Forsyth County was formed in 1832 and given away in the 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery. It was formerly occupied by Cherokee Indians, most of whom were removed west as a result of the Act of 1832. Before leaving, the silver and gold mines were hidden, but marked on maps. During the early 1920's a caravan of wagons of Cherokees from Oklahoma were seen loading their minerals into wagons. Gold deposits were found in the county during the Georgia gold rush. A visit to this county discovered that the surving will book beginning in 1856 was virtually not readable. Many pages were blank due to the fact that the ink had
faded. I filmed the blank pages, then used the photo enhancer to bring them up. Although most of the pages are readable, one must examine each word separately. Otherwise, no one would know whose wills are in this book. The early settling families were: Braselton, Bruton, Porter, Julian, Jackson, Hutchins, Merritt, Mills, Harding, Sanford, Cochran, Wills, Strickland, McGinnis,Westbrook, Creamer, Whitmire, Owens, Kellogg, Wofford, Ezzard, Bell, Garrett, Williams, Gilstrap, Patterson Sewell, Pilgrim, Lindsey, Mangum, Hansard,Vaughn and
others.
Documents Available to Members of Georgia Pioneers
Forsyth County Will Book 1856-1892 (images)
Forsyth Will Book 1892-1936 (images)
Index to Testators to Wills 1856-1936:
Forsyth County Will Bk B (1892-1935) and C (1899-1900) have been filmed from the court house. Many of the pages in the court house books are faded from sight, however, our camera restored a great deal of the information. If you are viewing one of these faded pages you are looking at all that could be restored. The reason we went ahead and put them online is because of the valuableness of the documents. Perhaps enough information can be gleaned from the bad ones to reveal heirs, etc. We are only talking about a few images. Most of the images are quite visible. The following original will images are available to members of www.georgiapioneers.com C. H. Allison, Mamie Bacon, D. H. Bagley, Martha Barnett, Andrew Barrett, Hiram Bell, Jacob Bennett, James Bennet, Shelton Benson, Jeremiah R. Bentley, H. J. Blackstock, Louisa Blackstock, J. J. Blanton, A. C. Bottoms, James T. Boyd, C. J. Brannon, W. B. Brannon, George P. Brice, Berryman Buice, M. S. Buice, James H. Castleberry, John Henry Castleberry, William Castleberry, John M. Chastain, M. C. Chastain, William D. Chatham, Minton Clement, Elias A. Cochran, Samuel G. Fox, Samuel M. Crowe, John L. Cruse, Charles E. Davenport, William S. Davenport, W. L. Davenport, Thomas F. Davis, Mitchell H. Day, Joshua A. Dooly, H. L. Edwards, John W. Edwards, James A. Ezzard, J. B. Fowler, Martha J. Freeman, Joseph Garrett, William P. Garrett, A. O. Gilbert, John C. Gilbert, J. P. Gilbert, S. W. Gilleland, William J. Groover, F. M. Hamby, Daniel E. Hammond, James C. Hansard, Jesse Samuel Hansard, Isaac W. Hardin, James Gillison Harris, Fannie Harrison, R. A. Harrison, Susan Harrison, Cicero S. Hawkins, Ed F. Hawkins, Rachell Heard, Henry Hendrick, John Hockenbull, George W. Holbrook, I. J. Holbrook, Elizabeth Hubbard, John L. Hudson, Russell Hughes, B. N. Hulsey, Bluford Hunt, H. L. Hurt, M. G. Hutchins, Malissa C. Jackson, M. H. James, W. B. James, John L. Jones Sr., Leonard Albert Jones, S. B. Jones, William C. Jones, Arabella Kelley, Andrew J. Kelly, William J. Kemp, W. W. Kemp, W. H. Kennemere, S. J. Lindsey, Thomas L. Lipscomb, George Little, W. W. Mangum, Absalom Martin, Benson Martin, Delaney Martin, Hannah Martin, Samuel Martin, W. H. Martin, W. A. Matthews, H. P. Mayfield, John M. L. McClure, Susan McGinley, A. I. McWhorter, William M. Montgomery, J. C. Munday, W. T. Nalley, Phillip M. Parker, Enoch Patterson, Hiram Patterson, Julia Phillips, T. J. Phillips, William Phillips, A. N. Pilgrim, Wailliam G. Pilgrim, Emily A. Pirkle, John Milton Pirkle, William M. Pirkle, Marcus L. Pool, Hugh Porter, Phillip M. Porter, Mrs. Ella Pritchard, J. H. Pruitt, John M. Pruitt, J. H. Purcell, Will D. Puckett, James Red, A. H. Reid, J. M. Richards, William Rider, Jonathan Roach, Mary Roach, Wayne Roach, C. G. Roberson, Tilman Roper, William A. Ross, A. J. Sams, Squire Sams, A. O. Sanders, Elmira Sargent, George Settle, Ida Singleton, J. C. Singleton, Lee M. Singleton, L. E. Singleton, Samuel Sims, Annie Elmira Smith, Eliza Smith, John N. Smith, John P. Smith, Miles H. Smith, Solomon J. Smith, Ella Pritchard Spence, J. B. Spence, Prudence Stone, John W. Stones, Ansel Strickland, David H. Strickland, E. A. Strickland, Linnie Tallant, A. Talant, Benjamin C. Tallant, George Tallant, John Tallant, Thomas K. Tallant, Elisha Tatum, Jacob R. Tatum, Robert P. Thompson, John H. Thomas, Joseph W. Tims, Aaron Tullis, Frederick Vaughn, Mrs. L. S. Vaughn, W. M. Vaughn, Jesse B. Wallace, Thomas A. Wallace, Joel Webb, Lana Webb, John Westbrook, E. E. Whitmire, Andrew Wilkie, William L. Will
Miscellaneous Images
Tallant, B. C. (1909), (Image)
Tallant, David Sr. (1856) (Image)
Tallant, David C. (1882) (Image)
Forsyth County Marriages from newspapers 1885-1886
30,638 Burials in Georgia by Jeannette Holland Austin