Showing posts with label Nelson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nelson. Show all posts
Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Office of Justice of the Peace and Notary Public Focusing on Robert Lee Nelson, JP

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The offices of justice of the peace and notary public were perhaps more important in the earlier days of our county that today. Before conve...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

'Driving: A Right of Passage': A Book Review

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A beautiful and accomplished lady named Margaret Harkins Patterson, R. N., retired, who happens to be descended from the Nix and Harkins (an...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Early Settlers--Jesse Fields Family

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In 1837 Jesse and Catherine Fields moved from North Carolina to Union County, Georgia. The 1840 and 1850 census records of the county can be...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Dr. Thomas Newton Berry, Mountain Doctor

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"If the hat fits, wear it!" might well have been the advice to young medical student Claude Hemphill III from his grandmother, Mrs...
Thursday, October 4, 2007

Nix connections, Part 6- John Washington Nix

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My last column on Nix connections was in the August 23, 2007 "Sentinel." In that article, we saw that six sons of James "Jimm...
Thursday, August 19, 2004

To Consolidate Schools or Not? That was the Big Question in 1916 and Later ( A History of Education in Union County, Part 3)

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I began my teaching career in the same school I entered as a first grader when the new two-teacher Choestoe school building opened. Back in ...
Thursday, January 29, 2004

Blairsville Collegiate Institute

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The Blairsville Collegiate Institute held a good record for providing education for youth of the mountain region from 1905 through 1930. Its...