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Decatur County was created from Early County by an act of December 8, 1823, and later lost sections that became parts of Seminole and Grady Counties. It was named for Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), a naval officer who served with great gallantry at Tripoli and in the War of 1812 and who, in 1815, commanded the expedition against the Dey of Algiers, forcing him to renounce claims to tribute from the U.S. The first county officers, commissioned on May 5, 1824, were John H. Gray, sheriff; Jacob Harrell, coroner; R. B. Douglass, surveyor; and Daniel O'Neel, clerk of Superior Court. Daniel O'Neel was also commissioned clerk of Inferior Court on June 11, 1824.
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