Sketches of Rabun County History 1819-1948

-- Rabun County, Georgia

• Author: Andrew Jackson Ritchie
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• Rabun County Historical Society, PO Box 921, Clayton, GA 30525-0921

520 pages, 6 x 9", hardcover, acid free paper, photographs, indexed.

Table of Contents

Part I Chapter 1

• Extract from the presentments of the Grand Jury of Rabun County, August Term, 1946
• Our Blue Ridge Mountains
• The Mound Builders
• The Expedition of De Soto
• The Cherokee Indians
• The French and Indian War
• War Woman Valley and Rabun Gap: a Military Gateway
• General Andrew Pickens
• The Last of the Indians
• An Indian Legend

Chapter II

• Who Are We Mountain People?
• Where Did Our Forefathers Come From?
• What Led Our Ancestors to Come to America?
• Religious Liberty Was Not the Only Reason
• Freedom of Opportunity
• Why so Many of Our Families Came from Virginia and Pennsylvania
• How the Stream of Settlement was Turned Toward the South
• The First White Families
• The Story of Captain James Dillard and His Wife, Mary Dillard
• Mary Dillard's Ride
• The Simple Plan of Pioneer Life
• Resources That Have Passed Away
• A Happy Period in Which to Live
• Uncle Jim's Bear Story

Chapter III

• The Beginning of Our History as a County
• Original Settlers Who Owned Land in the 1820s
• The Act of the Legislature by Whicih the New County was Established
• Authority to Organize a New County
• How the First Deeds Were Obtained
• The First Prices of Land

Chapter IV

• Accounts of Families Who Were First Settlers
• The Beckley Family
• Our Distinguished Chief Justice
• The Miller Family
• Dr. H.V.M. Miller
• Background of the Cannon Family
• The Family of Horace W. Cannon
• Children of Horace W. Cannon and Families into Which They Married
• The Achievements of Raleigh cannon and His Son, Cecil Cannon
• The Green Family
• The Beck and Wall Families of the Warwoman Community
• The Florida War
• Early Settlers of the Chechero District: General Edward Coffee, Rev. John Coffee, Joel and Cleveland Coffee, the Price Family, the Singleton Family, the Duncan Family, the Swofford Family, The Williams Family, the Godfrey Family, and the Carver Family.
• Early Settlers of the; Moccasin and Pine Mountain District: The Hamby Family, the Nicholson Family, the Billingsley Family and the Holden Family.
• Families of the Tallulah District? The Powells, the Tilleys, the Derricks, and Stonecyphers, the John F. Smith Family, the Fuller and King Families, the Canup Family, the Blalock Families, the Philyaws and Lovells, the McClains and the Arrendales.
• Families of the Persimmon and Wolf Fork Districts: The Keeners and Dickersons, the Elisha Welborn Family and the Justus Family.
• The First Settlers in the Little Tennessee Valley: The Dillards, the Carters, The Kellys, the Martins, the Gillespies, the Grists, the Garlands, the Scruggs, the Gibsons, the Sittons, the Rickmans, the Hoppers, the Nevilles, the McKinneys, the Greenwoods, the Darnells, the Ledfords, the Billie Moore Family and the Ritchies.
• The Original Wolf Fork Group: The Pinson Family and Sons-in law - The Story of Samuel Farris.
• Noted First Settlers of Other Parts of the County: The Yorks, the Mozeleys, the Longs, the Watts, the Taylors, the Roanes, the Wilkersons, the Will Smith Family, the J.E. Harvey Family, the Whitmire Family, and the William Jones Family.
• Fernando C. Laprade
• Dr J. C. Dover

Chapter V

• The Interior Court
• A Population of Only 524
• The Administration of Estates
• Choosing the County Seat
• Justices of the Inferior Court
• Clerks of the Inferior Court
• The First Courthouses and Jails
• The First Public Roads
• The Blud Ridge Railroad
• The Superior Court
• The History of the County in Three Periods of 40 Years Each
• Extracts from Preseentments of the Grand Jury 1840-1844
• 100 Marriages That Took Place 100 years ago

