
1903. Mail was ordered sent to Rockledge.
Postmasters:
James T. Coleman, Oct. 6, 1902
KEWANEE - Established on June 21, 1898. Discontinued on May 31,
1904. Mail was ordered sent to Dudley.
Postmasters:
Carrie B. Rude, June 21, 1898
Carrie B. Gibbs, Nov. 21, 1903
LAURENS HILL - Established on Aug. 20, 1835. Discontinued on Aug.
25, 1868. Re-established on Jan. 3, 1870. Discontinued on Sept.
14, 1903. Mail was ordered sent to Montrose.
Postmasters:
David Harvard, Aug. 20, 1835
Mary A. Harvard, Feb. 12, 1867
William C. Harvard, Nov. 3, 1870
David J. Harvard, June 27, 1871
Quinn L. Harvard, Sept. 26, 1876
Willis F. Harvard, Oct. 21, 1878
Isaac J. Duggan, June 12, 1889
Quinn L. Harvard, Aug. 25, 1890
Martha Walker, June 2, 1893
Isaac J. Duggan, March 29, 1901
LIME SINK - Established on May 14, 1857, Discontinued on March 29,
1860, Re-established on June 28, 1893, Discontinued on Jan. 12,
1894. Mail was ordered sent to Reedy Springs.
Postmasters:
Henry M. Burch, May 14, 1857
Warren T. Kinchen, June 28, 1893
LOLLIE - Established on Oct. 15, 1892.
Postmasters:
Henry E. Pritchett, Oct. 15, 1892
George E. Pritchett, Dec. 10, 1894
Dennis Smith, Jan. 21, 1904
Ira H. Johnson, Jan 28, 1913
Lucian Wynn, May 22, 1920
Loran L. Thigpen, Oct. 23, 1936
Annie L. Thigpen, Dec. 28, 1936
Anne W. Spivey, March 25, 1944
LOVETT - Established on Oct. 12, 1884. Name changed to Lovett
from Lovet on May 11, 1885.
Postmasters:
John M. Hutchinson, Oct. 12, 1884
William V. Davis, Oct. 12, 1889
John R. Crabb, Jan. 28, 1890
Marmaduke N. Killebrew, Aug. 21, 1897
John C. Marchman, Dec. 28, 1903.
David A. Moorman, Oct. 29, 1914.
Estelle Jones, May 18, 1921
Ruby Jackson, Aug. 28, 1924
Edward T. Fausett, Nov. 17, 1933
Mrs. Earnest Moorman, Dec, 20, 1933
Elizabeth L. Kight, Dec. 31, 1965
MAGGIE - Established on Sept. 29, 1893. Discontinued on Feb. 15,
1895.
Mail was ordered sent to Westbrook.
Postmasters:
William Henry Warren, Sept. 29, 1893
Henry R. Bedingfield, Feb. 5, 1894
MARTHA - Established on June 6, 1895. Discontinued on Jan. 27,
1898. Mail was ordered sent to Tweed.
Postmasters:
John W. Cox, June 6, 1895
C.W. Warnock, Dec. 17, 1897
MONTROSE - Established on Oct. 28, 1891.
Postmasters:
James M. Scarborough, Oct. 28, 1891
Vance L. Chappell, March 6, 1899
Charlie Stubbs, Nov. 16, 1899
Eddie L. Wade, July 16, 1901
John T. Melton, June 4, 1907
Tommie B. Melton, Sept. 13, 1910
Clinton C. Wade, March 16, 1914
Julia E. Custer, Feb. 16, 1933
Susie G. Ellington, Jan. 9, 1961
MULLIS - Established on June 17, 1905. Name changed to Cadwell
on Aug. 17, 1908.
Postmasters:
Hiram Mullis, June 17, 1905.
Arthur W. Mullis, July 14, 1908
MUSGROVE - Established on Sept. 13, 1903. Discontinued on
December 15, 1905. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Madison Alcorn, Sept. 13, 1903.
