Butts County GaArchives News.....War Time Money -  Butts Relic April 1901
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Jackson Argus April 1901
War Time Bill – Butts Relic
An interesting Shinplaster Resurrected by George Gilmore
Recently, Mr. George F. Gilmore, of the Carmichael Co. came across a war time 
shinplaster, issued by Butts County in the sixties, and signed by J. R. McCord, 
then the treasurer of this county.  Thinking it would be of value by the 
descendants of  Squire Rufus McCord, Mr. Gilmore sent it to Mr. Henry Y. McCord, 
of the McCord-Stewart Company, Atlanta, who is the youngest son of Judge McCord.  
The following answer to Mr. Gilmore’s letter will be of interest to all Jackson 
and Butts County:
Atlanta, Ga., April 24, 1901                                                        
                                   
Mr. Geo. F. Gilmore, Jackson, Ga.                                                   
                           
Dear Sir: - I have yours of 22nd inst., enclosing the 25c. bill of “war time” 
Butts county money, signed by my father as treasurer.  Please accept my thanks 
for the favor.  I shall file it among my valuables, and keep it as a souvenir of 
good old Butts county and my dear departed father, who served his day and 
generation well.  Your letter recalls the fact that he was treasurer of Butts 
County for considerable over thirty years, resigning the office when he left the 
county.  As I grow older my heart turns instinctively to the county of my 
maturity, and her good people who were the friends of my father and grand-father 
in the early days of the county’s history.  The McMichaels, McKibbens, 
Harknesses, Carmichaels, Balls, Buttrills, Fletchers, Byers, Watkins and others.  
Please remember me to Judge Hardness, Mr. Sam McKibben, and Mr. Byers.   Tell 
him I will never forget the good whippings he gave me and that “he never hit me 
a lick amiss.”  I remember well when the money on scrip was issued.  My mother 
and myself and others would, after my father had signed the bills, cut them 
apart with scissors, as the bills were printed in sheets.  Thanking you again 
for the favor you have done me and with best wishes for you and yours, I beg to 
remain.
Very truly your friend.  H. Y McCord
Jackson Argus – Week of April 26, 1901



Additional Comments:
Note: 
1. A piece of paper money issued privately and devalued by inadequate security 
or by inflation.
2. A piece of paper money of small denomination issued by the government, 
especially one issued by the U.S. government from 1862 to 1878.


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