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- The Butler Herald March 13, 1877
Effects of the Cold Weather
Mr. John F. Jinks, informed us a day or two ago, that he and his father (Willis Jinks) were losing a great many cattle from the effects of the recent cold. Mr. Jinks owns about 600 head of cattle in this and the adjoining County of Marion, and fram that he will lose 1/6 of them by the 10th of April next.
Land District: 12
Land Lot: 117
Time Period: 1852 Tax Records
Owned by Willis Jinks. His daughter Polly and her husband
Lemuel Streetman lived there later.
Land Lot: 119
Time Period: 1852 Tax Records
Owned by Willis Jinks. His son, John F. Jinks lived there later.
Land Lot: 139
Time Period: 1852 Tax Records
Owned by Willis Jinks. His daughter Winnie Virginia and her husband Henry J.
Ruffin lived there later.
Land Lot: 140 (joins 117)
Time Period: 1852 Tax Records
Owned by Willis Jinks. His son, Tolliver Jinks lived there later. The Jinks
Cemetery is here.
Land Lot: 151 + 170 (adjoining)
Time Period: 1852 Tax Records
Owned by Willis Jinks. His log home was on this.
Researcher: Virginia Crilley varcsix@hot.rr.com
1876 Land Owned by and taxes paid on in Land District 12:
Willis Jinks 5 202 1/2 acre Land Lots and additional 100 acres
John Jinks 6 202 1/2 acre land lots and additional 100 acres
William Henery Jinks 3 202 1/2 acre land lots and add. 100 acres
Toliver Jinks 1 land lot 202 1/2 acres
Henry J Ruffin 1 202 1/2 acre land lot #139 and add. 100 acres LL215
Lemuel Martin Streetman 1 202 1/2 acre land lot
The above was all in Dist 12. All this land was SW of
Butler just south of Whitewater Creek. The Willis Jinks
home was just north of Little Whitewater Creek(runs to
the east and crosses Ga 137 3 mi South of the Whitewater
Creek crossing) and the two merge about 1 mile from
Willis homeplace. Whitewater Creek runs in a SE direction
and runs across the NE corner of LL 170, was owned by
Willis in 1876! The junction of the two creeks is located
just Se of the Se corner of LL 170.
Wilborn Jinks 3 202 1/2 acre land lots and 150 additional
acres District 15 Sect 2.A few miles to the Northwest of
Willis neighborhood. He lived on Patisiligia Creek, north
of Ga Highway 96.
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