Pickens County Resources

Indexes and Abstracts of Some Pickens County, Georgia Historical and Genealogical Resources

• Pickens County Sheriffs
• Pickens Online Indexes
• GaGenWeb: Pickens County

Pickens County Records: Published Books and Microform

All Records located at the Pickens County Probate and Superior Courts have not been microfilmed. Therefore, it is necessary that individuals conducting research in Pickens County take time to visit the courthouses.

Bible Records

• "Padget Family," Marble Valley Historical Society Newsletter 2(January 1998)
• "James and Caldwell Family," Marble Valley Historical Society Newsletter 2(May 1998)

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Cemetery Records

• Gene E. Teague and Miranda E. Reece, Cemeteries of Pickens County, Georgia (Talking Rock, Ga.: privately published, 1995)
• Harry Beck, "Old Cool Springs Cemetery, Tate, Pickens County, Georgia," Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 27(Spring 1991): 1
• Four Mile Church; Vertical file of the Georgia Department of Archives and History
• "Old Jones Cemetery," Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 16(Winter 1980)
• "Graves of the Pink Marble Mansion," Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 25 (Winter 1989)
• "Long Swamp Cemetery," Georgia Genealogist ((Winter 1972)

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Census Records

• Mary B. Warren and Eve Bondurant Warren Weeks, Whites Among the Cherokee: Georgia, 1828-1838 (Danielsville, Ga.: 1987).
• Federal Census, Population Schedules (National Archives micropublication: series and reel numbers)
  1860 (M653, reel 133)
  1870 (M593, reel 169)
  1880 (T9, reels 160-161)
  1900 (T623, reels 1215-216)
  1910 (T624, reel 203)
  1920 (T625, reel 270)


• Federal Census, Agriculture Schedule (National Archives micropublication)
  1860
  1870
  1880
  
• Federal Census, Mortality Schedules (National Archives micropublication: series and reel numbers)
  1860 (T655, reel 8)
  1870 (T655, reel 9)
  1880 (T655, reel 11)
  
• Federal Census, Slave Schedules (National Archives micropublication: series and reel numbers)
  1860 (M653, reel 150)

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Cherokee Indian Records

• Cherokee Indian Letters, Talks, & Treaties, 1786-1838
• Final Roll of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee)
• Surveyors Field Notes, Sections 2 & 3, Original Cherokee County (includes what is now Pickens County)
• Mary B. Warren and Eve Bondurant Warren Weeks, Whites Among the Cherokee: Georgia, 1828-1838 (Danielsville, Ga.: 1987).
• Charles O. Walker, Cherokee Footprints, Volume 1: Principal People (Jasper, Ga: Privately published, 1988)
• Charles O. Walker, Cherokee Footprints, Volume II: Home and Hearth (Jasper, Ga: Privately published, 1989)
• Charles O. Walker, Cherokee Images (Jasper, Ga: Privately published, 1988)
• Don L. Shadburn, Cherokee Planters in Georgia 1832-1838 (Cumming, Ga.: Privately published, 1989)
• "Indians of Pickens County," North Georgia Journal 3(Spring 1986)

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Church Records

• Tate United Methodist, 1887-1973, Church Register; 1902-1909, 1911-1940, Quarterly Conference Minutes [micropublication]
• Jasper United Methodist, 1925-1932, Missionary Society Minutes [micropublication]
• Town Creek Baptist Church, Talking Rock, 1900-1966 Minutes [micropublication]
• Salem Baptist Church, 1901-1971 Minutes [micropublication]
• First Baptist Church, Jasper, 1888, Record book; 1880-1914 Minutes [micropublication]
• Marble Hill Baptist Church, 1894-1944 Minutes [micropublication]
• Jasper Baptist Association Minutes 1894-1944 [micropublication]
• Crossroad Baptist Church, 1880-1920 Minutes [micropublication]
• First Baptist Church (Jasper, Ga.), Membership Records and Scrapbook, 1904-1922 [Family History Library microfilm #393,207]
• Methodist Episcopal Church (Jasper, Ga.), Dahlonega District and Quarterly Conference Minutes, 1884-1886 [Family History Library microfilm #393,225]
• Talking Rock Baptist Church

