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Burke
County, Georgia
Biographies
Alonzo Lee Franklin.
One of the ablest advocates of the Georgia bar is Alonzo L. Franklin,
solicitor general for the Augusta Circuit. As Mr. Franklin has reached,
but not passed, his mature prime, much strong professional work
attaches to both his past and future career. A native of Georgia, Mr.
Franklin is a son of that ardent southern patriot, John E. Franklin,
who joined the army at the age of sixteen years, who served a
fouryears' term and who lost an eye at the Battle of Gettysburg. After
the war, his strong personality made itself felt in various public
affairs. Settling in Burke County, his native community, he engaged in
school-teaching as his first vocational activity. He was moreover
deeply interested in local civic affairs and among his political honors
and services was his incumbency of the office of tax collector for
Burke County. In 1881 he removed to Richmond County, where he became
identified with Augusta's mercantile enterprises. Here he remained
until his death, which occurred in 1895, at the age of fiftysix years.
The companion of his manhood home was Emma Youngblood Franklin, who yet
survives her husband, and who resides in Mathews, Georgia. Their
children were two and both were sons. Benjamin Franklin died in Augusta
in 1896. His brother is the special subject of this sketch.
Alonzo Lee Franklin was born to the above-mentioned parents on December
16, 1873, at their home in Burke County, Georgia. He was given the
advantages of the Richmond County public schools and particularly those
of Augusta. His academic education was further extended through courses
in the Kimberlin Heights School of Tennessee, where he spent two years,
and in the Milligan College of the same state, where he studied for
four additional years. Having selected the law as his profession, he
then proceeded to take up its practical study in the office of the Hon.
Henry C. Hammond, who has since become the judge of the Superior Court
of Augusta Circuit. When Mr. Franklin had completed his research under
that capable tutelage, he was admitted to the bar by the Hon. E. L.
Brinton, judge of {he Superior Court of the Augusta Circuit. The date
of that auspicious circumstance was January 25, 1901, and immediately
thereafter the young lawyer entered upon practice in Augusta. The first
office tendered him by his townsmen as a political tribute was that of
commissioner of police. In that office he served for five years. In
1912 Mr. Franklin was elected solicitor general of the Augusta Circuit.
He entered upon the duties of the office on the first day of the
succeeding year and still continues in the able and efficient
performance of its duties. His term for the elected office ends on
January 1,1921, he having since been elected to succeed himself.
Mr. Franklin is a true Southerner in his gracious social qualities and
his firm loyalty to state and city. He has many fraternal connections.
He is a Mason, a Shriner of both Savannah and Augusta, a member of the
Knights of Pythias, of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Red Men and of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks. The variety and extent of his interests in
the social fraternities in no wis« diminishes his consistent
faithfulness to church responsibilities. The Disciples' or Christian
Church is that of Mr. Franklin's membership. He is a deacon in the
organization of the First Church of Augusta and since the departure of
the Very Honorable Justice Lamar from the city, Mr. Franklin has been
the teacher and lecturer of the Bible class of the same church. These
labors and enthusiasms are shared by Mrs. Franklin, who is active in
numerous movements of the church society and is a teacher in its
Sundayschool.
Mrs. Franklin is a South Carolina lady and formerly resided in
Edgefield of that state, where her parents, John A. and Lucinda
McDaniel, have long been well known. It was on December 22, 1902,-that
Katherine McDaniel became Mrs. Alonzo L. Franklin. The Franklin home is
one of attractive atmosphere and its owners among Augusta's most
popular people.
Hon. George C. Thomas.
Among
those
who
have
lent
honor
to
the
legal profession in the State of
Georgia a place of special distinction must be accorded to George C.
Thomas, of Athens, a former circuit judge and for more than forty years
identified with his profession in this state.
A native Georgian, he was born in Burke County October 20, 1850, a son
of Jethro and Jane T. (Blount) Thomas, who were also natives of Georgia
and were married in this state. His father was a farmer and afterwards
a merchant, and died in 1885 at the age of sixty-two. During the war he
enlisted in Company I of the Fifth Georgia Regiment of Cavalry as a
private, and served from 1862 until the close of the struggle. He was
once wounded in a battle in which his command was engaged, and in 1864
he was taken prisoner and was held in the Point Lookout prison in
Maryland until the close of the war. The mother died in 1855 at the age
of fifty-five, having had three children. •
The youngest of these children, Judge Thomas, spent most of his boyhood
in the troubled era of the Civil war, attended school rather
irregularly, gained part of his early education in Burke County, later
attended Mercer University from which he was graduated in 1870, and
after some further training in the University of Georgia was admitted
to the bar in 1879. Since then he has been continuously identified with
his profession in Athens. From 1886 to 1889 he served as circuit judge
of the Oconee Circuit, and during that time presided over many notable
trials and gained a reputation for impartial administration of justice
and served to give dignity to his office. He was also a member of the
State Legislature two terms from Clarke County, serving from 1896 to
1898, during which time he succeeded in having passed by that body a
law donating $100,000, for building purposes, to the University of
Georgia. Judge Thomas is well known as a member of the Clarke County
Bar Association, is an active democrat and a member of the Baptist
Church.
In 1871 at Athens, in his twenty-first year, he married Miss Mary Anna
McWhorter, daughter of Moses E. McWhorter, who for many years was a
merchant at Athens. Six children were born to their union: Jethro
Thomas, who was born at Rome, Georgia, and is now deceased; George C.,
Jr., who was born at Oconee and died there: Mary, who married H. C.
Edwards of Athens; Anna and Kate, twins, who died in infancy; and
William Milton, who was born at Athens and since graduating from the
University of Georgia with the A. B. degree in 1902 and from the law
department in 1912, has been associated with his father in practice,
and is one of the rising young attorneys of the state. Judge Thomas in
his early youth had many difficulties to struggle with, and gained his
education and promoted himself to distinction in the bar through his
own efforts. He is extensively interested in farming and has several
small farms in the vicinity of Athens.
Henry Jones Carswell, M. D.
Exemplifying the best ability and attainments of the modern physician
and surgeon, Doctor Carswell has found success in his chosen calling at
Waycross and has also been a factor in business and civic affairs.
He was born in Burke County, Georgia, March 9, 1885, a son of Rev. John
Hamilton and Fannie (Janes) Carswell. His parents were also born in
Georgia, his father in Burke and his mother in Greene County. His
father became a well known Baptist minister, and spent twenty years in
one church. He is now retired from the ministry at the age of
sixty-six, and lives at Hephzibah. The mother is still living at the
age of sixty-five. Eleven children were born to their union, one of
whom died in infancy. Miss B. J. Smith lives at Hephzibah; John F.
lives at Avera; Dr. Thomas Janes a young physician, is now deceased;
Arthur Eugene lives at Blythe, Georgia; William Davis is in Blythe,
Georgia; Washington Kirkpatriek lives at Dublin, Georgia; William is
deceased; Henry J. was the next born; Hattie M. lives at Hephzibah;
James Hamilton lives at Hephzibah; and Alexander is an attorney at
Augusta.,
The eighth in order of age. Dr. Henry J. Carswell attended school at
Hephzibah, graduating from high school in 1903, and acquired some of
the means which enabled him to complete his medical education by one
year of teaching. He then entered the medical department of the
University of Georgia at Augusta and graduated M. D. in 1908. He gained
valuable experience as an interne in the hospital at Augusta, after
which he began practice at Waycross. In 1910 he removed to Kingsland,
Georgia, and' followed his profession there for two years. 'While at
Kingsland he was one of the promoters of the state bank, also served as
a member of the city council and as town treasurer.
Since returning to Waycross Doctor Carswell has acquired a practice
that now almost tests his capacities and energies. In 1913 and again in
1915 he took courses in general medicine and gynecology in the
Post-Graduate and Polyclinic at New York. He is censor of the local
medical society, a member of the Eleventh District and the State
Medical Societies, the Southern Medical Association and the American
Medical Association. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of
Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, the Modern Woodmen of America and
the Knights of the Modern Maccabees. He belongs to the Baptist Church
and in politics is a democrat.
On May 26, 1910, at Waycross he married Miss Marion E. Carswell,
daughter of William J. Carswell of Waycross. They are the parents of
two children: Miss Virginia Lyon, born in 1911; and Miss Helen, born in
1913.
Source: A standard history of Georgia and Georgians, Volume 5 By
Lucian Lamar Knight
Gresham, Emmet B.,
ex-member of the state legislature and present incumbent of the office
of county school commissioner of Burke county, has been identified with
educational affairs for a number of years, and in his present position
is accomplishing a splendid work. He was born on a farm in Burke
county, March 7, 1875, and is a son of Job A. and Annie L. (Lasseter)
Gresham, both of whom were likewise born and reared in Burke county,
where they still reside, having their home in the city of Waynesboro.
Job A. Gresham has been identified with agricultural pursuits
throughout his active career and is a veteran of the Confederate
service in the Civil war, in which he served as ordinancesergeant in
the Forty-eighth Georgia volunteer infantry. He is a son of Edmund Byne
and Mary (Anderson) Gresham, the former of whom was a son of Job A.
Gresham, the family being founded in Burke county in a very early day.
The maternal grandparents of the subject of this review were Orrin and
Mary (Burke) Lasseter, both of whom died in Burke county. Emmet B.