Elijah Evans, March 3, 1899
Sarah E. Warren, Jan. 20, 1900
Elijah Evans, Nov. 29, 1904
NAMELESS - Established on Feb. 12, 1886. Discontinued on Dec. 31,
1901. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
James R. Shepard, Feb. 12, 1886
Jeremiah Ussry, March 15, 1899
ORIANNA - Established May 16, 1899. Discontinued on Dec. 15, 1904.
Mail was ordered sent to Adrian.
Postmasters:
Lucien Thigpen, May 16, 1899
Dora Thigpen, Mar. 8, 1900
PEARLY - Established on May 20, 1887. Discontinued on July 1904.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
William L. Green, May 20, 1887
Walton L. Powell, Jan. 7, 1888
Thomas D. Warren, Oct. 23, 1893
Loula E. Robertson, Jan. 28, 1898
John M. Robertson, Oct. 10, 1901
O.T. Brantley, May 2, 1904
PICCIOLA - Established Jan. 30, 1879. Name changed to Valambrosa
on June 15, 1889.
Postmasters:
Jeremiah H. Yopp, Jan. 30, 1879
John W. Horn, April 7, 1884
Jeremiah H. Yopp, May 24, 1886
PINEHILL - Established Oct. 14, 1899. Discontinued Sept. 29, 1900.
Mail
was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Leah L. Hughes, Oct. 14, 1899
REEDY SPRINGS - Established on Oct. 27, 1873. Discontinued on Dec.
31, 1901. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
John T. Rogers, Oct. 27, 1873
Adomiem? J. Stapleton, Nov. 29, 1892
John T. Rogers, Oct. 30, 1895
Lee B. Horn, Jan. 9, 1897
RENTZ - Established on March 11, 1905
Postmasters:
John S. Edmondson, March 11, 1905
General M. Knight, Oct. 29, 1914
Lovett N. Mullis, Nov. 27, 1920
Thurman Grinstead, Aug. 28, 1919
Olin D. Barron, Sept. 10, 1923
Thurman Grinstead, Aug. 28, 1924
James Chambless, Jan. 19, 1935
Billy W. Payne, Nov. 30, 1966
ROCKLEDGE - Established Sept. 6, 1899
Postmasters:
William Smith, Sept. 6, 1899
William P. Curry, Jan. 8, 1900
Richard V. Odom, May 13, 1907
William J. Jordan, Dec. 28, 1900
John B. Thigpen, Nov. 14, 1900
James O. Pullen, Jan. 30, 1901
John R. Hester, July 6, 1904
James M. Williams, April 3, 1912
Lawrence M. Williams, March 30, 1914
Frank B. Flanders, June 17, 1918
Mary B. Wynn, Jan 1, 1949
SHEWMAKE - Established on April 27, 1900. Discontinued on Jan. 15,
1903. Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
George A. McKay
SPRINGHAVEN - Established on June 3, 1890. Discontinued on June
29, 1907. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Japheth Rawls, June 3, 1890
Wilson Bobbitt, Dec. 11, 1897
Daniel G. Hughes, Jr., April 28, 1903
John G. Thomas, July 2, 1904
John F. Willis, Nov. 27, 1906
THAIRDALE - Established March 5, 1900. Discontinued on April 15,
1902. Mail was ordered sent to Rockledge.
Postmasters:
William R. Harrell, March 5, 1900
TURKEY - Established on Jan. 21, 1884. Mail was ordered sent to
Dublin on June 6, 1889.
Postmasters:
Dennis McLendon, Jan. 21, 1884.
TWEED - Established on April 3, 1880. Discontinued on July 30, 1904.
Mail was ordered sent to Rockledge
Postmasters:
Rufus Beacham, April 3, 1880
W.B. May, April 13, 1886
John S. Drew, Sr., May 1, 1890
UNIT - Established on April 12, 1900, Discontinued on April 15, 1902.
Mail was ordered sent to Omecron, Wilkinson County.
Postmasters:
Thomas J. Blackshear, Apr. 12, 1900
VALAMBROSA - See PICCIOLA - Established on June 15, 1889.
