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GIBSON RECORD
Published to Furnish the People ot Glascock Coun ty a Weekly Newspaper grid as a Medium for the Advancement of th e Public Good of the County.
VOL. XXXVIII. No. 50.
Historical Sketches
Of Towns Located
In Warren County
From Warrenton Clipper
(By Mrs. W. F. Wllholt, County
Historian.)
(The following installment ol
the .. ... History . of j. Warren county . .
the beginning of a series
sketches of several of its towns,
This week Jewell i s the subject
of the chapter.—Ed.)
Jewell
Mr. William Shivers came
Warren county in the early
of the nineteenth century and
built a cotton mill on the
chee river and called it Rock
Factory. Ther e were five
dred spindles and forty
tives and the wages paid each
these operatives was seven
lars and seventy-five cents a
month. Soon a store was oper
ated to supply the hands
that area containing the mill.
The homes of the operatives and
the store became known as
“Shivers.” A map of Warren
county on display at Georgia
University, printed in 1818, gives
Shivers among the towns in
Warren county.
In 1856 the property pissed
into the hands of a firm known
as Jewell, Bodfish and Eldridge.
The members of the firm were
educated men and
the value of education and je
ligion in a community.
A superior class of
and a high grade of citizenry co
operated in making an ideal
town and it proved a “jewel” in
deed.
The homes of the operators
w-Sr were
shrubberv Some of 'these are
still standing and are monuments
to these departed builders. The
nesi best teachers reacners were vvere employed employ to
and their children given the best
advantages. Jewell has always
been noted in the county for its
musical characters.
A few years later Mr. 1). A.
.itwt Jewell i. wno who came came to to Warren
county from winchester, N
the Jewell of the above named
firm, bought the interests of his
partners amt opended U, e
developed andTthen became
irns a Mfsr n ’ an<1 the rai11
The sight of the town is very
tinction^oT’lying in two* countiis.
home," W'irren and Hancock The
re built™ the high
on either side of the river
business i) us mess houses nouses are are piaceu ntaeed on on
A e r,"d uZ»y 'USS To J £
river
cidlv twelve or fifteen feet he
neath the iron bridge that spans
:i hut which dnrina the fill ‘
and winter rains, becomes a
roaring torrent sometimes r is
: ing n rt until until even even the the balustrade* balust uei
on the sides of the bridge are
submerged Wifhm the past
few months the State Highway
Board has filled in and built a
concrete bridge about one hun
dred yards higher up the river.
Soon after the purchase of
the mill from Mr. William Shiv
ers by Jewell, Bodfish and Eld
riHwp ridge, this this firm firm h«oon began de\eloping
the religious and social side of
the comm unitv "
„ Mr. Eldridge j j organized • i an
mien open air air Sundnv Sunday School ocriooi n
met on the banks of the river.
Logs served as seats for the off!
cers rers and and nunils pupils, The ine little iiuie Sun- nu
day School flourished. Lessons
of oi morality mnraliiv ana and Dietv pieiy were e c
taught and the nearness to na
lure tore, nf of their their environment environment, ner- per
haps made the spiritual truths
more forceful.
Realizing that the little
was dependent upon the
er, Mr. Jewell built a house
which served jointly as a school
house on week days and a
church on Sundays and the
Sunday School met here also,
Here were held union services
where membeis of all denomi
nations of the community
shiped together. This program
continued until 1869 when a few
Baptists gathered together and
organized a church of that faith
and proceeded immediately, to
build a house of worship of
their own. Their beautiful
brick church wss completed and
dedicated in 1871, Reverend J.
W. Ellington preaching the ded
icatory sermon.
The Methodists continued to
use , he old building until 1894
w hen they erected a church of
their own faith. The churches
have woiked together in perfect
u " ity and l he feat good accom*
is incalculable. . The ht
tie village was noted for its pie
ty and sobriety.
