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Twiggs
County, Georgia
Biographies Jones, Lodrick
Mathews, M. D., is an able member of the medical staff of the
Georgia
state sanitarium, at Milledgeville, in which he is assistant physician.
He was
born on a farm in Twiggs county, this state, April 28, 1850. In the
same county
were also born his parents, Thomas H. and Martha A. (Tharp) Jones, who
there
passed their entire lives, the father having been a planter by vocation
and for
many years tax collector of his native county. He was a son of Thomas
and Mary
(Mathews) Jones, and his wife was a daughter of Charnac A. Tharp, the
maiden
name of whose wife was Jefferson. Doctor Jones
secured his early educational discipline in the common schools of his
native
county, after which he continued his studies in Mercer university. In
preparing
himself for his chosen profession he entered the Atlanta medical
college, in which he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1878, duly receiving his well
earned
degree of Doctor of Medicine. From 1879 until 1883 he was engaged in
the
general practice of his profession in Wilkinson county, and since that
time he
has been incumbent of his present office, that of assistant physician
at the
state sanitarium, or hospital for the insane. He is vice-president of
the
Sanitarium medical society and a member of the Medical Association of
Georgia.
He is vicepresident of the Exchange bank of Milledgeville and has other
capitalistic interests. He is aligned as an uncompromising advocate of
the
principles of the Democratic party, and both he and his wife are
members of the
Baptist church, in which he is a deacon. On Dec. 19, 187 9, he was
united in
marriage to Miss Lila P. Daniel, of Midway, Baldwin
county. She died March 15, 1891, being survived by three
children—Lodrick
Malone, Elizabeth and William O. Daniel. The elder son is now a student
in the Atlanta college of
pharmacy. The younger son is a member of the class of 1906 in the
Georgia
military college at Milledgeville, and is captain of his company of
college
cadets. On Oct. 18, 1893, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Jones
to Miss
Isabelle Alling, of Milledgeville, and they have two children, Aubrey
and
Isabelle. McIntyre,
Archibald Thompson, was born in Twiggs county in 1822. He
attended the Thomasville academy, studied law at Monticello, Fla., and
Macon; was elected member of the legislature in 1849; delegate to the
state constitutional convention in 1865, and representative in Congress
on the Democratic ticket in 1870. He served but one term.
At the time of his death he was one of the trustees of the University
of Georgia.
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