Thomas County GaArchives History.....Elizabeth Hopkins Collection at Georgia Archives ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ submitted by Winnette Stinson Mar 2003 Index created by Karen Vereen Elizabeth Hopkins Collection at Georgia Archives GA Archives LDS FHL US/CAN FiDescription (Drawer/Roll) 1 181/55 164465 Organization of Thomas Co. Historical Society; outline of the history of Thomas Co. (1777-1930); an untitled history of Thomas Co. by James Johnston; correspondence; minutes and organizational papers of the Thomas Co. Historical Society; portions of the history of Thomas Co.; newspaper clippings, Who’s Who in Thomasville; pamphlets concerning Thomasville; history of Thomas Co. schools 2 181/56 164466 Item 1 1850 Census of Thomas Co. by Folks Huxford Items 2-3 Pamphlets, newspaper clippings, letters and notes of the following Thomasville churches: West Side Baptist Church, Spring Hill Church, First Methodist Church, Thomasville Methodist Church, First Baptist Church, Prospect M.E. Church, Bold Springs Methodist Church, Harmony Primitive Baptist Church, First Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, St. Mark’s Parish, Christian or Cambellite Church, Christian Science Church, Roman Catholic Church; notes on charity organizations and church history (1825-1940); Item 4 Notes from Thomasville’s first Directory (1886) Item 5 Plantations in Thomas Co., including marriages, cemetery records and tax lists 3 181/57 164467 Confederate records, historical collections of the John B. Gordon Chapter, U.D.C., includes marriages, Rules Company, Thomas Hussars, Thomasville, GA; newspaper clippings; miscellaneous poetry, programs, etc.; papers from the John B. Gordon Chapter; papers from the John Triplett Chapter, Children of the Confederacy; various diaries; Abraham Lincoln, Strategist, Opportunist, the Great Emancipator, a Misnomer; various military records; correspondence 4 181/58 164468 Vol. 6, historical collection of John B. Gordon Chapter, including chapter paperwork; newspaper clippings, the Battle of Olustee by Ruth H. Cole; questionnaires concerning soldiers; address by T. M. McIntosh, American Legion Home, appendix to Avery’s History of Georgia; origin of the four flags of the Confederate States of America; muster rolls 5 181/73 164469 Item 1 South Georgia Medical Society, minutes 1875-1876; Sweatman family; Jerger family Bible; miscellaneous military and land records Item 2 Thomas Co. Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Indian War records, including correspondence, family sketches, notes, abstracts of county records, battle reports, lottery and land grant facsimiles for 1819, 1820 and 1823 6 181/63 164470 Death and marriage abstracts from Thomasville Times weekly newspaper (1855-1885) 7 181/64 164471 Death and marriage abstracts (con’t) including miscellaneous notes; abstracts of writings dealing with the Civil War, slavery, etc.; abstracts of records dealing with taxes, schools, celebrations, etc. 8 181/65 164472 Old cemeteries of Thomas Co.; wills; tax digests; newspaper clippings; survey plat books; marriages (1826-1837); 1830 and 1840 census transcripts 9 181/62 164473 Laurel Hill Cemetery records; obituaries 10 181/61 164474 Thomas Co. cemeteries and obituaries (1938-1953); correspondence 11 Jun-67 164475 History of Episcopal Church in Thomasville; parish records of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, including baptisms, families, confirmations, communicants, marriages, burials and index of names 12 181/59 164476 Photographs of people and places of Thomas Co. (1896-1954) 13 181/60 164477 Genealogies: Culpepper-Reid, Wyche-Jarrett, 14 181/66 164478 Genealogies (con’t) Taylor, Ponder, Watkins, Walker-Cone-Dekle, Vann-Wooten-Parramore, Remington-Dasher, Kingsley, Jarome Ward Rainey, Mallett, Heeth, Fondren, Whaley, Mitchell, Winn, Wyche, Reid, Randall, Dial, Stehpens, Hardee, Moseley, Waldauer, Blackshear, Chastain, Griffin, Smith, Mitchell, Davenport, Wyatt 15 181/67 164479 Genealogies (con’t) Alderman-Cone, Hurst-Hicks-Dekle, Hopkins, Dufour, Barratte, Sayre, Gignilliat 16 181/68 164480 McIntosh-Wyche-Irvine, Duren-Johnston-Dekle, Hayes, Abercrombie, Young, Blackshear, Parramore-Foy-Brinson-Jones, Whitney, Jones, Francke, MacIntyre, Everitt; Greenwood Plantation 17 181/69 164481 Wilson, Carlton, Alderman, Hendry, Hurst, Knight, Varn, Remington, Chastain, Alderman, Blitch, Spencer 18 181/70 164482 Hayes-Hamilton, Terrell-Wingfield-Garland-Mash, Reid-Butler-Jones, Roddenberg, Hansell, Culpepper-Gardner, Baker-Bowen-Stevens-Jordan; Cedar Grove Plantation (1821-1930) 19 181/71 164483 Baker-Bowen-Stevens-Jordan, Jerger, Lang, Atkinson, Atkins, Thomas, Wilson, Hurst, Hendry, Howard, McIntosh, Mitchell, Goodwin, Raines 20 181/72 164484 Harris, Washington, Walton, Bussey, Screven, Hart, Flood 21 181/74 164485 C. B. Hermann papers; Fair Oaks plantation records (1906-1930); Sherwood plantation records (1842-1906); DAR application for Mary Frances Fetner Babbit; histories of small towns in Thomas Co.; memoirs of Nella Jones Pond (1840-1890); miscellaneous education records; Arnold family; G. Q. Colton Reminiscences