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Smarr was the first Americus Police Officer to be killed in the line of duty for 33 years. Smith was the first Georgia Southwestern State University Department of Public Safety Officer to be killed in the line of duty for 110 years. Officers Smarr and Smith were the 136th and 137th police officers to be killed in the line of duty in 2016.
Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912 – October 29, 1969) was an American farmer and Baptist theologian, founder of Koinonia Farm, a small but influential religious community in southwest Georgia and the author of the Cotton Patch paraphrase of the New Testament.
Americus is the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 16,230.It is the principal city of the Americus Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Schley and Sumter counties [5] and had a combined population of 36,966 at the 2000 census.
Funeral services for former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died at the age of 96 on Nov. 19, begin Monday, Nov. 27 in Sumter County, Ga.. The memorial services and funeral will be broadcast by ...
The report on the funeral of Capt. Myrick from the Atlanta Constitution, 1895 Tomb engraving for Marie Louise Scudder Myrick in Bonaventure Cemetery (Savannah, Georgia) The newer inscription on the Myrick Family Tomb in Savannah, Georgia. Marie Louise Scudder (December 5, 1853 – June 10, 1934) was the owner, manager and editor of the Americus ...
"I've always known we wanted to do something with the place," says Jess McNeill, who is the sixth generation to live in the Americus, Georgia, farmhouse first purchased by his ancestors in 1853 ...
In 1879, the Americus Recorder began as a tri-weekly publication owned by Merrel Callaway. The Americus Recorder was a competitor of the Sumter Republican newspaper at this time. A few years later, Calloway sold his interest in the Americus Recorder and the Americus Times was then officially established in 1890.
From 1917 to 1920, Pace served in the Georgia House of Representatives and then served in the Georgia Senate from 1923 to 1924. In 1936, he won election as a Democrat representing Georgia's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives during the 75th United States Congress. He was reelected to six additional terms in ...