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Obtaining his elementary knowledge in the common schools of Wood- ville, John Madison Cox completed his early studies at the Penfield high school, in Greene county. Industrious and self-reliant, he deter- mined to become self-supporting, and with that objeet in view went to Brunswick, Glynn county, where he secured a position as traveling salesman for a wholesale house with which he was subsequently con- nected for eight years. Coming from there to Wayeross. Mr. Cox was engaged in the brokerage business until 1901, when, realizing that this city was fast becoming a distribution point for a very large section of both Georgia and Florida, he established himself in business as a whole- sale grocer, and the large trade which he now commands in that line shows conclusively that he made no mistake in the enterprise.
As a man and a citizen Mr. Cox possesses the highest regard of all
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who know him. An active worker in the Democratic ranks, he exerts mueli influenee in local affairs, and for two years served ably and ac- eeptably as mayor of Waycross. Fraternally he is a member of Way- cross Lodge, No. 369, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and of the Knights of Pythias. He was for two years president of the Waycross board of trade.
Mr. Cox married on December 29, 1897, Miss Willella Lockhart, who was born in Opelika, Alabama. a daughter of Jesse Hamilton Loek- hart. Her paternal grandfather, Richard Puryear Lockhart, was born in Virginia of colonial and revolutionary stock. Migrating to Ala- bama while a young man, he settled in Chambers county, becoming owner of a large plantation, which he managed successfully until his death. He married Saralı Hamilton Harris. a daughter of Judge Ed- mund Harris, a prominent lawyer of Lagrange, Georgia. and a grand- daughter of Absolom Harris, whose father, Lieut. Benjamin Harris, was an offieer in the Revolutionary war. The Harris family came from Greensville county, Virginia, to Georgia, settling in Hancock county, seven miles from Sparta. Judge Harris married Mary Rollins, who was a graduate of a Baptist college in Lagrange, and a woman of much culture and refinement.
The only ehild of his parents. Jesse Hamilton Lockhart, the father of Mrs. Cox, was educated in Lagrange, Georgia, and during his active career was identified with the railway serviee of the state, for a num- ber of years serving as superintendent of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. He is now living retired from active business. He married Ella Hurt, who was born in Hurtsboro, Alabama, and was educated in Georgia, having been graduated from the Wesleyan University, at Ma- con. She died at the early age of thirty-two years, her death occurring in Birmingham, Alabama, and her body being laid to rest in the eeme- tery at Auburn, Alabama. Her father, William Chappel Hurt, was born in Alabama, a son of Henry Hurt, who spent his entire life in Hurtsboro, where his aneestors settled on coming from Virginia to the South. William Chappel Hurt was a prominent and wealthy planter of Auburn, Alabama, and an active worker in the Methodist church, being especially interested in Sunday school work. He married Jane McTyeire, a sister of Holland Nimmons MeTveire, who was for many years the senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. and from the time of the establishment of Vanderbilt University at Nashi- ville, Tennessee, was one of its board of trustees, and lived on the university eampus. Three children were born of the union of Jesse Hamilton and Ella ( Hurt ) Lockhart, namely : Willella. now Mrs. Cox ; Jessie, the wife of G. W. Smith, of Brewton, Alabama ; and Edith. the wife of Cecil Valentine Staton, of Waveross, Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Cox are the parents of five children. as follows: Jolm M., Jr. : Virginia Hurt, who died at the age of two years; Sarah MeTyeire; William, and Elizabeth.
The wife and mother, who is one of the refined and cultured women of Waveross, received her education in the sehools of Birmingham, and finished at Dr. Price's Female College at Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Cox maintain a very pleasant home in which they enter- tain their friends with true southern hospitality, extending to them a most gracious and cordial weleome.
SIMON WOOD HITCH. An active and well-known member of the legal profession, Simon Wood Hiteh has for many years been success- fully engaged in the practice of law in Waycross, Ware county, where lie has gained a large patronage. A son of the late Sylvanus Hiteh, he
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was born in Clinton, Jones county, Georgia, coming on the paternal side of New England ancestry.
