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Lowndes County, Georgia
Biographies
Ousley,
Robert F.,
a leading member of the bar of Lowndes county, being engaged in the
practice of his profession in Valdosta, has represented his county in
the state legislature and is a member of one of the old and prominent
families of Georgia. He was born at Ousley, Lowndes county, Oct. 18,
1860, a son of Joseph A. and Angie R. (Rushin) Ousley, both natives of
Georgia, the former born in Monroe county, Feb. 24, 1832, and the
latter in Marion county, Aug. 22, 1832. The paternal great-grandfather
of the subject of this review, was a soldier of the Continental line
during the war of the Revolution, having enlisted from Virginia. After
the war he settled in Greene county, Ga., and passed the remainder of
his life in this state. Col. Joseph A. Ousley was a gallant and
distinguished officer in the Confederate service during the Civil war,
entering the army as second lieutenant in the Twelfth Georgia volunteer
infantry, and having been promoted to captain and later to
quartermaster, with the rank of colonel. He was a stanch Democrat and
in the early '70s served as a representative of Lowndes county in the
lower house of the state legislature. Several years later his party
again nominated him for the same office, but he declined the honor. He
and his wife both died at Valdosta, the latter in 1884. Robert F.
Ousley secured his earlier educational training in the schools of
Valdosta, later attended Emory college at Oxford, and Auburn college in
Alabama; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1887. He has been
identified with agricultural and mercantile pursuits but now gives his
time almost entirely to the work of his profession, in which he has
been very successful. He has never faltered in his allegiance to the
Democratic party and has been prominent in its councils in his county
and state. He was chairman of the county committee several years, is a
member of the state executive committee from the Eleventh Congressional
district, and he served two terms as a member of the state
legislature,1898-9 and 1900-01 He and his wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church South. On July 18, 1885, Mr. Ousley was
united in marriage to Miss Sue L. Beaman, daughter of George G. and
Jennie S. (McCoy) Beaman, of Harperville, Miss., and they have two
daughters,Mary Louise, and Gladys.
Allen, Benjamin Thomas, lawyer,
public official, was born Feb. 23, 1852, near Thomasville, Ga., where
the thriving village of Metcalf is located. He was educated at the
Fletcher institute of Thomasville, Ga.; and at the Valdosta institute
of Georgia. Since 1877 he has been engaged in the practice of law, and
for one session was reading clerk in the Florida state legislature. He
now practices his profession in Pearson, Coffee County, Ga.; and is
prominently identified with the business and public affairs of his
community. His paternal ancestors came to Georgia from North Carolina
in the early nineteenth century, and were of Irish extraction.
[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]
