History of Tift County Georgia

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>By: Ida Belle Williams Pub. 1948 reprinted 2025 517 pages New Index soft cover ISBN #978-1-63914-672-7. Located in the heart of the Georgia's Wiregrass region Tift County was created in 1905 from Berrien Irwin and Worth Counties. This book is similar to other history books of the ear with such topics as: formation of county wars small town education churches civic clubs journalism agriculture Commerce negro pioneers tales of the Wire Grass region and etc... The author has also included numerous biographical sketches of some of these early citizens which the reader will find quite helpful in their research. Names of persons with biographical sketches within: Allen Baker Banks Bennett Boatwright Bowen Branch Britt Buck Carmichael Carson Chestnut Clyatt Churchwell Cochran Conger Dinsmore Duff Eve Fletcher Fulwood Gaulding Greene Gibbs Golden Goodman Guest Hall Hargrett Hakman Hendricks Herring Holmes Hutchinson Jay Jones Julian Kent Lawrence Love Mathis Maynard McCrea McLeod McMillian Moore Murray Murrow Myers O'Quinn Overstreet Padrick Parker Paulk Peterson Phillips Pickard Price Scarboro Shaw Shepherd Slack Smith Spurlin Tift Timmons Vickers Walker Warren Webb Whiddon Williams Willingham Wood and Youmans.</span></p>