Brooks County. This County created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 11, 1858, is named for Preston Smith Brooks, zealous defender of States rights. Born in S.C. Aug. 6, 1819, Brookes served inthe Mexican War & in Congress. He died June 27, 1857. The first County Officers included Ordinary Angus Morrison, Sheriff Enoch Hall Pike, Clerk of Superior & Inferior Courts D.W. McRae, Tax Collector George Alderman, Tax Receiver John Delk, Treasurer William F. Speight, Surveyor Jeremiah Wilson, Coroner John T. Devane, State Senator Shadrack Griffin and Representative John T. Edmondson. 014-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956
