History of Laurens County, Georgia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780893088880)

By: Bertha S. Hart, Pub. 1941, Reprinted 2018, 610 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-888-9.

Laurens County was created in 1807 from Wilkinson County. This book covers the early Indians who lived in the area, the natural environment of the county, the economic and social side of Laurens's history, the Civil War, educational development, churches, newspapers, pioneer families, and railroads. A particular useful feature of this book is the extensive last half of the book which covers the marriages of the county 1809-1848, Wills 1808-1869 and genealogies of some 130 persons........