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By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
Although no maéor battles
were fouiht in hattovt‘)Fa
County, it has a rich Civil War
history, the Summerville-Trion
Rotary Club was told Monday
at The Tavern, Trion.
Jimmy Day, Lyerlg'. a Civil
War buff, described the period
as ‘“‘a very important part of
our history, our heritage.” Itis
the most closelK studied war
by Americans than any other,
Dti{l said. Among the reasons
is that it left the strongest im
firessions on the minds and
earts of Americans, it created
a number of heroes and it was
a classic demonstration of
Che Summerville News
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER
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O’Rears Trace Ancestor To County
Daniel O'Rear, who fought under Col.
Patrick Henry during the American
Revolutionary War, is buried beside a
gnarled old cedar tree at the Macedonia
emetery five miles north of Menlo on
Highway 337. Descendants of the early
patriot g‘om nine states gathered at the
Nine Facing Charges
On Drugs, Burglary
Nine people were arrested
last Thursday night, seven on
drug charges, one on burglary
charges and one on charges of
possessing stolen property, ac
cordin'g to Chattooga County
Sheriff Gary McConnell.
Seven of the nine were ar
rested around 7:10 p.m. at 1001
Summerville Gardens, on
charges of violating the
Georgia Controlled substances
Act. They were identified as
Antwon Barnette, 19,
Theodore Jepell Barnette, 22,
both of 51 Mill St., Cave
Spring; Trac%' Dean McCut
cfiins, 19, 279 Allgood St.,
Day camp is continuing at
Berry College for youngsters
6-14 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. dai
ly. The fee is S4O.
Lifeline Hits Goal
Chattooga Counl’,]-):l Hospital has reached its goal of 20
subscribers to the Lifeline system, according to Betty
Wollstein, hospital executive director.
The Authority last month ap;{)roved purchase of the
$5,000 Sfi'stem if 20 people subscribed but after 18 signed
up, Authority Chairman Charles Williams okayed order
ing the central Lifeline unit, It is expected to arrive in late
Aui;lst or early September.
rs. Wollstein pointed out again that the system is not
limited to only 20 subscribers — that number was only the
minimum needed before the system was to be ordered.
Therefore, she said, if additional people are interested in
subscribing, they may contact her at the hospital.
When installed, subscribers will leave individual *‘but
tons” and telephone devices for sls a month. If a person
needs help, the ‘‘button” may be pushed to send a silent
signal to the telephone to contact the central unit at the
hospital. Even if ahferson becomes unable to push the “‘but
ton,” help may still be su_mmoned. The subscriber's accom
panying telephone device may be preset to call for
assistance if the subscriber doesn’t use his phone within
a certain period of time.
American character during a
time of crisis, Day said.
Contrari' to the imrression
many people have, soldiers of
that era ‘‘were not ig
noramuses,”” Day said. A ma
jority was very religious, was
concerned about the education
of its children and stayed in
touch with families back home,
Day added. The character of
the women left at home is one
of the mtgor untold stories of
the war, Day said. They plow
ed, harvested crops, cut
firewood, ** . . . and buried the
dead,” he continued.
“DIFFERENT BREED"
Pewle who fought in the
Civil War were “‘a different
breed of Beople than we are to
day,”” Day asserted. He
cemetery Saturday afternoon to locate
and mark the gravesite. Family historian
Marvin O’Rear (facing crowd), Chat
tanooga, tells the story of Daniel O’'Rear’s
wartime experience in Virginia and his
retirement to Chattooga County in 1839.
(Staff photo by Kay Abbott).
Trion; Marculous Renard
Mosteller, 22, 202 Fourth St.,
Summerville; Terrell Lamar
Perry, 25, 113 Hawkins Drive,
Summerville; Dwight Ramon
Pollard, 25, Summerville, Rte.
5, Box 334; Carl Edward
Shropshire, 27, Rte. 1, Box 406,
Summerville; and Rte. 1, Box
405, Summerville.
