Georgia   Biographies  Union County
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http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Georgia Table of Contents:

UNION COUNTY, GEORGIA

Laid out from Cherokee, and organized in 1832.

BLAIRSVILLE is the seat of justice, situated in the midst
of the Blue Ridge, distant from Milledgeville 165 miles.

Among the early settlers were, John B. Chastain, John
Butt, J. P. Welborn, Moses Anderson, Elisha Hunt, Lewis
Vanzant, J. M. Greer, Geo. W. Gaddis, James Gaddis, Sen.,
Martin England, J. Birch, Jesse Osborn, Josiah Carter, P.
D. Maroney, Colonel John Hudgins, Wm. Matthews, John
West, John Heddrick, John Norton, James Crow, Edward
Chastain.

Ref:  White, Rev. George, M. A., HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF GEORGIA, 1854, Pudney & Russell, Publishers, New York,
pp. 657-665. [Reprinted 1968, Heritage Papers,
Danielsville, GA]





Note: Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, Washington City, Printed by P. Force, 1837,  pp.
255-256. APPENDIX:  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES "The author
conceived that a short biographical sketch of the
individuals after whom the several counties were named,
would furnish an instructive and pleasing appendage to
his topographical work... Acquainted with the intimate
friends of some of the 'venerable dead,' he has been
furnished with sufficient materials to enlarge on their
character... There are in the State ninety counties (book
printed in 1837, presently in 2001, there are 159
counties)..."


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