Quitman County GaArchives History .....The Quitman Echo 1991 ************************************************ 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: Cindy Willmot cwillmot@bellsouth.net May 12, 2003, 1:50 pm Morris Station. It is believed that the settlement was named for James Morris, whose son was the first depot agent there. He lived near Cotton Hill and was buried in the Bragan Cemetary located about four miles south of Morris Station. His grave is one of the two remaining marked graves. Morris grew to be a good shipping point, accommodating people for miles around. Although it was a good farming section it became quite a planer- milling boom town in the 1920's, having seven stores, a cafe, a bank, a two story office building, and a post office. About 1860 a school stood on the back street in Morris and was taught by a Mr. Pittman, brother of Mrs. Dorothy Pittman Jolley. Later Woodland Academy was built up on Highway 82 and functioned until between 1905-1910, when a three-room school was erected in Morris and used by the community until about 1940. The school was then closed and the children sent to the school in Georgetown. A few of the older families were the Bud davis family, the Teels, the Neri Johnsons, the Boyetts, (their homisite dates back to the Turners and the Brookins), the J.C. Jolleys, the Ross Wilsons, the Jack Hillmans, the Albrittons, and the Haistens. A few of the old homes in Morris yet stand and the love and care that has been given them by the few remaining families is evident. The Baptist Church has received this same love and attention and it is a very attractive old country church. Bumbleton District--- The name came from the bumblebeess that buzzed around when people gathered at the locality known as the old court ground where Justice Court was held and drank whiskey sweetened with molasses at Mr. Clem Climon's store, or so it was told. The original court house site was on a road about half-way to the Hathcock place. It was moved to a road just west of the Lumpkin Highway north of the Stout Bennett place. The Whitakers were large landholders in the Bumbleton District. E.A. Whitaker owned a gin and donated the land for the Liberty Baptist Church site. John Whitaker operated a general store that was along the Lumpkin Highway and gave the land for the Rocky Mt. Methodist Church. Joe Whitaker, Tom Graddy, and Jim Graddy ran a gin house on the Joe Whitaker farm. The men in the community would have baseball games in the gin yard. The Moore gin house site was located near the court house site and the Mt. Lebenton Church Cemetary site. Mt. Lebenton was a Primitive Baptist Church. Some of the members were: Preston Brooks, the McDaniel family, and the Bland family. The church pool was on a branch below the cemetary. Rocky Mt. School was constructed on the Rocky Mt. Church property. There was also a post office by the name of Mike in the Dustin Store near the Rocky Mt. Church. The court house was also the polling place for Bumbleton and was used by the county for that purpose for many years after the Justice Court came to and end. The voting and the vote counting were done by lamp light as electricity was never installed, nor was running water. Additional Comments: My mother was born in 1939 and I asked her about some of the Bumbleton history. She remembers her parents going to vote out in Bumbleton, which must have been operation at least until the 50's. Rocky Mt. Methodist Church is no longer operational, but Liberty Baptist is now Fully Gospel and is apparently running with a small congregation. The Whitaker family homeplace is still present in what used to be called Bumbleton, but the property now belongs to Ruth Friedman, widow of Elton S. Friedman who purchased the property from his first wife, (my mother), Camellia Whitaker. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb