By: Ida Belle Williams, Pub. 1948, reprinted 2025, 517 pages, New Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-672-7. Located in the heart of the Georgia's Wiregrass region, Tift County was created in 1905 from Berrien, Irwin and Worth Counties. This book is similar to other history books of the ear with such topics as: formation of county, wars, small town, education, churches, civic clubs, journalism, agriculture, Commerce, negro pioneers, tales of the Wire Grass region and etc... The author has also included numerous biographical sketches of some of these early citizens which the reader will find quite helpful in their research. Names of persons with biographical sketches within: Allen, Baker, Banks, Bennett, Boatwright, Bowen, Branch, Britt, Buck, Carmichael, Carson, Chestnut, Clyatt, Churchwell, Cochran, Conger, Dinsmore, Duff, Eve, Fletcher, Fulwood, Gaulding, Greene, Gibbs, Golden, Goodman, Guest, Hall, Hargrett, Hakman, Hendricks, Herring, Holmes, Hutchinson, Jay, Jones, Julian, Kent, Lawrence, Love, Mathis, Maynard, McCrea, McLeod, McMillian, Moore, Murray, Murrow, Myers, O'Quinn, Overstreet, Padrick, Parker, Paulk, Peterson, Phillips, Pickard, Price, Scarboro, Shaw, Shepherd, Slack, Smith, Spurlin, Tift, Timmons, Vickers, Walker, Warren, Webb, Whiddon, Williams, Willingham, Wood, and Youmans.