Gresham availed himself of the advantages of Waynesboro academy, after
which he continued his studies in the Hephzibah high school, in
Richmond county. At the age of eighteen years he left school and
engaged in teaching in the public schools of Jefferson county,
continuing his pedagogic labors in that county for three years and
thereafter teaching in Burke county five years, meeting with
unequivocal sucess in his work and gaining not a little prestige in the
connection. In 1898, at the age of twenty-three years, he was elected
to represent Burke county in the state legislature, being reelected in
1900, and thus serving two consecutive terms. In 1904 he was elected to
his present position, that of county commissioner of schools, and he
maintains his residence and official headquarters in the city of
Waynesboro. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church South, is
identified with the lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity, and
since 1896 he has been a member of Company E, known as the Burke light
infantry, in the First Regiment of the Georgia state troops, being a
second lieutenant in the same at the present time. He is well known
throughout his native county, where he enjoys merited popularity.
Fulcher, William M.,
clerk
of
the
superior
court
of
Burke
county
and head of the insurance
and brokerage firm of W. M. Fulcher & Co., of Waynesboro, was born
on a farm in that county, Dec. 3, 1858. In the same county were born
his parents, Vincent W. and Eloise (Wimberly) Fulcher,—the former on
Feb. 13, 1814, and the latter April 26, 1825. The father, who was a
planter by vocation, is deceased, and his widow is still living,
wonderfully well preserved in mind and physical powers, though
eighty-one years of age, in 1906. Her husband was never confined to his
bed by illness until the day prior to his death, which occurred April
18, 1889. They became the parents of six sons and six daughters, and of
the number five sons and three daughters are living, two of the sons
having been loyal soldiers of the Confederacy in the Civil war. The
subject of this sketch was a child at the time of the war, but he was
identified with the state militia for a number of years, having been
for four years captain of the Burke light infantry, constituting
Company E, First regiment of Georgia state troops. Captain Fulcher had
practically no specific educational advantages in his youth, as he was
reared in the period of great depression in the south after the Civil
war, the family fortunes having reached the lowest ebb, so that he had
no opportunity to attend school. By observation, absorption and
practical experience he has made good to a large degree this handicap
of his youth, and is a man of broad information and strong mentality.
At the age of fifteen years he started forth to fight the battle of
life on his own responsibility. For several months he was manager of a
country store and later he was employed as salesman in a store in the
city of Augusta. He then went west, passing one summer in the city of
St. Louis, Mo., where he was employed as a solicitor. Upon his return
to Waynesboro he became a clerk in the general store of his brother
Julian L., and four years later formed a partnership, under the firm
name of J. L. Fulcher & Bro. This partnership continued five years
when Captain Fulcher withdrew from the firm and became manager of the
Waynesboro Supply Company, retaining this position two years, at the
expiration of which, in 1895, he engaged in his present line of
enterprise, insurance and general brokerage, in which he has been very
successful. In 1904 he admitted to partnership his brother Vincent M.
and also Arthur F. Evans, and the business has since been conducted
under the title of W. M. Fulcher & Co. In politics the captain is a
stanch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and he has been
called to offices of public trust. He was a member of the board of
aldermen of Waynesboro for six years; served an equal period as
registrar of Burke county; was elected clerk of the superior court in
1902; was chosen as his own successor in 1904 and is the present
incumbent of the office. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity,
in which he has attained to the rank of Knight Templar, is also
identified with the Mystic Shrine, and is past master of his lodge and
past high priest of his chapter. He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church South, and is a steward of the Waynesboro church of
this denomination as well as superintendent of its Sunday school. Mrs.
Fulcher holds membership in the Presbyterian church. On Dec. 21, 1898,
Captain Fulcher was united in marriage to Miss Sadie Dent, daughter of
Dr. James M. Dent, a representative physician of Waynesboro, and they
have one son, William M., Jr., born Sept. 23, 1902.
Hayne, Linwood C,
president of the National bank of Augusta, and also the Planters' loan
and savings bank, of the same city, was born in Waynesboro, Burke
county, Ga., April 23, 1858. He is a son of James B. and Julia
Whitehead (Clinton) Hayne, the former of whom was born in South
Carolina and the latter in Richmond county, Ga., both being now
deceased. The father was a lawyer by profession and was a veteran of
the Mexican war, in which he served as a member of the Palmetto
regiment, from South Carolina. Linwood C Hayne attended the common
schools of Burke county and supplemented this discipline by study in
the high school at Hephzibah, Richmond county, while later he was
graduated in Moore's business university, in the city of Atlanta. He
initiated his business career as clerk in the mercantile establishment
of J. B. White & Co., of Augusta, soon afterward being made
assistant bookkeeper for the concern, in whose employ he remained
consecutively for a period of fourteen years, within which time he rose
through various grades of merited promotion to the responsible position
of credit man and confidential adviser. He severed his connection with
this well known house in 1894. In the preceding year he had been
elected president of the Planters' loan and savings bank, which is now
the largest and strongest savings bank in Augusta, and he has remained
its executive head to the present time. In January, 1894, he also
became president of the National bank of Augusta, which was established
in 1865 and which is one of the stanch financial institutions of the
state, being capitalized for $250,000. In addition to these two
important positions Mr. Hayne is also president of the Southerland
Manufacturing Company, of Augusta; vice-president of the Georgia
Chemical Works, of Augusta; member of the board of directors of the
Warren Manufacturing Company, of the same city; and a director of the
Augusta Land Company and the United States Fidelity and Guarantee
Company, the headquarters of the latter being in the city of Baltimore,
Md. In politics he accords allegiance to the Democracy, and his
religious faith is indicated by his membership in St. John's Methodist
Episcopal church South, of whose board of trustees he is chairman. He
is a member and ex-president of the Georgia bankers' association and a
member of the American bankers' association. Mr. Hayne is an
appreciative member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has
completed the circle of the York Rite, being a past master of Webb
Lodge, No. 166, Free and Accepted Masons; past eminent commander of
Georgia Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templars, the oldest in the state;
and a member of Yaarab Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, in the city of Atlanta. He is also a member of the
Augusta Country club and is president of the Augusta Game Preserve club.
Lester, Rufus Ezekiel,
lawyer
and
statesman,
was
born
in
Burke
county,
Ga., Dec. 12, 1837, and
was identified with the affairs of his native state all his life. He
graduated at Mercer university as a member of the class of 1857, and
two years later was admitted to the bar in Savannah. He had scarcely
entered upon his professional career when the Civil war broke out and
he subordinated all private interests to take up arms in behalf of the
Confederate cause. In August, 1861, he enlisted as a lieutenant in the
Twentyfifth Georgia volunteer infantry, commanded by Col. C C Wilson,
and was made adjutant of the regiment. L'ntil the spring of 1863 he was
with his command in Georgia, his regiment forming part of Walker's
brigade. In the spring of 1863 Walker was ordered to Mississippi and
Lieutenant Lester participated in the battle of Jackson, Miss., and
other engagements of the Vicksburg campaign, rising to the position of
brigade adjutant. He distinguished himself by his bravery at
Chickamauga, where he was twice wounded, and was recommended for
promotion. When the surrender came he was stationed at Macon, Ga., and
after the war was over he resumed the practice of law at Savannah.
During the reconstruction period he was a prominent figure in
opposition to the policy of the national government. In 1868 he was
elected to the state senate; was reelected in 1871, 1877 and 1878, and
during the last two terms was president of the senate. In 1880 he was
the choice of many people for governor of Georgia. From 1883 to 1889 he
served with distinction as mayor of Savannah, and his administrations
have passed into history as among the best the city ever enjoyed. In
1888 he was elected representative in Congress from the first district
of Georgia, and by successive reelections he remained a member of that
body until his death, which occurred on June 16, 1906, as the result of
an accident that happened on the evening before. Mr. Lester was a
strong and able lawyer and as an orator had few superiors, his
eloquence and logic winning the plaudits of his friends and the respect
of his opponents. While in Congress he was for the greater part of his
service a member of the river and harbors committee. In his political
affiliations he was an unswerving Democrat and was one of the admitted
leaders of that party in his native state. He was an active member of
the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Knights of Pythias and the United Confederate Veterans. On Nov. 9,
1859, Mr. Lester was united in marriage to Miss Laura Hines, daughter
of James J. and Georgia (Bird) Hines of Burke county. To this union was
born one daughter, Laura, who married Thomas J. Randolph.
Source: Georgia: comprising sketches of counties, towns, events,
institutions, and ... edited by Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm
Evans
Quincy O. Mulkey, M. D.
Though
young
in
years,
not
yet
turned
thirty,
Doctor Mulkey has had
unusual opportunities and has made a record of special proficiency and
skill as a physician in Jenkins County. Doctor Mulkey now practices at
Millen. .
He was born at Girard in Burke County, Georgia, February 8, 1886, a son
of James W. and Lavincia A. (Mallard) Mulkey. Both parents were born in
Burke County, where his father has for many years been a well known
farmer and is still living at the old homestead at the age of
sixtyseven. He was too young to take part in the war between the
states. The mother is now sixty-one years of age. Their children were:
W. M. Mulkey of Burke County; E. L. Mulkey of Sardis, Georgia; J. D.
Mulkey of Girard, Georgia; D. T. Mulkey of Girard; and oldest of all
the children is Dr. Quincy O.
