January 28, 1840
Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED. At Mount Meigs, Ala. on the 19th ult., by the Rev. T. W. Dorman, Lugene B. Pelot, Esq., formerly of Savannah, to Miss Sarah M. Shellman, of Sparta, Ga.

February 4, 1840
Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED. In Sparta, on the 14th ult, by the Rev. James R. Thomas, Mr. Abner A. Cook, to Miss Mary C. daughter of John J. Berry Esq.

February 18, 1840
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, On Tuesday, the 11th inst., by Harvey Mullins, Esq., Col. C. Ross, to Miss MARY ANN VAUL, all of Hancock county, Georgia.

April 7, 1840
Macon Georgia Telegraph
DIED. In Sparta, on the 11th ult., Mr. Nathan Leeds, native of Massachusetts, and for a number of years a citizen of Augusta.

March 17, 1840
Southern Recorder
Married, in Greene county, on the 20th February last, by the Rev. Lewis Hatten, Col. IRBY HUDSON, of Hancock county, to Miss MARTHA W. WALKER, of Greene county.

May 5, 1840
Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED. On the 19th April, by John G. Coleman, Esq., Mr. William G. Tyus, to MissMary Jackson, daughter of Thomas Jackson, all of Hancock county.

November 3, 1840
Southern Recorder
 ~excerpt~  Departed this life, on Thursday evening, the 29th October, at Sparta, Ga., of pulmonary consumption, Mrs. SARAH LOUISA CRAWFORD, consort of Major Joel Crawford. She was a native of Halifax county, North Carolina, but for the last twenty years a resident of Sparta.

November 10, 1840
Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED, In Sparta, on the 27th ult., by the Rev. Wesley Arnold, Mr. William J. Eve, of Richmond county, to Miss Philoclea E. Casey, of the former place.

November 17, 1840
Southern Recorder
~excerpt~ DIED, on the 30th of October, at the resident of her grandmother, in Hancock county, after an illness of two months, MARY RUTHERFORD, youngest daughter of W. and Catherine L. Simmons, aged two years and two months.

December 8, 1840
The Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED. In Hancock county, on the 19th ult. by Francis S. Colley, Esq. Mr. Simon T. Viele, late of Seneca county, N.Y. to Miss Eliza Mapp, daughter of Robert H. Mapp, Esq. of said county.

December 22, 1840
Macon Georgia Telegraph
A HOG SWEEPSTAKE,
To come off in Sparta, Hancock county, on the 24th of December, 1842, between Pigs littered from the 15th of November, 1840 to the 15th of January, 1841. Three or more to make a race. Free for any Pig, of the proper age, in the state. Entries to close on the 1st day of August next. Entrance, the Pig. The winner to have all the entries.- The Pig weighing the greatest number of pounds net for the quantity of food consumed-a strict account of which must be kept-shall be the winner. The judges of the race-Dr. Wm. Terrell, Gen. B. J. Winn, J. B. Ransone, Esq., Col. N. C. Sayre, and J. H. Edwards, Sparta.
  R. S. Hardwick enters a Berkshire Pig, out of Cold Mistress, by Billy Berkshire, and will bet a pair of Berkshire pigs, tht his entry will beat any other named entry.
  All editors friendly to hog raising and opposed to the yearly drain of money from our state, for pork brought from other states, will please give the above sweepstake a few insertions. Dec. 22

December 29, 1840
Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED,  On the 15th inst., by Geo. W. Culver, Esq., Mr. Thos. H.  Latimer, to Miss Elizabeth A. Gonder, all of Hancock county.

The following course of studies will be taught in the Institution:
Senior Class-Chemistry, Logic, Moral and Political Philosophy, French, Latin, Greek, and Mathematics. $20 per term of five months.
Junior Class - Grammar, Geography, History, Arithmetic, and Popular Philosophy, $16 per term.
Primary Class - The Rudiments of the English Language, Spelling, Reading and Writing, &c., $12.50 per term.
Ornamental Branches extra.
Music - Piano Forte, Guitar, Singing and thorough Bass, $25 per term.
A small extra charge will be made for fuel and the use of the Instruments.
   The public will observe that the Trustees have reduced the prices to the lowest rates, to suit the hardness of the times.
   Board can be obtained in the village on reasonable terms, say $10 per month including washing.

WM. H SAYRE,
B. J. WYNN
ELI MANSFIELD
E. M. PENDLETON
JOS. B. GONDER
Trustees
P.S. Payments will be expected at the end of each term.
Sparta, January 5, 1841

February 16, 1841
Macon Telegraph
THE MURDER NEAR SPARTA
Following are the particulars of a most shock murder that was perpetrated in the vicinity of Sparta, Hancock county, within one mile and half of that village. The murder occurred on Thursday last.
  After supper, Mr. Robert Petigrew, the overseer of Maj. R. Mitchell, left home, as he stated, to go to town for some tobacco, at about 8 or 9 o'clock-Next morning Mr. Petigrew was found near the road side dead, evidently to have been murdered. A jury was immediately called, and an inquest held. On the examination of the body, the skull was found to be fractured in two or three places. Suspicion soon rested upon Maj. Mitchell's negroes. - A number of citizens were detached to arrest the negroes, and other citizens to search the negro houses, boxes, trunks, &c. The club used by the murderer was found within 40 or 50 feet of the dead body, with some of the hair of Mr. P. on it. Three of the negroes were soon placed in jail; and about the same time the watch of Mr. P. was found, by the party who had been  directed to search, in the box of the negroes who had been secured. Mr. P. had left home with a watch in his pocket. The watch was shown to the negro into whose box it had been found, and he confessed his guilt, and now awaits his trial which is to take place this day.
 Many stages have been robbed, for some time past, of trunks, &c. in the very vicinity where this murder has been committed. A general search is now being made and progressing. Already many of the articles, known to have belonged to stage passengers who have been robbed, have been found; and it is now hoped that the mystery which has so long hung over the depredations committed in that neighborhood, will soon be developed, and that the villainies no long perpetrated will be exposed, and the perpetrators brought to justice. Augusta Constitutinist, 4th inst.
  The negro man Riker was tried in Sparta on Thursday last, for the murder of Mr. Petigrew, and found guilty. He was sentenced to be hung on Friday the 12th inst. We have been informed that he has made some confessions, implicating a white man in the neighborhood, and divulged plans laid to take the lives of two white men supposed to have money; one of whom in a Kentuckian, and the other a citizen of Sparta. It seems that the Kentuckian had been apprised of the design against his life and money, and was upon his guard. He is yet in Sparta, and states that he had observed signs that satisfied him, that an attack upon him had been mediated, and the the information communicated had been of service to him.
  We are also informed that examination and investigation were still going on in Sparta, and that some more goods have been discovered, known to have belonged to stage passengers. - Ib.

April 13, 1841
The Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED.  At Rock Miills, Hancock county, on the 30th ult, by Rev. D. N. Maddux, William Shivers, Esq. to Mrs. Sarah Ann Beddo, formerly Miss Furman, of New York, but now both of the former place.

April 27, 1841
The Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED.     In Hancock county, on the 13th inst., by Geo. W. Culver, Esq. Mr. Hamlin C. Alford, to Miss Emily A. Howell, all of said county.

April 27, 1841
The Macon Georgia Telegraph
DIED. In Hancock county, on the 14th inst., Mr. All C. Moore, in the 23d year of his age.

May 11, 1841
Macon Weekly Telegraph
MARRIED. On the 22d of April, in Autauga county, Ala., by the Rev. Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Wm. J. Sasnett, of Sparta, Geo., to Miss Sarah H. Hall, youngest daughter of the Hon. Boling Hall, deceased, formerly of Geo.

May 25, 1841
The Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED.    In Augusta, Ga. on the 20th inst. by the Rev. Wm. T. Brantley, Gen. Tully Vinson, of Hancock county, to Mrs. Ann B. Anderson, of Augusta, Ga.

July 19, 1841
Augusta Chronicle
~excerpt
Died in Sparta, on the morning of the 12th inst., Mrs. Louisa C. Sayre, consort of Mr. William H. Sayre.

September 7, 1841
Macon Georgia Telegraph
DIED, In Milledgeville, on the 29th ult, Dr. Charles Eaton Haynes, of Sparta, formerly a Representative in Congress of the United States.

March 8, 1842
The Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED. In Sparta, on the 23th ult., by the Rev. Mr. Talley, Mr. William B. Hunt, to Miss Ann Eliza Alfriend.

