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    		• Clark Memorials (Macon, Georgia),
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Hamrick, William Earl
     
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    		• Occupation -- Service
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Jeffersonville
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Earl Hamrick Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Clark Memorials (Macon, Georgia), fabricator.
    Title: 
    Earl Hamrick Memorial, (sculpture).
    Medium: 
    Stele: granite; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Stele: approx. 74 x 32.5 x 8.5 in.; Base: approx. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Front of stele:) W. EARL HAMRICK, SR./SHERIFF/TWIGGS COUNTY/JAN. 1, 1941-DEC. 31, 1988/"A LIVING LEGEND" (Back of stele:) HONORARY SHERIFF EMERITUS, STATE OF GEORGIA/RECOGNIZED AS LONGEST - TENURED SHERIFF/IN GEORGIA AND THE UNITED STATES BY/GEORGIA AND NATIONAL SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATIONS/RECOGNIZED AND COMMENDED THRICE BY THE/GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA FOR/SUPERIOR AND METICULOUS DEVOTION TO DUTY./WHILE IN OFFICE PRESENT AT EACH DRAWING OF/A JURY, OPENING EACH REGULAR TERM OF SUPERIOR/COURT./MARRIED TO LOIS JOHNSON HAMRICK, A LOVING AND/DEVOTED WIFE, FOR OVER 50 YEARS unsigned Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A granite stele high-relief bust of W. Earl Hamrick, Sr. Incised commemorative text appears on the front and back of the stele.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Hamrick, William Earl -- Bust
    Occupation -- Service -- Policeman
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Jeffersonville
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Twiggs County Commissioners, P. O. Box 202, Jeffersonville, Georgia 31044
    Located Twiggs County Courthouse, North Railroad, Jeffersonville, Georgia
    Remarks: 
    Statue commemorates William Earl Hamrick Sr. (1906?-1990), sheriff of Twiggs County for 48 years, from 1941 to 1988. IAS files contain a biographical sketch of Hamrick from the Middle Georgia Magazine.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS GA000073
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