As a boy he attended the Rockville Academy, and then followed a period
of employment on his father's farm. Next he became a salesman for W. R.
Buxton of Girard, and remained with the firm from the time he was
thirteen years of age until he was eighteen. With this as preliminary
to his professional work, he entered the medical department of the
University of Georgia at Augusta, and in 1909 was graduated M. D. Then
followed a hospital experience in Augusta during 1909-10, and on taking
up active practice he located at Vidette where he remained until 1912.
Since then Doctor Mulkey has looked after a larger field at Millen. He
is surgeon for the Atlantic Compress Company in Millen, is chairman of
the Jenkins County Board of Health, is secretary of the County Medical
Society, and a member of the State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. He is also physician for the local camp of the
Woodmen of the World.
At Vidette, Georgia, December 21, 1909, Doctor Mulkey married Miss
Angie Oates, a daughter of the late Thomas J. Oates. They have one
child, Arnold P. Mulkey, born at Vidette, December 3, 1911. Doctor
Mulkey own* a good home in Millen, has a fine professional and private
library, and is prospering as he deserves on account of his energy and
thorough ability.
Robert L. Miller, M. D.
Prominent among the able and honored physicians and surgeons who are
ably upholding the high standard of the profession in Burke County,
stands Dr. Robert L. Miller, who is engaged in active general practice
at Waynesboro, the county seat, and who is recognized as one of the
representative physicians of the section of Georgia which has been his
home from the time of his birth and in which he is a scion of an
honored and patrician family that was founded in Georgia in the
colonial era of our national history. In Eastern Georgia Doctor Miller
is a member of a profession that was here signally dignified and
honored in earlier years by the services of his father, whose name and
memory are revered in Burke, Jefferson and Richmond counties,
throughout which his practice extended.
Dr. Robert L. Miller was born at Hepzibah, Richmond County, Georgia, on
the 26th of September, 1870, the youngest in a family of seven
children, his birth having occurred when his father, a man of strong
mind and great physical vigor, was seventy-two years of age. The doctor
is a son of Dr. Baldwin B. and Cornelia. (Polhill) Miller, the former
of whom was born in Richmond County, this state, in 1798, and the
latter of whom was born in King and Queen County, Virginia, a daughter
of Rev. Joseph and Julia (Guyon) Polhill, her mother having been born
at New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York, but her father having
been a member of an old Southern family; he was a man of high
intellectual attainments and was a clergyman of the Baptist Church.
Dr. Robert
L. Miller gained his
earlier education in the Village of Hephzibah and thereafter completed
a special course in Mercer University. He then entered the medical
department of the University of Georgia, in which he was graduated as a
member of the class of 1891 and from which he received his degree of
Doctor of Medicine, immediately after which he went to the national
metropolis and took a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic.
In the late autumn of 1891 he engaged in practice at Sandersville,
Washington County, Georgia, where he met with excellent success and
where he remained two years. He then returned to his native Town of
Hepzibah, where, on the 22d of November, 1893, was solemnized his
marriage to Miss Dean Joyner, daughter of Virgil S. and Mary (Graybill)
Joyner, her father having served as a loyal soldier of the Confederacy
during the Civil war and having thereafter become a prosperous merchant
aijd planter at Oconee, Washington County.
In 1908 Doctor Miller established his permanent residence at
Waynesboro, where he now controls a large and representative practice
as a physician and surgeon and where he stands forth as a progressive
and publicspirited citizen. He is identified with the American Medical
Association, the Georgia State Medical Association, the First
Congressional District Medical Society and the Burke County Medical
Society, which he has represented as a delegate to the conventions of
the State Medical Association. The Doctor is the owner of a small farm,
which he maintains and operates solely for the benefit of his father's
old negro valet, who has the supervision of the place. He is affiliated
with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and both he and
his wife hold membership in the Christian Church, in which Mrs. Miller
is prominent in the various departments of the women's church work,
besides which she is actively identified with the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. The Doctor is ardently devoted to hunting and fishing.
Dr. Baldwin B. Miller was accorded excellent educational
advantages. In preparation for his profession he entered the celebrated
old Jefferson Medical College, in the City of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and after his graduation in this institution he
established his residence in Burke County, Georgia, where he maintained
his professional headquarters during the remainder of his long and
noble life and where he amassed a fortune, his extensive practice .as a
physician having been a medium through which he added greatly to his
material prosperity. Prior to the Civil war he had become the largest
land-owner in Burke County, and was also one of the largest
slaveholders. He was broad-minded and liberal in his civic attitude
and, as the largest single taxpayer in the county, he naturally
manifested a lively and helpful interest in all that tended to advance
civic and industrial prosperity. He was too advanced in years to be
eligible for military service when the Civil war was precipitated,
butiiis patriotic loyalty to the South was significantly shown when, at
his own expense, he equipped a company of volunteers who entered the
Confederate service and made an admirable record. Doctor Miller
represented in his personality the gentle culture and refinement that
characterized the fine old Southern regime, and was notably courtly and
dignified, though possessed of an affability and generosity that gained
to him the warm friendship of all with whom he came in contact. In his
profession he had high appreciation of his stewardship, and this, as
combined with his intrinsic sympathy and kindliness, caused him to
respond to every call for his ministrations to the suffering and
distressed, no matter how poor and obscure the family or how great the
burden imposed upon him by his humane mission, from which he could
expect no financial recompense. This revered pioneer physician passed
to the life eternal in 1872, at the age of seventy-four years, and only
two years after the birth of his youngest child, who is the immediate
subject of this review. Dr. Baldwin B. Miller first wedded Mrs. Robert
Morrison, who did not survive her marriage by many years, the two
children of this union being deceased. In 1851 the Doctor wedded Miss
Cornelia Polhill, who survived him by many years and who is still
living at the age of eighty-three years. Of their seven children Dr.
Robert L., of this article, is the youngest, as already noted; Joseph.
B. was a prominent member of the bar of Waynesboro at the time of his
death, in 1879; John P.,-who was a prosperous planter of Burke County,
died in 1877; Ruth is the wife of Charles H. Thomas, of Waynesboro;
Lulu is the wife of Ulysses B. Frost, of Hephzibah, Richmond County;
and Benjamin died in 1875, at the age of seven years.
Lott Warren,
lawyer, legislator, judge, and congressman, was for many years one of
the prominent figures in the public life of Georgia. He was a native of
the state, born in Burke County, October 30, 1797, obtained such
education as the schools of the day afforded, studied law, and was
admitted to practice in 1821. He moved to Marion and served in the
Lower House of the General Assembly in 1824, and in the State Senate in
1830. In 1831 he was again in the Lower House, and in that year was
elected a judge of the Inferior Court, serving until 1834. Hcwas
elected as a whig representative to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh
congresses, serving from 1839 to 1843. Judge Warren was for many years
a leader of his party in the state, was accounted one of the foremost
lawyers of the day, and a strong man on the bench. He died at Albany,
June 17, 1861.
Mark Madison Lively, M. D.,
now
in
practice
at
Statesboro,
is
a
physician
and surgeon of forty
years' experience. He was born in Burke County, Georgia, September 17,
1854, a son of Alexander and Verlinda (Godby) Lively. Both parents were
natives of Georgia, and spent most of their years on a farm in Burke
County. The father was born in April, 1832, and during the latter part
of the war served in the Georgia Militia as a private. He died October
1, 1912. The mother was born in 1837 and died in June, 1862.
Doctor Lively spent his early youth and boyhood in the troubled period
of the Civil war, and had limited opportunities, though he attended the
country schools as long as possible, and paid his way by farm work and
finally entered the medical department of the University of Georgia,
where he was graduated M. D. in 1876, and at once began practice in his
native county. That was his home for more than a quarter of a century,
but in 1902 he removed to Statesboro. He also spent five years in
practice at Macon. At Statesboro he established the Lively Drug Store,
and this thriving business is now conducted by his son.
Doctor Lively is a member of the county medical society and is a member
of the Georgia Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In
polities he is a democrat, is affiliated with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias and is a member of the Methodist
Church.
In July, 1876, he married Miss Martha V. Ellison. She died in 1883 in
Burke County. Her parents were Robert J. and Cynthia Ellison. To this
union were born two daughters. Mrs. Nina V. Hendricks, the older, was
born in Burke County, Georgia, and is the mother of three sons and one
daughter: J. Walter, Charles, Martha and Edwin Hendricks. The second
daughter is Miss Emory Mattie Lively, who is a teacher in the public
schools of Statesboro. In 1885 in Burke County Doctor Lively married
Miss Susan Oliver, daughter of Richard and Caroline Oliver. There are
two sous of this1 marriage. George P„ Lively, the owner of his father's
old drug business at Statesboro, while Mark O. Lively assists his
brother in the drug business. Both sons were natives of Burke County.
Source: A standard history of Georgia and Georgians, Volume 5 By
Lucian Lamar Knight
Herrington,
Lovick Pierce, M. D., a
well known physician of Waynesboro,
was born at what is now known as Girth, a country post office in Burke
county, May 27, 1858. From data supplied by Lord Timothy Harrington,
member of the British Parliament from Ireland, it is learned that a
prominent family of this name lived in the vicinity of Londonderry.
