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MURRAY COUNTY HISTORY 1911
by CHARLES H. SHRINER
Published in 1911

CHAPTER XII
Our Public Servants


     List of Superior Court Judges. John W. Hooper, 1833; O. H. Kennan, 1836; Turner H. Tripp, 1839; George D. Anderson, 1843; John A. Jones. 1843: Augustus R. Wright, 1844; John W. Hooper, 1850; John 11. Lumpkin. 1851; Turner H. Tripp, 1855; Leander W. Crook, 1859; Dawson A. Walker, 1860; James Milner, 1860; Josiah U. Parrott. 1868; Cicero D. McCutchen. 1872; Joel C. Fain, 1881; Thos. W. Miller, 1889; Augustus W. Fite, 1897.

     There has been one legal hanging in the county. James Graves was hung at Spring Place, Nov. 21, 18.44, for the murder of a traveler from Kentucky. The gallows stood just east of the Pendley residence.

     List of Superior Court Clerks. Nelson Dickerson, William N. Bishop, John L. Beal, F. B. Morris, E. H. Edmondson. Robert McCamy. Ralph Ellison, U. L. Osborn, Samuel M. Walls, S. B. McCamy, John Gault, Mark M. Leonard, L. F. Peeplcs, Hiram Heartsill, Miles H. Bramblett, Levi L. Campbell, C. N. King, Sam Fincher, Wm. J. Johnson, Geo. H. Arrowood, J. Dan Gallman.

     List of Sheriffs. James Buchanan, William Galloway, William McGaughy, R. T. Beck, W. Harvey Ramsey, Wm. G. Harris, John II. Kuhn, Wm. D. Heartsill, John C. McEntire, A. T. Logan, C. L. Terry, S. B. Carter, J. L. Robinson, W. C. Groves, Ben Keith, B.H.. Willbanks.

     List of Treasurers. Chas. Staples, W. H. Staples, M. W. Harris, Wm. H. Steed, Sam Walls, Dr. W. J. Worsham, J. W. Patrick, M. M. Roberts, T. J. Ovbey, Ben Gregory, Orange Parrott, Wm. A. Campbell, Richard Springfield.

     List of Tax Collectors. Dan Waycasey, Daniel Taylor, U. H. Duncan, Minyard H. Harris. M. M. Bates, J. Y. Hemphill. Mont Roberts. Wm. Loughridge, Daily Gregory, William G. Harris, E. W. Rembert, Lum Loughridge, M. M. Welch, N. A. Parsons, Joshua Chapman, John Gregory.

     List of Tax Receivers. Wm. J. Peeples, Chas. D. Adair. U. H Duncan, Jesse. Jackson, J. D. Orr. E. W. Rembert, J. W. Patrick, M. H. Bramblelt. Cicero Lindsey.

     County School Commissioners. S. H. Henry and W. D. G regory.

     Representatives. Wm. N. Bishop, Dennis Carroll, J. D. McDonald, Ben Carter. Sr., Dr. Leech, Sam E. Fields, Colquit Carter, Tom Conley, John Oats, Nick Harris, Wm. Luffman, Cicero C. Howell, E. W. Rembert, Ben Wofford, M. M. Bates, Pleasant McGhee, W. J. Peeples, Seth A. Gregory, J. J. Bates, V. A. Stuart, W. L. Henry, A. K. Ramsey, Thomas Ramsey, J. W. Austin, S. A. Brown.

     State Senators from Murray. Major R. E. Wilson, Col. J. A. McCamy, Trammel Star, E. W. Rembert, Col. C. N. King.

     October Election, 1910, passed off quietly. The following officers were elected: State Senator, C. T. Owens; Representative. J. C. McEntire; Clerk, W. H. Robinson, Sheriff, B. H. Willbanks; Tax Receiver, W. C, Lindsey ; Tax Collector, G. T. Smith; Treasurer, R. T. Springfield; School Commissioner, R. N. Steed; Coroner, J. S. Keister; Comity Commissioner, T. M. Hemphill; Surveyor, M. W. Shields.

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