November 22, 1842
Macon Telegraph
MARRIED, On the 8th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Wier, Jasper M. Gonder, Esq., of Sparta, Ga. to MissMary H. Smythe, of Washington, Wilkes.

December 8, 1842
Augusta Chronicle
ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER GONE.
  ~excerpts~Died, at his residence in Hancock county, on the 12th of November, JOHN HILL, in the 93d year of his age.
 ...He fought at Brandywine, at Trenton, was present at the taking of the Hessians; he was at Augusta, Ga., pursued the British to Savannah, was present at the siege of Charleston, where being taken prisoner, he miraculously escaped and joined Col. Washington at Cape Fear. His service in the Revolution was 2 years in the infantry and 3 in the cavalry.
  Mr. Hill was a native of Maryland, and removed 35 or 40 years ago to Georgia, upon the place where he died. He has left a wife, an active, sprightly matron of 82 years, and five children......

December 20, 1842
Federal Union
   ~excerpt~ Departed this life on the 1st inst., after a short but painful struggle, Miss MARTHA CAROLINE BROWN, in the 15th year of her age and daughter of Richmond and Martha P. Brown, of Hancock county.

December 20, 1842
Southern Recorder
   DIED, at her residence, in Hancock County, Ga., on the 8th instants, after a few hours illness,MRS. MARY RABUN, widow of the late Gov. Rabun of this State-aged 68 years.

February 7, 1843
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, On Wednesday evening the 25th ult. by William Rachels, Esq. Mr. LITTLEBERRY LONG to Miss CHARITY RACHELS, all of Hancock county.

March 21, 1843
Southern Recorder
~excerpt~ Departed this life on the morning of the 5th inst. at the residence of  Dr. Connel, Mount Zion, JOHN W. SATTERLEE, Esq. Mr. S. was a native of one of the Northern States. He came to this county in the year 1821, and applied himself to the study and practice of law. Hence he removed to New Orleans and Natchez, where he resided until his return to Sparta in March last. ...disease, consumption.......
HANCOCK, February 9, 1843.

May 9, 1843
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, On the first day of May, by the Rev. William Arnold, the Rev. MICAJAH THOMAS, of Hancock, to Mrs. TEMPERANCE JARRATT, of Jones County.

May 23, 1843
Southern Recorder
DIED, on the 29th of April, at his residence in Hancock county, Col. JAMES G. LEWIS in the 43d year of his age.

July 18, 1843
Southern Recorder
  MARRIED, On the 29th June, at Mound Farm, the residence of Dr. Whitten, in Hancock county, by the Rev. Mr. Bowman of Greenesboro, Mr. Thomas C. Grimes to Miss Frances A. Meriwether, the eldest daughter of Mrs. Whitten.

   ~ excerpt~ DIED, in Hancock county, on Saturday afternoon of the 8th of July, Captain JEF. LANE, in the 58th year of his age. He was a native of Dinwiddie county, Virginia. He came to Georgia a poor and friendless boy, but lived and died a bright example of the rewards which follow patient industry and rigid integrity.

August 1, 1843
Southern Recorder
  MARRIED. In Washington City, at Gadsby's Hotel, on Thursday evening the 20th ult., by the Rev. Mr. W. McLain, Mr. A. M. BERRY to Miss A. B. HOLLAND, both of Sparta, Georgia.

October 24, 1843
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, At the residence of Robert Griggs, near Sparta, on Thursday, the 19th inst. by Isaac Whitehead, Mr. M. P. BYINGTON, to Miss SUBRINA BROWN, all of Hancock county.

November 21, 1843
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, On the 14th inst., by the Rev. W. H. Stokes, Mr. STERLING G. EVANS, to Miss MARY E. WEST, all of Hancock county.

December 5, 1843
Macon Georgia Telegraph
MARRIED. In Hancock county, on the 20th ult., by Wm. B. Hall, Esq. Mr. John Denton, to Miss Elizabeth Blunt, all of the same place.

December 9, 1843
Augusta Chronicle
   Married. On Sunday, the 3d instant, in the church at Powelton, by the Rev. Wm. P. Harley, Mr. SILAS BLANCHARD,  of Windham, N. H., to Miss MARY W. BASS,  of Hancock county.