Ireland, about the middle of the seventeenth century. The name was
originally spelled "Haerrington," and a division of the family occurred
over the spelling, some wanting to retain the "e" and others the "a,"
the result being that the name is now spelled both ways, and as there
are numerous representatives of each in the United States, it is
evident that some of each branch immigrated to this country at a very
early date. From Connecticut they spread to Pennsylvania and Virginia,
and long before the Revolutionary
war a father and four sons settled
at Greenville, N. C Two of these sons, Richard M. and Ephraim, later
settled in Screven county, Ga., where the former built a rock dam
across Brier creek, cut several canals and built a number of mills, the
place still being known as "Mill Haven." This dam still stands, a
wonder to modern civil engineers. Ephraim Herrington was killed near
Mill Haven in a skirmish with the Indians in the colonial days. A Henry
H. Herrington was a brigadier-general in the American army during the
Revolution, and with two others of the name was present at the
surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Five generations of the Herringtons have
lived in Burke and Screven counties. Traced from the Richard M.
Herrington above mentioned, these generations have been represented by
Richard, Martin M., Berry, the father of the subject of this sketch,
and Dr. L. P. Herrington, whose name heads this review. Doctor
Herrington received his primary education in the schools of his native
county during the dark days of reconstruction, just after the Civil
war, when everything was very much disorganized, the schools being no
exception. Determined to acquire an education, however, he entered
Emory college at Oxford, Ga., and as he paid his own way he was
compelled to practice all sorts of economy never letting pass an
opportunity to earn an "honest penny." At Oxford he found several young
men like himself—in straitened financial circumstances, but bent on
securing an education. These young men formed a club and rented a small
house near the center of the town. As this house had the reputation of
being haunted no one would live in it and they rented it very cheap,
the supernatural having no terrors for them. This cottage became known
as "Round Top," and it was seldom molested by the people of the town,
save now and then when some one of its inmates became indisposed, when
some gentle maiden would send over a collection of flowers and "good
things" for the invalid and his associates. The butcher, the grocer and
the milkman passed by, having learned to save time by not stopping for
"orders" at Round Top. The housekeeping of the bachelor students was
not always systematic, nor their cooking according to the most approved
rules of culinary science, but here they lived until Andrew Hall was
opened and the Mess House boys found more commodious quarters. Here a
number of young men originated the "Helping Hall," which has since
become a prominent feature of numerous colleges throughout the country,
and which has been the means of aiding many young men to acquire an
education. This institution had its start at Round Top, its originators
being Col. E. P. Davis, Prof. W. T. Dumas. Dr. O. G. Mingledorf, R. E.
L. Folsom, Joseph Baker, Doctor Glover, II. C Carney, Thomas
Easterling, Thomas Lang, Rev. McLain, Col. T. B. Harwell, Col. B. S.
Williamson and Dr. L. P. Herrington. Later Doctor Huckabee, founder of
McRae college, came into the hall, and during one vacation he and
Doctor Herrington worked as brickmasons on Seney Hall—the gift of
George I. Seney to Emory college. Doctor Herrington taught school in
Newton and Burke counties until 1882, when he entered the medical
department of the University of Georgia at Augusta, and graduated in
the class of 1884, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then
returned to the old homestead, where he with others secured the
establishment of the post office of Girth, fourteen miles south of
Waynesboro, where he practiced his profession for some time, and then
attended Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Term., where he received the
finishing touches of his medical education. Again he took up the
practice at Girth, but subsequently removed to Waynesboro, where he has
since been actively engaged in professional work, building up a large
practice and one of distinctly representative character. He became a
member of the Ogeechee medical association; served as president of the
Burke county Farmers' Alliance; has been delegate to conventions of
that body, especially the one where the jute trust was opposed; and
with his father gave the site for the Union academy, afterward laboring
to establish this school as a permanent institution of learning, and
one of the best in the county. Doctor Herrington is the originator and
sole proprietor of a remedy known as "Herrington's Liver Pills for
Georgia People." He is the owner of the old homestead plantation,
having purchased the interests of the other heirs, and devotes some of
his time and attention to his plantation interests. In 1902 he
graduated at the "Institute of Science," of New York, the course being
taken by mail and express, and received a diploma in the occult
sciences. He is a Master Mason, a Phi Delta Theta, an old time Democrat
of Scotch-Irish descent, and with his wife belongs to the Methodist
Episcopal church South. In October, 1886, he was united in marriage to
Miss Annie Laurie Davie, of Nashville, Tenn. , and they have one
daughter, Ouida Mae, born Nov. 9, 1896.
Source Georgia: comprising
sketches of counties, towns, events,
institutions, and ... edited by Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm
Evan
Felder, Thomas B., Jr., a
leading
member
of
the
Atlanta
bar
and
a prominent figure in the political affairs of the state, was
born near
Waynesboro, Burke county, Ga., Oct. 6, 1864. He
is
a
son
of
Thomas
B.
and Minerva Clara
(Corker) Felder, the former of whom was born in Sumter, S. C., in 1843,
and the
latter in Burke county, Ga.,
in 1844. He is a direct descendant of
Edward Felder, who was colonel of the Third South Carolina regiment in
the war
of the Revolution. The latter’s nephew. John Myers Felder, was for many years a
representative of the south Carolina in the
Congress of the United States. The father
of the subject of this review was colonel
of a Georgia
regiment in the Confederate service during the Civil was.
Stephen A. Corker, maternal uncle of Mr.
Felder, was captain of the Burke Guards in the Confederate ranks and
after the
was represented the eighth district of Georgia in congress. After due preliminary discipline Thomas B.
Felder, Jr., was matriculated in the University of Georgia, in which he
was graduated as a member of the class of 1883, with the degree of
Bachelor of
Arts. He then studied law and was
admitted to the bar. He served as mayor
of Dublin in
1884-5; as county commissioner of Laurens county in 1866-7; and in 1888
was
presidential elector on the Democratic ticket from the third
Congressional
district of the state. He was engaged in
the practice of his profession in Dublin until
1891, when he removed to Atlanta,
where he now controls a large and representative practice.
In1896-7 he represented Fulton county in the state
legislature and in
1898 was a candidate for Congress, from the fifth district, but was
defeated. In 1904 he was presidential
elector for the state-at-large and was president of the electoral
college of Georgia. He is an active worker
in the cause of his
party, and has twice been a delegate to its national conventions. Mr. Felder is affiliated with the Masonic
fraternity, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Knights of Pythias, the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Order of Beavers; is a
member
of the Capital City
club and Piedmont Driving club, of Atlanta, and
the Hermitage Club, of Nashville, Tenn. He
is a member of the First Methodist
Episcopal church South, of his home city. On
Aug.
12,
1886,
Mr.
Felder
was
united in
marriage to Miss Charlotte Johnson, daughter of Grafton Johnson, and a
granddaughter of Gov. Noah K. Noble, of Indiana. She
was
summoned
to
the
life
eternal
on June
21, 1904, having become the mother of one son who died in infancy.
[Source: Georgia:
Sketches, Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions & People, Vol. 2,
Publ.
1906 Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman]
Fulcher, William M., clerk of the superior court of Burke county
and head of the insurance and
brokerage firm of W. M. Fulcher & Co., of Waynesboro, was born on a
farm in that
county, Dec. 2, 1858. In the same county
were born his parents, Vincent W. and Eloise (Wimberly) Fulcher,-the
former on
Feb. 13, 1814, and the latter April 26, 1825. The
father,
who
was
a
planter
by vocation, is
deceased, an his widow is
still living, wonderfully well preserved in mind and physical powers,
though
eighty-one years of age, in 1906. Her
husband was never confined to his bed by illness until the day prior to
his
death, which occurred April 18, 1889. They
became the parents of six sons and six
daughters, and of the number
five sons and three daughters are living, two of the son having been
loyal
soldiers of the Confederacy in the Civil war. The subject of this
sketch was a child
at the time of the war, but he was identified with the state militia
for a
number of years, having been for four years captain of the Burke light
infantry, constituting Company E, First regiment of Georgia state
troops. Captain Fulcher had practically no
specific
educational advantages in his youth, as he was reared in the period of
the
great depression in the south after the Civil war, the family fortunes
having
reached the lowest ebb, so that he had no opportunity to attend school. By observation, absorption and practical
experience he has made good to a large degree this handicap of his
youth, and
is a man of broad information and strong mentality.
At the age of fifteen years he started forth
to fight the battle of life on his own responsibility.
