Union County Historical Society Blairsville Georgia

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"Through Mountain Mists"

by Ethelene Dyer Jones

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General Information

Considering Mists, where it all begins
Mountain folk – the way we are
Country Store and Christmas
James Butts – Proud owner of a Gillespie Rifle

Places

Blood Mountain Story
Georgia’s highest peak – Brasstown Bald
Davenport Mountain named for early settler, John B. Davenport
Ivy Log and some of its early residents
Ivy Log as a bustling settlement
Souther - Dyer House, 1850
A Mill for the Settlement, The old Souther Mill (Part 1)
A Mill for the Settlement, The Souther Mill (Part 2)
How some places in Union County were named
Union County Poor House or Almshouse*

Schools

Pioneer High School Newspaper – May 1936 (Part 1)*
Pioneer High School Newspaper – May 1936 (Part 2)*

Teachers

Zenobia Addington Chastain, a noted teacher Part #1
Zenobia Addington Chastain, a noted teacher Part #2
Frances Verdie Miller, Teacher Extraordinary
Dr. Austine Hunter Wallis

Churches

Choestoe Baptist Church Homecoming

Ministers

The Rev. George Erwin, Missionary to Russia
Circuit riding preacher—Rev. Milford Gilead Hamby
Rev. James J. Hood: minister, musician, woodcrafter
Echoes of camp meetings and evangelist Rev. Elijah Kimsey
Legacy left by the Rev. Charles Edward Rich
Rev. Thomas M. Hughes
An early Union County minister, Rev. Thomas Coke Hughes
Philip Humphries, an itinerant preacher

Doctors

Respected mountain doctor, Herbert Monroe Edge
Dr. Frank J. Erwin, Country Doctor and Entrepreneur
Dr. S. Vanus Hunter, dentist
Dr. William Thomas Meeks Sr. Town and country doctor
Noted country doctor Dr. William H. Rogers
Dr. Thomas Newton Berry, mountain doctor

War Between the States


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“Through Mountain Mists”
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