Born in New Bedford. Massachusetts. Sylvanus Hitch was left an orphan in childhood and was brought up in the home of his grandpar- ents. Learning the tailor's trade in the old Bay state, he subsequently worked as a journeyman, and while yet a young man came south in search of a favorable opening. He located in JJones county, Georgia. at Clinton, which was then. although without railroad facilities of any kind, a place of considerable commercial importance, being a large cotton market. Opening a merchant tailor's establishment, he carried on business there until 1855, when he migrated to South Georgia, and purchasing a traet of land bordering on the Saint Mary's river. in Charlton county, he was employed in tilling the soil in that vicinity for ten years. Moving then to Clinch county, Georgia, he there lived retired from active business until his death, which occurred in 1880, he being seventy-two years of age at that time.
Sylvanus Hitch married Ann A. Nichols, who died in 1898, in Loudon county, Georgia, leaving seven children. as follows: Sylvanus; Simon Wood: Margaret Am: Charles; Radford and Nannie. Her father, Simon Wood Nichols. was born in South Carolina. Coming from there to Georgia in early manhood. he was for several years a general merehant in Savannah, from there moving to Clinton, Jones county, Georgia. Instead of continuing in mercantile pursuits, he invested largely in real estate, buying extensive tracts of land in Appling, Ware and Clineh counties. Subsequently settling in Dupont, Clinch county, Mr. Nichols carried on farming for a while, but afterwards resumed mercantile business. in which he continued until his death, which came when he had attained a good old age. Mr. Nichols married Margaret Waver, who was born on one of the West India islands. of French parents. and she was a sister of John J. Waver. During one of the insurrections in the West Indies, she was carried by her parents to Savannah, Georgia, where she was brought up and educated. She sur- vived her husband a few years.
Making good use of his time and advantages. Simon Wood Hitch attended Professor Landrum's school in Oglethorpe county, and after- ward taught school in Clinch county for a few months. Desirous of entering upon a professional career, he subsequently studied law with his uncle. Congressman JJ. C. Nichols, and after his admission to the bar at the age of eighteen. located first in Clinch county. He later opened an office in Blackshear. Pierce county. where he practiced law for ten years. In 1887 he settled in Wayeross, and in the praetiee of his chosen profession has here achieved well-merited success, his legal patronage being an extensive and remunerative one.
Mr. Hitch married. in Macon, Georgia, at the Wesleyan Female College. Miss Fannie Alice Myers, who was born in Augusta. Georgia. Her father, Dr. Edward Myers, was born in Orange county. New York, and was a son of Selim and Mary ( Howell) Myers. Becoming a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church. he was for a while a member of the Florida conference, later being associated with the Georgia and South Carolina conferences, and preaching in different parts of those states. For a time he was one of the professors of the Wesleyan Fo- male Seminary. in Macon, later serving as president of that institution. an office of which he was the inenmbent at the time of his danghter's marriage to the subject. Giving up that position. Doctor Myers he- came pastor of the Trinity Episcopal church in Savannah. Georgia .. When. in 1876, yellow fever became epidemie in Savannah. he was at Cape May, attending a joint meeting of the Methodist Episcopal and
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the Methodist Episcopal church. South, looking to a national union. Returning to the stricken city to eare for his flock. he was himself taken ill with the disease, and lived but a short time, having given up his own life in an attempt to save others. He married Mary Mackie, who was born of Scotch ancestry, in Augusta, Georgia, where her father was for many years a banker. Mr. and Mrs. Hitch have four ehil- dren, namely : Mary, the widow of Elbert P. Peabody, who has four children. Elbert P., Francis. Walton and Mary E .; Frank, who lived but twenty-one years; James, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, to Korca; he married Renbee Lillie and has two chil- dren, Simon Herbert and Frances Elizabeth; Edward Sylvanus is the fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. Hitch. The wife and mother departed this life on November 6, 1912, after having reared to honorable man- hood and womanhood her four children. In the foreign missionary work of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, she was- most active. holding at the time of her death the position of conference secretary of the foreign department of the South Georgia Conference Missionary Society. She inherited her father's fine business ability and a deep re- ligious experience made her a notable character as a wife. a mother and as a leader in all church work.
