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I am Jake Scudder, a Wilkes County man from Jackson, A Whig and Republican in political conviction, Resting beneath these columns of polished marble Which stand on a hilltop at Diana's Chapel, Rising like a sentinel to guard the treasure tunnel And looking over the river toward Lewis Blackburn - (except from larger writing on Scudder) Jacob McCartney Scudder was born in the last two decades of the 18th Century in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He moved to Georgia as a young

In researching the family Summerour of North Georgia, I made a surprising series of connections. Henry Harrison Summerour moved to Auraria, Georgia around the time of the Georgia Gold Rush, and later moved to Hightower, (previously known as Frogtown) by the 1840s. Hightower was a major stop and crossroads on what is now known as the Old Federal Road. Henry operated a dry goods store. He was also appointed postmaster of Hightower in 1848. One of his neighbors was Mrs.