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Donna Eldridge DonnaEldrid@aol.com and Jacquelyn Shepard  June 24, 2004, 10:18 pm

"The Quitman Echo - Quitman County, Georgia", by Jacquelyn Shepard, page 15


                                     BUMBLETON DISTRICT

     The name came from the bumblebees 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 is 
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 Cemetery 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 cemetery.

     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 an 
end.  The voting and the vote counting were done by lamp light as electricity 
was never installed, nor was running water.



     

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Transcribed and submitted by Donna Eldridge with permission from Jacquelyn 
Shepard


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