TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction to the Records

Superior Court Records

Inferior Court Records

County Court Records

Justice of Peace Courts Records

Ordinary Court

Glossary

Judges and Other Troup County Officials

Troup County and LaGrange Officials

JUDGES OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF TROUP COUNTY, 1827-1887

1826-1832Walter T. Colquitt
1833-1840Hiram Warner
Grisby E. Thomas (August 1833)*
Marshall J. Wellborn (April 1840)
1841-1844William Ezzard
1845-1853Edward Young Hill
David Irwin (May 1853)
Orville A. Bull (November 1853)
1854-1855Obediah Warner
1855-1863Orville A. Bull
D.F. Hammond (1856)
Edmund H. Worrill (1856)
David Irwin (1857 and 1860)
E.G. Cabanis (May 1858)
1864-1865Benjamin H. Bigham
1866-1867Hiram Warner
1867-1868John Collier
John Pope (November 1868 to January 1868)
1868-1871John S. Bigby
R.D. Harvey (November 1868)
1871-1872William F. Wright
1872-1880Hugh Buchanan
J.W.H. Underwood (November 1873)
Johnathon Hale (November 1874)
James M. Mobley (November 1874)
Martin J. Crawford (November 1875)
1881-1882Francis M. Longley
1881-1903Sampson W. Harris
Daniel Lumpkin (April 1887)
John W. Maddox (April 1888)
John Chandler (July 1802)
1903-1904Thomas A. Atkinson
1903-1904Robert W. Freeman
L.S. Roan (May 1806)
S.P. Gilbert (1808)
C.S. Reid (1814)
1917-1920J. Render Terrell
1921-1930Charles E. Roop
1931-1943Lee B. Wyatt
1944-1960Samuel J. Boykin
1971-1974Lamar Knight
1974-1985Joseph C. Jackson
1986-Allen B. Keeble
?Quillian Baldwin

*Dates in parentheses indicate the approximate term in office for a substitute or presiding judge.

CLERKS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF TROUP COUNTY 1827-1987

1827-1835Nicholas Johnson
1835-1842Robert F. McGehee
1842-1848Moses Lee
1848-1850H.B. Williams
1850-1862William M. Latimer
1862-1866John F. Awtrey
1866-1875R.S. McFarlin
1875-1881John W. Sledge
1881-1887John Edward Toole
1887-1896E.T. Winn
1896-1914William L. Cleaveland
1814-1840G. Thomas Traylor
1914-1968John A. Carley
1969-Elizabeth W. Traylor

JUDGES OF THE INFERIOR COURT OF TROUP COUNTY 1827-1866

1827 Arthur Herring
Levi H. Hussey
Charles Kennon
James Taylor
1827-1828Whitfield Sledge
1828John E. Gage
1828-1828Samuel Reid
1828-1831James Maddox
1828-1832James P. Culberson
1828-1830Eaton Bass
1828-1830William C. Thomas
1828-1832James B. Simmons
1831-1832Woody Dozier
1831-1836Joel D. Newsom
1832-1833Collin Rogers
1833-1834Daniel Evans
1833-1834Edmund T. Harris
1833-1835Samuel A. Bailey
1833-1837Sankey T. Johnson
1834-1836Wilie Wilson
1835Robert Dougherty
1835-1836Elias Beall
1836-1837John S. Lewis
1836-1843Benjamin H. Cameron
1836-1845James M. Beall
1837-1838John Traylor
1837-1841Thomas I. Cook
1837-1842Collin Rogers
1838-1843Peter W. Lesley
1842Lewis A. Bond
1843-1845Robert A.T. Ridley
1843-1846John Greer
1843-1846Daniel Ware
1843-1850John Douglas
1845-1846Albert E. Cox
1845-1846Blount C. Ferrell
1846-1847Augustus B. Fannin
1846-1848Jesse McLendon
1847Nathan Renwick
1847-1848Levi Geer
1848Moses Lee
1848-1850Sherwood W. Swanson
1848-1852Samuel Reid
1848-1852Robert D.A. Tharp
1850-1851Robert J. Morgan
1851-1852Thomas J. Bacon
1851-1852James M. Beall
1853Thomas B. Greenwood
1853Alexander Speer
1853-1854Alexander A. Roberts
1853-1856Nathan Dozier
1853-1856Thomas E. Gorman
1854Joel M. Chivers
1854-1855Robert D.A. Tharp
1855John F. Douglas
1855-1858W.W. Hughey
1856-1858Thomas C. Miller
1857-1858B.B. Amoss
1857-1858W.H. Sims
1857-1860Benjamin H. Cameron
1858William C. Darden
1858-1862William Wagner
1858-1864Nathan B. Dozier
1858-1864Thomas J. Thornton
1860-1861John A Speer
1861-1863W.H. Sims
1861-1864Nathan L. Atkinson
1863-1864Hiram Dennis
1863-1864John Gorham
1866Thomas A. Boddie

JUDGES OF THE COUNTY COURT OF TROUP COUNTY 1866-1888

1866-1870Blount C. Ferrell
1870-1871[37th District Court - Judge J.H. Caldwell]
1872-1876[Justice of the Peace Courts]
1876-1878William W. Turner
1878-1882James M. Beall
1883-1886Thomas H. Whitaker
1887-1884William W. Turner
1885-1888R.A. Freeman
1888Frank P. Longley

JUDGES OF THE CITY COURT OF LAGRANGE 1900-1962

1900-1901Frank P. Longley
1901-1904Francis M. Longley
1905-1916Frank Harwell
1917-1918Edward T. Moon
1919-1924Duke Davis
1925-1944William T. Tuggle
1945-1952Henry Reeves
1953-1960Duke Davis
1961-1962Joseph C. Jackson

JUDGE OF THE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL COURT OF TROUP COUNTY 1962-1970

1962-1970 Joseph C. Jackson

JUDGES OF THE STATE COURT OF TROUP COUNTY 1970-1987

1970-1974Joseph C. Jackson
1974-1984A. Vernon Belcher
1984-1986Allen B. Keeble
1986-Jeannette Little

ORDINARY (1852-1976) AND PROBATE JUDGES (1976-1987) OF TROUP COUNTY

1852-1856Wiley H. Sims
1856-1858Thomas C. Evans
1858-1864Samuel Curtright
1864James Turner
1864-1868Littleton Pitts
1868-1872Henry H. Cary
1873-1877Littleton Pitts
1877-1888William C. Yancy
1888-1893Robert M. Young
1893-1901John B. Strong
1901-1924Henry T. Woodyard
1925-1950J. Forest Johnson
1950-1968P.T. Hipp
1968-1984J. Ely Hanson Sr.
1984-L. Gwen Prescott

MAYORS OF LAGRANGE

1874-1875William C. Yancy
1876Francis M. Longley
1877-1879John N. Cooper
1880-1881John Edward Toole
1882-1884Thomas J. Harwell
1885Robert S. McFarlin
1886-1887Frank M. Ridley
1888Henry E. Ware
1889-1890Elisha D. Pitman
1891-1892James F. Park
1893-1895Davis J. Gaffney
1895-1897Enoch Callaway
1898Thomas S. Bradfield
1899-1900Thomas J. Harwell
1901-1903John D. Edmundson
1903-1904Orville G. Cox
1905-1915John D. Edmundson
1916-1917Henry Reeves
1918C.N. Pike
1919-1923S.H. Dunson
1924-1927Grover C. Hunter
1928-1931Herman C. Fincher
1932-1947R.S. O'Neal
1948-1951Duke Davis
1952-1961Frank Tigner
1962-1963James G. Gallant
1964-J. Gardner Newman