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Robert Childs "Big Duck" Mallard (1910 or 1911 – November 20, 1948) was an African American traveling casket salesman and landowner, who was shot and lynched by a group of about 20 members of the Ku Klux Klan in Lyons, Toombs County, Georgia. The people charged with his murder were acquitted by an all-white jury.
Toombs County was founded as the 144th county in Georgia by the State Legislature on August 18, 1905, and organized on October 9 of that year. The county was originally formed from portions of Tattnall and Montgomery Counties; a small piece of Emanuel County was added in 1907 to give Toombs County its present-day boundaries.
Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885) was an American politician from Georgia, who was an important figure in the formation of the Confederacy.From a privileged background as a wealthy planter and slaveholder, Toombs embarked on a political career marked by effective oratory, although he also acquired a reputation for hard living, disheveled appearance, and irascibility.
He attended Georgia Southern University and Fayetteville State University. [74] In July 2012, Wright enlisted in the US Army as an engineer and ultimately became a Special Forces engineer sergeant (18C) assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group. [65] [75] His funeral was held at Toombs County High School on 15 October 2017. [76]
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Buildings and structures in Toombs County, Georgia (3 C, 4 P) E. Education in Toombs County, Georgia (1 C, 3 P) G. Geography of Toombs County, Georgia (2 C, 2 P) P.
Bibb County Courthouse and Confederate Monument in Macon, GA c.1870s Montezuma: Macon County Confederate Monument (1911). [86] "The first Macon County monument is currently located in Fannie Carmichael Park and faces east. It is a soldier with both hands on his grounded rifle. There are lion heads on each side.
The Vidalia Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Georgia (Montgomery and Toombs), anchored by the city of Vidalia, the largest city in Toombs County.