Discontinued on Aug. 15, 1899. Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Jerimiah H. Yopp, June 15, 1889
Nathaniel D. Chandler, March 15, 1892
WALKEE - Established on July 21, 1887. Discontinued on July 30, 1904.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Samuel L. Miller, July 21, 1887
WESTBROOK - Established on April 4, 1890. Discontinued on Feb. 15,
1902. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Elijah A. Butler, April 4, 1890
WYLLY - Established on Feb. 5, 1879. Discontinued on Sept. 29, 1900.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
John A. Weaver, Feb. 5, 1879
William G. Weaver, Jan. 5, 1880
Charles J. Hilliard, Oct. 25, 1880
SOURCES:
History of Laurens County, Georgia, Vol. 1, 1807-1941, Bertha
Sheppard Hart, 1941, pp. 192-197.
Georgia Post Offices Register, Microfilm Reel, # 3176,
Washington Memorial Library, Macon, Georgia.
Compiled by Scott B. Thompson, Sr., February 1, 2003
ARTHUR - Established on June 29, 1880. Discontinued on April 30,
1908. Mail was ordered sent to Depue, Dodge County.
Postmasters:
Daniel H. Burch, June 29, 1880
D. Cabie, Jan. 3, 1884
Arthur L. Burch, jan. 21, 1884
John Burch, April 9, 1884
C.M. Clark, Sept. 22, 1900
BATSON - Established on September 27, 1905. Discontinued on Oct. 30,
1909. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Benjamin F. Duggan, Sept. 27, 1905
John F. Ridley, May 21, 1907
Joseph E. Rogers, Feb. 21, 1908
BAY CREEK - Established on Nov. 17, 1851. Discontinued on Feb. 18,
1854.
Michael Livingston, Nov. 17, 1851
William Clark, Feb. 2, 1852
BENDER - Established on Nov. 18, 1891. Discontinued on Aug. 31,
1905. Mail was ordered sent to Dudley.
Postmasters:
William Gilbert, Nov. 18, 1891
Jonathan Gilbert, Dec. 14, 1901
BEULAH - Established on Jan. 24, 1884. Discontinued on Oct. 31,
1904. Mail was ordered sent to Mt. Vernon, Montgomery Co.
Postmasters:
John F. Currie, Jan. 24, 1884
Rollin E. Currie, Feb. 2, 1903
Washington L. Currie, Nov. 19, 1903
BLACKSHEAR'S MILL - Established on July 5, 1878. Discontinued on
Dec. 17, 1879.
Postmasters:
Josiah Horn, July 5, 1878
David S. Blackshear, April 28, 1879
BRANCHVILLE - Established on Feb. 15, 1882. Discontinued on July
26, 1889. Mail was ordered sent to Condor.
Postmasters:
Lofton M. Smith, Feb. 15, 1882
W.B. ?, 1888
BREWTON - Originally named Dodo. Name changed to Brewton June
25, 1894. Discontinued on May 31, 1958.
Postmasters:
James H. Pullen, June 25, 1894
Edna C. Crump, July 31, 1897
Edna C. Lanier, April 8, 1899
William C. Sessions, Oct. 18, 1903
Callie O. McCarty, June 10, 1910
James N. Garette, Feb. 12, 1915
Ila N. Pope, Oct. 27, 1915
John B. Keen, May 23, 1917 (declined)
Thusia Wynne, Aug. 25, 1917
Chloe R. Maddox, Nov. 12, 1943
Irene Jordan, May 23, 1956
BRUTUS - Established on Feb. 18, 1889. Discontinued on Sept. 30,
1890. Mail was ordered sent to Regnant, Johnson County.
Postmasters:
James A. Beatty, Feb. 18, 1889
BUCKEYE - Established on January 15, 1833. Discontinued on June 12,
1867.