Johnny Lorenzo Adams,
27, 211 East Sixth St., Sum
merville, was charged with
possession of stolen property
after being arrested at another
location later in the evening.
And Harold Timmons, 20,
Dowdy Apartments, Summer
ville, was charged with
burglary after being arrested
at another location. ’Fhe arrests
were related, the sheriff
indicated.
Confiscated in the raid in
Summerville Gardens was a
challenged the Rotary Club's
members to check any high
school or the areas streets on
the weekends, if they didn't
believe him. They stood for a
standard of values, bravery
and patriotism that didn’t
bend from day to day, he
indicated.
Quoting Civil War historian
Bruce Catton, Day said,
‘“ ‘Maybe we've become too
wise.'”’ Day said he would
substitute the word,
‘“‘sophisticated” for “‘wise’’ in
the quotation.
A number of companies was
formed in Chattoo%a Countg'
during the war, Day said,
although the county’s
delegates to Milledgeville in
1861 both voted against
video cassette recorder and
quantity of suspected mari
juana and suspected cocaine,
said Sheriff McConnell. A .38
caliber special revolver and a
.25 automatic pistol were also
confiscated.
The cassette recorder had
been stolen late Thursday
afternoon from the home of
Kenneth Vaughn, Trion Road,
Summerville, said the sheriff.
Chamber
Opposes
Measure
A bill to require employers
to grant unpaid leave time to
their workers has been expand
ed and a vote on the measure
is expected sometime next
week in the U.S. House of
Representatives, according to
Sue Spivey, executive vice
president of the Chattooga
County Chamber of Commerce.
The bill has been renamed
the ‘“Family and Medical
Leave Act”’ and expanded to
require employers to grant 26
weeks leave time to their
workers to care for ailinfi
parents. The original bi
covered parents staying home
with their children. The revis
ed measure has had its
coverage changed from five to
15_demployees, Mrs. Spivey
said.
Employees would be
guaranteed reemployment
under the bill, she pointed out.
The Chattoo%a Chamber is
asking its members to get in
touch with Seventh District
Rep. George ‘‘Buddy’’ Darden
to é)ppose the measure, she
said.
Georgia leavinf the Union.
They were Wes e{l Shropshire
and Lowery Williams, Day
said. Nevertheless, the succes
sion motion passed, 208-89.
Probabl&’one reason Shrop
shire and Williams voted no,
Day speculated, was because
the county was sparsely
polpulated and had few slaves
relative to other garts of the
state. Prior to the war, the
county had a jmpulat.ion of
5,136 whites and 1,680 slaves,
Day said. In many Georfiila
counties and in the South, the
slave ?ogmlation far exceeded
that of the white population, he
indicated.
During the war, most able
bodied men 16 to 50 from Chat
tooga County served, Day said.
Among the few recorded words of Revolutionary War
veteran Daniel O'Rear is a statement of his purpose for
moving to Chattooga County in 1839:
“Was my children that I ex
pected to take care of me in my
old age was here in this state,’
O’Rear said in a document fil
ed by the Chattooga County
Justice of the Peace, J. H. Jiv
cutt, on April 5, 1839. O’Rear,
who had served under Col.
Patrick Henry during the
Revolutionary War, chose to
spend his remaining years with
his son, John, who had a farm
“seven miles from Summerville
near McCowell’s Mill.” O'Rear
died at the farm in 1858 at the
;fe of 100 and is buried in the
acedonia Cemetery with on
!‘Y a stone to marlézéran, ;
'he cemetery is five
miles north of Menlo on
Highway 337.
Nearly 147 years later, the
descendants of O’Rear’s
children are still looking out for
the old veteran's interests.
Last Saturday, 40 of them
climbed off a i’lamilton Coun
ty school bus to officially mark
his grave. As part of their 14th
annual reunion, O'Rears from
nine state had come to learn
more about their colorful
ancestor and insure that his
Flace in history would not be
orgotten. O'Rears gather by
the hundreds each summer in
Chattanooga to share new in
formation about the family,
which included 68 Civil War
soldiers, 64 of them
confederates.
