Schley County GaArchives News.....TERRIBLE FIRE IN SCHLEY COUNTY (1879) April 8, 1879 ************************************************ 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: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 September 24, 2008, 12:24 am Georgia Weekly Telegraph (Macon) April 8, 1879 April 8, 1879 From the Buena Vista Argus TERRIBLE FIRE IN SCHLEY COUNTY We clip from the Argus the following particulars of a most disastrous conflagration which swept over a large portion of the northern part of Schley County on last Sabbath, which will long be remembered as a field day for old Boreas. Immense damage was done to numerous farms and residences were endangered. The fire started from the field of Jim Terry, colored, near Mr. Stewart's, and spread forward to the right and left with fearful rapidity. In it's progress the fencing on the farms of Thomas Terry, the Moon place--a large farm, D. Hill(I believe this a typo, shud be E(lbert) Hill, at the old Horry, James McElmurray, Alonzo Jordan and Eli Lightner, were nearly all destroyed. The dwelling, furniture, provisions and fencing on the Ira Marshal place were all consumed. Phillippi church was saved with great difficulty. The gin house of Mr. Eli Lightner was saved only by pouring water on it. Other farms are reported burned out. Mr. Tison's residence near the Turnpike Camp Ground is said to have been burned. This fire swept over a Territory of from ten to twelve miles wide. At 12 o'clock on Sunday night the fire was still raging. This is a different affair from the one reported by B.A.S. (Barry Alexander Strange) in his Ellaville Locals. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/newspapers/terrible212nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb