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Then at the meeting the leading man of Ethiopia introduced the Queen to the leading lady of Solomon's wives; she in turn introduced the other ninety-nine wives collectively to the Queen. Next the leading lady of Solomon's wives introduced the Queen's leading man of Ethiopia to King Solomon, he in turn introduced the Queen of Ethiopia to the King. Then there was a great march around the four show rings, which carried the great parade around in front of every seat in the tent. The King and the visiting Queen together wearing their crowns with all gold and silver braid and other decorations that could be had in the time of 700 years B.C. The hundred of Solomon's wives marched about six abreast following the chariot of the King and Queen drawn by the four snow white horses.
Altogether it was the greatest of all the shows visiting Tifton from its founding through 1947.
JOHN H. SPARKS, OLD VIRGINIA
Railroad shows came about 1902; it was before the days of electric lights in Tifton. The tent was pitched on the first block east of Fifth Street and South of Main.
There was nothing so unusual about the circus except a baby elephant born two weeks before at Quitman, Georgia. The baby's skin looked as tough as its thirty-year-old mother. The weight of the little one was 200 pounds. It was just small enough to walk under the mother.
The Tifton people leaving the show was the unusual part of it. The show had some sort of lighting system of its own. Just as the show was over and a few of the people had gotten outside the tent in the dark, the lights from some poor connection went out. Someone asked "What's the matter ?" The answer was "The lights are out." That was misunderstood to be "The lions are out." Everyone made a wild scramble to get away and towards their homes as fast as possible. Those that did not hear the first report asked what the wild scramble was about. The answer was, "The lions are out." They joined in the race. Down on the next block where Tift Avenue crosses Fifth Street was a swampy branch. There were lots of people at the circus that lived over past the big Tift sawmills. The location now is the Tifton Laundry. The nearest way home for those people was across that swampy branch. When the crowd of runners got in that branch the thought came to their minds that a swamp was where the
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lions would go when they were out. Everything went into a higher gear which soon put them north of Second Street in what they thought was the safety zone.
THE VANAMBERG SHOWS
The Vanamberg shows came to Tifton only one time. It was about the year 1905. On the lot now stands the grammar school building and grounds. It was at that time the athletic field and show grounds. Rain fell all day long, so much there was no show. The show people succeeded in get- ting up the main tent and in it they spent the day. The horses were of the very finest. All animals and equipment were in excellent condition.
The only unusual thing with the circus was the lamb and the lion in the same cage. It was an ordinary yew sheep and a female lion. Both ap- peared contented and pleased with surroundings. Read Isaiah, II-6.
WHEN LIFE BEGAN FOR ME SOME PEOPLE I HAVE MET
Maisy Fields
I have heard a lot about a book on the subject: "Life Begins at Forty." I have never read it. An old man once manager of a Philadelphia Ball Club, in a magazine article after he was 73, said life began for him at 70 years old. So it seems that it can begin at most any age.
I started to school I think a year younger than children are started here at this time. I remember going a few times with the older ones as a visitor. I had nothing to do there and I thought it would always be that way; so I insisted on going regular, and they let me go. Soon I was given lessons and told to study. I didn't know how to study because I had forgotten what the names of the letters were and all I could do was sit there and try to remember the names she called them. I was very much displeased for the rest of the term.
I base the younger age on the fact that I was youngest in the school that first term, and at the beninning of the next term several beginners came in of my same age.
One that came in of my age from the other end of the road was a little girl named Maisy Fields. She had brown eyes the same as mine and black curly hair the same as mine except hers hung down her back in curls. We were exactly the same size and the same age. She was very timid and in that respect I was next to her. The first day she attended school she put her arms down on the desk and with her face on her arms she cried all day.
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I spent half my time looking at her in hopes that she might get over it. The next day she came and did the same way all day and I did very little ex- cept look at her in great sympathy. I was worried, there was gloom and dis- couragement on every side. On the third morning she came in and took up where she left off the afternoon before. No one in the school room seemed to pay any attention. I looked at her and out the window. There were clouds everywhere. One time she looked up and I noticed her eyes were red, her hair all tangled. She gave me a sad look and buried her face in her arms again on the desk. I looked out the window and it seemed that I would never see the sun shine again. At last at the end of the day she looked up and around over the room. No one saw her except me. She seemed to know, of the many, there was one soul in sympathy.
The fourth day was much like the third except she looked up and over the room two or three times more. Every time, she found me looking in great sympathy. To me the world was growing darker and filling up with gloom and sorrow. At the end of that day on leaving she took a good look at me. She looked tired and worried. On the fifth day she began to look around more. Always in my direction. Meanwhile for me the whole world had grown very tired but at last she looked up and found no one looking but me. That time I saw the sweetest smile I thought I had ever seen. Her face went right down on the desk in her arms; but it seemed to me I heard the gates of heaven swing ajar. I thought I heard the angels come out and with their great white wings paint the clouds with sunshine. All the world seemed bright and cherry. The birds came out and sang better than I had ever heard before. My heart in a few hours grew to enormous size.
I was six and she the same. I cannot recall that I had ever heard the word sweetheart. I had never had a sister. I had never been about girls. They were, or she was a wonderful thing to me. As the days went by smiles continued in school and out. No words were spoken. In playing outside, when the bell rang I looked over to see where she was and always in running in I happened to be going up the steps at the same time with her.
One day when there were few around we happened to stop and look square into each other's eyes. No eyes ever looked deeper. Not a word was spoken, but she seemed to say: "How am I ever to repay you for your sympathy when I was in so much trouble?" From my heart without speaking came these words: "That is all right, I see how you feel. Now, henceforth and forever, we will travel the road together and when I pull a great play on life's stage, your part shall ever be to smile a smile for me."
She was as kind and sweet as the roses she loved. After that in walking the road in spring time as the sun rose I could see the sparkling dew bright- en the honeysuckle and dogwood blooms. All the birds seemed to sing the song of real love. So it was, when Maisy Fields smiled a smile for me and I learned that it was for beauty and love that the world was made; it was then that life began for me.
CHAPTER XXVIII PIONEERS
APPRECIATION
Thanks be to God who has strengthened me to write. It is my hope and prayer that what is written may be acceptable to Him, and to His glory.
Thanks also are expressed to many who were helpful to me. Some are living, some are dead. I am grateful to each. Among these are:
The Tifton Gazette; Smada, Lucian Lamar Knight, Walter G. Coop- er, White, Hugh Jones, William Fleming, William Henderson, Mrs. W. P. Cobb, Mary Jones and Lily Reynolds, J. V. Chapman; my late grandmother, Cecilia Matilda Baynard Willingham; my late parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Pickard; my late aunt, Bessie W. Tift; my kins- woman, Mrs. Julia Bacon Osborne; Senator Susie Tillman Moore, Kath- erine Tift Jones, Cassie Tift Bacon, Mrs. J. J. Golden, Miss Laura Guest, Mrs. J. G. Padrick, Miss Florence Padrick, Miss Lizzie Fulwood, Mrs. Holmes Murray, Mrs. Albert Foster, Mrs. W. W. Banks, Mrs. Briggs Carson. Sr., Mrs. N. Peterson, Mrs. John Peterson, Mrs. Peggy Martin, Mrs. B. F. Pickett, Mrs. Luna Warren Pitts, Mrs. George Washington Peters.
