Georgia Genealogy

By E. Merton Coulter; Regents’ Professor Emeritus of History, University of Georgia There once stood in Southwest Georgia near Leesburg (northeast of Leesburg) Georgia an immense live oak whose trunk was reputed to be nine feet in diameter and whose boughs measured 120 feet across. The Chehaw Indians who had a village nearby were said to have held their council meetings under this giant tree. In 1912 the Daughters of the American Revolution placed a granite boulder here bearing the follow description: “CHEHAW Large Indian town, home of the Chehaws. A friendly agricultural people of the Creek tribe, who aided…

By Dr. Lee W. Formwalt; Albany State University Our earliest documentation of the Chehaw Indians goes back four and half centuries to 1540 when southeastern Amerindians encountered Europeans and Africans for the first time. Hernando de Soto and his band of Spanish adventurers came across the Chehaw or Chiaha Indians on Zimmerman’s Island in the French Broad River in present-day Tennessee. By the early eighteenth century, however, the Chehaw had moved south to the Ocmulgee River where they had greater access to the British traders operating out of Charles Town, Carolina (now Charleston, S.C.). A number of Lower Creek Indians…

Coursey Cemetery is located at 219 Coursey Cemetery Rd., Clyo, Georgia The small rural cemetery is located just south of the South Carolina line in Effingham County Georgia. It’s earliest graves are those of husband and wife, J. J. and Martha Pitts, but the eventual name which would stick with the cemetery is the “Coursey Cemetery” for the numerous Coursey graves. Mary Walton Pitts would marry Robert Coursey and the remaining interments would be related to this union. The latest burial was in 2001 when Marian Coursey Tuttle Haynes chose Courtney Cemetery as her last resting place. Coursey, Eugene D.…

Thomas Harrison and Harriet Taylor Smith Family abt 1890. The children grew up in the old home place at Yellow Creek and married into families from Dawson and surrounding counties. A guide and directory to Dawson County Indiana genealogy, containing both online and offline resources for genealogy and historical research. This website contains sources of genealogical data about Dawson County such as biographies, cemetery records, census records, church records, court records, family records, land records, military records, naturalization records, and vital records. Dawson County was created by a legislative act on December 3, 1857, primarily out…

Roster of the 52nd Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company I Dawson County, Georgia Command Russell, John R.- Captain March 4, 1862. Surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865. McClure, Robert N.- 1st Lieutenant March 4, 1862. Contracted typhoid fever at Big Creek Gap, Tenn. May 1862. Fever settled in both legs, and erysipelas in head caused loss of hearing in left ear. Resigned February 2, 1863. Elected Captain of Co. D 4th Ga. State Guards Cavalry; Major of 11th Regiment Ga. Militia Cavalry in 1864. Surrendered at Kingston, Ga. May 12, 1865. (Born in Ga. November 1, 1835. Died at…

The following have been transcribed for Dawson County Georgia cemeteries Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Dawson County Georgia Bird Family Cemetery, Dawson County Georgia Cochran Cemetery, Dawson County Georgia Dawsonville Cemetery, Dawsonville Georgia High Shoals Church Cemetery, Dawson County Georgia Kelly Family Cemetery, Dawson County Georgia Lebanon Church Cemetery, Dawson County Georgia Martin Family Cemetery, Dawson County Georgia Palmer Family Cemetery, Dawson County Georgia Cemeteries Of Dawson County, Georgia 252 page hardbound book by the Dawson County Historical and Genealogical Society Began in 1999, this transcription project attempted to locate and record all cemeteries in Dawson County Georgia. To insure…