Postmasters:
Alex Meriwether, Jan. 10, 1833
John S. Martin, Jan. 4, 1836
Joshua E. Hightower, Jan. 23, 1839
James Bush, March 5, 1839
Nathan Tucker, Aug. 16, 1852
BUCKHORN - Established on May 1, 1879. Discontinued on September
14, 1903. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Andrew J. Thompson, May 1, 1879
H.A.? Thompson, Jan. 16, 1882
Wm. B.C. Fowler, July 24, 1889
Daniel S. Pope, Jan. 3, 1890
John E. Lord, Dec. 23, 1895
CADWELL - Established on Aug. 17, 1908 (Changed from Mullis)
Postmasters:
Arthur W. Mullis, Aug. 17, 1908
Bennett J. Bedingfield, Sept. 21, 1910
Joseph A. Warren, April 17, 1912
Homer Mullis, Oct. 29, 1914
Hiram Mullis, July 24, 1918
John B. Bedingfield, Sept. 7, 1935
Belie B. Hicks, Jan. 24, 1936
Katherine F. Underwood, May 31, 1943
CATLIN - Established on May 23, 1902. Discontinued on May 30, 1907.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Julius A. Dunn, May 23, 1902
W. Bartey snow, Jan. 30, 1905
John B. Keen, Feb. 2, 1907
CONDOR - Established on September 17, 1878. Discontinued on June
15, 1917. Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Dennis Kea, Sept. 17, 1878
Charles L. Holmes, Feb. 12, 1882
Columbus W. Brack, Oct. 30, 1888
Fred D. Beall, July 18, 1890
Henry F. Maund, Nov. 15, 1892
Fred D. Beall, Oct. 21, 1896
Mamie Bell, Jan. 30, 1904
Alfred Mimbs, July 2, 1908
Lewis C. Pope, Oct. 27, 1910
DEXTER - Established on Jan. 31, 1890.
Postmasters:
James H. Witherington, Jan. 31, 1890
John White, March 20, 1894
John A. Clark, Nov. 25, 1895
William C. Crubbs, April 12, 1898
Henry F. Maund, April 1, 1899
Herbert King, March 3, 1904
John A. Clark, March 17, 1922
William C. Crubbs, May 20, 1926
Herbert King, May 10, 1926.
James E. New, April 24, 1934
Durrell W. Knight, Augl 31, 1934
Doris S. Flanders, Oct. 31, 1959
Roy C. Knight, June 15, 1962
DODO - Established on July 1, 1884. Name changed to Brewton on June
25, 1894.
Postmasters:
Henry T. Jones, July 1, 1884.
Washington Wells, Dec. 18, 1884
George T. Mason, April 7, 1886
James H. Pullen, June 29, 1892
DONALDSON - Established on Feb. 7, 1887. Discontinued on Jan. 15,
1895. Mail was ordered sent to Lovett.
Postmasters:
John S. Keen, Feb. 7, 1887
DUBLIN - Established on July 1, 1811.
Jonathan Sawyer, July 1, 1811
William W. Talbot, April 24, 1817
Wright H. Coleman, April 8, 1818
Thomas Moore, July 19, 1822
Henry B. Hathaway, Jan. 31, 1829
Marcus Gilbert, Jan. 31, 1836
Charles B. Guyton, Dec. 13, 1836
Francis Thomas, July 10, 1840
Joel E. Perry, Jan. 30, 1860
John J. Keen, Oct. 8, 1866
Henry Herman, July 6, 1869
Maggie Hester, Oct. 17, 1870
Isaac T. Keen, Feb. 27, 1872
Josiah S. Horn, Feb. 19, 1875
Isaac T. Keen, Dec. 31, 1877
Mercer Haynes, May 26, 1880
Bryant A. Herndon, Jan. 3, 1881
Thomas M. Hightower, Aug. 31, 1881
William P. Hicks, Jan. 25, 1887
Clark Grier, June 2, 1892
Vivian L. Stanley, Dec. 10, 1893
Erwin E. Stone, July 12 1898
Clark Grier, June 2, 1892
Mrs. George B. Grier, Sept. 8, 1908
Vivian L. Stanley, Aug. 15, 1913
Edwin R. Orr, May 23, 1922
Moses Josiah Guyton, June 9, 1934
Hartley Hobbs, Dec. 30, 1966
Dave Walker
DUDLEY - Established on Oct. 9, 1891. Name changed from Dudly to
Dudley on Feb. 12, 1907.