Mrs. Annie Bennett, Mrs. Willingham Tift, Mrs. Amos Tift, Miss Eugenia Allen ; my aunt, Mrs. Pearl Myers; the late Mrs. E. P. Bowen, Sr. ; the late Mrs. W. T. Hargrett, Miss Leola Greene, Mrs. J. M. Paulk, Mrs. C. B. Holmes, Mrs. Sarah Willingham Griffin, Mrs. Ralph John- son, Miss Rosa Corry, Mrs. W. T. Smith; my sisters, Mrs. Ralph Edward Bailey and Mrs. Roland Harrison ; Mrs. George W. Coleman, Mrs. Min- nie Youmans Spires, Mrs. P. D. Fulwood, Mrs. Arch McCrea, Mrs. R. M. Kennon, Mrs. J. E. Cochran, Mrs. Raleigh Eve, Mrs. Arjane Fletch- er, Mrs. Lou Greene. Mrs. R. H. McMillan, Mrs. R. H. Hall, Sr., Mrs. W .. L. Harman ; the late Mrs. W. H. Hendricks, Mrs. J. T. Mathis, Mrs. Lois Carter Smith; the late Miss Verna Parker, Mrs. Mary Belle Scar- boro Scott, Mrs. Eugene Slack, Miss Helen Spurlin, Mrs. Homer Meade Rankin, Mrs. Luna Rigdon, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gaulding, Mrs. W. B. Hitchcock, Miss Eloise Roughton, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Webb, Miss Ida Belle Williams; the late Lilla Forrester; Judge Raleigh Eve, Homer Carmichael, T. E. Phillips, Sr .; the late E. P. Bowen, Sr .; Lennon Bowen, Jim Bowen; the late H. H. Tift, Jr .; Willingham Tift, Amos Tift; the late Dr. Silas Starr; Dr. George King, Boozer Culpepper ; my kinsman, Lenwood Pickard; my late kinsman, Dr. James T. Ross, of Macon; my kinsman, Thomas Ellis; Ben Golden, Frank Smith, C. C. Guest, J. J. Golden; Judge Phillip Kelly and his secretaries; W. J. Warren, Sheriff James Walker, Robert Choate, Sam Lassiter, Dr. W. H. Hendricks, S. A. Youmans, J. D. Pad- rick, L. C. Hall, Ben McLeod, Clem Carson, Elias Webb, Henry Love, Professor S. L. Lewis, F. O. Bullington, J. B. Davis, Jeff Mathis, E. P. Bowers, T. W. Tift, City of Tifton, County of Tift, Mrs. Pearl Myers, Mrs. Robert A. Balfour, Harry Hornbuckle, and G. B. Phillips.
(Signed) E. PICKARD, Author of Tift County Pioneers.
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PIONEERS by Elizabeth Pickard Karsten BENJAMIN THOMAS ALLEN Founder of the Tifton Gazette
Benjamin Thomas Allen, born February 23, 1852, in Thomas County on the Georgia-Florida line, was one of five children of James Allen and Martha G. Whitaker Allen, both of whom died at Valdosta. Benjamin's brothers were Sam, Walter and George. His sister was Mary Elizabeth.
Admitted to the bar when young, Allen early became more interested in newspaper work and wrote for the Valdosta Times. Next he wrote for the Savannah Morning News when it was owned by Col. J. H. Estill. Later Allen wrote for Florida newspapers in Madison, in Crescent City and in St. Augus- tine.
While living in Crescent City Allen, on Wednesday, December 29, 1886, married Susan, daughter of Captain and Mrs. Amon De Laughter, of Madi- son, Florida, the ceremony taking place at Mosley Hall, Florida.
Mrs. Oren Gatchell, of Tifton, was Lelia De Laughter (or De Laughtre). In 1888 B. T. Allen became owner and editor of the Berrien County Pio- neer, at Sparks, Georgia. About this time Mr. Allen and his wife were among the approximate dozen charter members of the Tifton Baptist Church. In October, 1891, Allen moved to Tifton and here established the Tifton Ga- zette, which he owned and edited until 1895, when he sold the paper.
Allen was active in Tifton municipal affairs. June 1, 1891, upon resigna- tion of J. I. Clements, B. T. Allen was elected to succeed Mr. Clements on city council. On September 7, 1891, Allen, H. H. Tift, and J. C. Goodman were named to serve as a committee to suggest method of naming Tifton streets. He served faithfully on numerous committees until he left Tifton.
