From pg. 185 "History of Lowndes County Georgia 1825- 1941 By General James Jackson Chapter NSDAR, Valdosta, GA, 1995:

Mineola
"Among the early settlers of the county was Mr. Remer Young, whose large plantation included the present village of Mineola. It was here he reared a most interesting family. John Young (later of Savannah), Mrs. W. F. Pendleton, Mrs. John Roberts, Mrs. Henry Peeples, Mrs. Jerry B. Jones, Jim Young, Mrs. W. B. Fender and Mrs. Austin of Atlanta were his children.

After the railroad came through that section, the Mineola Mill Company was organized by Messrs. John Young and J. T. Roberts, which they operated for many years, later selling to W. S. Fender. Nearby lived other early families, among them Mr. Isaiah H. Tillman, who came to Lowndes County in 1834 from Hawkinsville, where he had been a young merchant. He stayed, until his own house was completed, in the home of Matthew Young, across the river in that portion of the county which later became Brooks. Having married Arminta Young, a daughter of his host, he moved into the new home where he continued to live until his death in 1896.

Mr. Tillman was a progressive farmer and inspired his son, Henry Young Tillman, with the same love of the land. Other farms in this locality have been owned by the Howell, Kendall, Barfield, Dampier, Hodges, Scruggs, and other families.

The Young farms are now owned by the J. A. Dasher family, C. L. Smith, J. T. Mathis and Henry Young Tillman, who owns also the farm north of the Young place, formerly farmed by his father, Henry Y. Tillman. Since the saw mill no longer operates in Mineola, the only industry left is the turpentine still now owned by Mr. Coleman, who has operated there for many years