Jones County State Historical Marker

Located at the Jones County Courthouse, Gray, Ga.

 

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JONES COUNTY

 

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.

 

084-5 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1955

Photo: Ed Jackson

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