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- Collection: National Newspaper Clippings about Turner County
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County Flag is Dedicated
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Girl's Death Mystery; Seek Man
"Miss Minnie Marchman Dies in Ashburn in Convulsions--- Coroner Has Warrants Sworn Out For Tan Cleghorn, Her Friend, Who Has Vanished."
'Deadly force' bill clears House committee
"Prompted by a Turner County incident, a House committee Tuesday approved a bill that spells out when a police officer can us 'deadly force' to apprehend a subject."
"Bossie" Should Be a Pet, c. 1923
Photo of Catherine Moyes [sic] Betts, daughter of George T. Betts Sr. and Emily Kate Moyers Betts.
"Turner County Farms"
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"Go to Turner County and Buy a Farm"
"Go to Turner County and Buy a Farm"
2 Fatally Shot in Poison Feud
W.J. Cochran, brother-in-law of deceased Minnie Marchman, fatally wounds the brothers of accused murderer, Tan Cleghorn.
"Today Cochran left his home with a shotgun on his shoulder... the Cleghorn brothers were encountered... When the smoke…
"Today Cochran left his home with a shotgun on his shoulder... the Cleghorn brothers were encountered... When the smoke…
A Sad Death in Ashburn
Death of J.S. Betts, Jr. from appendicitis.
An Obituary Mrs. George T. Betts, c. 1929
"There passed in Atlanta the other day, at the home of her mother, a young woman who had done more perhaps for the women and children of the farms of Georgia than any other - Mrs. George T. Betts [Emily Kate Moyer Betts], of Turner county, widow of…
Ashburn Elects Youthful Mayor, c. 1932
"Tigner E. Thrasher, 24-year-old Emory University graduate, was elected mayor here in the city election Thursday night on a platform of 'clean politics.' He will be one of the youngest mayors in the state and probably in the country."
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Ashburn is Located in the Heart of one of Georgia's Richest Farming Sections
100 years ago, Ashburn was "one of the busiest and most progressive little cities in the Great Heart of South Georgia..."
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Ashburn, The Most Moral Town in the State, c. 1896
"One of the most moral towns in the state, and at the same time one that is thrifty and prosperous is our hustling neighbor, Ashburn. The citizens of that town are living evidence of the fat (two often, alas, contradicted) that business and religion…
Attractive Ashburn, c. 1895
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"The City was Ashburn. And since then its growth has been steady, rapid and phenomenal. Peopled by a class of the most refined, intelligent and moral citizenship, their influence so counteracted upon their surroundings, that to-day the…
"The City was Ashburn. And since then its growth has been steady, rapid and phenomenal. Peopled by a class of the most refined, intelligent and moral citizenship, their influence so counteracted upon their surroundings, that to-day the…
Betts & Co. Buy Forty Thousand Acres in Florida
40,000 for $240,000.00 in 1904.
![Betty Shingler Talmadge - Back in Business - Atlanta Constitution 21 May 1993 Page B [1 of 2].JPG](https://turnercountyproject.com/archive/files/square_thumbnails/bddb0a0261ae650118512b64ae58ef9e.jpg "Betty Shingler Talmadge - Back in Business - Atlanta Constitution 21 May 1993 Page B [1 of 2].JPG")
Black Prisoner's killing sparks Ashburn racial violence
Robert Lee Wright Jr. (1963-1985)
Citizens are Cleared of Lynching Charge
The Montgomery Monitor reported on April 28, 1910, the release of those accused in lynching of Albert Royal and Charles Jackson near Ashburn. They were released on a lack of evidence and alibis provided. Interest in the affair is high in the local…
Court House for New County, c. 1907
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"The contract for the building of a court house for Turner County was let to McKenzie & Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., today for the sum of $37,800. Contract is to be completed January 1, 1908."
"The contract for the building of a court house for Turner County was let to McKenzie & Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., today for the sum of $37,800. Contract is to be completed January 1, 1908."
![Crash Kills D-M Wing Cheif, Crew [Herbert Shingler Jr.] - Tuscon Daily Citizen 3 Apr 1959 page 1.JPG](https://turnercountyproject.com/archive/files/square_thumbnails/7e8cfbe8a53a61370b1ed3450a148b5d.jpg "Crash Kills D-M Wing Cheif, Crew [Herbert Shingler Jr.] - Tuscon Daily Citizen 3 Apr 1959 page 1.JPG")
Deacon Kills A Deacon Then Kills Himself, c. 1911
"R.G. Whidden [Whiddon], a well-to-do farmer and a church deacon, living near here, shot and killed J.M. Lawson, a neighbor and also a deacon, today at church on the Whidden [Whiddon] farm, and then committed suicide..."
