Bibb County, Georgia History and Genealogy: American History and Genealogy Project: Macon Vital Records, Cemeteries

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Bibb County, Georgia

The 54th county formed in Georgia, created in 1822 from part of Houston County, was Bibb. It was so named for Dr. William Wyatt Bibb, who lived in Elbert County, and served in the US House of Representatives as well as the US Senate. In 1816, he was appointed governor of the Territory of Alabama and became the first elected governor of that state.

The county has two incorporated municipalities: Macon, the county seat, and Payne City.

Macon, named after Senator Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina, was incorporated in 1823. North Carolina was the home state of most of the early white settlers in the area. Macon's City Hall served as the temporary state capitol from November, 1864 to March, 1865.

Two notable Georgians from Bibb County are Sidney Clopton Lanier (1842-1881), poet, author, and musician, and the late Otis Redding, famous for "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay."

Macon is also home to Wesleyan College, founded in 1836 as the Georgia Female College. It was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. Mercer University is also located in Macon.

~ Addresses:

Macon-Bibb County Health Department
Attention: Vital Records
171 Emery Highway
Macon, Georgia 31217
Ph: (478) 749-0102
(birth since 1891; death since 1882)

Bibb County Courthouse
P.O. Box 4708
Macon, Georgia 31298
Ph: (478) 749-6527
Website

Georgia Department of Human Resources
Vital Records Unit
2600 Skyland Drive, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30319-3640
Ph: (404) 679-4701
Fax: (404) 524-4278
Email: GDPHINFO@dhr.state.ga.us

~ Biographies:

~ 1934 Members of the American Bar (biographical sketches)
~ ADAMS, Daniel H., a Biographical Sketch
~ ADAMS, O. F., a Biographical Sketch
~ ALLEN, George D., a Personal Sketch
~ ALLMAN, Duane
~ BACON, Augustus O., a Personal Sketch
~ BARRON, Dr. Robert B., a Personal Sketch
~ BAXTER, John Springs, a Personal Sketch
~ BAYNE, Marmaduke G., a Biographical Sketch
~ BLOCK, Aleck, a Personal Sketch
~ BRANHAM, Alfred Iverson, a Biographical Sketch
~ Congressional Biographies
Those Rooted in the State of Georgia
~ COX, William R., a Personal Sketch
~ DAVIS, William A., a Personal Sketch
~ HALL, Joseph H., a Biographical Sketch
~ JOHNSON, James C., M.D., a Biographical Sketch
~ KING, Griffin David, a Biographical Sketch

~ LANIER, Robert S., Esq., a Biographical Sketch
~ Biographical Sketches of Selected Members of the PEAVY Family
~ PEAVY Search Results at OneGreatFamily
~ POLLOCK Family Notes
~ REDDING, Otis

~ Reference Books:

~ Cities, Towns, and Communities of Georgia Between 1847-1962: 8,500 Places and the County in Which Located
Compiled by Marion R. Hemperley, Deputy Surveyor General of Georgia
~ The Escape of William & Ellen Craft from Slavery (read it online!)
~ History Of The American Negro And His Institutions: Georgia Edition

~ Click Here for More Bibb County, GA History & Reference Books

~ Cemeteries:

Andrews	Avondale Baptist Church	Bass United Methodist Church	Bethel Baptist Church	Bowman	Carlos Burying Ground
Davis	Evergreen	Fort Hawkins	Fort Hill	Glen Haven Memorial Gardens	Jones Chapel
Liberty United Methodist est. 1880	Linwood	Macon Memorial Park	McKinney Family	New Elim Baptist Church	Oakridge
Outler Family	Parker est. 1840	Raley & Hilborn	Riverside	Rose Hill	Saint Dennis
Saints Rest	Sardis	Stone Creek	Stubbs Church	Travis Huff	Tucker
Unionville Missionary Baptist Church	Waldron	-	-	-	-

~ Census:
~ 1850 Bibb County Census
~ 1850 Mortality Schedule
~ 1930 Census Fact Sheet

~ Churches/Religion:

~ List of Churches in Macon, Georgia (addresses included)
~ Christ Episcopal Church, est. 1825. The oldest church in Macon. Current building was built in 1852. Georgia poet Sidney Lanier was married there in 1867.
~ First Baptist Church, est. before 1845
~ First Baptist Church of Christ, est. 1826. Current building in historic downtown Macon built in 1887.
~ First Presbyterian Church PCA, est. before 1858. Its membership rolls included the poet Sidney Lanier.
~ Holsey Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, est. about 1895
~ Mulberry Street United Methodist Church, est. 1826. Known as the mother church of Methodism in Georgia.
~ St. Joseph's Catholic Church, est. 1840
~ St. Paul's Episcopal Church, est. 1869
~ Swift Creek Baptist Church, est. 1800s
~ Temple Beth Israel, est. 1859
~ Tremont Temple Baptist Church, est. 1897
~ Washington Avenue Presbyterian Church, est. 1838. The oldest African American Presbyterian Church in Georgia. Current building was built in 1869 and remodeled in 1904.

~ Cities, Towns, and Communities (Past and Present):

Amason	Arkwright/Holton	Armcork	Avondale	Bailey's Mill	Barnetfield
Bartlett	Bodine	Bond	Burketts	Camp Hope	Centaur
Central Junction	Chalk Cut	Cochran Field	Cotton Yard	Cowart	Cross Keys
Crumps	Delight	Drybranch	Echaconnee	Eleanor	Fort Hawkins
Franklinton	Gilesville	Glidden	Lizella	Macon	Payne City

~ Macon: A Center of Attraction from the Earliest Times

~ Family Trees Online:
~ OneGreatFamily
~ Ancestry World Tree
This database is a collection of user-submitted family trees. It contains millions of references to lineage linked individuals and families identifying research on given family lines. This database is a "compiled source" and is an important tool for helping you find others who are researching the same family lines as you and see the work that has already been done on them.
~ ALLEN Family History provided by Jimmy Allen
~ Descendants of John AMERSON
~ Descendants of Carolus ANDERSON

~ Descendants of Thomas William ANDERSON
~ Families Across Time: Personal Family History Website of Christina Auch
Includes information on the ANDREWS and LAVARRE families.
~ Descendants of J. Dawson AULTMAN
~ Descendants of John M. CASTENS
~ Descendants of James GRIFFITH
~ Descendants of J. A. ROBERTSON
~ The SWEENEY Family of Bibb County, Georgia
Surnames include: Sweeney, Scandrett, Sanders, Phillips, Middlebrooks, Burke, Malloy, and others.
~ Descendants of Henry VINSON
~ Descendants of Robert WARREN
~ Descendants of Berry YAUGHN
If you have a family tree online that pertains to Bibb County, email me the details. I will place a link to it here for FREE!

~ Funeral Homes:

Bentley & Sons Funeral Home 2714 Montpelier Ave Macon, GA Ph: (478) 742-0952	Crest Lawn Funeral Home 3275 Pio Nono Ave Macon, GA Ph: (478) 788-1234	Glover Memorial Mortuary 1397 2nd St Macon, GA Ph: (478) 744-0954	Hart's Mortuary
Hicks & Sons Mortuary 2233 Anthony Rd Macon, GA Ph: (478) 788-4300	Hutchings Funeral Home 536 New St Macon, GA Ph: (478) 743-1212	Jones Brothers Eastlawn Chapel 3035 Millerfield Rd Macon, GA Ph: (478) 743-3331	Randall Memorial Mortuary 3155 Pio Nono Ave Macon, GA Ph: (478) 781-5454
	Snow's Memorial Chapel 746 Cherry St Macon, GA Ph: (478) 743-7417	Thomas Memorial Mortuary 1998 Mercer University Dr Macon, GA Ph: (478) 741-0940

~ Industry:
~ Crown Candy began in Atlanta in 1917. It moved to Macon in 1971.

