Butts County GaArchives News.....Dempsey House Heirloom March 8 1895 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 December 27, 2004, 3:21 pm Jackson Argus – Week of March 8, 1895 In he office of the Dempsey House is an heirloom, which perhaps is the oldest of its kind in this county. It is an old pair of fire tongs, which were made in 1822 by an old colored blacksmith, in the first blacksmith shop built in Butts county. The tongs have been in Mr. Jester’s family ever since they left the anvil, and today are as good a new. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/gnw413dempseyh.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb