Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Giles, Thomas  Judge 1917
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Newspaper
 The Banner, Athens, Georgia January 25, 1917

FORMER ORDINARY OF
WALTON COUNTY DEAD

(Special to the Banner.)

Monroe, GA., Jan. 24 - Judge Thomas Giles, who from 1872 to 1889 was ordinary of
Walton county and who for a number of years prior to that time served as clerk
in the ordinary's office under Judge Jesse Mitchell, is dead at the home of his
nephew, A. C. Kelly, in this city. 

Judge Giles was a native of Walton County, and was 77 years of age. He was a
public-spirited man and gave liberally of his wealth to public enterprises. He
donated one hundred acres of valuable land and $5,000 in cash to the Fifth
District Agricultural and Mechanical School of this place. It was while Judge
Giles was in office as ordinary that Walton's $30,000 courthouse and $10,000
jail were built without extra taxation to the people. 

The funeral and burial will take place from the First Baptist church tomorrow
morning at 11 o'clock.

 

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