~ Macon's Business Climate: Growing Downtown and All Around

~ Interesting Facts:
~ The first Christian baptism in the United States is said to have taken
place at Macon in the Ocmulgee River in 1540.
~ At Fort Hawkins, on 8 October 1813, the first white child was born in
what is now Macon. She was Martha Pearson COOK, daughter of Major Phil
Cook. Martha later married Isaac WINSHIP.
~ COOK and WINSHIP Search Results at OneGreatFamily

~ Land Records:
~ Deed Files of Harrison King SMITH

~ Deed Abstracts
~ Ambrose Barber to Robert Collins & John Martin
~ Robert M. Broach, trustee for Martha D. Morris wife of Hardy Morris to Mildred Odom, guardian for George W. Odom
~ Charles Collins to John Martin
~ Aurelius Franklin to William Solomon, John Martin, Robert B. Washington
~ Robert Lundy to Thomas P. Stubbs
~ Mahoney to John Martin & John Hamilton
~ John & Eliza J. Martin
~ Robert Martin (John Martin's Estate)
~ John & Eliza J. Martin
~ John Martin to Robert M. Broach, Trustee of Martha D. Morris
~ John Martin & Charles D. McDonald to John Anderson
~ John Martin & John Hamilton to George A. Smith
~ Charles I. McDonald to Harrison Smith
~ Harrison Smith to William Scott
~ Hartwell P. Smith to Stephen S. Thomson
~ Justices of Superior Court to Harrison Smith
~ Leroy M. Wiley, Thomas W. Baxter & Farish Carter to John Martin

~ Libraries:

Washington Memorial Library	Atlanta Public Library 1 Marageret Mitchell Square Atlanta, Georgia 30303	National Archives - Southeast Region 1557 St. Joseph Avenue East Point, Georgia 30344
Georgia Department of Archives and History 330 Capital Avenue, SE Atlanta, Georgia 30334	Georgia Historical Library and Society 501 Whittaker Street Savannah, Georgia 31499	Library of Congress and Annex 1st-2nd Streets, SE Washington, DC 20504

~ Lookups:
~ Bibb County Lookups

~ Mailing Lists

~ Maps:
~ Historical Atlas: Years included are 1823, 1830, 1839, 1863, 1874,
1883, 1885, 1895, 1904, 1910, 1915, 1952, 1955, and 1970.
~ Downtown Macon Map
~ County Militia Districts
~ Early Maps from Georgia's Virtual Vault

~ Miscellaneous Data:
~ 1904 Georgia Medical Directory
~ Abstracts from Georgia Slave Narratives
~ Bibb County Patients, Central State Hospital

~ GenDisasters
~ Georgia Slave Bills of Sale
~ Georgia Tornadoes

~ History of the Cherry Blossom Festival
~ Letters from Cawley Clinton HUDSON to Bertha Mae AULTMAN
~ Lynching Victims in America
~ Macon Grand Lodge

~ Native Americans:
~ Ancestry Launches 150 Years of Native American Family History

~ Virtual Visit of the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds National Monument

~ Neighboring Counties:
~ Crawford ~ Houston ~ Jones ~ Monroe ~ Twiggs ~

~ Newspapers:
~ Historical Georgia Newspaper Items
~ Confederate Soldiers' Home of Atlanta News Article
~ Macon Telegraph
~ Item: Praises Macon's Beauty
~ Macon Telegraph Clippings
~ Macon Messenger Clippings
~ Old News

~ Obituaries
~ Obituaries at SouthernGraves
~ Death and Funeral Notices at OldNews

~ Queries:
~ Bibb County Queries on Rootsweb

~ Bibb County Scenery:
~ Macon Postcards

~ Officers' Tents, Camp Wheeler, Macon

~ Schools/Education:
~ Macon's Early Lessons on Education
~ Ballard Hudson High School, est. 1949
~ Central City College (African-American) was in operation 1899 - 1956. The name was changed to Georgia Baptist College in 1938. Levels of instruction: elementary, secondary, industrial, junior college, 2-year theological program. Source

