TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - BIOGRAPHY Mauk, Sebastian Cabot "Bass" (Feb 1902) ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Gloria Harbuck Sebastian Cabot "BASS" MAUK, originally the first banker in Butler. Mr. Mauk was the son of Mathias and Frances Mauk from Upson County Georgia. He married Sarah Elizabeth Gibson and they had two daughters, Mima born 25 October 1870 who married Matthew B. McCrary November 25, 1885 and Elizabeth "Lizzie" born in 1872 who married Joseph Seaborn Rogers from Buena Vista, Marion County, Georgia in 1904. The 1200 acres of land that S.C. Mauk bought in 1889 was known as Wilchar Level and was located twelve miles southwest of Butler. Mr. Rolin West, listed in the 1900 census as the farm overseer, built the Mauk family a new home overlooking a large valley beginning the work in 1892. The Mauks occupied the home in 1895 and it was told that no board in the house had a knot in it. The house is still standing. Several times in the Butler Herald the Mauk plantation was referred to as Fairfield. Mr. Mauk died 19 February 1902 and in 1905-06 the AB&A railroad was laid across the property. The new railroad brought the town of Mauk to life. Streets were laid off and buildings were built to house businesses.