Editing Eatonton, Georgia (section)

==Notable people==
[[Vincent Hancock]], Olympic gold medalist in men's skeet shooting at the 2008, 2012, and 2020 Summer Olympics and Gatewood Schools graduate, resides in Eatonton.<ref name=CBS>{{cite web |url= https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tokyo-olympics-skeet-shooting-us-gold-mens-women-vincent-hancock-amber-english/ first Olympic champion to repeat in men's skeet | title=U.S. wins gold in men's and women's skeet shooting at Tokyo games | date=July 31, 2012  |publisher=CBS News |access-date=July 26, 2021 }}</ref>

The city is the birthplace of noted writers: [[Joel Chandler Harris]], journalist and author of the [[Uncle Remus]] stories, 19th century poet Louise Prudden Hunt (Mrs. B. W. Hunt), Henry Grady Weaver, author of ''[[The Mainspring of Human Progress]]'', and [[Alice Walker]], author of the novel ''[[The Color Purple]]'' and other fiction.

Artist and leading scholar, curator, and promoter of African American art [[David Driskell]] was a native of Eatonton.

[[S. Truett Cathy]], founder of [[Chick-fil-A]] fast food restaurant and franchise, is a native of the town.

[[Thomas Adiel Sherwood (judge)|Thomas Adiel Sherwood]], Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court from 1873 to 1902, was born there.<ref name="Herald">"Missouri Jurist Born 96 Years Ago", ''The Missouri Herald'' (June 6, 1930), p. 1.</ref><ref name="Bio">"Biographies of the Gentlemen Comprising the Democratic State Ticket", ''The St. Joseph Weekly Gazette'' (August 3, 1882), p. 7.</ref>