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Jones County Historical Marker
- Jones County State Historical
Marker
- Located on US 129 at the Jones County Courthouse,
Gray, Ga.
- 33.00978°N, 83.53462°W
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- JONES COUNTY
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- This County, created by Act of the Legislature
Dec. 10, 1807, is named for James Jones of
Savannah, a legislator at 23 and member of
the State Constitutional Convention in 1798
in which year he was elected to Congress.
The first County Site was at Clinton but it
was changed to Gray in 1905. Among the first
County Officers were: Sheriff James Riley,
Clerk of Superior Court John R. Gregory,
Clerk of Inferior Court James Bond, Tax
Receiver Daniel Candler, Tax Collector Hillery
Pratt, Coroner Thomas Thrower and Surveyor
Charles Miller. First Justices of the Inferior
Court were: William Binion, William Jones,
Hugh M. Comer, James Jackson and John
McKenzie.
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- 084-5 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1955
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