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County Histories

• Luke E. Tate, History of Pickens County (1935 Reprint, Spartanburg, S.C.: The Reprint Company, 1987)
• Robert Scott Davis, Jr., Pickens Past: A Photographic History of Pickens County, Georgia (Jasper, Ga.: Marble Valley Historical Society, 1996)
• Charlene Terrell, Wolfscratch Wilderness (Big Canoe, Ga.: Privately Published, 1994)
• Stephen E. Griffeth, The Many Facets of Tate, Georgia: A Native Son Remembers Historic Tate (Tate, Ga.: Privately published, 1998)
• Pickens County Heritage Book Committee, Pickens County, Georgia, Heritage 1853-1998 (Waynesville, NC: The Committee and Don Mills, 1998)
• Mimi Jo HIll Butler, Pickens County Marriages, 1853–1965 (Tate, Georgia: privately published, 1999)

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Court Minutes

• Inferior Court Minutes, 1865-1894 [micropublication]
• Ordinary Court Minutes, 1854-1894, 1868-1911 [micropublication]
• Ordinary Court, Miscellaneous Bonds of Appointment of Officers..., 1865-1900
• Superior Court Minutes, 1854-1890, 1890-1907 [micropublication]
• Superior Court, County Court Minutes 1865-1868 [micropublication]
• Superior Court, Grand Jury Minutes, 1854-1885 [micropublication]
• Superior Court, Jury List 1879-1902

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Estate Records

• Annual Returns & Vouchers, 1854-1898
• Annual Returns & Vouchers, 1898-1911
• Inventories, Appraisements, & Bills of Sale, 1854-1923
• Letters of Administration, Guardianship, Executors and dismission 1856-1917, 1856-1917
• Miscellaneous Estate Papers, 1864-1880, 1864-1880, MVHS Reel 4
• Twelve Months Support, 1880-1923
• Wills, 1854-1935

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Land Records [Note: The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery (Act of 21 Dec 1830) and the 1832 Gold Lottery (Act of 24 Dec 1831) were two different acts]

• James E. Smith, The Cherokee Land Lottery, Containing a Numerical List of the Fortunate Drawers in Said Lottery with and Engraved Map of Each District (New York: Harper & Row, 1938).
• Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., The 1832 Gold Lottery of Georgia Containing a List of the Fortunate Drawers in Said Lottery (Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1988).
• Mary Bondurant Warren, Alphabetical Index to Georgia's 1832 Gold Lottery (Danielsville, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1981).
• Georgia Surveyor General Plats, land lottery 1832. [microfilm]
• Georgia Surveyor General, 1832 Land Lottery Surveys [microfilm, 12 reels]
• Georgia Surveyor General, 1832 Reverted Gold Lots [micropublication, 3 reels]
• Georgia Surveyor General, Cherokee County Land Lottery Grants, 1832-1859 [micropublication, 44 reels]
• Pickens County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages 183-1910 [microfilm]
• Surveyors Field Notes, Sections 2 & 3, Original Cherokee County (includes what is now Pickens County)
• 1867 Tax Digest
• Grantee Index, 1854-1936
• Deed - Grantor Index, 1854-1936
• Deeds , A-B 1854-1864
• Deeds, C-E 1866-1882
• Deeds , F-G 1882-1888
• Deeds , H 1888-1892
• Deeds , I-J 1892-1897
• Deeds , K 1897-1901
• Deeds and Mortgages - General Index, 1854-1885
• Deeds and Mortgages - General Index, Vol. 1 (1885-1900)
• Deeds and Mortgages - General Index, Vol. 2 (1900-1919)
• Mortgage Book A, 1882-1880, 1882-1884
• Mortgage Book C, 1889-1896
• Mortgage Book D, 1896-1900
• Homestead (Ordinary Court), 1868-1881
• Pony Homestead, 1895-1928

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Military Records

• 1864 Militia Enrollment List [The Joe Brown Census], Pickens County, Georgia [microfilm]
• Confederate Pension Rolls of Disabled Veterans and Widows, 1914-1919, Pickens County, Georgia [micropublication, 3 reels]
• James W. Bell, History of the 43rd Georgia Confederate Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Hudges, SC: Privately published)
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "Memoirs of a Partisan War: Sion Darnell Remembers North Georgia, 1861-1865," Georgia Historical Society Quarterly 30 (Spring 1996): 93-116
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "Yankee Soldier Has Civil War Adventure in Pickens County," North Georgia Journal 2 (Spring 1985): 30-31
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "The Civil War Memoirs of Sam Hammontree, Company E, 23rd Regiment, C.S.A., Pickens County," North Georgia Historical & Genealogical Society Quarterly 16 (Summer, 1984): 39-41
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "Last Days of the Civil War in Pickens County…The Shooting at Scarecorn Campground," North Georgia Journal (Autumn 1998): 13-16
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "The Civil War Comes to Pickens County," North Georgia Journal of History Vol. I: 329-332
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "A Union Soldier P.O.W. and a Civil War Adventure," North Georgia Journal of History Vol. I: 333-335
• Pickens County, World War I Draft Registrations. Originals and microfilm available at the National Archives-Southeast Region, East Point, Georgia
• Pickens County Discharge Records and World War I Service Records 1917-1956 [micropublication]

