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Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Houston County, Georgia.
The county was created on May 15, 1821 and was named after Georgia governor John Houstoun, with the spelling being a common 19th-century variation that later evolved to "Houston". The pronunciation, however, remains to this day "Howston."