~ Central Georgia Technical College
~ Gresham Grammer School Class Photos - early 1950's
~ Macon State College
~ Mercer University (est. 1833)
~ Mercer University High School was in operation 1883 - 1900.
~ Pio Nono College was in operation from 1876 - aft. 1887. It was named for Pope Pius IX and started by the Diocese of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

~ St. Stanislaus College
~ Sidney Lanier High School for Boys (now known as Central High School)
~ Wesleyan Female College (est. 1836 as Georgia Female College)
~ May 1894 Wesleyan Graduates

~ Social History:
~ Bibb County Convicts

~ Crime in Georgia
~ Georgia Crime & Criminals Blog

~ Newspaper Account of the Murder of John BRASWELL
~ Now contains transcripts, submitted by Jeanie Smith Zadach, of newspaper articles about the 1864 murder of Robert MARTIN, Macon resident and the 1910 murder of R. V. SMITH, Jones County resident.
~ Social History Books and Links for the Georgia Researcher

~ Sports and Recreation:
~ Luther Williams Field, Home of the Macon Peaches and the Macon Braves
~ Georgia State Fair (Macon) Historic Photo Gallery

~ Surnames:

~ If you would like your Bibb County surnames listed, along with your email address, please email me your information.

ALEXANDER	debbie@pentecost.org
ASHBROOK	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
AVANT	mbaldwin001@centurytel.net
BARTLETT	lites@aristotle.net
BAZEMORE	aph1@cox.net
BRANTLEY	tanaslinker1@aol.com NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
BROWN	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
BRUNDAGE	DROGERS1@ec.rr.com
CASTLEN/CASTLIN	bcastlen@insightbb.com
COLLIER	baerherbert@hotmail.com
COLLINS	vharris52@aol.com
COMBS	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
DAVIS	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
DICKERSON	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
FORD	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
FORTE	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
FRANKLIN	dunpheyaa@yahoo.com
GATES	aph1@cox.net
GEWINNER	rstrauss@io.com
GRAVES	LADYSKYHAWK37@HOTMAIL.COM
GRIFFIN	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
GUNN	jcrane9579@aol.com
HARDEMAN	baerherbert@hotmail.com
HARP	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
HART	faucette9145@bellsouth.net
HENDRICK	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
HOFFMAN	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
HOUSTON	redped@sbcglobal.net
HUMPHREY(S)	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
HUNT	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
JACKSON	jjackson8@jam.rr.com
KEEL	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
KELL	mbaldwin001@centurytel.net
KITCHENS	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
KNIGHT	harawayclaudia@aol.com
LANGSTON	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
MCELROY	n4xfh@bellsouth.net
MCGEE	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
MILLIRONS	DROGERS1@ec.rr.com
NOWELL	dmills130@comcast.net
OUTLER	rpreston@charter.net
PAIGE	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
PARKER	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
PEAVY	famtreenow@aol.com
PENTECOST	debbie@pentecost.org
PRESTON	rpreston@charter.net
ROQUEMORE	aph1@cox.net
SHARP	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
SHEPHERD	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
SHIPMAN	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
SINQUEFIELD	Bsinquefield@aol.com
SLOCUMB	rpreston@charter.net
STALLINGS	debbie@pentecost.org
TREMBLE	tymeka1@hotmail.com
VANDIVERE	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
WEST	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
WHITE	drtooley@sbcglobal.net
WHITEHURST	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
WHITTLE	NadineSinkwitz@cox.net
WIMBUSH	tymeka1@hotmail.com
WOOD	jwaite@ncf.edu
WRIGLEY	eedgmon@yahoo.com

~ Georgia Travel:
~ Georgia Travel Information Guide to Historic Sites, Trails, and Parks (by county)

~ Wills/Probate:
~ Thomas LUNDY Estate Papers, 1832

~ John MARTIN Last Will & Testament

~ Will Book A (1823-1851)
~ Will Book B (1851-1871)

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