The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
HISTORIC PLACES IN TERRELL
GEN. JACKsON's FAMOUS MARCH
THROUGH THIS SECTION.
Cant. McWilliams Names Pioneer Set
tiers Who Were Omitted FROM
the List Printed Week Ago.

the List Printed a Week Ago.
Doublv. thrice happy is the hlsto-
rian who writes the history OF his ma
rive land. in order to rescue from OBJ
1ivion it's history over which the t"l-
light of uncertainty is about to cast
ehadows and the night OF forgettui'
moss about to descend forever YES
sunarstructure upon which the fu-
+ura historian may rear monument
at which future generations may
gaze and over which the future ora
tor may grow so beautifully eloquent,
Here is Dawson, once the nome o.
Major Sidney C. DuBOse, a Drotnef VI
Mrs Gen. Robert Toombs; DoFet'
onco +he home of Mr.. William stew
one the father of Hon, o. b. Stevens
did Hortonyille, now old Chlckasd"-
ha+chee. once the home OF ColoHel
Thornhill; Chenubbee, once the nome
of Uncle William Parker-Parker S
mill now Jesse Bottoms; HollS
Grove, eight miles due east OF Jaw
son. once the home of William Dew
ereaux. All of these have a history,
could the historians be found Sala
Aristotle. Empires of themselves
are nothing without an historian.
Kingdoms. republics nor even taml-
lies are nothing without an historian.
For the benefit of the u. u. = s. l
wish to tell all l know ABOUT Uhe
march of General Andrew jackson
through Georgia, as they WISH the
truth of history. l will ever De ue-
lighted to aid them in any way caa'
The second war with Great Britain
hogan June 10, 1912, and l presume
General Jackson marched througp
Georgia in 1913, as he fought the
Creek Indians at the Big Horse ohoe
Bend on the TallapoOsa river III Ala
hama on March 20, 1914. l regret
that I can 90 no further back than
R1ackshear's Ferry on the Oconee
river. five miles above Dublin, where
| know his army crossed the r1Vet'
then taking the old "Uchee Trall 10
Old Hartford, then the county seat OF
Pulaski county, on the east bank OF
Ocmulgee river, just opposite Hawk
insyiIle; then taking the "BlacksheaF
Trail" came to old Fort Early on the
Flint. via Swift creek, and six miles
south of old Berrien, now Vienna, IN
Dooly, after crossing Flint river al
Old Fort Early, now Warwick, came
nv old Cheka town, through ola
Starkville (Leesburg), crossed k1nch-
afoonee near there (the same is cali
ed Jacks1n's bridge to this day., on
TO old Hortonville, now ChickasaW-
hatchee. where, it is said, he threw
ND some Notifications and spent
three DAYS, passing on through old
Whitney (now Dickey), Edison, Mars
Hill and through Fort Gaines. rms
is known as the old Hartford road
even to this day AS before stated, old
Hartford is on the east bank or the
Ocmulgee river, opposite Hawkins
Vile, the present county seat OF Pu-
laski county.
Through Georgia General JACK
sons march is known as The old Hart
ford road, and through Alabama as
the Three Notch road.
In my last letter unintentionally
| omitted the names of Cousin Jared
Irwin, for he always called me Cous-
in Alex; E. F. Bynum, who was born
here in 1886, and for six years was
a schoolmate of mine at Rehoboth
from 1916 to 1851; William Thorn
ton, second sheriff of Terrell county,
and Wiley Johnstone-all gone to
that bourne whence no traveller ever
returns" Thebes with her hundred
gates and Pompeii and Herculaneum
are no more. T. A. McWlLLlAMS.