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26 Oct 1860, Macon Telegraph:

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15 Jan 1861, Columbus Enquirer:

Will be sold before the Courthouse door in the town of Buena Vista, Marion County, GA on the first Tuesday in Feb next, within the legal hours of sale, the following property to wit:

Lots of land #126 and 69 in the 31st District of originally Lee now Marion County as the property of David Golden to satisfy a mortgage fifa issued from Marion Superior Court in favor of Zachariah Proctor vs David Golden. D N Maddux, Shff. 

Homicide on the Cars - We learn from Mr Tipton, the freight agent and acting conductor on our railroad, that on Wens, on the upward trip of the train, whilst waiting to take wood and water at the Hamburg Station, Mr Green B Sanders, of Marion, shot and killed Mr Wm L Sanders of the same place, in one of the passenger cars.  These gentlemen were relatives.  Today they were returning from Selma, where they had been for the purpose of trying to compromise and settle a controversy that had been pending for some time between them in reference to the estate Mr Green Sanders father, of which the deceased was trustee, for awhile before the elder Sanders death.  They failed to make a settlement in Selma, and were returning home.  Mr W. L. S. was in one car and Mr G. S. was in the other until the train stopped at Hamburg, when the latter came into the car where the former was sitting and taking a seat near him, only a few words passed before the shooting took place.  The wounded man made an attempt to pursue the homicide but fell from the car.  Mr Tipton had the body taken up and put ion the car again, when he ordered the engineer to state and not stop for any cause until they reached Marion.  Mr. Green Sanders remained on the cars until the train reached Marion, when he and Col. Crowe (his son in law) who was with him, entered a vehicle and drove off.

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31 Jan 1861: Georgia Weekly Telegraph:

Georgia, a free and independent State: Marion County: W M Brown and J M Harvey.

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23 Aug 1861, Georgia Weekly Telegraph:

New Regiments.....Marion Guards, Capt M H Blandford.

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11 Oct 1861, Georgia Weekly Telegraph:

Georgians killed and wounded.......Richard Cory of the Marion Guardians, killed.

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20 Dec 1861, Georgia Weekly Telegraph:

A confederate Victory in Western VA, Cheat Mountain.....Among those killed was Lewis S Thompson, of the Marion Guards, a son of Judge Thompson of Wheeling.

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Jan 30, 1862, Macon Telegraph

Southern Planters Convention in Memphis, TN: M. Burns, Marion County.

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Macon Telegraph, 18 Feb 1863:

Obituary: Died, in Richmond Virginia, January 6, 1862, of smallpox, Elbert M Melton of the "Marion Guards", 12th Georgia Regiment, aged 22 years, 9 months, 6 days. 

As one of the "immortal twelfth" he has done his duty well.  Delicately constituted as he was, not many months of hard service had passed through, ere ill and dispirited, he returned home, but at last, pale and waster in body, but with iron will unbent - still rejecting a discharge, he turned again to the broad field of usefulness spread before him.  Too feeble for the arduous duties of the camp, he was placed in one of the Georgia Hospitals as a nurse.

Oft has the gentle tough and kind words of the pale boy, brought sweet visions of the "loved ones at h ome" to the dying pillow of the brave soldier.  Tenderly and faithfully he went on his mission of mercy until the dread monster small pox seized upon his frame and bore him with iron grasp to an early grave.

Of a timid and reserved disposition, he had no intimates, yet "none knew him but to love him".  It were a vain task to portray to the strangers mind the virtues of our lost one.  Sister - whose fond brother falls on the gory battlefield of a strange land; mother, whose noble boy has laid down to breathe out his precious life upon the rude soldiers pallet, while the quivering lips can form but a wild prayer for "one more blessed sight of mother" - you alone can know the weight of the crushing grief which came to the bereaved hearts with the tidings "Elbert is dead!" Alas.

We twine the fadeless laurels 'round the pale young sleepers brow,

In vain - in vain the tear wet gift - he does not heed us now,

Pitying Savior! guide our footsteps onward to life's golden shores,

To meet him there - to breathe in tears, the wild farewell no more!

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Columbus Enquirer, 1 Dec 1865:

William B Nutt, guardian of James A Nutt, applies for letters of dismission, all persons concerned are hereby notified to file their objections within the time prescribed by law to the dismission of said guardian. Witness my hand in office. Nov 29, 1865. J M Lowe, Ordinary.

Will be sold before the Court House in the town of Buena Vista, on the first Tuesday in February next, the law office and library of Thaddeus Oliver, deceased.  The office is in the town of Buena Vista, with an extensive library.  Mrs S P Oliver, Administrator.

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Macon Weekly Telegraph, 5 Mar 1869:

Marion County - The Columbus Enquirer is informed by a letter from Marion, that Wm B Butt has been elected a representative in the legislature for that county to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Wm M Butt.

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