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DeKalb County was created by Act of General Assembly Dec. 9, 1822, and included Fulton County until 1853. It was named for Baron Johann DeKalb, a native German who fought gallantly for American freedom. Wounded and captured at the Battle of Camden, S.C., August 9, 1780, he died a British prisoner. Most of the early settlers of DeKalb County came from Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The first county officers, commissioned March 18, 1822, in Fayette County, were John S. Welch, sheriff; Thomas A. Dobbs, clerk inferior court; John Calhoun, coroner; and James Adams, surveyor.
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