Murray County Georgia Genealogy and Family Histories

In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Georgia Comprehensive Genealogy Database. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Georgia, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index.

At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web pages.

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Murray County, Georgia History

Murray County, Georgia was created December 3, 1832 from part of Cherokee County. The county was named for Thomas Walton Murray (1790-1832), an attorney who was a state legislator. U.S. Census reports are available for this county from 1840 to 1920. The county seat is Chatsworth.

Junior McKay has contributed photos of the Latch-Hembree Cemetery
He has also transcribed the text of three wills.

Gerald D. Hodge Jr. has a new Website devoted to the 39th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Murray County is represented in this wonderful work in progress. Check back often!

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Bill Frazier is researching Georgia's streams and fish trap dams. He is interested in any information relative to riverine cultural
      resources in and along Georgia's streams. In his studies, he has compiled lists and maps of the earliest record landowners, those
      who participated in the Gold Rush, etc. Some pertain especially to Murray County. If you are interested in obtaining some of his
   documents, please contact him.

INDIVIDUAL SITES

Southern Muse
http://www.southernmuse.com/
Murray County artist, D.K. Pritchett presents art, regional history, and genealogy. Surnames of interest
include Headrick, Dunn, and Pritchett.

Murray County Museum
http://www.murraycountymuseum.com/
This comprehensive site on Murray County, Georgia, includes history of the county, factual data, artists, and
individuals of interest.
The site contains substantial information about nearly 150 Murray County, Ga. men that died while serving in the Confederate Army? Most entries contain info from military records, county records, and Censuses of the county. You can access this info by selecting "War Dead" from the museum site's menu at top of page.
By selecting "Photographs" from the menu, visitors can view some 250 photographs, including several from the War Between the States. Be sure to see individual photographs of the 6 brothers who served at the same time but not together, under the family name "Jackson." We also have the only known picture of Colonel William M. Luffman, Murray County's highest ranking officer in that war.
Visitors to _www.murraycountymuseum.com_ (http://www.murraycountymuseum.com) who have an interest in the Trail of Tears can select from the menu "Cherokee Removal Fts" to access the full text of an impressive recent publication containing virtually everything known about the removal forts that were located in Georgia. Viewers can also print individual pages, sections, or even the entire book, if they desire.

This site also contains computer searchable texts of three Murray County
histories:

History of Murray County, by Charles H. Shriner, 1911.
My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham, 1929. The memoirs of a man once a slave in the Vann House.
Murray County Heritage, by Whitfield-Murray Historical Society team headed by Tim Howard, 1987.

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