Editing Elbert County, Georgia (section)

==Notable people==

* [[Warren Akin Sr.]], member of the [[Georgia House of Representatives]] and [[Confederate States Congress]]
* [[Milton Alexander]], [[brigadier general]] during the [[Black Hawk War]]
* [[William J. Alston]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]], [[Alabama House of Representatives]], and [[Alabama Senate]]
* [[Richard E. Banks]], physician and surgeon
* [[William Barnett (Georgia politician)|William Barnett]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]]
* [[William Augustus Bell]], academic and president of [[Miles College]]
* [[Fred Bond Jr.]], tobacco industry representative and mayor [[Cary, North Carolina]]
* [[Nathaniel J. Hammond]], [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Georgia#House of Representatives|United States House of Representatives]] and [[Georgia Attorney General]]
* [[Mecole Hardman]], professional football player
* [[Derek Harper]], professional basketball player
* [[Corra Mae Harris]], journalist and war correspondent
* [[Sampson Willis Harris]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] and [[Georgia House of Representatives]]
* [[Nancy Hart]], rebel heroine of the [[American Revolutionary War]]
* [[William Henry Heard]], clergyman and diplomat 
* [[R. H. Hunt]], architect
* [[Mammy Kate]], enslaved women
* [[Joseph Rucker Lamar]], US Supreme Court justice
* [[Otis Leavill]], R&B singer, songwriter and record company executive
* [[Daniel Parker (Baptist)|Daniel Parker]], leader in the Primitive Baptist Church
* [[Charles Tait (politician)|Charles Tait]], [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] and a [[United States federal judge|United States district judge]]
* [[Horace Tate]], educator, activist, scholar, and politician
* [[Daniel Tucker (minister)|Daniel Tucker]], [[Methodist]] minister, farmer, and ferryman as well as a captain during the [[American Revolution]]
* [[Matthias Ward]], lawyer and [[United States Senator]] from Texas.
* [[William J. White (journalist)|William J. White]], civil rights leader, minister, educator, and journalist
* [[Thomas Simpson Woodward]], [[brigadier general]] in the [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] militia