An active and influential member of the Democratic party, Mr. Hitch has served in various official positions. He was appointed by Governor Bulloch a member of the election board at the time of the three-days' eleetion. Just following his admission to the bar he was appointed as solicitor general of the Brunswick judicial district, and served in that capacity for ten consecutive years. He has rendered appreciated service as a member of the Waveross board of education, having been a member when the present system of graded schools was adopted, and when the present fine school building was erected.
HON. JOHN MAY HOPKINS. Elected a member of the Georgia state legislature, in his twenty-second year, and thoroughly equipped for the profession of law, a business life, with its healthy problems and perplexities, has seemed to more closely appeal to him and in this field he has met with what must be gratifying success. He was born in Thomasville, Georgia. April 20. 1875, and is a son of Octavius and May Kell (Holmes) Hopkins.
The history of the Hopkins family is interesting and its carlier rep- resentatives were men of military prowess. Gen. Franeis Hopkins, the great-grandfather of John May Hopkins, was a son of Rear Admiral Hopkins, of the British navy. General Hopkins commanded a regiment in the War of 1812, and to his marriage with a Miss Sears a family was born, one being named Thomas Spaulding.
Thomas Spaulding Hopkins was educated as a physician at the Charleston Medical College and during the Mexican war he served as assistant surgeon of a Georgia regiment of infantry. which was sta- tioned at Fort Broek. After the close of the war he practiced medicine in Glynn and Wayne counties, Georgia, but when the war between the states became a fact he put aside his professional ambitions and raised a company which was known as the Wayne Rangers, of which he was commissioned captain and served as such until 1864. when he was appointed to the position of surgeon at Andersonville. Georgia. There he continued until the close of the war, when he removed to Thomasville, Georgia, where he continued the active practice of medi- cine and surgery for many years. his death occurring in his cightv. sixtli year. He was twice married. first to Juliet Defoe, who, at death. left three children : Louise, Francis W. and Cecelia B. The second Vol. II-25
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marriage of Doctor Hopkins was to Elizabeth Giguilliat, who was born at Oak Grove, near Brunswiek, Georgia, and was a daughter of John May Gignilliat (who belonged to one of the old settled families of the state, and whose great-great-grandfather, Jean Francois de Gignilliat, and great-great-grandmother, Suzanne Le Sururier ( Huguenot), were married in Charleston, South Carolina. in 1696). She died at the age of sixty-five years, and was the mother of the following children : Thomas W .; Oetavius; James G .; Mary E .; John M., and Juliet.
Octavius Hopkins, seeond son of Doctor Hopkins and father of Jolin May Hopkins, was reared and educated in Thomasville and at the age of twenty-one years embarked in the lumber business in which he continued his active interest at Darien, Georgia, until 1911, when he removed his field of operations to Wilmington. North Carolina, where he now operates a handle factory on an extensive seale. He married May Kell Holmes, who is a daughter of James and Susan (Clapp) Holmes. The father of Mrs. Hopkins, Dr. James Holmes. was a physi- cian of MeIntosh eounty, Georgia, born in Liberty county, Georgia, and of the Holmes family of Massachusetts. Her mother. who was born at Boston, Massachusetts, was a daughter of Derastus Clapp, and his wife Susannah (Bowditch) Clapp. Susannah Bowditeh was descend- ant in the sixth generation of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. De- rastus Clapp was a lineal deseendant in the seventh generation, from Roger Clapp, who came to America in 1630. He was born in New Hampshire and in early manhood went to Boston, Massachusetts. He was captain of a militia company and a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery. Thomas Clapp, who was president of Yale College for twenty-seven years. beginning 1739, was deseendant of Roger Clapp's brother, Thomas. Five children were born to Octavius Hopkins and wife: John May: James Holmes; Thomas Spaulding; Lucile Clark, and Octavius, Jr.
