The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-09-13

| u0dEu one L L6dIO d huuOlION pei suns
speak of Lee having been created and
named in honor of Robert E. Lee, the
great confederate chieftain AS
matter of history Lee county was
made away back in 1926 and named
after Gen. Lees great ancestor, Rich
ard Henry Lee of Virginia, who moved
the immortal resolution in the CONT
mental congress that the colonies ''are
and of right ought to be free and in
dependent states"
Similarly several public men insist
ed that Cobb county was created to
the credit of Howell Cobb, while 9th
ers said it was in honor of Tom Cobb,
that splendid soldier who persisted on
the field of Fredericksburg. One man
said he knew cobb county was named
! for Tom Cobb at the same time that
Cass county was changed to Barlow
county to commemorate Gen. Francis
! S. Barlow, who met a hero's death on
the battlefield of Manassas" Never
theless, Cobb county was taken out of
Cherokee in 1882 and named for Judge
Thomas w. Cobb, one of the most
distinguished lawyers and jurists of
the state.
Coming to the capital one day on
the Central Railway several of us got
to talking new counties, when one of
the party startled US all with the fol-
lowing proposition;
"By our bloods, I'm in favor of
changing some county names, as we'll
as making new counties. There's Lin
coin and Bullock counties. | reckon
the radicals and niggers put them on
us during the reconstruction. We
certainly don't want to keep counties
named after Abe Lincoln and old Rufe
Bullock"
And it took some positive declara-
tiOns to make him believe that Lin
coin county was carved out of Wilkes
away back yonder in 1896 and named
in honor of Major General Benja amin
Lincoln of Massachusetts, at one time
during the revolution the commander
of all the American troops in this
southern department. Even then he
swore he would ''just as lief not have
a county named after a man from that
id Massachusetts,, anyhow"
He also finally agreed to believe
that Bulloch county is not spelled
with final SIX, - and that it, too was
created in 1896 and named in honor of
Archibald Bulloch, the maternal great
grandfather of President Roosevelt,
who first read the Declaration of In
denendence 10 the people of Georgia
in Savannah, drank a toast to THE
United States of America" and or
dered an effigy of King George to be
publicly burned. Still our friend said
he would like it better if old man
Bulloch hadn't been the great grand
daddy of Teddy Roosevelt -
I was somewhat surprised to hear
during the debate over Crisp county
a senator refer to Dooly county as
having been created in honor of Judge
Dooly, the famous jurist and mimi
table wit of the Georgia bar of hun
bred years ago. The county was Gre
ated by the lottery act of 1921, and
named in honor of Judge Dooly's
father, Col John Dooly, a superb
Georgia soldier of the revolution.
Savannah county was created in
1741 by the trustees of the colony, but
changed to Chatham after the colony
became a free state.
Bourbon county, Georgia, puzzled
me for long time, but Dr. Bur
roughs of Brunswick, one of the best
posted men on Georgiana in the state,
says it was the territory around
Natchez, on the Mississippi river. /
That river was, up to 1902. the western
boundary of Georgia: but Natchez