Colquitt Co. Biographies

Col. M.F. AMOROUS
MARTIN F. AMOROUS is one of the substantial business men of Atlanta. He is a native of Savannah, where he was born October 23, 1858. In October, 1887, he was married to Miss Emma Kate Williams, of Columbus. To them have been born six children, two boys and four girls.

For a number of years Mr. Amorous has been actively engaged in the manufacture of lumber. He has been connected with a number of firms engaged in this business in the State, and is considered an authority on the subject. His business has carried him from time to time into all portions of the lumber district of the State. He has an extensive acquaintance throughout the State and has a host of friends who deeply appreciate his appointment to the staff of Governor Terrell.

Mr. Amorous has not been an active politician on his own account, but has rendered splendid service from time to time to such of his friends as were standing for office. He was a member of the city council of Atlanta in 1888-9, and was an active worker in that body. For several years he spent the major portion of his time in Colquitt county, where he had extensive lumber interests. He retained his citizenship in Atlanta, however, and upon his return to the city permanently this year, stood for the Council and was elected. He is a splendid type of the sucessful business man who has come to the front by his own personal efforts.
[Source: "Georgia's Public Men 1902-1904" By Thomas W. Loyless - Transcribed by K. Torp]

James William Coleman

J. W. Coleman, the subject of this sketch, was born on June 15, 1871, at Swainsboro, in Emanuel County, in the State of Georgia. He was educated in the common schools of that county. During his life, he has been extensively engaged in farming, practical mechanics and in construction work, doing well in all. H e is a Primitive Baptist by profession of religious faith, and is a Democrat in politics.

Mr. Coleman invented an animal self-feeder, and received a patent in January, 1924.

He was a District Road Overseer in 1896-1898. He was a District Road Commissioner in 1898-1900. He was a member of the Board of Education of Colquitt County, 1900 to 1906. He was Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues from 1906 to 1912. He was a member of the City Council of Moultrie in 1910-1912.

The father of J. W. Coleman was James Elsie Coleman, born on November 18, 1846, in Emanuel County, Ga.; married in May, 1870, in Emanuel County, Ga., and died on April 12, 1928, in Emanuel County, Ga. He was a farmer by profession, and did service in the Confederate army in 1864 and 1865. He invented the "Coleman Long-Staple Gin" in February, 1895.

The maiden name of mother of J. W. Coleman was Lavina Lanier, and she was born on April 11, 1852, in Emanuel County, Ga., and died on April 27, 1932, in Emanuel County, Ga. She was the mother of eight sons and four daughters, of whom seven sons and three daughters are living.

Name of paternal grandfather of J. W. Coleman was William Coleman, born August 10, 1819, in Emanuel County, Ga.; married in 1840, and died on November 7, 1898. He was a successful farmer and mechanic, and a Confederate soldier during the whole of the Civil War. The maiden name of ihe paternal grandmother of J. W. Coleman was Sarah Sutton, born in Emanuel County, Ga., in 1821, and died in the same county in 1877.

The maternal grandfather of J. W. Coleman was Wm. Lanier, born September 26, 1825; married in 1849, and died on September 24, 1910; all of which events happened in Emanuel County. He was a Confederate soldier from 1863 to 1865. Maiden name of the maternal grandmother of J. W. Coleman was Sallie Clifton, born November 22, 1822, in Bulloch County, Ga., and died on August 9, 1885, in Emanuel County, Ga.

J. W. Coleman was married on January 21, 1894, in Bulloch County, Ga., to Miss Sallie Elizabeth Temples, who was born on February 2, 1871, in Wilkinson County, Ga., and is still living in Colquitt County, Ga. She was a daughter of Hudson Temples, who was born March 15, 1843, in Wilkinson County, Ga., and married on September 13, 1864, in Wilkinson County, Ga. He was a minister of the Gospel for more than 50 years. Maiden name of mother-in-law of J. W. Coleman was Mariah Carr, born in 1844 in Wilkinson County, Ga., and died January 25, 1876, in Wilkinson County, Ga.

There is now in life one child, the issue of the marriage of J. W. Coleman and Sallie Elizabeth Temples, a daughter named Vista, who was born on April 1, 1899, in Colquitt County, and who is now the wife of Ray S. Hall, prominent citizen of Baker County, Ga. This couple has two children, William Calvin Hall and Bettie Temples Hall.

J. W. Coleman, the subject of this sketch, moved with his wife to Colquitt County in January, 1894; purchased a farm three miles north of Moultrie, and lived on it till 1905. First engaged in farming, and then in lumber manufacturing business, moving to Moultrie in 1905. In 1908 built and operated the first modern cotton ginnery in Colquitt County. He built and operated the first fertilizer mixing plant in the county. Built and operated the first modern cotton and stor-age warehouse in the county. And generally assisted in the county's development.
Source: Covington, W. A.. History of Colquitt County. Atlanta, Ga.: Foote and Davies Co., 1937.

William Alonzo Covington

W. A. Covington was born January 19, 1869, in the backwoods of northwest Cherokee County, Ga., being oldest child of Sidney Stanhope Covington and Honor Adeline Burns, and a grandson of A. J. Covington and Olivia Ellis Covington, and of Henry Burns and Anne Rhine Burns. Both parents of W. A. Covington are natives of Georgia. His paternal grandparents were natives of Rutherford County, N. C, and his maternal grandparents were natives of Spartanburgh district, S. C.

W. A. Covington is a graduate of Reinhardt College (1887), and of Emory College (1896). He is a Methodist, a Mason, a K. of P., a W. 0. W., and an Odd Fellow. He has been mayor of Moultrie several terms, and a representative ol Colquitt County in the General Assembly of Georgia in 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908. Also in 1919-20 and in 1923-24. He was the author (with L. G. Hardman), of Georgia's Prohibition Statute of 1907. He is responsible for the action of Georgia's Legislature in the destruction of the Convict Lease System, in 1908. H e came to Colquitt with J. H. Smithwick in 1898, and with him organized a partnership for the practice of law. He was appointed Judge of the City Court of Moultrie by Governor Candler, and served till his election to the Legislature.

W. A. Covington married Miss Burney Sheffield on May 12, 1897, at Arlington, Ga. She is a daughter of Hon. Henry Sheffield, Judge of the Superior Courts of the Pataula Circuit of Georgia, and of his wife, Ida Holder Sheffield. Her progenitors are all prominent among the pioneers of original Early County, Ga. She is an alumna of Wesleyan Female College (1896).

Children of W. A. Covington and Burney S. Covington are:

Sidney S. Covington, died June, 1934. Dorothy Covington (Mrs. J. L. Pilcher), Meigs, Ga. Wm. N. Covington, Brooklyn, N. Y. Philip Stanhope Covington, Moultrie Attorney. Drew Roberts Covington, died in infancy. Catherine Covington, died in infancy.
Source: Covington, W. A.. History of Colquitt County. Atlanta, Ga.: Foote and Davies Co., 1937.

William Henry Barber

W. H. Barber, one of the most important among the original developers of Colquitt County, was born near Catharine Lake, Onslow County, N. C, on April 8, 1862. His parents, Thomas R. Barber and Alavana (Groves) Barber, were both born in the State of North Carolina, the former near Catharine Lake, February 15, 1826, and the latter at Hamilton, Martin County, February 15, 1833.

Mr. Barber's great-grandfathers, Joseph Barber and Hil-lary Brinson, were soldiers in the American Army during the Revolutionary War. The Barbers are of Irish extraction, the Brinsons are Scotch, and the Groves family is of English descent.

Thomas R. Barber enlisted in March, 1863, as a private in Company H, Third North Carolina Cavalry, and participated in the engagements at Hanover Court House, Rona Mills, Munk's Neck, Drewry's Bluff and Franklin, Va., and in the military operations around Richmond, remaining in the Confederate service until the close of the conflict. His regiment was a part of W. H. Lee's division of Stuart's Cavalry Corps.

The marriage of Thomas R. Barber and Alavana, the daughter of Wm. E. and Matilda (Kiell) Groves, occurred on February 8, 1857. They became the parents of nine children, five sons and four daughters.

Wm. H. Barber's boyhood was passed during the trou-blous years following the Civil War, so that his opportunities to acquire an education were rather limited. He remained on his father's farm until August, 1879, when he went to Bertie County, N. C, where he clerked in a country store for about two years.   He then went to Kinston, N. C, and worked in a store for one year, and at the end of that time he returned to the old farm home, near Catharine Lake, and attended school for five months. For the next six years he was in the employ of a merchant named M. T. Home, at Chinquapin, N. C; and in January, 1889, he came to Worth County, Ga., where he worked on Mr. Home's turpentine farm for about one year, and at the end of this time he formed a co-partnership with Mr. K. W. Home for the manufacture of naval stores in Colquitt County, Ga., in which line of industry he remained practically to his death, and in which he achieved phenomenal success.

