(The following is an excerpt from two articles that ran in the newspaper on both of these dates.)
The new county will be created........"from western Thomas County and eastern Decatur County...........and to Florida, on west to lot 15, three and a half miles west of Whigham and on north to Mitchell County, comprising Spence, Ochlocknee, Blowing Cave, Lime Sink, Spring Hill, Whigham, Pearce, Reagans, Calvary, Cairo and the 18th District."
The names of the New County Executive Committee for the formation of Grady County were listed in The Cairo Messenger on December 2 and December 9, 1904 issues as follows:
| Charles
Mauldin John Thomason W. S. Wight S. W. Williams J. C. Matthews A. C. Forester L. B. Powell D. R. Oliver R. R. Terrell Randolph Russell John Garland F. J. Wind F. M. Cox John F. Griner H. B. Sutton W. B. Jones J. F. Stone James Booth James Sasser T. W. Faircloth W. B. Roddenberry Henry Shores Ringold Godwin W. B. Godwin |
A. L. Vickers L. A. Sasser Rev. W. J. Hurst W. C. Matthews L. L. Barwick A. W. Boyette Alfred Shiver John P. Chason H. A. Maxwell J. R. Sanders Joe King Frank McKean John B. Crawford A. H. Sasser E. L. Broome Lucius Hall P. H. Herring W. B. Hawthorne John Rehberg J. I. Gandy Frank Miller John H. Collins Thomas Wight W. A. Garrett |
Natt Cox John Booth Sampson Williams F. A. Richter W. G. Baggett Charles Joiner J. L. Ingram John K. Godwin Lenard Barwick W. H. Waldron Walter Davis Thomas Rushin R. Y. Hurst H. J. Poulk J. L. Peebles J. S. E. Wilder William Allen D. C. Maxwell P. H. Hesters Jace Maxwell J. B. Wight William Drew Dock Tyus John R. Singletary |
Dr. W. A. Walker W. D. Barber J. H. P. Lewis J. F. Forester James Deas Prior Lewis Rev. W. G. Sellers W. A. Shriner B. H. Pope T. S. Copeland Ed Clay Walter Harper Kedar Powell J. J. Reagan D. O. Pearce W. W. Pearce T. L. Wilder J. F. Mills Martin Harrell V. H. Singletary Fayette Barber J. J. Hurst J. L. Mauldin John Wade |
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