Murray County, Georgia
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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: Jan
15, 2012
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
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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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