The last issue of the Gazette published by Mr. Allen and edited by him was on Friday, May 10, 1895. The firm of Baldridge and Fulwood later organ- ized the Gazette Publishing Company. On February 1, 1895 John Lewis Her- ring came to the Gazette as advertising and collection man. In January, 1898 a controlling interest in the Gazette was sold to W. H. Park, of Macon, and John W. Geer, who operated the paper a few months. Park later sold his interest to J. L. Herring and Briggs Carson, Sr. Mr. Carson sold to J. L. Herring who, many years afterward, on September 14, 1914 issued the first copy of the Daily Tifton Gazette, the first daily paper in Georgia to be published in a town the size of Tifton.
After selling the Gazette, Mr. Allen for a time operated his job printing establishment in Tifton but in 1897, after having been here six years, moved to Pearson where he practiced law.
In 1915 Mr. Allen resumed his writing. He bought and became editor of the Pearson Tribune which he owned and edited until three years prior to his death at the age of eighty. He died on July 2, 1932, at his home in Pear- son. Mrs. Allen had died soon after the Allens left Tifton.
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He gave about fifty years of his life to newspaper work and was widely known in South Georgia and Florida.
"Bee Tree Allen" was the name by which Benjamin Allen was called by his Tifton friends, because his initials were "B. T." and he had a habit of walking with his head thrown back as if looking for a bee tree. He was greatly beloved and highly esteemed by a wide circle of friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen had one daughter, Eugenia De Laughter Allen. Miss Allen is a music teacher of ability and also is society editress of the Pearson Tribune.
JOSEPH JACKSON BAKER Tift County Ordinary, 1919-1936
Joseph Jackson Baker, son of T. Allen Baker and Nancy Griner Baker, was born near Sparks, Georgia, October 27, 1856. At twenty-one, he left Berrien, now Cook and went to Ty Ty where he worked in W. E. Williams's store for seven years and was assistant postmaster and express agent.
On March 13, 1881, Joseph J. Baker married Sarah Jane Taylor, eighteen- year-old daughter of Mrs. Nancy Taylor, whose husband had been killed in the War Between the States.
Mr. Baker bought and lived at a farm one mile east of Ty Ty for several years. He then bought and for nineteen years lived at the Luke place, west of Little River. Next he lived for about ten years at the W. W. Williams place, which he owned, a mile north of Ty Ty. He was living there when he was elected to fill the unexpired term of Tift County's first ordinary, C .W. Graves, who died while in office, in 1919.
Mr. Baker was a member of the Ty Ty Primitive Baptist Church, and for eight years was a member of the Tift County Board of Education, which position he resigned in order to make the race as ordinary. He served as ordinary of Tift County continuously from 1919 until his death, August 27, 1936, at his home where he had been living for several years.
Joseph Jackson Baker was a charter member of the Tifton Primitive Bap- tist Church, and his funeral was held there, August 28, his pastor, Elder W. C. Kicklighter conducting the service, and Dr. F. Orion Mixon, pastor of the Tifton First Baptist Church asssiting. Burial was in the Tifton cemetery.
Mrs. Baker, J. J.'s widow, was elected to serve out his unexpired term as ordinary, and thus served. She was succeeded by Mrs. Mary Emma Rigdon, who defeated ten men opponents and preceded Judge Phillip Kelley, now in office.
WILLIAM WALTER BANKS and MARY EVELYN TOWNS BANKS
William Walter Banks, born in Griffin, Georgia, February 24, 1874, son of John Thomas Banks, planter, born in Forsyth, Georgia, and Mary Ann Rooks
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Banks, born in Griffin, moved when two years old, with his parents to Senoia, Coweta County, Georgia, where he grew up. There he was for eight years with a farmers' supply house, M. H. Couch & Co.
At Senoia, on June 10, 1896 William Walter Banks married Mary Evelyn Towns, winsome and beautiful daughter of Jarrell Oliver Towns and Sarah Elizabeth Barnes Towns, daughter of William C. Barnes, merchant, of Ver- mont, one of the founders of Senoia, and Elizabeth Pope Barnes, of Wash- ington, Wilkes County, Georgia.