Working tOfiether to docu
ment O'Rear’s life in the coun
ty and service in the war are
Mrs. Jessie O’Rear Whitehead,
Mentone and Marvin O’Rear,
Chattanocga. Mrs. Whitehead,
92,isa great-granddaughter of
Daniel O’Rear and a member of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution (DAR). The DAR
plans to place a historical
marker on the grave this fall.
Interest in the family
history was sparked back in
1930, according to Marvin
O’'Rear, when Col. John
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SHERIFF GARY McCONNELL WITH EVIDENCE
Recovered VCR, Confiscated Guns, Suspected Drugs
. In fact, 85 percent of the men
| in the county served the Con
-1 federacy, he added.
} COMPANY B
1 Although a number of com
panies was formed in the coun
‘ ty during the war, Day said he
had followed one organized and
commanded by John Echols in
1861. It began with 132
members and was known as
Company B, 9th Georgia Regi
ment. It was sent to fight in
Virginia with Gen. Robert E.
Lee and participated in the bat
tle of Getiysburg, Day said.
By the time General Lee
began his ill-fated invasion of
the North, Company B was
commanded by Nrajor William
M. Jones. Chattooga County
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By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
O’Rear, serving in the Pen
tagon, bought a desk from a
Washington, D.C. antique
shop.
“The desk was filled with
documents about the O'Rear
familf'," Marvin said. ““There
were letters written during the
American Revolutionary %Var,
and original documents dating
back to colonial Virginia. We
have the original land grant
fiven to Daniel O’Rear’s
ather, John, in 1711.”
Beginning in 1930, Col.
O’Rear began writing to fami-
Iy members all over the coun
‘try;-and found that throughout
the United States, every fami
ly of O’Rears could trace their
heritage to a common ancestor.
““All the hundreds of
O’'Rears, all over the United
States, are descended from
John O’Rear, who immigrated
to Prince William County, Va.,
from Ireland around 1711,”
Marvin O'Rear said.
According to historical
documents, Daniel O'Rear
marched into Williamsburg in
1775 with the Culpepper Coun
ty Battalion to join the forces
of Patrick Henry. Apparently,
the men wished to make a good
impression on their hero and
show their enthusiasm for the
cause of freedom.
The Virginia Gazette, repor
ting on the rest of the troops in
Henry's army, referred to it as
“motley troops wearing hun
ting shirts for uniforms. Two
companies of expert marksmen
brought their own rifles. The
most colorful unit in the little
army was a battalion from
Culpepper County which flew
the rattlesnake flag with the
motto, ‘Don’t Tread on Me.’
Dressed in green hunting
shirts with the words, ‘Liberty
or Death’ emblazoned on their
chests, they wore buck tails in
their hats and carried
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ONE PERSON HURT IN TWO-VEHICLE WRECK
Occurred Last Friday North Of Trion
One Hurt In Wreck
One person was injured in a
head-on collision on County
Road 1 just east of Highway 27
near Trion last Friday.
Georgia State Patrol
Tr(:g)er Charles Toles iden
tified the injured man as Ken
neth Allen Ray, 43, LaFayette.
He was carried by Chattooga
Ambulance Service to a private
phg'sician's office, LaFayette,
sutfering abrasions and lacera
Census Poll Set Locally
Bambi_Bridges, Chat
tanooga, Tenn., formerly of |
Chattooga County, U. S. Cen- |
sus Bureau will revisit selected |
Chattooga County households |
beginnin§ Aug. 1 to conduct its
Survey of Income and Program
Participation (SIPP), James F.
Holmes, director of the
bureau’s Atlanta Regional Of
fice, announced. '
SIPP is a major nationwide
SET AT MENLO
Fiddler’s Convention
The sixth annual
Southeastern Invitational Fid
dler’'s Convention will be held
Saturday, Aug. 9, at Menlo Ci
ty Park, sponsored by the
Chattooga County Wildlife
Assn.