Chapter VI

• The Civil War
• Names of Men Subject to Military Duty in 1862
• Slavery in Rabun County
• List of Slave owners in 1862
• The Present Negro Population

Chapter VII

• The Period That Followed the Civil War, 1865-1900
• Crimes and Misdemeanors
• The Work of Mr. Curtis
• Lest We Forget
• School Roll of Mr. Curtis, 1875
• County Officers, 1820-1948

Part II Chapter VIII

• The New Rabun
• Foreword by Dr. J. C. Dover
• Tallulah Falls Railroad
• Newspaper and Periodicals by L.P. Cross
• Families of Other Communities Who Adopted Rabun County as Their Home.
• The Georgia Power Company
• The Red Cross, by Mrs Harry C. Fisher
• Department of Public Welfare, by Vassie P. Lyons
• The Federal Forestry Service, by R. C. Nicholson, Forest Ranger
• Civic and Community Organizations, by Louise D. Randolph
• The Spanish American War
• The part of Rabun County men in the Two Great Wars, by W. T. Ezzard
• Federal Aid to Agriculture and Vocational Education by H. L. Fry
• Developments at Tullulah Falls, by Mrs. Lamar R. Lipscomb
• History of the Churches: Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian
• The Weavers of Rabun
• Apple Growing in Rabun County, by R.D. Massee
• Growth of the Population
• The Old and the New Town of Clayton
• The Tourist Business - Hotels and Boarding Houses
• Summer Camps, by Lillian Smith
• New Enterprises Recently Established
• New Enterprises Now Under Way or Being Projected
• The Bank of Clayton
• The Period of Modern Road Building
• Financial History of the County, by Frank Smith, Ordinary
• Comparisions of the Cost of Living 100 Years Ago and Now
• The Public Schools of the County, by Berry Floyd, County Superindentent of Schools

Part III Chapter IX

• Our Share in the Founding of the School at Rabun Gap
• Things that Prepared Us for this Task
• Our First Teaching
• Why I Went to Harvard
• Giving Up Our Position at Baylor University
• Judge Beckley's Letter
• How We Got Started
• Our First Crisis
• Mr. Prince Hodgson, Our First Benefactor
• The Help of Uncle Billy Witham
• Getting the Day School Established
• My First Campaign in Atlanta
• Bringing All of the Children of the Valley Together
• Protecting the Rights of the Community in the Main School
• The Help of My Brother with Boys and Girls Working their Way
• Our First Colony of Boarding Students
• Consolidating the Central Property
• The Generosity of Mr Hodgson
• A Campaign for $30,000.
• One of My Wife's Letters
• The Plan for Whole Families
• The Interest of Mrs Ernest Woodruff
• The Interest of the Carnegie and Rockerfeller Foundations in the Plan for Whole Families
• The Support of My Harvard Classmates
• The Merger of Rabun Gap and Nacoochee
• The Cooperative Community Church Project
• The Junior College
• The $400,000 Campaign
• How it was Managed for Us to Retire

Some names from the index: Alley, Arrendale, Beck, Blalock, Beckley, Brown, Burch, Burrell, Cannon, Canup, Carter, Carver, Coffee, Corn, Curtis, Darnell, Davis, Derrick, Dickerson, Dickson, Dillard, Dockins, Dover, Duncan, Fincannon, Fisher, Forrester, Gaines, Garland, Gibson, Gillespie, Godfrey, Green, Grist, Hamby, Harvey, Holden, Hopper, Howard, James, Jones, Justus, Kenner, Kelly, King, Kirby, Ledford, Long, Lovell, Martin, McClain, McCrackin, McKinney, Miller, Moore, Mozeley, Neville, Nicholson, Norton, Page, Paris, Parker, Philyaw, Powell, Price, Ramey, Reynolds, Rickman, Ritchie, Roane, Scruggs, Shirley, Singleton, Sitton, Smith, Stonecypher, Swofford, Taylor, Thompson, Turpin, Wall, Watts, Welborn, White, Whitmire, Wilkerson, Williams, York, and others.