Postmasters:
Elsie Walker, Oct. 9, 1891
Benjamin F. Walker, Aug. 3, 1895
Thomas H. Hooks, July 24, 1897
Jerry W. Duggan, Oct. 29, 1914
Allen P. Whipple, July 31, 1918
Pearl E. Pierce Duke, May 10, 1923
Worthen T. Chappell, May 23, 1936
Jerry W. Duggan, Oct. 14, 1936
William B. Haskins, July 8, 1954
ELLISTON - Established on November 15, 1902. Discontinued on July
30, 1904. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Ellis W. Bullock, November 15, 1902
Wiley K. Stuckey, Oct. 22, 1903
ELMWOOD - Established on Sept. 7, 1893. Discontinued on July 15,
1899. Re-established on Feb. 15, 1900. Discontinued on Sept. 29,
1900. Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Robert D. Dixon, Sept. 7, 1893
Floyd Nelson, May 5, 1897
Lemuel H. Kitchens, Dec. 27, 1897
V. Dixon, Dec. 5, 1898
James B. Duggan, Feb. 15, 1900
GARBUTT - Established on Sept. 28, 1892. Discontinued on Sept. 29,
1900. Mail was ordered sent to Spann. Re-established on Feb. 15,
1901. Discontinued on Oct. 15, 1902. Mail was ordered sent to
Meeks, Johnson County.
Postmasters:
Thomas W. Garbutt, Sept. 28, 1892
Jefferson T. Flanders, Feb. 15, 1901
GRIMSLEY - Established on August 4, 1891. Discontinued on December
14, 1901. Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Edwin O. Powell, August 4, 1891
Robert G. Yates, April 6, 1892
Robert R. McLendon, Dec. 19, 1894
John M. Williams, Apr. 22, 1895
Leander A. Harden. Feb. 15, 1898
Sallie Hattaway, Feb. 8, 1901
HARLOW - Established in March, 1895. Discontinued on Feb. 28,
1902.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Columbia Lee, March, 1895
HATOFF - Established on June 6, 1883. Discontinued on July 30, 1904.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Eugene Thornburg, June 6, 1883
Jasper McCray, Oct. 11, 1892
Jerry M. Lowery, Dec. 15, 1897
John J. Barton, May 2, 1900
INEZ - Established on May 7, 1883. Discontinued on April 21, 1884.
Mail was ordered sent to Reedy Springs.
Postmasters:
James R. Shepard, May 7, 1883
ITVILLE - Established on July 14, 1897. Discontinued on Dec. 31,
1897. Mail was ordered sent to Lovett.
Postmasters:
William L. Pridgen, July 14, 1897
KEMPER - Established on Oct. 6, 1902. Discontinued on April 30,
1903. Mail was ordered sent to Rockledge.
Postmasters:
James T. Coleman, Oct. 6, 1902
KEWANEE - Established on June 21, 1898. Discontinued on May 31,
1904. Mail was ordered sent to Dudley.
Postmasters:
Carrie B. Rude, June 21, 1898
Carrie B. Gibbs, Nov. 21, 1903
LAURENS HILL - Established on Aug. 20, 1835. Discontinued on Aug.
25, 1868. Re-established on Jan. 3, 1870. Discontinued on Sept.
14, 1903. Mail was ordered sent to Montrose.
Postmasters:
David Harvard, Aug. 20, 1835
Mary A. Harvard, Feb. 12, 1867
William C. Harvard, Nov. 3, 1870
David J. Harvard, June 27, 1871
Quinn L. Harvard, Sept. 26, 1876
Willis F. Harvard, Oct. 21, 1878
Isaac J. Duggan, June 12, 1889
Quinn L. Harvard, Aug. 25, 1890
Martha Walker, June 2, 1893
Isaac J. Duggan, March 29, 1901
LIME SINK - Established on May 14, 1857, Discontinued on March 29,
1860, Re-established on June 28, 1893, Discontinued on Jan. 12,
1894. Mail was ordered sent to Reedy Springs.
Postmasters:
Henry M. Burch, May 14, 1857
Warren T. Kinchen, June 28, 1893
LOLLIE - Established on Oct. 15, 1892.