In 1899, the Citizens Bank was organized at Moultrie, with Mr. Barber as vice-president. Three years later, Mr. Barber was promoted to the position of president of this institution, and held this position to the date of his death. He was one of the original promoters of the Moultrie Telephone Exchange, of the Moultrie Ice and Cold Storage Company, the Moultrie Cotton Mills, and the Colquitt County Cooperage Company. Later in life he acquired enormous interests in the naval stores industry in the State of Florida. In co-operation with a few other daring spirits he undertook an entirely new development in Colquitt County, when a packing plant for the processing of meats was built at Moultrie. This enterprise was perhaps the most important one that was ever started in Colquitt County and was epochal in the in-dustrial history of South Georgia. In the ages to come, there-fore, tribute will be paid without stint to Mr. Barber and his associate promoters of this enterprise.

Mr. Barber was married in March, 1892, to Miss Florence F. Parrish, daughter of W. W. Parrish and Roseline Juhan Parrish, of Berrien County, Ga. To this union six children were bom, as follows:

LeRoy Barber, Moultrie, Ga. Myrtle Barber, Moultrie, Ga. Elizabeth Barber (Mrs. R. 0. Watson), Tallahassee, Fla. Lucy Barber (Mrs. Wilbur Boozer), Tallahassee, Fla. Florence Barber (Mrs. Foreman Dismuke), Columbus, Ga. M r. Barber died suddenly at his home in Moultrie, Ca., on November 12, 1923. Mr. Barber was a life-long member of the Missionary Baptist denomination. He was active in the erection of the present imposing building of the First Baptist Church at Moultrie. For years immediately preceding his death, he served as a member of the Board of Deacons of this church, and as the teacher of the Men's Bible Class in the Sunday School.

This historian was for some years the legal adviser of Mr. Barber, and appends a few anecdotes of a personal nature which will serve to illustrate what he thought of his duties as a member of society:

Once a friend of the writer—an elderly man of somewhat limited means—came to the office of the writer, and asked him how be might raise two or three hundred dollars to pay for a course in pedagogy for his young daughter, who wanted to qualify herself for teaching.   "Go to Mr. Henry Barber," we said, "he'll let you have it."   "But I have a past-due note at his bank already," said our friend.   "All the same," we answered, "go over and see right now—he'll let you have it." A matter of two hours afterwards, we met the two men coming down the sidewalk, arm-in-arm, and looking as friendly as one could wish.   "Well, Judge," said our friend, "I got it just like you said." "Yes," said Mr. Barber, "when I first came to this country, and was hired as a turpentine woods-rider, 'The Major' (I always called him 'The Major,' since he was a soldier in the Confederate War) let me run a little open account at his store.   Yes, and I always try to take care of 'The Major,' and besides all that his daughter is a very deserving child, and she'll pay me the loan."

At another time, a few of us friends of Mr. Barber—being a little younger than he was—were ragging him a little about being close with his money. He laughed good-naturedly, and said, finally, "Boys, I know that you know I enjoy this kind of conversation as much as you do; but I feel that I ought not to let the occasion pass without telling you for your own good that this very quality of being 'saving' has enabled me during the past week to extend from my personal funds as-sistance to more than 50 distressed farmers who could get no help from the banks." (This happened during the so-called Hoke Smith panic, in 1908, when the banks suspended payments. )

This writer had an option on a piece of farm property and asked Mr. Barber to find a purchaser, offering him half of his commission. He sold the property, but when it came to making papers, he said the purchaser was Mr. D. N. Home, and that his past relations with him were such that he could not afford to take his part of the commission, and so asked that it be turned over to Mr. Home.

In a recent conversation with us, Hon. W. C. Vereen paid very high tribute to the courage of Mr. Barber, as displayed in more than one financial venture in which they both were interested. Mr. Vereen especially remembers Mr. Barber's stubborn courage when things did not look so good as to the future of the Moultrie Packing Co., of which they were both founders and directors. At one time, he says there seemed to be some transfer of holdings of some of the stockholders but not a movement that indicated demoralization on the part of W. H. Barber was ever made by him.

Frank Jarvis Bivins This citizen of Colquitt County for many years was horn near Pineville, Ga., in the County of Marion. He was educated in the common schools of Marion County and was graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, at Auburn, Ala. Occupation, real estate broker. Profession, civil engineer. At one time cashier of a bank. Independent Democrat. Episcopalian. Kappa Alpha college fraternity. Author of "Dead Horse In the Spring Branch."

He was a captain in the Officers* Training Camp at college. He was mayor of Cordele, Ga., about 1896. His father was Martin Luther Bivins, a native of Wilkes County, Ga., who was married on June 1, 1860, and who died in 1879. Martin L. Bivins was a Justice of the Inferior Court in Marion County, fought in the Battle of Atlanta in 1864, and freed his slaves on his own motion as an act of justice. Mother of F. J. Bivins was Marthena Caroline Cox, who was bom in 1879, and who was a sister of the founder of Cox College.

Martin Luther Bivins, Sr., was a son of William Bivins, and Miss......Hall.   William Bivins was a soldier of the Revolution. When LaFayette came to the United States in his old age, about 1825, William Bivins journeyed to Washington, Ga., for the purpose of shaking the hand of his distinguished comrade, which he did.

Frank J. Bivins married Bonnell Strozier in Meriwether County, Ga. She was born in 1879, and still survives. She was graduated from LaGrange Female College. She is a daughter of John Lucillius Strozier, a captain in the Confederate Army, a native of Meriwether County, and a resident there until his death in 1912.

Mother of Bonnell Strozier Bivins was Sarah Carolina Robertson, born in 1845, in Meriwether County, Ga. She was a first-honor graduate of Wesleyan Female College, and now resides at Glennville, Ga., in the full possession of all her mental and physical powers.

Names of the children of F. J. Bivins and Bonnell Strozier Bivins:

Bonnell Bivins, born in 1899. Martin Luther Bivins, born in 1902. Jas. McAlpin Bivins, born in 1908.

Frank J. Bivins and his family moved to Moultrie in 1900 and resided there until the date of his death, 1932. He was engaged in the real estate business, and life and fire insurance, and finally in loans. With G. A. Horkan, he organized the "Angelus Mutual Insurance Company" about the year 1910.
Source: Covington, W. A.. History of Colquitt County. Atlanta, Ga.: Foote and Davies Co., 1937.

Waldo DeLoache

The subject of this sketch was born on March 3, 1898, at Glennville, Tattnall County, Ga. His education was received in the common schools of Tattnall County, and was finished at Mercer University, from which he was graduated in 1919, with the degrees of A.B. and LL.B. He was admitted to the practice of law at the date of his graduation in Macon, Ga. He is a Baptist and a Democrat.

He was a private in the World War, serving in the United States forces at Fort Screven, Ga. He removed to Moultrie, in Colquitt County, immediately after graduation, where in a very short while he built up a very lucrative practice.

In 1931 he was appointed Judge of the City Court of Colquitt County by Governor Richard B. Russell, Jr. He was elected to succeed himself in this office in September, 1934. He resigned in January, 1935, in order to accept appointment as State Director for the Georgia Federal Housing Administration. This office he resigned in December, 1936, and re-entered the practice of law at Moultrie, Ga., and entered the management of his extensive business interests in this section.

Mr. DeLoache was the son of Alexander Joseph DeLoache, who was born September 30, 1854, in Tattnall County, Ga.; married on December 28, 1876, in Tattnall County, Ga., in which county he passed out of this life on August 17, 1930.

The maiden name of the mother of Waldo DeLoache was Sarah Elizabeth Burkhalter, who was born on September 17, 1861, in Tattnall County, Ga., and who still survives.

The name of the paternal grandfather of Waldo DeLoache was Jesse DeLoache, who was born on March 12, 1816, in Tattnall County, Ga.; married in the same county in 1836, and passed out of life in Tattnall County in 1874. He was a soldier in the armies of the Southern Confederacy.

The maiden name of the paternal grandmother of Waldo DeLoache was Elizabeth Smith, of Tattnall County, Ga., who died in that county on March 31, 1890.

The maternal grandfather of Waldo DeLoache was John Michel Burkhalter, who was born February 27, 1825, in Tattnall County, Ga.; married in June, 1848, in the same county, and died on January 8, 1863, at South Newport, while on active duty in the armies of the Confederacy.

The maiden name of the maternal grandmother of Waldo DeLoache was Mary Elizabeth Smith, who was bom on January 30, 1831, in Tattnall County, Ga.; died on September 11, 1908, in that county.

Mr. Waldo DeLoache was married on July 28, 1921, in Clay County, Ga., to Miss Clyde Killingsworth, a native of Clay County, Ga., having been bom April 5, 1899. She was the daughter of Emmett Walton Killingsworth, who was born March 12, 1866, in Clay County, Ga., and who was married in Clay County, Ga., where he still survives.

The maiden name of the mother-in-law of Waldo DeLoache and the wife of E. W. Killingsworth was Susan Sanders, a native of Clay County, Ga. She survives with her husband.

The children, being the issue of the marriage of Waldo DeLoache and Clyde Killingsworth DeLoache, are:

Waldo DeLoache, Jr., born August 5, 1924, departed this life on April 14, 1933.

Michel DeLoache, born October 3, 1934, who, with his parents, lives at Moultrie, Ga.

Mr. DeLoache is genial and philosophic in his temperament, is an excellent lawyer, and a highly successful business man. He has a healthy interest in the social and political problems; reads extensively, and is a very eloquent public speaker. His friends are very proud, and have every right to be, of his accomplishments in the ordinary activities of a young man of this age, and are well convinced that the most of the achievements of his life are in the future.

Mrs. Waldo DeLoache is deservedly popular among all classes, in Moultrie in her own right, and by virtue of many charms of manner and heart. The entire community has therefore been much pleased at the recent return of the DeLoaches to permanent residence here.
Source: Covington, W. A.. History of Colquitt County. Atlanta, Ga.: Foote and Davies Co., 1937.

Frank Jarvis Bivins

This citizen of Colquitt County for many years was born near Pineville, Ga., in the County of Marion. He was edu-cated in the common schools of Marion County and was graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, at Au-burn, Ala. Occupation, real estate broker. Profession, civil engineer. At one time cashier of a bank. Independent Democrat. Episcopalian. Kappa Alpha college fraternity. Author of "Deatl Horse In the Spring Branch"

He was a captain in the Officers' Training Camp at college. He was mayor of Cordele, Ga., about 1896. His father was Martin Luther Bivins, a native of Wilkes County, Ga., who was married on June 1,1860, and who died in 1879. Martin L. Bivins was a Justice of the Inferior Court in Marion Counly, fought in the Battle of Atlanta in 1864, and freed his slaves on his own motion as an act of justice. Mother of F. J. Bivins was Marthena Caroline Cox, who was born in 1879, and who was a sister of the founder of Cox College.

Martin Luther Bivins, Sr., was a son of William Bivins, and Miss......Hall. William Bivins was a soldier of the Revolution. When LaFayette came to the United States in his old age, about 1825, William Bivins journeyed to Wash-ington, Ga., for the purpose of shaking the hand of his dis-tinguished comrade, which he did.

Frank J. Bivins married Bonnell Strozier in Meriwether County, Ga. She was born in 1879, and still survives. She was graduated from LaGrange Female College. She is a daughter of John Lucillius Strozier, a captain in the Confed-erate Army, a native of Meriwether Counly, and a resident there until his death in 1912.

Mother of Bonnell Strozier Bivins was Sarah Carolina Robertson, born in 1845, in Meriwether County, Ga. She was a first-honor graduate of Wesleyan Female College, and now resides at Glennville, Ga., in the full possession of all her mental and physical powers.

Names of the children of F. J. Bivins and Bonnell Strozier Bivins:
Bonnell Bivins, born in 1899.
Martin Luther Bivins, born in 1902.
Jus. McAlpin Bivins, born in 1908.

Frank J. Bivins and his lamily moved to Moultrie in 1900 and resided there until the date of his death, 1932. He was engaged in the real estate business, and life and fire insur-ance, and finally in loans. With G. A. Horkan, he organized the "Angelus Mutual Insurance Company** about the year 1910.

William Frank McCall

This citizen of Colquitt County was born on March 18, 1894, at Quincy, Fla. He was graduated from the Gadsden County High School, being a member of the Class of 1911. He was also graduated from Massey's Business College of Jacksonville, Fla., in 1912. He has been an active merchant of Moultrie, since 1921. He is a member of the M. E. Church, South, and has always affiliated with the Democratic Party as a political organization.

He was President of the Moultrie Kiwanis Club in 1925, and is at present an active member of that organization. Mis father, Wm. S. McCall, wa« horn in Decatur County, Ga., and died on November 4, 1912, in Quincy, Fla. The mother of W. F. McCall was before her marriage, Mary Emily Smith. She was also born in Gadsden County, Fla., and died in Quincy, county-site of said counly, on December 11, 1911.

W. F. McCall married Miss Susie Clark on January 6, 1915, in Albany, Ga. She was born May 12, 1896, in Dougherty County, Ga., and was a graduate of Albany High School. Susie Clark was the daughter of John S. Clark, a native of Buckingham County, Va., and for twelve years before his death was Clerk of the Superior Court of Dougherty County. Previous to that time he was railway accountant for the Central of Georgia Railway. The mother-in-law of W. F. McCall was Susan Dodson.

There are at present in life, issue of the marriage of W. F. McCall and Susie Clark, his wife, children as follows:
William F. McCall, Jr., born April 14, 1916.
John Clark McCall, born October 31, 1919.
William Sherrod McCall, bom December 28, 1922.
Sarah Clark McCall, born August 11, 1925.
Susan Chirk McCall, born January 6, 1930.

William Frank McCall, Sr., the subject of this sketch, was a charter member of the Moultrie Kiwanis Club; he is a member of the City School Board of Moultrie; a member of the Board of Directors of the Y. M. C A. of the city; member of the Board of Directors of the Moultrie Chamber of Commerce; member of the Court of Honour of the Boy Scouts; member of the Board of Stewards of the First M. E. Church, Moultrie; Superintendent Sunday School, M. E. Church.

Mr. McCall is at the head of one of the most flourishing retail grocery businesses in Moultrie.

Claude Early McLendon

This citizen and resident of Colquitt County was born on September 28, 1884, in Greenville, Meriwether County, Ga. He was educated in the common schools of Meriwether County, and is by occupation a farmer. He is a Methodist and a Democrat. He has been a Justice of the Peace in and for Colquitt County for several years. He is at present Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Colquitt County, and is also Chairman of the Board of County Registrars.

He is a son of W. E. McLendon, a native of Meriwether County, who was born in 1851, and who died on June 10, 1892, in Meriwether County. He was a Chief of Police of Greenville, Ga., for some years. W. E. McLendon married Zubic Johnson in 1883. She was born in 1862 in Meriwether County, Ga., and is yet alive in Colquitt County. Maternal grandfather of Claude McLendon was Rufus Johnson and his maternal grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Thrash.

C. E. McLendon was married in 1908, in Colquitt County, Ga., to Miss Lillian Manning, who was born February 26, 1884, in Milton County, Ga. She is still alive and a resident of Funston, in Colquitt County. She is a daughter of W. N. Manning, who was born in 1848, in Cherokee County, Ga., and died on November 29, 1929, in Colquitt County. He was once Clerk of the Superior Court of Milton County, Ga. His only wife was Nancy Jane Rucker, born in 1854 in Milton County, Ga., and she still lives at Funston. The Ruckers have been for several generations leaders in the County of Milton and surrounding territory. W. N. Manning and his said wife were married December 21, 1876.

The children of C. E. McLendon and his said wife now in life are as follows:
Marion, born in 1901.
Elizabeth, born in 1911.
Terrell, born in 1912 (died in infancy).
Hiram Warner, born in 1914.
Dora, born in 1916 (died in infancy).
Caroline, born in 1919.
C. E., Jr., born in 1920.

Marion McLendon married Lillian Singleterry, and they have a girl child named Betlie, 17 months old.

Richard Jonathan Lewis

The subject of this sketch was born on October 17, 1887, at Mclntyre, in the County of Wilkinson, in the State of Georgia. He received a high school education at Norman Institute, Norman Park, Ga., from 1906 to 1909. He taught school in Colquitt County, Ga., in the years 1909 and 1910, was a farmer practically continuously until 1929. He practiced law in Moultrie, Ga., in 1916-1924. From 1924 to this date (1936), he has held the position of Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court of Colquitt County. For five years past, he has been a minister in the Missionary Baptist Church, and at present serves three churches in Georgia and one in Florida.

R. J. Lewis is a Democrat, Woodman of the World, and a member of the' Royal Arcanum. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Geor-gia in 1921-2 and 1924-5.

R. J. Lewis was the son of Richard Joel Lewis and Exa Ann Ethridge Lewis. Richard Joel Lewis was born on August 31, 1842, in Wilkinson County, Ga.; by profession he was a school teacher and a farmer. Member of Company "F," Third Ga. Regiment, Longstreet's Brigade, and served from the beginning of the War Between the States until he was wounded at Gettysburg. Mother of Richard Jonathan Lewis was also born in 1842 (October 1), in Wilkinson County, Ga., and died on August 15, 1910, in Omega, Tift County, Ga.

James R. Lewis and Sarah Ann Rivers Lewis were the paternal grandparents of Richard Jonathan Lewis, both born in Wilkinson County, Ga. Lewis Ethridge was his maternal grandfather, and he was a native of Wilkinson County, Ga. His maternal grandmother was named Lucinda.

Richard Jonathan Lewis married on December 18, 1910, in Colquitt County, Miss Lenora May Newton, who was born on February 10, 1888, in Colquitt County, Ga. She was the daughter of George F. Newton and Julia Elvina Norman. George F. Newton was born on September 21, 1841, in Brooks County, Ga., married in Colquitt County, Ga., and died in Colquitt County, Ga., on February 7, 1922. He was a farmer by profession, and during his life held the offices of both Tax Receiver and Tax Collector of Colquitt County; and was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives for two terms. He was a member of Lee's Army, and left an arm at Gettysburg, being wounded in the same section of that battlefield as Richard Joel Lewis.

