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                           RANDOLPH COUNTY


     Randolph County was laid out from Lee County in 1828.  There were 1,080 
square miles in this new county.  Georgetown was a small village on the 
Chattahoochee River, northwest of Cuthbert.  The population was 100 and there 
were four stores, a warehouse, a grocery, and two blacksmiths.  Edgar C. 
Ellington was the owner of one of the stores.  The warehouse was known as 
Mercer's Planters Warehouse.

     The 1830 census for Randolph County consisted of 807 white males, 701 
white females, 354 male slaves, 328 female slaves, 1 male free person of color, 
total 2,191.  There were two blind females shown.

     An old story tells of a slave owner in this part of the county with a 
slave that was perhaps the best blacksmith around.  This slave inquired of his 
worth and after being told, asked if he might build wagons and other things 
that could be sold at night at times when the owner had not assigned him any 
work and thus earn his freedom.  The owner agreed and he became the first free 
man of color in this section.

     The 1840 census of Randolph County in the 811 district listed many names 
that are familiar to the people in Quitman County.  Some of them are: John P. 
Brown, Tho. L. Avra, Elexr. Avra, Leaton Harrison, Isaac Brookins, Allen Adams, 
Thomas A. Ray, Benj. Hardemen, John Mahan, Edwin Ogletree, Abraham Joiner, 
Richard M. Farmer, Colson Guilford, Delia Pittman, Richard Foster, William T. 
Smith, Lewis Rivers, John R. Pittman, Ervin Rice, Levi Mercer, Daniel Avra, 
Thos. Anderson, John Guilford, James Belcher, Stephen Bennett, John Graddy, 
Richard Ogletree, Nathan Hicks, Ereas Gay, Daniel Harrell, Eli Cooper, and 
Benjamin Cook.

     The Neill Bennett home was once the log cabin home of an early settler.  
James Andrew Nobles built a log cabin home that is still standing, although it 
is no longer livable without extensive repair.  Both houses have the original 
log walls that have been covered over the years with siding and additions.  The 
logs can be seen on the Nobles house.

     The Harrison home was begun in 1837 and took about ten years to complete.  
It was a large two-story house with large white columns at both the front and 
back entrances.  This old home burned in 1946, having stood as a landmark and a 
historical residence for almost one hundred years.

     The Guerry home, now the McKenzie home, was built about the year 1848.  
First being constructed in Alabama for Samuel Harrison and then being torn down 
and moved to Georgetown where it was rebuilt by James Harrison for his daughter 
and her husband, T. L. Guerry.

     The hotel in the area was a two-story house in Georgetown operated by Mrs. 
Lucy Wicker.


"The Quitman Echo - Quitman County, Georgia" - Jacquelyn Shepard
(pages 8-9)



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