Crisp County GaArchives News.....CRISP COUNTY NAMES OFFICERS September 2, 1905 ************************************************ 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: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR. wylie http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 October 25, 2009, 8:41 am ATLANTA CONSTITUTION September 2, 1905 SPLENDED LOT OF MEN IS SELECTED BY THE VOTERS CRISP COUNTY STANDS OUT WITH AS FINE OF OFFICERS AS EVER A COUNTY HAD. IT WAS A RULE THAT HELD GOOD THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE LIST OF MEN OFFERED FOR ELECTION .THAT THERE WAS NOT ONE WITH WHOM FAULT COULD BE FOUND.THE COUNTY WOULD HAVE HAD A FINE SET OF OFFICERS HAD THE RESULT BEEN DIFFERENT IN ANY WAY FROM WHAT IT IS. FIRST SET OF OFFICERS FOR CRISP COUNTY ;ORDINARY,S.W.CONEY, CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT,JOESPH A.LITTLEJOHN, SHERIFF,G.W. SHEPPARD,RECEIVER OF TAX RETURNS, J.M.DAVIS, TAX COLLECTOR, JOHN C.FENN,TREASURER,B.N.WILLIAMS ,SURVEYOR, W.T.CHEEVES,CORONER,L.M. SUMNER. THE CORDELE DISTRICT POLLED THE LARGEST VOTE. Additional Comments: CRISP COUNTY WAS FORMED FROM DOOLY COUNTY IN 1905.MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER G.W. SHEPPARD SERVED AS SHERIFF UNTIL 1912.AND SERVED AS COUNTY COMMISSIONER UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1919. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/newspapers/crispcou2838nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb