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The Meriwether County, Georgia Harrises and Related Families |
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Excerpts from Articles and records on Early Meriwether County |
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Early Meriwether Settlers
...Meriwether was laid out from Troup in 1827. Mr. White gives as its first settlers: Abner Durham, Levi M. Adams, GeneralHugh Ector, Thomas E. Hardaway, B. Oates, D.C. Ross, William Harris, G. Talbot, David Keith, William Fowler, James Sentell, John A. Perdue, Colonel Alfred Welborn, Marshal Martin, David Williams, Dr. Andrew Park, W.D. Alexander, Henry Harris, Sr., Isaac Thrash, Allen Rowe, George C. Heard, William Gill, Lewis Pyrom, John P. Thompson, J. Haduey, E. Peavy, Simon Petit, John Jones, Charles B. Harris, E. Kendall, John Jones, E. Bradley... Between the Chattahoochee and the Flint rivers there was a range of lofty hills called mountains and at the base of one of them came gushing a thermal spring known as the Warm Spring. This spring is one of the wonders of Georgia...Over 60 years ago a camp ground was established in Meriwether and every year the people come together. For a glimpse at the finest type of our Middle Georgia people I know no place equal to the Warm Spring camp meeting. |
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...Greenville is the county site. For many years it was a quiet country village without a railway, then a narrow gauge road reached it, and now the gauge is broad and the little village has become quite a city.
Colonel Henry R. Harris was born in Meriwether and has never changed his home, even when a member of congress and a bureau officer in President Cleveland's cabinet.... |
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--Meriwether Vidicator
January 8, 1904 |
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Old Greenville
Greenville was laid off and first settled in 1828. Named in honor of Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame. Then a long distance from sawmills, the first houses of every kind were built of logs and riven boards. For four years the superior courts were held in a large dirt floor cabin near center of public square--Walter T. Colquitt presiding judge. But soon the rude residence and business houses rapidly gave place to neat and substantial framed structures, and a new brick court house was completed in 1832. |
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...Henry Harris an intelligent, prosperous and wealthy planter, was among the first to erect a home in Greenville. He was the father of Col. Henry R. Harris, congressman for several terms from this district and later Third Assistant Postmaster General under President Cleveland. Also of Col. William Harris, legislator and soldier who bravely fell at the head of the 3rd Georgia regiment at Gettysburg. |
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--Meriwether Vindicator
June 17, 1904 |
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