Julia Elvina Norman was born on May 31, in Colquitt County, Ga., and died on September 26, 1918. She was the daughter of Jeremiah Bryant Norman, Sr., a pioneer leader of Colquitt County, otherwise referred to in this history, and of his wife, Sarah Ann Elizabeth, also referred to herein.

The following are the children of the marriage of Richard
Jonathan and Lenora May Lewis:
Jonathan Willnnn Lewis, horn October 21st, 1911.
Cordon Felton Lewis, born September 3rd, 1914.
Julia Inez Lewis.
Mahle Claire Lewis.
James Richard Lewis.

As will be seen from other pages of this history, the children of R. J. Lewis are as well born as any in the entire County of Colquitt. This historian thinks there is not in the County of Colquitt a more useful citizen than Mr. Lewis.

Matthew Lawrence Lee

M. L. Lee was bom August 31, 1885, in Crawford County, Georgia. He was graduated from K. E. Lee Institute, Thomaston, Georgia, in 1902. Collection Clerk and Book-keeper with Upson Banking and Trust Company, Thomaston, Georgia, 1902-5. Bookkeeper with Moultrie Banking Company, 1905-6. Assistant Cashier Moultrie Banking Company, 1906-16. Cashier Moultrie Banking Company, 1916-36.

Methodist, Democrat, W. 0. W. He was the son of Benjamin Franklin Lee and Mary Cassandra Sandwich Lee. B. F. Lee was horn January 17, 1845; married April 6, 1869; and died October 28, 1929. He lived on a farm at Zenith, Crawford County, Georgia, until 1889, when he moved to Thomaston, Georgia, where he taught school and did various clerical work. Mary C. S. Lee was born October 11, 1846, in Upson County, Georgia, and died on January 8, 1933, in Thomaston, Georgia. She was the daughter of Matthew Hale Sandwich.

M. L. Lee married on May 15, 1907, Mary Alma Hicks, who was born July 20, 1885, in Johnson County, Georgia, being daughter of Dr. William J. Hicks and Samantha Kent Hicks. Dr. W. J. Hicks practiced medicine in Macon County, Georgia, till 1902, and from 1902 to the date of his death in Moultrie, Georgia. Samantha Kent Hicks was born in Johnson County, and died in Moultrie, Georgia. One child of M. L. Lee and Mary Alma Lee is named Mary Lenelle Lee, and was born in Moultrie, Georgia, December 10, 1910.

M. L. Lee joined the Methodist Church at Thomaston, Georgia, in 1895 Secretary MelhudiM Sunday School, Thomaston, 1902-5. Superintendent Methodist Sunday "School, Moultrie, 1906-26. Steward Moultrie Methodist Church, 1906-1936.

John Elzie Ladson

Mr. J. E. Ladson was born January 12, 1885, in Montgomery County, Ga. His education was obtained in the common schools of Georgia and in the Georgia-Alabama Business College, from which he was graduated in 1904.

He is a member of the First Missionary Baptist Church, at Moultrie, as are the other members of his family. In politics, Mr. Ladson is a Democrat; and he is a Knight of Pythias. He has served on the Aldermanic Board of the City of Moultrie, and is a past-president of the Moultrie Chamber of Commerce.

John Elzie Ladson is a son of Isaac Ladson, who was bom on December 16, 1852, in Montgomery County, Ga., who married Pinkie Council on July 2, 1874, and he now resides with his son, the subject of this sketch, at Moultrie, Ga. Pinkie Connell Ladson died on June 22, 1916, and is buried in Hamilton Cemetery, in Montgomery County, Ga.

Isaac Ladson is the son of John Conaway Ladson, who was born on December 25, 1813, in Barnwell County, S. C, and who died in 1894 in Montgomery County, Ga. He was a farmer by profession, and was a Confederate soldier. The founder of the Ladson family was John Ladson, a native of Northamptonshire, England, who settled St. John's Island, Charleston, S. C. "Ladson Street," in Charleston, derives its name from these people; and they erected the Ladson residence, on Meeting Street, in that city.

The wife of John Conaway Ladson, being the grandmother of John Elzie Ladson, was Mary Ann Calhoun, who was bom in 1816, in Barnwell County, S. C. She died on August 2, 1872, in Montgomery County, Ga. She was a daughter of James I. Calhoun, of Barnwell, S. C.

John Elzie Ladson married Miss Annie Laurie Rhodes on March 8, 1910, in Moultrie, Ga. She was born February 22, 1888, in Berrien County, Ga. She was educated in the Tifton Public Schools; and was a daughter of Aaron Rhodes, who was born in 1845, in Richmond County, Ga., and died in August, 1905, in Tifton, Ga. He was a Confederate vet-eran, and by profession a farmer. He is buried at Bethesda Cemetery, at Brookfield, Tift County, Ga.

The mother-in-law of J. E. Ladson was Anna Elizabeth Coursey, born March 27, 1851, in Richmond County, Ga. She died November 13, 1931, in Colquitt County, Ga. She was a daughter of John B. Coursey and Mary Johnson Coursey. The Rhodes family was one of the first settlers of Richmond County, Ga., and from the first were active in its development.

Mrs. John E. Ladson is a member of the John Benning Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the Moultrie Chapter of the Worth While Club. She is a member of the First Baptist Church, and is active in its church and social work.

John Elzie Ladson came to Moultrie in the year 1910, and engaged in the wholesale lumber business, which he carried to instant success. He still "knows his lumber" and carries on at Moultrie. As if this success were not enough, he commenced some twenty years or more ago buying an occasional Colquitt farm; and has kept it up till, at present, he operates 140 plows, this placing him easily in the first place among the farmers of this wonderful county. And, what is greatly to his credit, he deals justly with his tenants, whether white or colored.

As a climax to the life work of this successful couple, it is stated that there are in life, at present, children, the issue of the marriage of John Elzie Ladson and Annie Laurie Rhodes Ladson, four children, as follows:
John Elzie Ladson, Jr., born September, 1912.
Wm. Francis Ladson, born October 9, 1916.
Caroline Ladson, born February 19, 1920.
Mary Ladson, born October 11, 1923.

All these are popular social favorites with the people among whom they move, and for the reason that they are all fine children. John Elzie Ladson, Jr., was graduated from the Moultrie Public Schools and from Furman University, and both Wm. Francis Ladson and Caroline Ladson are alumnae of the Moultrie Public Schools.

Chas. H. Johnson

Mention has been made hereinbefore of Chas. H. Johnson, shown by the 1860 census to have been the wealthiest citizen of Colquitt County at that date. Since this was written, we have come into some additional information as to Mr. Johnson, through the courtesy of Mr. Lewis Perry, who married a granddaughter of Mr. Johnson, and who now resides on the old Johnson plantation:

(a) It is definitely known that Chas. H. Johnson died in 1886, and was buried in the Johnson family burial plot on the plantation. As we know from the 1860 census that Mr. Johnson was born in 1790, it results that he reached the great age of 96. So far as we know, this entitles him to a record age for a man, in Colquitt; a record that seems to have been equaled by only one woman, Sally Hawkins, found in 1860 by Census Marshal Wing. As Mr. Johnson was a contemporary of the author of "Two Years Before the Mast," he must have been a most interesting character. We are able to present elsewhere a cut of this old sea rover and land pioneer, made from a photograph taken about the year Colquitt was organized.

W. W. King

This citizen of Colquitt was born March 29, 1893, on a farm four miles southwest of Doerun, Ga., near Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, being a son of H. C. King, who was born in Putnam County, Ga.

His maternal grandmother was born in Colquitt County.

His maternal grandfather was born in Coweta County, Ga. George Tucker, great grandfather on mother's side, was a son of Elder H. Crawford Tucker, pioneer in Colquitt County. Another great-grandfather, pioneer in Colquitt County, was John Nelson Phillips, born in South Carolina.

W. W. King was married on December 31, 1916, to Lollie Dell Morton, of Colquitt County, Ga. Mary Tucker, daughter of George Tucker, was his maternal grandmother. The maiden name of the mother of W. W. King was Martha Jane Phillips.

The children of W. W. King and Lollie Dell Morton King are: Elsie Mae King, 1924; Nannie Ruth King, 1926; and W. C. King, 1930.

W. W. King is by profession a farmer. He is a member of Mount Sinai Baptist Church. He is a member of the present Board of County Commissioners of Colquitt County, in which position he succeeded his father, who held this officer himself for many years.

George B. Hunt

This citizen of Colquitt County was born at Pineboro, Colquitt County, Ga., August 26, 1881. Educated in the common schools of Colquitt County. Profession is fireman. Entered service of Moultrie Fire Department on July 1, 1914. On November 14, 1915, became Chief, and has held this position continuously since. Methodist.   Democrat. Mason.

G. B. Hunt was a son of Wm. Jefferson Hunt, who was born April 3, 1861, and died October 14, 1912. He was born in Columbia County, Ala., and spent most of his life in Colquitt County, where he died. He was ordained Methodist minis-ter, and was postmaster at Silar, Ga., from 1897 to 1902. Mother of G. B. Hunt was Dicy Ruth Baker, born January 8, 1859, in Colquitt County, Ga., and died in the same county on October 4, 1935.