December 19, 1843
Southern Recorder
~excerpt~MARRIED, In Hancock county, on the evening of the 12th ult., by the Rev. W. P. Arnold, O. L. SMITH, A. B., to Miss AMANDA N. daughter of Seaborn Lawrence, Esq. all of Hancock county.

January 23, 1844
Southern Recorder
~excerpt~ DIED. At her residence in Mount Zion, on Monday, the 15th inst., Mrs. MARIA M. CONNELL, wife of Dr. Alva Connell.

~excerpt~ Departed this life at the residence of Capt. John Dickson, in Hancock county, on Tuesday night the 9th inst., Mr. THOMAS J. TRAWICK, aged 30 year, after a very long and protracted and painful illness, leaving an aged mother and young wife, with numerous relatives, to mourn his loss.

February 17, 1845
Augusta Chronicle
MARRIED, In Hancock county, on Tuesday, the 4th inst., by the Rev. C. P. Beman, Mr. JAMES M. HARRIS to Miss ELIZABETH B., daughter of Edwin Wiley, Esq.

February 25,  1845
Southern Recorder
DIED, On the morning of the 15th instant, after an illness of 26 hours, at the residence of Joseph R. Sasnett, in Sparta, Ga., JOSEPH HENRY, eldest son of Richard P. and Mary Ann Sasnett, in the 10th year of his age. he was a very promising boy-dutiful and obedient to his parents, and much beloved by his teacher and schoolmates-was studious, and had advanced to a point in his education to which few of his age were able to reach.

February 25,  1845
Southern Recorder
MARRIED. In Hancock county, on Thursday, the 6th inst., by the Rev. John W. Talley, Dr. ALVA CONNELL, to Miss JANE R., second daughter of Eli H. Baxter, Esq.

October 6, 1845
Augusta Chronicle
MARRIED. At Rockmills, Hancock county, on the 2d inst., by the Rev. P. N. Maddux, Mr. RANSOM S. HALL, of Sparta, to Miss AMERICA, youngest daughter of Mr. William Shivers, senior, of the former place.

March 31, 1846
Southern Recorder
~excerpt~ DIED, At the residence of her brother, Joseph Bryan, Esq., Mt. Zion, Hancock county, on the 12th inst.,Mrs. JULIA WALES, relict of Isaac W. Wales, Esq., in the 70th year of her age.

April 6, 1847
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, On the 18th March last, at the residence of Dr. Whitten, by the Rev. C. P. Beman, D. W. Lewis Esq., to Miss MARTHA MERIWETHER, all of Hancock.

July 6, 1847
Southern Recorder
~excerpt~ DIED, On the 18th inst. at Mount Zion, Ga. Miss FEREBY J. DUNCAN, in the 18 year of her age. Miss D. at the time of her death, had been a member of the Baptist Church nearly four years....surviving brthers and sisters

Feb. 10 1847
Morning News
DIED. In Hancock county, Ga., at the residence of his son James M. Carson,William Carson, of Warren, aged 98 years, a soldier of the revolutionary war-and has been up to the time of his death an acceptable member of the Baptist Church for more than 70 years-"Star by star goes out."

February 16, 1847
Federal Union
~excerpt~ Died at the residence of his brother, near Mt.  Zion, in Hancock county, Mr. MOSES WILEY, in the 74th year of his age.  For several years, Mr. W. had been laboring under a painful malady; but he bore his sufferings, with christain fortitude and patience. Mr. Wiley was born in Mecklenburg county, N.C., and came to this State with his father in 1787, a youth of about 14 years; from that time till his death, he was a citizen of Hancock...In 1813 he served a tour in the army under Gen. Floyd.

February 16, 1847
Federal Union
MARRIED - In Hancock county, on the 11th inst, at the residence of Mr. John Amos, by Judge Simmons, Mr. ELIPHALET CHANDLER, of Baldwin county, to Miss ELIZABETH HARPER, of the former county.

March 16, 1847
Federal Union
MARRIED - In Hancock county, on the 25th ult. by the Rev. Mr. C. M. Irwin, Mr. JAMES L. SHARP, of Taliaferro, to Miss DELANY W. HILL, of Putnam.

March 16, 1847
Southern Recorder
~excrpt~ DIED, In Sparta, on the 6th inst., BURWELL JACKSON, second son of Gen. and Mrs. Wynn, in the eighteenth year of his age.

