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Bartow County, GA
| Polls returned | |
| 1,375 |
professions, |
| 39 |
dentists, |
| 3 |
daguerrean artist, |
| 1 | free persons of color, |
| 6. Out of about 2,000 tax payers, only the names of 1,604 were known.; | |
| From Cassville |
| Maj. Abda Johnson |
| Col. Warren Akin |
| Capt. W. T. Wofford |
| Geo. L. Upshaw Gen. |
| John H. Rice |
| Joseph Bogle |
| R. F. Wyley |
| Arthur Haire |
| Col. H. F. Price |
| Madison McMurry |
| Hon. John W. Hooper |
| Col. George W. Brown |
| Wm. T. Trammell |
| H. W. Cobb |
| From Cartersville |
| Hon. Mark A. Cooper |
| Col. James C. Sproul |
| Maj. John S. Rowland |
| Dr. William Anderson |
| Col. James C. Young |
| B. H. Conyers |
| J. C. Jones |
| T. H. Goldsmith |
| D. B. Cunyus |
| T. S. Miller |
| Dr. Samuel F. Stevens |
| Col. Lewis Tumlin |
| James A. Maddox |
| Col. H. P. Farrow |
| C. T. Shelman |
| J. R. Parrott |
| Col. James Milner |
| J. J. Howard |
| John A. Irwin |
| Dr. R. M. Young |
| W. C. Barber |
| Col. J. R. Fullmore |
| U. Stephens |
| Dr. J. W. Lewis |
| Dr. William Benham |
| William Milam |
| Col. Mark Johnston |
| William T. Burge |
| Maj. Willis Benham |
| Col. R. H. Cannon |
| Dr. N. Hart |
| Col. James G. Ryals |
| Col. J. W. Watts |
| Dr. William Felton |
| Maj. William Milner |
| Thomas Wofford |
| W. P. Hammond |
| Silas Bell |
| Dr. W. W. Leake |
| Dr. D. Hamiter |
| J. A. Howard |
| D. W. K. Peacock |
| Maj. N. Nickolson |
| Thomas Kennedy |
| Col. John L. Rowland |
| Capt. E. D. Puckett |
| J. R. Wikle |
| Capt. William Rich |
| Dr. William Kirkpatrick |
| David Quarles |
| From Kingston |
| William Solomon |
| William Tumlin |
| F. J. Sullivan |
| Mark A. Hardin |
| W. W. Long |
| Samuel Sheats |
| Cristopher Dodd |
| F. A. Huson |
| Number of polls | 1,834 |
| Professions | 53 |
| Dentists | 2 |
| Free persons of color | 22 |
| No. acres first quality land | 14,964 |
| No. acres second quality land | 117,159 |
| No. acres third quality land | 137,122 |
| No. acres pine | 44,660 |
| Total No. of acres of land | 313,905 |
| Aggregate value of city or town property | $ 272,935 |
| Aggregate value of land | 3,435,559 |
| Number of slaves | 4,813 |
| Aggregate value of slaves | $3,445,924 |
| Amount of money and solvent debts | 1,675,556. |
| Capital invested in manufactures, stocks, etc. | 133302 |
| Value of household and kitchen furniture | 35,050 |
| Merchandise | 167,236 |
| Value of all other property not mentioned except plantation and mechanical tools, crops, etc. | 568,421 |
| Value of whole property | 9,739,820 |
In the November session
of the house of representatives, Samuel Sheats, who with Warren Akin,
was representing this county, introduced a bill to change the name of
the county.
"Whereas, the county of
Cass ... in its organization was named in memory of Lewis Cass of
Michigan; and the said Lewis Cass having: recently shown himself
inimical to the South by voluntary donations of his private property to
sustain a wicked war upon her people, and by utterance of sentiments
such as the South must be subjugated, the Union must be preserved; and
has thereby become unworthy of the honor conferred by the name of said
county; and Whereas, deeming it the duty, it is always the pleasure of
a brave and free people to perpetuate the memory of those who have
fallen upon the field of battle in defense of the honor, rights, and
liberties of our common country, and by their noble deeds and
selfsacrificing devotion, have endeared their names in the hearts of
the present generation. We should in some measure hand down their names
and cause their memory to live ever green in the hearts of succeeding
generations, therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted,
That from and after the passage of this. Act, the name of the county of
Cass be, and the same is hereby changed to the name of Bartow, in honor
of the late Colonel Francis S.
Bartow,
of Chatham county of this State,
who fell at the battle of Manassas Plains, gallantly leading his men,
on the 21st day of July, 1861.
Sec. II. That the name of
Cassville, the present county site of the county of Cass, be and the
same is hereby changed to the name of Manassas.
Sec. III. That no writ or
process of any kind, deed, contract or agreement in said county, shall
be vitiated by being entitled Cass county; but the same may be amended
upon motion when necessary, without
any
delay or cost.
Joseph E. Brown, Gov.
Assented to December 6, 1861.
Of the ten counties in
the United States named for General Cass, Cass county, Georgia, was the
only one to change. The others are in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Texas.
In the house of
representatives in 1866, a member from Bartow proposed to change the
name back to Cass. It caused much discussion, although it was known not
to be favored by the county as a whole. Mr. J. W. Tench from Coweta
county made his debut against this bill.
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