Paternal grandfather, Cardy Hunt, was born in 1811, in Ireland, and died in 1904 in Colquitt County, Ga. Emigrated to the United States about 1816, and became by profession a farmer and a slave-owner. He married Amie Stokes, who was born in Ireland about 1816, and died in November, 1899. Cardy Hunt was killed in battle, in 1864, somewhere in Virginia, having volunteered as a private from Colquitt.   He married in Charleston, S. C, about 1834.

Maternal grandfather of C. B. Hunt was Burrell Baker, born about 1830 in Colquitt County, Ga., and died on one of the battlefields of the Confederate War in 1864, having gone out with the first Colquitt Volunteers.

Maternal grandmother of G. B. Hunt was Ruth Norman, a daughter of Jas. Mitchell Norman and Ruth Tillman Norman, being born about 1830 in Colquitt County.   She died in 1859 in Colquitt County. She married, in 1857, Burrell Baker.

G. B. Hunt was married on November 3, 1907, in Moultrie, Ga., to Miss Tommie Jane Hall, who was born March 26, 1882, in Colquitt County. She was a daughter of Lawrence A. Hall, who was born in Thomas County, Ga., and died in Colquitt County. Private in the Confederate Army, being wounded once. He taught school in Colquitt and surrounding counties for many years. He was carrying the mail on a star route when he died. His wife was Narsises Turner, a daughter of Amos Turner, who was once a Clerk of the Superior Court of Colquitt County, and who was the first State Senator of Colquitt in the General Assembly of Georgia.

G. B. Hunt and his wife, Tommie Jane Hunt, have one child in life, namely: Arthur B. Hunt, born November 8, 1908.

Before his connection with Moultrie's fire department, G. B. Hunt worked with Huber-Norman Lumber Co., at Moultrie, in 1907-8. Carried U. S. mail on star route in 1900-01. Worked as a carpenter in Colquitt County from November, 1909 to 1914.

Jacob Hunter Hires

This citizen of Colquitt was born in 1853, at Isom, Brooks County, Ga. He was educated in the common schools of Brooks County and was a student of current affairs all his life. He was admitted to the Bar about 1889, having read law in the office of Henry G. Turner, the celebrated statesman, in Quitman. He practiced law in Brooks and surrounding counties, finally moving to Moultrie, where he formed a partnership for the practice of law with John C. Chason, at Moultrie. He was a Baptist, a Democrat, and a Mason. He participated in the Spanish-American War, being a corporal in the U. S. Army in Cuba.

He represented Colquitt County in the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Georgia in 1911-12.

Jacob Hunter Hires was the son of Philip Hires, a native of North Carolina, born there in 1812, and was married in Brooks County, Ga., in 1835 to Pollie Alderman, a native of Brooks County, Ga. Both Philip Hires and his wife, Pollie Alderman Hires, have departed this life and are buried in Brooks County.

J. H. Hires married in 1874 in Brooks County, Ga. The maiden name of his wife was Sarah Strickland, who was born in 1852, and died in December, 1919, in Colquitt County, Ga. She was educated in the common schools of Brooks County, and was a member of the Baptist Church. She was the daughter of John Strickland, who was born in 1846, in Brooks County, Ga., and who was married in Brooks County, Ga., and who died in 1887 in the same county. John Strickland was a farmer, and a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. The maiden name of the wife of John Strickland, who was the mother-in-law of J. H. Hires, was Jencie Alderman, also a native of Brooks County.

The names of the children of J. H. Hires and Sarah Strickland Hires, his wife, are as follows:
James Hires, born 1874, married and a resident of Tampa, Fla.
Lula Hires, born in 1876, died in October, 1926.
Plenny Hires, born in 1877, now living in Colquitt County, Ga.
Gussie Hires, born in 1879 (Mrs. E. H. Hall), Miami, Fla.
Irvin Hires, born 1881, died in 1908.
Sarah Hires, born in 1883, a school teacher.
Willie Hires, born in 1885 (Mrs C. F. Chitty), Colquitt County.
Eunice Hires, born in 1887 (single, with Moultrie Tel. Co. for 15 years).
Harry Livingston Hires, born 1891, Tax collector, Colquitt County, Ga., 1937.
Thomas Watson Hires, born 1894, Supt. H. H. Myers Packing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ruby Elizabeth Hires, born 1896 (Mrs. E. N. Gail), Ft. Pierce, Fla.

Cliff Jenkins

This citizen of Colquitt is a native of Bartow County, Ga., having been born there in the year 1896. His parents were Davis Jenkins, also a native of Bartow County, and...... Jenkins, who was also a native of Bartow County, and both of whom now reside in Colquitt County, Ga.

Cliff Jenkins is a Democrat and a Mason, and for some while has been a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Colquitt County. He was elected chairman of this board at their January, 1937, meeting for a term of twelve months. Mr. Jenkins is a farmer and a saw-mill owner and operator.

Richard Lewis Free

R. L. Free was born September 17, 1874, near Damascus, Early County, Georgia. Graduated from Mercer Univer-sity in 1901, B.S. Degree. Taught school 1901-5. Naval stores operator, 1905-10. In banking business Doerun, Geor-gia, as officer and stockholder, 1909-27. Also farming during this time.

Baptist, Democrat, Mason, Woodman, Elk. Councilman, City of Doerun, Georgia, 1909-15. Member of Board of Education, Doerun, 1915-30.

K. L. Free was child of Lewis Manly Free, who was born September 25, 1839, in Edgefield County, South Carolina, married February 4, 1868, in Miller County, Georgia, and died on November 4, 1911, at Damascus, Georgia. He served four years in the Civil War, being a member of Stonewall Jackson's corps in the army of Northern Virginia, surrendered under Lee at Appomattox. Baptist and successful farmer.

Mother of R. L. Free was Julia Alice Hardy, born on May 14, 1850, in Edgefield County, South Carolina, and died on August 12, 1924, at Arlington, Georgia. Active member of the Baptist Church. Educated in advance of her time, she did real pioneer work in the church, organizing and carrying forward Sunday School work. Having studied medicine, she gave freely of her time to the relief of suffering in the community in which she spent her life. Richard Hardy Free was the paternal grandfather of R. L. Free, and was born on February 11, 1815, in Edgefield County, South Carolina, and died in Decatur County, Georgia. He served with distinction as captain during the Civil War, was a Baptist and a large planter in Decatur County.

Maiden name of maternal grandmother of R. L. Free was Julia Ann Lanier, born December 20, 1818, in Edgefield County, South Carolina, and died in December, 1912, in Miller County, Georgia.

R. L. Free married Stella Pickren, on October 19, 1910, in Savannah, Georgia. She was bom on October 14, 1885, in Coffee County, Georgia. Graduated from Andrew Female College, Cuthbert, Georgia, in class of 1906, with A.B. degree. Taught school a number of years. Methodist, Democrat.

Father-in-law of R. L. Free was Thomas Levett Pickren, born June 16, 1862, in Coffee County, Georgia, married October 9, 1884, in Coffee County, Georgia, and died on June 27, 1936, at Folkston, Georgia. School teacher and a merchant at first, later for forty years prominent naval stores operator of Southeast Georgia. Representative of Charlton County, Georgia, several terms in the General Assembly of Georgia. State Senator, 1925-6. Judge of the County Court of Charlton County for a number of years. Mayor of Folkston. Member City and County Board of Education. Methodist, Mason, Shriner, K. of P., Odd-fellow.

Maiden name of mother-in-law of R. L. Free was Kathleen Georgia Wilcox, born September 22, 1863, Coffee County, Georgia, died on May 24, 1896, at McRae, Georgia. Daughter of Rev. J. M. Wilcox, Methodist minister, who was a member of the Georgia legislature, both as Representative and Senator from Coffee County. Democrat, scholar. Civil War veteran, planter of means. Died at a ripe old age in 1897.

Children of R. L. Free and Stella Pickren Free are: Louise Free, born July 22, 1911; Alice Free, born August 15, 1914; R. L. Free, born August 4, 1915; Mary Ellen Free, born January 22, 1925; Gene Lovett Free, born May 3, 1926; Virginia Free, born May 1, 1913, died August 3, 1913.

Waldo DeLoache

The subject of this sketch was born on March 3, 1898, at Glennville, Tattnall County, Ga. His education was received in the common schools of Tattnall County, and was finished at Mercer University, from which he was graduated in 1919, with the degrees of A.B. and LL.B. He was admitted to the practice of law at the date of his graduation in Macon, Ga. He is a Baptist and a Democrat.

He was a private in the World War, serving in the United States forces at Fort Screven, Ga. He removed to Moultrie, in Colquitt County, immediately after graduation, where in a very short while he built up a very lucrative practice.

In 1931 he was appointed Judge of the City Court of Colquitt County by Governor Richard B. Russell, Jr. He was elected to succeed himself in this office in September, 1934. He resigned in January, 1935, in order to accept appointment as State Director for the Georgia Federal Housing Administration. This nflire lie resigned m Decernber, 1936, and re-entered the practice of law at Moultrie, Ga., and entered the management of his extensive business interests in this section.

