STILSON — This southeastern Bulloch County community might be small, but some of its people — including two pioneering women — have left their mark in Bulloch County and beyond. The Bulloch County Historical Society celebrated Stilson by dedicating a historical marker — the 17th it has erected in the past three years — with a gathering of the community's notable people and their friends and relatives Thursday afternoon on Georgia Highway 119. Society President Joe McGlamery introduced three notables: B. Avant Edenfield, a senior judge in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia; Bette Beasley Anderson, the first woman to serve as undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury, appointed by President Jimmy Carter; and Faye Sanders Martin, the first woman appointed to the Georgia Superior Court bench and the state's first woman chief superior court judge.
Historical marker celebrates Stilson
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