For several months he was manager of a
country store and later he was employed as salesman in a store in the
city of Augusta. He then went west,
passing one summer in the
city of St. Louis, Mo., where he was employed as a
solicitor. Upon his return to Waynesboro
he became a
clerk in the general store of his brother Julian L., and four years
later
formed a partnership, under the firm name of J. L. Fulcher & Bro. This partnership continued five years when
Captain Fulcher withdrew from the firm and became manage of the
Waynesboro
Supply Company, retaining this position two years, at the expiration of
which,
in 1895, he engaged in his present line of enterprise, insurance and
general
brokerage, in which he has been very successful. In
194
he
admitted
to
partnership
his
brother
Vincent M. and also Arthur F. Evans, and the business has since been
conducted
under the title of W. M. Fulcher & Co. In
politics
the
captain
is
a
stanch supported of the
cause of the Democratic
party, and he has been called to offices of public trust. He was a
member of
the board of aldermen of Waynesboro
for six years; served an equal period as registrar of Burke county; was
elected
clerk of the superior court in 1902; was chosen as his own successor in
1904
and is the present incumbent of the office. He
is
affiliated
with
the
Masonic
fraternity, in
which he has attained
to the rank of Knight Templar, is also identified with the Mystic
Shrine, and
is past master of his lodge and past high priest of his chapter. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church South, and is a steward of the Waynesboro
church of this denomination as well as superintendent of its Sunday
school. Mrs. Fulcher holds membership in
the Presbyterian church. On Dec. 21,
1898, Captain Fulcher was united in marriage to Miss Sadie Dent,
daughter of
Dr. James M. Dent, a representative physician of Waynesboro, and they
have one son, William
M., Jr., born Sept 23, 1902.(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906.
Transcribed by Renae Donaldson)
Houston, John, second governor
of Georgia under the
constitution of 1777, was a native of the state, having been born at
Waynesboro on Aug. 31,
1744, his father, Sir Patrick Houston, being one of those who came over
with
Oglethorpe. The son received a good education and when the troubles
with the
mother country arose he was one of the first to assume an aggressive
attitude
toward the British government. In 1774 he called the first meeting of
the band
of patriots that organized the “Sons of Liberty” in Georgia, and acted
as chairman of
the meeting. In 1775 and 1776 he was a member of the Continental
Congress, and
would have been one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence
but for
the fact that he had been called home from Philadelphia to counteract
the
influence of John J. Zubly, who had left Philadelphia to work against
the
declaration. On May 8, 1777, he was appointed a member of the executive
council, and on Jan. 8, 1778, succeeded John A. Treutlen as governor.
Savannah was captured by
the British during his administration and he was invested by the
council with
almost dictatorial power, because of the unhappy condition of the
colony. In
1784 he was again elected governor and was one of the commissioners to
the
Beaufort convention to settle the boundaries between Georgia
and South Carolina.
Houston county
was named in his honor. He died at White Bluff, near Savannah, July 20,
1796.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906.
Transcribed by Kim Mohler)
Johnson, Herschel
Vespasian, lawyer and statesman, was born in Burke county Sept.
18, 1812. In 1834 he graduated at the University of Georgia
and having studied law under Judge Gould while attending college was
soon after
admitted to the bar. He practiced at Augusta for
about five years, when he located in Jefferson
county. In 1840 he was nominated for Congress, but declined to make the
race.
Two years later he ran and was defeated. In 1844 he was one of the Polk
electors and was prominently supported for governor in the Democratic
convention the following year. In 1848 he was appointed by Governor
Towns to
fill the unexpired term of Walter T. Colquitt in the United States
senate; was
a delegate to the Democratic national convention that year; elected
judge of
the superior court in 1849; elector for the state at large on the
Pierce ticket
in 1852; nominated and elected governor in 1853; reelected in 1855;
candidate
for vice-president on the ticket with Stephen A. Douglas in 1860;
delegate to
the secession convention of 1861, where he offered a substitute for the
ordinance proposing immediate secession ; elected Confederate state
senator in
1862; president of the constitutional convention of 1865; elected
United States
senator in January, 1866, though he was disfranchised by the act of
Congress
and not permitted to serve; was appointed judge of the superior court
in 1873
and held the position until his death in Jefferson county on August 16,
1880.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906.
Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)
Johnston, Philip
P., judge of the city court of Waynesboro and recognized as one of
the
representative members of the bar of Burke county, was born on a
plantation
near the city of Tallahassee, Leon county, Fla., Sept. 19, 1854. He is
a son of
George C S. and Maria H. (Whitehurst) Johnston, the former of whom was
born in
Charles county, Md., in 1805, and the latter
in Leon county, Fla., in 1814. As a
young man the father removed from his native commonwealth to Florida,
becoming a successful planter of Leon county, while he was also a
local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church South. His first wife
died in
1866, in Fernandina, Fla.,
and he later removed to Barnesville, Ga., where he married a second
time. He passed the remainder of his life in this state, his death
having
occurred, in Bibb county, in 1878. He was of English and Scotch
lineage, having
been a son of George Johnston, who was of English descent, and of
Frances
(Smoot) Johnston
who was of Scotch descent. Her father was a Scotsman who escaped from
an
English prison on the day before he was to have been executed for
having taken
part in a patriotic rebellion in Scotland. He became a stowaway on a
vessel bound for America and
located in Maryland,
where he passed the remainder of his life. Judge Johnston secured his
earlier
educational discipline in Fletcherville institute, at Thomasville, Ga.,
and in a school conducted by Capt. M. C Edwards at Springvale, this
state. He
left school in his sixteenth year and passed the following two years in
southern Florida.
At the age of eighteen in 1873, he took up his residence in Waynesboro,
where he has since made his home.
Here he took up the study of law. The notably receptive power of his
intellect
was shown in the fact that after but nine months' technical reading he
was able
to pass the required examination which entitled him to admission to the
bar,
this being in November, 1873. Though but nineteen years of age at the
time, he
forthwith entered upon the active practice of his profesion, in which
he has
attained marked prestige and met with unequivocal success, being known
as one of
the leading lawyers of eastern Georgia
and having been concerned in much of the important litigation in the
courts of
this section. In 1903 he was elected to his present office. He is a
stanch
supporter of the principles of the Democratic party, but has invariably
declined to become a candidate for office of purely political nature,
but was
induced to accept the judgeship of the city court in view of the fact
that the
judge of this court is permitted to practice law in all courts except
his own
and he is therefore still engaged in the active practice of his
profession. He
and his wife are prominent members of the Waynesboro Methodist
Episcopal church
South, in which he is a steward and trustee. Fie is a Roval-Arch Mason
and is
at the time of this writing incumbent of the office of worshipful
master of
Waynesboro Lodge, No. 274, Free and Accepted Masons. On Dec. 11, 1883,
was
solemnized the marriage of Judge Johnston to Miss Lena P. Shewmake,
daughter of
Judge John T. and Elizabeth P. (Jones) Shewmake, of Augusta, Ga. Her
parents
were both natives of Burke county, where they remained until their
removal to Augusta. Judge and Mrs.
Johnston have four children: John S. is studying law in the office of
his
father; Nona was recently graduated in the Wesleyan female college at
Macon; and Lena and Adele are attending school in Waynesboro.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906.
Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)
Jones, Henry A.,
M.
D., is one of the leading representatives of his profession in
Jenkins
county, maintaining his residence and professional headquarters in
Millen, the
county seat. He was born in Herndon, Burke county, Ga., Aug. 27, 1868,
and is a son of Henry W.
and Martha (Aiken) Jones, the former of whom was likewise born in
Herndon,
Sept, 24, 1824, and the latter in Madison, Morgan county, in May, 1830.
Henry
W. Jones rendered valuable service as an engineer for the Confederacy
during
the war between the states, having been connected with a Georgia
regiment. After the war he
became one of the successful planters of Burke county, where he
continued to
reside until his death, which occurred on Aug. 8, 1900, while his widow
was
summoned to the life eternal in December, 1902. She was a daughter of
Bartley
and Lucy (Cummings) Aiken, the latter having been a daughter of a
prominent
physician in Virginia.
The paternal grandparents of Doctor Jones were Henry Philip and Sarah
(Vickers)
Jones, of Burke county, where the respective families were early
founded.
Doctor Jones secured his literary education in Emory college at Oxford,
Ga., and he then
entered the medical department of the University of New York,
in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1892, with the
degree of
Doctor of Medicine. He initiated the practice of his profession in
Herndon,
Burke county, where he remained four years, at the expiration of which,
in
1896, he located in Millen. Here he has built up a fine practice and
gained a
strong hold on popular confidence and esteem. He is a close student of
his
profession and keeps abreast of the advances made in the same, while he
is a
frequent contributor to leading medical periodicals. He is a member of
the
Medical Association of Georgia, and is a local surgeon of the Millen
&
Southwestern railway. In politics he is a loyal supporter of the cause
of the
Democratic party, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal
church South, in which he is a trustee. He is affiliated with the
lodge,
chapter and commandery of the Masonic fraternity, and with its adjunct
organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, and
also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of
Pythias. He
was for several years a member of the Burke Troop of cavalry, a part of
the
First Georgia regiment, and he served for a time as regimental surgeon.
On Nov.
28, 1897, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Daniel, daughter of
Elias
Daniel, of Millen, and they have one daughter, Miriam Daniel Jones,
born May 4,
1899.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of
Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and
Persons,
VOL
II, by Candler
& Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)
Jones, John J.,
lawyer and legislator, was born in Burke county, Ga., in 1824. After
graduating at Emory
college he studied law and in 1848 was admitted to the bar. He served
as a
member of the state legislature and in 1858 was elected to represent
his
district in the lower house of Congress. On Jan. 23, 1861, he resigned
his
seat, along with the other members of the Georgia delegation, and soon
afterward entered the Confederate service as a lieutenant. After the
war was
over he returned to the practice of his profession in Burke county, in
which he
continued until his death in 1898. At the time of his death he was
commissioner
of roads and revenues of the county.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906.
Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)
Jones, Seaborn H.,
of
Waynesboro,
is
one
of
the
leading
members of
the bar of Burke county, and a representative of one of the old and
honored
families of Georgia.
He was born in Waynesboro,
Dec. 20, 1863, and is a son of Hon. John J. and Evaline (Toombs) Jones.
His
father was a man of prominence and distinction in Georgia
affairs, having been a member of the United States Congress at the time
when Georgia seceded from the Union,
and captain of a company in the Confederate service during the Civil
war. After
the close of the great conflict between the states he became a member
of the
state legislature and took a conspicuous part in forming the laws of
the
commonwealth under the existing exigencies of the new regime. At the
time of
his death, in 1898, he was commissioner of roads and revenues of Burke
county,
having large landed interests in the county. His wife, who died in
1900, was a
niece of Hon. Robert Toombs, whose name is writ large in the annals of
Georgia, which he represented in the United States
senate, and was specially prominent in connection with military and
governmental affairs of the Confederacy during the Civil war. Seaborn
H. Jones
was graduated in Emory college, his father's alma mater, at Oxford,
Ga.,
when twenty-one years of age. He then took up the study of law under
the
preceptor-ship of his father, one of the most prominent members of the
bar of
eastern Georgia,
and was admitted to practice in 1887. He forthwith entered into a
professional
partnership with his father, and this alliance continued until the
death of the
latter, the firm having a large and important practice, which the son
still
controls, the original firm title having been John J. Jones & Son.
In his
political proclivities Mr. Jones is a stalwart supporter of the
principles and
policies of the Democracy, in whose cause he has been an active worker.
He
served three terms as solicitor of the Burke county court, and in
1898-9 he
represented his county in the state legislature. In 1901 Gov. Allen D.
Candler
appointed him judge of the city court of Waynesboro, and he remained
incumbent
of this office until 1902, when the court was temporarily abolished.
Judge
Jones is chairman of the Burke county Democratic executive committee.
He has
extensive plantation interests in the county, owning a portion of the
old Jones
homestead, known as "Canaan," adjoining the city of Waynesboro, said
property having been in the
possession of the family for many generations. His only sister, Mary
T., wife
of Judge George F. Cox, of Waynesboro,
owns a portion of the old homestead, the estate having been divided
after the
death of their mother. On Nov. 19, 1902, Judge Jones was united in
marriage to
Miss Helen Gresham, daughter of John J. Gresham, of Waynesboro. They
have one child, John James
Jones, who was born Oct. 8, 1904, and who was named in honor of his
paternal
grandfather.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906.
Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)
Madden, Dr. James M., was born in St. Marks,
Fla.,
in July, 1840 and his early life was spent in his native state. At the age of seventeen he began the study of
medicine at Newport, Fla., under the noted physician, Dr.
Mataeu. A year or so later entered
Tulane university, Louisiana,
where he graduated with distinction. He
practiced medicine but a short time when his country called him; he
promptly
answered the call, and was among the first to enlist.
He was assigned a position in the hospital at
Richmond, Va.,
and later was transferred to Staunton. He
was in the Sixty-Ninth Virginia regiment,
and remained at his post serving faithfully his country until the end
came,
when he with his comrades laid down their arms, overpowered but not
vanquished. Like many another Confederate,
he turned his
face homeward and tried to retrieve the fortune lost.
All was confusion in Florida and in other states at
that time,
but he had youth, strength and unbounded courage. He
resumed
his
practice
of
medicine
and
soon
fortune smiled upon him. He was a
successful physician and surgeon. His
practice extended far from home, and upon one of his visits to a
patient in Waynesboro, Burke county, Ga., he met a charming young
widow, Mrs.
Maria Morris McIntosh. It was a case of
mutual attraction, and in a few months they married and moved to
Brunswick, Ga. This was in 1868. From that time he made Brunswick his home. He gave up the practice of medicine, went
into the banking business, in which he soon accumulated a handsome
property and
became one of the leading men in the city. He
organized
and
became
president
of
the Merchants
and Traders bank, and
held other positions of trust and honor. He
was
a
man
of
handsome
appearance, tall and finely
proportioned. His manner was cordial and
dignified; he was
loyal to friends and appreciative of kindness. He
invested
heavily
in
real
estate
and was one of
the wealthiest men in
the city. Everything he touched seemed
to prosper. His last two years were
years of suffering. He attended John
Hopkins’ Hospital to be treated but his health never returned. Just before the end he seemed better and went
out for a drive. He seemed much brighter
and stronger and his wife, who was his faithful nurse, was greatly
encouraged
and very hopeful. But the end came when
they little dreamed. The drive that
morning was fatal, as the horse became frightened and ran a short
distance,
throwing him out. He fell with much
force and lived only a short time afterwards. He
leaves
a
devoted
wife
and
three children, Mrs.
Samuel B. Hatcher, of Columbus, Ga., Mrs. Ralph
B. Tupper, of Brunswick, Ga.,
and James Morris Madden, of Jacksonville, Fla. He
was
buried
from
the
Presbyterian
church,
of
which he was a member. The unusually
large and beautiful floral offerings lovingly testified the esteem of
friends. The veterans paid their last
farewell, and
with furled banner and bowed heads followed him to his last resting
place. One more of their number has
“crossed over to
rest under the shade of the trees.”
(Source: Georgia Sketches of
Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and
Persons,
VOL
II, by Candler
& Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan)
McCathern, Walker,
ex-mayor of Waynesboro, a representative planter and merchant of Burke
county, and one of the stanch and valiant soldiers of the Confederacy
during the Civil war, was born on the Hughes’ plantation, ten miles
distant from Waynesboro, in Burke county, Feb. 10, 1840, being a son of
Daniel and Anna (Ingram) McCathern, the former of whom was born in
Scotland and the latter in Richmond county, Georgia. When he was
but seven years of age his father died, but his mother lived to attain
the age of seventy-five years. Mr. McCathern was reared on the
plantation and received his education in the schools of Richmond
county. In April, 1861, at the age of twenty-one years, he
entered the Confederate service, enlisting as a private in Company A,
Third Georgia volunteer infantry. He enjoys the unique
distinction of having captured the first Federal gunboat secured by a
Confederate command after the outbreak of the war, this incident having
occurred at Roanoke island, N. C., where he was in charge of a
thirty-two-pound gun and where, with the support of his regiment, he
captured the gunboat “Fannie,” manned with seventy men, while 1,000
overcoats were also among the trophies secured on the boat. He
took part in the Seven Days’ battles in front of Richmond; the second
battle of Manassas, and the engagements at Gettysburg, the Wilderness,
Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg and Petersburg. He was wounded
at Malvern Hill and was twice wounded at Hatcher’s Run, in front of
Petersburg, receiving the two wounds almost simultaneously. He
was first shot through the body, and as he was falling another shot
penetrated his neck, either would having been sufficient to probe fatal
had he not promptly been accorded skillful surgical and medical
aid. At Belfield, N. C., he was again wounded. He was
captured by the enemy and was imprisoned at Fort Delaware, but five
days later he contrived to make his escape, prying off a board in the
prison and crawling through the aperture. He then swam in an
angling way down the Delaware river, a distance of nine miles,
utilizing empty and tightly sealed canteens as life preservers and
making his way across the river, four miles wide at that point.
In this intrepid act he had but one companion, his comrade George C.
Tanner, of the Cobb Georgia legion. He was recaptured near
Harper’s Ferry, however, and returned to Fort Delaware, later being
sent to Point Lookout, where he was confined five months, when he
managed to effect a second escape. He rejoined his regiment in
time to take part in the battle of the Wilderness and thereafter served
until the close of the war. It is needless to say that he is an
appreciative member of the United Confederate Veterans. Since the
war Mr. McCathern has continued to reside in Burke county, where he has
valuable plantation interests and is successfully engaged in the
raising of cotton and other products, also conducting a general store
on his plantation. He has maintained his home in the city of
Waynesboro since 1880, and has served as its mayor three terms, while
he is held in high esteem in the community which has represented his
home from the time of his nativity. He is a Master Mason and a
member of the Baptist church. On Feb. 23, 1868, Mr. McCathern was
united in marriage to Miss Sarah J. Chandler, daughter of William and
Jane (Darlington) Chandler, of Burke county, and they have six children
living: William Walker, George Mitz, Otis Adair, Porter Fleming,
John Jenks, and Albert Sydney Johnston. There were five others,
all of whom died before reaching maturity.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae
Donaldson]
McElmurray, Thomas J.,
was
one
of
the
influential and honored citizens of Burke county, which
was his home throughout life, and he was possessed of large and
valuable landed interests in the county, including the fine homestead
plantation, “Sunnyside,” six miles south of the city of
Waynesboro. On the plantation of his father, in Burke county, Mr.
McElmurray was born, March 1, 1841, being a son of Minas H. and Emily
(Leslie) McElmurray, both native of the state of South Carolina.
He was reared to maturity in his home county and educated at Mercer
university in the city of Macon. At the inception of the Civil
war he manifested his intrinsic loyalty to the cause of the Confederacy
by tendering his services as a soldier, first enlisting in a regiment
of Georgia infantry, later being in the artillery branch of the
service, and during the latter part of the great conflict between the
states he was a member of the militia commanded by Joseph Brown.