Mr. DeLoache was the son of Alexander Joseph DeLoache, who was born September 30, 1854, in Tattnall County, Ga.; married on December 28, 1876, in Tattnall County, Ga., in which county he passed out of this life on August 17, 1930.

The maiden name of the mother of Waldo DeLoache was Sarah Elizabeth Burkhalter, who was born on September 17, 1861, in Tattnall County, Ga., and who still survives.

The name of the paternal grandfather of Waldo DeLoache was Jesse DeLoache, who was born on March 12, 1816, in Tattnall County, Ga.; married in the same county in 1836, and passed out of life in Tattnall County in 1874. He was a soldier in the armies of the Southern Confederacy.

The maiden name of the paternal grandmother of Waldo DeLoache was Elizabeth Smith, of Tattnall County, Ga., who died in that county on March 31, 1890.

The maternal grandfather of Waldo DeLoache was John Michel Burkhalter, who was born February 27, 1825, in Tattnall County, Ga.; married in June, 1848, in the same county, and died on January 8, 1863, at South Newport, while on active duty in the armies of the Confederacy.

The maiden name of the maternal grandmother of Waldo DeLoache was Mary Elizabeth Smith, who was bom on January 30, 1831, in Tattnall County, Ga.; died on September 11, 1908, in that county.

Mr. Waldo DeLoache was married on July 28, 1921, in Clay County, Ga., to Miss Clyde Killingsworth, a native of Clay County, Ga., having been bom April 5, 1899. She was the daughter of Emmett Walton Killingsworth, who was born March 12, 1866, in Clay County, Ga., and who was married in Clay County, Ga., where he still survives.

The maiden name of the mother-in-law of Waldo DeLoache and the wife of E. W. Killingsworth was Susan Sanders, a native of Clay County, Ga. She survives with her husband.

The children, being the issue of the marriage of Waldo DeLoache and Clyde Killingsworth DeLoache, are:

Waldo DeLoache, Jr., born August 5, 1924, departed this life on April 14, 1933.

Michel DeLoache, born October 3, 1934, who, with his parents, lives at Moultrie, Ga.

Mr. DeLoache is genial and philosophic in his temperament, is an excellent lawyer, and a highly successful business man. He has a healthy interest in the social and political problems; reads extensively, and is a very eloquent public speaker. His friends are very proud, and have every right to be, of his accomplishments in the ordinary activities of a young man of this age, and are well convinced that the most of the achievements of his life are in the future.

Mrs. Waldo DeLoache is deservedly popular among all classes, in Moultrie in her own right, and by virtue of many charms of manner and heart. The entire community has therefore been much pleased at the recent return of the DeLoaches to permanent residence here.

Montgomery M. Folsom

The subject of this sketch was born near Hahira, in Lowndes County, Georgia, on January 31, 1857. His grand-father, Randall Folsom, a scholarly man over in Lowndes had a namesake and cousin of the same name, who for many years lived over on the eastern side of Colquitt, and who died there a few years ago, at the great age of ninety-three. All the Colquitt Folsoms are kin to Colquitt's Randall Folsom, and consequently to Montgomery Folsom.

Montgomery also taught school down in the southeast corner of Colquitt for one term, at least. One of his pupils was Frances Edna Croft, daughter of Nathaniel Croft and Mary Anne Hiers Croft, both of whom were born in South Carolina. Montgomery married Frances Edna on November 13, 1879.

All this by way of showing that although strictly speaking, Montgomery Folsom is not one of Colquitt's sons, he might, with perfect justice and propriety, be claimed by Colquitt, as her distinguished son-in-law. This historian saw him only once—in 1891, when he was doing work on one of the Atlanta papers; but we were already familiar with his fine poetry and prose writings. When we moved to Colquitt, we were much pleased to meet the Colquitt County Folsoms, as well as his wife's relatives, the Crofts.

Afterward, we met his wife and some of his fine children in Atlanta, when we were in the legislature from Colquitt County. We once asked Mr. D. MacDonald about him, he, being a cousin of Folsom, and a schoolmate at one time. He stated, among other things, that one day he found Montgomery then a mere child, weeping over a flower, which he had accidentally crushed.

Wesley Futrell Blasingame

The subject of this sketch was born on April 7, 1869, in Crawford County, Ga. His education was obtained in the common schools and in the dental department of the Southern Medical College in Atlanta. The date of his diploma was 1890. He immediately entered into the practice of dental surgery, and has been in such practice until now.

He is a Methodist, a Democrat, a K. of P., and an Odd Fellow.

The name of the father of W. F. Blasingame was John Wesley Blasingame, born in 1840, in Monroe, Ga. He married in Crawford County, Ga., and died, 1905, at Moultrie. He was first a farmer, then a school teacher, and then a merchant. His wife was Eliz. Vashti Futrell, born in Monroe, and died in 1896 in Yatesville, Upson County, Ga. Her education was derived in the common schools and she de-voted much time to uplift and betterment of the "forgotten people" in the community where she lived.

The name of the paternal grandfather of W. F. Blasingame was Powell Blasingame. He was born in Monroe, Ga., he being the son of a French Huguenot immigrant.

The name of the maternal grandfather of W. F. Blasingame was Cicero Futrell, born in Crawford County in 1823; married, 1869; died, 1906, in Crawford County. He was a farmer, and the name of his wife, the mother of W. F. Blasingame, was Rebecca Smith, native of Crawford Counly, Ga.

W. F. Blasingame was married in October, 1891, in Crawford County. The maiden name of his wife was Lena Rivers Jack, born February 22, 1870, in Upson County, Ga., and died July 8, 1936, in Moultrie. The name of her father was J. W. Jack, born in Upson Counly, where he was married about 1867. He is now dead. He was a farmer for a great part of his life, but for twenty-five years before his death he was Clerk of Superior Court of Crawford County. The maiden name of ihe mother-in-law of W. F. Blasingame was Lydia Grace, of Crawford Counly, who died in 1905.

The children of W. F. Blasingame and his wife, Lena Rivers Jack Blasingame, are as follows:

W. A. Blasingame, bom June 27, 1891.
Willie Mae Blasingaime, born March 1. 1893.
Chas Guy Blasingame, born May 10, 1895.
W. A. Blasingame married Miss Mary Sims, daughter of Dr. Sims, of Barnesville, Ga., a dentist. They have the following children: Marilyn, 9; Kli/abeth Ann, 6.
Willie Mae Blasingame married W. C. Mather, of Hollywood, Fia., an attorney. This couple have two children: Mae, 14; Jean, 12.
Chas. Guy Blasingame married Miss Ruby Parks, of Meansville, Ga., and this couple has one child: Guy, Jr., 3.
W. A. Blasingame is a well-established business man, a resident of Moultrie, having a flourishing drug business and extensive farming interests.
Guy Blasingame also owns and operates a flourishing drug business here.

Frank Jarvis Bivins

This citizen of Colquitt County for many years was horn near Pineville, Ga., in the County of Marion. He was educated in the common schools of Marion County and was graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, at Auburn, Ala. Occupation, real estate broker. Profession, civil engineer. At one time cashier of a bank. Independent Democrat. Episcopalian. Kappa Alpha college fraternity. Author of "Dead Horse In the Spring Branch."

He was a captain in the Officers* Training Camp at college. He was mayor of Cordele, Ga., about 1896. His father was Martin Luther Bivins, a native of Wilkes County, Ga., who was married on June 1, 1860, and who died in 1879. Martin L. Bivins was a Justice of the Inferior Court in Marion County, fought in the Battle of Atlanta in 1864, and freed his slaves on his own motion as an act of justice. Mother of F. J. Bivins was Marthena Caroline Cox, who was bom in 1879, and who was a sister of the founder of Cox College.

Martin Luther Bivins, Sr., was a son of William Bivins, and Miss......Hall. William Bivins was a soldier of the Revolution. When LaFayette came to the United States in his old age, about 1825, William Bivins journeyed to Washington, Ga., for the purpose of shaking the hand of his distinguished comrade, which he did.

Frank J. Bivins married Bonnell Strozier in Meriwether County, Ga. She was born in 1879, and still survives. She was graduated from LaGrange Female College. She is a daughter of John Lucillius Strozier, a captain in the Confederate Army, a native of Meriwether County, and a resident there until his death in 1912.

Mother of Bonnell Strozier Bivins was Sarah Carolina Robertson, born in 1845, in Meriwether County, Ga. She was a first-honor graduate of Wesleyan Female College, and now resides at Glennville, Ga., in the full possession of all her mental and physical powers.

Names of the children of F. J. Bivins and Bonnell Strozier Bivins:

Bonnell Bivins, born in 1899. Martin Luther Bivins, born in 1902. Jas. McAlpin Bivins, born in 1908.

Frank J. Bivins and his family moved to Moultrie in 1900 and resided there until the date of his death, 1932. He was engaged in the real estate business, and life and fire insurance, and finally in loans. With G. A. Horkan, he organized the "Angelus Mutual Insurance Company" about the year 1910.
Source: Covington, W. A.. History of Colquitt County. Atlanta, Ga.: Foote and Davies Co., 1937.

