Appling County Probate Records

Appling County was created in 1818 from Creek lands ceded in the treaty of Fort Jackson and the Treaty of the Creek Agency. Appling was named for Col. Daniel Appling, Georgia's most noted hero of the War of 1812. Plans for the erection of the first court house were formulated in the home of John Johnson. Before that time, county elections and other business were to be conducted at the house of a Mr. Tomlison and the legislature met in the home of William Carter Jr. until 1828. The site of the first court house was on the land of Solomon Kennaday, but this building burned during the 1850's. A second courthouse was subsequently built in Holmesville. In an 1872 referendum, Appling County residents voted to move the county seat to a more central location. Work began on a new wooden courthouse in Baxley in 1873, and the legislature passed a law directing the county ordinary (probate judge) to sell the old courthouse in Holmesville and use the proceeds to complete the new courthouse. The present courthouse was completed in 1908.

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