After the war he continued his identification with the vocation to
which he had been reared, residing on his plantation of “Sunnyside”
until 1881, when he completed the erection of a beautiful home in the
city of Waynesboro, where he passed the remainder of his life, his
widow still remaining in this residence. Besides the home
plantation he owned several other farms in the county, retaining all in
his possession until his death, which occurred April 9, 1898. He
was a man of fine intellectual and moral attributes, loyal and
public-spirited as a citizen and successful in his business
affairs. He was a stanch adherent of the Democratic party and was
an influential factor in its affairs in the county. He served as
judge of the court of ordinary of Burke county, and was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church South, of which his widow also is a devoted
member; was identified with the Masonic fraternity, having served
repeatedly as master of his lodge, and was also a member of the United
Confederate Veterans. Mr. McElmurray was twice married. On
March 5, 1861, he wedded Miss Louisa E. Barron, who died Sept. 24,
1873, leaving four children, namely: Leslie, born Feb. 22, 1862;
Tommie, born Nov. 5, 1863, and now the wife of Charles Gray; Judson
Sapp, born Aug. 17, 1866; and Minas Hunter, born March 30, 1868.
All are resident of Waynesboro except Minas H., who resides in Harlem,
Columbia county. In October, 1875, Mr. McElmurray was united in
marriage to Miss Mary Chandler, who was born in Burke county, Feb. 22,
1855, being a daughter of William and Jane (Darling) Chandler,
representatives of old and prominent families of Georgia. In
conclusion is entered brief record concerning the nine children of the
second marriage: Mary Louise, born Feb. 27, 1877, is the wife of
Forrest Close; Genevieve, born July 7, 1879, died Oct. 7, 1889; Emily
Jane, born Aug. 22, 1883, died Oct. 31, 1884; Edmund Burke, born Feb.
9, 1885, died Nov. 3, 1886; Sarah Annie, born Dec. 19, 1887; Henry
Grady and Evan Howell, twins, born Jan. 30, 1890; Joseph Hamilton, born
Dec 6, 1891; and Ruth Whitehead, born April 3, 1894. The younger
children remain with their widowed mother, and the family is prominent
in the social life of the community.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae
Donaldson]
Antony, Edwin Le Roy, lawyer,
jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1852, near Waynesboro, Ga. In
1886, during the illness of the regular district judge, he filled that
office as special judge. In 1892, while an alderman, he was nominated
and elected June 14, 1892, as a representative from Texas to the
fifty-second congress as a democrat. At the expiration of his term he
returned to his home and resumed the practice of his profession of law,
in which he is still engaged.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains
Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life
and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 –
Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
Reynolds, Joseph J.,
cashier
of
the Southern Cotton Oil Company, Waynesboro, Burke county,
was born on the homestead plantation of his parents in this county,
Oct. 9, 1866. He is a son of Joseph J. and Rose V. (Anderson) Reynolds,
both of whom passed their entire lives in Burke county. The father, who
was a son of James M. and Mary Ann (Jones) Reynolds, was a
representative planter of Burke county, a loyal soldier of the
Confederacy in the war between the states, and deputy clerk of the
superior court of Burke county for many years prior to his death, which
occurred in 1901. Rosa V. (Anderson) Reynolds, was a daughter of James
Anderson, of Burke county and died when the subject of this sketch was
a mere child. After a course of preparatory study in Waynesboro academy
Joseph J. Reynolds, to whom this sketch is dedicated, entered the
University of Georgia, where he remained as a student until he had
attained the age of twenty years. For several years thereafter he was
associated with the late Col. William E. Jones in the insurance
business. In 1889 he became bookkeeper and cashier for a large
mercantile concern in Waynesboro, retaining this incumbency until 1893,
after which he held for several years a similar position at Millen.
Since 1902 he has been cashier of the Southern Cotton Oil Company, at
Waynesboro, and he is also a member of the directorate of the Citizens'
bank, of Waynesboro, being held in high regard in both business and
social circles. Mr. Reynolds is a stalwart supporter of the cause of
the Democratic party and served four years as a member of the board of
aldermen of Waynesboro. He is affiliated with the lodge and chapter of
the Masonic fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
and served several years in the Burke light infantry, having been a
charter member of that popular military organization. On Jan. 2, 1890,
Mr. Reynolds was united in marriage to Miss Angie C. Perry, only
daughter of Judge H. H. Perry, of Waynesboro, and they have five
children, namely: Charlotte E., Barbara, Joseph J., Jr., Heman P., and
Oliver.
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Herrington, Lovick Pierce,
M. D., a well known physician of Waynesboro, was born at what is
now known as Girth, a country postoffice in Burke county, May 27, 1858.
From data supplied by Lord Timothy Harrington, member of the British
Parliament from Ireland, it is learned that a prominent family of this
name lived in the vicinity of Londonderry, Ireland, about the middle of
the seventeenth century. The name was originally spelled “Haerrington,”
and a division of the family occurred over the spelling, some wanting
to retain the “e” and others the “a,” the result being that the name is
now spelled both ways, and as there are numerous representatives of
each in the United States, it is evident that some of each branch
immigrated to this country at a very early date. From Connecticut they
spread to Pennsylvania and Virginia, and long before the Revolutionary
war a father and four sons settled at Greenville, N. C. Two of these
sons, Richard M. and Ephraim, later settled in Screven county, Ga.,
where the former built a rock dam across Brier creek, cut several
canals and built a number of mills, the place still being known as
“Mill Haven.” This dam still stands, a wonder to modern civil
engineers. Ephraim Herrington was killed near Mill Haven in a skirmish
with the Indians in the colonial days. A Henry H. Herrington was a
brigadier-general in the American army during the Revolution, and with
two others of the name was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.
Five generations of the Herringtons have lived in Burke and Screven
counties. Traced from the Richard M. Herrington above mentioned, these
generations have been represented by Richard, Martin M., Berry,, the
father of the subject of this sketch, and Dr. L. P. Herrington, whose
name heads this review. Doctor Herrington received his primary
education in the schools of his native county during the dark days of
reconstruction, just afte Civil war, when everything was very much
disorganized, the schools being no exception. Determined to acquire an
education however, he entered Emory college at Oxford, Ga., and as he
paid his own way he was compelled to practice all sorts of economy
never letting pass an opportunity to earn an “honest penny.” At Oxford
he found several young men like himself--in straitened financial
circumstances, but bent on securing an education. These young men
formed a club and rented a small house near the center of the town. At
this house had the reputation of being haunted no one would live in it
and they rented it very cheap, the supernatural having no terrors for
them. This cottage became known as “Round Top,” and it was seldom
molested by the people of the town, save now and then when some one of
its inmates became indisposed, when some gentle maiden would send over
a collection of flowers and “good things” for the invalid and his
associates. The butcher, the grocer and the milkman passed by, having
learned to save time by not stopping for “orders” at Round Top. The
housekeeping of the bachelor students was not always systematic, nor
their cooking according to the most approved rules of culinary science,
but here they lived until Andrew Hall was opened and the Mess House
boys found more commodious quarters. Her a number of young men
originated the “Helping Hall,” which has since become a prominent
feature of numerous colleges throughout the country, and which has been
the means of aiding many young men to acquire an education. This
institution had its start at Round Top, its originators being Col. E.
P. Davis, Prof. W. T. Dumas, Dr. O. G. Mingledorf, R. E. L. Folsom,
Joseph Baker, Doctor Glover, H. C. Carney, Thomas Easterling, Thomas
Lang, Rev. McLain, Col. T. B. Harwell, Col. B. S. Williamson and Dr. L.
P. Herrington. Later Doctor Huckabee, founder of McRae college, came
into the hall, and during one vacation he and Doctor Herrington worked
as brickmasons on Seney Hall--the gift of George I. Seney to Emory
college. Doctor Herrington taught school in Newton and Burke counties
until 1882, when he entered the medical department of the University of
Georgia at Augusta, and graduated in the class of 1884, receiving the
degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then returned to the old homestead,
where he with others secured the establishment of the postoffice of
Girth, fourteen miles south of Waynesboro, where he practiced his
profession for some time, and then attended Vanderbilt university,
Nashville, Tenn., where he received the finishing touches of his
medical education. Again he took up the practice at Girth, but
subsequently removed to Waynesboro, where he has since been actively
engaged in professional work, building up a large practice and one of
distinctly representative character. He became a member of the Ogeechee
medical association; served as president of the Burke county Farmers‘
Alliance; has been delegate to conventions of that body, especially the
one where the jute trust was opposed; and with his father gave the site
for the Union academy, afterward laboring to establish this school as a
permanent institution of learning, and one of the best in the county.
Doctor Herrington is the originator and sole proprietor of a remedy
known as “Herrington’s Liver Pills for Georgia People.” He is the owner
of the old homestead plantation, having purchased the interests of the
other heirs, and devotes some of his time and attention to his
plantation interests. In 1902 he graduated at the “Institute of
Science,” of New York, the course being taken by mail and express, and
received a diploma in the occult sciences. He is a Master Mason, a Phi
Delta Theta, an old time Democrat of Scotch-Irish descent, and with his
wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church South. In October, 1886,
he was united in marriage to Miss Annie Laurie Davie, of Nashville,
Tenn. , and they have one daughter, Ouida Mae, born Nov. 9, 1896.
(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906.
