Murray
County, Georgia A
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Hello,
my name is Leslie
Riney
and I am your Genealogy Trails host for
Murray County, Georgia.
I
am a direct descendant of Joseph Rufus
Williams, the son of William and Sarah A.
(Scott) Williams who lived in Murray
County around 1856.
I would love to hear from any family members from these Williams'.
Updated: 12 Sept 2009
As
I am just beginning to host this site in
early 2008, please check back often for
updates. I will be adding information as
quickly as I can get it uploaded. If you
are looking for someone in particular,
email me and there's a high probability
that I can find it and post it if you
provide me with enough information.
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ancestors, please e-mail
me
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The
county seat is Chatsworth, Georgia.
In December, 1832 the Georgia General
Assembly designated the extreme
northwestern corner of the state as
Murray County. Formerly part of Cherokee
County, the area was named for a
distinguished Georgia statesman from
Lincoln County, Mr. Thomas W. Murray, a
former speaker of the Georgia House.
Within a short time the legislature
found the county was too large to
administer properly as the population
grew, for the county then included what
is now Dade, Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield,
Murray, Gordon and parts of Bartow and
Chatooga Counties, so further division
became necessary. Within two decades,
Murray County came to be 342 square
miles (886 km²) of land with Spring
Place as its county seat.
The area was in the heart of the
Cherokee Nation at the time the boundary
lines were drawn through the territory.
Not until after the Cherokees were
removed in 1838-39 did white settlers
enter the county in large numbers.
Spring Place had been established in
1801 as a Moravian mission to the
Cherokee and had been a post office
since 1810 - the second oldest in North
Georgia.
A county-wide referendum was held in
1912, which resulted in Chatsworth being
named as the seat of local government,
where it remains to present day.
[source:
wikipedia.org]
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