William Alonzo Covington

W. A. Covington was born January 19, 1869, in the backwoods of northwest Cherokee County, Ga., being oldest child of Sidney Stanhope Covington and Honor Adeline Burns, and a grandson of A. J. Covington and Olivia Ellis Covington, and of Henry Burns and Anne Rhine Burns. Both parents of W. A. Covington are natives of Georgia. His paternal grandparents were natives of Rutherford County, N. C, and his maternal grandparents were natives of Spartanburgh district, S. C.

W. A. Covington is a graduate of Reinhardt College (1887), and of Emory College (1896). He is a Methodist, a Mason, a K. of P., a W. 0. W., and an Odd Fellow. He has been mayor of Moultrie several terms, and a representa-tive of Colquitt County in the General Assembly of Georgia in 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908. Also in 1919-20 and in 1923-24. He was the author (with L. G. Hardman), of Georgia's Prohibition Statute of 1907. He is responsible for the action of Georgia's Legislature in the destruction of the Convict Lease System, in 1908.

He came to Colquitt with J. H. Smithwick in 1898, and with him organized a partnership for the practice of law. He was appointed Judge of the City Court of Moultrie by Governor Candler, and served till his election to the Legislature.

W. A. Covington married Miss Burney Sheffield on May 12, 1897, at Arlington, Ga. She is a daughter of Hon. Henry Sheffield, Judge of the Superior Courts of the Pataula Circuit of Georgia, and of his wife, Ida Holder Sheffield. Her progenitors are all prominent among the pioneers of original Early Counly, Ga. She is an alumna of Wesleyan Female College (1896).

Children of W. A. Covington and Burney S. Covington are:
Sidney S. Covington, died June, 1934.
Dorothy Covington (Mrs. J. L. Pilcher), Meigs, Ga.
Wm. N. Covington, Brooklyn, N. Y,
Philip Stanhope Covington, Moultrie Attorney.
Drew Roberts Covington, died in infancy.
Catherine Covington, died in infancy.

James William Coleman

J. W. Coleman, the subject of this sketch, was born on June 15, 1871, at Swainsboro, in Emanuel County, in the State of Georgia. He was educated in the common schools of that county. During his life, he has been extensively engaged in farming, practical mechanics and in construction work, doing well in all.

He is a Primitive Baptist by profession of religious faith, and is a Democrat in politics.

Mr. Coleman invented an animal self-feeder, and received a patent in January, 1924.

He was a District Road Overseer in 1896-1898. He was a District Road Commissioner in 1898-1900. He was a member of the Board of Education of Colquitt County, 1900 to 1906. He was Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues from 1906 to 1912. He was a member of the City Council of Moultrie in 1910-1912.

The father of J. W. Coleman was James Elsie Coleman, born on November 18, 1846, in Emanuel County, Ga.; married in May, 1870, in Emanuel County, Ga., and died on April 12, 1928, in Emanuel County, Ga. He was a farmer by profession, and did service in the Confederate army in 1864 and 1865. He invented the "Coleman Long-Staple Gin" in February, 1895.

The maiden name of mother of J. W. Coleman was Lavina Lanier, and she was born on April 11, 1852, in Emanuel County, Ga., and died on April 27, 1932, in Emanuel County, Ga. She was the mother of eight sons and four daughters, of whom seven sons and three daughters are living.

Name of paternal grandfather of J. W. Coleman was William Coleman, born August 10, 1819, in Emanuel County, Ga.; married in 1840, and died on November 7, 1898. He was a successful farmer and mechanic, and a Confederate soldier during the whole of the Civil War. The maiden name of the paternal grandmother of J. W. Coleman was Sarah Sutton, born in Emanuel Counly, Ga., in 1821, and died in the same county in 1877.

The maternal grandfather of J. W. Coleman was Wm. Lanier, born September 26, 1825; married in 1849, and died on September 24, 1910; all "t which r\ent- happened in Emanuel County. He was a Confederate soldier from 1863 to 1865. Maiden name of the maternal grandmother of J. W. Coleman was Sallie Clifton, born November 22, 1822, in Bulloch County, Ga., and died on August 9, 1885, in Emanuel County, Ga.

J. W. Coleman was married on January 21, 1894, in Bulloch County, Ga., to Miss Sallie Elizabeth Temples, who was boni on February 2, 1871, in Wilkinson County, Ga., and is still living in Colquitt County, Ga. She was a daughter of Hudson Temples, who was born March 15, 1843, in Wilkinson County, Ga., and married on September 13, 1864, in Wilkinson County, Ga. He was a minister of the Gospel for more than 50 years. Maiden name of mother-in-law of J. W. Coleman was Mariah Carr, born in 1844 in Wilkinson County, Ga., and died January 25, 1876, in Wilkinson County, Ga.

There is now in life one child, the issue of the marriage of J. W. Coleman and Sallie Elizabeth Temples, a daughter named Vista, who was born on April 1, 1899, in Colquitt County, and who is now the wife of Ray S. Hall, prominent citizen of Baker County, Ga. This couple has two children, William Calvin Hall and Bettie Temples Hall.

J. W. Coleman, the subject of this sketch, moved with his wife to Colquitt County in January, 1894; purchased a farm three miles north of Moultrie, and lived on it till 1905. First engaged in farming, and then in lumber manufacturing business, moving to Moultrie in 1905. In 1908 built and operated the first modern cotton ginnery in Colquitt County. He built and operated the first fertilizer mixing plant in the county. Built and operated the first modern cotton and storage warehouse in the county. And generally assisted in the county's development.

Paul DeWitt Leverett

The subject of this sketch was born April 28, 1895, at Weston, Webster County, Ga. He was graduated from the Doerun High School in 1911. He attended Mercer University Law School and graduated in 1916. Since that date he has been continuously in the practice of law, first at Albany and for several years past at Moultrie, Ga.

He is a Presbyterian, a Democrat, a Mason, a W. 0. W., and a member of the American Legion.

He has been Solicitor of the City Court of Colquitt County since August 1, 1931.

He is the son of M. Lafayette Leverett, who was a na-tive of Webster County, Ga., and who married in Webster County in 1893, and died December 7, 1932, in Doerun, Ga. He was first a farmer, then a merchant, and for the twenty-five years before his death he was a rural letter carrier out of Doerun.

The maiden name of the mother of Paul D. Leverett was Mary Fannie Holloman, a native of Webster County, Ga., who died November 10, 1912, in Doerun, Ga.

Maiden name of paternal grandmother of Paul D. Leverett was Eliz. Foreman, born 1850 in State of Virginia, and died in 1930, in Webster County.

Name of maternal grandfather of Paul D. Leverett was John Holloman, a native of Webster County, Ga. His wife was Frances Shivers, being the maternal grandmother of Paul D. Leverett. She also was a native of Webster County.

Paul D. Leverett married on December 23, 1925, Cordia Ray McLeod, born December 27, 1897, in Worth County, Ga., and who still lives with her husband at Moultrie, Ga.

She was a graduate of Poulan High School and Tifton A. and M., and Freeman's Business College. For five years prior to marriage, she was Secretary-Treasurer of the Farmer's Land Loan and Title Co., of Albany, Ga. She was the daughter of Daniel J. McLeod, a native of Robeson County, N. C, who died in 1900 in Worth County, Ga. He came to Georgia while a young man, and was a successful turpentine man and farmer.

The maiden name of the mother-in-law of Paul D. Leverett was Frances Ann Conoly, born in Robeson County, N. C, and died on November 5, 1935, in Colquitt County. As widow of Daniel J. McLeod, she reared successfully their three daughters.

There is in life a child, the issue of the marriage of Paul D. Leverett and Cordia Ray McLeod Leverett, whose name is Paul D. Leverett, Jr.

William Jefferson Matthews

W. J. Matthews was born on February 8, 1856, at Pineville, in Marion County, Georgia. He was educated at the country schools around Pineville, and finished at Collinsworth Institute, at Talbotton, Georgia.

He worked on a farm during a part of 1874. Left the farm and clerked for Harrell Johnson and Company, Merchants and Warehousemen, at Americus, Georgia.

W. J. Matthews is a Methodist, a Democrat, and a Mason. He was the son of Benjamin Franklin Matthews and Mary Elizabeth Wright Matthews. B. F. Matthews was born October 21, 1828, in Wilkerson County, Georgia, married on February 20, 1855, in Macon County, Alabama, and died on August 19, 1899, in Americus, Georgia. Mary Elizabeth Matthews died in September, 1914, in Americus, Georgia.

B. F. Matthews was the child of William Matthews and Eliza-beth Hall Matthews. William Matthews was born in 1797, in Wilkerson County, Georgia, married in Wilkerson County, Georgia, and died in 1859 in Marion County, Georgia. Eliza-beth Hall Matthews died in 1869 in Marion County, Georgia, and married in Wilkerson County, Georgia.

The mother of Mary Elizabeth Wright Matthews was Elizabeth Wilmot, who was born March 12, 1797, in Columbia County, Georgia, and died in 1867 in Macon County, Alabama.

