Marker Text:
DeKalb County, created by an Act of General Assembly, December 9, 1822, was named for Baron Johann DeKalb, a native German who fought gallantly for the American freedom. Wounded and captured at the Battle of Camden, South Carolina, August 9, 1780, he died a British prisoner. Most of the early settlers of DeKalb county came from Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
First Officers, commissioned March 18, 1822, in Fayette County were: John S. Welch, sheriff; Thomas A. Dobbs, Clerk Superior Court; Johnathan Dobbs, Clerk Inferior Court; John Calhoun, Coroner; James Adams, Surveyor.
044-29.5 Georgia Historical Commission erected 1956
Location: Square at Old Courthouse in Decatur, Georgia
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Visited: June 30, 2008
A relatively benign marker denoting the county origins and immortalizing not only the namesake of the county, but some of the first officers of the county.
Three things stand out...1- Are the Dobbs clerks related? What a big coincidence!....2 - Inferior Court? Do we still have an inferior court? I guess that is the current civil court as opposed to the criminal or superior court. What an ego blow to one of the Dobbs clerks though...one is superior and the other deemed inferior. Can you imagine the sibling rivalry going on there? ....and 3- What did the coroner do?
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