Georgia:  Oglethorpe County:  Prominent Ante-Bellum Families
From the Oglethorpe Echo, 5 November 1909

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Oglethorpe Echo Nov. 5th 1909
PROMINENT ANTE-BELLUM CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTY
Men who gave Oglethorpe fame for its Exceptional High                                                                                                                                              
Class of the most Noble of Citizenry
AS REMEMBERED BY MR. J. S. BAUGHN
	
	   
Editor Oglethorpe Echo:  I started out to write a personal reminiscence 
and regret that I  have not the time to consult with citizens in 
different portions of the county so as to make it more elaborate.  I 
may make some mistakes as in the case of Mrs. Bunch, nee Glenn, who was 
a neice and not a daughter of Richard Huff.  I will now proceed and 
take the territory east of the Greensboro road to the railroad south of 
the Washington road near the mountian.  Robert Eberhart, Hop Farmer, 
Thomas Wynn, Moses Wright, R. J. Arnold, Dave Pittard and his brother 
Thomas, till he moved to Cass county.  In the thriving little village 
of Philomath lived Dr. Glenn, Robert Daniel, Mr. Hardy James, V. Drake 
and the venerable  Dr. John W. Reed, who as teacher and preacher left 
an impress that will last forever.  Above Woodstock  as it was better 
known were the Williams, John and Johnson, Jesse Dalton, George W. 
Callaway, Cuthburt J. Smith, Mr. Cramer, Judge's W. T. Howard and 
Thomas H. Hawkins and Z. H. Clark.  The place of S. O. Callaway was 
known as the Woody Jackson place, his son Andrew Woody known as Hick 
Jackson died there in about 1858 and Z. H. Clark bought and moved to 
it.  Thomas Howard, kown as Pony Tom, lived about Salem, also Edward 
and Richard Brooks.  Where Willie Brooks now lives was for several 
years the home of M. J. Poss and afterwards of Alice Goolsby.  East of 
the Greensboro road, Mack Young.  Whitfield Landrum, the father of 
Columbus J., Dr. M. M. and Frank M.Landrum. Near by was William Gilham.  
In the roster of the military companies from the county the sons of the 
noble sires I name will be seen and naught but boy heroes could spring 
from such fathers.  On the road from Salem to Stephens, Nathan Smith 
and several of his sons lived and there was a large family of Youngs, 
the elder were Giles and Henry.  Their sons and grandsons make a large 
percent of that portion  of the county and all are good citizens.  
Above Stephens or Antioch as it was known lived George Lumpkin, a 
Baptist preacher.  There were quite a number of Lumpkins in that 
section of the county and they had rather a peculiar way of designating 
themselves, Squirrel Skin Billy, for instance.  Near Center church 
lived George Mclaughlin.

    
Below, is the thriving city of Maxeys and there are several families of 
that name near the city.  Thomas Flemming was a merchant there when I 
first new the place.  Lindsay Jacks, Mr. Gilliam, DeWalden, Pope, 
Taylor, A. T. Brightwell, Dr. J. H. Brightwell.  North of Maxeys was 
the home of Wyatt Moody, and sons, Sampsonius and Dr. Waldemar.  Near 
there was Bowling Green, the once noted place for horse racing and 
other sports.  Nathan Hunter lived to raise a large family and none 
were more highly respected.  A Mrs. Johnson lived near and William, 
Robert G. and Thomas, his sons , and Miss Lizzie, a daughter, 
afterwards, Mrs. John T. Loften, were the best people.

    
Dr. John A. Bell lived near and Judge J. Hamilton McWhorter was near 
the villiage of Bairdstown.  Jasper and Columbus Kinnebrew, Thomas 
Callahan, Joe Armstrong, John S. Callaway, Jasper Haynes, James King, 
A. J. Watson.

    
The Cheney and Briscoe families were residents of this portion of the 
county and Greene.

    
I know I have left out many families and I am reminded of Richmond and 
James Dorough, some of the Adkins, and the Raidens.  Pink Tuggle left 
the county in the forties and moved to north Georgia.  Marston Bray, I 
think, moved near salem awhile before the war.  Peter Dalton, was I 
suppose , a life long resident of the county not far above Woodstock.  
I was away from the county and state  from February, 1858, till after 
the war, and consequently am not sufficient to the task of giving all 
the names of that portion of the county  I never did visit.  As a 
school boy  at Meson Academy I met with many who knew my father and 
whom I respected.  I knew a few men who had unfortunately become 
addicted to the use of whiskey or brandy as that was the most popular 
beverage and would often imbibe too freely, yet they were gentlemen all 
the same.  I suppose it was  in a great measure owing to the liquors of 
that day.  I once presented Aleck Simmons, who went from Wilkes county 
to Canton, Miss.  A bottle of peach brandy made by Wiley Yarbrough and 
he showed it to his friends and told them he knew men in Georgia who 
had been drunk on such as that forty years and had been fattening every 
day.
        
More anon.                                                                                                    
J. S. B.