5 Nov 1881

Atlanta Constitution

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Yesterday morning Mr. Alex Thweatt, the assistant general ticket agent at the union depot, sold a gentleman two tickets to Crocket, Texas, for which $49.30 was paid. The purchaser first asked for tickets to Palestine, but as the faire, which was $50.80, was more than he could pay, as he had but $49.40. Inquiry into the case developed the fact that the young man was husband of a bride he had just stolen from her home in Monroe, Walton county, and that they were going to Texas to escape an irate father. The groom is 22 years of age, and the bride 35. He is not handsome, and she is not beautiful, but with only 10 cents in their treasury they have gone to Texas to begin the life of blissful "doubleness."

17 Aug 1887

Atlanta Constitution 

13 Jan 1894

Atlanta Constitution 

A PARDON GRATED

The governor has issued a pardon to an old man named Joe Williams, of Walton County, who was sent to the chaingang for a misdemeanor. It was shown that Williams is dying of consumption and confinement in jail would mean his speedy death.

18 Aug 1902

Atlanta Constitution

LOGANVILLE, GA - 

Loganville, GA., Aug 16 - (Special Correspondence.)- The wedding of Miss Maggie Watson, of Loganville, and Hon. Sidney ross Ellington, of Oxford GA., was solemnized last Tuesday afternoon at this place.

The wedding was a quiet home affair, witnessed by the relatives and intimate friends of the contracting parties. Miss Watson is one of Walton county's most attractive young women and possesses many admirable qualities that have won for her hundreds of friends. Mr. Ellington is one of the most prominent business men in Newton county. After a visit of a few weeks in the east the couple will make their home in Oxford, GA.

28 May 1899

Atlanta Constitution

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COUNTY LINE IS IN DISPUTE

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Gwinnett Claims 14,000 Acres of Walton County Land

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WANTS TOWN OF LOGANVILLE

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The Citizens of This Walton County

Municipality Desire To Belong 

to Gwinnett

Gwinnett and Walton counties have a boundary dispute. About 14,000 acres of land are involved. The location of the flourishing town, Logansville, is involved. and it is claimed that the town belongs to Gwinnett instead of the Walton county.

Logansville has a population of about 600 and since the opening of the new railroad through Lawrenceville has taken on new life and shows evidence of prosperity and rapid growth. It is said that the people of Logansville hope to be thrown on the Gwinnett side of the line, as they have railroad communication with Lawrenceville, the county seat of Gwinnett, but have none to Monroe, the county seat of Walton. The people of Gwinnett county are naturally very much pleased at the prospect of adding to their area and population, chiefly for the reason that if they get the disputed strip of land their taxable property will be greatly increased.

A large property owner in and around the town of Winder, which is at the boundary of Jackson, Walton and Gwinnett has been returning his town property for taxation in Walton county. Jackson and Gwinnett thought that they had a claim upon these town lots and out of the dispute grew a proposition to resurvey the old boundary line. The owner of the lots is dispute claimed that the boundary line ran in one direction and the people of Gwinnett thought that it ran further to the south. So a survey was made recently and when it reached the town of Logansville the surveyor discovered that the was on the Gwinnett side of the line. Thereupon the authorities of Walton county asked the engineer to suspend his work.

The act of 1820, which defined the boundary between Walton and Gwinnett, stated that it started at or near the Lawrence House, which stood at the point south of the present southwestern corner of Gwinnett. The act prescribed that the line should be a straight line running by the house of a man named Morris. Some claim that Morris lived at a point a mile or two north of the present town of Logansville, but the people of Gwinnett insist that it was another Morris who lived somewhere near where Logansville now stands. The matter is being investigated. The oldest citizens are being interviewed, records are being searched and the people of both countes are very much exercised over the dispute.

5 Jan 1884

Atlanta Constitution

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LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA

Lawrenceville, January 4 - Information has just reached this place that one Mr. Joyce of Walnut Grove, in Walton cunty, had the top of his head shot off by a lady of the same place Tuesday night. He went to where she was living, her name I can't learn, and made insulting propositions to her. She rejected him emphatically and closed the door in his face. a short time afterwards he returned and repeated his insults, whereupon, without formal ceremony, she leveled a double barrel shot gun at his head with wonderful success - he having his head torn to pieces, from which he shortly died. There is no jury in Walton county that would find her guilty of any crime.