Bleckley County, GA Printed Resources

The following resources are available in the Genealogy Room at the Tessie W. Norris Library in Cochran, Georgia. Some of them are collections done by individuals and organizations and aren't actual bound books but more like notebooks of information. But all are excellent resources that the people listed have taken their own time to compile or write. Please visit the Tessie W. Norris Memorial Library and experience their wonderful collection of material!
Local Surnames

JOINER descendants by Robin E. Mullis

DIXON descendants by Robin e. Mullis

The BEDINGFIELDS by Robin E. Mullis

Descendants of Richard PURVIS by Robin E. Mullis

WILSON: A family profile (with Ashley - Ball - Barker - Bowen - Mixon - Pope - Sugg - Swain) by Gwendolyn Adams

Descendants of Jesse BROWN by Skeet Brown & Augusta Brown Bennett

Descendants of Murdock MCCRANIE by Augusta Brown Bennett, Skeet Brown & Hubert Evans

A time to Remember: Genealogy of the Elijah Newton WILLIS family including his ancestors and descendants 1653-1988 by Joel A. Willis, Jr.

William BARLOW family records compiled by Joyce Elizabeth (Barlow) Horne & Charles Henley (Walker) Horne, July 1994.

Name list for the CATOE family by Jack Catoe, 1997.

Milton Smythe JONES Family Recipts: 19th century plain Southern Cooking compiled by Cheryl Rutland Farmer, published in 1983 by Cookbook Publishers, Inc of Lenexa, Kansas.

LOCAL HISTORY & RECORDS

Cemetery Survey of Bleckley County, 1975.

Dodge Co. Dirt Roads by Ethel Lee Wilcox compiled from the Times-Journal by Tad Evans, 1993.

Wilkinson County, GA Gravestones compiled by Joseph T. Maddox, 1971.

Cochran - Bleckley Centennial "Centi-Rama" Journal 1869-1969 by the State Bank of Cochran.

First Baptist Church of Cochran, Inc - Sketches of Pastors, 1976.

A Memorial of Logan Edwin Bleckley (1827-1907) by the GA Bar Association, originally published in 1909 by Mercer University Press, reprinted by Archive Reprint in 1982.

A Salute to Bleckley - Cochran Past-Present-Future prepared by the Bleckley - Cochran Elem. School, 1975.

Our Heritage: Bicentennial Pictorial History edited by A. Johnson & L. Lander printed in 1976 by Keer & Judd Pub.

County Roads & City Streets: On the Trail of History--People, Places, Things published by The National Endowment for the Humanities & the Ocmulgee Regional Library System.

Heritage Trail Bicentennial Edition 1976 prepared by Heart of Georgia & Cochran - Bleckley County Bicentennial Committee.

Cochran Public Schools Handbook 1914-15

Marriages, Deaths, and etc. from Hawkinsville Dispatch 1870-1888 compiled by Robert Nobels, 1991.

Wills of Pulaski County, Georgia by Victor Myrick published in 1994 by the Central GA Genealogical Society.
Wills Book 1810-1816
Wills Book A 1816-1854
Wills Book B 1855-1906

OTHER RESOURCES

40,000 Early Georgia Marriages compiled by Maddox & Carter, 1976.

Authentic List of all land lottery grants made to veterans of the Revolutionary War by the state of Georgia compiled by Alex M. Hitz, 1955.

Georgia: A Chronology & Documentary Handbook edited by Mary L. Frech, published in 1973 by Oceana Pub.

An Index to GA Tax Digest Vol. 1 1789-1799 published for RJ Taylor Jr. Foundation by the Reprint Company, 1986.

A history of Dexter, GA by Amy Holland Alderman

Evans Co. and the Creation of Fort Stewart, GA by Colonel Pharris Deloach Johnson, published 1994 by the Evans Co. Historical Society of Claxton, GA.

History of Dodge Co. by Mrs. Wilton Philip Cobb, published in 1994 by the Reprint Company Publishers of Spartanburg, SC.

History of the Georgia State Society DAR 1981 - 1991 by Mrs. Leonard G. DeLamar, published in 1993 by Georgia State Society DAR.

Index to the 1830 Census of Georgia compiled by Mrs. Alvaretta Kenan Register, published in 1982 by Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc

A Home - Concealed Woman: The Diaries of Magnolia Wynn LeGuin, 1901-1913 edited by Charles A. LeGuin, published in 1990 by the University of GA Press of Athens, GA.

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