Winsome Mary, who had graduated at a Jacksonville, Florida, college of music where she was under Madam Armelini, was possessed of a rich and sweet voice. Her gift of song, her beauty and her charm and W. W.'s busi- ness ability and likeable personality combined to make them unusually well liked from the beginning of their residence in Tifton where they came in March of 1897, three years after the founding of the Bank of Tifton, of which Mr. Banks was at first a bookkeeper, then cashier, and then vice-presi- dent. The vice-presidency he continued to hold until 1917, when he left Tifton to become vice-president of the Third National Bank, now the Citi- zens and Southern, of Atlanta. During the time that Banks was vice-president of the Bank of Tifton, H. H. Tift, the founder of Tifton, was president of the bank, and they were warm personal friends. The Bank of Tifton at that time had the largest surplus in proportion to its capital stock of any bank in Georgia and the stock was worth over $1,000 per share.
In 1905 the Banks built the house which is now the Tifton First Baptist Church parsonage, W. H. Spooner, of Tifton, being contractor. Here the Banks lived for many years, and this home was the scene of many beautiful and delightful parties. Here was ever a gracious hospitality.
The Banks were loyal Baptists. It is said that, next to H. H. Tift. Mr. Banks was the church's most generous giver. Mrs. Banks taught a Sunday School class, and she sang in the choir.
Mrs. Banks also engaged in club work. She organized the Tifton Campfire Girls, and the Tifton History Club, Also, she and a friend, Mrs. William Walker, were largely responsible for the organization of the Tifton Twentieth Century Library Club, whose initial meeting was scheduled to be held at Mrs. Banks' home. Mrs. Banks was taken ill and persuaded Mrs. Eddie Tift to open her home to the invited group, which Mrs. Tift graciously did.
From October 5, 1908 to 1914 William Walter Banks was mayor of Tif- ton, succeeding Mayor Sam M. Clyatt, resigned. During Banks's term of office the town steadily grew and its affairs prospered. He was followed by Dr. W. H. Hendricks as mayor of Tifton.
After years of residence elsewhere, Mr. and Mrs. Banks in 1936 returned to Tifton, where Mr. Banks organized the Farmers' Bank of Tifton. However. many beloved friends of former days had passed from the scene. W. W. Banks's strength was impaired, health was failing. Death occurred on Janu- ary 28, 1938. Burial was in his boyhood home, Senoia, which also was the scene of his marriage to winsome Mary. She still makes her home in Tifton where she is greatly beloved and where she blesses many by her gift of song. especially when there is sorrow.
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ANNIE FOGLER BENNETT
Joseph Sayles Havener was born at Belfast, Limerick County, Ireland, of English parents, his mother being daughter of the English Lord Sayles. At Oxford University, England, Joseph was educated to become an Episcopal minister. Before beginning to preach he came to America for a period of travel. In America Havener became associated with Alexander Campbell, the founder of the Campbellites, and with him preached in Virginia.
Later, the Reverend Havener came to South Carolina where he met and married an orphan, Mary Elizabeth Evans, reared by her aunt, Mrs. George Hahnbaum, nee Ruberry, of Charleston, but daughter of James and Eliza- beth Ruberry Evans, of the Evans family whose records are to be found in the old Scotch Presbyterian Church of Charleston, South Carolina. Mary and her brother Benjamin, of Athens, were related to Miss Lula Whidden, a Baptist missionary, of Charleston.
The Reverend Havener and his wife lived at Boiling Springs, South Caro- lina, which at that time had another and older name. He would go to preach at Augusta and other places. Also he prepared many young men for college; for he spoke fluently three languages and was a county school commissioner.
The Reverend and Mrs. Havener had a daughter, Julia, born at Old Allen- dale, South Carolina. Julia was musically gifted and taught piano. She mar- ried John Daniel Fogler, son of Senator John Fogler of Beaufort, South Carolina and his wife, Annie Johnson Fogler. Senator Folger was a native of North Carolina. His wife and son were born at Beaufort.
To Julia Havener Fogler and John Daniel Fogler were born several chil- dren, among them a daughter who married R. T. Waldrep and lived in Tif- ton, and another daughter, little Annie, who would come to Tifton to visit her sister, Mrs. Waldrep.
