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Some of the Men
and Women Who Helped Settle
and Develop Crawford County
Indian agent, agrarian, friend to the Muskogee people, Col. Hawkins is believed to have been the first non-native man to dwell on Crawford County soil.
At age 17, Joanna made for the men marching to help in the fight for Texas independence, a Flag which later inspired the Lone Star Flag of Texas.
The inventor of Coca Cola was born in Crawford County July 8, 1831
Jefferson
Franklin Long
was
the first African-American from Georgia to serve in the United States
Congress. He was born a slave near Knoxville March 3, 1836.
Bob
Mobley
Sophie
D. Bell
In 1936-1938 the Federal Writers' Project, under the WPA, recorded the
life stories of many people who had lived as slaves in the South. Two
of those stories were told by former slaves from Crawford County. You
can read the accounts at the Library of Congress American Memory website.
Hiram Warner opened his law practice in Knoxville just two years after Crawford County was formed. He was elected to the newly formed Supreme Court of Georgia in 1845 and was re-elected in 1849.
Thomas Jefferson Simmons, who rose to Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, was born (June 25, 1837) and raised in the Hickory Grove community.
Georgia Supreme Court Justice Samuel Hall began his practice of law in Crawford County. He was elected associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1882. He was a trustee of the University of Georgia and of the University of the South at Suwannee, TN.
Samuel R. Rutherford, the son of Confederate Capt. William Rutherford and Julia Gibson, was U. S. Congressman for the Sixth District of Georgia. He was born in the northern part of Crawford County in 1871.
Stiles Martin, born in 1882 in Crawford County, was state editor of the Atlanta Constitution for 16 years, retiring in 1951. He was historian of the Georgia Press Association for 10 years and was inducted into the Georgia Newspaper Hall of Fame at the University of Georgia.
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