Postmasters:
Henry E. Pritchett, Oct. 15, 1892
George E. Pritchett, Dec. 10, 1894
Dennis Smith, Jan. 21, 1904
Ira H. Johnson, Jan 28, 1913
Lucian Wynn, May 22, 1920
Loran L. Thigpen, Oct. 23, 1936
Annie L. Thigpen, Dec. 28, 1936
Anne W. Spivey, March 25, 1944
LOVETT - Established on Oct. 12, 1884. Name changed to Lovett
from Lovet on May 11, 1885.
Postmasters:
John M. Hutchinson, Oct. 12, 1884
William V. Davis, Oct. 12, 1889
John R. Crabb, Jan. 28, 1890
Marmaduke N. Killebrew, Aug. 21, 1897
John C. Marchman, Dec. 28, 1903.
David A. Moorman, Oct. 29, 1914.
Estelle Jones, May 18, 1921
Ruby Jackson, Aug. 28, 1924
Edward T. Fausett, Nov. 17, 1933
Mrs. Earnest Moorman, Dec, 20, 1933
Elizabeth L. Kight, Dec. 31, 1965
MAGGIE - Established on Sept. 29, 1893. Discontinued on Feb. 15,
1895.
Mail was ordered sent to Westbrook.
Postmasters:
William Henry Warren, Sept. 29, 1893
Henry R. Bedingfield, Feb. 5, 1894
MARTHA - Established on June 6, 1895. Discontinued on Jan. 27,
1898. Mail was ordered sent to Tweed.
Postmasters:
John W. Cox, June 6, 1895
C.W. Warnock, Dec. 17, 1897
MONTROSE - Established on Oct. 28, 1891.
Postmasters:
James M. Scarborough, Oct. 28, 1891
Vance L. Chappell, March 6, 1899
Charlie Stubbs, Nov. 16, 1899
Eddie L. Wade, July 16, 1901
John T. Melton, June 4, 1907
Tommie B. Melton, Sept. 13, 1910
Clinton C. Wade, March 16, 1914
Julia E. Custer, Feb. 16, 1933
Susie G. Ellington, Jan. 9, 1961
MULLIS - Established on June 17, 1905. Name changed to Cadwell
on Aug. 17, 1908.
Postmasters:
Hiram Mullis, June 17, 1905.
Arthur W. Mullis, July 14, 1908
MUSGROVE - Established on Sept. 13, 1903. Discontinued on
December 15, 1905. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Madison Alcorn, Sept. 13, 1903.
Elijah Evans, March 3, 1899
Sarah E. Warren, Jan. 20, 1900
Elijah Evans, Nov. 29, 1904
NAMELESS - Established on Feb. 12, 1886. Discontinued on Dec. 31,
1901. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
James R. Shepard, Feb. 12, 1886
Jeremiah Ussry, March 15, 1899
ORIANNA - Established May 16, 1899. Discontinued on Dec. 15, 1904.
Mail was ordered sent to Adrian.
Postmasters:
Lucien Thigpen, May 16, 1899
Dora Thigpen, Mar. 8, 1900
PEARLY - Established on May 20, 1887. Discontinued on July 1904.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
William L. Green, May 20, 1887
Walton L. Powell, Jan. 7, 1888
Thomas D. Warren, Oct. 23, 1893
Loula E. Robertson, Jan. 28, 1898
John M. Robertson, Oct. 10, 1901
O.T. Brantley, May 2, 1904
PICCIOLA - Established Jan. 30, 1879. Name changed to Valambrosa
on June 15, 1889.