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Miscellaneous

• Simmons Family Ledger Book, 1852-1858 [micropublication, 1 reel]
• Medical Practitioners Records 1861-1950 [micropublication]
• Charles O. Walker, Observations from the Side of the Road (Jasper, Ga.: Privately published, 1999).
• "Early Settlers of Pickens Co., Ga.," North Georgia Historical & Genealogical Society Quarterly 12 (Summer 1980): 20-22
• Robert S. Davis, Jr., "The Last Raid of Lee Cape," North Georgia Journal (Autumn 1991): 41-45
• "County Policeman Lee Cape Murdered Last Saturday," Pickens County Progress (22 Sep 1927): 1
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "The North Georgia Moonshine War of 1876-77," North Georgia Journal (Autumn, 1989): 41-46
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., and Virginia Davis, "Disappearing Pioneer Tradition: The Last Grist Mill in Pickens Co.," North Georgia Journal (Winter 1992): 10-13
• Jackson, Olin and Robert S. Davis, Jr., "A Woodbridge Inn Getaway," North Georgia Journal (Autumn, 1992): 10-17
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "The Night Riders of Pickens County," North Georgia Journal (June 1987): 22-24
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "Murder in Pickens County: The Fatal Dance," North Georgia Journal (Spring 1989): 27-35.
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "The Murder of Narcissa Fowler Revisited," North Georgia Journal (Summer 1998): 23-26.
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "Memories of a Mountain Lockup: The Old Pickens County Jail," North Georgia Journal (Autumn, 1989): 47-50
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "Early Law Enforcement: The 1923 Pickens Co. Jail Break," North Georgia Journal of History Vol. III: 237-329
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "A Night of Terror in Pickens Co.: The Whitestone Flood of 1938," North Georgia Journal (Summer, 1989): 34-36
• Sharon Tate Moody, "Legacy of the Kirby Cabin," North Georgia Journal (Autumn 1999): 57-60
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "How Talking Rock Was Named," North Georgia Journal (Winter, 1989): 18-19
• Davis, Robert S., Jr., "A Place called 'Alice'," North Georgia Journal (Winter, 1989): 39-43

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Newspapers

• The Jasper News, February - July 1865
• Pickens County Herald, February 2, 1888-August 19, 1899
• Pickens County Progress, October 13, 1899-1945 (many missing issues)
• Pickens County Progress, March 30, 1905 and April 20, 1908 [see Reel 1, MVHS collection at the Pickens County Library]
• Pickens County Progress, 1945 - present
• The Piedmont Republican, Jasper, July-December 1891, February 9, 1893
• The Republican, Jasper, December 12, 1893-August 4, 1898
• The Republican, Jasper, January 3, 1900 [see Reel 1, MVHS collection at the Pickens County Library]

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Vital Records

• Marriage Records, Book A (1854-1878) [micropublication]
• Marriage Records, Loose Papers 1871-1931 [micropublication 6 reels]
• Butler, Mimi Jo Hill, Pickens County, Georgia, Marriages 1853-1965 (Tate, Ga.: Privately Published, 1999)

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Pickens County Research Repository Addresses

Pickens County Courthouse
Jasper, Georgia
Probate Court:
Clerk of Superior Court:

Pickens County Public Library
100 Library Lane
Jasper, Georgia 30143
Telephone: 706.692.5411
   Collections:
     Pickens County Progress (see previous tile "Newspapers"

Local Genealogical and Historical Societies

• Marble Valley Historical Society
  P.O. Box 815
  Jasper, GA 30143
• Cherokee County Historical Society
  P.O. Box 1287
  Canton, GA 30114
  
  
• Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society
  Address: P.O. Box 5063, Rome, GA 30162-5063

• Papers of individuals associated with Reinhardt College, including A. M. Reinhardt, R.C. Sharp, Samuel C. Dobbs, and J. Rowland Burgess
• 1835 Census of Cherokee Indians east of the Mississippi River
• Cherokee Advance (Canton, Georgia) 1850-1938
• Cherokee County Court minutes, 1832-1873

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