Wilkes County is one of the original counties of Georgia, created February 5, 1777. It was named in honor of John Wilkes, a member of the British Parliament who supported the colonial cause. The family sketches were submitted by the families themselves.
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Theodorick M. Green, merchant-banker, Washington, Wilkes Co., GA, son of John B. and Elizabeth (Leonard) Green, was born in Wilkes county, GA, May 19, 1846, the seventh of eleven children. ...etc...
Goodspeed
2001, paper, 20 pp.
ISBN: 9780788496899
101E-GA0225