A commodious school house
was ejected in 1871. Many of
the boys and girls have gone out
'nto the world filling responsible
positions as doctors, nurses,
lawyers, preachers, manufactur
ers > merchants, farmers and
The mill was operated by Mr.
Jewell until 1883. At that time
thc number of spindles were
^600, with 120 looms. A bridge,
Hie hrst across the Ogeechee,
was built at this point.
In previous years the Indians
ad made fording of the river
possible by laying in the bed of
river locks that had been
brought from Stoney Hill, in
Warren county. This ford was
repaired also, when the bridge
was built.
At various times a Masonic
Lodge, a Good Templars, a
Grange apd an order of Odd
were maintained in
Jewel h A brass band was also
one her assets. A postoffice
was secured through Mr. Mar
shall Jewell, who served- as
Postmaster General under
Grant’s administration. When
«££ s.
ncrship a^ain. This chan,. time „w- the
ftrm became Bowen-Jewell –
Co. They increased the num
her of spindles to 6000 and the
loo,n ® in Y‘
^ Lag mill was built in 1902
and a fimnery was operated.
The hag mill was moved to
Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1905, and
since Las been moved to Chick
dl,ld uga.
In the mill was sold to
Cant . Brothers, of Burlington,
^ tLme haS
When Sherman’s raiders came
^
Sl,0als on the Hancock side and
stopped at the home of Mr. D.
Jewell They aeked if 1here
wcrc a, LV horses in the lot. They
were told there were no horses
Sd hidden “ "obato out)
They hi,',, also
" s i,e„ them,
* hey crossed the bridge com
in « on tBe Warren county side
where the mill was located.
Hf ; re th ey found J «> veH and
? skecI for . matches saying they
intended burning the mill. Mr.
■^” expostulated ex P° s ‘‘“Sntendent while Mr
Ca'd an , ^ s , h er ^ e ^ n \ °‘
the S stuffing . They
w there no
^ . d the . of the Masonic
lce sign or
( l er that had been cut into one of
the rocks which formed the
chimney to the mill. The Lap
tain paused long enough to ask
T Mr. Jewell were g member of
« e ordcr ora « r and ‘ l “ u wben waen answereq answered in in
the affirmative he ordered his
t«o men rnen to io pass Dass on on saying saving he ne
attend to the matter and
ne so .°" followed nmowea, leaving leaving the me
intact. Mr. George then-
111 ng, of Augusta, Ga., built the
" 1111 ana 11 ™ as ne " J1 ° in nis
and loyalty to the order bv
,ia ,a,<J 011 ir * e «nai touch louen »y
cutting , the square and compass,
^ Qn Qne Qf
the rocks that formed the tall
chimney to the mill, Later the
chunney was taken down and
stone, that had saved the
from the torch, was placed
* n a se t °f stone steps at the
home °f Colonel YV. L. L. Bowen
called Idylwilde. Col. Bow
en s oid home recently burned
( l°wn.
Mr. D. A. Jewell was married
GIBSON, GA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932.
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to Miss Mary Shea. Th6y had
the following children: i
Olivia Pratt, who married A.
-p Cason, and died in 192l
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tfrandson of Mr. William Shiv
who built the first unit of
Mr ' Lat, ,. .._____ mer died ..., ■
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JeweU Cason had two children,
^ed^Mist Liffiealld arr d?ed
^ ,£ ! ' IeweI1 Bovven had seven
enuuren.
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wwiie, area in loov.
Orlando, who married Miss
Evelyn Ma,.a. whn died in 1915.
They had Rohe,, Ma
ini^ Th^ married ’’ I M
Little. , They had threp sons sons,
J. M ' IL ' A " en 8nd AsWey JeW *
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Marian, . married married w w. w w. Crews urews
an ^ had three daughters, Betty;
and Jane,
Robert> who dipd in J9 U.
