HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! Please be sure to also respond to Marjorie Devore at scarlett1@bwsys.net Thanks jimmy Marjorie Devore wrote: > Hi JImmy,I can't believe Oconee is only as old as 1875! I am > interested in who named it, for we have a town here in > Illinois,Oconee, pronounced differently but spelled the same and is > certainly older than 1875. We say it O-kun-ee with the accent on the > O. since there quite a few Georgia settlers in the area, in two or > three counties near Oconee, and some of these same people are in > Burke, Oglethorpe, Jakcson co's, I am interested! I am searching for > William Brown, among others, very early, would be clarke co. then I > guess. Who is available to do research at the courthouse, library, > etc. since a lot is not on this site? Thanksscarlett1@bwsys.net

Marjorie, I don't know the WHOLE story, but a number of families from the Jasper/Morgan Co., GA area (the next county south of Watkinsville, but still on the Oconee River) went into Illinois in the 1810-1820 era. Maybe that's how you got Oconee up there. Good luck! eve ----- Original Message ----- From: jimmy To: GACLARKE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:42 PM Subject: [GaClarke] [Fwd: Oconee Co. Ga] HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! Please be sure to also respond to Marjorie Devore at scarlett1@bwsys.net Thanks jimmy Marjorie Devore wrote: > Hi JImmy,I can't believe Oconee is only as old as 1875! I am > interested in who named it, for we have a town here in > Illinois,Oconee, pronounced differently but spelled the same and is > certainly older than 1875. We say it O-kun-ee with the accent on the > O. since there quite a few Georgia settlers in the area, in two or > three counties near Oconee, and some of these same people are in > Burke, Oglethorpe, Jakcson co's, I am interested! I am searching for > William Brown, among others, very early, would be clarke co. then I > guess. Who is available to do research at the courthouse, library, > etc. since a lot is not on this site? Thanksscarlett1@bwsys.net ==== GACLARKE Mailing List ==== http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaclarke/ Do you have images from the past? Share them with everyone at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaclarke/Pictures/.