Postmasters:
Jeremiah H. Yopp, Jan. 30, 1879
John W. Horn, April 7, 1884
Jeremiah H. Yopp, May 24, 1886
PINEHILL - Established Oct. 14, 1899. Discontinued Sept. 29, 1900.
was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Leah L. Hughes, Oct. 14, 1899
REEDY SPRINGS - Established on Oct. 27, 1873. Discontinued on Dec.
31, 1901. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
John T. Rogers, Oct. 27, 1873
Adomiem? J. Stapleton, Nov. 29, 1892
John T. Rogers, Oct. 30, 1895
Lee B. Horn, Jan. 9, 1897
RENTZ - Established on March 11, 1905
Postmasters:
John S. Edmondson, March 11, 1905
General M. Knight, Oct. 29, 1914
Lovett N. Mullis, Nov. 27, 1920
Thurman Grinstead, Aug. 28, 1919
Olin D. Barron, Sept. 10, 1923
Thurman Grinstead, Aug. 28, 1924
James Chambless, Jan. 19, 1935
Billy W. Payne, Nov. 30, 1966
ROCKLEDGE - Established Sept. 6, 1899
Postmasters:
William Smith, Sept. 6, 1899
William P. Curry, Jan. 8, 1900
Richard V. Odom, May 13, 1907
William J. Jordan, Dec. 28, 1900
John B. Thigpen, Nov. 14, 1900
James O. Pullen, Jan. 30, 1901
John R. Hester, July 6, 1904
James M. Williams, April 3, 1912
Lawrence M. Williams, March 30, 1914
Frank B. Flanders, June 17, 1918
Mary B. Wynn, Jan 1, 1949
SHEWMAKE - Established on April 27, 1900. Discontinued on Jan. 15,
1903. Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
George A. McKay
SPRINGHAVEN - Established on June 3, 1890. Discontinued on June
29, 1907. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Japheth Rawls, June 3, 1890
Wilson Bobbitt, Dec. 11, 1897
Daniel G. Hughes, Jr., April 28, 1903
John G. Thomas, July 2, 1904
John F. Willis, Nov. 27, 1906
THAIRDALE - Established March 5, 1900. Discontinued on April 15,
1902. Mail was ordered sent to Rockledge.
Postmasters:
William R. Harrell, March 5, 1900
TURKEY - Established on Jan. 21, 1884. Mail was ordered sent to
Dublin on June 6, 1889.
Postmasters:
Dennis McLendon, Jan. 21, 1884.
TWEED - Established on April 3, 1880. Discontinued on July 30, 1904.
Mail was ordered sent to Rockledge
Postmasters:
Rufus Beacham, April 3, 1880
W.B. May, April 13, 1886
John S. Drew, Sr., May 1, 1890
UNIT - Established on April 12, 1900, Discontinued on April 15, 1902.
Mail was ordered sent to Omecron, Wilkinson County.
Postmasters:
Thomas J. Blackshear, Apr. 12, 1900
VALAMBROSA - See PICCIOLA - Established on June 15, 1889.
Discontinued on Aug. 15, 1899. Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Jerimiah H. Yopp, June 15, 1889
Nathaniel D. Chandler, March 15, 1892
WALKEE - Established on July 21, 1887. Discontinued on July 30, 1904.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
Samuel L. Miller, July 21, 1887
WESTBROOK - Established on April 4, 1890. Discontinued on Feb. 15,
1902. Mail was ordered sent to Dexter.
Postmasters:
Elijah A. Butler, April 4, 1890
WYLLY - Established on Feb. 5, 1879. Discontinued on Sept. 29, 1900.
Mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Postmasters:
John A. Weaver, Feb. 5, 1879
William G. Weaver, Jan. 5, 1880
Charles J. Hilliard, Oct. 25, 1880
SOURCES:
History of Laurens County, Georgia, Vol. 1, 1807-1941, Bertha
Sheppard Hart, 1941, pp. 192-197.
Georgia Post Offices Register, Microfilm Reel, # 3176,
Washington Memorial Library, Macon, Georgia.
Compiled by Scott B. Thompson, Sr., February 1, 2003
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