**Exhibit      31.1**

**SOUTHERN      HERITAGE BANCSHARES, INC.**

**FORM      10-Q**

**Quarter      ended June 30, 2007**

**CERTIFICATIONS**

| a) | designed                such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material                information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated                subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities,                particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is                being                prepared; |
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| b) | evaluated                the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures                as of June 30, 2007 (the “Evaluation                Date”); |
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| c) | presented                in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness                of the                disclosure controls and procedures based on our evaluation as of                the                Evaluation Date; and |
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| d) | disclosed                in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over                financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent                fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely                to                materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial                reporting. |
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| a) | all                significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or                operation of internal control over financial reporting which are                reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to                record,                process, summarize and report financial information;                and |
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| b) | any                fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other                employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal                control                over financial reporting. |
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