Transcribed by Angelia Carpenter)
Thomas, George C.,
was born in Burke county, Ga., Oct. 20, 1850. His father was a
farmer. His father J. Thomas, enlisted in Company D, Fifth
Georgia cavalry, and spent three years in the army, during the war
between the states. In December, 1864, he was captured by the enemy,
and kept confined in prison at Point Lookout until after the surrender.
The subject of this sketch was educated at Hephzibah high school, from
which school he went to Mercer university, which was then located at
Penfield, Greene county, Ga., at which university he graduated in
August, 1869. After his graduation he taught school in Wilkes county
for one year, then married Miss Anna M. McWhorter, the youngest
daughter of Moses E. McWhorter, of Athens, Ga., and moved to
Watkinsville, Clarke county, Ga., as principal of the Watkinsville high
school, where he taught until September, 1879, when he was admitted to
practice law. He was soon thereafter appointed judge of the city court
of Oconee, which position he held for four years. He then moved to
Athens, and opened a law office, where he has been ever since. He was
elected to the general assembly in 1896 and '97. While a member of the
legislature he secured an appropriation of $45,000 for building
purposes, with which to erect new buildings on the university campus.
This was the first appropriation ever given the University of Georgia
for building new houses, since which time the institution has been
receiving annually like appropriations. He was one of the most useful
members of the general assembly that ever went from Clarke county, and
his work there will be a lasting monument to his skill and ability. He
is a great fraternal order man, being an active member of the Masons,
Odd Fellows and Red Men, and has frequently represented each of these
orders in their Grand Lodges. He, today, is regarded as one of the best
lawyers in Georgia, and has been remarkably successful as a
practitioner. He married Miss Anna M. McWhorter of Athens,
Georgia, in April, 1872. His family consists of his wife and two
children, Miss Mary McWhorter Thomas, and Mr. W. Milton Thomas, who is
in the hardware business in Athens. He has held high positions of
trust; has always been a Democrat, frequently holding the positions of
chairman of his county and district executive committees. He is now
filling the office of solicitor of the city court of Athens. He is a
member of the Baptist church, and an uncompromising prohibitionist.
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Thomas, Nathaniel P.,
of
Waynesboro, is one of the representative merchants and planters of
Burke county, which has been his home from the time of his birth, on
April15, 1863. He is a son of Joseph H. and Geraldine (Gordon) Thomas,
both now deceased. The father, who was a native of Richmond county, was
a successful planter of Burke county at the time of his death, and the
mother was born and reared in Burke county. Nathaniel P. Thomas passed
his childhood on the homestead plantation, and after attending the
Hephzibah high school, in Richmond county, he continued his studies in
a private school in the city of Augusta until he had attained the age
of fifteen years. At the age of six teen he began farming on his
own responsibility, and during all the intervening years he has been
identified with plantation industry in Burke county, having been very
successful and is now one of the leading cotton-growers of this section
as well as one of the prominent merchants of Waynesboro, where he has a
well stocked and well appointed general store. In 1894 he turned his
plantation interests over to capable overseers, and established his
mercantile enterprise, to which he has since given his personal
supervision, and has built up a large business. He is a director of the
Citizens' bank and also of the Waynesboro Grocery Company, a wholesale
concern. His political allegiance is given to the Democracy, and he is
a member of the board of stewards of the local Methodist Episcopal
church South, of which Mrs. Thomas also is a devoted member. He is
identified with the Waynesboro Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, in
which he is a past chancellor, and enjoys marked popularity in his
native county. On Feb. 11, 1885, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Thomas to Miss Emma Thomas Marsh, of Savannah, Georgia, and they have
three daughters,-Natalie, Georgia Estelle, and Marian M.
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Thomas, Charles H.,
a resident of Waynesboro, numbered among the
prominent planters of Burke county, where his landed estate includes
more than 2,000 acres, was born in Waynesboro, Oct. 13, 1854, a son of
Jethro and Nancy (Cates) Thomas, both of whom were likewise born and
reared in Burke county. Prior to the Civil war the father was a
successful planter, and after its close he engaged in mercantile
pursuits in Waynesboro, where he passed the remainder of his life. He
was a loyal soldier of the Confederacy in the war between the states
and was captured by the enemy and imprisoned for some time at Point
Lookout. He was twice married, the only surviving child of the first
union being Judge George C. Thomas, a prominent member of the bar of
the state, residing in the city of Athens. The three surviving children
of the second marriage are Charles H., subject of this sketch; Kate,
wife of C. T. Milner, of Waynesboro, and Jethro B., also a resident of
the same city. The widowed mother still lives, at a venerable age.
Charles H. received his educational training principally in the
Hephzibah high school in Richmond county, continuing to attend school
until he had attained the age of nineteen years, since which time he
has devoted his attention to mercantile pursuits and the industry of
agriculture, having formerly been a merchant in Waynesboro. About 1892
he suffered the amputation of his right arm, which had been accidently
caught in a cotton gin, and since that time he has given his attention
to the management of his plantation, having disposed of his
store. He is the owner of three well improved farms
in his native county, and his average annual yield of cotton is about
200 bales. Mr. Thomas is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party but
has never sought official preferment. He and his wife are members of
the Baptist church, and in his early manhood he was for several years a
member of the Stonewall Rifles, a local military organization. On April
8, 1878, he was united in marriage to Miss Ruth M. Miller, daughter of
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Dr. B. B. Miller,
formerly a resident of this county but now deceased. Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas have two children: Nellie, wife of W. C. Hillhouse, of
Waynesboro; and Kate F., wife of Maj. W. A. Wilkins, of the same city.
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Reynolds, Joseph J.,
cashier
of the Southern Cotton Oil Company, Waynesboro, Burke county,
was born on the homestead plantation of his parents in this county,
Oct. 9, 1866. He is a son of Joseph J. and Rose V. (Anderson) Reynolds,
both of whom passed their entire lives in Burke county. The father, who
was a son of James M. and Mary Ann (Jones) Reynolds, was a
representative planter of Burke county, a loyal soldier of the
Confederacy in the war between the states, and deputy clerk of the
superior court of Burke county for many years prior to his death, which
occurred in 1901. Rosa V. (Anderson) Reynolds, was a daughter of James
Anderson, of Burke county and died when the subject of this sketch was
a mere child. After a course of preparatory study in Waynesboro academy
Joseph J. Reynolds, to whom this sketch is dedicated, entered the
University of Georgia, where he remained as a student until he had
attained the age of twenty years. For several years thereafter he was
associated with the late Col. William E. Jones in the insurance
business. In 1889 he became bookkeeper and cashier for a large
mercantile concern in Waynesboro, retaining this incumbency until 1893,
after which he held for several years a similar position at Millen.
Since 1902 he has been cashier of the Southern Cotton Oil Company, at
Waynesboro, and he is also a member of the directorate of the Citizens'
bank, of Waynesboro, being held in high regard in both business and
social circles. Mr. Reynolds is a stalwart supporter of the cause of
the Democratic party and served four years as a member of the board of
aldermen of Waynesboro. He is affiliated with the lodge and chapter of
the Masonic fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
and served several years in the Burke light infantry, having been a
charter member of that popular military organization. On Jan. 2, 1890,
Mr. Reynolds was united in marriage to Miss Angie C. Perry, only
daughter of Judge H. H. Perry, of Waynesboro, and they have five
children, namely: Charlotte E., Barbara, Joseph J., Jr., Heman P., and
Oliver.
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BRINSON, E. L.
E. L. BRINSON. In the
year 1798 five brothers of the name Brinson came form North Carolina
and settled in the lower part of Burke County, Ga. They opened
and improved farms and in time became wealthy land-owners and extensive
planters. They married and each became the head of a family, and
their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren have scattered
throughout most of the Southern States until representatives of the
name are found from the Savannah River through to Texas. The
youngest of these five brothers was named John, and he was just
seventeen years of age at the time of the settlement in Burke
County. He raised a large family, being the father of ten sons
and four daughters. One of these sons was named Simeon. He
was born at the old homestead, February, 1823, grew to manhood there,
married a Miss Wallace, by whom he had three children; after her death
his second marriage was to a lady of his own name, being a distant
relative, by whom he had two children, Edward L. and Elizabeth S.
Edward L. Brinson is the subject of this sketch and the representative
about whom it is intended to group these meager facts of early family
history. He too was born on the old Brinson homestead in South
Burke, and passed his boyhood there much as his father and grandfather
had done. He attended the neighborhood schools and the academy at
Hephzibah till of college age, when he entered the junior class of the
University of Georgia at Athens, graduating in 1874. He taught
school in 1875, attended the law department of the Cumberland
University at Lebanon, Tenn., graduating in 1876; located in
Waynesborough in 1877 and began to practice. He was appointed
ordinary of Burke County in 1884 and filled an unexpired term; was
elected to a full term the following year, and is now serving out that
term. Being a lawyer and a young man, he has necessarily been
somewhat in politics, but he is not a professional. He takes that
interest in political matters and other matters of public concern that
any good citizen might be expected to take. December 14, 1887, he
married Miss Anna L. Hearn, of Franklin, Tenn., and accomplished young
lady whom he met and formed the acquaintance of while attending college
at Lebanon, the State.
[Biographical Souvenir of Georgia and Florida by FA Battey & Co.,
1889-Transcribed by LA Bauer]
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