The festivities will be kick
ed off around 6:30 to 7 p.m. Fri
day, Aug. 8, with an informal
“jam session’’ at the park, said
Gene Holt, association
president.
The program will begin at
10 a.m. Aug. 9 with entertain
ment to start shortly before
noon. A total of S7OO in prizes
will be offered in addition to
trl(fl)hies, Holt said. First lfirize
will be S3OO, second will be
$175, third will be $125 and
fourth will be SIOO. The fifth
prize winner will receive $75,
sixth will get SSO, seventh will
win $25 and the eflifhth through
‘loth winners will receive S2O
each.
Enough things will be %omg
on at the convention to %gzse
everyone, Holt said. Bar! e
plates will sell for $3.50 each
and brunswick stew will be
tions to his face, reports said.
Trooper Toles said the Ray
comfiiact truck was involved in
a collision with a car driven by
Jeffery Grogan, 19, First
Street, Trion, on County Road
1 a few hundred yards east of
Highway 27.
Grogan was given a warn
ing for failing to yield the right
of way by being on the wrong
side of tl{e roag, Toles said.
continuing survey introduced
in the fall of 1983. It is one of
the nation’s largest household
surveys with about 30,000
households participating.
The Census Bureau
publishes Feriodic reports pro
viding information from the
survey. Subjects covered in
clude the following:
— Jobs and earnings.
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News
WGTA radio newsman
David Daniel, Summerville,
played an unintended role in
the murder trial of 2 woman in
Rome last week.
A female caller contacted
Daniel by telseghone around
7:45 a.m. Thursday, July 17, to
discuss the trial of Mary
Fl:angc:g Bu}x:ch,l 30, R?xlrlx:
char in the slaying of her
boyfriend, Willem ‘fi)utch"
Smits, last March 24.
“Right before she hung the
phone up, she said, ‘l’mufil.ing
to let you know that there’s go
ing to be somebody in the cour
troom with a gun and if the ver
dict is guiltg, there's going to
be some shooting,’ "’ Daniel
quoted the woman as saying.
Daniel said he called wg
Walker of WRGA radio news
in Rome and Walker, in turn,
called ch,in County Suagerior
Court Judge Robert Walther,
who was a{;residing over the
Bunch trial. Daniel said Judge
Walther called him to discuss
the telephone call.
Before court began Thurs
da{‘, Judge Walther imposed
tight security in the courtroom,
including the use of a metal
detector to screen spectators.
Later in the day, the jury
found Ms. Bunch guilty of
voluntary manslaughter in the
slaying. Judge Walther
sentenced her to 10 years in
prison on the charge, as well as
10 months probation. She also
received five consecutive years
on probation for the use of a
firearm in the commission of a
felonf;.
The verdict and sentences
were handed down without in
cident in the courtroom.
“It was a stra:fie call,”
Daniel said. The caller, who
sounded like she was calling
long distance, didn’t give her
name but said she was a friend
of a witness in the case, Daniel
added. She also said she had
been present in the courtroom
during the trial, Daniel said.
Because the call started out
as routine, Daniel said he
didn't tape the conversation.
“] wish now I had,” Daniel
added.
and cold soft drinks will be
available all day, Holt said.
The association will also
sponsor its annual craft show
at the convention, he said.
Quilts, pillows, carved wooden
ducks, wind chimes and other
crafts will be available for
purchase.
Crafts people interested in
a booth for $lO may contact
Holt at 734-2886, Ron Hill at
857-3431 or Hairel Bagley at
The Gun Shop, 857-4332,%0&
said.
The Menio Volunteer Fire
Department will have its dunk
ing pool this year, he added.
wildlife Association
membgrs will allsuo be display
ing their trophies, nm?ng
frgm fish, elk and deer to fox,
Holt said.
Some of the biggest names
in fiddling are expected to at
tend this year’s pro?lam, he
said, induxi‘;nißandy oward,
1979 world champion and se
cond place winner last year at
Menlo.