MONROE COUNTY, GA - HISTORY Migrations out of Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Shanna English Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ==================== Contributed by: Shanna English ojmuseum@yahoo.com Sources located: Old Jail Museum and Archives, 326 Thomaston Street, Barnesville, GA 30204 Phone: 770 358-5855 Hours: Wed. 10-5, Sat. 10-2, Sun. 2-5 ===================== Monroe County, Georgia -Migrations Out- Champion, W.A. * Texas 1871 Dunsmore, Moses Texas 1879 Goodwin, Sarah * Texas 1870 (she married an Ellis) Hathorne, Sarah J. Ft. Worth, TX After 1879 Howard, J.R. Texas 1879 Redding, S.S. Arkansas circa 1879 Walton, H.H. Texas 1879 Walton, Susan K. Texas 1879 reference: Forsyth Circuit Register of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South 1879; *Methodist Episcopal Church, South Circuit Records, 1860-1878 (Monroe County, Georgia) (abstracted data on file at Old Jail Museum & Archives, Barnesville,GA) ~original at Monroe County Public Library, Forsyth, Georgia~ Migration From Monroe County, Georgia to Decatur, Mississippi "About 1857, a great many Monroe County settlers moved to near Decatur, Mississippi; among them the Willises, Mapps, Edmonds, Gardners, Turners and Huddlestons. Col. Green Huddleston, so I was told by the late T.H.P. Bloodworth, was one of the signers." reference: J.T. Manry, Plain Dealing, LA, dateline in 01/15/1931 Monroe Advertiser