W. J. Matthews married on February 12, 1878, Ella Shaw in Cusseta, Georgia. Ella Shaw was born on February 12, 1860, in Stewart County, Georgia, and died on May 5, 1932, in Moultrie, Georgia. She was the daughter of David J. Shaw and Margaret Wardlaw Shaw. David J. Shaw was born in Sumter County, Georgia, married in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, in 1859, and died in 1913, in Columbus, Georgia. Margaret Wardlaw Shaw was born in Stewart County, Georgia, and died in Columbus, Georgia.

Children of W. J. Matthews and Ella Shaw Matthews are: Shaw Hall Matthews, 1878; Maud Matthews Tharpe, 1880; Willabell Matthews Turnbull, 1883; Margaret Elizabeth Wink, 1887. Mr. W. J. Matthews, still alive and active at Moultrie, Georgia, he has conducted a mercantile business, at the same time successfully operating his extensive farming interests.

While he has never been a candidate for public office, he has at all times maintained an intelligent interest in public affairs; and the number of his personal friends is remarkably large, wherever he has lived.

Mr. Matthews was at one time in his life extensively connected with the railroad development of South Georgia. Commencing in 1882, in connection with Major Hawkins, of Americus, Ga., he commenced building short lines and extensions both to the east and the west of Americus; and by 1897 they had completed a line of railroad extending from Savannah, through Americus to Montgomery, Ala. The "SAM Road," it was called; and is now a part of the Seaboard System. Mr. Matthews was at one time General Superintendent of the "S. A. M."

Zachary Thomas Millsap

This Colquitt County citizen was born May 1, 1891, at Thomasville, Ga., and was educated in the Moultrie Public School. He is a son of Zachary Taylor Millsap, who was born on January 1, 1856, in Robeson County, N. C; married in January, 1874, in Ashpole, N. C; and died November 1, 1891, in Ashpole, N. C.

Mother of Z. T. Millsap was Mary Eliza McHargue, who was born on April 16, 1860, in Robeson County, N. C, and died April 5, 1892, in Moultrie, Ga.

Paternal grandfather of Z. T. Millsap was Richard James Millsap, born in Iredell County, N. C, in 1824, married in 1843, and died in Robeson County, N. C, in 1893. Paternal grandmother of Z. T. Millsap was Mary Ann McLean, born April 27, 1825, in Robeson County, N. C.

Maternal grandfather of Z. T. Millsap was James McHargue, born April 2, 1825, in Iredell County, N. C, and died on April 29, 1900. He was a soldier in the Civil War. Maiden name of maternal grandmother of Z. T. Millsap was Mary Pope, born and died in Robeson County, N. C.

Z. T. Millsap married on June 17, 1917, in Liddington, La.; married Mary Mina Chesnutt, who was born on February 19, 1893, in Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas. She was a daughter of Wm. Lott Chesnutt, who was born December 7, 1850, in Clinton, N. C, and of his wife, Mary Lydia Shofner Chesnutt, who was born January 17, 1861, in Angelina County, Texas, and died on November 28, 1911, in Port Arthur, Texas. William Lott Chesnutt died on April 21, 1930, in Weed, California.

Children of Z. T. Millsap and Mary Mina Millsap are:

Zachary Thomas Millsap, Jr., born March 13, 1922.

Mina Chestnutt Millsap, born August 18, 1923.

Zachary Thomas Millsap, Sr., has been Superintendent of the Municipal Water and Light Plant in Doerun, Ga., continuously during the past 18 years. In politics, he is a Democrat.
Source: Covington, W. A.. History of Colquitt County. Atlanta, Ga.: Foote and Davies Co., 1937.

George William Newton

This citizen of Colquitt County was born in 1867, and was the oldest child of G. F. Newton and his wife, Julia Norman Newton. He was educated in the early public schools of Colquitt County. He is a Democrat and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, as are all the members of his family. The history of the ancestry of G. W. Newton is fully set forth elsewhere in this chapter in the sketches of George F. Newton and his wife, Julia Norman Newton. By reference to these it will be seen that on his mother's side Mr. G. W. Newton is descended from the Tillmans and the Normans, the earliest pioneers of Colquitt County. His father, Mr. George F. Newton, was born in Brooks County, being the son of G. W. Newton, Sr., for whom the subject of this sketch was named. The Newtons were originally a numerous pioneer family of North Carolina. George F. Newton was a Confederate soldier and a veteran of Gettysburg Battle, where he left an arm. He also served Colquitt as her representative in the House of Representatives of Georgia. For several terms he was Tax Collector and Tax Receiver of Colquitt County.

G. W. Newton, the subject of this sketch, has also served Colquitt as representative in the Georgia Legislature; and for many years has held the position of County Administrator of Colquitt County. He also served one term as Sheriff of the county.

He married in 1889, Miss Elizabeth A. Barber, daughter of Rev. John D. Barber, natives of Colquitt County. The children of this union who are now in life are as follows:

Elvana Newton (Mrs. J. E. Gordon).

John Thomas Newton, Colquitt farmer.

Willie Newton, Colquitt farmer.

Esther Newton (Mrs. P. H. Croy).

Ethel Newton (Mrs. J. B. Pope).

Alice Newton (Mrs. Foster).

Dora Newton (Mrs. Bordon Mauley).

David Lanier Newton, Colquitt farmer.

All of these children are sterling citizens of Colquitt County. Mr. Newton and his wife have for fifty years enjoyed the cordial respect of the whole population of the county, as do their children.
Source: Covington, W. A.. History of Colquitt County. Atlanta, Ga.: Foote and Davies Co., 1937.

Lammie Lamar Moore

This resident of Colquitt County was born in Elbert County, Ga., on November 22, 1880; and was educated in the common schools of that county, and studied law at Mercer University, Macon, Ga., receiving its degree of LL.B. By profession, he is a practicing attorney-at-law, having begun the practice at Moultrie, Ga., in September, 1904. Baptist. Democrat. W. 0. W. Kiwanian. Knight of Pythias. He was Sargent Moultrie Rifles, 1904, 1905 and 1906.

He was City Attorney of Moultrie, Ga., 1913-1918. Member House of Representatives of Georgia, 1927-1928, 1929-1930. Member Georgia State Senate, 1931-1932. At present is Judge City Court of Colquitt County.

The father of L. L. Moore was John Henry Moore, born August 5, 1852, in Elbert County, Ga.; married on December 3, 1879, in Elbert County, Ga., and died August 20, 1930, in Elbert County, Ga. He was a farmer, and for many years was a Justice of the Peace in and for the 202 District, G. M., Elbert County, Ga. (Webbsboro District). Maiden name of the mother of L. L. Moore was Mary Campbell, born March 24, 1862, in Elbert County, Ga., and is still living, having reared ten children, of whom L. L. Moore is the oldest.

Name of paternal grandfather of L. L. Moore was Joel W. Moore, born October 13, 1821, in Elbert County; married about 1848, in Elbert County, Ga., and died in 1913, in Elbert County, Ga. He was a farmer, and reared five sons and a daughter. Maiden name of paternal grandmother was Sarah Hewell, born about 1825, in Wilkes County, Ga., and died about 1890 in Elbert County, Ga.

Name of maternal grandfather of L. L. Moore was James C. Campbell; born about 1820, in Elbert County Ga.; married about 1845; and died about 1907, in Madison County, Ga. He was a farmer, and reared ten children. Maiden name of maternal grandmother was Jerusha Higgenbotham, who was born about 1825, in Elbert County, Ga., and died about 1917, in Madison County, Ga.

L. L. Moore married on April 29, 1914, in Moultrie, Ga., Miss Pearl Scarboro, who was born June 13, 1889, in Bulloch County, Ga. She was educated in the public schools and at Brenau College, at Gainesville, Ga.

Name of father-in-law of L. L. Moore was Jas. H. Scarboro, who was born February 14, 1860, in Bulloch County, Ga.; married in Bulloch County, Ga., and died in Colquitt County, Ga. He lived in Bulloch County, Ga., until about 1900, when he moved to Colquitt County, where he operated a farm for a while, and finally moved to Moultrie, where he held the office of City Clerk for more than 20 years. Name of the mother-in-law of L. L. Moore was Sallie Daughtry, who was born on August 9, 1865, in Bulloch County. She is still living.

As issue of the marriage of L. L. Moore and Pearl Scarboro Moore, there are in life children, as follows:

Russell Lamar Moore, born March 18, 1918.

Barbara Moore, born February 16, 1924.

James Henry Moore, born February 9, 1926.

"Double L," as he is affectionately called, grew up on a farm before the days of good roads and adequate schools. While still in his teens he wrote articles to the Elberton Star, in such topics, especially schools. Being without money or property, in the beginnings of his life, he early in life developed a sympathy for all working people, which he has never lost, and hopes never to lose. He wants to see an economical structure that will bring about absolute equality of opportunity to all the children of Georgia, and is willing to work at bringing it to pass.
Source: Covington, W. A.. History of Colquitt County. Atlanta, Ga.: Foote and Davies Co., 1937.