Elbert County's Dead in the Civil War

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In characters of living light

That tell a wondrous story.

Their deeds have brightened many a page

With never-dying glory.

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Thomas J. Ayres Clement Brewer Thompson H. Dye

Elijah Allgood John R. Booth Wash W Dye

J.H. Alexander Middleton Brown Charles Duncan

Alfred ...

Elbert County Courthouse

The Elbert County Courthouse was built in 1894 and opened in a formal ceremony at the beginning of January 1895, as the third county courthouse building and fourth County site in Elbert County. After the private home of Thomas A. ...

Elbert County

Created from Wilkes County by Act of Dec, 10, 1790. Elbert County was settled in 1784 by Gen. George Mathews and a group from Virginia and Carolina. The site of Petersburg, the original settlement and third largest town in Georgia ...