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Photos From Union County
Contributed and Annotated by Don Byers
 Antioch school, term
1954-1955. Mrs. Alice Mauney Byers at far left. Don Byers
is in top left with glasses....the kid with boots at the lower far left
is Tommy Stephens, presently Supt. of Schools, Union County, GA.
Other people in this
photo are the Floyds, Kenneth, Tom Jr. & Jo Ann Floyd. Their
little brother, Jim, is at bottom far right. Also, Johnny,
Herbert, and Shelby Jean Nation. Frances & Dot McCarter,
Shirleen Towery.....Frank Mauney and cousin Dan Morgan, and Linda
Mauney, all cousins and cousin of Don Byers. Betty and Lucille
Barnes...and others. THIS WAS THE LAST YEAR FOR ONE-ROOM SCHOOLS IN
UNION COUNTY....THE NEW "CONSOLIDATED" SCHOOLS WERE COMPLETED.
These "consolidated schools" were community schools and took the place
of several one-room schools.
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 Antioch School, Ivy Log & Gum Log border of Union County. Taken in the teens at the latest. Miss Laura Mauney was the teacher. She is at far left. This school was next door to Antioch Church. It burned about 1923 or 24 and a new one room building was erected. (see photo to the left) |
 These young
folks are about to be baptised in Reece's Creek, near Antioch Church in
1947 or 1948. Rev. Colvin Thompson (yes, Colvin) is at far right.
Stout guy about 2nd from left is Bill Mauney, grandson of C. S.
Mauney....others in this photo are Minnie Morgan, Jack Drake and Billy
Fair...
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 Bess Mauney
Conley...daught of C. S. Mauney, she was a schoolteacher and
taught at Antioch and at Gum Log and others. She married Doyce
Conley. They had no children
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 Alice
Mauney Byers, school teacher. She taught at Antioch, Ivy Log and
then Union County Elementary. She taught for 42 years and was
married to Ralph C. Byers....she had two children, Don & Gerald
Byers.
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 The old dorm
for the Blairsville Collegiate Institute...this photo 1920's. The
Institute was actually a high school. Kids from some of the farm
families came to town and went to school here. The Mauney girls,
the Hunters and Collins kids were among them. This building
burned in the 1940's...
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 Some Union
County folks here...courtesy of Frances Fair Partain. front row. L-R,
Frank Hill, Fred Ezell, Minnie Conley (mother of Frances Fair Partain),
Willie (female) Hill, Eula Stephens, Flora Stephens, Flossie Chastain,
two guys in back are Ira Stephens and Arthur McCafee. Peeking
over the car are Clyde Hill and Pat Hemphill..
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 C. S. Mauney, Theodocia and family. Far right is Sylvanus Mauney, father of C. S. C. S. was known as "Charlie". Theodocia was the daughter of John and Mary Duncan Carroll of Union County, GA. |
 Later picture
of the Mauney family. We don't know the gentleman in the
back. Charlie and "Doshe" had 11 children in all. The
eldest, Ed Mauney, was appointed as the first Union County Historian in
1931 by the governor of Georgia.
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 Pres.
Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law...
While he didn't live in Union County, he did have a home in Warm Springs GA where he died... |
 George
Mauney of the Young Cane District, Union County, GA. He was Mater
of Young Cane Masonic Lodge in 1917. The borther of C. S.
Mauney..He later moved to White County, GA, and is the forefather of
the White County Mauneys....
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 My Aunt Ella
Faye Byers, dau. of N. A.(Nick) Byers...on a date early '30's....wish
that I could identify the guy....grew up in Unon County GA and became a
schoolteacher. Starting out in a one-room school, Tate's Chapel,
in the Ivy Log District, then a two teacher school, Ivy Log
Elementary. She also taught in Whitfield County, Cobb, County,
Fannin, and also Cherokee, NC...
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 The old Nick
Byers cabin in the Ivy Log District of Union County, GA. This is
now the Gray Family Farm.
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 The
old Nick Byers cabin (close-up)
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 The
old Nick Byers cabin (inside)
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 The
old Nick Byers cabin
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 The
Nick Byers outhouse, still standing after all these years..
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 This grapevine was planted by Nick Byers about
1930. It still bears fruit and the day the photo was taken,
Charlene Gray Sullivan and her husband were making grape jelly from the
fruit of Nick's vine. Nick was injured by a runaway team of
horses here on this farm and died a few days later in 1955. He
was a few days short of 80 years old. Charlene and her Husband
bought the farm in 1956. From the farm is a beautiful view of
Brasstown Bald, the highest mountain in GA.
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 This is a
real well, it was dug by Nick Byers and friends.
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 Antioch
church. Ivy Log District, Union County, GA...first church
established about 1841....this building was built about 1925 after the
old combination church and school burned...picture was made about
1960...[The older photo of the schoolhouse above].....that was the
original....this one is gone now, Antioch has grown a lot the last 20
years...
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 Merzie Ann
Byers Stephens, her son Sam & family. Merzie was daughter of
Ephraim Byers#1 and sister to "Cebe", she was born in Towns
county. She was the widow of John Stephens who died young.
After Sam grew up and married they moved from Towns county to Union
county and Merzie lived with them. Sam and his wife Mollie are buried
at Antioch Cemetery, Union County. John and Merzie are buried at
Old Union Cemetery, Towns County. Sam's grandson, Tommy Stephens, is
Supt. of schools Union County.
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 Tombstone of John Stephens |
 Tombstone of Merzie Ann (Byers) Stephens |
 Children of Nick Byers...Pauline, Ralph, Viola, and Lela. Not pictured is Ella Faye Byers....(she probably took the picture...I have her old "Brownie" Camera) |
 Ralph Byers WW II |
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