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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 Cour- sey. The Rhodes family was one of the first settlers of
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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 com- menced 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.
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Matthew Lawrence Lee
M. L. LEE was born August 31, 1885, in Crawford County, Georgia. He was graduated from R. 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 Com- pany, 1905-6. Assistant Cashier Moultrie Banking Company, 1906-16. Cashier Moultrie Banking Company, 1916-36.
Methodist, Democrat, W. O. W. He was the son of Ben- jamin Franklin Lee and Mary Cassandra Sandwich Lee. B. F. Lee was born 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 John- son 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 Methodist Sunday School, Thomaston, 1902-5. Superintendent Methodist Sunday School, Moultrie, 1906-26. Steward Moultrie Methodist Church, 1906-1936.
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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 Uni- versity Law School and graduated in 1916. Since that date he has been continuously in the practice of law, first at Al- bany and for several years past at Moultrie, Ga.
He is a Presbyterian, a Democrat, a Mason, a W. O. 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.
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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 daugh- ter 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.
Richard Jonathan Lewis
THE SUBJECT OF THIS SKETCH was born on October 17, 1887, at McIntyre, 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 prac- ticed 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
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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 Au- gust 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
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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 Wilburn Lewis, born October 21st, 1911.
Gordon Felton Lewis, born September 3rd, 1914.
Julia Inez Lewis.
Mable Claire Lewis.
James Richard Lewis.
As will be seen from other pages of this history, the chil- dren 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.
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 Jackson- ville, 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. His father, Wm. S. McCall, was born 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 county, on December 11, 1911.
W. F. McCall married Miss Susie Clark on January 6, 1915, in Albany, Ca. She was born May 12, 1896, in
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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 be- fore 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 Susic Clark, his wife, children as follows:
William F. McCall, Jr., born April 14, 1916. John Clark McCall, born October 31, 1919. William Sherrod McCall, born December 28, 1922. Sarah Clark McCall, born August 11, 1925.
Susan Clark 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; mem- ber 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
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Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Colquitt County, and is also Chairman of the Board of County Regis- trars.
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 Zubie 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 Mil- ton 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 Bettie, 17 months old.
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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 Insti- tute, at Talbotton, Georgia.
He worked on a farm during a part of 1874. Left the farm and clerked for Harrell Johnson and Company, Mer- chants and Warehousemen, at Americus, Georgia.
W. J. and ELLA SHAW MATTHEWS
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 Oc- tober 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.
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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, Geor- gia, and married in Wilkerson County, Georgia.
The mother of Mary Elizabeth Wright Matthews was Eliza- beth Wilmot, who was born March 12, 1797, in Columbia County, Georgia, and died in 1867 in Macon County, Ala- bama.
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 con- nected with the railroad development of South Georgia. Commencing in 1882, in connection with Major Hawkins,
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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 Sea- board System. Mr. Matthews was at one time General Su- perintendent 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 Mc- Hargue, 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
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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., con- tinuously during the past 18 years. In politics, he is a Democrat.
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. O. W. Kiwanian. Knight of Pythias. He was Sargent Moultrie Rifles, 1904, 1905 and 1906.
He was City Attorney of Moultrie, Ga., 1913-1918. Mem- ber House of Representatives of Georgia, 1927-1928, 1929- 1930. Member Georgia State Senate, 1931-1932. At pres- ent 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 Decem- ber 3, 1879, in Elbert County, Ga., and died August 20, 1930, in Elbert County, Ga. He was a farmer, and for
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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 Camp- bell, 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; mar- ried 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 .; mar- ried 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 Bul- loch 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. Scar- boro, 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.
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As issue of the marriage of L. L. Moore and Pearl Scar- boro 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 de- veloped 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.
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 mem- ber 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.
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Newton was a Confederate soldier and a veteran of Gettys- burg 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 Administra- tor 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 Manley) .
David Lanier Newton, Colquitt farmer.
All of these children are sterling citizens of Colquitt County. Mr. Newton and his wife have for fifty years en- joyed the cordial respect of the whole population of the county, as do their children.
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Jeremiah Bryant Norman, Sr.
J. B. NORMAN, SR., was the oldest child of James Mitchell Norman and Ruth Tillman Norman, a pioneer couple. He was born in Liberty County, Georgia, in 1821, came to Irwin County, Ga., with his parents, when he was an infant in arms. He spent the first few years of his life with his parents, near Nashville, Georgia; and later removed with them to the territory that was later incorporated with Col- quitt County. He was looked upon as a leader of the pioneers of the section that is now Colquitt, during the most of his life; and he lost that leadership only when the torch dropped from his aging hands, to be lifted and borne along by his son, Jeremiah Bryant Norman, Jr.
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