^eece, who died in infancy 1*
W. H. Jewell and Daisy Pratt
Jewell had one son, W. H., II.,
and two daughters, Jeannie and
Haumne. _
D. A. Jewell, II. and ijene
Houston Jewell had five child
ren* Lillian, .. „ u. A. .lewen jeWell III. in.,
Clair Houston and Mary. Lati
a " d ,da Jeweu r .i urnner me r
had two daughters, Florine and
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I he linn of Bowen *owsn Jewell Jewell Co co.,
consisted of the follow ng o mem
,iers - ^ ■:
A - Jewell ,, II, A. S. Bowen and
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Mr. A S. Bowen married Miss
Lenora West, of Athens, renn.
They had four children, Lenoita
West, Mary, died in 1896, A. S.
II., and Virginia Lee.
CnM Net Buy CatkeAral
The cathedral ot Notre Dams IB
Paris wss sold, during the revolution,
to a private Individual for $1,000, ,but
the purchaser was unable to raise
sufficient capital and the purchase"tell
throu?'..
The Adyentufers;,
Columbus 'Day, 12rii
If we begin to enumerate
them, we will first begin with
Abel and Enoch, and Noah and
Abraham who left his home and
pebple in search of a new coun
try.
Isaac, Jacob and Joseph all
did the same thing-^pioneers of
venture!
Moses dwelled for forty years
in preparation to Seek a new
land, hut never reached it.
SamUel and David had many
conflicts before reaching their
goal.
Nehemiah and Ezra were
times shipwrecked by obstacles many
before reaching their ap
pointed place.
But the same spirit that in
SpiTed these ancients grew into
that little Italian boy as he sat
upon the docks in far away Ge
noa, and when he was grown to
manhpod he had nerve enough
to appeal to kings and queens to
help hiqi °Ut > n a n undertaking
which everybody else
fUtile, What
was the value of money
necessary to fit out the expedi
tion, compared to the faith which
it took to cause Christopher Co
lumbus to sail unknown seas in
search of a new country!
Look at Lindbergh!
Stop and consider for a mo
ment what it means to us today,
that we have had these adven
turers, these volunteers and pio
neersT
Heroes of Faith, they are; for
they knew not the outcome, hut
went on, propelled by that un
seen force, that unexplainable
something which says in a still
small voice—“keep on”—“don’t
turn back.”
Perhaps the greatest achieve
ment of faith yvas manifested in
the life of Moses when he came
to the Red Sea. or in Daniel when
he was thrown into a den of
lions, or the Three Hebrew Chil
dren in the fiery furnace, or it
might have been one of the wo
men who received their dead.
raised to life again.
The walls of Jericho fell, down
by the faith of one! Great
were accomplished by Samson,
Great things of this earth have
come in no other way than by
just patient trying, but that per
sistent trying was backed up by
that unseen force which, to
many seems unreasonable or
simple.
But the unseen is often a foun
tain head of power, and the clar-
Subscription $1.00 per year
ion call today is for volunteers
work whfch we >h9ll ln no
unseen* lorces, and stay 1 the
on
jbb day and night'. *
Cruel mockings, scourgings,
bonds, imprisonment, " stones,
evil intent, afflictions, wander
ings and violence usually come
before the dawning of a new
day.
Today, four hundred, forty
year s ago, the discoverer of the
greatest nation on earth, set sail
in search of a new way of doing
things. He had to stand the
contempt and contradiction of
his fellows, but his efforts were
not in vain.
The mind of the adventurer,
the discoverer, the inventor, the
faithful worker, alike, knows
no sex—no fear, no wavering, no
anxiety, and \v e have no record
of a single disappointment,
There’s no power (hat can cir
cum vent, hinder or control, the
firm resolve of a determined
soul!
This is the year of all years,
when we are to commemorate,
and dedicate the lives
of great men. If not, how then
ar e we ever to add sublimity to
011 r Httle lives?
We are making footprints, are
we leaving behind us a roadway,
straight and unobstructed, for
our children and others who are
to follow after?
