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Seventeen counties of Georgia have been named for men of note who at one time resided in Wilkes: Heard, Clarke, Dooly, Taliaferro, Talbot, Rabun, Campbell, Early, Bibb, Echols, Meriwether, Forsyth, Ware, Towns, Lumpkin, Terrell, and Toombs.
Of the first thirteen governors, eleven were from original Wilkes including Heard, Mathews, Clark, Talbot, Early, Lumpkin, Rabun, Towne, Ware, and Forsyth.
George Walton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was a large landowner and first circuit judge in Wilkes.
Four pioneer ministers of the gospel resided in Wilkes: Jesse Mercer, John Springer, Hope Hull, and James Osgood Andrew.
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