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Upson County was created by acts of the legislature on December 15 and 20, 1824, and was named for Stephen Upson, a well known lawyer of Lexington, Georgia. Lt. Gen. John B. Gordon, the famed Confederate leader called “second to the great Lee,” was born in Upson County at the settlement of Black Ankle near the Flint, or Thronateeska, River. Among the first county officers were Sheriff Martin W. Stamper, Clerk of Superior Court James W. Cooper, Clerk of Inferior Court and Treasurer James P. Portis, Tax Receiver Amos McLendon, Tax Collector Joseph Rodgers, Coroner Shadrach Ellis, and Surveyor William Silman.
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Thomaston, Georgia · United States