While we are in the low
grounds of sorrow, oppression
and depression; while we are
camped in the valley of decision,
we do well if we heed the re
port of the spies—who bring
you good reports of the land to
which w'e wish to go.
The best things of earth and
Heaven are in the minority,
Pearls and fine jewels are always
in small packages.
It isn’t always safe to follow
the throng.
Consider the life of Thomas
Alva Edison, the genius of
day.
The life of Thomas E Watson
is without a parallel. His life
and principles are worthy
emulation. He had conflicts,
aw suits and brute beasts tried
stop his mouth, but that
spiration which came from
indi^tructible fountain was all
sufficient to carry on till at last,
when the summons came, “well
done, thou good and faithful
servant, enter into the joys of
the Lord.”
And so it is with them whom
the Lord did
are sojourners here, just seeking
a new country—they are
WORDS OF WISDOM
Money make* a man laugh. i i
Mo precepts will profit a fool
Only blockheads copy one another.
v_.
One may as well work as think on
his troubles.
Anger suitably and Wisely directed
la of great service.
Beauty Is the last true thrill left us
in a mechanized age.
Bud manner* are an eccentricity
when a genius has them.
Theta is nothing to do with detest
able weather but to stand it.
Every man’s Idea of liberty differs
somewhat from that of others.
Some people are to afraid to die
that they never ttagln to live.
Equality, after all, Is not a fixed
and definite end, but only a means
to an end.
Better not collect hata souvenirs. Some
day ypu them’all will a cleanup and
throw away.
It would ! seem that the desire for
divorce Is the only Important factor.
The reason does not matter.
A fool often falls because he thinks
what is difficult tie Is 'essy, and a wise
man because thinks what is easy
is difficult
Criminal element has no mercy on
society; but society seems to be al
ways heaping coals of fire on the
heads of the criminal element.
GOOD ADVICE, VoOngYarmer THIS,
to
The spirit of the “Old Farmer’s
Alnianac” brought up to date In the
Commonweal (New York)'By Bobert.
P, Trtsira.ni Coffin;
Build* your’ h6u»» upon 4 rise,
Male* friend* with ' your arm* and
thlfhs.
Dig your spring below a pine.
Plant a morning-glory vine.
Have your bedroom race tb* dawn.
Have windows with no curtains on.
Thongh fields tie ready cleared a
score,
Cut thickets down and make one
more.
Sleep an hour In the sun,
Talk to your cows wbsn milking’s
don*.
By all that’s good, be much alone,
Us* no man’s plow-horse but your
own.
Plow as soon as hyla* peep,
Mow before the crickets cheep.
Never hope to rise in life
Until you have brought home your
wife.
Never trust' your corn to' grow
Betor* you have a son or so.
There is no rain to tnatch a mother.
Sons and seeds help on each other.
—Literary Digest.
turous, daring, fearless, coura
geous and faithful, and have
never been found wanting when
placed in the balances. They
arp steadfast, immovable and
holding to their crown that no
man take it from them, and
some day the stars will be set
in and they will shine with the
splendor of Heaven.
So we may well afford to
press on toward the mark of
high calling —- forgetting the
things of the past, laying aside
every weight and besetting sin,
and run with patience the race
that is set before us, looking
unto Jesus, the author and fin
Isher ot our taith, who for the
that was set before Him, en
dured the cross, always, despis
ing the shame, and is today sit
at the right hand of the
throne ot God, acting as our at
making intercession at
throne of mercy for us, and
everyone ever born into the
world; for it is not our Father’s
that any should perish, but
all should come to the sav
in g knowledge of our Lord and
Jesus Chris 4 ,
Don’t wait to be conscripted
Into service. Be volunteers—
he first—be in the front ranks,
L ma y he more dangerous, but
the glory is greater,
Dare to do right, and trust to
consequences. He who
notes the sparrow's fall and
care you- s { “Sail ( °r th e on, lilies, sail will on!” (hire for
Mrs - A ■ H. Shivers. i