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Leisure Time Checker Board Game in Courthouse Square.
Ellaville.

This short piece by Linda Adams recently appeared in the
Tri-County Journal & Chattahoochee Chronicle.  They
published this photo and asked readers if they could
identify the men pictured.  Below is their response.  We
post it here courtesy of the Journal.

 
 
"Blast From The Past"
CHECKERS PLAYERS IDENTIFIED
 
by Linda Adams
The photo of the men playing checkers in front of the Schley
County Courthouse drew quite a few suggestions as to the
identities of the participants and the spectators.  The
players are Dr. Stewart on the left and R.C. Brooks on the
right.  Brooks has a car dealership on East Oglethorpe.

The man sitting behind Dr. Stewart was identified by two
different sources as Hilly Johnson or Folice James.  The man
sitting beyond brooks could be Will Sellars, although his
daughter-in-law said "that he never had a hat like that."
The man whose head is not included in the photo has
definitely been identified as Alvin Snipes by a reliable
source who was once his neighbor.  The gentleman standing
beyond Brooks could be Clate Wall.

Do you have an old photograph you'd like to submit as a
"Blast from the Past"?  

Mail it to us at The Tri-County Journal, P.O. Box 350, Buena
Vista, GA 31803 or email it to tjournal@alltel.net





Additional Comments:
"Service Record Book of Men and Women of Schley County, Georgia"  sponsored by 
the Thomas E. Wall Post No. 191, American Legion, Ellaville, Ga.  Assisted by 
the Schley County Business Men.

Located in the Ellaville library.

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