John May Hopkins was educated at Thomasville in a braneh sehool affiliated with the Georgia State University, and after completing his eourse in that institution, engaged in the study of law and subsequently was admitted to the bar. Although thus qualified, Mr. Hopkins prae- tieed but a short time, having beeome interested in another direetion. He was in charge of a survey party that explored the Okefenokee swamp and made surveys and estimated the amount, condition and quality of tiniber. After completing this survey he went to northern Michigan to gain a practical knowledge of the lumber business, entering the em- ploy of Charles Hebard & Sons, lumber company, at their plant in Ba- raga county, Michigan, and remained there until 1908, when he returned to Georgia to establish the plant of The Hebard Cypress Company, at Hebardville, two miles from Waycross, in Ware county, and here in- stalled one of the most complete plants of the kind in the whole country. This is a stupendous enterprise, 750 men being constantly employed, and the mills having a capacity of 125.000 feet of lumber per day of ten hours. Of this plant Mr. Hopkins is the general superintendent, and additionally he is general superintendent of the Waycross & South- ern Railroad.
Mr. Hopkins was married first in February. 1913. to Miss Lily Schmidt Payne, who was born at Darien, Georgia. a daughter of W. H. Payne. and died in November. 1909. In June, 1911, Mr. Hopkins was married second to Miss Emily Walker, who was born at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and is a daughter of Alexander Walker, who was a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Hopkins had two children born to his first mar- riage: John May, Jr., and Lily Payne. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins are members of Grace Episcopal church at Wayeross. Through birth, rear-
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ing, education and association, Mr. Hopkins is a Democrat in his polit- ical attitude and that he should have been chosen as a state representa- tive so early in his political career indicates a large measure of publie confidence. He is identified fraternally with Damascus Commandery, No. 18, Wayeross, Georgia.
HON. JAMES J. SLADE. Prominent and noteworthy among the tal- ented, cultured and enterprising men who are, or have been in times past, identified with the educational, agricultural and business advance- ment of western Georgia, is Hon. James J. Slade, of Columbus, Musco- gee county, who for many years was widely known as a popular and sue- cessful teacher. A son of Thomas B. Slade, a noted educator, he was born April 28, 1831, in Jones eounty, Georgia, coming from patriotie stoek, his paternal great-grandfather, who was a life-long resident of North Carolina, having served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
Jeremiah Slade, his grandfather, was born on a farm in Martin county, North Carolina, and was there brought up and edueated. Be- eoming a tiller of the soil from choice, though an attorney by profession, he sueceeded to the ownership of the old home plantation, which was lo- eated six miles north of Williamston, and bordered on the Roanoke river, the locality being known as Marshpoint. There he spent his entire life, earrying on farming with slave help. His wife, whose maiden name was Janet Bog, was likewise a life-long resident of North Carolina. Of their union seven children were born and reared, as follows: Alfred, who be- came prominent in public affairs. was appointed United States consul to Buenos Ayres, and there died while in office; Jeremiah, although an expert swimmer, was drowned in the Roanoke river in early manhood; William sueceeded to the ownership of the home plantation, and there spent his entire life; Thomas . B., Mr. Slade's father; James, the young- est son, a physician, was appointed a surgeon in the United States army during the Mexican war, and died in Mexico during the war; Mary, the oldest daughter, married Dr. Pleasant Henderson; and Elizabeth, who beeame the wife of Mason L. Wiggins, of Halifax, North Carolina.
The birth of Thomas B. Slade occurred in Martin county, North Carolina, on the same plantation as did that of his father. Fitted for eollege at a preparatory school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he was subsequently graduated from the University of North Carolina, and was admitted to the bar. Loeating soon after in Clinton, Jones county, Georgia, he began the practice of his profession. At the earnest solici- tation of friends, however, he retired from the law and opened a school for girls in Clinton, where he met with great success as a teacher. He afterwards aeeepted the chair of philosophy in the Macon Female Col- lege, now the Wesleyan Female College, at Maeon, and held the position until Bishop Pieree severed his connection with that institution. He then resigned his position, and for two years taught in a female col- lege in Penfield, Georgia. Coming then to Columbus, Museogee county, he established a female school, which he eondneted successfully until the outbreak of the war between the states. Locating on his farm in Alabama after the close of the conflict, he remained there a few years and then returned to Columbus, and here continued his residence until his death, at the venerable age of eighty-two years.
The maiden name of the wife of Thomas B. Slade was Ann Jacqueline Blount. She was born in Washington. North Carolina, a daughter of James Blount, who migrated from his native state to Georgia and settled permanently in Blountville, Clinton county. She survived her hus- band, attaining the advanced age of eighty-six years. She reared a fam-
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ily of eleven children, as follows: Janet E .; Mary; Anna; James J .; Emma; Thomas; Martha ; Stella; Helen; John, and Fanny.
An ambitious student when young, James J. Slade prepared for college under his father's tuition, and in 1848 entered the University of North Carolina, from which he was graduated in 1852, with an excel- lent record not only for scholarship. but for promptness, having, like his father, never missed a roll eall while there. Fitted for a profes- sional career, Mr. Slade then taught school in Columbus for four years, and having in the meantime been admitted to the bar subsequently .there practiced law for three years. Going then to Louisiana, he bought a plantation near Delhi, and managed it for a time with the assistance of slaves. At the breaking out of the Civil war he raised a company, of which he was elected captain, and took the entire company to camp and offered it to Governor Moore, who said that he could not accept the com- pany, as already there were more men enlisted than were needed, and added that the war would soon be over. The company therefore re- turned to Delhi and disbanded. Soon after, Mr. Slade went baek to his old home in Columbus, Georgia, and enlisted in Company A, Tenth Geor- gia Volunteer Infantry, and went with his command to Virginia. With the army of North Virginia he took part in the invasion of Maryland and in the battle of Antietam. Being taken ill after the last engage- ment, he was granted a furlough. On recovering his strength he was plaeed on detached duty, working between the western and eastern armies. Wool was then very much needed to make elothes for the sol- diers and there was an ample supply in Texas. Quantities of it were started north in wagons, which were invariably captured by the Federals before it was taken aeross the Mississippi. Mr. Slade devised a means by which it might have been safely and surely transported to its point of destination, but the war terminated before his plan was put into execu- tion. He was in Shreveport, Louisiana, when the war closed, and went immediately with his negroes to his plantation.
Deciding a short time later to return to Georgia, this being in 1866. he resumed his first occupation, that of a teacher, opening an inde- pendent sehool, which became an immediate success, and which he eon- ducted until 1888, it being one of the leading institutions of the kind in this seetion of the state. He then embarked in the insuranee busi- ness, in which he was also quite successful.
In 1878 Mr. Slade purchased from the General Benning's estate the Seaborn Jones homestead, which he has since owned and occupied. Lo- cated at Saint Elmo, two and one-half miles from the court house, it is a typical sonthern plantation home. The house, a commodious frame structure, sits well baek from the street, and is surrounded by large shade trees.