Annie Fogler was born at Boiling Springs, but, with her parents, she lived at several places where her father engaged in buying and selling land. Five years were spent in Texas, some of the time at Austin and some of the time at Milligan. Several years were spent at Brunswick.
While still very young, little Annie Fogler at Brunswick married a lawyer, James Bennett, an Englishman, born in London. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett spent a year in European travel, visiting London, France, Belgium and Holland. Re- turning to America they lived for a while in New York and then went to Chicago, where their only daughter, Olive Bennett, was born.
While Olive was still a little girl Mrs. Bennett, bringing Olive with her, moved to Tifton. Mrs. Bennett was very young and inexperienced in busi- ness responsibilities, but she had great artistry and skill, and soon built up the reputation of being the most skilled modiste of the vicinity. Gowns which she fashioned were remarked upon for their beauty wherever they were seen, in Savannah, in Atlanta, in Saratoga, in New York. Tifton became known as a place of well-dressed women, and it was "Miss Annie's" skill that made this so.
Mrs. Bennett educated Oliver, whom she sent to Columbia University, and Olive married Robert Lankford, of Tifton. Mr. and Mrs. Lankford own Lank-
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ford Manor, in Tifton, and with them Mrs. Bennett makes her home. There also are Mrs. Bennett's grandson, Billy Lankford, and his bride, whom he married soon after his safe return from European service in World War II.
FREDERICK GRANT BOATRIGHT
Frederick Grant Boatright was born in Palestine, Illinois, May 17, 1864. When four years old he moved with his parents to Sullivan County, Indiana, where he was reared on a farm and followed the plow for several years. He later clerked in a store. He learned the printer's trade in the office of the "True Democrat," in Sullivan. His parents were staunch Democrats, and the community in which he lived was a Democratic community. Although Boat- right had not gone to college, he loved good books and was well read, and well informed and he taught school for six years. In 1886 he studied teleg- raphy and began his career in railroading.
On May 12, 1889, F. G. Boatright came to Georgia where he worked for nearly a month in the Brunswick and Western Railroad office in Brunswick. On June 6, of that same year he came to Tifton and at once went to work for Henry Tift as Tifton agent of the Brunswick and Western, which posi- tion he held for seven years.
In 1891 Fred Boatright returned to Indiana, where at Terre Haute, his sweetheart, Martha Dechard, lived. She was descended from the Revolu- tionary soldier, Jacob Dechard. She and Fred were married and Fred brought his bride to Tifton.
At first Fred and Mattie Boatright boarded with Mrs. Barnes on Love Avenue, but later they bought a home on Central Avenue, where they were next-door neighbors to the Holmes Murrays. For five years they were there and then they moved to a place they bought at 406 North Park Avenue. There Mr. Boatright's mother, Ellen, visited them in 1904.
After coming to Tifton Mr. Boatright in 1893 read law. In March, 1894, in Berrien County he was admitted to the bar. He became a member of the firm of Fulwood, Boatright and Murray, Col. C. W. Fulwood and Holmes Murray being the other members of the firm with which he was associated for about ten years. Boatright was elected Tifton city attorney in 1895.
In 1895 F. G. Boatright was elected Mayor of Tifton and served in 1896, succeeding C. W. Fulwood. Holmes Murray was clerk of Council. Council- men were H. H. Tift, E. P. Bowen, W. W. Timmons, J. A. Phillips, L. G. Manard, and W. O. Padrick.
Mr. Boatright served as mayor through 1899. In 1900 he was succeeded by C. W. Fulwood, but in 1902 he again followed Fulwood as mayor. Also, he was in January, 1903, elected judge of the newly created Tifton City Court, of which the solicitor was Christopher Columbus Hall (born Sumter Coun- ty, October 3, 1866; moved to Worth County in early youth; taught school; engaged in mercantile business; was railway contractor on Georgia Southern and on the Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf; admitted to bar in 1895; solicitor of County court of Berrien, 1901-1902). O. L. Chesnutt was first clerk of the Tifton City Court. First City Court sheriff was Thomas Berry Henderson.
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