TALIAFERRO COUNTY, GA -  HISTORY  Locust Grove Academy

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LOCUST GROVE ACADEMY

In 1790 several Catholic families of English descent from
Maryland settled near Locust Grove. They established the
first Roman Catholic Church [The Church of the Purification] in Georgia and erected a log
church in 1792. A priest, Father John LeMoin, was sent to it
from Baltimore. French families, fleeing the French
Revolution and, later, several Irish families joined the
colony. After 1860 a church was erected in Sharon, as the
Locust Grove location had become too remote. 

Locust Grove
Academy, the first chartered Roman Catholic Academy in
Georgia, was formed about 1818. Many prominent Georgians
have come from these early Catholic families. Located on GA
47 at the church in Sharon, Georgia GHM 131-5, 1956 

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The medal has Sharon, Ga. on it. I think it must have been
connected with the Chatholic Church up there as his parents
were Catholic.  As to where he lived I don't know. His
parents came over from Germany, settled in Augusta and had 3
more children then moved to Algood, Tn. where mother died,
daddy remarried, died (1905), then most of the children came
back to Ga. I do not know what happened to him after
returning to Ga.I looked at the medal and saw that it Sharon
, Ga. 1907.        Later I know he was in Augusta. I
remember him ver well. It's just the time between Algood and
Augusta that I can not connect.  His name was Fred
Markwalter and one of his Uncles did the momument in
Crawfordville of Stephens. 

> Ruth Hancock  bn_mikeh@toolkitmail.com 

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