May 20, 1912 Walter Floy Farr Floy Farr was born May 20, 1912 at home in Stop, an unincorporated community near Tyrone. He graduated from Fayette County High School in 1930. He got a job at Redwine Brothers. In 1935 he helped bring phone service to Tyrone from the Fayetteville exchange. In 1945 he helped form the Coweta-Fayette Electric Membership Corp. Farr...
May 29, 1983 Sally Kate Graham May 29, 1883 Sally Kate Graham was born. Sally had seven siblings. The family lived in the old Bennett home on Beauregard Road built by Cam Bennett. Sally and her siblings had attended their classes at the Fayette Academy then in the evening as they prepared for the evening meal. January 5th, 1892 Sally asked her...
May 26, 1859 Roxie Ann Jones McEachern Roxie Ann Jones McEachern was born in Fayette County on May 26, 1859, the daughter of Josiah Jones and Emily Davis. Her father died in the Civil War and is buried in Virginia. The 1870 census Fayette County Georgia states “Roxie is 11 and living with her Uncle Nimrod Davis along with her brothers and...
May 6, 1862 Resignation of Sheriff Marshbourne On May 6, 1862 Fayette County Sheriff Sam Marshbourne went to the Fayette County courthouse and resigned as sheriff. Caught up in the patriotic Fervor of the South, he had these words recorded in the official minutes of the Inferior Court: “To the honorable Inferior Court of Fayette County, Ga. greetings: I do hereby tender to...
May 12, 1888 Murray Earl Murphy Murray Earl Murphy was born May 12, 1888 one-mile northeast of Gilbert’s schoolhouse and was the fourth child of Joseph Robert Murphy and Alice Samantha Moor. Murray’s grandfather, John Murphy, and his brother came to Fayette County in 1836 and settled about three miles east of Fayetteville. Murray’s father was one of the organizers of the...
May 3, 1825 McIntosh’s Widow Plea for Assistance After the assassination of General William McIntosh in Whitesburg, Georgia on May 1, 1825, some of the family of the slain Creek Chief fled to the plantation of General Alexander Ware on Line Creek in Fayette County. On May 3, 1825, from Ware’s home, two of McIntosh’s wives, Peggy a d Susannah McIntosh addressed...
May 9, 1920 Joe Lynn Brown Joe Lynn Brown, the youngest of 8 children of Luther Virgil Brown and Dannie Mary Jones Brown is born May 9, 1920. Joe lived a fairly uneventful life as the child of a farming family in Fayette County. When he was 18, he overheard his uncle Rome Stinchcomb whispering to his parents on the front porch....
May 3, 1919 Jasper Calhoun Jones Jasper Calhoun Jones, a cook, son of James Lawson Jones, RFD #4, Fayetteville, GA departed France on the ship Canadaigua, coming home from WW I. He would soon marry Lillian Moore and move to College Park. They would have William Eugene, Jasper Calhoun Jr, and Charlotte. The grandchildren of Jasper and Lillian still live in Fayette...
May 16, 1822 Henry Waldrop Simpson The first child born of a permanent record in Fayette County, Georgia was Henry Waldrop Simpson. He was born on May 16, 1822 the son of Cain Simpson and Belena Waldrop. His great grandfather was James Waldrop, a Revolutionary War soldier buried in Fayette County. Henry W, Simpson married Kezzie Wallis in March of 1849 and...
On May 27,1861 the first company of infantry for the War between the States was organized in Fayette County, Georgia. The company was known as the Fayette Rifle Grays and was officially designated as Company “I”, of the 10th Georgia regiment. Young L. Wooten was captain. A review of the company was held at the courthouse grounds with Colonel Mail...