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- NOTE 1./
Point of Interest not relating at this time to Houston County and Houston surname in general:
HOUSTON 1854 U.S. Gazetteer, H, p.502
hews'ton, a county in the S. W. central part of Georgia, has an area of 875 square miles. The Ocmulgee river, navigable by steamboats, bounds it on the E., the Echaconnee creek flows along the northern border, and it is drained by Mossy, Big Indian, Sandy Run, and Lumpkin's creeks. The surface is nearly level; the soil is of limestone formation, very fertile, and extensively cultivated. Cotton, Indian corn, wheat, oats, rice, and sweet potatoes are the staples. By the census of 1850, this county produced more cotton and sweet potatoes than any other in the state. There were raised 19,362 bales of cotton; 662,600 bushels of corn; 46,830 of oats, and 188,224 of sweet potatoes. There were 6 grist mills, 10 saw mills, 1 cotton factory, and 1 woollen factory. It contained 24 churches, and 616 pupils attending public schools. The South-western railroad passes through the county, and the Muscogee railroad has its eastern terminus in it. Named in honor of John Houston, governor of Georgia in 1778. Capital, Perry. Population, 16,450, of whom 6526 were free, and 9924, slaves.
NOTE 2./ 1860 Daugherty County Georgia census: 6-14-1860
Name Home Age Est Birth Yr Birthplace Gender
G Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 45 1814 North Carolina Male
E Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 46 1813 Louisiana;Virginia Female
James Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 24 1835 Dooly Male
Jane Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 20 1839 Dooly Female
John D Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 19 1840 Georgia Male
Lucy Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 18 1841 Georgia Female
E Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 13 1846 Georgia Female
George Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 11 1848 Georgia Male
Emily Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 5 1854 Georgia Female
Adia Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 1 1858 Dougherty Female
Martha Houston Not Stated, Dougherty, GA 18 1841 Georgia Female
((Note that this last Martha is not connected to any other Houston family yet, but is surely not one of John and Elizabeths children))
NOTE 3./ 1870 District 14, Worth County, Georgia census: 8-29-1870
Name Home Est Birth Year Birthplace Race Gender
John Houston District 14, Worth, GA abt 1842 Georgia White Male
Jane Houston District 14, Worth, GA abt 1844 Georgia White Female
Mary Houston District 14, Worth, GA abt 1868 Georgia White Female
Fanny Houston District 14, Worth, GA abt 1869 Georgia White Female
NOTE 4./ WORTH COUNTY, COUNTY OFFICERS Commissioned-Succeeded
<<http://www.us-genealogy.net/worth/ch4-8.txt>>
Jno. D. Houston, Sheriff Feb. 15, 1879
NOTE 5./ 1900 MD 1121, Worth County, Georgia census,
Name Home in 1900 Birth Year Birthplace Race Relation
John D Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1842 Georgia White Head
Martha J Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1862 Georgia White Wife
Charles E Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1893 Georgia White Son
Ruby J Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1895 Georgia White Daughter
James M Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1897 Georgia White Son
Eula M Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1898 Georgia White Daughter
Paulin Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1900 Georgia White Daughter
Fanny Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1868 Georgia White Daughter
Willie J Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1900 Georgia White Grandson
Maud Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1877 Georgia White Daughter
George N Houston MD 1121, Worth, Georgia abt 1884 Georgia White Son
NOTE 6./ Historical Note: The Year Was 1873
The year was 1873 and much of the world was entering into a long period of economic depression. The beginning of the Long Depression is typically marked by the crash of the Vienna stock market, which sent ripples across Europe and eventually the United States with the fall of Jay Cooke & Company. The Cooke investment bank was heavily invested in the overbuilt railroad system which was beginning to fail. With the fall of this prominent company, a financial panic ensued and the New York Stock Exchange had to close for ten days. Railroads, factories, banks, and businesses had to close their doors resulting in skyrocketing unemployment rates. The Long Depression would last into the 1890s.
There were other smaller scale disasters in 1873. The British SS Atlantic out of Liverpool (with a stop at Queenstown) hit a submerged rock en route to New York and was wrecked in heavy seas off Nova Scotia. It is estimated that 545 of the 952 passengers perished.
In Baltimore, Maryland, a fire began in the factory of Joseph Thomas and Sons and spread over ten acres of the city. Photos of the fire and aftermath can be found online at the Maryland Historical Society.
A cholera epidemic swept through Birmingham, Alabama. Below is an interesting excerpt from a report from Mortimer H. Jordan, who was secretary of the Jefferson County Medical Society of Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of the epidemic (found on the website of the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama at Birmingham).
The treatment adopted was the opium and mercurial. When the stomach seemed so inactive that nothing made any impression upon it, an emetic of mustard, salt, ginger, and pepper, suspended in hot water, in many cases produced a warm glow over the surface of the body in a few moments. . . . Diuretics produced no good results. No condition in life, sex, or age escaped. The sucking babe and those of extreme age suffered alike from its ravages.
Before closing this paper, justice demands that we should briefly allude to the heroic and self sacrificing conduct, during this epidemic, of that unfortunate class who are known as 'women of the town.' These poor creatures, though outcasts from society, anathematized by the church, despised by women and maltreated by men, when the pestilence swept over the city, came forth from their homes to nurse the sick and close the eyes of the dead. It was passing strange that they would receive no pay, expected no thanks; they only went where their presence was needed, and never remained longer than they could do good. While we abhor the degradation of these unfortunates, their magnanimous behavior during these fearful days has drawn forth our sympathy and gratitude.
Further north and west, Jesse James and the James- Younger gang robbed a Rock Island train near Adair, Iowa. This first train robbery netted the gang more than $2,300, but was most likely a disappointment for the gang. They were expecting a $100,000 gold shipment, but that shipment had been switched to another train at the last moment.
North of the border in Canada, the Dominion Parliament had more lawful goals in mind when it established the North-West Mounted Police, the predecessor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Canada was growing and in 1873 Prince Edward Island joined the federation as Canada's smallest province.
In music, the song Home on the Range was born (Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley). The tune went on to become the state song of Kansas and is known around the world.
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