Crawford County GA Newspaper Abstracts

• Volume 1 Number 1 of Knoxville Journal bears the date of January 27, 1888, Percy V. Howell, Publisher.

• Volume V Number 7 of The Correspondent, at Knoxville, November 28, 1895 lists E. B. Trammell as Editor and Publisher.  (He later moved to Harris County and died there)  The Correspondent's name was changed to the Roberta Tyler about 1900, and moved from Knoxville to Roberta.  Later, the name was changed again, likely to Crawford County News.

• John H. Lowe was Editor of the paper at Roberta about 1900.  He and his wife later moved to Byron and was in banking there.

• Steve M. Wright was also an Editor of the paper around 1900.

• "The Excelsior" - CBH Moncrief was the editor and manager - 1907

• Volume 15 Number 33, 1910, Crawford County News, Roberta, lists R. M. (Robert) Reynolds as Editor and Publisher.

• Volume 16 Number 40 also lists Reynolds as Editor and Publisher.

• Crawford Moncrief founded The Georgia Post at Knoxville, still being published, although for a time by J. L. Taylor, at Talbotton, who had a chain of papers.

• The News was also published for a number of years at Knoxville or Roberta with Herrin as Publisher.  The News was combined with The Georgia Post.

• The Times was also published in Roberta for a number of years and was also combined with The Georgia Post.

Newspapers of Crawford County in UGA Library 

Articles

• May 1828

• American Democrat, Premier issue of May 17, 1834, Macon, Bibb Co, GA page 2, available on Georgia Historic Newspapers on Galileo

• CRAWFORD JUNE SALES.- C -Will be sold on the first Tuesday in June next, before the court house door in the town of Knoxville, Crawford county, within the usual hours of sale, the following property,
  to wit:
  60 bushels of corn, and 100 lbs. of fodder, more or less, levied on as the property of Harrison Tony, to satisfy sundry fi fas issued from one of the Jue's Courts of Upson county, in favor of Susan Harel vs. Harrison Tony, and one other fi fa issued from Upson Superior Court, in favor of James M. Allen, bearer, ve. Harrison Tony, Wm. Robertson, and James Mour- moa, security on appeal. Property pointed out by plaintiff's attorney: levy made and returned to me by a constable. O. M. COLBERT, D. Sh'f
  ALSO, two lots of land Nos. 19 and 225, one in the 1st district, and the other in the 7th district of former- ly Houston now Crawford county, containing in all 500 acres, more or less, and one Barouch, all levied on as the property of John T. Henderson, to satisfy a fi fa issued from Crawford Superior Court, in favor of Patrick Price, vs. John T. Henderson. Property pointed out by the defendant.
  Also, Lot No. 93, in the 1st district of formerly Houston now Crawford county, as the property of James Beasley, to satisfy a fi fa issued from Crawford Inferior Court, in favor of Causey & Dennis, vs. James Beasley Property pointed out by the plaintiff May 16.
  WM. CAMPBELL, D. S'E RAWFORD JUNE SALES.-Will be sold on the first Tuesday in June next, before the court house door in the town of Knoxville, Crawford county, within the usual hours of sale, the following property, to wit:
  2021 acres of Land, No. 123, in the 2d district of originally Houston now Crawford county, levied on as the property of Lewis Davis, to satisfy a fi fa issued from Crawford Inferior Court, in favor of Leroy M. Wiley, W. G. Lane and Hugh R. Banks endorsers, vs. Lewis Davis maker, and James A. Taylor endor- BCT. Property pointed out by maker.
  ALSO, 2021 acres of Land, more or less, No. 73, in the 6th district of originaily Houston now Crawford county, levied on as the property of William Richard- son, to satisfy a fi fa issued from Crawford Superior Court, in favor of Radford J. Turner, vs. William Richardson
  ALSO, one negro man Sawney, levied on as the property of Samuel H. Harris, to satisfy sundry fi fas issued from a Justice's Court, in said county, in favor of E. M. & E. M. Amos, vs. Samuel II Harris Property pointed out by defendant, levy made and return- ed to me by a constable. The above negro Sawney having been sold on the first Tuesday is this inst. the purchaser fading to comply with the conditions of sale, he will consequently be sold at his risk.
  May 17.
  O. M. COLBERT, D. Sif

• April 1852

• June 1858

• June 1864

• September 1879

• May 8, 1889 (Tracing a Fugitive Who Drives Through Several Counties And is Finally Run Down by the Officers – A Desperate Fight in Which He is Wounded – General News of the City)

• February 1893

• June 1894

• March 1896

• September 1889

• 1911

• January 1912

• April 1915

• June 1915

• September 1915

From the Crawford County Correspondent  (Click on for a larger view)

Fort Valley Mirror

• I have a scrapbook apparently kept by Virgil S. Holton (who was Crawford County Ordinary--the forerunner of Probate Judge) during the later 1800s and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Dickson Holton, who was my great-grndmother's sister. One clipping from 1878 describes a meeting of the county Democratic Executive Committee held in July, 1878 at the courthouse, and it contains the statement that a record of the proceedings "were ordered to be printed in the Fort Valley Mirror, the official organ of Crawford County." So it seems that the Mirror may have served for a time--I don't know how long, though-- as the official organ.  The Fort Valley Mirror was published "at Roberta" from 1880-81. ***** Submitted by Gina Ruth Smith ←

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