Mr. Slade has been twice married. He married first Annie Graham, who was born in northern Georgia, a daughter of John Graham. She passed to the life beyond and her only child died in infaney. Mr. Slade married second Miss Leila B. Bonner, who was born in Columbus, Georgia. a daughter of Seymour K. and Marion ( Inguenin) Bonner. Ten chil- dren have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Slade, namely: William B. : Mary JJanet: Thomas B. : Nora TI. : Louisa : Marion : Charles; Effe May ; Florence, and Seymour. William B. married Mary Brown, and they have four children, Roberta, Rhodes. Mary and Leila. Thomas, who married Miss Thirza Kirven, has two sons, Kirven and Thomas. Nora, wife of R. H. Seriven, six children. Leila. James, Nora, Maude, Thomas, and Marion. Louisa, wife of Dr. Theophilus West, has two sons, Slade and Marion. Charles married Miss Coustance Thill and they have three children, Blount, Suzanne and William. Effie May, wife of
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J. Lawrenee Dozier, has four children, Anna, Lawrence, Florence and Seymour. Seymour Slade, the youngest son of the family, died in early manhood.
Always taking a keen interest in anything pertaining to the public welfare, Mr. Slade has served as a member of the city council, and has twice had the distinction of being elected to the mayor's chair. He is a member of the Order of Cincinnati. Both Mr. and Mrs. Slade are members of the Missionary Baptist church, to which his parents also belonged, and in which his father was a licensed preacher.
ALEXANDER SHAW PENDLETON. One of the prominent commereial men of southern Georgia is Alexander Shaw Pendleton. a wholesale grocer at Valdosta, in whose veins is mingled the blood of several of of the South's leading families and whose lineal connections reveal the names of many able men, some of high position in government. others leaders in military affairs, and a number who have become eminent in professional life, especially in the field of literature. The Pendletons were originally an old and honored family of Norwich, Lancashire, Eng- land. The American branch originated with Philip Pendleton, who was born in England in 1650 and came to America in 1674. After six years here, or in 1682, he returned to England but later turned once more toward the New World and took up his residenee in King and Queen county, Virginia. He married a Miss Isabella Hart, or Hurt, and died in 1721. Henry 2 Pendleton was a son of Philip 1 Pendleton, the emi- grant, and the father of James 3 Pendleton. Henry 2 Pendleton was born in 1683 in Caroline county, Virginia, and died there in 1721. the same year his father died. Henry 2 Pendleton married. 1701. Mary Tay- lor, daughter of James 1 Taylor and Mary Gregory, his wife, aneestors of President Zachary Taylor. Their son, James Pendleton, was the great- great-grandfather of Alexander Shaw Pendleton, whose name intro- duces this review. James Pendleton. born in Virginia and a life-long resident of that commonwealth, served as high sheriff of Culpeper county in 1738. He married Elizabeth Clayton and their son. Capt. Philip Pendleton, born in Caroline county, Virginia, in 1732, was the next lineal aneestor of our subject. He commanded a company in the Revolutionary war and a valued heirloom in this family is the old Bible in which is preserved a record of his services as a patriot. He and his wife. Martha Aubrey, both life-long residents of Virginia. were the parents of Cole- man Pendleton. the grandfather of our subject. Coleman Pendleton, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, August 4, 1780. migrated to Georgia and became an early settler in Putnam county, where he resided many years. Late in life he removed to Alabama and spent his last years in Tallapoosa connty of that state, passing away there on May 31. 1862. He was married June 6, 1808, to Martha Gilbert, a danghter of Captain Benjamin and Hannah ( Butler) Gilbert. They were married in 1779 in Bedford county. Virginia. Captain Gilbert entered the Revolution as a private in the command of Col. Charles Harrison, who served under General Washington, and in 1778 he was promoted to a captaincy. He was severely wounded at the battle of Mommonth. New Jersey, where his ankle was shattered by a misket ball, and as evidence of his valorons services during that great struggle for liberty he bore to his grave sears of wounds inflicted by British sabres. Coleman and Martha ( Gilbert) Pendleton reared three sons and two daughters. The sons were Will- iam, who died in young manhood; Edmund, a well-known writer in his younger days, who successively became a successful physician, a profes- sor of agriculture in the State University of Georgia, and finally late in
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