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Taliaferro County GA

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Famous People from Taliaferro County, Georgia including Lloyd D Brown, Alexander H. Stephens, Ralph Hollis, Willie Asbury and Johnny Griffith
 

Lloyd D Brown was born in Sharon, Georgia in Taliaferro County on July 28, 1892. During World War I he served in France as commander of Company G, 61st Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. He was a United States Army Major General who commanded the 28th Infantry Division in World War II.

   

Major General Lloyd D. Brown
Alexander H. Stephens was an American politician from Georgia and Vice President of the Confederacy during the Civil War. He was born on February 11, 1812 and raised on a farm near present-day Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Georgia. At the time of his birth, the farm was part of Wilkes County. Taliaferro County was created in 1825 from land in Greene, Hancock, Oglethorpe, Warren, and Wilkes counties.

   

Alexander Hamilton Stephens -  Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
Ralph Hollis was born September 10, 1906 in Crawfordville, Georgia.  He served as an Ensign in the United States Naval Reserve on battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) where he was killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. In 1943, the destroyer escort USS Hollis (DE-794) was named in honor of Ens. Hollis.

   

Willie Asbury was born February 22, 1943, in Crawfordville, Taliaferro County Georgia. He is a former professional football running back in the National Football League who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1966 to1968.

   

Johnny Griffith was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at South Georgia College (1950–1954) and the University of Georgia Bulldogs from 1961 to 1963. He was born in Crawfordville, Georgia in 1924 and died in Duluth, Georgia April 28, 2003.

   

 
 
 

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