# Reuben Cone
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{{Short description|American pioneer and landowner}}
'''Judge Reuben Cone''' (July 14, 1788 – April 10, 1851) was an important pioneer and landowner in [Atlanta, Georgia](/source/Atlanta%2C_Georgia).
He was an early pioneer in [DeKalb County, Georgia](/source/DeKalb_County%2C_Georgia) where he married Lucinda Shumate (1796–1872) and served on an education committee in 1823.[Garrett, Vol. I, p.31] He began serving as a justice of the inferior court there in February 1825.[Garrett, Vol. I, p. 52] This was at a time when Decatur consisted of a dozen log cabins.[[http://www.julen.net/family/files/lucinda_shumate_cone_underwood.html The Girl From Julen: Family History: Lucinda Shumate Cone Underwood]]
==Land Lot 78==
This important section of 202½ acres includes all of the current [Fairlie-Poplar](/source/Fairlie-Poplar) district and [Centennial Olympic Park](/source/Centennial_Olympic_Park) was originally granted to a Jane Doss of [Jackson County, Georgia](/source/Jackson_County%2C_Georgia) who sold it a year later, in 1826 to Matthew Henry of [Gwinnett](/source/Gwinnett_County%2C_Georgia) for $50. Henry held onto it for twelve years and sold it to Judge Cone for $300.[Garrett, Vol. I, p.60]
The spike that [Stephen Harriman Long](/source/Stephen_Harriman_Long) drove into the ground to mark the terminus of the [Western and Atlantic Railroad](/source/Western_and_Atlantic_Railroad) lay within Judge Cone's Land Lot 78, an event which led to the foundation of the city of Atlanta.[Garrett, Vol. II, p.955] When selling off his large land holdings, he would divvy up small lots and sell them for low prices to encourage more people to settle in the young town.