October 7, 1926 Dr. E. C. Seawright is Declared Elected The decision in the contest of the municipal election held July 13th has been rendered by Judge Mundy, Ordinary of Clayton County, acting for Judge Davis, who was disqualified on the grounds of relationship with one of the contestees. The decision declared Dr. E. C. Seawright legally elected Mayor of Fayetteville over Mr....
October 19, 1918 Dominick Scartz Dominick Scartz was born on October 19, 1918 in West Virginia to James and Caroline Scartz. He had 7 older sisters, an older brother Harold and two younger brothers, Eugene and Albert who would become his best friends. With so many siblings, he was bound to have to wear the hand-me-downs from his older brother Harold. As...
October 23, 1907 C.L. McEachern Clifford Lamar McEachern was born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 23, 1907 to parents J. B. and Artimitia Ann Cox McEachern. Shortly after his birth, his parents with the new addition moved back to the North Fayette Community of Kenwood. Both were natives of the Kenwood-Friendship area. J. B. McEachern operated three successive stores there and a...
October 8, 1944 Bethany Church All Day Singing An all-day singing will be held at Bethany Church. Mr. R W Lester requests that all who has ever attended singing school under his direction attend this gathering at his home church. Mr. Lester is the president of the Fayette County singing convention. Anyone having “the old rudiment” with the song entitled “Rock Me To...
1837 Bennett’s Mill In 1837 William Bennett bought a place west of Fayetteville from N. Blanchard’s administrators, giving the land and water rights to Land Lot 129 and 159. He built a new watermill for corn and wheat on the site of a small mill. The new mill was called Bennett’s Mill. The two circular mill rocks were about six feet in...
October 26, 1911 Addie Cofield Addie Cofield was the fourth child of seven born to Sam and Ada Cofield. They were farmers and worked for Mr. Redwine of Fayette County. Addie’s father worked at the cotton mill and her mother washed for people and did sewing. Addie’s job before school was to churn the butter, and take care of one of her...
October 9, 1937 46-year-old Bales of Cotton B.B. Gilbert of Fayetteville had two bales of cotton that was ginned in 1891. It was an oddity to have them after 46 years, still wrapped in the original white cotton bagging, so The Atlanta Constitution wrote an article that the bails were sold to Redwine Brothers for 9 cents a pound “with the expressed...
September 20, 1890 William P. Redwine September 20, 1890 William P. Redwine was laid to rest in the City of Fayetteville cemetery. Redwine came to Fayetteville in 1840 from the part of Fayette County that became Campbell County (and later Fulton County). He married Mary Grace Trimble in 1847 and they had nine children. He had served in the War Between the...
September 7, 1905 John Tucker Day John Tucker (Jack) Day was born in Milledgeville, Georgia September 7, 1907. He graduated Georgia Military College. Mildred Seawright, from Fayetteville, was attending Wesleyan College of Georgia in Macon and visited Milledgeville where she met Jack. Jack became a pharmacist. Mildred convinced him to take over the family pharmacy in Fayetteville. The Day’s Pharmacy was on...
September 28, 1888 Howell B. Parker Howell B Parker lived in Jonesboro, with G C Looney, in the 1880 census, he is listed as a boarder, with 8 other men living in the Looney home. He was a teacher, but he is not found in later census records. He had great confidence in his teaching since he ran this ad in the...