Mizells of the Ocmulgee Country
The Mizell Family of Telfair, Dodge, Wilcox, and Pulaski Counties, 1813–1950
The Mizell family story continues in the Ocmulgee country, where connections reached across Telfair, Dodge, Wilcox, and Pulaski counties from 1813 to 1950. This volume places family history within the roads, communities, institutions, and changing landscape of Wiregrass Georgia. It follows relationships that did not stop at county lines and considers how local life shifted across generations. Grounded in the regional setting and the surviving record, the book brings individual family experience into view as part of a larger South Georgia story.
If you have family roots in the Ocmulgee country, this book helps connect names and places to the region around them. Local-history readers can follow the ties among neighboring counties and communities. It is an invitation to see a family’s past as part of a living regional history, with useful context for further exploration.
- Family and community history in Wiregrass Georgia
- Telfair, Dodge, Wilcox, and Pulaski counties connected by people and place
- Local institutions and changing regional landscapes
- A long view of regional change, 1813–1950
- Migration, land, and kinship across neighboring counties
- Archival records that place family stories in a wider setting