Judge Folks Huxford (16 Nov 1893 - 21 Mar 1981), son of Calvitt Huxford and Kansas Joanna Drawdy, was the foremost historian and genealogist of the Wiregrass Region. He was also a lawyer, a long time probate judge of Clinch County, and a Baptist Minister. The region is heavily indebted to his decades of dedicated research. He wrote The History of Clinch County, Georgia (1916) and The History of Brooks County, Georgia (1948). In 1951, v (Volume 1) was first published. He helped organize and research an additional six volumes before his death in 1981. In 1972, he helped establish The Huxford Genealogical Society. His library and notes form the nucleus of the Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library in Homerville, Georgia.
The journals he helped publish are full of valuable and often otherwise hard to find information. The South Georgia Historical and Genealogical Quarterly was an early attempt in 1922 by Huxford to start a journal focused upon the history of South Georgia. Unfortunately it only lasted three issues. Another journal on Wiregrass history and genealogy would not be published by Huxford until 1974. In that year, The Huxford Genealogical Society Quarterly began publication. The journal is where many of the biographical sketches that later appear in volumes of Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia were first published. The Huxford Genealogical Society Quarterly also contains many transcribed county records from Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina that have never been published elsewhere.
Several different series of biographical sketches have been published in the Quarterly.
From 2009 forward, the biographic sketches that appear in the Quarterly have not appeared elsewhere because additional volumes of Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia and its second series Pioneers of the Wiregrass are currently not being published. Occasionally a sketch has appeared in the Quarterly, but did not appear in a volume of Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia.
There are a few noteworthy series of transcribed county records:
The Quarterly has also published a number of articles from historic newspapers from the Wiregrass Region that cover births, marriages, and deaths. These notably include:
Below shows the availability of issues and volumes at various facilities.
Below is an abstract of the contents of every issue of The Huxford Genealogical Society Quarterly from 1974 to present, and South Georgia Historical and Genealogical Quarterly. To search the list most effectively, open the spreadsheet up in another tab by clicking on the square in the upper right hand corner.
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