August 10, 1847
Southern Recorder
  MARRIED. August 2d, near Mt. Zion, Hancock county, by the Rev. C. P. Beman, Mr. EDWARD A. SOULARD, of Savannah, to Miss CORNELIA A. SMITH, only daughter of Mr. James Smith.

September 7, 1847
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, In Hancock county, on the 24th ult., by Rev. C. W. Key, L. S. STEWART, Esq. to Miss ELIZABETH B. WHITEHEAD, all of said county.

October 4, 1847
Augusta Chronicle
~excerpt~ DIED, At his residence in Hancock county, on the 23d ult. Maj. MARK GONDER, in the 69th year of his age. He has left a family and friends ever to deplore his loss.

October 26, 1847
Federal Union
 ~excerpt~Departed this life, on the 14th inst., of Typhus Fever, at the residence of his mother, in Hancock county, Mr. BURWELL NEWTON BASS, in the 27th year of his age.

MARRIED, In Hancock county, on the 29th December, by Henry Gary, Esq., Mr. JOHN THORNTON to Miss MARY A. GORDY, all of Hancock county.

February 8, 1848
Southern Recorder
~excerpt~MARRIED, At the residence of James P. Knowles, near Powelton, Hancock county, on the 27th inst, by the Rev. Wiley P. Arnold, ABRAHAM WILLIAMS to Miss MARY A. KNOWLES, all of Hancock.....

February 29, 1848
Southern Recorder
  Excerpt~ Departed this life, on the 30th ult., in Sparta, Hancock county, Ga., Mrs. MARTHA ELIZABETH GARDNER, wife of Mr. Burton R. Gardner in the 26th year of her age, after a protracted illness of six weeks, which she bore with patience and resignation. She was a member of the M. E. Church for several years previous to her death. In disposition mild and gentle; as a Christian her walk was consistent, without ostentation; always calm but firm to her purpose. In the relation of wife, daughter, sister, mother and friend, she was affectionate, dutiful, kind, devoted and faithful. She has left a devoted husband, a father, mother, sister and brother, and two interesting little daughters to mourn her loss.

May 2, 1848
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, In Hancock county, on the evening of 26th April, by Hon. James B. Nickelson, Mr. J. L. VOUGHT, of Orangeburg Dist., S. C., to Miss N. ADALINE WALKER, daughter of Sylvanus Walker, Esq.

May 16, 1848
Federal Union
MARRIED - On the 10th inst. by the Rev. William Arnold, at Louisiana, in Hancock county, Mr. THOMAS M. HUNT of Hancock, to Mrs. MARTHA ANN LEWIS, only daughter of HAMLIN LEWIS, lately deceased of said county.

September 12, 1848
Southern Recorder
   MARRIED, In Hancock county, on the 4th Sept., 1848, by the Rev. W. J. Sasnett, Mr. G. R. Thomas of Eatonton, to Miss
JUDA ANN FEARS, daughter of Richard Fears.

October 8, 1848
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, In Sparta, on Tuesday the 25th inst., by the Rev. R. W. Baker, Mr. RUSSELL W. HART andCAROLINE E. , eldest daughter of E. A. Soullard, Esq., all of Sparta.

October 24, 1848
Southern Recorder
   ~excerpt~ MARRIED, On the evening of the 17th inst., by B. T. Harris, Esq., Mr. SAMUEL MARTIN to Miss ELIZA, daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Roberts, all of Hancock county.

April 23, 1849
Augusta Chronicle
DIED. In Sparta on Thursday, the 12th inst., Mrs. Harriet Ann, wife of the Rev. Wesley P. Arnold, aged about forty years.

July 24, 1849
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, At the residence of Gen. Vinson, in Sparta, on the 17th inst., by the Rev. William H. Stokes, Rev. NATHANIEL G. FOSTER and Miss MARGARET E. VINSON.

September 18, 1849
Southern Recorder
MARRIED, On the 26th of August, by the Rev. James R. Gunn,  Mr. LAFAYETTE ELDRIDGE, of Louisiana, to Miss CAROLINE BRANTLY, of Hancock county.

October 2, 1849
Southern Recorder
  MARRIED, On Sunday the 30th September, at the residence of Thomas M. Turner, in Sparta, by the Rev. W. H. Sasnett, Mr. ALEXANDER BROOKING, to Mrs. ELIZA TURNER.