Location: Walker County, Georgia, United States

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About the Table of Contents
The property tax digest books for Walker County, Georgia are divided into 5 year volumes: 1873-1878, 1878-1882, 1883-1887. Digitized copies are available on Ancestry, but they have not broken the volumes down by year. Additionally, many pages are out of order.
I (Katie Goodwin) needed to know the year an ancestor moved to Walker County - property taxes would be a good clue - so I began this table of contents to hopefully benefit myself and others.
Pages listed refer to the page number in film, not in the physical copy of the book.
Table of Contents
1873 - 1878
1873: p. 1
Page 1 to 137
Militia District # | District Name | Surnames | Pages in film |
---|---|---|---|
944 | Peavine | A-B | 139-151 |
Peavine | F-Z | ||
869 | Chestnutflat | ||
953 | East Armuchee |
DIST. # DIST. NAME PAGE (in film)
971 Boiling Spring 2 - 6 /47/91 - 104 881 Pond Spring 83 - 90 / 113 - 118 956 Chattanooga Val. 105 - 106 / 127 - 137 1161 Lookout Mtn. 107 - 112 1257 Dry Valley ??? 826 Crayfish 119 - 126 869 Chestnutflat 50 - 60 953 East Armuchee 61 - 74 1053 West Armuchee 75 - 81 960 Cane Creek 27 943 Wilsons 35 871 LaFayette 6 / 45 944 Peavine ???
Lafayette seems out of order? Tally sheet on p 22 seems to be from 1873. Then p. 24 is seemingly the right side without the left, and it starts into West Armuchee randomly.
1874: p. 138
Page 138 to 315?
District # | District name | Page in film |
---|---|---|
944 | Peavine | 139 - 151 / 164 - 175 / 199 - 200 |
869 | Chestnutflat | 251 - 260 |
953 | East Armuchee | 159 - 160 / 221 - 234 |
1053 | West Armuchee | 161/163? / 201 - 202 / 235 - 242 |
960 | Cane Creek | 203 - 210 |
971 | Boiling Spring | 152 / 301 - 315 |
1161 | Lookout Mtn. | 155 - 156 / 261 - 262 / 297 - 300 |
956 | Chatt. Valley | 287 - 296 |
1257 | Dry Valley | 263 - 268 |
826 | Crayfish | 157 - 158 / 243 - 250 / 269 - 270 |
881 | Pond Spring | 153 - ? / 271 - 286 |
943 | Wilsons Dist. | 211 - 220 |
871 | LaFayette | 179 - 198 |
Freedmen?? tally sheet on p. 162 1874 tally sheet on p. 177 - 178
1878 - 1882
1883 - 1887
1890
White Citizens
District # | District name | Page in film |
---|---|---|
960 | Cane Creek | 4 - 13 |
1053 | West Armuchee | 14 - 23 |
953 | East Armuchee | 24 - 39 |
869 | Chestnut Flat | 40 - 47 |
944 | Pea Vine | 48 - 61 |
881 | Pond Spring | 62 - 71, 74 - 79 |
826 | Crawfish Spring | 80 - 93 |
1257 | Dry Valley | 94 - 103 |
956 | Chattanooga Valley | 104 - 115 |
1161 | Lookout Mountain | 116 - 121 |
971 | Upper Cove | 122 - 139 |
871 | LaFayette | 140 - 161 |
943 | Wilson | 162 - 175 |
List of White Defaulters: pages 178 - 181
Black Citizens
District # | District name | Page in film |
---|---|---|
960 | Cane Creek | 182 |
1053 | West Armuchee | 183 |
953 | East Armuchee | 184 |
869 | Chestnut Flat | 185 |
944 | Pea Vine | 186 |
881 | Pond Spring | 187 |
826 | Crawfish Spring | 188 |
1257 | Dry Valley | 189 |
971 | Upper Cove | 190 |
871 | LaFayette | 191 - 192 |
943 | Wilson | 193 |
About the Property Tax Digests
The [property tax digest] books list names of taxpayers and assessments of value for various types of property and assets, as well as indicating who owed the poll tax. As such, the records should include all men 21 and over and women who owned property. Another important feature of the digests is their inclusion of African-American freemen by name.
Digests were compiled by militia district. This allows researchers to locate an ancestor by county, where other important records may be located (though these digests list taxes according to where property was owned rather than where the payee necessarily lived). The digests don’t often indicate family relationships, but they do offer details about a taxpayer and his (or her) estate. Details on white taxpayers were recorded on a two-page form:
- name
- number of polls
- taxable profession
- number of employees
- acres owned (and location)
- value of land
- value of city or town property
- shares held in banks and corporations
- stocks and securities
- investments in cotton, foundries, shipping, mining
- personal possessions (jewelry, agricultural products, animals, tools, etc.)
Freemen were logged separately on a different, one-page form that recorded
- name of freeman
- name of employer
- polls
- acres (and location)
- value of land
- value of city or town property
- personal property: household items, stock, tools, merchandise
Agents
Agents, sometimes abbreviated Agt, represented the person who owed the tax. Women property holders often had men represent them on tax lists. The agent might be a family member, or he might represent a group who had sent one person to pay their taxes rather than all of them making the trip.
(Description taken from Ancestry.com)
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