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Housing Units (2000): 1482
Land area (2000): 404.126338 sq. miles (1046.682366 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 16.672214 sq. miles (43.180835 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 420.798552 sq. miles (1089.863201 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 30.706915 N, 82.937455 W
Headwords:
Echols, GA
Echols County
Echols County, GA
Wikipedia
Echols may refer to:
- Echols (surname)
- Echols County, Georgia, a county in Georgia
- Echols, Kentucky, a community in Ohio County, Kentucky
Echols is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alice Echols, American cultural critic and historian
- Antwun Echols (born 1971), American boxer
- Cameron Echols (born 1981), American basketball player
- Damien Echols (born 1974), one of the West Memphis Three
- Dondre Echols (born 1993), American hurdler
- Edward Echols (1849–1914), American politician
- Fate Echols (1939-2002), American football player
- Jennifer Echols, American writer
- John Echols (disambiguation) or Johnny Echols, multiple people
- Joseph Hubbard Echols (1816–1885), American politician
- Leonard S. Echols (1871–1946), American politician
- Mike Echols (1944–2003), American writer
- Mike Echols (American football) (born 1978), American football player
- M. Patton Echols (1925–2012), American politician
- Odis Echols (1930–2013), American politician, radio broadcaster and lobbyist
- Oliver P. Echols (1892–1954), American military officer
- Robert L. Echols (born 1941), American judge
- Robert Milner Echols (1798–1847), American politician
- Sheila Echols (born 1964), American athlete
- Tim Echols, American politician
- Vanessa Echols (born 1960), American television journalist
- William Holding Echols (1859–1934), American academic
Usage examples of "echols".
When it did, his first thought was of Damien Echols, a troubled kid whom Driver had been watching for about a year.
Most residents of Lakeshore Estates subsisted on some form of state and federal assistance, and the Echols family was no exception.
But problems of the Echols family had also come to the attention of social workers.
Damien and Michelle’s mother, Pam, was thirty-four years old, twenty years younger than her second husband, Andy “Jack” Echols, who’d adopted her two children.
Pam Echols granted her permission, and the juvenile officer walked out with notebooks containing Damien’s writings and drawings.
So while Damien Echols was in the Little Rock psychiatric hospital, Driver contacted a consultant who lectured on crime and the occult.
It also notified Driver that Pam Echols, Damien’s mother, intended to move with him and Michelle away from Arkansas.
In July 1992—the month that John Mark Byers was arrested on drugs and weapons charges in Memphis and released to federal marshals in the middle of the night—Damien and Michelle Echols moved with their mother to Aloha, Oregon.
Pam Echols and her children had barely settled into Joe Hutchison’s little apartment when Driver contacted juvenile authorities in Oregon, asking that they provide “courtesy supervision” of Damien for as long as he remained on probation.
With what might have been some trepidation, the Oregon counselor paid a call on the Echols family.
The boy was named Michael Wayne Hutchison at birth, but had changed his name entirely when Jack Echols adopted him.
They, in turn, notified Driver that Damien would be returning by bus to Arkansas, where he planned to live again with Jack Echols, and that he would contact Driver upon his arrival.
When Echols visited the therapist on January 25, 1993, the session focused on death.
In such an environment, the ideas that Damien Echols was confiding to his therapist were beyond strange—they were blasphemous.
By now, Driver had also related to Bray the suspicions he and Steve Jones harbored about Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin.